For the week of May 15th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray and 4K UHD Peyton Reed's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors and Kathryn Newton. The 31st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and third film in the Ant-Man franchise follows the titular character as he and his family are transported to the Quantum Realm, where they encounter the exiled Kang the Conqueror. The film opened in February 2023 and is the first film in Marvel's Phase Five slate of films. It received mixed reviews, but lived up to expectations at the box office, with the best opening weekend in the Ant-Man series en route to a domestic total of over $213 million and over $475 million globally so far.
Disney's 4K UHD release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will contain HDR and the film's Dolby Atmos audio, while the Blu-ray will contain a DTS-HD MA 7.1 track. Extras include filmmaker audio commentary, deleted scenes, two featurettes and a gag reel. Once again, Disney has multiple retailer exclusives in addition to standard packaging, including a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook and a Walmart Exclusive with Enamel Pin. For full disc breakdowns, read Martin Liebman's 4K UHD review and Blu-ray review.
Also new this week on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre starring Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes and Bugzy Malone.
Studio description: Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
Lionsgate's releases of Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include On a Wild Ride - Making Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre, Aubrey Plaza's Guide to Spying and Anatomy of a Stunt.
Also new on Blu-ray from Lionsgate is Paul Weitz's Moving On starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, Catherine Dent, Richard Roundtree and Sarah Burns.
Description: In this revenge comedy from Academy Award®-nominated writer Paul Weitz, Claire (Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda, 1978, Actress in a Leading Role, Coming Home) and Evelyn (Academy Award® nominee Lily Tomlin, 1975, Actress in a Supporting Role, Nashville) are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard (Malcolm McDowell), the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph (Richard Roundtree), her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray of Moving On contains a photo gallery.
New on Blu-ray from Epic Pictures is Lee Thongkham and Aqing Xu's The Lake (2022), starring Wanmai Chatborirak, Teerapat Satjakul, Sushar Manaying, Thanachart Tulyachart and Lamyai Haithongkham.
Description: A gigantic and bloodthirsty monster emerges from a lake after its egg is stolen and unleashes its fury on a town's inhabitants, leaving a trail of destruction and death in its wake. The town of Bueng Kan, now cut off from the outside world, must mobilize its officials and citizens, as well as a group of scientists that are in town conducting research, to catch this predator before it's too late.
Epic Pictures' Blu-ray of The Lake contains Thai and English 5.1 and 2.0 audio tracks with optional English, English SDH and Spanish subtitles for the main feature. Extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes a teaser and trailers.
New on Blu-ray from Cohen Media Group is François Ozon's Everything Went Fine (Tout s'est bien passé), starring Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Géraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling, Éric Caravaca and Hanna Schygulla.
Description: From François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool) comes a powerful family drama in which a daughter is forced to reconcile with her father and their shared past after he contacts her with a devastating final wish. When André (André Dussollier) suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau) to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision.
Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, Everything Went Fine's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such issues often raise, the film instead focuses on the reckoning Emmanuéle has with her stubborn and unrelenting father and how to help him, with Ozon tackling a difficult subject with exceptional intelligence and sensitivity. Featuring stunning central performances by Marceau and Dussollier as well as a scene-stealing cameo by Charlotte Rampling as André's ex-wife.
Cohen's Blu-ray of Everything Went Fine contains the film's theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Cinema Guild is Matías Piñeiro's Isabella, starring María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Pablo Sigal and Gabriela Saidon.
Description: Mariel (María Villar) longs to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother's girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting and continue to prepare for the part of Isabella.
Cinema Guild's Blu-ray of Isabella contains the short film Sycorax (2021) by Lois Patiño and Matías Piñeiro, Piñeiro-Llinás Video Letter Correspondences and the film's theatrical trailer. A booklet contains "a physical tutorial to editing Isabella by Matías Piñeiro".
New this week from Shout Factory is a Blu-ray for Florian Sigl's The Magic Flute (2022) starring Jack Wolfe, F. Murray Abraham, Iwan Rheon, Jeanne Goursaud, Amir Wilson and Stefi Celma.
Official description: From Executive Producer Roland Emmerich (Moonfall) comes a captivating film that follows a teen on two journeys: one into a prestigious boarding school to fulfill his aspirations as a singer, and another into a parallel world filled with fantasy and adventure. Tim (Jack Wolfe, Shadow And Bone) has been dreaming his whole life about attending Mozart All Boys Music School, but already his first days there confront him with a hostile headmaster (F. Murray Abraham, The White Lotus), the stresses of a first love, and serious doubts about the authenticity of his singing voice. When he discovers a mystical gateway in the school's library, he is pulled into the fantastic cosmos of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, where imagination has no limits and the Queen of the Night (Sabine Devieilhe) reigns.
Shout's Blu-ray of The Magic Flute contains three featurettes and three trailers for the film.
Also coming from Shout is a Blu-ray double-feature: Conquest of Space / I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1955-1958), starring Tom Tryon, Walter Brooke, Gloria Talbott, Eric Fleming, Peter Baldwin and Mickey Shaughnessy. Both films are presented with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio tracks and new audio commentaries, as well as stills galleries and trailers. Additionally, Conquest of Space contains legacy extras, including audio commentary with film historians Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman and three featurettes.
Also coming from Shout is a Blu-ray for Alan Rudolph's Endangered Species (1982), starring JoBeth Williams, Robert Urich, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote and Gailard Sartain. Sourced from a new 2K scan of an interpositive, Shout presents Endangered Species with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio and a new audio commentary by film critic / author Lee Gambin and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson. Also included is the film's theatrical trailer.
Staying with catalog titles, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray release for Max Fleischer's Superman (1941-1943), starring the voices of Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander and Jack Mercer.
Make them exciting and visually bold, make them in brilliantly saturated Technicolor: This is a job for Superman! From their signature bullet-paced prologues to their muscular style to their stories steeped in heroics and wartime topicality, these 17 animated theatrical shorts produced by Max Fleischer (with the first nine directed by his brother Dave) set the tone for future screen versions of the Man of Steel's exploits, inspired animators for decades to come and, best of all, continue to pack a thrilling punch for fans. Superman's adventures in comic books were scarcely three years old when the Academy Award-nominated debut cartoon, Superman, burst onto the screen with its breakthrough look and vitality. The excitement still soars.
Extras for Warner's Blu-ray of Max Fleischer's Superman include three featurettes: Max Fleischer's Superman: Speeding Toward Tomorrow, First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series and The Man, The Myth, Superman. For a full disc breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Film Movement is Hideo Gosha's Samurai Wolf 1 & 2 (1966-1967), starring Isao Natsuyagi, Junkichi Orimoto, Yoshirô Aoki, Kyôichi Satô, Ryôhei Uchida and Ichirô Nakatani. Both films are sourced from new 2K masters and presented with Japanese: LPCM 2.0 Mono audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include Outlaw Director - a new interview with Hideo Gosha's daughter Tomoe Gosha, and new audio commentary by Chris Poggiali, co-author of These Fists Break Bricks. An included 20-page booklet contains a new essay by Robin Gatto, author of Hideo Gosha, cinéaste sans maître.
Also coming from Film Movement is Hideo Gosha's Violent Streets (1974), starring Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi, Isao Natsuyagi, Bunta Sugawara, Tetsurô Tanba and Asao Koike. Sourced from a new 2K master, Film Movement presents Violent Streets with Japanese: LPCM 2.0 Mono audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include Tattooed Director - a new interview with Hideo Gosha's daughter Tomoe Gosha, and video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias. An included 16-page booklet contains a new essay by Japanese film expert Mark Schilling.
Coming to Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968), starring Boris Karloff, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall, Elaine Partnow and Tim O'Kelly. Sourced from a new 2K master supervised by Peter Bogdanovich, Criterion presents Targets with LPCM Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary with Peter Bogdanovich, a new interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater, an introduction by Peter Bogdanovich, audio excerpts from an interview with production designer Polly Platt, and more.
Coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is Robert Aldrich's The Longest Yard (1974), starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton and Harry Caesar. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents The Longest Yard with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include new audio commentary by film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini (What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?: His Life and His Films) and legacy audio commentary by Burt Reynolds and writer / producer Albert S. Ruddy. The included remastered Blu-ray also contains two featurettes: Doing Time on The Longest Yard and Unleashing the Mean Machine, as well as a 4K remaster of the film's theatrical trailer. Limited edition packaging includes a slipcover.
Also from Kino is a Blu-ray for Robert Aldrich's Hustle (1975), starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan and Eddie Albert. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Hustle with a new audio commentary by film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini (What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?: His Life and His Films), the film's theatrical trailer and 8 TV spots. Limited edition packaging includes a slipcover.
Coming to Blu-ray from Radiance Films is Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza Graveyard (やくざの墓場 くちなしの花) (1976), starring Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota, Nobuo Kaneko and Kenji Imai. Sourced from an HD master made by Toei, Radiance Films presents Yakuza Graveyard with Japanese: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include a new appreciation by filmmaker Kazuya Shiraishi, The Rage and the Passion - a visual essay by critic Tom Mes, image gallery, trailer and an easter egg. Limited edition packaging includes a booklet with a new essay by Mika Ko and other writings, reversible jacket and an obi strip.
Also this week, 88 Films has a Blu-ray box set for In the Line of Duty: I - IV (1985-1989), starring Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Khan, Cynthia Rothrock, Donnie Yen and Michael Wong. Sourced from 2K masters, 88 films presents each film with original Catonese: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio and optional English subtitles, alongside various English dub options. Each film also comes with a new audio commentary with Frank Djeng, while other extras include export cuts, new and archival interviews, trailers and more. Deluxe packaging includes reversible jackets with original artwork, a double-sided fold-out poster and a 100-page perfect-bound book by Matthew Edwards. Reviewer Jeffrey Kauffman has already completed reviews for all four films in the set. They can be accessed via his overall In the Line of Duty: I - IV Blu-ray review.
Finally this week, Paramount Home Media Distribution has a 4K UHD upgrade for F. Gary Gray's The Italian Job (2003), starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham and Yasiin Bey. Paramount presents The Italian Job with Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio on the 4K UHD disc. An included legacy Blu-ray features extras, including several featurettes and deleted scenes.