Universal to re-release 2005 King Kong, Mummy trilogy on Blu-Ray

Last Updated on July 31, 2021

Classic franchises have been cooking with gas lately, resurrecting left and right with the likes of the upcoming flicks KONG: SKULL ISLAND (arriving March 10th) and THE MUMMY starring Tom Cruise (coming June 9th). Universal has decided to get in on the fun, issuing re-releases of some of their earlier remakes, Peter Jackson's KING KONG and the MUMMY trilogy starring Brendan Fraser, both of which arrive on Blu-Ray on February 7, 2017.

In KING KONG: ULTIMATE EDITION, starring Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, and Jack Black:

Peter Jackson's expansive remake of the 1933 classic follows director Carl Denham and his crew on a journey from New York City to the ominous Skull Island to film a new movie. Accompanying him are playwright Jack Driscoll and actress Ann Darrow, who is whisked away by the monstrous ape, Kong, after they reach the island. The crew encounters dinosaurs and other creatures as they race to rescue Ann, while the actress forms a bond with her simian captor.

The Kong-sized slate of special features on the three-disc set includes:

• 2006 Introductions by Peter Jackson
• Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of King Kong
• Production Diaries
• Post Production Diaries
• Deleted Scenes with Introductions
• The Eighth Blunder of the World
• The Making of a Shot: The T-Rex Fight
• Skull Island: A Natural History
• Kong’s New York, 1933
• A Night in Vaudeville
• King Kong Homage
• Pre-Visualization Animatics
• Conceptual Design Video Galleries
• “The Present”
• WETA Collectibles
• The Volkswagen Touareg & King Kong
• Trailers

You can pre-order your copy RIGHT HERE!

And here's the deets on that MUMMY set:

In Stephen Sommers' THE MUMMY (1999), starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah:

THE MUMMY is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead.

The Blu-Ray bonus features include:

• Digital Copy of The Mummy (1999) (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• Feature Commentary with Director/Writer Stephen Sommers and Executive Producer/Editor Bob Ducsay
• Feature Commentary with Actor Brendan Fraser
• Feature Commentary with Actors Oded Fehr, Kevin J. O’Connor and Arnold Vosloo
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Sneak Peek
• Visual and Special Effects Formation
• An Army to Rule the World Part 1
• Unraveling the Legacy of The Mummy
• Building a Better Mummy
• Storyboard to Final Film Comparison
• Photograph Montage
• U-Control – Picture in Picture
• BD-Live Enabled
• My Scenes

In 2001's THE MUMMY RETURNS, also directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Dwayne Johnson:

Ten years after the events of the first film, Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) O'Connell are settled in 1935 London, where they are raising their son. When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) resurrected, the O'Connells go on a desperate race to save the world from unspeakable evil and to rescue their son before it is too late.

The Blu-Ray bonus features include:

• Digital Copy of The Mummy Returns (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• Feature Commentary with Director/Writer Stephen Sommers and Executive Producer/Editor Bob Ducsay
• Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Sneak Peek
• An Army to Rule the World Part 2
• Unraveling the Legacy of The Mummy
• Visual and Special Effects Formation
• An Exclusive Conversation with The Rock
• Spotlight On Location
• Storyboard to Final Film Comparison
• Live “Forever May Not Be Long Enough” Music Video
• U-Control – Picture in Picture
• BD-Live Enabled
• My Scenes

In THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR, directed by Rob Cohen:

Cursed by a devious sorceress, China's ruthless Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) and his vast army lie buried in clay for millennia. When young archaeologist Alex O'Connell is tricked into reviving the emperor, he and his famous parents (Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello) must find a way to send the ghoul back to the grave before he can awaken his vast army and take over the world.

The Blu-Ray bonus features include:

• Digital Copy of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• U-Control – Scene Explorer
• BD-Live – My Scenes Sharing
• BD-Live – Exclusive Content
• U-Control – Know Your Mummy
• U-Control – The Dragon Emperor’s Challenge
• U-Control – Picture in Picture
• U-Control – Visual Commentary with Director Rob Cohen
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• The Making of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• From City to Desert
• Legacy of the Terra Cotta
• Feature Commentary with Director Rob Cohen