For the week of March 31st, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release Drew Hancock's Companion (2025), starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén and Rupert Friend.
Description: New Line Cinema—the studio that brought you "The Notebook"—and the unhinged creators of "Barbarian" cordially invite you to experience a new kind of love story…
Warner's Blu-ray releases of Companion contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio,with HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include the featurettes I Feel, Therefore I Am, Love, Eli and AI Horror. For full release breakdowns, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
New on Blu-ray from Walt Disney Home Entertainment and Searchlight Pictures is James Mangold's A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook and Scoot McNairy.
Description: New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold's A Complete Unknown, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history. The film also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie.
Searchlight Pictures' 4K UHD release of A Complete Unknown contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision HDR. Extras include audio commentary with James Mangold, while the included Blu-ray additionally features The Making of A Complete Unknown. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Also coming from Disney is Barry Jenkins' Mufasa: The Lion King, featuring the voices of Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Tiffany Boone and Donald Glover.
Description: Exploring the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands, "Mufasa: The Lion King" enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny—their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe.
Disney's 4K UHD release of Mufasa: The Lion King contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision HDR. Extras include a song selection and a sing-along version, while the included Blu-ray additionally features Finding Milele: The Making of Mufasa: The Lion King, Songs of the Savanna, Ostrich Eggs with Timon & Pumbaa, outtakes, deleted scenes, a music video for "I Always Wanted a Brother" and a Protect the Pride wildlife conservation PSA. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Note: As of this writing, Disney's 4K UHD release of Mufasa: The Lion King is available only as a Limited Edition SteelBook.
New from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is Jonathan Eusebio's Love Hurts (2025), starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton and Sean Astin.
Description: Marvin (Oscar® winner Ke Huy Quan) left behind a violent life to hide in suburban Milwaukee as a mild-mannered realtor. He also left behind Rose (Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose), his former partner in crime. Now she's back and wants Marvin to help take revenge against his crime lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu). Like it or not, Marvin finds himself back in a wild world of wisecracking hitmen with his open houses erupting into warzones. He'll need his lethal fighting skills, wit, and heroism to survive and save the day in this action/comedy epic from 87North, the producers of Nobody and Bullet Train.
Universal's Blu-ray releases of Love Hurts contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include an alternate ending, deleted and extended scenes, The Heart of Love Hurts, The Ke To Gable and Stunts Hurt.
Also new from Universal is a Blu-ray for Peter Hastings' Dog Man, featuring the voices of Lil Rel Howery, Pete Davidson, Isla Fisher, Poppy Liu, Stephen Root, Billy Boyd, and Ricky Gervais.
Description: From DreamWorks Animation – creators of How to Train Your Dragon and The Wild Robot – comes the canine crime-fighting film adaptation of Dav Pilkey's literary phenomenon: DOG MAN. When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured on the job, a harebrained surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born! As he embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief (Lil Rel Howery, Get Out), Dog Man must stop the villainous Petey the Cat (Pete Davidson, "Saturday Night Live") from cloning himself and creating an evil kitten, doubling his evil abilities. The story takes a turn when the kitten forges an unexpected bond with Dog Man and in the process, they discover the power of family to bring even the most hostile foes together.
Universal's Blu-ray of Dog Man contains Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio. Extras include audio commentary with screenwriter / director Peter Hastings, deleted and extended scenes with introductions by Hastings, and Meet the Pack, The Making of Dog Man: A Sarah Hatoff Exclusive, Howl to Draw Flip-O-Rama Style and Howl to Make Doughnuts for Dogs.
New from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is Mel Gibson's Flight Risk, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, Topher Grace, Leah Remini, Monib Abhat and Paul Ben-Victor.
Studio description: In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg (Best Supporting Actor, The Departed, 2006) plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases of Flight Risk contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include Risk Management - Making Flight Risk and a theatrical trailer. In addition to standard packaging, an Amazon Exclusive SteelBook will also be available.
New on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Lawrence Lamont's One of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, and Katt Williams. The release will be available for purchase on April 1.
Description: Best friends and roommates Dreux (KEKE PALMER) and Alyssa (SZA) are about to have ONE OF THEM DAYS. When they discover Alyssa's boyfriend has blown the rent money, the duo find themselves going to extremes in a comical race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.
Sony's Blu-ray of One of Them Days contains One of Them Gag Reels, Dream Team, Block Party: The Cast and What's In My Bag with Lucky.
New on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment is the documentary miniseries Icons Unearthed: James Bond (2023).
Description: Before there were franchises there was James Bond. Icons Unearthed: James Bond tells the story of how Ian Fleming's literary creation got his big break on the silver screen and became the most quotable name in cinematic history.
Mill Creek's Blu-ray of Icons Unearthed: James Bond is a three-disc set with all six episodes. Extras include over 13 hours of never-before-seen uncut interviews with actors Caroline Munro, George Lazenby and Gloria Hendry, former MGM executive Jeff Kleeman, directors John Glen and Martin Campbell and writer Jeffrey Caine.
Description: John Goodman narrates the raucously funny adventures of Ben, Martin, and John, three childhood friends turned deadbeat coworkers who fend off hairless bears, conniving park rangers (Meg Stalter of Hacks and X Mayo of The Blackening), and a hypocritical cult leader (Bowen Yang of Saturday Night Live) to track down a priceless treasure, only to discover that finding the treasure is the easiest part of their journey. Oh, and Conan O'Brien (Conan) plays Ben's dad in it.
Shout's Blu-ray of Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain contains audio commentary with Paul Briganti and actors / co-writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall, as well as deleted scenes and a gag reel.
Also coming from Shout and GKIDS is a 4K UHD upgrade and new Blu-ray edition for Mamoru Hosoda's anime film Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ) (2009), starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Mieko Nobusawa, Yôji Tanaka and Sakiko Tamagawa. Shout's release includes a choice of Japanese or English audio tracks. Extras include interviews with the original cast and an interview with Mamoru Hosoda, as well as teasers and trailers.
Note: As of this writing, Shout's 4K UHD release of Summer Wars is available only as an Amazon Exclusive SteelBook.
Finally from Shout comes a 4K UHD release for Chris McKay's Renfield (2023), starring Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Brandon Scott Jones. Sourced from a 4K master, Shout's release of Renfield contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio (along with DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 options) and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. New extras include the documentary Dracula Sucks: How I Survived the Making of Renfield, while additional extras include cast and crew audio commentary (on both the 4K UHD and Blu-ray discs), deleted and extended scenes, alternate takes, the featurettes Monsters & Men: Behind the Scenes of Renfield, Dracula UnCaged, Stages of Rejuvenation, Flesh & Blood, Fighting Dirty and The Making of a Deleted Scene – Renfield's Dance!, as well as a trailer. In addition to standard packaging, a Walmart Exclusive SteelBook will also be available.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Well Go USA is Woo Min-ho's Harbin (하얼빈), starring Hyun Bin, Park Jeong-min, Jeon Yeo-been, Jo Woo-jin, Lee Dong-wook and Ego Mikitas.
Description: Based on true events, HARBIN tells the gripping story of Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun (Hyun Bin) as he embarks on a daring mission in 1909, with Japan's annexation of Korea looming. Determined to alter history, Ahn and his comrades plot a high-stakes assassination—one they hope will spark a revolution. Driven by patriotism and the dream of a free Korea, HARBIN is a powerful tale of sacrifice, courage, and defiance against an unstoppable empire.
Well Go USA's 4K UHD release of Harbin contains Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include a making of featurette and trailers.
Also new from Well Go USA is a Blu-ray for Christian Sesma's Into the Deep (2025), starring Callum McGowan, Scout Taylor-Compton, Jon Seda, Stuart Townsend, Richard Dreyfuss and AnnaMaria Demara.
Description: While on vacation, a group of tourists are out diving for sunken treasure when a boat approaches. The modern-day pirates kidnap, kill and force the remaining group to retrieve the contraband submerged below. In exchange for their lives, someone must enter the shark infested waters, but a massive great white shark is hunting them down and this killer is determined not to let anyone escape its waters.
Description: This star studded tribute brings into focus the dazzling, complex period of Liza Minnelli's life starting in the 1970s, just after the tragic death of her mother Judy Garland— as she confronts a range of personal and professional challenges on the way to becoming a bona fide legend. Over these years, Liza seeks out extraordinary mentors: Kay Thompson, Fred Ebb, Charles Aznavour, Halston, and Bob Fosse. With insightful participation from a coterie of colleagues such as Michael Feinstein, Mia Farrow, Ben Vereen, Joel Grey and the late Chita Rivera, along with the revelatory participation by the star herself, the film illuminates the contradiction of Liza Minnelli: her privilege and struggle, strength and vulnerability, unreal expectations and towering talent – the friction of which fueled her stunning rise, resilience and her enduring place as one of the greatest, most original performers in the history of entertainment.
Kino's Blu-ray of Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story contains audio commentary with Bruce David Klein, producer / co-editor Alexander J. Goldstein and co-producer Dana Craig, outtakes from interviews with Michael Feinstein, Lorna Luft, and Ben Vereen, a Q&A with Bruce David Klein moderated by Jim Caruso and a theatrical trailer.
Also coming from Kino this week is a new Blu-ray edition of Vernon Sewell's Burke & Hare (1972), starring Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, Françoise Pascal and Yutte Stensgaard. Previously released in 2012, Kino's Blu-ray adds a new audio commentary by film historian / screenwriter Gary Gerani. Also included is the featurette Grave Desires: Corpses on Film – Interview with Dr. Patricia MacCormack, an interview with Françoise Pascal and a theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Decal Releasing, in association with Bleecker Street, is Sam and Andy Zuchero's Love Me (2024), starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun.
Description: Long after humanity's extinction, a buoy (Kristen Stewart) and a satellite (Steven Yeun) inherit the Earth, and with only the internet as their guide, learn what it means to be alive and in love. In this groundbreaking first feature from Sam and Andy Zuchero, LOVE ME explores AI and identity through live-action, animatronics, and classic animation in an epic tale of connection and transformation.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray of Love Me contains the extra Actors to Avatars: Love Me Motion Capture.
Turning to catalog titles, Flicker Alley has a Blu-ray for Rupert Julian and Erich von Stroheim's Merry-Go-Round (1923), starring Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Cesare Gravina, Edith Yorke, George Hackathorne and George Siegmann. Sourced from a new remaster by Blackhawk Films, Flicker Alley presents Merry-Go-Round with a new score by Robert Israel. Extras include audio commentary by cinematic historian Richard Koszarski, Vienna Actualities: 17 minutes of historical footage of pre-World War I Vienna, John Emerson's Old Heidelberg (1915), featuring Erich von Stroheim, a restoration featurette with Serge Bromberg, photo galleries and a booklet with "a new essay on the production by Richard Kosarski and notes on the restoration by Serge Bromberg and Lucie Fourmont".
Coming to 4K UHD from the Criterion Collection is Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (AKA Ugetsu Monogatari) (雨月物語) (1953), starring Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Eitarô Ozawa and Sugisaku Aoyama. Sourced from a 4K master, Criterion presents Ugetsu in SDR with LPCM Mono audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include an audio commentary by Tony Rayns, while an included Blu-ray copy additionally features the 150-minute documentary Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a 2005 appreciation by director Masahiro Shinoda, a 2005 interview with first assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka, a 1992 interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa and both original Japanese and Spanish (incomplete) trailers for the film. Also included is a booklet with "an essay by film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that inspired the film". For a full release breakdown, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment is the box set Mabuse Lives! - Dr Mabuse at CCC: 1960-1964 (1960-1964), a four-disc set which includes the films The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse (1960), The Return of Dr Mabuse (1961), The Invisible Dr Mabuse, The Testament of Dr Mabuse (both 1962) Scotland Yard Hunts Dr Mabuse (1963) and The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse (1964). Sourced from new 2K masters provided by CCC Film, Eureka presents these six films with a choice of original German (with optional English subtitles) or dubbed English LPCM 2.0 Mono audio tracks. Extras include audio commentary on The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse--as well as new audio commentaries on the other five films--all by film historian and author David Kalat, Mabuse Lives at CCC: A new interview with Alice Brauner (managing director of CCC Film and daughter of CCC founder Artur Brauner), new introductions to each film by Tim Lucas, Kriminology: A new video essay by David Cairns & Fiona Watson, an alternate Italian cut of The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse a 2002 interview with actor Wolfgang Preiss and an alternate ending for The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse. Also included is "a limited edition 60-page collector's book featuring new notes on each film by journalist Holger Haase, a new essay by German film scholar Tim Bergfelder, an archival essay by David Cairns, archival writing by Fritz Lang and notes by Lotte Eisner on Lang's final unreleased projects".
Coming to Blu-ray from Arbelos Films is Viktor Kubal's The Bloody Lady (Krvavá pani) (1980), sourced from a new 2K master by the Slovak Film Institute, Arbelos presents The Bloody Lady with a newly remastered version of Kubal's feature Jurko the Highwayman (Zbojník Jurko) (1976), as well as the remastered short films The Mysterious Old Man (1944), Earth (1966), Dita at the Post Office (1967), Promotion (1968) Dita in the Air (1970), Two Good Friends, Tom Thumb (both 1972), Tom Thumb at a Magicians (1973), Chess, Tom Thumb and the Germs (both 1974), The Present (1976), Cinema (1977), The Ladder (1978), Only Child (1979), The Microscope, What Happened to Johnny on the Road (both 1981), The Selection (1982), The Weatherman (1983), The Marzipan Comedy (1987), High Noon (1988) and The Idol (1989). Also included is a 2024 theatrical trailer and the essay "A Dot and a Line (Everything is Possible)" by Rastislav Steranka, as well as a 12-page booklet.
Finally this week, Magnolia Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters (万引き家族) (2018), starring Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Naoto Ogata and Sosuke Ikematsu. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this is the film's domestic premiere on Blu-ray.