The Film Factory

Release Date:

July 7th 2008

Director:

Paul Thomas Anderson

Stars:

Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dillon Freasier

Internationally acclaimed and hailed by critics as a modern-day classic, the multiple Oscar®-winning, darkly atmospheric masterpiece from Miramax Films There Will Be Blood will be released on single-disc DVD, in a two-disc set and on Bluray disc on 7th July by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

The cinematic epic has won over 43 awards to date including an Oscar® for 'Best Achievement in Cinematography' and also 'Best Actor in a Leading Role' awards for Daniel Day Lewis at the Academy Awards®, Golden Globes® and BAFTA's among others.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD also marks a departure for writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) who exchanges modern day LA for the startling backdrop of California at the dawn of the 20th Century in this unforgettable, haunting journey of greed, ambition and retribution. The result is a seminal piece of film-making that is a must own for film fans.

Day Lewis (Gangs of New York, Last of the Mohicans) delivers a mesmerising, tour-de-force performance as Daniel Plainview - a rags-to-riches oil prospector. After hearing oil-rich land can be bought cheaply in California, Plainview moves his operation to the impoverished town of Little Boston with his adopted son, HW, and uses his charm and charisma to exploit local landowners into selling their property to him.

Intent on acquiring vast wealth at any cost, Plainview's dark, ruthless dream of wrestling oil from American soil is realised after encountering the mysterious Paul Sunday (Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine) who claims an ocean of oil can be found underneath his family's ranch.

Plainview manages to sweet talk the Sunday family into selling their drilling rights for a paltry sum but gets more than he bargained for in Paul's twin brother Eli (also Paul Dano). Equally as ambitious and unforgiving, Eli becomes fixated on extracting money from the oilman... with devastating results.

Ensemble cast members include Ciaran Hinds (Hallam Foe, Road to Perdition), Kevin J. Connor (Seraphim Falls) and the film introduces Dillon Freasier as Plainview's son, HW.

The DVD delves deeper into the making of this masterpiece in modern film-making. Bonus features on both the two-disc DVD and Blu-ray releases include the "The Story of Petroleum" - a silent film produced by the US Bureau of Mining about the oil business in the 1920s - and a selection of deleted scenes and theatrical trailers.

A gripping portrait of two personalities as explosive as oil itself, THERE WILL BE BLOOD demands to be seen on DVD.

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