Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Annihilation / written for the screen and directed by Alex Garland ; produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Eli Bush ; Paramount Pictures and Skydance present ; a Scott Rudin/DNA Films production.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, California : Paramount, [2018]

Description:

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen

video file Blu-ray 1080p high definition region A

Summary:

Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R; for violence, bloody images, language and some sexuality CHV rating: 18A; for brutal violence, frightening scenes.

Subjects:

Discoveries in geography -- Drama.

Scientists -- Drama.

Women scientists -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Action and adventure films.

Horror films.

Detective and mystery films.

Fantasy films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Film adaptations.

Science fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Other Author:

Garland, Alex, 1970- screenwriter, film director.

Rudin, Scott, 1958- film producer.

Macdonald, Andrew, 1966- film producer.

Reich, Allon, film producer.

Bush, Eli, film producer.

Portman, Natalie, 1981- actor.

Leigh, Jennifer Jason, 1962- actor.

Rodriguez, Gina, 1984- actor.

Thompson, Tessa, 1983- actor.

Novotny, Tuva, 1979- actor.

Isaac, Oscar, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): VanderMeer, Jeff. Annihilation.

Hardy, Rob (Cinematographer), director of photography.

Pilling, Barney, editor of moving image work.

Salisbury, Ben, composer.

Fuzzface, 1971- composer.

Paramount Pictures Corporation, presenter.

Skydance Productions, presenter.

Scott Rudin Productions, production company.

DNA Films, production company.

Paramount Home Media Distribution, publisher.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Annihilation (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2018.

Based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer.

Wide screen.

Special features: Part 1. Southern Reach - Refractions: story origins, For those that follow: casting Annihilation; Part 2. Area X - Shimmer: shooting on location, Vanished into havoc: visual and special effects; Part 3. To the lighthouse - Unfathomable mind, The last phase.

Director of photography, Rob Hardy ; editor, Barney Pilling ; music, Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow.

Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac.

Blu-ray, wide screen; Dolby Atmos (English), Dolby digital 5.1 (French, Spanish); 1080p high definition; requires Blu-ray player.

English, French or Spanish dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.

Publisher Number:

2090223

Other Number:

1035199716

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

740323

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Annihila