Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s weekly sneak peek at all the major Blu-ray and DVD releases! Using the gallery below, you’ll be able to navigate through some of the key titles that hit stores on December 16, including recent big screen releases like Wes Ball’s The Maze Runner, adapting the book series by James Dashner, Shawn Levy’s ensemble Jonathan Tropper adaptation, This is Where I Leave You, and Paramount Pictures and Platinum Dunes’ franchise reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
There’s also recent indie films releases like The Skeleton Twins, starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, and Stonehearst Asylum, starring Kate Beckinsale, Sir Ben Kingsley and Sir Michael Caine in addition to special editions of catalogue titles like Scream Factory’s new two-disc collector’s edition of Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions and the Criterion Collection’s first ever HD release of Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie.
As far as the small screen goes, this week brings us the complete hit anime series “Cowboy Bebop,” the entire first season of the Steven Spielberg-executive produced “Extant,” starring Halle Berry and, hitting DVD only, the recent television specials Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, featuring Aubrey Plaza as the voice of Grumpy Cat, and Peter Pan LIVE!, starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken.
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 16, 2014
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Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series
All 26 "sessions" of the hit sci-fi anime series arrive this week in a four-disc box set packed with bonus features. Amazon also carries an exclusive version that features a specially designed clamshell box, two different art books and also includes the series on DVD.
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Extant: The First Season
Halle Berry headlines this Steven Spielberg-produced series, starring as an astronaut who returns to Earth after a 13-month solo mission only to find that she is mysteriously pregnant. All 13 first season episodes are included with season two set to air on CBS in 2015.
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Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever
More of a pop culture curiousity than anything destined to become enduring holiday entertainment, this DVD-only release stars the internet's favorite feline with "Parks and Recreation" star Aubrey Plaza providing the voice of Grumpy Cat.
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Lord of Illusions
Scream Factory follows up their impressive Nightbreed release from earlier this year with Clive Barker's 1995 cult hit, starring Scott Bakula as a private investigator facing off against a supernatural cult. Two cuts of the film are offered in the two-disc Collector's Edition set alongside hours of bonus content.
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Magic in the Moonlight
Woody Allen's latest is all about trickery, examining the ins and outs of magic, cinema and, ultimately, love itself. Colin Firth and Emma Stone headline the ensemble cast of this sweet, smart romantic tale.
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Peter Pan Live
If you missed the recent live presentation on NBC, the J.M. Barrie-inspired musical comes home this week in a DVD-only edition. "Girls" star Allison Williams plays Peter with Christopher Walken taking on the part of the villainous Captain Hook.
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Stonehearst Asylum
Session 9 and The Machinist helmer Brad Anderson takes on Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" with a stylish feature film adaptation that star Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Brendan Gleeson and Oscar winners Sir Ben Kinsley and Sir Michael Caine.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The heroes in a half shell are back with a new big screen feature film that, earlier this year, earned more than $477 million at the worldwide box office. Megan Fox stars as reporter April O'Neil, whose journalistic investigation leads to her making four powerful allies in Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo.
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The Maze Runner
The first chapter in planned trilogy adapting James Dashner's novels, The Maze Runner comes home today in a special edition Blu-ray that offers an audio commentary with director Wes Ball and more than an additional hour of bonus content. In addition to outtakes and deleted scenes, the Blu-ray release offers two different sets of audio commentaries, including one with Wiig and Hader.
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The Skeleton Twins
"Saturday Night Live" alumni Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig take their comedic skills in a more dramatic direction, starring as the sibling pair of Milo and Maggie, two twins who begin to reconnect after an unexpected reunion.
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This is Where I Leave You
Director Shawn Levy blends comedy and drama with this adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's 2009 novel about a man (Jason Bateman) on the verge of losing his marriage who is then forced to reconnect with his family following the death of his father.
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Tootsie
Nominated for ten Academy Awards, Sydney Pollack's 1982 comedy drama stars Dustin Hoffman as a man who pretends to be a woman to get the job of his dreams. The film joins The Criterion Collection this week with a 4K restoration and an extensive amount of bonus content, including commentary with Pollack.
