DAPHNE & VELMA Live-Action Movie Coming to Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital This May

Jinkies! They would have gotten away with it if it weren't for the meddling of Daphne and Velma! The ladies of Scooby-Doo and friends are on the case in Daphne & Velma, a new live-action movie set to be released on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 22nd courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment:

Press Release:"(March 27, 2018 – Burbank, CA) – Jeepers! Your favorite mystery-solving teenagers are back in an all-new, live-action feature-length movie! Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release “Daphne & Velma” on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 22, 2018. The film stars Sarah Jeffery (Disney's "Descendants: Wicked World") and Sarah Gilman (ABC's “Last Man Standing”) and is produced by Ashley Tisdale and Jennifer Tisdale’s Blondie Girl Productions. “Daphne & Velma” will carry a suggested retail price of $19.98 for the DVD and $24.98 for the Blu-ray.

State of the art robots and high-tech gadgets are common sights at Ridge Valley High, an innovative center of learning for some of the brightest minds in the country, including new transfer student, the bright & optimistic Daphne Blake (Sarah Jeffery) who is excited to finally go to school with her online bestie, the whip-smart & analytical Velma Dinkley (Sarah Gilman). But not everything is as innocent as it seems as mysterious disappearances begin to plague the top-performing students on campus. Once cheery and full of life, kids now appear in a “zombiefied” state - lifeless and shells of themselves. Can Daphne and Velma learn to work together and save the students or will they become the next victims? Get ready for thrills and laughs as we follow the first adventures of Mystery Inc.’s fierce female duo.

“Daphne and Velma, the smart and resourceful women of Scooby-Doo fame, come to life in this all-new mystery,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, WBHE, Vice President, TV Marketing, Family & Animation. “Young girls will be delighted to discover how these clever heroines come together for their very first mystery demonstrating that no mystery is too big for these ‘meddling’ girls to solve!”

“Daphne & Velma” is produced by Blue Ribbon Content and Blondie Girl Productions with Production Services provided by Lifeboat Productions Inc. Ashley Tisdale (“Young & Hungry”), Jennifer Tisdale (“Her Universe Fashion Show”), Amy Kim (“Confess,” “Chosen”), Jaime Burke (“Cassandra French’s Finishing School,” “Quantum Break”) and Suzi Yoonessi (“Olive and Mochha: First Kiss”) serve as producers, with Yoonessi also directing from a script written by Kyle Mack & Caitlin Meares.

Bonus Features:

• “Daphne & Velma: A New Ambition”
• “An Updated Classic Mystery”
• “Iconic Styles of Daphne & Velma Reimagined”
• Gag Reel

Digital HD:
“Daphne & Velma” will be available to own on Digital HD. Digital HD allows consumers to instantly stream and download all episodes to watch anywhere and anytime on their favorite devices. Digital HD is available from various digital retailers including Amazon Video, CinemaNow, iTunes, PlayStation, Vudu, Xbox, and others. A Digital Copy is also included with the purchase of specially marked Blu-ray discs for redemption and cloud storage through participating UltraViolet retail services including CinemaNow, Vudu, and Flixster Video.

Basics:
Street Date: May 22, 2018
Order Due Date: April 17, 2018
Total Runtime: 72 minutes
SD: $19.98 SRP
BD: $24.98 SRP

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.

About Blue Ribbon Content:
Formed in 2014, Warner Bros. Television Group’s Blue Ribbon Content (BRC) develops and produces live-action series for digital platforms, tapping the creative talent already working at the Studio while also identifying opportunities for collaboration with new writers and producers. In addition to live-action programming, BRC produces animated content and is also experimenting with emerging platforms such as virtual reality. Live-action BRC programs include the UNINTERRUPTED comedy “Now We’re Talking,” the comedy series “Critters: A New Binge” and “Golden Revenge,” and digital feature “Good Girls Get High” for Verizon; SpringHill Entertainment’s basketball documentary series “Best Shot” for YouTube Red; comedies “Beerfest” and “JoJoHead” for CW Seed; and the live-action digital feature “Daphne & Velma” for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Animated BRC programs include “Constantine” and “Freedom Fighters: The Ray” for CW Seed, “Ellen’s Pet Dish” for Ellentube, and “Ginger Snaps” for ABC Digital.

About Blondie Girl Productions:
Founded by Ashley Tisdale and run by Ashley and her sister Jennifer Tisdale, with Kaitlin Saltzman as head of television, Blondie Girl Productions is a Los Angeles based production company that develops and produces television and digital programming with a focus on telling stories for millennial women by millennial women. Blondie Girl is most recently one of the producers behind the FREEFORM breakout comedy hit “Young & Hungry”; the company is repped at UTA and currently has a deal at Warner Horizon Scripted Television."