Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

How do you follow up an anime series like Cowboy Bebop, a hard-hitting blend of sci-fi and jazz? If you're Shinichiro Watanabe the answer is with a hip-hop adventure set in alternate Edo-era Japan. Samurai Champloo can regularly be found near the top of best anime roundups, and if you're looking for an excuse to revisit the beloved series, Crunchyroll has one for you: a limited-edition Blu-ray collection with a premium presentation. Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series Limited Edition arrives November 5 exclusively on the Crunchyroll Store. Fans can preorder the soon-to-be released Samurai Champloo box set for $67.49 (was $90).

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Samurai Champloo's Limited-Edition release comes with a display-worthy slipcase and the six art cards shown above. As for the extras on the disc, you'll find clean credit sequences, concept art, a "bumper" gallery, promo videos, and trailers. All 26 episodes are included on three Blu-ray discs, and thanks to the high production values, this show really shines in high-definition. The soundtrack is also legendary stuff, and combined with the slick action, the series has become a cult-classic over the years.

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It's worth noting that there's already a standard edition Samurai Champloo release you can buy. Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series on Blu-ray is available for $32.49 (was $50) at Amazon.

Currently decimating theaters as the #1 film in the country, Terrifier 3 will make viewers vomiting and passing out in the comfort of their own home at a later date.

The unrated slasher sequel is up for pre-order on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD from Bloody Disgusting, SCREAMBOX, and Cineverse.

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Amazon’s exclusive Collector’s Box Set includes the film on 4K UHD + Blu-ray along with a Terrifier 3 ornament, Art the Clown mini mask, Terrifier 3 barf bag, Art the Clown enamel pin, Terrifier 3 box of soap, and Art the Clown selfie Polaroid replicas

Michael Dougherty’s Halloween classic Trick ‘r Treat heads back to physical media this spooky season with a brand new 4K release in the US, UK and Canada from Arrow Video.

Up for pre-order right now, you can either grab the Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD release or the Limited Edition Arrow Store Exclusive version, which features original poster artwork.

Both will be released in the United States on October 29, 2024

Watch the official trailer for the brand new 4K restoration below!

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The BBC will release Blake’s 7 The Collection: Series 1 on Blu-ray featuring optional new effects on 11th November, the SF series created by Terry Nation, also creator of Doctor Who’s Daleks and the post-apocalypse series, Survivors.

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All 13 episodes of the first season feature on this new Blu-ray release, newly remastered from the best available sources, including the original film, where available. Plus, fans can experience their favourite show like never before, with brand new optional updated effects on every episode, exclusive to this Blu-ray set.

Blake’s 7 The Collection: Series 1 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including the previously unreleased Making Of Blake’s 7, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew; a new feature-length documentary offering a look back at the making of the first season; an “In Conversation” interview with actor Sally Knyvette, conducted by Matthew Sweet; and a tribute to actor Stephen Greif, offering a look at the life and career of the first incarnation of Travis.

Also included is previously unreleased convention footage of convention panels with the cast and crew, many no longer with us; treats such as BBC continuity, TV coverage and music from the Blake’s 7 vinyl record; photo galleries with previously unseen images, and featurettes, audio commentaries and more from previous DVD releases. Plus, to round this incredible collection off, production paperwork, scripts, studio floorplans and much more, available for the first time.

The details of Freddy Krueger’s ratty red-and-green sweater and knife-tipped glove will look extra horrific when A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven‘s 1984 slasher classic, arrives on 4K UHD just in time for a spooky season re-watch. To mark the occasion, io9 got to speak with its stars, Heather Langenkamp (who plays smart yet sleepy final girl Nancy Thompson) and Robert Englund (the dream demon himself), about their experiences making the film—and whether they’d be willing to get back in character again.

Cheryl Eddy, io9: Which scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street do you think will benefit the most from the 4K UHD upgrade?

Robert Englund: Here’s the thing. What we have to remember—and it’s difficult for me because I always wanted to be a movie actor—I always imagined Nightmare on Elm Street playing in a movie theater. But most of our fans discovered this film as part of the video generation. So they saw it less than perfect. Their memories of it are less than perfect. They have great memories of sharing it with mom and dad, or a stepdad or a step-mom, or brothers and sisters, you know, fresh from the video store, running home with a copy. But a lot of them also saw old, dog-eared copies that had been lying around in the bookshelf for a while or passed around the dormitory. This is an opportunity to see this better than Heather and I’ve ever seen it. To see it absolutely pristine and enhanced, you know, ultra high def 4K. I just had this experience with the old Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window; it was mind blowing to see it in my living room, that perfect and wonderful. And I’m so looking forward to this. And there’s some new stuff [in the “uncut” version, included in the remastered release along with the theatrical version], right?

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A Nightmare on Elm Street hits 4K Ultra HD on Digital October 1; it will be available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and more. The Blu-ray 4K UHD arrives October 15. The 4K UHD remaster includes both the theatrical and uncut versions; the latter features eight additional seconds of unrated footage.

Other previously released special features included are as follows, according to a Warner Bros. press release:

• Ready Freddy Focus Points
• Commentary with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Ronnie Blakely, Robert Shaye, and Sara Risher.
• Commentary with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Jacques Haitkin.
• Alternate endings
• The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror
• Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares

Now… many of you will no doubt have been wondering exactly why it is that Second Sight in the UK had to stop taking pre-orders for this title from customers here in the United States.

Well, with this announcement this afternoon, now we finally know why.

(Here are all the official details, straight from the studio…

(Coming to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Disc from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment on October 22

Newly remastered in Dolby Vision HDR from a new 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative!

THE HITCHER (1986)

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For those of you who may be wondering, note that this UHD release features the exact same new 4K scan and remaster that Second Sight is releasing in the UK on 10/11. And the new Blu-ray edition is mastered from this new scan as well. So if you’re looking for a more affordable option to purchase this title here in the States rather than importing it from the UK, now you have one available.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Tobe Hooper’s horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Dark Sky Films is celebrating with a massive new physical media set.

Now available for pre-order, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 50th Anniversary Chainsaw Edition includes the 4K UHD edition of the feature film, Blu-ray edition of the feature film, Blu-ray bonus disc, and an exclusive VHS release featuring original VHS release artwork!

Dark Sky further previews, “All are housed in a replica of the iconic chain saw from the film, which comes in a special 50th Anniversary numbered box. Opening the chainsaw triggers the sound of Leatherface wielding the chainsaw in the film.”

This limited edition also features a newly designed 50th Anniversary O-card and brand-new bonus content, including The Merchandise of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Restoration of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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Pre-order your copy over on Dark Sky’s website for $299.98 today.

The ‘Chainsaw Edition’ set will be released on October 1, 2024

Shot on color 35mm film, the 1.37:1 2K restorations look outstanding, the 17 episodes generously spread across six Region_Free Blu-ray discs. Partly this is to accommodate all the extra features accompanying specific episodes, but in any case, each episode is extraordinarily clean with excellent color and contrast. Audio is offered in LPCM 2.0 mono and DTS-HD 5.1 remixes (the latter on episodes of The Prisoner only, not the Danger Man shows). While the 5.1 remixes aren’t original to the initial broadcasts they do add enormous oomph and are well-mixed. Also included are original music & effects tracks. In English only, optional English subtitles are provided. It all comes in sturdy hardbox packaging limited to 1,500 copies.

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The extra features, much of it new, is practically endless. The fat booklet is loaded with great behind-the-scenes photos, an exhaustively researched making-of article by Andrew Pixley, material prepared by ITC to sell the show abroad, and an excellent episode guide with detailed credits.

Two feature-length documentaries are included: Don’t Knock Yourself Out, a 95-minute piece from 2007 about the making of the series, and In My Mind (2017), an 82-minute documentary about filmmaker Chris Rodley’s experiences trying to wrangle and interview with Patrick McGoohan. Patrick McGoohan 1983 is 30 minutes of outtakes of Rodley’s McGoohan interview. Catherine McGoohan 2017 features the actor’s daughter.

Seven episodes—Arrival, The Chimes of Big Ben, The Schizoid Man, The General, Dance of the Dead, A Change of Mind, and Fall Out—feature audio commentaries by various writers, directors, production managers and others that worked on the show. All 17 episodes offer text commentaries. These are, like everything else, very informative and exhaustively researched, though a little difficult to focus on in conjunction with the running of each episode.

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If you’re a fan of The Prisoner, British ‘60s television, or innovative television generally, you are going to want to have this. The shows look great and the extras are extremely worthwhile though it will take you weeks and weeks to go through everything. One of the year’s best TV releases.

Blake’s 7 is one of British sci-fi’s greatest, most subversive cult classics. From the mind of Doctor Who scribe Terry Nation—after he’d sent the nation into Dalekmania in the ’60s—the 1978 show was wildly ahead of its time, with ideas as bold as its budget was threadbare. Imagine if classic Doctor Who had less money and more balls, and you get a rough approximation of what Blake’s could be at its very best. Now, at long last, the series is getting a familiarly loving home release treatment.

Today the BBC lifted the lid on a brand-new Blu-ray remaster, Blake’s 7: The Collection. Styled in the vein of the corporation’s lavish Blu-ray remasters of classic seasons of Doctor Who, the first of Blake’s four series will release later this year. Including a brand-new remastering of the series—available for the first time on Blu-ray after an infamously rough home release history on VHS and DVD decades prior—complete with all new practical model work for the show’s VFX sequences, the first volume of Blake’s 7: The Collection will include all 13 episodes from series one, as well as new interviews with surviving cast and crew, and a previously unreleased documentary planned for the show’s DVD release, The Making of Blake’s 7.

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Blake’s 7: The Collection series one releases in the UK November 11.

Director Wes Ball's new installment in the franchise, which takes place 300 years after 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes, comes out on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on Aug. 27, and that is the only way fans can see a side-by-side cut of the movie using the raw performance-capture footage next to the final version — the first time an entire film has been released this way.

"Inside the Lens: The Raw Cut" is a full-length split-screen version of the movie included as a special feature on the 4K Blu-ray, featuring unfinished VFX and showing how the actors use motion capture to deliver their performances as apes with optional audio commentary by the director, editor Dan Zimmerman, and VFX supervisor Erik Winquist.

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"During the year or so spent in post-production, working on more than 1,500 VFX shots, we would frequently compare our VFX works-in-progress with the original footage, ensuring we were getting the details right," Ball tells EW. "I often found myself completely mesmerized by the magic of WetaFX's work and how seamlessly it translated from the raw dailies. Around the latter half of post, it struck me how fantastic it would be to share this experience with fans like myself — those who relish peeking behind the curtain of movie making."

Ball was pleasantly surprised at the response he got to his idea. "When I brought the idea to the studio, there was unsurprisingly no resistance," he says. "They, too, are film nerds and thought it was a cool idea. The only challenge we faced was logistical — navigating the technicalities of 'data budgets' and figuring out how to include an entirely separate version of the film on the discs without sacrificing visual quality."

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Ball was inspired to release this raw cut because he grew up "in the era of DVDs and their rich behind-the-scenes features."

"I often found myself watching those documentaries more than the movies themselves," he says. "Unfortunately, we don’t get a lot of that stuff today. So this release is my way of giving back, offering something that would have inspired me as a young filmmaker. Perhaps more importantly, I see this as a unique way to celebrate the extraordinary work of our VFX team at WetaFX, as well as the unseen talent of our amazing actors. Without their dedication, these films simply wouldn’t exist."

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The Criterion Collection, a beloved film distribution company, was questioned by cinephiles this week because of their new deluxe box set.

Last week, Criterion announced a new collection, called CC40, which includes a box set of forty films. The films were chosen based on popular picks in their Criterion Closet series, in which actors and filmmakers choose five films from their film library to take home with them. The box set, which also includes “hundreds of hours of supplemental footage,” retails for $640, and arrives in November.

Reactions from Criterion fans varied. On the positive side, some suggested this could be a great resource for those looking to get into film, the box set serving as a film syllabus of sorts. Others noted this could be a good product for those who don’t know which films to watch or buy, as the choice has already been made for them. Some were simply excited by the news of a new Criterion release.

Many others were less than thrilled. The most common question asked by Criterion-heads was: “who is the audience for this box set?” Cinephiles noted that dedicated Criterion fans are likely to already own many of the films in the box set, while newcomers might not be inclined to drop $600 on movies if they’re just getting into film. “This is an incredible set for someone who has never bought a Criterion disc but now wants to spend several hundred dollars on them at once,” one user joked on X.

Others questioned the content of the box set. Many were shocked to see that none of David Lynch’s films were included in the collection, and legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was another omission bemoaned by fans. Some suggested that the curation of the collection seems “random,” noting that there appears to be little connection between the films.

Much of this criticism comes down to the question of audience, and how this collection might shift Criterion’s intended market. There is a sense of gatekeeping here in terms of who can—or should—get to own Criterions. “Feel like this set is for people who never heard of the Criterion Collection until their favorite celebrity did a closet video,” one X user noted, delineating a distinction between cinephile and celebrity stan. On Instagram, one user suggested the box set is intended for holiday shoppers, perhaps answering the marketing question.

The announcement

Cinematographer Alex Thompson shot Fear Is the Key on 35mm film using Panavision cameras with anamorphic lenses, framed at 2.35:1 for its theatrical release. This version from Arrow Video uses a high-definition master provided by Paramount, with no other details available regarding the source elements that were used or any work that was done to them. It looks like an older master, with some minor damage like light scratches still visible. The opening titles and any other optical work really look like optical dupe elements, especially in any shots featuring traveling mattes in the windows of the submarine. The night shots also look a little rough, with flat contrast and boosted levels that adds some noise to the prominent grain. With all of that out of the way, it’s still a generally decent transfer, with colors that look quite good if sometimes a bit uneven—the 2B Bright Red paint on the Gran Torino looks a little orange in a few shots, but to be fair, it always has (and it’s a color that doesn’t necessarily photograph consistently anyway). It’s not a perfect transfer of Fear Is the Key, but it’s a more than adequate one.

Audio is offered in English 2.0 mono LPCM, with optional English SDH subtitles. There’s not much in the way of dynamics and the bass is somewhat limited, but it’s clean and free of noise or obvious distortion. Some of the dialogue sounds a little muffled, but that may be partly due to bad ADR—Suzy Kendall sounds like her dialogue was frequently looped. Roy Budd’s memorably jazzy score sounds fine, however.

Arrow Video’s Limited Edition Blu-ray release of Fear Is the Key comes with a reversible insert featuring new artwork by Nathanael Marsh on one side and the theatrical poster artwork on the other, as well as a fold-out poster offering both artworks. There’s also a slipcover with the new artwork and a 20-page booklet featuring an essay by Sean Hogan. The following extras are included:

• Audio Commentary by Howard S. Berger
• A Different Kind of Spy Game (HD – 23:33)
• Fear in the Key of Budd (HD – 16:34)
• Producing the Action (HD – 29:55)
• Bayou to Bray (HD – 39:30)
• Theatrical Trailer (Upscaled SD – 2:16)

“Let all those critics make their own movies, and they can restore them as they see fit. That’s my opinion. Jim, in every possible meaning of the word auteur, is an auteur. And whatever version he wants to release, everyone should be fine with. You know, it’s his film!

When asked about how many fans who grew up with these films do feel a certain degree of ownership over them, she admitted, “Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Absolutely. We made the movie for the fans, not for the critics, even though we did get some lovely reviews. And so, they’re absolutely entitled to their opinion. But, you know, Jim’s entitled, creatively, to do it absolutely how he sees fit. You know, it’s his creation.”

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The titles this batch include: William Wyler's Funny Girl on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, Howard Hawks' Scarface on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, PLUS Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and Ishiro Honda's Godzilla all on 4K UHD Blu-ray.

Physical media has had a resurgence in recent years, helped by the curating and marketing of 4K heritage titles in attractive packaging for a keen, if niche, market of collectors. That was the consensus of the Heritage Roundtable discussion held as part of the Locarno Pro section of the Locarno Film Festival.

Having seen a drastic collapse in the mass market, the panelists agreed that the one area of growth was the curation of heritage titles, restored to 4 or 2K and presented with an abundance of extras.

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One of the major obstacles to releases is the issue of rights, specifically when held by American studios. Ronald Chammah of Les film du Camélia argued: “We have the feeling that American studios are less interested to have a movie release, either by themselves or by somebody else, on physical media, because their main goal is VOD, and for them, maybe physical media is the enemy of the video platform.”

Manlio Gomarasca of Plaion and Severin noted, “In Italy, the situation is not shiny. The mass market of DVDs is dead. People are going straight to platforms.”

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Speaking as a consumer and collector herself, K.J. Relth-Miller of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures said: “I’m seeing similar trajectories in that those of us who are collectors and appreciate the aspects of physical media – the booklet essays and the special features – this is something that is on par with what vinyl collecting became 10 years ago for my generation.”

She continued, “We’re seeing that with Gen Z, and also with millennials, this real desire to have physical objects because the ephemeral nature of streaming means that something that you want to watch and you put on your watch list, and then you go to revisit it a week later, and it’s gone. It’s ephemeral. It’s never permanent. So, if you’re really invested in learning more about the history of this art form that we all love, I think that investing in physical media is one way to do that.”

Relth-Miller also noted that VHS collecting is growing in Los Angeles and cited the example of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Avery’s Video Archives in Los Angeles, a microcinema that specializes in VHS and 16mm projections.

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Manlio Gomarasca stated, “We talk about the market because we are selling stuff. But for me, Blu-rays are also cultural objects. Think about how many directors were interviewed for the bonus features that have passed away: the witness of their life is there because of the Blu-ray. So, for me, the Blu-ray is a cultural object that has to be supported.”

This support should also come from governments, Gomarasco argued, as it does in France.

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. The Fall Guy
2. Civil War
3. Twister
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. The First Omen
6. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
7. Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way
8. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
9. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Three
10. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
11. The Strangers: Chapter 1
12. Dune: Part Two
13. Abigail
14. Starship Troopers
15. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
16. Challengers
17. Boy Kills World
18. Ghostbusters 2-Movie Collection: Afterlife/Frozen Empire
19. Coraline
20. Arcadian

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. The Fall Guy
2. Twister
3. Civil War
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Starship Troopers
6. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
7. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
8. Dune: Part Two
9. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
10. Election
11. The Dark Knight Trilogy
12. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
13. The Lady From Shanghai
14. The Strangers: Chapter 1
15. Coraline
16. No Way Out
17. Boy Kills World
18. The Fifth Element
19. Run Lola Run
20. Oppenheimer

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray’s Market Share Noted)

1. The Fall Guy (54%)
2. Twister (60%)
3. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (43%)
4. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (41%)
5. Civil War (100%)
6. The First Omen (59%)
7. Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way (2020-2023) (58%)
8. The Boy and the Heron (100%)
9. The Strangers: Chapter 1 (62%)
10. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (64%)

Further Reading:

• Top 20 Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2024-08-03
• Top 20 Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2024-08-03

Linus Tech Tips - How to rip blurays/4K discs to your own server and reencode then if you want to, the history of copy protection and the benefits of physical media. Quite interesting.

You can find the full interview here. Not very long but some interesting titbits on various projects including a new Terminator (he reveals nothing).

Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who've long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren't sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she's not alone. Maya Hawke lends her voice to Anxiety, alongside Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger, Tony Hale as Fear, and Liza Lapira as Disgust. Directed by Kelsey Mann and produced by Mark Nielsen.

Certified-Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and celebrated by critics as "absolute perfection, hilarious" (Jazz Tangcay, Variety) and "an unforgettable experience" (Landon Johnson, Awards Watch), the historic box office run has also established Inside Out 2 as Pixar's top-grossing movie of all time globally. Fans can continue the emotional roller coaster with exclusive content featuring an all-new documentary, an alternative opening, deleted scenes and much more. The 4K Blu-ray will be available in a Limited-Edition Collectable SteelBook release.

New Emotions – With Riley's imminent puberty, the story of Inside Out 2 always suggested that there would be a party of new emotions complicating Riley's world—and throwing a wrench into Joy's hard-won stability. But exactly what those new emotions could be was a big question mark. Casting the new emotions in Riley's mind was a fun exploration into the shifting mindset of a teenager, and was also informed by some of the discarded scenes and characters from the original film. In this documentary we'll discuss that process of creating Anxiety, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Envy—from narrowing them down from a long list of possible emotions, to the design, animation, and voicing of these new, hilarious, and strangely recognizable characters.

Special Features:

• Unlocking the Vault – In a kind of visual commentary, a group of central creatives watch and discuss the scene "The Vault." As they stop and start—and refer to various IP versions of the scene—we'll hear about the inspiration for Riley's repressed memories like Bloofy and Lance Slashblade, the development of the scene in Story, and the technical challenges of creating 2D characters that exist in the CG world of Riley's mind.
• Deleted Scenes:
  • Cold Open – In this alternate opening, a now 13-year-old Riley awkwardly fumbles her way through an original song she wrote for a school audition.
  • Broken Joy – After momentarily being unable to drive the console, Joy worries that she might be starting to malfunction.
  • Pool Party – After Riley tries too hard to be fun at an older teen's party – resulting in utter embarrassment – her "Anxiety" becomes "Self-Loathing" who then ousts our hero emotions from headquarters.
  • Puberty Park – After seeing their faces printed on "wanted posters," Joy and the others rogue emotions race through a puberty-themed amusement park while being chased by mind worker cops.
  • Shame Spiral – At a lock-in with some cool, older girls, Riley and friends play a game of "Never Have I Ever" that goes a bit too far – wreaking havoc in Riley's mind.

Pre-order: Amazon

The Borderlands movie has just arrived in theaters, and like clockwork, preorders are now open for its upcoming Blu-ray release. In fact, there are two different steelbook editions for the 4K Blu-ray release. Amazon's exclusive steelbook features Claptrap and costs $35. Meanwhile, Walmart's exclusive steelbook showcases key art from the film and is up for preorder for $40. Regardless of which one you choose, you'll get 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray discs as well as a digital version of the movie. You could watch Borderlands once in each format, or you could just admire the cool steelbook cases (especially Amazon's Claptrap exclusive).

This is a pretty good-looking steelbook case to pick up--currently priced at $35--and it looks like it was pulled straight from the Borderlands video games. It even comes with a 4K version of the film and a digital code to stream the movie, just to prove that there is no escape from Eli Roth's version of Pandora.

Right, I'll keep this short and sweet. Went to Amazon UK and for the sum of £18, I could get a Spanish Blu-ray in a week. I also tried Amazon Germany as Koch Media released it there once but couldn't see it. I did however find the US Blu-ray, still sealed, for £18.

Sigh.

NEXT!!

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The iconic Criterion Collection has expanded into viral Closet trips, its streaming channel, and of course its staple 4k restorations on Blu-ray. Now, the Criterion Collection celebrates 40 years since its founding with a monumental 40-film box set including works from auteurs Agnès Varda, Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard, and Federico Fellini.

The box set, titled CC40, spans an eclectic selection of curated classic films that includes special features and essays. The collection encompasses the works “frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series,” per the official press release. “Neither a historical survey nor a top-40 compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.”

The 40th anniversary Blu-ray box set includes films like “8½” (1963), “All That Jazz” (1979), “Bicycle Thieves” (1948), “Repo Man” (1984), “Jules and Jim” (1962), “Weekend” (1967), “On the Waterfront” (1954), and “Do the Right Thing” (1989).

Additional titles range from “His Girl Friday” (1940) to “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” (1985) and “Y tu mamá también” (2001), as well as “My Own Private Idaho” (1991), “Love & Basketball” (2000), “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), “3 Women” (1977), “The Red Shoes” (1948), “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974), “Cléo from 5 to 7” (1962), “Persona” (1966), and “In the Mood for Love” (2000).

The box set boasts digital restorations of all 40 films, plus hundreds of hours of supplemental features and extensive documentaries and making-of programs coupled with interviews with casts and crews. The set has deluxe packaging with a lavishly illustrated 216-page book featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors.

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Cinephiles can purchase the collection for $799.95. The collection will be released November 19. Check out the trailer for the CC40 box set below.

Trailer

With Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” finally coming to the end of a monster cinematic run that saw it become both the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion at the global box office and the 10th highest grossing film of all time, Disney has wasted no time in revealing details of the film’s home entertainment release. And the good news for the film’s legion of fans is that as well as not having to wait too long to see the film in the comfort of their own living room, they can also expect its physical media release to be accompanied by a wealth of all-new original bonus features.

The film arrives at digital retailers Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango At Home on August 20, before then appearing on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on September 10. The 4K Blu-ray version that I’m most interested in here will be available as a limited-edition collectable SteelBook release.

The 4K Blu-ray master will, as you would expect, feature a high dynamic range (HDR) grade to go with its Ultra HD resolution, along with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack (unlike the HD Blu-ray release, which drops to a 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track).

The film will be presented in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio throughout, and will ship on a 66GB 4K Blu-ray disc. Not using a 100GB disc should on this occasion not represent a serious problem given that “Inside Out 2”s running time is a compact 96 minutes.