Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top entertainment hitting this week on Blu-ray and DVD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at the major new releases, TV series sets and catalogue titles hitting shelves on Tuesday, June 23.
It’s a pretty quiet week with Survivor being the sole recent theatrical title. Directed by V For Vendetta’s James McTeigue, the action thriller has Milla Jovovich as an Embassy worker who is forced to go head to head with a vicious killer (Pierce Brosnan).
The Criterion Collection has two new additions this week with both Bernhard Wicki’s The Bridge and Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. The former, released in 1959, is renowned for being the first anti-war film to come out of Germany following WWII while the latter, starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, won Mercedes Ruehl an Academy Award for her supporting role.
Debuting on Blu-ray for the first time are (via Kino Lorber) Stephen King’s Needful Things and (via Discotek Mediaa) Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Based on the popular anime series, the 1979 release has the distinction of being the first film directed by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki.
Flicker Alley has a true gem for cinephiles with 3-D home theaters this week, debuting their 3-D Rarities set, featuring nearly a century’s worth of rare and archival 3-D shorts!
Scream Factory has a treat for horror fans, too, delivering a feature-laden edition of Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers that boasts a lot of newly-created special features.
On the small screen front, Shout! Factory is releasing the “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” spinoff, Young Hercules. Never before available on home video, the DVD set includes the entire series, starring a young Ryan Gosling.
Comedy Central then offers up the fifth season of their popular comedy series, Workaholics.
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: June 23, 2015
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Survivor
- Featurette
- Deleted Scenes -
Dog Soldiers
- All-new 2K scan HD transfer supervised and approved by Director Neil Marshall
- NEW Audio Commentary with Director Neil Marshall
- NEW The Making of DOG SOLDIERS featuring new interviews with director Neil Marshall, producers Christopher Figg and Keith Bell, actors Kevin McKidd, Sean Pertwee, Darren Morfitt, Leslie Simpson and Emma Cleasby, special effects artist Bob Keen, special effects supervisor/creature designer Dave Bonneywell, production designer Simon Bowles and director of photography Sam McCurdy
- NEW A look at the model of the sets created by production designer Simon Bowles
- Theatrical Trailer
- Neil Marshall's short film: Combat
- Two Still Galleries – photos from the film and rare photos from production designer Simon Bowles and special effects artist Dave Bonneywell's archives -
The Bridge
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with writer Gregor Dorfmeister, on whose autobiographical novel the film is based
- New interview with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff about the film’s impact on German cinema
- Interview from 1989 with director Bernhard Wicki
- Excerpt from a 2007 documentary by Elisabeth Wicki-Endriss, Wicki’s widow, featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
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The Fisher King
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Terry Gilliam, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring Gilliam
- New interviews with Gilliam, producer Lynda Obst, screenwriter Richard La Gravenese, and actors Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, and Mercedes Ruehl
- New interviews with artists Keith Greco and Vincent Jefferds on the creation of the film’s Red Knight
- Interview from 2006 with actor Robin Williams
- New video essay featuring Bridges’s on-set photographs
- Footage from 1991 of Bridges training as a radio personality with acting coach Stephen Bridgewater
- Deleted scenes, with audio commentary by Gilliam
- Costume tests
- Trailers
- An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri -
Lupin the Third
- Audio commentary track by Reed Nelson of Lupinthe3rd.com
- Three English dubs: the Streamline Pictures dub (Mono) of 1992, the - Manga Entertainment dub of 2000 (5.1 Surround), as well as cleaned-up "family-friendly" version of the Manga dub (5.1 Surround)
- Interview with Lupin voice actor Bob Bergen (1992 dub)
- Interview with Lupin voice actor David B Hayter (2000 dub)
- Original Japanese audio (Mono)
- Newly translated English subtitles -
Needful Things
- Brand new audio commentary by director Fraser Clarke Heston
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3-D Rarities
- Introductions by Leonard Maltin and Trustin Howard.
- Essays by Julian Antos, Hillary Hess, Thad Komorowski, Donald McWilliams, Ted Okuda, Mary Ann Sell and Jack Theakston.
- 3-D photo galleries - Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), New York World's Fair (1939), Sam Sawyer View-Master reels (1950) and 3-D Comic Books (1953)
- 3-D footage directed by Francis Ford Coppola from The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962)
- Commentary tracks by Thad Komorowski and Jack Theakston -
Young Hercules: The Complete Series
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Workaholics: Season Five
- Bloopers
- Deleted Scenes
- Uncensored Trailer
- Behind the Scenes of the Trailer
- #FreeTheButtCheeks
