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 8. For the complete list of April DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
April 8 Releases
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Young at Heart
Frank Sinatra and Doris Day headline Gordon Douglas' 1954 big screen remake of Michael Curtiz's Four Daughters, which hits Blu-ray for the first time ever through Olive Films. In addition to dueting on the title song, Day and Sinatra deliver renditions of hit songs from Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, George and Ira Gershwin and many more.
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Sabrina
Billy Wilder's romantic classic celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, debuting for the first time on Blu-ray. Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden star in the classic love-triangle tale, based on Samuel A. Taylor's Broadway Play, "Sabrina Fair."
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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
The hit "found footage" franchise continues with this recent spinoff, hitting home video with a collection of deleted scenes in advance of this fall's Paranormal Activity 5.
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Nurse 3D
Director Douglas Aarniokoski delivers a modern exploitation thriller with Nurse 3D, starring Paz de la Heurta as a nurse well-versed in violent vigiliante justice. The film hits home video with a series of video diaries, a behind-the-scenes featurette and an audio commentary track with Aarniokoski.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The second chapter of Peter Jackson's second Middle-earth trilogy comes home this week with more than two hours worth of special features, including a number of featurettes and a tour of the New Zealand locations used during filming.
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Grudge Match
It's Rocky versus Raging Bull in director Peter Segal's comedic tale of a fight decades in the making, starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro as two aging boxers with an old score to settle. The film hits home video with a number of featurettes and a series of deleted scenes and alternate endings.
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Funny Face
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire headline Stanley Donen's 1957 musical, loosely based on the life of photographer Richard Avedon. Boasting songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Funny Face hits Blu-ray for the first time with a number of features, including a look at the VistaVision format.
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Cry Danger
Director Robert Parrish made his transition from editor to director in 1951, helming three different film noir thrillers. Cry Danger is the second film and it stars Dick Powell as an innocent man framed for murder who, after serving five years in prison, is released and sets off on a life or death mission to catch the real killer.
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Cavemen
Writer/director Herschel Faber's indie feature follows LA playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who, fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his 9-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.
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Bang Bang You're Dead
Originally titled Our Man in Marrakesh, Don Sharp's 1966 spy comedy was released domestically with the more onomatopoeia-friendly epithet. Tony Randall stars in the spy whodunnit, which lands on Blu-ray for the first time this week.
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The Bamboo Saucer
An American team races against Russian forces to uncover a downed flying saucer in Communist China in director Frank Telford's long unavailable 1968 sci-fi thriller!
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A Field in England
Set in 17th-Century England, director and co-writer Ben Wheatley's (Kill List) stylish black and white tale serves as an experimental horror film of sorts, charting the depths of true madness against the backdrop of the British Civil War.
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August: Osage County
Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep were both nominated for Academy Awards for their respective performances in John Well's adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The film hits Blu-ray with a number of special features, most notably a feature-length commentary by Wells and his cinematographer Adriano Goldman.
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