Hitchcock Coming to DVD in March

Fox Searchlight has announced the home video release date for HITCHCOCK, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins in the title role and Helen Mirren as his wife. It’s set to hit stores on March 12, 2013.

The film, which is billed as “a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner, Alma Reville,” takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie PSYCHO. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock, and Helen Mirren stars as Alma. Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, Michael Stuhlbarg, James D’Arcy, Michael Wincott, Richard Portnow, and Kurtwood Smith also star.

The project is based on the non-fiction book by Stephen Rebello that tracks how Hitchcock, at the height of his game as a director, decided to make a “lowly” horror movie. No studio wanted to touch it initially so Hitchcock scrounged for financing by himself. The movie, of course, became one of his biggest hits and one of the most influential of all time. Sacha Gervasi directs. Dig on the two trailers:

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