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Blu-ray Sales: October 25-31: Masters of the Universe Not Frightened by Frankenstein
Posted November 9, 2026 03:22 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week that ended on October 31st, Alliance Entertainment's Masters of the Universe (2026) remained atop the Blu-ray-only, overall packaged media and 4K UHD charts in its second week, fending off the Criterion Collection's new release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025), which took second place. Third place on all charts went to The Frighteners, which was released on remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD by Arrow Video this week.
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This Week on Blu-ray: November 9-15
Posted November 8, 2026 07:48 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of November 9th, the Criterion Collection will release Blue Heron on Blu-ray, as well as Shoot the Piano Player and Marie Antoinette (2006) on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Other new releases include The Apothecary Diaries: Season 2 from Crunchyroll, Call of the Night: Season 2 from Sentai Filmworks and Mad Bills to Pay from Oscilloscope Laboratories. Catalog titles include Blu-rays for Lock Up: Season 1, Volume 1 from ClassicFlix and Miranda from Cult Films, as well as 4K UHD releases for Planet of the Vampires from Radiance Films, Above the Law from Toy Robot Video, Four Rooms from Kino Lorber, Con Air from Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Memoirs of a Geisha from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Lovely Bones from Paramount Home Media Distribution and Paddington from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
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The Big Combo 4K Blu-ray
Posted November 6, 2026 05:54 AM by Webmaster
Ignite Films will issue standard 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray editions of Joseph H. Lewis' classic film noir The Big Combo (1955), starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, and Robert Middleton. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on December 15.
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Resident Evil (2026) 4K Blu-ray
Posted November 3, 2026 06:31 PM by Webmaster
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Zach Cregger's Resident Evil (2026), starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser, and Will Merrick. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on December 29.
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Big Jake 55th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray
Posted November 3, 2026 06:30 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming 4K Blu-ray release of George Sherman's Big Jake (1971), starring John Wayne, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, and Bruce Cabot. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on January 19th.
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El Dorado 4K Blu-ray
Posted November 2, 2026 08:31 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have dated and detailed their upcoming 4K Blu-ray release of Howard Hawks' El Dorado (1966), starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, and Paul Fix. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on January 26.
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North Sea Texas Blu-ray
Posted December 20, 2013 05:44 PM by Webmaster
Saffron Hill Films, a Peccadillo Pictures company, will release a Double Play edition of Belgian director Bavo Defurne's film Noordzee, Texas a.k.a North Sea Texas (2011), starring Ben Van den Heuvel, Eva van der Gucht, and Thomas Coumans. The preliminary release date set by the company is February 10, 2014.
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Kino Lorber Acquires All US and Canadian Rights to Jyllian Gunther's Documentary The New Public
Posted December 20, 2013 05:25 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber announced today that it has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to the documentary The New Public by filmmaker Jyllian Gunther. The New Public premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival in 2012 and since then has become a hit among educators for its insightful portrayal of the challenges facing teachers working with students who are struggling to perform under adverse conditions.
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Big Fat Liar & A Simple Wish Blu-rays
Posted December 20, 2013 05:19 PM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release Shawn Levy's Big Fat Liar (which stars Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes) and Michael Ritchie's A Simple Wish (Martin Short and Mara Wilson) on Blu-ray. Each family friendly catalog film arrives on Blu-ray on March 4, 2014.
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Exit Wounds & Torque Blu-rays
Posted December 20, 2013 05:09 PM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of director Andrzej Bartkowiak's Exit Wounds, starring Steven Seagal, DMX and Eva Mendes, and Joseph Kahn's Torque, which stars Martin Henderson, Jamie Pressly and Ice Cube. Bothaction thrillers street on April 22, 2014.
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Uncut Version of Nymphomaniac Volume 1 to Premiere in Berlin
Posted December 20, 2013 05:01 PM by Webmaster
The organizers of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival announced today that the longer, uncut version of Volume I of Nymphomaniac will have its world premiere at the prestigious event. Nymphomaniac is directed by controversial Danish helmer Lars von Trier.
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Academy Announces Semi-Finalists in Foreign Film Category
Posted December 20, 2013 04:29 PM by Webmaster
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has selected nine films that will enter the next stage of the voting process for the the 86th Academy Awards. The short list will be further narrowed by invite-only committees in New York and Los Angeles. Finalists in all Oscar categories will be announced on January 16, 2014.
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Posted December 20, 2013 03:41 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Artificial Eye have sent us the official trailer for director Arnaud des Pallières's Michael Kohlhaas a.k.a Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013), starring Mads Mikkelsen, Bruno Ganz, Denis Lavant, Sergi Lopez, Mélusine Mayance, and Delphine Chuillot. The film will open in theaters across the United Kingdom on January 3rd.
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1 - Life On The Limit Blu-ray
Posted December 20, 2013 03:22 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal has officially announced that it will release the Formula One documentary 1 - Life on the Limit in theaters across the United Kingdom on January 10th. A Blu-ray release will be available for purchase on March 17th.
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Conspiracy Theory Blu-ray
Posted December 20, 2013 03:20 AM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of director Richard Donner and writer Brian Helgeland's Conspiracy Theory, which stars Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart and Alex McArthur. The Blu-ray debut of Donner's action drama streets on April 22, 2014.
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Harry and the Hendersons Blu-ray
Posted December 20, 2013 03:12 AM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release director William Dear's Harry and the Hendersons, starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy and Kevin Peter Hall. The family comedy makes its Blu-ray debut on March 4, 2014.
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Get Carter (1971 & 2000) Blu-rays
Posted December 20, 2013 03:04 AM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. is bringing writer/director Mike Hodges' Get Carter (1971) and Stephen Kay's remake (2000) to Blu-ray this April. The original film stars Michael Caine, Ian Hendry and John Osborne, with the remake casting Sylvester Stallone in the Caine role and co-starring Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook and Mickey Rourke. Both street on April 22, 2014.
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The Fifth Estate Blu-ray
Posted December 20, 2013 02:51 AM by Webmaster
Walt Disney Home Entertainment has officially announced the Blu-ray release of director Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, Daniel Brühl, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci and Anthony Mackie. The film offers a dramatic portrayal of Wikileak's Assange, and arrives on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD Digital Copy combo pack on January 28, 2014.
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Berlinale 2014: First Panorama Titles Revealed
Posted December 19, 2013 08:39 PM by Webmaster
The organizers of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival have revealed the first nineteen films that will be screened in the Panorama section of the prestigious event. Amongst them are new works by Michel Gondry, Tsai Ming-liang, Kutluğ Ataman, Robert Lepage, Sophie Fillières, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maximilian Erlenwein, and John Michael McDonagh.
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Well Go USA Acquires New Donnie Yen Film
Posted December 19, 2013 07:08 PM by Webmaster
Texas-based distributors Well Go USA have acquired the North American distribution rights to director Clarence Ford's latest film Special ID (2013), starring martial superstar Donnie Yen, Andy On, Jing Tian, Zhang Han-Yu, Frankie Ng, Collin Chow, and Ronald Cheng. The distributors plans to have the film in theaters across the United States on March 7, 2014.
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The Epic of Everest Officially Announced
Posted December 19, 2013 03:58 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has officially announced and detailed is upcoming Dual Format Edition of J.B.L. Noel's recently restored The Epic of Everest (1924). The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on January 27, 2014.
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Wake in Fright Blu-ray
Posted December 19, 2013 03:39 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Eureka Entertainment have announced the release of Wake in Fright, the legendary, long-sought-after Australian film, released theatrically at the BFI Southbank and cinemas nationwide in the UK & Eire and for the first time on home video in the UK.
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Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia Officially Announced
Posted December 19, 2013 03:27 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983), starring Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, and Milena Vukotic. The release will be available for purchase on January 21, 2014.
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Trailer: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Posted December 19, 2013 02:50 PM by Webmaster
DreamWorks has released a new full-length trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2, which features the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Kit Harington and Djimon Hounsou. The film is scheduled to arrive in U.S. theaters on June 20, 2014.
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For Ever Mozart Blu-ray Detailed
Posted December 19, 2013 02:29 PM by Webmaster
Cohen Media has detailed the Cohen Film Collection Blu-ray release of director Jean-Luc Godard's 's For Ever Mozart, which stars stars Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux, Ghalya Lacroix (most recently the editor of Cannes 2013 winner Blue Is the Warmest Color), Vicky Messica and Frédéric Pierrot (I've Loved You So Long). The acclaimed drama arrives on Blu-ray on January 7, 2014.
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Psycho-Pass: The Complete First Season Blu-rays
Posted December 19, 2013 02:08 PM by Webmaster
FUNimation Entertainment has announced and detailed the first season Blu-ray releases of Psycho-Pass, the first twenty-two episodes of the Production I.G anime series. Psycho-Pass will be available via three releases: Part 1, Part 2 and The Complete First Season: Premium Edition. All three arrive on Blu-ray on March 11, 2014.
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Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action! Blu-ray
Posted December 19, 2013 01:54 PM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action!, the next direct-to-video animated feature in Mattel's Monster High series. Frights, Camera, Action! streets on March 25, 2014.
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Exclusive Giveaway: Elysium
Posted December 19, 2013 03:35 AM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are offering three members the opportunity to win a copy of director Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley and Diego Luna. The acclaimed sci-fi thriller is already available for purchase.
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Four Additional Universal Catalog Titles Due in March
Posted December 19, 2013 03:01 AM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has officially announced four additional catalog titles, each one set to release on March 4, 2014. The films include Far and Away, Fried Green Tomatoes, Intolerable Cruelty and Somewhere in Time.
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The Clone Wars: Season 5 Replacement Program
Posted December 19, 2013 02:54 AM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. has established a replacement program for consumers encountering audio and other quality issues with Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete Season 5. The disc replacement is available to those who purchased the Seasons 1-5 Collector's Edition as well.
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An American Tail Blu-ray
Posted December 19, 2013 02:40 AM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Don Bluth's An American Tail, which features the voice talents of Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Nehemiah Persoff, Amy Green and Erica Yohn. The classic animated film makes its Blu-ray debut on March 4, 2014.
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Blu-ray Sales, Dec. 9-15: Despicable Me 2 Schemes Its Way to the Top
Posted December 19, 2013 12:08 AM by Josh Katz
For the week that ended on December 15th, Universal Studios' Despicable Me 2 took the number-one spot on both the Blu-ray-only and overall package media charts. This animated comedy - the sequel to the 2010 surprise hit - netted Universal a healthy profit last summer; even after receiving average critical notices, the film grossed over $918 million worldwide.
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First Look at McG's 3 Days to Kill
Posted December 18, 2013 08:16 PM by Webmaster
Relativity Media has released the first official trailer for McG's latest project 3 Days to Kill (2014), starring Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, and Tómas Lemarquis. The film is set to open in theaters across the United States on February 21, 2014.
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The Missing Picture Blu-ray
Posted December 18, 2013 07:49 PM by Webmaster
Independent British distributors New Wave Films have revealed that they are planning to bring to Blu-ray director Rithy Panh's documentary film L'image manquante a.k.a The Missing Picture (2013). Earlier this year, the film won Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is March 24th.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy Blu-ray
Posted December 18, 2013 03:21 PM by Webmaster
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has revealed that it plans to bring to Blu-ray director Carol Reed's The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), starring Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Alberto Lupo, Venantino Venantini, and Tomas Milian. The preliminary release date set by the studio is March 4, 2014.
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The Double
Posted December 18, 2013 01:46 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal have sent us a brand new trailer for director director Richard Ayoade's latest film The Double (2013), starring Jesse Eisenberg, Chris O'Dowd, Mia Wasikowska, Paddy Considine, Gemma Chan, and Wallace Shawn. The film is set to open in cinemas across the United Kingdom on April 4th.