For the week of August 25th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Dean Fleischer-Camp's Lilo & Stitch (2025), starring Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen and Courtney B. Vance.
Description: Experience this funny and touching live-action reimagining of Disney's animated classic. When a lonely girl named Lilo adopts Stitch, an alien "puppy," Stitch helps to mend Lilo's broken family — but not without wreaking hilarious havoc on the Hawaiian Islands.
Disney's 4K UHD release of Lilo & Stitch contains Dolby Vision HDR and the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include the featurettes Ohana Means Family: Making Lilo & Stitch and Drawn to Life as well as bloopers, the jukebox feature Scenes with Stitch and deleted scenes. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Note: Disney's 4K UHD release of Lilo & Stitch is currently available only in SteelBook packaging.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Jonathan Entwistle's Karate Kid: Legends, starring Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen and Wyatt Oleff.
Description: Karate Kid: Legends unites the iconic martial arts masters of one of the most beloved film franchises of all time to tell a completely new story full of action and heart. When kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang) relocates to New York City with his mother to attend a prestigious new school, he finds solace in a new friendship with a classmate and her father. But his newfound peace is short-lived after he attracts unwanted attention from a formidable local karate champion. Driven by a desire to defend himself, Li embarks on a journey to enter the ultimate karate competition. Guided by the wisdom of his kung fu teacher, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), and the legendary Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), Li merges their unique styles to prepare for an epic martial arts showdown.
Sony's 4K UHD release of Karate Kid: Legends contains Dolby Vision HDR and the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Blu-ray Exclusive extras include deleted scenes, a gag reel and the featurettes Honoring the Miyagi Legacy and The Art of Action, while additional extras include the featurettes Becoming the Karate Kid, Strength and Character: The Cast and Two Masters, One Student. In addition to standard packaging, both a 4K UHD SteelBook and a Walmart Exclusive Limited Edition 4K UHD with Skateboard Deck will also be available. On the same day, Sony will also release The Karate Kid Ultimate 6-Movie Collection (1984-2025), an Amazon Exclusive twelve-disc box set containing all six Karate Kid feature films on 4K UHD, including the 4K UHD premieres of The Next Karate Kid (1994) and The Karate Kid (2010). Extras include The Karate Kid: The Animated Series (1989) in standard definition on Blu-ray, new assembled dailies for the first three sequels, new deleted scenes for the The Karate Kid: Part III, The Next Karate Kid and the 2010 film, Hilary Swank's screen test for The Next Karate Kid and a blooper reel for the 2010 film, as well as previously-released extras. Packaging for The Karate Kid Ultimate 6-Movie Collection is similar to Sony's Columbia Classics box sets, but also features pop-up artwork and a sound chip, along with a headband, three embroidered patches and a set of trading cards.
Also coming to 4K UHD from Sony is Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam's Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Sourced from a new 4K master, Sony presents Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix, DTS-HD MA 5.1 or original DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio tracks. Extras include a new near-theatrical version of the film (in HD), the new featurette 'Tis but a Tribute: 50 Years of the Holy Grail and copious legacy extras, including two audio commentaries and a 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with members of Monty Python, outtakes and extended scenes, lost animations, a locations tour and more. For a full release breakdown, read Kenneth Brown's 4K UHD review.
Note: Sony's 4K UHD release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is currently available only in SteelBook packaging. If you like SteelBooks, why not go and see Steel Magnolias?
New on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is Maura Delpero's Vermiglio, starring Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari and Carlotta Gamba.
Description: Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero's exquisite wartime drama, winner of the Venice Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. In a majestic Alpine village touched only faintly by the upheavals of modern life, a strict schoolteacher's family undergoes a profound shift when a relative returns home with a mysterious Sicilian soldier, both fleeing the front lines of World War II. As the seasons change across a single year, three very different daughters of the sprawling Graziadei clan will find their lives transformed. Blending historically grounded realism with painterly grace, Delpero draws from her own ancestral history for Vermiglio, an at once intimate and momentous vision of a world suspended between the patriarchal past and the stirrings of a new future.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Vermiglio contains an interview with Maura Delpero and a trailer.
Also coming to Blu-ray from Criterion is Zeinabu irene Davis' Compensation (1999), starring Michelle A. Banks, John Earl Jelks, Christopher Smith, K. Lynne Stephens, Nirvana Cobb and Kevin L. Davis. Sourced from a new 4K master (supervised and approved by Zeinabu irene Davis), Criterion presents Compensation with LPCM 2.0 Stereo audio, along with English SDH subtitles and an audio description track. Extras include audio commentary with Zeinabu irene Davis, screenwriter Marc Arthur Chéryand director of photography Pierre H. L. Désir Jr., Q&As with members of the cast and crew, Davis' short films Crocodile Conspiracy (1986) and Pandemic Bread (2023) (the latter with audio commentary by Davis and the cast and crew, as well as an audio description track), a 2021 interview with Davis, a "new program about select archival photographs and adinkra and vèvè symbols in the film" and a trailer. Also included is "an essay by film scholar Racquel Gates, a director's note, and a conversation between Davis and artist Alison O'Daniel about the process of captioning the film".
Then on Blu-ray from Criterion is Alice Wu's Saving Face (2004), starring Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Jin Wang, Guang Lan Koh and Jessica Hecht. Sourced from an HD master (approved by Alice Wu), Criterion presents Saving Face with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include audio commentary with Alice Wu, new interviews with Alice Wu and Joan Chen, deleted scenes (with optional commentary by Alice Wu), a behind-the-scenes featurette, a "program featuring Wu and members of the cast at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival" and a trailer for the film. Also included is an essay by critic Phoebe Chen.
New on Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is Richard Gray's The Unholy Trinity, starring Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Brandon Lessard, Veronica Ferres, Gianni Capaldi and Q'orianka Kilcher.
Description: A tale of revenge, dark secrets, and buried treasures, the film is set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana. It picks up in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, as he gives his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: Murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit. Intent on fulfilling his promise, Henry travels to the remote town of Trinity, where an unexpected turn of events traps him in town and leaves him caught between Gabriel Dove, the town's upstanding new sheriff, and a mysterious figure named St Christopher.
Also coming from Warner are several catalog titles from the Warner Archive Collection. They are:
Vincent Sherman's The Hard Way (1943), starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Gladys George and Faye Emerson. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Hard Way with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the WB short films Gun to Gun (1937) and Over the Wall (1944), a Lux Radio Theater adaptation, the Looney Tunes shorts The Aristo Cat and Scrap Happy Daffy (both 1943) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
Norman Taurog's That Midnight Kiss (1949), starring Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi, Ethel Barrymore, Mario Lanza, Keenan Wynn and J. Carrol Naish. Sourced from new 4K scans of the original nitrate Technicolor negatives, Warner Archive presents That Midnight Kiss with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the deleted musical outtake "One Love of Mine", the MGM shorts Heavenly Puss and Señor Droopy (both 1949) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949), starring Juano Hernandez, David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson and Charles Kemper. Sourced from a new 4K scan of best preservation elements, Warner Archive presents Intruder in the Dust with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the MGM short Playlands of Michigan and cartoon The Counterfeit Cat (both 1949), as well as the film's original theatrical trailer.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series (1958-1961), featuring the voices of Daws Butler, Don Messick, Doug Young, Hal Smith and Jean Vander Pyl. Sourced from new 4K scans of the original camera negatives, Warner Archive presents The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series in an 11-disc set with all 68 half-hour episodes in color (with black-and-white commercials) and DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the featurettes Huckleberry Quotes, Huckleberry Hound: A Linguistic Masterpiece and The Legendary Sound of Daws Butler.
John Ford's 7 Women (1966), starring Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Anna Lee, Flora Robson, Eddie Albert and Woody Strode. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents 7 Women with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the vintage featurette John Ford's Magic Stage, the MGM short The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) and the film's original theatrical trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Finally from Warner Archive comes a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Mike Hodges' Get Carter (1971), starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley and George Sewell. Sourced from "the 2022 4K restoration by the British Film Institute from the original camera negative", Warner Archive presents Get Carter with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two audio commentaries: a legacy audio commentary track with Michael Caine, Mike Hodges and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschinsky and another from 2022 with critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw, while video extras from 2022 include an introduction by Michael Caine, the BFI Southbank interview Mike Hodges in Conversation, the featurette The Sound of Roy Budd and interviews with actor Petra Markham and Tony Klinger (son of producer Michael Klinger). Also included are both the film's original 1971 MGM trailer and a 2022 BFI re-release trailer.
Finally from Warner comes a 4K UHD upgrade for James Wan's The Conjuring (2013), starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell and Hayley McFarland. Sourced from a 4K master, Warner presents The Conjuring with Dolby Vision HDR and original DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include the two new featurettes Scariest of Them All and Reflections on The Conjuring, as well as the legacy featurettes The Conjuring: Face-to-Face with Fear, A Life in Demonology and Scaring the "@$*%" Out of You. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's 4K UHD review and 4K UHD SteelBook review.
New on Blu-ray from Angel Studios is Jang Seong-ho's The King of Kings (2025), featuring the voices of Oscar Isaac, Kenneth Branagh, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Mark Hamill and Ben Kingsley.
Description: A father tells his son the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vivid imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus, witnessing His miracles, facing His trials, and understanding His ultimate sacrifice. The King of Kings invites us to rediscover the enduring power of hope, love, and redemption through the eyes of a child.
Angel Studios' Blu-ray of The King of Kings contains the featurette An Inside Look Behind the Film and trailers.
New on Blu-ray from Well Go USA is Yugo Sakamoto's Baby Assassins 3 (ベイビーわるきゅーれ ナイスデイズ), starring Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Atsuko Maeda, Mondo Otani and Kaibashira.
Description: Teen assassins and BFFs, Chisato and Mahiro head to a coastal resort for a well-deserved vacation when The Agency calls with an assignment take out an embezzler. Unfortunately, the gig has been double-booked, and the duo cross paths with an unpredictably vicious freelancer out to add to his personal kill count. What should have been a straightforward mission becomes a test of their friendship and killing skills, as the ruthless killer targets the two young roomies.
Well Go USA's Blu-ray of Baby Assassins 3 contains a trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Turning to catalog titles, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release a Blu-ray box set for Emergency!: The Complete Series (1972-1979), starring Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Robert Fuller and Michael Norell. The 28-disc set contains all seven seasons of the series, along with the Adam-12 crossover episode "Lost and Found" and trailers.
Also coming from Universal is a 4K UHD upgrade for Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Albert Finney, Valente Rodriguez and Conchata Ferrell. Sourced from a new 4K master, Universal presents Erin Brockovich with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio. Extras include deleted scenes with commentary by Steven Soderbergh, a Spotlight on Location making of featurette, Erin Brockovich: A Look at a Real Life Experience and more.
Shout Factory has a 4K UHD upgrade double feature for James Sbardellati and Jim Wynorski's films Deathstalker / Deathstalker II (1983-1987), starring Victor Bo, Marcos Woinsky, Rick Hill, John Terlesky, Monique Gabrielle and Barbi Benton. Sourced from new 4K masters made from each film's interpositive, Shout presents Deathstalker and Deathstalker II with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD discs. Extras include audio commentary with John Sbardellati, special make-up effects artist John Carl Buechler and actor Richard Brooker (on Deathstalker) and with Jim Wynorski and actors John Terlesky and Toni Naples (on Deathstalker II). Also included is a photo gallery for Deathstalker and theatrical trailers for both films.
Also coming from Shout is a 4K UHD release for Ringo Lam's City on Fire (龍虎風雲) (1987), starring Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Roy Cheung, Yueh Sun, Carrie Ng and Kong Lau. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents City on Fire with a choice of original Cantonese or dubbed English: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio tracks, optional, newly-translated English subtitles and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include new audio commentary with film historians Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto, a new interview with screenwriter Tommy Sham and new interviews with author Grady Hendrix and film historians Ric Meyers and Kim Newman. Also included is an image gallery and a theatrical trailer.
Coming to 4K UHD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is Jamie Babbit's But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul, Cathy Moriarty, Michelle Williams and Bud Cort. Sourced from a 4K master, Lionsgate presents But I'm a Cheerleader in its director's cut and the film is making its worldwide premiere on 4K UHD. Collectible packaging features a slipcover.
Note: Lionsgate's 4K UHD release of But I'm a Cheerleader is currently available only as an Amazon Exclusive.
Finally this week, Arrow Video has two titles coming to 4K UHD. First is Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), starring Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour and Andrew Bryniarski. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative by Warner Bros. MPI, Arrow presents The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1, 7.1 or 2.0 audio tracks. Extras include a new audio commentary by Dread Central co-founder Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton and Chris MacGibbon (co-host of The Spooky Picture Show podcast) and new interviews with Marcus Nispel, cinematographer Daniel Pearl, actor Brett Wagner, makeup effects artist Scott Stoddard and composer Steve Jablonsky. Additional extras include two legacy audio commentary tracks with various crew members, the feature-length documentary Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre, the featurette Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield, deleted scenes (including an alternate opening and ending), screen tests, a teaser, a theatrical trailer and more. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Then from Arrow is a 4K UHD upgrade for Jonathan Liebesman's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), starring Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, R. Lee Ermey, Andrew Bryniarski. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative by Warner Bros.' MPI, Arrow presents both theatrical and uncut versions of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1, 7.1 or 2.0 audio tracks on the uncut version or lossy DTS 5.1 or 2.0 on the theatrical version. Extras include a new audio commentary on the uncut version by Dread Central co-founder Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton and Chris MacGibbon (co-host of The Spooky Picture Show podcast) and new interviews with actor Lew Temple, special effects makeup artist Jake Garber, special effects makeup technician Kevin Wasner and director of photography Lukas Ettlin. Additional extras include legacy audio commentary with Jonathan Liebesman and producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, the making-of documentary Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel, deleted scenes (with optional commentary from Liebesman, Form and Fuller), and a theatrical trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.