For the week of August 31st, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has a 4K UHD release of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2002), starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns and Brendan Gleeson. Sourced from a new 4K master (approved by Danny Boyle)*, Sony presents 28 Days Later with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix or original DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include audio commentary with Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland, deleted scenes and alternate endings (with optional commentary), Pure Rage: The Making of 28 Days Later, a music video, animated storyboards, photo Galleries and both a teaser and trailer.
*From Sony's press release: "To fully capture and correctly present the unique visuals of this movie for its 4K High Dynamic Range debut, the assembled original source video was used along with the section from original camera negative as used in the original theatrical release. These elements were then color corrected to take full advantage of the wider available color gamut. The picture and Atmos mix were approved by Danny Boyle."
Note: Sony's 4K UHD release of 28 Days Later is currently available only in Limited Edition SteelBook packaging.
New on Blu-ray from Crunchyroll is the anime series Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc (アニメ：黒執事 -緑の魔女編-) (2025). The release contains all 13 episodes from this fifth season of the series, with a choice of original Japanese: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 (with English subtitles) or dubbed English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio options. Extras include promo videos and textless opening and ending songs.
New on Blu-ray from Cinema Guild is Aleksandre Koberidze's Dry Leaf (ხმელი ფოთოლი), starring David Koberidze, Otar Nijaradze, Irina Chelidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Vakhtang Panchulidze and Manu Tavadze.
Description: Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing embedded in the landscape like clues. Her father, Irakli (David Koberidze), picks up her scent in the ochre foliage and communal soccer fields she documented for her last assignment. His search-and-rescue trip defies her wishes not to be followed. With a disembodied voice in his passenger seat, he embarks on a winding pastoral picaresque, marked by the recurring gaggles of adolescents, wild dogs, and oral histories he encounters along the way. Undulating between impressionistic reverie and subversive detective story, Irakli's near-fruitless search invites us to see—with renewed eyes—the quotidian elements which constitute both cinema and life.
Shot with a pixelated W595 Sony Ericsson phone camera, Dry Leaf stands as a palpable salvo on cinematic degrowth. While director Alexandre Koberidze teeters on the edge of a formal gimmick to challenge technological tyranny, his characters swim against the false currents of modern life. Taking an audacious leap of faith after his breakthrough What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?, and harkening back to his low-res debut Let the Summer Never Come Again, Koberidze reignites the threadbare wonders of cinematic language in spectacular, big-screen fashion.
Cinema Guild's Blu-ray of Dry Leaf contains Georgian: DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include Koberidze's feature Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017), as well as a theatrical trailer and a booklet with an essay by Patrick Holzapfel.
Turning to catalog titles, Radiance Films has a Blu-ray for Kon Ichikawa's Ten Women in Black (AKA Ten Dark Women) (黒い十人の女) (1961), starring Fujiko Yamamoto, Mariko Miyagi, Tamao Nakamura, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi and Keiko Kishi. Sourced from a 4K restoration by Kadokawa Pictures, Radiance presents Ten Women in Black with LPCM Mono audio and optional, new and improved English subtitles. Extras include a new appreciation by musician Yasuharu Konishi (of the band Pizzicato Five), who was the "driving force behind the film's 1997 re-release", as well as Shunji Iwai's feature-length documentary The Kon Ichikawa Story (市川崑物語) (2006) and both original and 1997 re-release trailers for the film. Limited edition content includes a booklet with new writing by Yuka Kimbara. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Also from Radiance is a Blu-ray for Antonio Pietrangeli's The Magnificent Cuckold (Il magnifico cornuto) (1964), starring Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michèle Girardon, Gian Maria Volontè and Laura Antonelli. Sourced from a 4K restoration by Cineteca di Bologna, Radiance presents The Magnificent Cuckold with LPCM Mono audio and optional, newly-improved English subtitles. Extras include a new interview with Italian film expert Richard Dyer, a new visual essay by Italian cinema professor Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, and an alternative sequence from the film in color. Limited edition content includes a booklet with "new writing by film critic Phuong Le and archival writing". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Then from Radiance comes a 4K UHD upgrade for Dennis Hopper's The Hot Spot (1990), starring Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler and Jerry Hardin. Sourced from a new 4K master (with color grading overseen and approved by cinematographer Ueli Steiger), Radiance presents The Hot Spot with Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio, with the included Blu-ray also featuring the new remaster. Extras match Radiance's original 2023 UK Blu-ray and include a 1991 interview with Dennis Hopper, interviews from 2021 with Virginia Madsen and William Sadler, interviews from 2023 with film journalist Nick Dawson (the editor of Dennis Hopper: Interviews) and crime writer Duane Swierczynski, as well as a trailer for the film. Limited edition content includes a booklet "booklet featuring writing by critics Elena Lazic on the film, Leslie Byron Pitt on the erotic thriller genre and the film's place within it, and an archival piece on the film featuring an interview with Hopper by RJ Smith". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Finally this week, Shout Factory and GKIDS has a 4K UHD upgrade for Michael Arias' anime film Tekkonkinkreet (鉄コン筋クリート) (2006), featuring the voices of Min Tanaka, Yoshinori Okada, Nao Ômori, Masahiro Motoki, Yûsuke Iseya and Kankuro Kudo. Presented with a choice of original Japanese or dubbed English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio tracks, Tekkonkinkreet also includes filmmaker commentary, The Making of Tekkonkinkreet: Director Michael Arias' 300 Day Diary, A Conversation with Director Michael Arias and British Music Duo PLAID and teasers and trailers. A slipcase and a 28-page art booklet are also included.