“Frenetic, gripping, ridiculous and solemn at all the right places – the geek blockbuster of the year.”
— Michael Calia, The Wall Street Journal
The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies
Arrives onto Blu-Ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-Ray Combo Pack, 2-Disc DVD Special Edition and Digital HD on March 24 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Blu-ray and Digital HD include “Recruiting the Five Armies,” “Completing Middle-earth,” “The Last Goodbye” and “New Zealand: Home of Middle-earth, Part 3”
Burbank, CA, February 17, 2015 – The adventures of Bilbo Baggins come to an epic conclusion in ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’, a 
production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), arriving onto Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on March 24 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. From Academy Award®-winning* filmmaker Peter Jackson comes ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ brings to an epic conclusion the adventure of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and the Company of Dwarves. The Dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed the vast wealth of their homeland, but now must face the consequences of having unleashed the terrifying Dragon, Smaug, upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town.
Blu-Ray and DVD Elements
‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack and 2-Disc DVD Special Edition contain the following special features: · Recruiting the Five Armies · Completing Middle-earth · The Last Goodbye: Behind the Scenes · The Last Goodbye Music Video · New Zealand: Home of Middle-earth, Part 3
New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Present a Wingnut Films Production, ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’. The film is a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television distribution being handled by MGM. www.thehobbit.net ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ is released on March 24!
A Tolkienist's Perspective 
Not sure why people still buy this, especially since the extended version will be out at the end of the year, packing much more punch than this lightweight. And I just need to add that New Line Cinema did a much better job in making sure the DVD books for LOTR’s extended look good alongside each other. So unlike Warner Bros. for the Hobbit.
I guess not everyone would want to watch extended editions. Those people who complain about long running times might be content to buy the theatrical editions rather than the latter 🙂
Can’t wait! Going to be my new nerd fix!
I’m glad they’re making the plain old DVD edition easier to find this time. it was sort of a struggle last time.
As far as wanting the DVD — I’d like to be able to watch it legally a LOT from the sofa in my living room using my good old DVD player and not have to pay $10 every time I do so. I will probably watch this 30x (estimate) before the EE comes out, so this will save me a lot of money and make me happy I am not breaking the law.
Like Servetus, I’ll merrily get my TBOTFA fix from the regular version while waiting eagerly for the extended. I have zero wish to wait until the end of the year to see this movie again — I have a great need to see it over and over that I didn’t have with the first two Hobbit movies.