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 August 5. For the complete list of August DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
August 5, 2014 Releases
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Without Warning
Scream Factory gives director Greydon Clark's 1980 camp slasher creature feature the Blu-ray treatment, including new interviews with the film's crew and an audio commentary with Clark.
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Ping Pong Summer
Writer/director Michael Tully delivers a nostalgic indie drama that follows a 13-year-old boy (Marcello Conte) through his 1985 summer where he begins to come of age against a backdrop of beaches, hip-hop and ping pong. The film arrives on Blu-ray with an audio commentary and a behind-the-scenes featurette.
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The Phantom of the Paradise
Scream Factory takes on Brian De Palma's 1974 cult hit, which offers an gloriously bizarre rock opera adaptation of "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Paul Williams. This one is about as packed as Blu-rays get when it comes to special features, boasting several hours of supplements, including an hourlong conversation between Williams and filmmaker (and "Paradise" fan) Guillermo del Toro.
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Oculus
Guardians of the Galaxy and "Doctor Who" star Karen Gillan joins Brenton Thwaites (The Giver) and Katee Sackhoff ("Battlestar Galactica") for an eerie tale of supernatural terror set in two distinct time periods set ten years apart. In addition to a commentary track, deleted scenes and a new featurette, the Blu-ray includes the full 33-minute short film that inspired the feature.
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Need for Speed
Act of Valor helmer Scott Waugh brings the hit video game franchise to life with "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul behind the wheel in a race where the stakes mean absolutely everything. Paul and Waugh re-team for a new audio commentary track, which is accompanied by a variety of featurettes and deleted scenes. If you missed them when the film hit theaters, be sure to check out our video interviews with the cast and crew.
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The Man who Knew Too Little
Bill Murray is a hapless Blockbuster Video employee who, although he believes he's playing along to an interactive murder mystery game, is actually caught up in a diabolical plot involving a high-level political assassination. An underappreciated comedy gem, the film hits Blu-ray this week for the first time.
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The Full Monty
A box office hit when it landed in theaters in 1997, director Peter Cattaneo's heartfelt comedy follows a group of six unemployed men who decide that they can each make a living as strippers. The film lands on Blu-ray for the first time with lots of special features, including two commentary tracks, deleted scenes and a retrospective look back at the film's impact over the last two decades.
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Divergent
Shailene Woodley headlines the first feature film adaptation of Veronica Roth's bestelling book series. Packed with special features, the Blu-ray offers two feature-length audio commentaries, more than an hour of behind-the-scenes featurettes, a music video and five minutes of deleted scenes.
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Community: Season Five
Creator Dan Harmon returns to Greendale following the events of season four's "gas leak" year. Chevy Chase may be gone and Donald Glover's only around for half the season, but this is still "Community" at its very best. Key events in season five include taking the characters to Lava World, back to into a game of "Dungeons & Dragons" and even into the 1980s "G.I. Joe" cartoon with a fully animated episode.
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