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David Fincher’s ‘Panic Room’ to Invade Homes on SteelBook 4K UHD in February
Long trapped in standard definition, Panic Room will invade homes on SteelBook 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital on February 18 via Sony.
The 2002 thriller has been newly restored in 4K, supervised by director David Fincher, with Dolby Vision/HDR and Dolby Atmos audio.
Written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible), the movie stars Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, and Kristen Stewart.
In the film, “Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders—Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared Leto)—during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.”
The release includes:
Disc 1 – 4K UHD:
- 4K restoration, supervised by director David Fincher
- Dolby Vision/HDR presentation
- Dolby Atmos audio track English 5.1
Disc 2 – Blu-ray:
- 4K restoration, supervised by director David Fincher
- Audio commentary by David Fincher
- Audio commentary by actors Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Dwight Yoakam
- Audio commentary by writer David Koepp and special guest
Disc 3 – Blu-ray:
- Pre-Production
- Six featurettes on the prep phase, from pre-visualization through testing
- Interactive previsualization — Compare the pre-visualization, storyboards, dailies and final film in a multi-angle, multi-audio feature with optional commentary
- Production
- Shooting Panic Room – An hour-long documentary on the principal photography phase
- Makeup effects featurette with Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.
- Sequence breakdowns – An interactive look at the creation of four separate scenes in the film
- Post-production
- Twenty-one documentaries and featurettes on the visual effects
- On Sound Design with Ren Klyce
- Digital Intermediate and other featurettes dealing with the post-production phase
- A multi-angle look at the scoring session conducted by Howard Shore
2025 is poised to be a banner year for Fincher fans, as Se7en is coming to 4K UHD in January and a 4K restoration of Fight Club is in the works.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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