Universal Pictures Home Media Distribution has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Robert Eggers' The Northman (2022), starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Ethan Hawke.
Studio description: From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder. With an all-star cast that includes Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Tarik Saleh's action thriller The Contractor (2022), starring Chris Pine, Kiefer Sutherland, Ben Foster, Eddie Marsan, and Gillian Jacobs.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release on Blu-ray Gore Verbinski's The Mexican (2001), starring Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, and David Krumholtz.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release on Blu-ray Julian Jarrold's Kinky Boots (2005), starring Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost, and Linda Bassett.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release on Blu-ray Gore Verbinski's The Weather Man (2005), starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, and Michael Rispoli.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Juho Kuosmanen's Compartment No. 6 (2021), starring Yuri Borisov, Seidi Haarla, Dinara Drukarova, and Yuliya Aug.
Compartment No. 6 is Finland's official submission to the Best International Feature Film category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.
Official studio description: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray for John Pogue's Eraser: Reborn (2022), starring Dominic Sherwood, McKinley Belcher III, Mampho Brescia, Soyama Mbashe, and Jacky Lai.
Studio description: U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in "erasing" people – faking the deaths of high-risk witnesses. With the technological advances of the last 25 years, the game has upgraded, and it's just another day at the office when he's assigned to Rina Kimura, a crime boss' wife who's decided to turn state's evidence. As the two flee to Cape Town, South Africa, with a team of merciless assassins on their trail, Pollard discovers he's been set up. Double-crossed and fueled by adrenaline, he needs to be at the top of his game, or he'll be the one who's erased. Permanently.
Finally this week, two more releases from the Warner Archive Collection:
Description: Delightful romp set in pre-WWI vaudeville, with naive young singer Jo Hayden (Judy Garland) being wooed away from her stage partners by debonair hoofer Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly, in his film debut). The pair struggles to make it big, and find their romance interrupted by Harrys enlistment in an entertainment troupe overseas. Directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Mártha Eggerth, George Murphy, and Ben Blue.
Description: An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-the-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a Ziegfeld Girl.
Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively scaled and calypso-infused Minnie from Trinidad, plus a lavish, showgirl-revue finale that reprises the rhapsodic You Stepped Out of a Dream. Sweet dreams, movie fans.