For the week of May 12th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Julius Onah's Captain America: Brave New World, starring Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly and Tim Blake Nelson.
Description: In Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) – who now wields the shield of Captain America after events in "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier" – meets with newly elected U.S. president Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) and soon finds himself in the middle of an international incident. In a race against time, Sam must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie and Anamaria Vartolomei.
Description: From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of "Parasite," Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, "Mickey 17." The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Warner's Blu-ray releases of Mickey 17 contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include the featurettes Behind the Lens: Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17, Mickey 17: A World Reimagined and The Faces of Niflheim, as well as two trailers for the film. In addition to standard packaging on Blu-ray or 4K UHD, a Limited Edition Dual Format SteelBook will also be available. For full release breakdowns, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review, 4K UHD review and 4K UHD SteelBook review.
Also new on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Warner is Dune: Prophecy - The Complete First Season (2024), starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May, Mark Strong and Sarah-Sofie Boussnina.
Studio description: From the expansive universe of Dune, created by acclaimed author Frank Herbert, and 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, DUNE: PROPHECY follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit. DUNE: PROPHECY is inspired by the novel SISTERHOOD OF DUNE, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
Warner's Blu-ray releases of Dune: Prophecy - The Complete First Season contain all six episodes with Dolby Atmos audio, as well as HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras last over an hour and include "five extended featurettes and one all-new bonus feature exclusive to 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray".
Coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is Steven Soderbergh's Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela, Regé-Jean Page and Naomie Harris.
Description: From Director Steven Soderbergh, BLACK BAG is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country.
Universal's Blu-ray releases of Black Bag contain Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio, with HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include deleted scenes and the featurettes The Company of Talent and Designing BLACK BAG.
Also coming from Universal is a Blu-ray for Michael Morris' Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, starring Renée Zellweger, Leila Farzad, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Leo Woodall and Isla Fisher.
Description: Two-time Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, as Bridget, now a widowed single mother, must juggle work, parenthood and romance. With the help of her loyal friends, Bridget navigates encounters with a younger man and a series of awkward interactions with her son's science teacher as she strives to forge a new path toward life and love.
Universal's Blu-ray of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy should contain a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio track (unconfirmed as of this writing). Extras include deleted scenes and the featurettes Back to Bridget, Bridget 4.0 - The Making Of and Mad About the Boys.
New from Paramount Media Distribution is a 4K UHD combo pack for Michael Gracey's Better Man (2024), starring Robbie Williams, Damon Herriman, Steve Pemberton, Alison Steadman, Kate Mulvany and Jonno Davies.
Description: Better Man is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams, one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Under the visionary direction of Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), the film is uniquely told from Williams' perspective, capturing his signature wit and indomitable spirit. It follows Robbie's journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
Paramount's 4K UHD combo pack of Better Man contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include the featurettes Let Me Entertain You: The Making of Better Man and Monkey Business: The VFX. The release is also part of the Paramount Presents line of Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases and as such, comes with a slipcover which opens to reveal theatrical poster artwork.
Also coming from Paramount is a Blu-ray for Landman: Season One (2024), starring Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph and Jacob Lofland.
Description: Starring Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton and from co-creators Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, LANDMAN is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it's reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.
Paramount's Blu-ray release of Landman: Season One contains all eight episodes. Extras include the featurettes Constant Crisis: The Road to Landman, Passion and Poise: Tommy & Angela/Cami & Monty and Welcome to the Path: Pyrotechnics and Stunts, as well as Inside the Series, Meet the Millers, The Best of Tommy, Roughnecking it with Billy James, and Jacob and Digging Deep with the Cast of Landman.
New on Blu-ray from Decal Releasing and Neon is Joshua Oppenheimer's The End (2024), starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James and Michael Shannon.
Description: From Academy Award-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray of The End contains on-set interviews with George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James and composer Joshua Schmidt.
New on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is the documentary double feature Room 666 / Room 999 (1982-2023), comprised of Wim Wenders' Room 666 (Chambre 666) and Lubna Playoust's Room 999 (Chambre 999) (2023).
Description: At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked such filmmaking luminaries as Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Yılmaz Güney, Werner Herzog, Susan Seidelman, and Steven Spielberg to ponder the question "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?" Forty years later—adopting the same minimalist, fixed-camera format as Wenders—Lubna Playoust poses the same question to a group of contemporary auteurs, including David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Lynne Ramsay, and Wenders himself. Together, Wenders' Room 666 and Playoust's Room 999 capture the unfiltered perspectives of pathbreaking filmmakers on the state of the industry as well as the upheavals brought on by various new technologies and methods of distribution—in the process touching on large-scale issues of politics, culture, and the meaning (and continued relevance) of cinema in two distinct eras, nearly half a century apart.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Room 666 / Room 999 contains a new interview with Lubna Playoust.
And coming to remastered Blu-ray from Criterion is Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us (باد ما را خواهد برد) (1999), starring Behzad Dorani. Previously released in 2014, Criterion's Blu-ray edition of The Wind Will Carry Us is sourced from a 4K master and presented with LPCM Mono audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include Yuji Mohara's feature-length making of documentary A Week with Kiarostami (1999), an interview from 2002 with Kiarostami, a new video essay presenting Kiarostami's poetry narrated by Massoumeh Lahiji (longtime translator and creative collaborator) and a trailer for the film. Also included is an essay by poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino has a Blu-ray for Edwin Carewe's Ramona (1928), starring Dolores del Rio, Warner Baxter, Roland Drew, Vera Lewis, Michael Visaroff and Mathilde Comont. Sourced from a master "restored by the Library of Congress from color-tinted 35mm materials preserved by Gosfiolmofond of Russia and the Národní National Film Archive of the Czech Republic", Kino presents Ramona with a score by Ben Model. Extras include audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide.
Also from Kino is a remastered Blu-ray for Andrew Marton's Crack in the World (1965), starring Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox, Peter Damon and Jim Gillen. Previously released in 2011, Kino's Blu-ray of Crack in the World is sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative. Extras include a new audio commentary by film historian Gary Gerani and a two-part sidebar with Tim Lucas and Stephen R. Bissette. This new disc also adds optional English subtitles.
Then from Kino comes a box set for the Pete Walker Crime Collection (1968-1971). The two-disc set contains the films The Big Switch (1968), Cool It, Carol! (AKA The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met) (1970), Moon (AKA Man of Violence) (1970) and Die Screaming, Marianne (1971). Extras include audio commentary on Die Screaming, Marianne by Pete Walker and film historian Jonathan Rigby, audio commntary on Moon by film historians Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterior, the interview Pete Walker: An Eye for Terror and original theatrical trailers.
Finally from Kino is a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD upgrade for Gary Sherman's Vice Squad (1982), starring Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna, Beverly Todd and Joseph Di Giroloma. Sourced from a new 4K master by StudioCanal, Kino presents Vice Squad with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and in 4K SDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras are spread over the 4K UHD and two Blu-rays and include a new audio commentary by filmmaker Steve Mitchell (writer / director of Wings Hauser: Working Class Actor), legacy audio commentary by Gary Sherman and producer Brian Frankish, interviews with Sherman, Frankish, and actors Gary Swanson, Beverly Todd, Pepe Serna and Michael Ensign, the locations featurette Hollywood Streetwalking, TV and radio spots and a theatrical trailer.
Coming to 4K UHD from Arrow Video is Robert Wise's The Andromeda Strain (1971), starring Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly and George Mitchell. Sourced from a 4K master by Arrow Films, Arrow presents The Andromeda Strain with Dolby Vision HDR and LPCM Mono audio. Extras are ported from Arrow's 2019 Blu-ray edition and include audio commentary by critic Bryan Reesman, an appreciation by critic Kim Newman, the legacy extras The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film and A Portrait of Michael Crichton (both 2001), a Cinescript gallery (highlights from the annotated and illustrated shooting script), a theatrical trailer, TV spots and radio spots, as well as an image gallery. Also included is a limited edition booklet with "writing by Peter Tonguette and select archive material". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Finally this week, Lionsgate Home Entertainment have three titles available. First up is a Blu-ray for Lucky McKee's May (2002), starring Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval, Nichole Hiltz and Kevin Gage. Part of the Vestron Video Collector's Series, Lionsgate's Blu-ray of May contains three audio commentary tracks: one by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, another by Lucky McKee, cinematographer Steve Yedlin, editor Chris Sivertson, and actors Angela Bettis, Nichole Hiltz and Bret Roberts, and a third by McKee, editor Rian Johnson, composer Jammes Luckett, production designer Leslie Keel, and "craft services guy" Benji. Also included are interviews with Lucky McKee, Jeremy Sisto, James Duval, Steve Yedlin, Rian Johnson, Chris Sivertson, editor Kevin Ford and Jammes Luckett, along with On the Set of May: "Bits and Pieces" and From Frankenstein to May: "Dr. Miranda Corcoran on May".
Also coming from Lionsgate are two Lionsgate Limited 4K UHD SteelBooks. First is Breck Eisner's The Crazies (2010), starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, Christie Lynn Smith and Brett Rickaby. Sourced from a 4K master, Lionsgate presents The Crazies with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos remix. New extras include 2025 audio commentary with Breck Eisner and the featurettes Establishing Shot with Breck Eisner, Sculpting the Horror of The Crazies and Storyboard to Screen: Car Wash as well as an alternate ending. Also included are legacy extras, including a 2010 audio commentary with Eisner, Behind the Scenes with Breck Eisner, Paranormal Pandemics, The George A. Romero TemplateMakeup Mastermind: Rob Hall in Action, and Visual Effects in Motion, as well as episodes 1 and 2 of The Crazies motion comic, a behind-the-scenes photo gallery, a teaser, a theatrical trailer and a trailer for The Crazies motion comic.
Finally from Lionsgate is a new 4K UHD edition of Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass (2010), starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage and Omari Hardwick. Once again presented with Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision HDR, Lionsgate's new release of Kick-Ass ports over the commentary and extras from the previous 4K UHD disc, while adding the new featurettes Pure Cinematic Fun, Still Kicking Ass and The Work of Art, as well as Physical Media Kicks Ass and a teaser trailer. Also included are an official trailer the "Hit Girl" Red Band trailer.
Note: As of this writing, all three Lionsgate releases (including the Blu-ray of May) are available only from the Lionsgate Limited website.