For the week of August 9th, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two. The animated film picks up where the June release of Part One left off to complete the story. The disc includes the DC Showcase short "Blue Beetle", as well as a sneak peek at the next DCAU film, Injustice. A Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook edition will also be available, but WB has also said that a 4K UHD release which will combine both parts of the film into one is due later this year.
Also coming from Warner this week is a new addition to the Warner Archive Collection, One Crazy Summer, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Tom Villard, Matt Mulhern and Jeremy Piven. Synopsis: After graduating from high school, art school hopeful Hoops McCann (John Cusack) struggles to complete his application to the Rhode Island School of Design. Resigning himself to a summer of boredom, McCann agrees to go along with his best friend, George Calamari (Joel Murray), on a family trip to Nantucket, Mass. But, after McCann and Calamari meet rocker-in-distress Cassandra (Demi Moore), it suddenly looks like it's going to be "one crazy summer."
New this week from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is Timur Bekmambetov's thriller Profile, starring Valene Kane, Morgan Watkin, and Christine Adams. Studio description: Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The unconventional thriller plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch).
Reviewer Martin Liebman was quite enamored with Profile and gave the disc high marks for picture and audio quality. You can read his full review here.
Also coming this week from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Renny Harlin's action thriller The Misfits (2021), starring Tim Roth, Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Chung, and Nick Cannon. Synopsis: A band of modern-day Robin Hoods known as "The Misfits", recruit renowned thief Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) to help them pull off the heist of the century. The prize: millions in gold bars stashed underneath one of the world's most secure prisons. Hold on tight for a globe-trotting, action-packed thriller from the Director of Die Hard 2.
Also from Paramount this week, we have two new additions to the Paramount Presents lineup. First is George Stevens' A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters. Based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy, this story of a young working-class man who loves two women was nominated for nine Oscars, winning six, including Best Director, while it also became the first to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama amongst many other awards and its eventual selection to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 1991. Now presented from a new 4K scan and with archival and new extras, including a Filmmaker Focus featurette with Leonard Maltin and the Paramount Presents series collectible packaging.
Also coming to Paramount Presents is Robert Altman's Nashville. Previously released on Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection (a release which is now out-of-print), this new Paramount Presents release is newly remastered from a 4K scan of original elements, and contains a new featurette, "24 Tracks: Robert Altman's NASHVILLE", as well as archival extras and the Paramount Presents series collectible packaging.
Finally this week, we have two new releases from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. First is Luke Sparke's action thriller Occupation: Rainfall, starring Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies, Lawrence Makoare, and Zac Garred. Description: Bursting with spectacular special effects and exhilarating action sequences, Occupation: Rainfall unfolds two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, as survivors fight back in a desperate ground war. While casualties mount by the day, the resistance—along with some unexpected allies—uncovers a plot that could bring the war to a decisive end. Now, with the alien invaders hell-bent on making our planet their new home, the race is on to save mankind.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray for Occupation: Rainfall contains two audio commentaries with the director and crew, deleted scenes with optional director's commentary, amongst other extras.
Also this week from Lionsgate is Brian Baugh's Finding You, starring Katherine McNamara, Vanessa Redgrave, Jedidiah Goodacre, Tom Everett Scott, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson. Description: When her audition for an elite New York conservatory goes awry, aspiring violinist Finley Sinclair travels to a quaint Irish coastal village for a semester abroad program. At the B&B of her host family, she encounters charming heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush, who is there to film the next installment of his medieval fantasy-action franchise. As Beckett's free-spiritedness helps Finley find the heart and passion that was missing from her music, Finley's honesty inspires Beckett to pursue his true passion, and they discover that a change of scenery may be all they need to find themselves — and true love.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray for Finding You contains an image gallery and the featurette "A Look at Finding You".