This week’s titles include Disney shorts, new Criterions and more!
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, catalogue titles and television collections hitting shelves on Tuesday, August 18, 2015.
This week kicks off with the Walt Disney Studios Short Films Collection, which includes a dozen animated Disney shorts, including: “Frozen Fever (2015),” “Feast (2014),” “Get A Horse! (2013),” “Paperman (2012),” “Tangled Ever After (2012),” “The Ballad of Nessie (2011),” “Tick Tock Tale (2010),” “Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa (2010),” “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (2007),” “The Little Matchgirl (2006),” “Lorenzo (2004)” and “John Henry (2000).”
Alongside all the Disney shorts, this week brings us recent indie releases Little Boy, featuring Emily Watson and Kevin James, and Strangerland, starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving.
Premiering directly to home video, meanwhile, is the animated DC Comics adventure Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem, a Halloween tale in which the Caped Crusader takes on the Joker and a band of super villains.
Shout! Factory delivers two cult classic catalogue titles on Blu-ray this week. The first is Nomads, John McTiernan’s 1986 supernatural thriller, starring Pierce Brosnan. The second is a 20th Anniversary edition of Hackers, the 1995 cyberpunk thriller starring a young Angelina Jolie. It arrives on Blu-ray with a brand-new, feature-length behind-the-scenes documentary.
Warner Archive this week offers up Tony Scott’s 1983 vampire tale The Hunger while the Criterion Collection inducts another classic Francois Truffaut film with a Blu-ray edition of Day For Night.
On the small screen front, this week brings us both The Blacklist: Season Two and Once Upon a Time: Season Four.
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: August 18, 2015
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Walt Disney Studios Short Films Collection
- Filmmaker Intros - The filmmakers behind the shorts share their journeys and introduce their films.
- @DisneyAnimation: A Short Story on Shorts - Continuing a legacy started in the earliest days of the Studio by Walt Disney, the Shorts Program is thriving today at the Animation Studios that bears his name, producing award-winning shorts that tell new stories and experiment with artistic and technical innovations. This latest chapter in the @DisneyAnimation series gives us an inside look at the process of developing and producing a short. Hosted by actor/comedian T.J. Miller (voice of "Fred," Big Hero 6), we will meet a few of the artists and filmmakers who make the shorts, and learn why they are such an important part of the fabric of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Round Table Panelists include Lauren MacMullan (Get A Horse!), Mike Gabriel (Lorenzo), Kristina Reed (Feast, Paperman), Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind The Ballad of Nessie, Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater).
- Runaway Brain (1995) - DMA debut – Short film originally released in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures Collection: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Vol. 2 DVD set. This short was nominated for an Academy Award® and screened during 1996 Cannes Film Festival. -
Little Boy
- Short film "Snack Attack"
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Strangerland
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Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem
- GOTHAM 2030: Designing a Future World – The artistic team responsible for bringing this future Gotham City to life will take you on an exploration of their creative process, from their earliest concept sketches through the final eye-popping landscapes. Welcome to a Gotham City of tomorrow.
- Ten shorts from the popular DC Nation collection, including "SHAZAM! Courage," "SHAZAM! Wisdom," "SHAZAM! Stamina," "Green Arrow: Onomotopoeia-Bot," "Green Arrow: Brick," "Green Arrow: Cupid," "Deadman: Deadman Catch," "Animal Man vs. Captain Cold," "Animal Man vs. Black Manta" and "Riddler: Riddle Me This!" -
The Hunger
- Audio commentary by Susan Sarandon and Director Tony Scott
- Original Theatrical Trailer -
Day for Night
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Pierre-William Glenn, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New visual essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
- New interviews with Glenn and assistant editor Martine Barraqué
- New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew
- Documentary on the film from 2003, featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf
- Archival interviews with director François Truffaut, editor Yann Dedet, and actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nathalie Baye, Jacqueline Bisset, Dani, and Bernard Menez
- Archival television footage about the film, including footage of Truffaut on the set
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by critic David Cairns -
Hackers
- The Keyboard Cowboys: A Look Back at Hackers
- Theatrical Trailer -
Nomads
- New interviews with actress Lesley-Anne Down and composer Bill Conti
- Theatrical Trailer
- Radio Spot
- Still Gallery -
Blacklist: Season Two
- Raymond Reddington: Man of the World - This featurette showcases where Red has traveled and how the props and writers on the show imagine the exact places he has visited.
- Building a Blacklister: Vanessa Cruz - This second featurette highlights the ins and outs of the writers' minds and how they come up with their favorite villains.
- Commentaries on Leonard Caul & Tom Connolly with Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath
- Deleted Scenes
- After the Game: Luther Braxton
- Known Associates: Red's Inner Circle -
Once Upon a Time: Season Four
- Defrosting Frozen - An arctic blast hit Storybrooke this year as the characters from Frozen and The Snow Queen took over the first half of the season. Defrost this 12 episode event as we talk to the actors who played Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Snow Queen and, for the first time in forever, explore how Disney Animation's blockbuster film was adapted for the small screen.
- Behind the Magic Tour - Join hosts Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin as they take you on an exclusive back stage tour on the stages of Once Upon A Time. See the sets, meet the crew and eat the food as we go behind the scenes and find out what makes Once Upon A Time the most magical show on television.
- Three Who Stayed - Meet three residents of Storybrooke who decided to stay after the ice wall came down.
- The Fairest Bloopers of Them All
- Deleted Scenes
- Audio Commentaries
