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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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Neil Jordan's Byzantium Detailed
Posted September 30, 2013 05:42 PM by Webmaster
MPI Home Video and IFC Films have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Neil Jordan's (Mona Lisa, The Crying Game) latest film Byzantium (2012), starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, and Thure Lindhardt. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on October 29th.
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Elysium Blu-ray
Posted September 30, 2013 05:15 PM by Webmaster
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release a combo pack edition of director Neill Blomkamp sci-fi action drama Elysium (2013), starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Sharlto Copley. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on December 17th.
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Asghar Farhadi's The Past Selected to Represent Iran at the Oscars
Posted September 30, 2013 04:54 PM by Webmaster
Iran has selected acclaimed director Asghar Farhadi's latest film, Le Passe a.k.a The Past (2013) to represent it at the 86th Academy Awards. The film stars Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet), and Ali Mosaffa (Leila).
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The To Do List Blu-ray
Posted September 30, 2013 04:00 PM by Webmaster
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will bring to Blu-ray Maggie Carey's raunchy and irreverent comedy The To Do List (2013), starring Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, and Bill Hader. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on November 19th.
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Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler Blu-ray
Posted September 30, 2013 03:50 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922). Running at nearly 5-hours, the epic masterpiece by the legendary Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), is the first part of his infamous and career-spanning Mabuse trilogy. Street date is October 28th.
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Exclusive Giveaway: The Big Parade Blu-ray
Posted September 30, 2013 01:48 PM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are offering three members a chance to win a copy of director King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925), starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Karl Dane, Claire Adams, Tom O'Brien, Karl Dane, Hobart Bosworth and Robert Ober. The groundbreaking 1925 silent film classic arrives on Blu-ray on October 1st.
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This Week on Blu-ray: October 1-8
Posted September 29, 2013 12:40 AM by Josh Katz
For the week of October 1st, Disney Home Entertainment bringing its iconic The Little Mermaid to Blu-ray. Other titles include the hilarious This Is the End, new catalog releases of House of Wax and The Big Parade, a new 3D restoration of The Wizard of Oz, and the undercooked serial-killer thriller The Frozen Ground.
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Exclusive Giveaway: House of Wax (1953) 3D
Posted September 28, 2013 01:55 PM by Webmaster
Blu-ray.com and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are offering three members a chance to win a copy of André de Toth's House of Wax (1953), which stars Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni and a young Charles Bronson. The 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray release arrives on October 1st, and features 2D and 3D presentations minted from a 4K scan and restoration.
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StudioCanal to Release SteelBook Editions of Hayao Miyazaki Films
Posted September 27, 2013 06:45 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal will release SteelBook Editions of four films directed by Hayao Miyazaki:Ponyo (2008), My Neighbour Totoro (1988), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). The four SteelBooks will be available for purchase in the United Kingdom on November 25th.
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Raro Set to Release Love in the City
Posted September 27, 2013 05:59 PM by Webmaster
Raro Video U.S. have confirmed that they are preparing a Blu-ray release of L'amore in città a.k.a Love in the City (1953), an anthology film composed of six segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Dino Risi, Carlo Lizani, Francesco Maselli and Cezare Zavattini, and Alberto Lattuada. The release is expected to arrive on the U.S. market in early 2014.
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Lucía Puenzo's The German Doctor Selected to Represent Argentina at the Oscars
Posted September 27, 2013 05:30 PM by Webmaster
Argentina has selected acclaimed director Lucia Puenzo's Wakolda a.k.a The German Doctor to represent it at the 86th Academy Awards. The film stars Natalia Oreiro, Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, and Elena Roger.
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A&E to Produce Remake of French TV Series The Returned
Posted September 27, 2013 05:13 PM by Webmaster
A+E Studios and FremantleMedia North America will produce an English-language remake of the hit French supernatural mini-series Les Revenants a.k.a The Returned (2012). Bates Motel executive producer and co-writer Carlton Cuse is expected to be the man who will adapt the French drama for U.S. viewers.
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The Whip and the Body Blu-ray
Posted September 27, 2013 04:44 PM by Webmaster
Kino Classics has revealed that it is planning to bring to Blu-ray director Mario Bava's The Whip and the Body a.k.a La frusta e il corpo (1963), starring Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli, and Jacques Herlin. The preliminary release date set by the studio is December 17th.
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Hell Baby Blu-ray
Posted September 27, 2013 04:36 PM by Webmaster
Millennium Entertainment will bring to Blu-ray directors Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's co-directorial debut Hell Baby (2013), starring Rob Corddry, Leslie Bibb, Alex Berg, Thomas Lennon, Keegan Michael Key, and Brittney Alger. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United States on December 31.
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Arrow Video Announces December Titles
Posted September 27, 2013 03:44 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Arrow Video have officially announced that they will add three titles to their Blu-ray catalog in December: Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982), John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). Arrow Video will also release on DVD Paul Bartel's Lust in the Dust (1985).
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Disney's Planes 2D & 3D Blu-rays
Posted September 27, 2013 12:23 PM by Webmaster
Walt Disney Home Entertainment has officially announced and detailed the Blu-ray release of DisneyToon Studios' Planes, which is set to arrive via 2D and 3D BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo packs later this fall. The high-flying animated adventure features the voice talents of Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra, Cedric the Entertainer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and John Cleese, and streets on November 19th.
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Halloween 35th Anniversary Limited Edition SteelBook
Posted September 26, 2013 06:03 PM by Webmaster
Anchor Bay Home Entertainment UK has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray Limited Edition SteelBook release of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tony Moran. The release will be available for purchase on October 21.
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Bullet Ballet Blu-ray
Posted September 26, 2013 05:16 PM by Webmaster
Independent British distributors Third Window Films will bring to Blu-ray director Shinya Tsukamoto's Bullet Ballet (1998), starring Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, and Shinya Tsukamoto. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is December 30th.
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Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt to Represent Denmark at the Oscars
Posted September 26, 2013 04:56 PM by Webmaster
Denmark has selected director Thomas Vinterberg's drama Jagten a.k.a The Hunt to represent it at the 86th Academy Awards. The film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen and Annika Wedderkopp. Last year, The Hunt won Best Actor Award (Mads Mikkelsen), Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist (Charlotte Bruus Christensen), and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
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World Cinema Foundation: Volume One Blu-ray
Posted September 26, 2013 04:26 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced the release of Martin Scorsese Presents: World Cinema Foundation: Volume One (Three films preserved, restored, and re-presented by the efforts of the World Cinema Foundation: Dry Summer/ Trances/Revenge). The Dual Format release will be available for purchase in the United Kingdom on November 25th.
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Blu-ray Sales, Sept. 16-22: World War Z Infects the Top of the Charts
Posted September 26, 2013 04:18 PM by Josh Katz
For the week that ended on September 22nd, Paramount Home Media Entertainment scored the top figures on the Blu-ray and overall package media charts for the second week in a row with its World War Z. This loose adaptation of Max Brooks' cult zombie novel proved one of the biggest surprises of the summer; after generating underwhelming buzz, the film found both critical and commercial success at the box-office.
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Springsteen & I Blu-ray
Posted September 26, 2013 04:11 PM by Webmaster
Eagle Rock Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Springsteen & I. Fully endorsed and supported by Bruce Springsteen, Springsteen & I is a unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon. Street date is October 4th.
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold Special NYC Blu-ray Event
Posted September 26, 2013 03:20 PM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and the Warner Archive Collection have officially revealed plans to release Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Complete First Season on Blu-ray. Warner confirmed the first season will be available in early November 2013. Details about a special October 11th celebration in New York were also shared, as well as instructions on how to earn a free ticket to the event.
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New Trailer: Disney's Frozen
Posted September 26, 2013 02:55 PM by Webmaster
Walt Disney Pictures has released a new trailer for directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee's Frozen, which features the voice talents of Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad. The animated fairy tale adventure is set to open in both 2D and 3D U.S. theaters on November 27th.
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The World's End Blu-ray
Posted September 26, 2013 02:22 PM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has officially announced the Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet combo pack release of director Edgar Wright's The World's End, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, David Bradley and Pierce Brosnan. The approaching-apocalypse sci-fi comedy arrives on Blu-ray on November 19th.
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Aquarion Evol: Part 1 Blu-ray
Posted September 26, 2013 02:20 PM by Webmaster
FUNimation Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Aquarion Evol: Part 1, available in both a standard and Limited Edition BD/DVD combo pack. Aquarion Evol is the latest television anime series in Shoji Kawamori and Satelight's Aquarion robot anime franchise, and makes its U.S. debut on December 3rd.
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Jobs Blu-ray
Posted September 25, 2013 09:30 PM by Webmaster
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has officially announced and detailed its upcoming combo pack edition of Joshua Michael Stern's Jobs (2013), starring Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, and Josh Gad. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on November 26th.
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First Look at Scott Waugh's Need for Speed
Posted September 25, 2013 06:40 PM by Webmaster
DreamWorks Pictures has released the first official trailer for Scott Waugh's Need for Speed (2014), starring Aaron Paul, Chillie Mo, Dominic Cooper, and Imogen Poots. The film is set to open in theaters across the United States on March 14th.
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Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Blu-ray
Posted September 25, 2013 06:06 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber has officially announced the Blu-ray release of Ain't in it for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, a documentary by Jacob Hatley about former The Band drummer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Levon Helm and his miraculous comeback. After cancer threatened to steal his voice, Helm surprised the world by producing a string of Grammy-winning albums. Street date is October 8th.
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Music Box Acquires Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida
Posted September 25, 2013 03:19 PM by Webmaster
U.S. distributors Music Box Films have acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to director Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film Ida (2013), starring Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, and Joanna Kulig. Earlier this month, the film won the International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) at the Toronto International Film Festival.