Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s weekly sneak peek at the major DVD and Blu-ray releases! Using the gallery below, you’ll be able to navigate through some of the key titles that are set to hit stores on April 1. For the complete list of April DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
April 1 Releases
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Universal Westerns Wave
Universal brings to Blu-ray for the first time ever this week four classic westerns, including Burt Kennedy's War Wagon (1967), starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, Don Siegel's Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine, John Sturges' Joe Kidd (1972), starring Eastwood and Robert Duvall, and Stuart Millar's True Grit sequel, Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady), starring Wayne opposite Katharine Hepburn! -
The Pirate Fairy
The biggest entry yet in Disney's direct-to-home-video "Tinker Bell" feature films, The Pirate Fairy serves as a direct prequel to Peter Pan and features the voices of both Christina Hendricks as the title character, a fierce dust-keeper fairy named Zarina, and Tom Hiddleston as the man who will one day become the villainous Captain Hook.
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Once
The 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Original Song comes to Blu-ray for the first time as an Amazon exclusive. Included among its many special features are two different feature-length commentaries, one focusing on filmmaking itself and another on the music.
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Knights of Badassdom
MIA for some time, Joe Lynch's fantasy comedy, which stars the likes of Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn, Ryan Kwanten, Summer Glau and more, is finally available this week, although fans should be aware that this isn't the cut they may be expecting. Shot in 2010, Lynch was removed from the project in post-production and what has finally been delivered is a new edit of the final film.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla and King Kong Escapes
With Gareth Evans' Godzilla arriving this summer, fans might want to spend the meantime familiarizing themselves with some of the sillier moments in the history of the Kaiju genre. King Kong vs. Godzilla is the third overall Godzilla film and has the reptillian titan taking on the Eighth Wonder of the World, while King Kong Lives has the mighty ape going up against Machini-Kong, a robotic doppelganger created by the villainous Dr. Who (not that Dr. Who!) -
Fargo
Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 black comedy masterpiece returns to Blu-ray with a brand new 4K transfer, meaning that the "homespun murder story" has never looked better. Among the set's special features is a feature-length commentary with DP Roger Deakins. The winner of two Academy Awards, "Fargo" arrives just in advance of the new FX miniseries that it inspired.
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Ron Burgundy is back with a jam-packed Blu-ray that includes, in addition to the original cut, an unrated cut of the recent comedy along with an alternate (and unprecedented) version that replaces 763 jokes with brand new ones!
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47 Ronin
Arriving in both 2D and 3D versions, director Carl Rinsch's spectacle-laden rendition of the Japanese legend blends history and fantasy, starring Keanu Reeves as Kai, a half-Japanese and half-British former slave who joins his 46 brethren in avenging the death of their master.
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