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 all the major new releases, TV series sets and catalogue titles hitting the shelves today, May 12, 2015.
Some of the first major releases of 2015 are already beginning to come home. This week gives us Michael Mann’s cyber-thriller blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth, David Koepp’s Mortdecai, headlined by Johnny Depp, Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler, starring Adam Sandler and Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice, which just won star Julianne Moore an Academy Award for her performance.
Also hitting this week, The Twilight Saga star Taylor Lautner leads the parkour actioner Tracers while Anchor Bay delivers the recent Canadian horror film The Drownsman. There’s also a new Batman direct-to-home video feature film release this week with Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts (packaged, for a limited time, with an exclusive “Fire Bat” action figure).
The Criterion Collection this week upgrades Leo McCarey’s Make Way For Tomorrow (one of the company’s final DVD-only releases) to Blu-ray while Universal delivers its own HD upgrade of David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, just in time for July’s Netflix reunion series, “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.”
On the small screen, this week brings us Starz’ Power: The Complete First Season (eight episodes) as well as, on DVD only, complete series box sets of both The Wild Wild West: The Complete Series (104 episodes over four seasons) and Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Series (203 episodes over eight seasons). There’s also Battlestar Galactica: The Definitive Collection, bringing the original 1978 series (and its spinoff, “Galactica 1980,” to Blu-ray for the first time. Be aware, however, that Universal is also releasing a slightly cheaper set called Battlestar Galactica: The Remastered Collection wherein the episodes have been cropped for display on modern television screens. The Definitive Collection is the only way to get the proper aspect ratio and it includes the cropped versions as well.
Although it will arrive on physical media June 9, the recent 20th Century Fox hit Kingsman: The Secret Service will be available to stream beginning this Friday, May 15. Those who purchase the film on iTunes will also have access to bonus features available on the upcoming Blu-ray, including a gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and a 90-minute documentary entitled “Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed.”
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: May 12, 2015
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Mortdecai
- Stolen Moments: The Making of Mortdecai Featurette
- The Art Of Noise: Making Music for Mortdecai Featurette -
Blackhat
- The Cyber Threat
- On Location Around the World
- Creating Reality -
Still Alice
- Directing Alice: Making of Featurette
- Finding Alice: The Cast, filmmakers and Alzheimer's experts discuss what when into Creating an accurate depiction of Alice Howland's Disease
- Three Deleted Scenes -
Tracers
- "The Art of Motion: The Making of Tracers" featurette
- Director's Pitch Reel -
The Cobbler
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The Drownsman
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Wet Hot American Summer
- 10th Anniversary Event Highlights
- Wet Hot American Summer: Live at SF Sketchfest
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director/Co-Writer David Wain
- Cast Comments
- Behind the Scenes
- Songs With Production Stills
- Theatrical Trailer
- Feature Commentary With Director/Co-Writer David Wain, Co-Writer Michael Showalter, and Actress Janeane Garofalo
- Soundtrack With Extra Farts -
Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts
- The Penguin: High Society Criminal
- 10 DC Nation Shorts
- From the DC Comics Vault (Two episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold) -
Make Way For Tomorrow
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today, a 2009 interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about the career of director Leo McCarey and Make Way for Tomorrow
- Interview from 2009 with critic Gary Giddins about McCarey’s artistry and the political and social context of the film
- A booklet feauring essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, as well as an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood’s 1998 piece “Leo McCarey and ‘Family Values’” -
Power
- The New Series
- The Style of Power
- NYC - The City of Power
- The Music of Power -
Battlestar Galactica: The Definitive Collection
- Battlestar Galactica: The Original Series (Widescreen and Full Frame)
- Galactica 1980: The Complete Series (Widescreen and Full Frame)
- Battlestar Galactica - The 125-minute theatrical edit of the premiere episode "Saga of a Star World"
- Remembering Battlestar Galactica - a 45-minute retrospective documentary featuring cast and crew on the making of the series
- Episode Commentary with Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Herbert Jefferson Jr.
- Glen Larson on the Creation of Battlestar Galactica
- Stu Phillips: Composing the Score -
Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Series
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The Wild, Wild West: The Complete Series