"REAL STEEL" OUT ON DVD: JANUARY 24, 2012

Real Steel DVD Artwork

After earning $292 million at the Box Office worldwide, the DVD release of DreamWorks' Real Steel is now before us. Canadian Fans however, get an added bonus with additional features highlighting some of the Canadian talent featured in Real Steel! Director Shawn Levy and Stars Kevin Durand, Dakota Goyo and Evangeline Lilly all are proudly Canadian!

Real Steel is available in: Standard DVD, DVD + Blu-ray and 3-Disc DVD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy editions.

The specially-packaged Canadian DVD + Blu-ray Combo Pack contains:

• SUGAR RAY LEONARD: CORNERMAN’S CHAMP 

• Deleted and Extended Scenes with introductions by Shawn Levy

• Making of Metal Valley

• Building the Bots

• A Second Screen Feature
• Bloopers

Real Steel is in stores on January 24, 2012. Order it here. 

 We were at the Canadian Premiere of Real Steel and awesome After-party with Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Shawn Levy and Kevin Durand.  Let's re-live it all again here!

(Photo credit: Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

HUGH JACKMAN, DAKOTA GOYO, KEVIN DURAND & SHAWN LEVY AT CANADIAN PREMIERE OF "REAL STEEL" | SIGNED PHOTO GIVEAWAY

Hugh Jackman at Canadian Premiere of Real Steel - September 2011

The Cast of Real Steel showed their true mettle, coming out to support their new Action/Fantasy Film from Walt Disney Motion Pictures Canada at Scotiabank Theatre. Stars Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Dakota Goyo and Director Shawn Levy flew into the City to do a day of Press, followed by a Red Carpet appearance, where Media and Fans had lined the Theatre wall-to-wall.

As a true testament to their faith in the $80 million Blockbuster, the Cast and Director all sat through the Screening after having seen the Film already multiple times its Toronto-born Star, a 12 year-old Goyo tells me at the bustling After-party held in the Distillery.  He also tells me that he can be heard in next year's Animated Feature, Rise of the Guardians again alongside Jackman.

The thrilling Adaptation of the Short Story Steel takes place in 2020, when Robots have taken over Humans in the sport of Boxing.  Charlie (Jackman) is a former Boxer down on his luck, is reunited with his estranged Son, Max (Goyo).  The two are brought together by their love for Boxing and together they take an Underdog Robot named Atom and get him into fighting form in a match against the invincible Champion, Zeus.

Jackman tells me he is currently busy prepping for the Broadway debut of his wildly successful Hugh Jackman in Concert, which played this Summer at Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, making it a priority to visit the City to promote Real Steel.  Asking him how he finds time to balance being a Dad, a Husband and an Actor of Stage and Screen, he tells me looking  rather dapper in a form-fitting Suit, "I love the Movies, Man!  That's how I find the time!".

See this Video Clip below including some questions I asked on the Red Carpet:

HUGH JACKMAN, KEVIN DURAND & DAKOTA GOYO IN TORONTO FOR "REAL STEEL" PREMIERE

Still from Real Steel

As if September weren't already crazy enough for Toronto in terms of Star Power, something huge is coming for those of us suffering from post-TIFF Celeb Withdrawal! Disney's Real Steel set in 2020, is a battle of Humankind vs. Technology with Charlie (Hugh Jackman) losing his chance to become a Champion Boxer when Robots are decidedly designed for the Sport. Charlie then teams with his Son Max (Dakota Goyo) to design a Robot which gives them a real fighting chance at Victory.

Not only will Director Shawn Levy be in Toronto for the Canadian Premiere of Real Steel on September 20, 2011 - two days after TIFF ends - but Stars Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo and Kevin Durand all will be in-town!

Jackman and Durand as you know were both recently in Toronto, with the former here for Mirvish Productions' Hugh Jackman in Concert at Princess of Wales Theatre in July, while the latter around that time wrapped Production on David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. Durand also will be here for the Premere of Canadian Crime Drama Edwin Boyd at TIFF.

Real Steel opens in Wide Release nationally on October 7, 2011.

Watch a Featurette in full below: