Charles Dickens’ belovedChristmas Carol has been filmed more times than I can count — straightforward adaptations, musical adaptations, Muppet adaptations — but Hollywood never seems to tire of bringing out a new version. And that’s understandable, I suppose. It’s got a little of everything: holiday cheer, spooky goings-on, easily digestible morality, and a crotchety antihero protagonist who was humbugging all over everybody’s fun long before Dr. Gregory House came along. Last year Hollywood yet again dragged Ebenezer Scrooge away from his quaint Jamaican retirement home, this time in the form of an animated mo-cap outing directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey as multiple characters, including old Scrooge himself.

Just in time to cash in on the Christmas spirit, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will be releasing A Christmas Carol on Blu-ray and DVD November 16th. What’s more, A Christmas Carol will be Disney’s first Blu-ray 3D release, exciting news for those of you who have somehow managed to stay excited about that technology this long. The release will span the Disney-standard array of formats: a four-disc Blu-ray combo pack ($49.99), a one-disc Blu-ray ($39.99), and a one-disc DVD ($29.99). The combo pack will include the 3D Blu-ray, a regular Blu-ray, a DVD version, and a digital copy.

BLU-RAY 3D Disc includes an exclusive 3D bonus feature, plus all the Blu-ray and DVD features:

• Mr. Scrooge’s Wild Ride — In this 3D bonus feature, director Zemeckis and the cast explain how 3D made the Dickens novella come to life. The feature explores how 3D technology brought a whole new dimension to the story, from the Ghost of Christmas Past whisking Scrooge through time, to the look and feel of the characters in 19th Century London.

BLU-RAY features include all of the DVD features plus:

• Behind the Carol: The Full Motion-Capture Experience — A feature-length picture-in-picture viewing mode takes the audience behind the scenes of motion capture filmmaking.
• Countdown to Christmas Interactive Calendar — 25 days of holiday surprises extend the holiday cheer, as viewers come back to discover what each door holds.
• Six deleted scenes

DVD features include:

• Capturing A Christmas Carol — Actress Jacquie Barnbrook hosts a journey through the creative process of Disney’s A Christmas Carol.
• On Set With Sammi — Follow Sammi Hanratty, one of the film’s young stars, as she shares a kid’s-eye view of an “anything but average” day on the set.
• Three deleted scenes

By David Wharton

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