Twentieth Century Fox hasoffically announced that it will release on Blu-ray director Brian Percival's (TV's Downton Abbey) latest film, The Book Thief (2013), starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, and Sophie Nelisse. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on March 11th.
The 550-page, World War II-era novel, narrated by Death, tells the story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken at age 9 to live with a foster family in a German working-class neighborhood. Liesel arrives having just stolen her first book, "The Gravediggers Handbook" -- it will be the beginning of a love affair with books.