Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s weekly sneak peek at the major DVD and Blu-ray releases! Using the gallery below, you’ll be able to navigate through some of the key titles that hit stores on December 2, including recent big screen features like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Hundred-Foot Journey, film classics like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and key television releases like the latest seasons of “Justified” and “The Legend of Korra” and the first season of “The Strain.” “Star Trek: The Next Generation” also delivers the seventh and final season of its impressive Blu-ray restoration.
Check it all out in the gallery viewer below and expand to full screen to check out descriptions for each release.
This Week on DVD and Blu-ray - December 2, 2014
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As Above, So Below
The catacombs of Paris become the backdrop for director John Erick Dowdle's new horror thriller, which follows a group of explorers through the city's infamous maze of human remains. The film debuts on DVD and Blu-ray this week, accompanied solely by a behind-the-scenes featurette.
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The Congress
Drafthouse Films brings to DVD and Blu-ray Waltz with Bashir helmer Ari Folman's post-modern adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's darkly humorous sci-fi novel "The Futurological Congress." Robin Wright stars as herself in a story that combines animation with live-action and aims to blur the lines between life, art and immortality.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Cloverfield and Let Me In director Matt Reeves turns a blockbuster franchise sequel into one of this year's very best films, using a bigger than life science fiction tale to weave an allegorical epic that has quite a bit to say about humanity's continuous failure to maintain peace.
We just posted a behind-the-scenes look at the film that features exclusive interviews with Reeves and stars Andy Serkis and Toby Kebbell. Click here to check it out.
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
Lasse Hallström, the director behind Chocolat and My Life as a Dog, adapts Richard C. Morais' bestselling novel about rival Mumbai restaurants. Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon star in the light-hearted drama which, thanks to a dazzling HD transfer and Hallstrom's eye for capturing fine cuisine, is destined to make your mouth water. Don't watch this one hungry!
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Justified: The Complete Fifth Season
The sixth and final season of the hit Elmore Leonard-inspired series begins next month on FX. If you're not caught up with the adventures of Timothy Olyphant's U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, you have until January 20th. Luckily, this set has just hit shelves with all 13 Season Five episodes and roughly two hours of bonus content.
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The Legend of Korra: Book Three
"Change" is the subtitle given to this, the third Blu-ray volume collecting all 13 episodes of the third season of Nickelodeon's hit animated series. The fourth "Book," (subtitled "Balance") is currently airing with the series finale slated for December 19.
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The Simpsons: The Seventeenth Season
The seventeenth season of Matt Groenig's enduring animated series comes home today as a three-disc Blu-ray set. Season 17 highlights include "Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife," written by and guest starring Ricky Gervais, the return of Kelsey Grammer's Sideshow Bob in "The Italian Bob," and the holiday anthology episode "Simpsons Christmas Stories."
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra's Academy Award-winning 1939 American classic hits Blu-ray for the first time this week with a 4K restoration.
Jimmy Stewart stars as the titular Mr. Smith who, after being appointed to the American Senate, is forced to fight for his own patriotic ideals within a less-than-perfect system.
This special edition Digibook release is packed with bonus material, including an audio commentary with Frank Capra Jr. and more than three hours of additional content.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season Seven
Alongside what is quite arguably one of the best series finales of all time, ST:TNG concludes its breathtaking debut on Blu-ray this week. The series may have gone off the air a full 20 year ago but, you'd never know it from the exquisite restoration work. The team responsible for this deserves some serious kudos. Now bring on DS9!
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The Strain: Season One
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's bestselling horror novels come to life on the small screen as FX's new hit series, "The Strain." All 13 episodes from the show's first season come home this week giving you the chance to relive the beginning of the vampire invasion all over again. Season one is spread across three Blu-ray discs, which also offer a trio of featurettes.
