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 May 6. For the complete list of May DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
May 6, 2014 Releases
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The Women
George Cukor directs Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and Norma Shearer in this 1939 adaptation of the Clare Boothe Luce play, which features an entirely female cast. Shot primarily in black and white, The Women includes a ten-minute Technicolor scene (a studio demand filmed, reportedly, much to Cukor's chagrin).
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Veronica Mars
Fourteen months after it successfully made its Kickstarter goal in record time, Rob Thomas' Veronica Mars is ready to join fans' home video collections. The feature film hits Blu-ray with an hourlong "Making Of" documentary, six featurettes, a selection of both deleted scenes and a gag reel.
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Transformers Energon: The Complete Series
All 51 episodes of the 2004 cartoon series come to DVD in a seven-disc set from Shout! Factory. Set ten years after Unicron's destruction, Energon represents the second third of the Unicron trilogy.
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The Terminal
Steven Spielberg re-teamed with leading man Tom Hanks for 2004's offbeat comedy drama about a man forced to live in an airport terminal. Loosely based on a true story, The Terminal includes a number of different behind-the-scenes featurettes.
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Son of Batman
Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert's comic book arc comes to life in this direct-to-home video feature that has Batman learning that Talia al Ghul secretly bore his child and that he must now raise and train a nearly-sociopathic pre-teen whose entire life has been spent in service to Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins.
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Revenge of the Nerds
Director Jeff Kanew's 1984 comedy comes to Blu-ray in a special edition set that includes a feature-length commentary track with Kanew and stars Robert Carradine, Timothy Busfield and Curtis Armstrong. What's more, the disc also includes the rare 1991 television series pilot.
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Memphis Belle
Michael Caton-Jones' 1990 film offers a narrative take on William Wyler's 1943 documentary of the same name, telling the true story of the final mission carried out by America's B-17 bomber. The Blu-ray release also includes Wyler's film (the first ever Technicolor release) in its entirety.
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Love Happy
The Marx Brothers' final film, released in 1950, sees a group of actors who accidentally acquire stolen diamonds while trying to put on a musical revue. Be on the lookout for a brief appearance by Marilyn Monroe in one of her earlier big screen roles.
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Johnny Come Lately
James Cagney joined Grace George and Edward McNamara for director William K. Howard's tale of a traveling newspaperman who aims to take down corruption in a small town. The 1943 film marked the very first release from William Cagney Productions.
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Harvey
Henry Koster directed Jimmy Stewart to an Academy Award nomination in this 1950 adaptation of the hit Broadway play, following the life of a kind, well-mannered man who just so happens to believe that a six-foot rabbit is his invisible friend. Josephine Hull was also nominated -- and won -- for her role as Stewart's on-screen sister.
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Godzillas
With the King of Monsters stomping back into theaters May 16, Section 23 is releasing Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster, Godzilla vs. Hedorah and Godzilla vs Gigan (films 7, 11 and 12, respectively) while Sony is putting out double-feature sets that include Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah packed with Godzilla vs. Mothra, Godzilla vs. Destoroyah with Godzilla vs. Megaguirus: The G Annihilation Strategy and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and Godzilla: Final Wars (that's 18, 19, 22, 24, 27 and 29, respectively). -
The Big Red One
One of the legendary Samuel Fuller's later films, The Big Red One gets an HD upgrade this week, but for the theatrical version of the film only. Although "The Reconstruction" cut is included (as are the previous DVD's special features), the longer version of the feature, which runs an extra 50 minutes, arrives in SD only.
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Bachelor Party
Just three months after his first headlining role in Splash, Tom Hanks starred in writer/director Neal Israel's now-classic comedy about Rick Gassko, a party animal who has to make it through his epically-scaled last hurrah before getting married to his girlfriend (Tawn Kitaen). The 1984 film gets its first Blu-ray release this week.
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The Art of the Steal
Writer/director Jonathan Sobol delivers an action comedy thriller that aims to turn the heist genre on its head. Starring Kurt Russell, Jay Baruchel, Matt Dillon, Terence Stamp, Katheryn Winnick, Jason Jones, Kenneth Welsh and Chris Diamantopoulous, The Art of the Steal hits home video with a 30-minute "making of" documentary and a feature-length commentary track by Sobol and producer Nicholas Tabarrok.
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Amistad
Boasting a cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, and Matthew McConaughey, Steven Spielberg's 1997 drama comes to Blu-ray for the first time this week, accompanied by a half-hour documentary, "The Making of Amistad." Based on a true story, Amistad tells of an 1839 mutiny during which newly-captured slaves took control of the Spanish vessel La Amistad.
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Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder followed Sunset Blvd. with this 1951 drama that explores sensationalism in the news. Kirk Douglas stars as an Albuquerque reporter who plans to build up the story of a man trapped in a cave for media attention. The film, Wilder's first as a writer, director and producer, gets an HD upgrade this week from the Criterion Collection.
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