For the week of March 30th, A24 has a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Fran Drescher, Sandra Bernhard and Abel Ferrara.
Description: Timothée Chalamet is Marty Mauser, a self-absorbed, fast-talking 1950s New York shoe salesman obsessed with becoming a world-champion table tennis player. The film follows his chaotic, high-stakes hustling to fund his dream while navigating complicated relationships, including an affair with a married woman (Odessa A'zion), and interactions with a retired actress (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her tycoon husband (Kevin O'Leary).
A24's Blu-ray releases include the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary with Josh Safdie, the featurette Dream Big: Making Marty Supreme and a camera test of Timothée Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow with commentary by Safdie. Exclusive to the 4K UHD disc is the featurette Total Immersion: The World of Marty Supreme. DigiPack packaging includes six postcards. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
New onBlu-ray and 4K UHD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is Ric Roman Waugh's Greenland 2: Migration, starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis, Amber Rose Revah, Gordon Alexander and Peter Polycarpou.
Description: In the aftermath of a comet strike that devastates most of the Earth, GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION follows devoted family man John Garrity (Gerard Butler) and his wife and son (Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis) after they're forced to leave the safety of their bunker in Greenland to search for a new home in a shattered world. John leads the family on a dangerous journey, guided by his burning hope in a rumored safe haven. It's a journey against the odds that will test the family's deepest sense of love, sacrifice, and instinct to survive.
Lionsgate's Blu-ray releases of Greenland 2: Migration contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include the featurettes Rebuilding, Pushing Forward, Heart and Soul and What We Leave Behind, as well as a theatrical trailer. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review. On the same day, Lionsgate will also release the preceding film Greenland (2020) on 4K UHD for the first time, with DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio and HDR on the 4K UHD disc.
New on Blu-ray from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Derek Drymon's The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, featuring the voices of Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence and Mr. Lawrence.
Description: SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail on their biggest adventure yet! When an attempt to prove he's a true big guy accidentally summons the fearsome ghost pirate The Flying Dutchman, SpongeBob and Patrick are swept into a wild underworld quest. With colossal challenges ahead and a rescue crew on their trail, SpongeBob discovers that real courage shines brightest when friends face the unknown together.
Paramount's Blu-ray of The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include the featurettes The SpongeBob Ensemble: The Veteran Voices, The SpongeBob Ensemble: The New Crew, The Flying Dutchman: Animated Artistry and Live Acting and From Bikini Bottom to the Underworld, as well as a music video for "Big Guy" by Ice Spice. In addition to standard packaging, a Walmart Exclusive SteelBook will also be available.
New on Blu-ray from Decal Releasing and XYZ Films is Babak Anvari's Hallow Road, starring Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Megan McDonnell, Tadhg Murphy, Stephen Jones and Paul Tylak.
Description: Two parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realise they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray of Hallow Road contains a Making of Hallow Road featurette.
New on Blu-ray from Alliance Entertainment is Jay Drakulic, Alex Lee Williams and Mallory Drumm's Dream Eater, starring Alex Lee Williams and Mallory Drumm.
Description: During their holiday at a cabin deep in the snowy Lauretian mountains, Mallory documents her boyfriend Alex's violent parasomnia. When his sleepwalking gets worse, Mallory suspects the cause may be something far more sinister than a mere sleep disorder. Using her expertise as a documentary filmmaker, Mallory digs into Alex's shadowy past and begins to unravel a decades-long mystery steeped in trauma and the occult. As darkness closes in, and ancient evil awakens – plunging the couple into a downward spiral of madness and horror that threatens to destroy more than just their relationship. By the time the end credits roll, DREAM EATER will have you questioning who you're really sleeping next to at night.
Alliance Entertainment's Blu-ray of Dream Eater contains director's commentary, a behind-the-scenes featurette with Eli Roth, a behind-the-scenes photo gallery and trailers.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino Lorber has several titles coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD. They are:
A Blu-ray for Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light (Das blaue Licht) (1932), starring Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer, Martha Mair and Franz Maldacea. Kino's Blu-ray contains a new audio commentary with film historian Anthony Slide and an alternate title sequence.
A Kino Cult Blu-ray double feature The Sexploiters / Raw Love (1965). Kino's Blu-ray contains audio commentaries on both films with film historians Gentry Austin and Casey Scott (of The Sin Syndicate podcast), audio commentary on The Sexploiters with cinematographer C. Davis Smith and film historian Michael Bowen, a filmed introduction to Raw Love by film historian C. Courtney Joyner and a gallery of stills and artwork.
A Blu-ray box set of Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset (1971-1982), a four-disc with Angel's Leap (Le Saut de l'ange) (1971), starring Jean Yanne, Sterling Hayden, Daniel Ivernel, Senta Berger, Raymond Pellegrin and Giancarlo Sbragia, Mad Enough to Kill (Folle à tuer) (1975), starring Marlène Jobert, Thomas Waintrop, Tomás Milián, Michel Peyrelon, Victor Lanoux and Michael Lonsdale, The Woman Cop (La Femme flic) (1980), starring Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault, Leny Escudero, Alex Lacast, Roland Blanche and Jean-Pierre Kalfon and Rise Up, Spy (Espion, lève-toi) (1982), starring Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, Krystyna Janda, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson and Heinz Bennent. All four films are in French, with optional English subtitles. Extras include new audio commentaries with mystery writer / filmmaker Max Allan Collins and film historian / host of the Cereal at Midnight podcast Heath Holland (on Angel's Leap), with film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (on Mad Enough to Kill and The Woman Cop) and with Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson (on Rise Up, Spy). Also included is a theatrical trailer for Angel's Leap.
Note: In absence of official links for any trailers, a short supplement from StudioCanal France featuring Jean-Baptiste Thoret discussing Mad Enough to Kill (Folle à tuer) can be found here, albeit in French only.
A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Blake Edwards' The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne and Peter Jeffrey. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the film's original camera negative, Kino presents The Return of the Pink Panther 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 audio commentary with Jason Simos (of The Peter Sellers Appreciation Society), the featurettes A Bit of Passion and Lots of Laughs with Catherine Schell and Production Designer Peter Mullins on Making the Pink Panthers, the 1975 featurette The Return to Laughter, four TV spots, four radio spots and three theatrical trailers. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
A Blu-ray for Richard Quine's The Prisoner of Zenda (1979), starring Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra and Jeremy Kemp. Kino's Blu-ray contains a new audio commentary with film historianS Paul Anthony Nelson and Lee Zachariah and a theatrical trailer.
And finally from Kino is a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Taylor Hackford's Ray (2004), starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix and Bokeem Woodbine. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by Taylor Hackford), Kino presents Ray 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 a new audio commentary with film historian and author Dwayne Epstein. Also included is audio commentary with Taylor Hackford, a director's introduction, several featurettes, deleted scenes (with optional director's commentary), nine uncut music performances and a theatrical trailer.
Also this week, the Warner Archive Collection has six titles coming to Blu-ray. They are:
Mark Sandrich's The Gay Divorcee (1934), starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Gay Divorcee with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the WB short films Art Trouble and Masks and Memories, the Merrie Melodies shorts I Like Mountain Music and Shake Your Powder Puff (all 1934), a 1944 Screen Guild Players radio adaptation (with with Frank Sinatra, Edward Everett Horton and Gloria DeHaven), a song selection and the film's original theatrical trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Lewis Seiler's It All Came True (1940), starring Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart, Zasu Pitts, Una O'Connor and Jessie Busley. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents It All Came True with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Merrie Melodies short Circus Today, the Looney Tunes short The Sour Puss (both 1940) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
Jack Conway's Honky Tonk (1941), starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Main and Chill Wills. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents Honky Tonk with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Tom and Jerry short The Midnight Snack, the Our Gang short Fightin' Fools (both 1941), a 1946 Lux Radio Theater broadcast (with Lana Turner and John Hodiak) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
William Keighley's The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante and Billie Burke. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Man Who Came to Dinner with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the featurette Inside a Classic Comedy (2006), the WB short film Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, the Merrie Melodies short The Wabbit Who Came To Supper (both 1942), a 1949 Hotpoint Holiday Hour radio adaptation (with with Jack Benny and Rosalind Russell), a 1950 Lux Radio Theater adaptation (with with Clifton Webb and Lucille Ball) and the film's original theatrical trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy (1956), starring Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman and Norma Crane. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Tea and Sympathy with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Tom and Jerry short Down Beat Bear (1956) and the film's original theatrical trailer.
Charles Nichols, Ray Patterson and Carl Urbano's animated series Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1979), featuring the voices of Julie Bennett, Joe Besser, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Scatman Crothers and Bob Holt. All 24 episodes are included in a three-disc set with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the short film Scooby-Doo!: Spooky Games (2012) with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo audio. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Arrow Video is the box set Eiichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy (1963-1967), a three-disc set comprised of 13 Assassins (十三人の刺客) (1963), starring Kô Nishimura, Isao Natsuyagi, Shun'ya Wazaki, Jun Harukawa, Chiezo Kataoka and Kôtarô Satomi, The Great Killing (大殺陣) (1964), starring Kôtarô Satomi, Mikijirô Hira, Minoru Ôki, Tôru Abe, Yoshio Inaba and Rin'ichi Yamamoto and 11 Samurai (十一人の侍) (1967), starring Kô Nishimura, Isao Natsuyagi, Kôtarô Satomi, Kôji Nanbara, Kei Satô and Akira Shioji. Sourced from HD masters, Arrow presents Eiichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy with lossless original Japanese mono audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include a new audio commentary on 13 Assassins with film critic and Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes and new audio commentaries on the The Great Killing and 11 Samurai with film critic David West, new video essays by music supervisor and Japanese cinema expert James Balmont, film critic and Japanese cinema expert Daisuke Miyao and film critic and Japanese cinema expert Jonathan Clements, a three-part archival interview with Eiichi Kudo's former assistant director Misao Arai and filmmaker Dirty Kudo, a tribute to Eiichi Kudo by his former assistant and brother-in-law Masaaki Ito, an archival interview with Fabrice Arduini (filmmaker and programmer for the House of Culture of Japan in Paris) and theatrical trailers for 13 Assassins. Limited edition content includes an "illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the films by Chris D., Earl Jackson and Alain Silver".
Coming to 4K UHD from Arrow is Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot (1979), starring David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres and Julie Cobb. Arrow presents the original three-hour, two-part miniseries version of Salem's Lot (sourced from a new 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative) and the 110-minute international theatrical cut (sourced from a new 4K scan of a 35mm interpositive) on two 4K UHD discs with DTS-HD MA Mono (original miniseries) / LPCM Mono (theatrical cut) audio and Dolby Vision HDR. Extras include the option to watch the miniseries version as two parts or as an extended movie, new audio commentary on the miniseries with film critics Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes, new audio commentary on the theatrical cut with film critic Chris Alexander, legacy audio commentary on the miniseries with Tobe Hooper, commercial bumpers and alternate footage, new interviews with Stephen King biographer Douglas Winter, author and critic Grady Hendrix and filmmaker Mick Garris, a new locations featurette, new appreciations with film critic Heather Wixson and film critics Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman, image galleries, a shooting script gallery and trailers. Limited edition content includes a "collectors' perfect-bound booklet containing new writing on the film by critics Sean Abley, Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, and Richard Kadrey, plus select archival material including interviews with director Tobe Hooper, and stars Lance Kerwin and Julie Cobb", a double-sided fold-out poster with two original artwork options and a Salem's Lot town sign sticker. For a full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Coming to Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) (1966), starring Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange, Simone Paris and Paul Le Person. Sourced from a new 2K master (supervised and approved by Claude Lelouch), Criterion presents A Man and a Woman with French: LPCM Mono audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include a new interview with Lelouch, a shot-on-location making of documentary, archival footage of Lelouch from the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, Lelouch's short film C'était un rendez-vous (1976), with a new introduction from Lelouch and trailers for the film. Also included is an essay by critic Carrie Rickey.
Also coming from Criterion is a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Tsui Hark's The Blade (刀) (1966), starring Vincent Zhao, Xiong Xin-xin, Moses Chan, Song Lei, Austin Wai and Valerie Chow. Sourced from a new 4K master, Criterion presents The Blade with Cantonese: LPCM Mono audio, optional, newly-translated English subtitles and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary with Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng, an English dub option, the documentary Action et vérité (2006), a new video essay by filmmakers Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, a Q&A with Tsui Hark from the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival, the opening and end credits to the international version and a trailer for the film. Also included is an essay by author Lisa Morton.
Coming to remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Shout Factory is Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak (1995), starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Outbreak with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc.