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 16.
Things kick off this week with Chappie, the third film from District 9 and Elysium‘s Neill Blomkamp. If you’ve yet to add any of his films to your collection, you’re in luck! This week also sees the arrival of a three-film box set, Blomkamp 3.
Other recent big screen releases include the Blumhouse horror thriller The Lazarus Effect, the Liam Neeson-led Run All Night, and the Vince Vaughn comedy Unfinished Business, while, on the indie side of things, we’re getting Time Lapse, a sci-fi thriller starring “The Flash’s” Danielle Panabaker, and Welcome to Me, an offbeat comedy drama starring Kristen Wiig as a somewhat mentally-unbalanced woman who, after winning the lottery, decides to create her own television show.
This week also brings two more Studio Ghibli titles to HD, including the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away and the Whisper of the Heart spinoff feature, The Cat Returns.
When it comes to the Criterion Collection, it’s all about Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn this week. My Dinner with Andre gets a Blu-ray upgrade while Jonathan Demme’s recent A Master Builder comes home for the first time. Both films are also available alongside the previously-released Vanya on 42nd Street in Criterion’s 3 Films box set.
Once again, Scream Factory has a pair of cult classics debuting in HD with a double-feature disc offering both 1961’s giant prehistoric lizard bonanza Reptilicus and 1977’s killer octopus adventure Tentacles.
On the small screen front, this week brings us the third and final season of HBO’s The Newsroom along with, available on DVD only, massive complete series sets for classic sitcoms The Odd Couple and Laverne & Shirley.
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 16, 2015
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Chappie
- Alternate Ending
- Extended Scene: "A Very Bad Man
- Eight Featurettes:
- Chappie: The Streetwise Professor" – An inside look at Chappie and casting Copley to play the robot and his performance via motion capture.
- "Arms Race: The Weapons and Robots" – Get a deeper look at the real-world firepower tech and the design of the "Scout" robots & "Moose."
- "Bringing Chappie to Life: The Visual Effects" – The film's VFX artists discuss the pre-production design process.
- "From Tetra Vaal to Chappie:" – An in-depth exploration of the scriptwriting process, the early concept design work and other aspects of pre-production.
- "Keep It Gangster": – A behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating an authentic South African gangster world featuring interviews with NINJA and ¥O-LANDI VI$$ER.
- "The Reality of Robotics:" – Discover present day robotics capabilities and next generation artificial intelligence, featuring an interview with Robotics Professor Wolfgang Fink.
- Jozi: Real City and a Sci-Fi Setting" – Discover the history of the real world locations in the film and the role these setting played in the fictionalized version of Johannesburg.
- "Rogue Robot: Deconstructing the Stunts & Special Effects" – A look at the film's high-action stunt sequences.
- "The Art of Chappie" Photo Gallery
- We Are Tetravaal" featurette -
Blomkamp 3
Includes District 9, Elysium, and Chappie, each with their own original special features.
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The Lazarus Efffect
- Creating Fear: The Making of The Lazarus Effect
- Playing God: The Moral Dilemma
- Deleted/Extended Scenes -
Run All Night
- Shoot All Night - Go behind the scenes with Collet-Serra as his team creates a white-knuckle ride through New York's underbelly.
- Action All Night - The film's cast and crew discuss that special something that has made Neeson a staple of grit and vulnerability on the screen.
- Deleted Scenes -
Time Lapse
- An In-Depth Look Behind the Scenes of Creating Time Lapse
- Two Filmmaker Commentaries Including a “Nuts and Bolts” Guide to Making an Indie Film
- Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker Commentary -
Unfinished Business
- Deleted and Alternate Scenes: Caution: Not safe for work! Keep the party going with 30 minutes of outrageous additional footage you couldn't see in theaters
- Show Me Your Business: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, James Marsden, Sienna Miller, and Nick Frost share their wildest, craziest and most memorable experiences on set
- Gallery: Hilarious stock photo images of Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, and Tom Wilkinson posing in office settings -
Welcome to Me
- Featurette
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Spirited Away
- Introduction by John Lasseter
- The Art of Spirited Away
- Behind The Microphone
- Original Japanese Storyboards
- Nippon Television Special
- Original Japanese Trailers
- TV Spots -
The Cat Returns
- Original Japanese Storyboards
- Original Japanese Trailers
- TV Spots
- The Making of The Cat Returns
- Behind The Microphone -
A Master Builder
- High-definition digital master, supervised by director of photography Declan Quinn, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with director Jonathan Demme, stage director–actor André Gregory, and writer-actor Wallace Shawn, conducted by film critic David Edelstein
- New conversation between actors Julie Hagerty and Lisa Joyce
- New program featuring Gregory, Shawn, and their friend the author Fran Lebowitz in conversation
- Trailer
- An essay by film critic Michael Sragow -
My Dinner With Andre
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Interview from 2009 with actor-writers André Gregory and Wallace Shawn, conducted by their friend the filmmaker Noah Baumbach
- “My Dinner with Louis,” a 1982 episode of the BBC program Arena in which Shawn interviews director Louis Malle
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Amy Taubin and the prefaces written by Gregory and Shawn for the 1981 publication of the film’s screenplay -
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn: Three Films
Includes the individual releases My Dinner with Andre, A Master Builder and Vanya on 47th Street.
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Tentacles / Reptilicus
TENTACLES
- Theatrical Trailer
- Photo Gallery
- Radio SpotREPTILICUS
- Theatrical Trailer
- Photo Gallery
- Brand New 1.66: 1 Widescreen HD transfer -
The Newsroom: The Complete Third Season
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The Odd Couple: The Complete Series
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Laverne & Shirley: The Complete Series
