Posted December 22, 2025 07:31 AM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of December 22nd, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Scott Derrickson's Black Phone 2, starring Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, Demián Bichir and Ethan Hawke.
Description: True evil transcends death and the black phone rings again as The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) torments Finn, the teen who killed him, from beyond the grave by menacing his sister Gwen. Haunted by horrific visions, the teens set out to stop their psychological torture only to uncover a disturbing secret as they confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death.
Universal's Blu-ray releases of Black Phone 2 contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary with Scott Derrickson, deleted scenes and the featurettes Dialed In: The Cast of Black Phone 2, A Story Carved in Ice and Frozen in Time. In addition to standard packaging, a Walmart Exclusive SteelBook will also be available. On the same day, Universal will also release a Black Phone: 2-Movie Collection (2021-2025) with both films on Blu-ray and 4K UHD.
Also new on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Universal is Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia, starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone.
Description: A wildly entertaining psychological thriller, the film follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap a powerful CEO they believe is an alien out to destroy humanity. What begins as a paranoid act spirals into a battle of delusions and control—one as viscerally unpredictable as it is provocative.
Universal's Blu-ray releases of Bugonia contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include the featurette The Birth of the Bees: The Making of Bugonia. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available.
New on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Kogonada's A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, starring Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Description: Some doors bring you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything. Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend's wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.
Sony's Blu-ray of contains the featurettes Love's Ever-Shifting Landscape: A Relatable Romance, The Magic Behind the Scenes: Crafting the Journey and A Big Bold Musical Number.
Description: Remastered and beautifully restored, the first two feature films of the most beloved comedy team in movie history are making their Blu-ray debut from ClassicFlix in Laurel and Hardy - The Restored Features, Volume 1.
During the mid-1920s, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were both hard working comedians for producer Hal Roach making silent movie audiences laugh—but doing so as individual actors. The duo started performing as a team in 1927s Putting Pants on Philip, and before long their two-reel comedies were leading the pack at Roach fueled by their great popularity with moviegoers. Four years later, Roach gave the pair a shot at features and this collection contains their first two: Pardon Us (1931, theatrical version) and Pack Up Your Troubles (1932).
Restored by ClassicFlix, Pardon Us finds Stan and Ollie as guests of the state (prison) after foolishly selling a policeman some of their homemade beer. A spoof of the acclaimed MGM prison drama The Big House (1930), Pardon features many of the wonderful supporting actors who worked on the Roach lot including June Marlowe, James Finlayson, Walter Long, Wilfred Lucas, Tiny Sandford, Harry Bernard, Otto Fries and Charlie Hall.
Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, Pack Up Your Troubles finds The Boys overseas during World War I and letting loose with their patented brand of comic mayhem. Their favorite nemesis (Finlayson) returns, and is joined by Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lynn, Mary Carr, Richard Cramer, Tom Kennedy, Charles Middleton, Grady Sutton, Billy Gilbert, as well as co-director George Marshall who makes an on-screen appearance as a vengeful Army chef!
ClassicFlix's Blu-ray of Laurel and Hardy: The Restored Features Vol. 1 contains an opening title sequence of the preview version of Pardon Us, a never-before-seen alternate ending for Pardon Us (without audio) and an "alternate raw audio track without added music" for Pardon Us.
Finally this week, Shout Factory has two 4K UHD upgrades to offer. First, from Shout and GKIDS is Satoshi Kon's anime film Perfect Blue (パーフェクトブルー) (1997), featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura, Yosuke Akimoto and Hideyuki Hori. Sourced from a new 4K master, Shout presents Perfect Blue in 4K SDR with Japanese or dubbed English DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and English subtitles. Extras include the full 117 minutes of lectures by Satoshi Kon, as well as legacy extras, such as HD and SD presentations of the film, an "Angel of Your Heart" recording session and full English version, cast and crew interviews, theatrical trailers and TV spots. Collector's Edition packaging includes a 128-page booklet, 10 artcards and a poster, housed in a slipbox.
Then from Shout is a 4K UHD upgrade for Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Lilly Wachowski's Cloud Atlas (2012), starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess and Bae Doona. Sourced from a new 4K master (approved by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Lilly Wachowski), Shout presents Cloud Atlas with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include the new feature-length documentary What Is An Ocean…Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas (containing new interviews with Tom Tykwer and Lana and Lilly Wachowski, author David Mitchell, Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Keith David, James D'Arcy, David Gyasi, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant, co-producer Roberto Malerba, co-director of photography Frank Griebe, production designers Hugh Bateup and Uli Hanisch, costume designers Kym Barrett and Pierre-Yves Gayraud; make-up artists Jeremy Woodhead, Daniel Parker and Sian Richards; visual effects supervisors Dan Glass and Stephane Ceretti, dialogue coach William Conacher, composers Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek, editor Alexander Berner, stunt coordinator Volkhart Buff and very special guest E.A. Hanks), seven archival featurettes and an extended first-look trailer.