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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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Gatchaman: Complete Collection Blu-ray Delayed & Detailed
Posted October 16, 2013 11:03 PM by Webmaster
Section23 Films has announced a delay for the 14-disc Gatchaman: Complete Collection Blu-ray set, pushing the series' release back from October 29th to December 10th. The anime distributor also detailed the set, which features a variety of bonus content including commentaries, interviews and more.
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Million Dollar Baby: 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray (Updated)
Posted October 16, 2013 10:51 PM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the 10th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of writer Paul Haggis and director Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, starring Eastwood, Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The acclaimed drama won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and is being re-released on Blu-ray on February 4, 2014.
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We Are What We Are Remake Gets U.S. Release Date
Posted October 16, 2013 07:35 PM by Webmaster
Entertainment One has revealed that it plans to bring to Blu-ray Jim Mickle's horror thriller We Are What We Are (2013), starring Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, and Kelly McGillis. The preliminary release date set by the studio is January 7th.
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Blue Is the Warmest Color UK Trailer
Posted October 16, 2013 07:13 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Artificial Eye have sent us the official UK trailer for this year's Palme d'Or winner La vie d'Adèle a.k.a Blue is the Warmest Color, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, and Jeremie Laheurte. The film is directed by Franco-Tunisian helmer Abdellatif Kechiche.
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Ophuls, Lang, and Welles Films Prepped for Blu-ray in France
Posted October 16, 2013 06:59 PM by Webmaster
Manuel Chiche, founder and director of French boutique label Wild Side, and founder of La Rabbia, a new distribution company which specializes in theatrical re-releases of restored classic films, has revealed that three classic films by Max Ophuls, Fritz Lang, and Orson Welles will return to French cinemas.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel Gets U.S. Theatrical Release Date (Updated)
Posted October 16, 2013 06:01 PM by Webmaster
Fox Searchlight announced today that director Wes Anderson's latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), will open in theaters across the United States on March 7th, 2014. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Léa Seydoux, and Harvey Keitel.
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Criterion Announces January Titles
Posted October 16, 2013 04:51 PM by Webmaster
The Criterion Collection has announced six titles for Blu-ray release in January: On January 7th, the studio will release Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. On January 14th, it will release Jules Dassin's Rififi and Michael Mann's Thief. On January 21, it will release Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Aki Kaurismäki's La vie de bohème.
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Arrow Details Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Posted October 16, 2013 04:42 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Arrow Video have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, and Jeff Goldblum. The release will be available for purchase in the United Kingdom on November 18th.
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Saving General Yang Blu-ray (Update)
Posted October 16, 2013 03:33 PM by Webmaster
Texas-based distributors Well Go USA have revealed that they are planning to bring to Blu-ray director Ronny Yu's Saving General Yang (2013), starring Adam Cheng, Ekin Cheng, Huang Xiao-Ming, Wu Chun, Mark Chao, Deng Chao, Voc Chou, Jerry Li, Yu Bo, Raymond Lam, and Fu Xinbo. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is December 10th.
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Two Weeks Notice Blu-ray
Posted October 16, 2013 01:54 PM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is bringing director Marc Lawrence's Two Weeks Notice to Blu-ray early next year. The 2002 romantic comedy stars producer Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Dana Ivey, Alicia Witt, Heather Burns, Robert Klein, David Haig and Dorian Missick, and streets on February 4, 2014.
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The Rutles Anthology Blu-ray
Posted October 16, 2013 01:07 PM by Webmaster
Video Services Corp and Broadway Video Entertainment have official announced the Blu-ray release of The Rutles Anthology, starring Eric Idle, Neil Innes, John Halsey and Ricky Fataar. The rock mockumentary collection will be available for purchase on November 19th in Canada and December 3rd in the U.S.
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Jayne Mansfield's Car Blu-ray
Posted October 16, 2013 12:53 PM by Webmaster
Anchor Bay Films has announced the Blu-ray release of writer/director Billy Bob Thorton's acclaimed comedy/drama Jayne Mansfield's Car, starring Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick, Ray Stevenson, Katherine LaNasa and Frances O'Connor. The film arrives on Blu-ray on December 10th.
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New Red-band Trailer for Tom Gormican's Comedy That Awkward Moment
Posted October 15, 2013 09:48 PM by Webmaster
Focus Features has sent us a new red-band trailer for Tom Gormican's upcoming comedy That Awkward Moment (2014), starring Zac Efron, Imogen Poots, Addison Timlin, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller. The film is set to open in theaters across the United States on January 31, 2014.
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Exclusive Giveaway: Vikings Season One
Posted October 15, 2013 09:30 PM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment are offering two members a chance to win a copy of Vikings: Season One. This historically based series follows the adventures of real life Viking Ragnar Lodbrok. Vikings streeted on October 15.
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Magnolia Acquires Richard Ayoade's The Double
Posted October 15, 2013 05:56 PM by Webmaster
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to director Richard Ayoade's latest film The Double (2013), starring Jesse Eisenberg, Chris O'Dowd, Mia Wasikowska, Paddy Considine, Gemma Chan, and Wallace Shawn. Earlier this year, The Double was nominated for Best Film Award at the London Film Festival.
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Suspension of Disbelief Blu-ray
Posted October 15, 2013 05:27 PM by Webmaster
German label Sunfilm Entertainment will bring to Blu-ray acclaimed director Mike Figgis' (Leaving Las Vegas) latest film Suspension of Disbelief (2012), starring Sebastian Koch, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox, and Julian Sands. The release will be available to purchase in Germany on November 7th.
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Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai Heading to Blu-ray
Posted October 15, 2013 05:10 PM by Webmaster
Grover Crisp, executive vice-president of film restoration at Sony Pictures, has confirmed that Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947) will soon be available to purchase on Blu-ray. The film has been recently restored in 4K.
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Carlotta Films Enters the U.S. Market
Posted October 15, 2013 04:42 PM by Webmaster
Paris-based Carlotta Films has announced that it is launching a U.S. distribution company, which will be known as Carlotta Films U.S. The new company, which will be run by Calantha Mansfield, will focus on bringing classic and little seen independent films to the American market.
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Kick-Ass 2 Blu-ray
Posted October 15, 2013 02:22 PM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has detailed the Blu-ray release of writer/director Jeff Wadlow's Kick-Ass 2. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse return for another action-packed, over-the-top round of extreme crime fighting, joined by Jim Carrey, Donald Faison, John Leguizamo and Morris Chestnut. The Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet combo pack release streets on December 17th.
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Parkland Blu-ray
Posted October 15, 2013 02:20 PM by Webmaster
Millennium Entertainment has officially announced the Blu-ray release of Peter Landesman's Parkland, which recounts the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The film stars Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thorton, Jacki Weaver and Paul Giamatti, and arrives on Blu-ray on November 5th.
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Star Trek: Enterprise - Season Three Blu-ray
Posted October 15, 2013 02:02 PM by Webmaster
Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment have announced the Blu-ray release of Star Trek: Enterprise - Season Three and detailed the bonus content that will be included with the 6-disc set. The series' third season stars Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, John Billingsley, Anthony Montgomery and Linda Park, and arrives on January 7, 2014.
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Exclusive Giveaway: 100 Bloody Acres
Posted October 14, 2013 10:14 PM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and Doppelganger Films are offering four members a chance to win a copy of 100 Bloody Acres. This whimsical horror comedy deals with two brothers who run an organic fertilizer company in Australia who have decided to utilize humans as an ingredient in their products. The Blu-ray streeted on October 1.
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Blu-ray
Posted October 14, 2013 10:07 PM by Webmaster
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release a combo pack edition of Harald Zwart's The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), starring Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Robert Sheehan. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on December 3rd.
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Exclusive Giveaway: Drug War
Posted October 14, 2013 10:06 PM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and Well Go USA are offering five members a chance to win a copy of Drug War. This Johnnie To film deals with the unlikely pairing of a hardbitten cop and a notorious drug lord who band together to bring down a methamphetamine ring. The Blu-ray streets October 15.
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Exclusive Giveaway: Kevin Hart Prize Packages
Posted October 14, 2013 09:54 PM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and Summit Entertainment are offering two members a chance to win a copy of Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, along with a mini-poster signed by Kevin Hart. Let Me Explain includes both performance footage as well as a mockumentary approach. The Blu-ray streets October 15.
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Ben Wheatley Set to Direct Two Doctor Who Episodes
Posted October 14, 2013 05:18 PM by Webmaster
British filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List) will direct the first two episodes of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who. Shooting will begin in December, and the two episodes are expected to be broadcast in Autumn 2014.
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Trailer for F.W. Murnau's Newly Restored Nosferatu
Posted October 14, 2013 04:44 PM by Webmaster
Kino Classics has released a new trailer for Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung's recent restoration of F.W. Murnau's classic horror film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors. Kino Classics will release the restoration on Blu-ray on November 12th.
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Schalcken the Painter Blu-ray
Posted October 14, 2013 04:35 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Dual Format Edition of Schalcken the Painter (1979). Originally screened by the BBC during the dying hours of 23 December 1979, this exquisitely shot, atmospheric horror film explores the uneasy relationship between art, commerce and erotic desire. Street date is November 18th.
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Barbara Blu-ray
Posted October 14, 2013 04:23 PM by Webmaster
Adopt Films and Kino Lorber have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray acclaimed German director Christian Petzold's award winning film Barbara (2012), starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, and Rainer Bock. The release will be available for purchase on November 12th.
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Ron Howard's Rush Gets UK Release Date
Posted October 14, 2013 04:15 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray director Ron Howard's blockbuster Rush (2013), starring Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, and Pierfrancesco Favino. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on January 27th.