Posted October 31, 2021 11:55 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of November 1st, Decal Releasing will release Michael Sarnoski's thriller Pig (2021), starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, and Adam Arkin. Synopsis: A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Decal's extras for Pig include deleted scenes and the featurette Nic Cage Cooks - Three-Mushroom Tart, Pigeon, and Pommes Anna.
Also new this week is Cal Brunker's PAW Patrol: The Movie, featuring the voices of Dax Shepard, Tyler Perry, Iain Armitage, Yara Shahidi, and Randall Park. The film is the second to be based off of a Nickelodeon Jr. program after 2019's Dora and the Lost City of Gold and the first to be animated. Produced largely in Canada on a budget of some $26 million, PAW Patrol: The Movie grossed over $126 million globally since it opened in August. Over $40 million of that has come from the domestic box office, despite both a day-and-date release on the studio's Paramount+ streaming service and that Regal Cinemas, which is the nation's second-largest cinema chain, refused to screen the film due to the simultaneous streaming release. Paramount's Blu-ray contains two featurettes and a lyric video as extras.
Also from Paramount this week is Andrew Baird's sci-fi thriller Zone 414, starring Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz, and Travis Fimmel. Synopsis: Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz and Travis Fimmel star in the sci-fi thriller set in Zone 414, a dangerous, dark colony of humanoids known as "the city of robots." The colony's creator (Fimmel) hires private investigator David Carmichael (Pearce) to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane (Lutz), a highly advanced A.I. equipped with the same technology of her fellow humanoids, but with all the emotions, feelings and dreams of a human being. They travel through the city uncovering clues and a crime that calls into question the origins and true purpose behind the city of artificial humans.
New this week from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Edson Oda's Nine Days, starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Benedict Wong, and Tony Hale. Synopsis: Will (Winston Duke) and Kyo (Benedict Wong) spend their days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates — unborn souls — including Emma (Zazie Beetz) and Kane (Bill Skarsgård) arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in the form of free-spirited Emma, a candidate who is not like the others, forcing him to turn within and reckon with his own tumultuous past. Fueled by unexpected power, he discovers a bold new path forward in his own life. Making his feature-film debut after a series of highly acclaimed and award-winning short films and music videos, Japanese Brazilian director Edson Oda delivers a heartfelt and meditative vision of human souls in limbo, aching to be born against unimaginable odds, yet hindered by forces beyond their will...
Sony's Blu-ray for Nine Days contains a featurette, The Making of Nine Days as an extra.
Also from Sony this week is a Blu-ray for The Crown: The Complete Fourth Season. The four disc set contains the featurettes Triumph & Tragedy: Diana and Charles, Three Groundbreaking Women and Research, Costumes & More: The Making of Season 4 and a photo gallery as extras.
Finally from Sony is a much-anticipated 4K UHD upgrade for J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, and Anthony Quayle. Released to celebrate the classic war film's 60th anniversary, the new 4K disc is taken from a previously completed 4K scan and now features HDR picture as well as a new Dolby Atmos audio option, in addition to 5.1 and original theatrical 4-track stereo audio tracks. A new extra is a main title progression reel, while archival extras include two audio commentaries and hours of documentaries and featurettes.
Next, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Sex and the City: The Complete Series. The 18-disc set will include all six seasons, newly remastered in HD and presented in a widescreen 1.78:1 aspect ratio. Hours of bonus features, including episode commentaries, featurettes and more, will be included, as will the two feature films from 2008 and 2010.
Also from Warner this week is more TV on Blu-ray, Kung Fu: The Complete First Season (2021) An adaptation of the 1970s series of the same name, the three-disc set will contain all 13 episodes from the season, as well as deleted scenes and the featurette Bond of Honor.
Finally this week, MPI Media Group have a Blu-ray for Danila Kozlovskiy's Chernobyl 1986 AKA Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), starring Danila Kozlovskiy, Oksana Akinshina, and Filipp Avdeev. Description: After the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant number 4, the USSR and all of Europe is faced with an even greater threat - a possible steam explosion that would eject even more radioactive material into the atmosphere over the entire continent. Firefighter Alexey volunteers for what seems like a suicide mission: manually drain the plant's reservoir before the melting reactor collapses into it. Risking their lives in service to their country, Alexey and his colleagues must navigate the labyrinthine passages of the plant's underground, facing danger at every turn from the facility's quickly failing infrastructure. With time running out, and the fate of all of Europe hanging in the balance, this team of ordinary citizens turned heroes must use all their strength and bravery to save their nation from complete devastation.