June 20, 2017: This Week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD

Check out exclusive special features clips from June 20 releases Life and Wilson

We’re kicking the week off with exclusive looks at two recent big screen releases. In the top player below, you can take a look at how the zero gravity sequences were accomplished in director Daniel Espinosa’s Life. The film, starring Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, hits DVD, Blu-ray and 4K. Then, in the second player below, you can explore the Daniel Clowes adaptation Wilson, starring Woody Harrelson as the title curmudgeon.

RELATED: Interview: Life Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick

Other recent big screen releases coming home June 20 include the action thriller Altitude (starring Denise Richards and Dolph Lundgren), the period actioner Railroad Tigers (starring Jackie Chan), and the contemporary romantic comedy Everybody Loves Somebody.

Warner Archive this week brings to Blu-ray writer and director John Patrick Shanley’s 1990 comedy Joe Versus the Volcano, bringing the cult classic to high definition for the first time ever.

The Criterion Collection this week turns its attention to Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy with a three-disc set that includes 1931’s Marius, 1932’s Fanny and 1936’s César.

Shout! Factory‘s Scream Factory label this week delivers a collector’s edition of 1992’s The Lawnmower Man. Loosely based on a Stephen King short story, the Brett Leonard film hits Blu-ray with both theatrical and Director’s cuts. The 141-minute director’s cut was famously released on VHS and was one of the titles that helped popularize the idea of extended cuts arriving via home video. The new Shout! edition boasts quite a few special features, including an all new hour-long documentary, Cybergod: Creating The Lawnmower Man.

Also arriving from Scream Factory is The Paul Naschy Collection, collecting five films starring Spain’s answer to Lon Chaney. The set includes 1972’s Vengeance of the Zombies, 1972’s Horror Rises from the Tomb, 1973’s Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, 1980’s Night of the Werewolf and 1980’s Human Beasts.

The Shout! Select label has its own new addition with the 1976 comedy Car Wash, starring Richard Pryor.

Arrow Films, meanwhile, delivers a new special edition of Dario Argento’s debut feature, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

Hitting the small screen June 20 is the first season of the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon produced sci-fi series Incorporated, the complete three season DVD set of CBS‘ Stephen King adaptation Under the Dome, and Comedy Central‘s Workaholics, both as a final season release as well as a complete series set.

There’s also a variety of titles hitting Digital HD June 20. The budding MonsterVerse continues with Jordan Vogt-Roberts‘ Kong: Skull Island. Jessica Chastain headlines Niki Caro’s WWII biopic The Zookeeper’s Wife. Sony Pictures Animation reboots one of their popular franchises with the fully-animated Smurfs: The Lost Village. Finally, Resident Evil: Vendetta offers its own full animated take on the video game horror franchise.

You can check out cover art for all the June 20, 2017 releases in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable).





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