For the week of July 25th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, and Xochitl Gomez. The 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe finds the titular Doctor having to protect a teenager, who has an uncontrolled capability to travel the multiverse, from Scarlet Witch, who wants to use the girl for her own selfish ends. The film was shifted several times due to the coronavirus pandemic and the scheduling of Marvel's Phase Four series of films, jumping from 2021 all the way to May 2022. However, that didn't dampen enthusiasm, as the film eventually opened to a terrific $187 million in its first weekend, eventually amassing over $411 million domestically and over $954 million worldwide so far, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2022, behind only Paramount Pictures' Top Gun: Maverick.
Disney's 4K UHD release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness features the film's Dolby Atmos audio and HDR picture. Extras on the bundled Blu-ray include a filmmaker audio commentary, deleted scenes, a gag reel and three featurettes. In addition to standard packaging, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook, a Target Exclusive Art Edition and a Walmart Exclusive with Enamel Pin will also be available. For full disc breakdowns, read Martin Liebman's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.
New this week from Paramount Home Media Distribution is a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Aaron and Adam Nee's The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Brad Pitt. The romantic action-adventure topped the box office on its opening weekend in March 2022 (knocking Warner Bros.' The Batman off the number one spot), with over $30 million, eventually making over $105 million domestically and over $190 million worldwide. Paramount's disc releases contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, while the single-disc 4K UHD release additionally includes Dolby Vision HDR. Extras include deleted scenes, bloopers and several featurettes.
New from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is a 4K UHD and Blu-ray Green Lantern: Beware My Power, starring the voices of Aldis Hodge, Jimmi Simpson, Ike Amadi, Brian Bloom, Jamie Gray Hyder and Rick D. Wasserman.
Studio description: In Green Lantern: Beware My Power, recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extraterrestrial ring which grants him the powers of the Green Lantern of Earth. Unfortunately, the ring doesn't come with instructions – but it does come with baggage, like a horde of interplanetary killers bent on eliminating every Green Lantern in the universe. Now, with the aid of the light-hearted Green Arrow, Adam Strange and Hawkgirl, this reluctant soldier must journey into the heart of a galactic Rann/Thanagar war and somehow succeed where all other Green Lanterns have failed.
Warner's extras for Green Lantern: Beware My Power include the new featurette John Stewart: The Power and the Glory. In addition to standard packaging, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook will also be available.
And new from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray for Roger Michell's The Duke, starring Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Aimee Kelly, and Craig Conway. Reviewer Martin Liebman is highly impressed with Sony's Blu-ray, saying of the picture quality that the "high-end transfer...pushes the Blu-ray format to its limits...the result is a spectacular barrage of detail...This is yet another A+ Bu-ray from Sony". For a full disc breakdown, read Martin's Blu-ray review.
New this week from Decal Releasing is a Blu-ray for Ninja Thyberg's Pleasure, starring Sofia Kappel, Revika Anne Reustle, Evelyn Claire, Dana DeArmond, and Kendra Spade. Extras on the disc include an introduction from Thyberg and Kappel, deleted scenes, camera and makeup tests, Kappel's audition tape and the film's trailer. For a full disc breakdown, read Brian Orndorf's Blu-ray review.
New this week from Kino Lorber is a Blu-ray for Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders Seasons 3 & 4 (2019-2021) starring Marco Giallini. The three-disc set contains all 8 episodes from the third season (2019) and all 4 episodes from the fourth season (2021) of the crime drama. Please note that the trailer below reflects the first season.
Finally for new releases this week, Kino will release Daniel Raim's documentary Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen, starring Robert F. Boyle, Rosalind Harris, Norman Jewison, Michele Marsh, Neva Small and Topol. Extras include additional interviews and Raim's short The Man on Lincoln's Nose.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino also have a plethora of releases across both formats this week. First is a Blu-ray release for Robert Siodmak's Time Out of Mind (1947), starring Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, and Leo G. Carroll. Kino's Blu-ray is sourced from a new 2K master. Extras include a new audio commentary by author and film historian Lee Gambin and costume historian Elissa Rose, as well as trailers.
Then from Kino is a 4K UHD disc for Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956), starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, and Ted de Corsia. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino's 4K UHD disc contains Dolby Vision HDR and a new audio commentary by author and film historian Alan K. Rode, as well as the film's theatrical trailer. Collectible packaging includes a reversible cover and limited edition slipcover.
And also coming to Blu-ray from Kino is Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965), starring Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi, and Stelio Candelli. Previously released by Kino in 2014, this remastered Blu-ray comes from a new 2K master. Extras include a new audio commentary by critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw, in addition to all of the extras from the previous edition. Collectible packaging includes a reversible cover and limited edition slipcover.
Then from Kino it's a Blu-ray box set for Night Gallery: Season Two (1971-1972). The five-disc set contains 61 stories of Rod Serling's other classic anthology series, taken from new 2K scans. Extras include dozens of new audio commentaries, archival audio commentaries, featurettes, 19 TV Spots newly remastered in HD and much more. Night Gallery: Season One was released on Blu-ray by Kino in November last year. Read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review of that earlier release.
Kino also have a Blu-ray for Tobe Hooper's I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990), starring Mädchen Amick, Anthony Perkins, Dee Wallace, R. Lee Ermey, and Corey Parker. Kino's disc is sourced from a new 2K master. Extras include a new audio commentary with Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson, Editors of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, and a second new audio commentary with filmmaker and historian Michael Varrati, as well as cast interviews and featurettes.
New from Kino on 4K UHD and remastered Blu-ray is Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, and Thomas Jay Ryan. Kino's discs are sourced from a new 4K master (color graded by cinematographer Ellen Kuras) and features Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Both discs feature an archival audio commentary, while the remastered Blu-ray houses all of the archivalvideo extras, which include deleted scenes, interviews, featurettes and more.
Finally from Kino this week is a Blu-ray for Stephen Purvis' El Cortez (2006), starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, and Peter Onorati. Extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette, a deleted scene and a trailer.
Also this week, Shout Factory have a 4K UHD upgrade for Roger Donaldson's sci-fi thriller Species (1995), starring Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, and Forest Whitaker. Shout's new 4K UHD disc is taken from a 4K scan of the original camera negative and contains Dolby Vision HDR. Two audio commentaries are included on the 4K UHD and film Blu-ray discs, while a second Blu-ray houses archival video extras, including a retrospective documentary, interviews, featurettes and more.
Finally this week, we have two 4K UHD upgrades from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. First, Nick Powell's Primal (2019), starring Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, LaMonica Garrett, and Michael Imperioli and then Josh Greenbaum's Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021), starring Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., and Vanessa Bayer.