“A new definition of television excellence”
- San Francisco Chronicle
SEASON ONE
Golden Globe® Nominee Taylor Schilling Stars In Acclaimed Original Comedy From The Creator Of “Weeds” Arriving On
Blu-ray and DVD May 13
SANTA MONICA, CA, February 19, 2014 – Every sentence has a story in the smash hit series Orange Is The New Black – Season One arriving on Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital HD UltraViolet), and DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet) May 13 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Hailed by critics as “magnificent and thoroughly engrossing” (Washington Post), the hugely popular dark comedy from “Weeds” creator Jenji Kohan broke viewing records for its premiere season. Starring Taylor Schilling (Argo, Stay) in a Golden Globe® nominated performance, Orange Is The New Black also won “TV Program Of The Year” from the American Film Institute (AFI).
Based on the best-selling memoir by Piper Kerman, Orange Is The New Black also stars Jason Biggs (American Pie franchise), Laura Prepon (TV’s “That ‘70s Show”), Kate Mulgrew (TV’s “Star Trek: Voyager,” TV’s “NTSF:SD:SUV”), Pablo Schreiber (TV’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Showtime’s “Weeds”), Natasha Lyonne (American Pie, G.B.F), Taryn Manning (TV’s “Sons of Anarchy”), Michael J. Harney (Showtime’s “Weeds,” HBO’s “True Detective”) and rising talents Danielle Brooks and Uzo Aduba.
Orange Is the New Black follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Timed to the series’ second season premiere, Orange Is The New Black – Season One will include all 13 episodes on a three-disc Blu-ray and four-disc DVD set, packed with bonus materials fans will love including numerous featurettes that contain behind the scenes interviews with author Piper Kerman, series creator Jenji Kohan and favorite cast members, along with a gag reel and special episode commentaries with the series producers. The Orange Is The New Black – Season One Blu-ray Disc and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97 and $39.98, respectively. On the same day, Universal Music Enterprises will release Music From The Original Series Orange Is The New Black featuring music from the series in three configurations including CD, Digital and a special edition, first run only of orange vinyl.
BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
· “New Kid on the Cell Block” featurette
· “Mother Hen: Red Runs the Coup” featurette
· “It’s Tribal” featurette
· “Prison Rules” featurette
· Gag Reel
· Episode Commentary “I Wasn't Ready” with Producers Jenji Kohan, Tara Herrmann and Mark Burley
· Episode Commentary “Can't Fix Crazy” with ProducersJenji Kohan, Tara Herrmann and Mark Burley
*Subject to change
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PROGRAM INFORMATION
Year of Production: 2013
Title Copyright: © 2013 Lions Gate Television Inc. Artwork © 2014 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. and Netflix Inc. All Rights Reserved. Orange Is the New Black is a trademark of Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. Lionsgate, 2700 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California 90404.
Type: TV on DVD
Rating: Not Rated
Genre: Dark comedy, Drama, Television
Blu-ray Closed Captioned: English SDH
DVD Closed Captioned: English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Feature Run Time: 730 minutes
Blu-ray Format: 1080P High Definition 16x9 Widescreen (1.78:1)
DVD Format: 16x9 Widescreen (1.78:1)
Blu-ray Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
DVD Audio: English and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
ABOUT LIONSGATE
Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. Lionsgate currently has 34 television shows on 22 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger Management, the network series Nashville, the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically-acclaimed series Orange is the New Black.
Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Madea Christmas, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions’ Mud and Pantelion Films’ breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 15,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.
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