Blu-ray, DVD Release: Fatman

Digital/Streaming Release Date: Available now; Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 26, 2021
Price: DVD $12.96, Blu-ray $14.96
Studio: Paramount


Paramount will release the dark and bizarre R-rated Christmas action-comedy Fatman, starring Mel Gibson (Dragged Across Concrete) and Walton Goggins (TV’s Justified) and written and directed by Eshom Nelms & Ian Nelms.

To save his declining business, Chris Cringle (Gibson), also known as Santa Claus, is forced into a partnership with the U.S. military. Making matters worse, Chris gets locked into a deadly battle of wits against a highly skilled assassin (Goggins), hired by a precocious 12-year-old after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking. ‘Tis the season for Fatman to get even, in the action-comedy that keeps on giving.

Also starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatman received a limited rollout to theaters and VOD back in November to decidedly mixed reviews.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.