HBO Home Entertainment has officially announced the Blu-ray release of
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Fifth Season, which stars Steve Buscemi, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Shannon, Gretchen Mol, Shea Whigham, Stephen Graham, Kelly Macdonald and Jeffrey Wright. The series' final season streets on January 13, 2015. Amazon is already accepting pre-orders.
Over the course of its first four seasons,
Boardwalk Empire, the hit HBO series from Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, garnered critical accolades for its top-rate performances, beautiful costumes and set pieces and breathtaking cinematography. Concluding a powerful and groundbreaking run, Season 5 jumps forward six full years to 1931. In stark contrast with the Roaring '20s, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression, and with the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimize himself by forging alliances with liquor producers.
Boardwalk Empire stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson; Kelly Macdonald as Margaret, Nucky's estranged wife; Michael Shannon as former Federal Agent Nelson Van Alden, caught up in gangland conflicts; Shea Whigham as Nucky's brother Eli, who went underground after killing a federal agent; Stephen Graham as gangster Al Capone; Vincent Piazza as gangster Lucky Luciano; Paul Sparks as gangster Mickey Doyle; Michael Kenneth Williams as Nucky's former ally Chalky White; Gretchen Mol as Gillian, now battling her demons; and Jeffrey Wright as Valentin Narcisse, Chalky's nemesis. Other returning cast members in season five include Anatol Yusef as gangster Meyer Lansky; Ben Rosenfield as Eli's son, Willie Thompson, now a young prosecutor on the rise; Patricia Arquette as Nucky's ally, Sally Wheet, now based in Cuba; and Michael Zegen as gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
The Blu-ray release of
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Fifth Season is presented in 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround. Special features include:
- Four Cast and Crew Audio Commentaries
- Eight "Scouting the Boardwalk" Location Pieces that take fans behind-the-scenes of the final season
- Digital HD Digital Copy of the Entire Season