Press Release Lionsgate Press Release: Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986) (Blu-ray SteelBook) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Written and directed by legendary horror author Stephen King, Maximum Overdrive arrives as a Blu-ray™ + Digital SteelBook® available May 30 from Lionsgate. With music from iconic rock band AC/DC, this release marks the first time this film will be available as a collectible SteelBook®. The Maximum Overdrive SteelBook® will be available for the suggested retail price of $27.99.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
Get ready for the ultimate battle of man vs. bloodthirsty machine in this terrifying Stephen King classic! For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The skies glow an eerie green as humanity waits to see what the fallout will be. But what they imagine is nothing like the nightmare they find — the comet’s magnetic fields cause all the machines on Earth to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now, it’s up to a small group of people trapped in a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines — or be killed by them!

CAST
Emilio Estevez The Way, Bobby, The Public
Pat Hingle Batman & Robin, The Quick and the Dead, Hang ’Em High
Laura Harrington What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Paulie, The Devil’s Advocate
Christopher Murney Barton Fink, TV’s “Remember WENN”
Yeardley Smith TV’s “The Simpsons,” The Simpsons Movie, As Good as It Gets
J.C. Quinn The Abyss, The Prophecy

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary with Writer Tony Magistrale, Author of Hollywood’s Stephen King
• Audio Commentary by Actor & Comedian Jonah Ray and Blumhouse Film Executive Ryan Turek
• “Truck Stop Tales”— An Interview with Producer Martha De Laurentiis“Rage Against the Machines”— An Interview with Actress Laura Harrington
• “Honeymoon Horrors”— Interviews with Actor John Short and Actress Yeardley Smith
• “Maximum Carnage”— An Interview with Make-Up Effects Creator Dean Gates
• “A Kid in King’s Court”— An Interview with Actor Holter Graham
• “The Wilmington Factor”— A Look Back at the Filming of Maximum Overdrive with Members of the Production Crew in North Carolina
• “Who Made Who?”— An Interview with Murray Engleheart, Co-Author of AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll
• “Goblin Resurrectus”— The Restoration of the Happy Toyz Goblin
• Behind-the-Scenes Footage
• Still Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spots

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Year of Production: 1986
Title Copyright: Maximum Overdrive © 1986 Dino De Laurentiis Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved. Artwork & Supplementary Materials ®, TM & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Type: Catalog
Rating: Rated R
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Closed-Captioned: English SDH*
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Feature Run Time: 98 mins.
Blu-ray Format: 1080p High Definition 16x9 (2.35:1) Presentation
Blu-ray Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HDTM Master Audio
Artist Information: Vance Kelly

 

[Stephen_J_H]

 

[cineMANIAC]

Lionsgate released this previously on their Vestron line so I'm kind of surprised to see another edition without the branding. Plus, I don't see anything about a fresh scan on that specs list. That Vestron edition had one of the worst transfers of the entire specialty line. LG is one of the cheapest studios when it comes to restorations.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Lionsgate released this previously on their Vestron line so I'm kind of surprised to see another edition without the branding.

Zooming in on the spine shows what looks like the Vestron logo with the Lionsgate wordmark underneath.