Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the major releases hitting this week on Blu-ray and DVD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at all the major new releases, television season sets and catalogue titles hitting the shelves today, February 24, 2015.
Fresh from their Academy Award wins this past Sunday come Walt Disney Animation’s loose Marvel adaptation Big Hero 6 (which took home an Oscar for Best Animated Feature) and writer and director Damien Chazelle’s intense drama Whiplash (which won for Sound Mixing, Film Editing and, for J.K. Simmons, Best Supporting Actor).
Also arriving from recent theatrical runs are the comedy sequel Horrible Bosses 2 and writer and director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Oscar-nominated Beyond the Lights. Premiering direct to home video, meanwhile, is the franchise sequel Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer’s Curse, which boasts the voice of Sir Ben Kingsley as the dragon, Drago.
On the TV front, FX’s hit series “Sons of Anarchy” arrives in a deluxe seven-season box set or, for fans who have been collecting one season at a time, as The Complete Seventh Season.
Joining the Criterion Collection are both the company’s first foray into feature animation, Watership Down, and Federico Fellini’s 1969 comedy, Fellini Satryicon.
Finally, Shout Factory’s Scream Factory imprint offers a collector’s edition of a slasher classic as New Year’s Evil makes its debut in HD!
You can check out all the cover art in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable):
This Week on Blu-ray and DVD: February 24, 2015
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Beyond the Lights
- Director's Cut
- Audio Commentary by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Tami Reiker & Terilyn Shropshire
- Masterpiece Music Video
- Changing the Conversation
- Deleted Scenes
- Escape to Mexico 2.0
- Gary Theard: Boom Man
- Theatrical Trailer -
Big Hero 6
- Feast Theatrical Short
- The Origin Story of Big Hero 6: Hiro's Journey (hosted by Jamie Chung, voice of Go Go Tomago)
- Big Animator 6: The Characters Behind the Characters
- Deleted Scenes (with introductions by Directors Don Hall & Chris Williams)
- Big Hero Secrets (Easter Egg)
- Gag Animations (intro by Directors Don Hall & Chris Williams)
- Beatmax -
Dragonheart 3: The Sorceror's Curse
- A Dragon's Life Featurette
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Fellini Satyricon
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughes’s memoir On the Set of “Fellini Satyricon”: A Behind-the-Scenes Diary
- Ciao, Federico!, Gideon Bachmann’s hour-long documentary shot on the set of Fellini Satyricon
- Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini
- New interview with Rotunno
- New documentary about Fellini’s adaptation of Petronius’s work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul
- New interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film
- Felliniana, a presentation of Fellini Satyricon ephemera from the collection of Don Young
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Michael Wood -
Horrible Bosses 2
- Endless Laughter Guaranteed
- Let the Sexual Healing Begin
- Off-the-Cuff: One-Liners You Didn't See -
New Year's Evil
- Brand new HD transfer of the film
- Audio commentary with Director Emmett Alston
- The Making of New Year's Evil documentary featuring new interviews with actors Kip Niven, Grant Cramer, Taaffe O'Connell and Director of photography Thomas Ackerman
- Original Theatrical Trailer -
Sons of Anarchy: The Complete Series
- Includes all individual season bonus features (more than 13 hours total), and comes housed in a collector's set with an exclusive photo book.
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Watership Down
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with director Martin Rosen
- New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about the film’s importance in animation history
- Picture-in-picture storyboards for the entire film (Blu-ray); four film-to-storyboard scene comparisons (DVD)
- Defining a Style, a 2005 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
- Trailer
- An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones -
Whiplash
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Damien Chazelle and J.K. Simmons
- An Evening at the Toronto International Film Festival with Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons and Damien Chazelle
- Timekeepers - Famous drummers discuss their craft and passion for drumming
- Whiplash Original Short Film with Optional Commentary
- Deleted Scene with Optional Commentary
