With Savages concluding its US theatrical run, Universal is gearing up to release the films’s unrated edition on DVD & Blu-ray loaded with plenty of bonus features. Whilst it won’t be released until October 23, you can pre-order it at Amazon.

With Savages about to embark on its worldwide theatrical release, audiences outside the USA & Canada will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on the dvd. Check out the international release dates to find out when the movie will be released in your area.

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Acclaimed director Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, Wall Street) plunges deep into the brutally violent world of Mexican drug cartels in the crime thriller Savages, coming to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD, and On Demand on October 23, 2012, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Also available through Digital Download. Based on Don Winslow’s audacious 2010 novel, Savages is an intense and graphic drama set against the harsh, swift justice of the illicit drug trade as a pair of peace-loving Southern Californians find themselves locked in an all-out war against a merciless drug lord.

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With Savages steadily performing well for a violent rated R (heading for a $50m+ run) at the American box office, Universal is gearing up to start the film’s international promo & release. First up – the Zurich Film Festival. Hopefully Blake and the cast are able to attend the premiere! Source

Oliver Stone’s stoner action thriller Savages, starring Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Blake Lively, will open the 8th annual Zurich International Film Festival on September 20.

Stone is no stranger to the young Swiss festival, having attended several times before, including in 2007, when the Oscar-winning filmmaker received Zurich’s lifetime achievement honor, the Golden Eye. This year’s Zurich Golden Eye winner is veteran producer Jerry Weintraub, whose credits include the Ocean’s Eleven and Karate Kid franchises.

Savages, which also features John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek, has earned $46 million domestically for Universal Pictures since its July 6th release. But international distributors have held back the global rollout of the film, in part to avoid going head-to-head with this summer’s big televised sporting events – the Euro 2012 Soccer Championships and the 2012 London Olympics.

Savages begins its European rollout September 13 in Russia and continues across Europe through September and October.

The 8th annual Zurich Film Festival runs Sept.20-30.

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Savages hits today on July 6th movie theaters, so be sure to check it out!
We’ve listed the international release dates right here  .

Entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable marijuana producer, and friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL, run a lucrative, homegrown industry raising some of the best weed ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena and her enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond of the three friends, Ben and Chon with the reluctant assistance of a dirty DEA agent wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.

Here’s another Savages interview of Blake and co-star Salma Hayek !

NEW YORK – If you belong to a certain tier of the Hollywood A-list, you don’t get to know each other in Starbucks over iced lattes.

Take Salma Hayek and Blake Lively. The magnetic Mexican Oscar nominee and the foxy flaxen-haired California girl first met at a dinner thrown by Vogue editorAnna Wintour. At that point, last summer, Lively was already attached to Oliver Stone’s moody, violent drug drama Savages. Hayek had been approached by Stone, but nothing was official, so no one, not even her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, knew she might do the film. And she didn’t bring it up at the soiree.

“I wanted to talk to you, but I wasn’t hired,” says Hayek to Lively. “Oliver had talked to me about it and said he wrote it for me but didn’t offer me the job. I wanted to ask Blake, ‘Did he mention me to you?’ Some of the financing came from France, and people were telling Francois that I was in an Oliver Stone movie. He said, ‘You’re doing an Oliver Stone movie and you didn’t mention it to me?’ I didn’t know about it! It was very funny.”

So they danced around the topic, without ever broaching it. “I wasn’t going to mention it. I wanted to talk to Salma about it, too, because I have a relationship with two men, but our relationship is the most intimate in the film,” recalls Lively.

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We’ve posted earlier videos of Blake’s appearance at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (June 29). There are also some photos of the talk show appearance that can be now found in the gallery.

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I finally made it to add photos of Blake attending the “Savages New York Premiere” (June 27). She wore a stunning yellow Gucci gown accessorized with Lorraine Schwartz jewellery. “Savages” hits theaters July 6th!

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Appearances > 2012 > “Savages” NY Premiere – June 27