Open your heart to love when “The Su
n Is Also a Star” arrives on DVD and Digital. A modern-day story about finding love against all odds, “The Sun Is Also a Star” explores whether our lives are determined by fate or the random events of the universe. The film stars Yara Shahidi (TV’s “Grown-ish,” TV’s “Black-ish”) as Natasha and Charles Melton (TV’s “Riverdale,” TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Daniel, along with John Leguizamo (“John Wick: Chapter 2,” TV’s “Bloodline”).
From MGM and Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Ry Russo-Young (“Before I Fall,” “Nobody Walks”), “The Sun Is Also a Star” is based on Nicola Yoon’s bestseller of the same name, which was No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has received multiple accolades, including 2016 National Book Award Finalist, Amazon’s Best Book of 2016 in YA, Amazon’s Top 20 Children’s Books of 2016 in YA, the New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2016 and Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of 2016.
Young directed “The Sun Is Also a Star” from a screenplay by Tracy Oliver. The film was produced by Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton, and Pamela Hirsch served as executive producer.
The behind-the-scenes creative team included director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw (“Teen Spirit”), production designer Wynn Thomas (“Hidden Figures”), editor Joe Landauer (“Before I Fall”) and costume designer Deirdra Elizabeth Govan (“Sorry to Bother You”). The music is by Herdís Stefánsdóttir (“The Hate U Give”).
“The Sun Is Also a Star” will be available on DVD on August 20 .
“The Sun Is Also a Star” will also be available on Movies Anywhere. Using the free Movies Anywhere app and website, consumers can access all their eligible movies by connecting their Movies Anywhere account with their participating digital retailer accounts.
Fans can also own “The Sun Is Also a Star” via purchase from digital retailers beginning August 6.
SYNOPSIS
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae (Charles Melton) and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley (Yara Shahidi) meet—and fall for each other—over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together.
DVD and DIGITAL ELEMENTS
“The Sun Is Also a Star” DVD contains the following special feature:
“Love is a Universe” featurette
“The Sun Is Also a Star” EST contains the following special feature:
· “The Chemistry of Casting” featurette
· “Love is a Universe” featurette
· Alternate Scene – “Five Years Later”
· Deleted Scene – “Korean Restaurant”
DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ELEMENTS
On August 6, “The Sun Is Also a Star” will be available to own in high definition and standard definition from select digital retailers including Amazon, FandangoNow, iTunes, PlayStation, Vudu, Xbox and others. On August 20, “The Sun Is Also a Star” will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers, and on select gaming consoles.
ABOUT MOVIES ANYWHERE
Movies Anywhere is a digital movie platform that enables movie fans to discover, access, and watch their favorite digital movies in one place. Movies Anywhere brings together a library of nearly 7,500 digital movies from Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film, The Walt Disney Studios (including Disney, Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm), Universal Pictures (including DreamWorks and Illumination Entertainment) and Warner Bros., and will continue to expand the consumer experience as more content providers, digital retailers and platforms are added. By connecting participating digital retailers that include Amazon Prime Video, FandangoNOW, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu, movie fans can now bring together their digital movie collections (whether purchased or redeemed) in one place and enjoy them from the comfort of their living rooms, and across multiple devices and platforms, including Amazon Fire devices; Android devices and Android TV; Apple TV; Chromecast; iPhone, iPad and iPod touch; Roku® devices and popular browsers.
BASICS
PRODUCT SRP
DVD $28.98
DVD Street Date: August 20
EST Street Date: August 6
DVD Languages: English, Latin Spanish, Canadian French
DVD Subtitles: English SDH, Latin Spanish, Canadian French
Running Time: 100 minutes
Rating: Rated PG-13 for some suggestive content and language
DVD: DLBY/SURR DLBY/DGTL [CC]
The Credits
About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment’s home video, digital distribution and interactive entertainment businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD) and digital media in the form of electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and mobile channels, and is a significant developer and publisher for console and online video game titles worldwide. WBHE distributes its product through third party retail partners and licensees.
