Slight uptick in titles overall this week. Summer is just around the corner, which of course brings the Summer Movie Season! Are you excited to see something on the Coming Soon list? To me it has been a bit lackluster, but there are sure to be a few.
Welcome to Volume 5 Episode 2 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what’s coming to disc the week of June 9th – June 15th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases-
This week in 4K, there probably is something for everyone, and the month is beginning to ramp up like it has the past couple of months, with the end of the month opening up the flood gates yet again.
Import Monday has one entry, Michael Mann’s 2023 drama/bio Ferrari. If that title sounds familiar, it should, Decal Releasing released a blu-ray of it in the U.S. back in March.
On to Domestic Tuesday titles and first the new release this week, which edition of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is in your shopping cart? The standard release or the Walmart Exclusive SteelBook. On the latter, maybe we should call it the ‘Elusive’ SteelBook. Unless you preordered it before it was even official, you can only hope your local store will have a couple copies or that online has a restock event. If you were hoping for the complete (up to this point) Monsterverse set that would have been out this week, it has been moved to the end of the month, as if that week isn’t crowded enough already.
Catalog titles this week, let’s start with Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita (1990), which comes as a SteelBook from Sony Pictures.
From Dreamworks Animation and Universal Pictures, the 4K franchise completes with Shrek Forever After. You can also opt for the Shrek 4-Movie Collection. It appears that most of the made for TV specials carry over to the 4-film collection as well, so you might be able to box up or sell the blu-ray edition already on your shelf.
In what felt like a somewhat long wait from the first film, Shout! Factory this week has Species II.
From the Arrow Label first, a horror thriller titled Mute Witness.
Also this week from Arrow, a ‘Standard Special Edition’ of Wild Things.
These final two titles are very street-date subject to change, as they are smaller labels and I have not seen the usual ‘product in hand’ posts on social media.
From MPI, SteelBook release of action film The Last Kumite.
And from Eureka Classics’ ‘The Masters of Cinema Series’ Asian Cinema The Valiant Ones gets a special 4K release.
Next week, the ramp up continues, if ever so slightly.
Blu-ray releases-
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases include Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Mute Witness, Wild Things, The Last Kumite and The Valiant Ones.
Before we mention domestic Tuesday titles, let’s mention that 101 Films UK has a fancy box set titled The Lawnmower Man Collection. This set does not implicitly state region-free, as it is a 101 Films release though, there is a chance it could be, purchase accordingly.
And now on to domestic releases…While Capelight delivered us region free 4K editions in Germany, this week Universal delivers a blu-ray of Luc Besson’s Dogman. Not trying to dissuade you from buying the blu-ray, maybe it was not considered an A-list movie, or, could be the usual blu-ray now, soon to be a 4K double-dip. Who knows?
In almost an echo here, Immaculate gets a blu-ray release from Decal Releasing. Capelight did a 4K, and in the 4K section above you see me mentioning the import of Ferrari in 4K, while a domestic release gets a blu-ray from Decal Releasing.
Criterion Collection this week has the special interest title Querelle.
TV on disc includes Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker and Superman & Lois: The Complete Third Season.
Anime highlights include Buddy Daddies – The Complete Season, Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning, My Love Story!! Complete Collection and The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World – The Complete Season.
MGM is reissuing a couple of titles that are considered out of print, they include Class (1983) and The Mighty Quinn.
Sandpiper Pictures makes a reapparance on the chart with Article 99, A Family Thing, Warriors of Virtue and Winter People.
The ‘small label item in hand’ comment from above applies here too, on track to release this week from 88 Films are A Queen’s Ransom and Royal Warriors (In the Line of Duty). In the Line of Duty 2, 3 and 4 are coming soon!
From Paramount, South Park special event South Park: Joining the Panderverse gets a blu-ray this week.
Honorable Mention: Mill Creek appears to be all in with regards to Ultraman. This week look for Battle Kaiju Series #3: Ultraman Vs. Gomora.
Another Friday batch of Australian Imports to woo you;
Notable announcements from last week:
Shout Factory has revealed their August slate of titles. In no particular order, they are Death To Smoochy, Observe and Report, Poltergeist II: The Other Side 4K, Bill & Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy 4K, Evil Dead (2013) 4K SteelBook, Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series [Shout Shop Exclusive Deluxe Limited Edition], Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey 4K, Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series, The Delta Force 4K, The Last Unicorn 4K and 4K SteelBook, Bill & Ted Face the Music 4K, and general SteelBook 4K releases of Dragonheart and Hackers.
It has been announced that Shawscope Volume 3 (Arrow Video) will be coming on November 26th.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
