I'm guessing that due to this film's devastatingly negative reviews there was only ever one DVD release for it, and probably no plan for any re-releases. However, a friend of mine who loves Johnny Depp has asked for this film for Christmas, but she wants it in full screen if available.
Is there a full screen edition of the DVD in the United States?
I can only find the wide screen format.
I checked on blu-ray.com. It does seem to show only the one DVD release, which is apparently getting harder and harder to come by.
I imagine that, due to how badly this film bombed, Disney only ever made the one edition. To make any more than that would have probably resulted in an even bigger loss for them.
I would just buy the widescreen version, and tell her that's the only one you could find.
Nobody in their right mind would take an originally widescreen film and release the home video version in the so-called "full screen" format (pan & scam) now that widescreen T.V.s are standard. Even television programs are now filmed and broadcast in widescreen. Given how recent this film is, you're not likely to find a cut-down "square" picture version unless you come across some obscure low-quality bootleg.
If your friend is watching on a (no longer standard) "square" T.V. and those black bars on the top and bottom bother her so much, she still has a couple of options to simulate a pan & scammed presentation:
* Some blu-ray players let you cycle through different viewing modes while watching a DVD, including "stretch and fill" and "zoom and cut off the sides of the picture."
* Most DVD players have a simple zoom button on the remote. Your friend can mash the zoom button until a sufficient portion of the picture has been cut off to push the black bars out of the screen.
Alternatively, your friend could get a widescreen T.V. and all of her widescreen videos will suddenly become "full screen" (but then the pan & scammed videos will have black bars on the left and right of the screen since up to 50% of their pictures was cut off to make them fit the "square" T.V.s).
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This is 2017. Who the heck has 4:3 TVs anymore???? I think your friend fundamentally misunerstands what "fullscreen" even is. Widesceen IS full screen for new TVs. That's why literally no DVDs are released in "fullscreen" anymore.
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