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 19. For the complete list of August DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
August 17, 2014 Releases
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Y tu mama tambien
Alfonso Cuaron's Academy Award-nominated road trip comedy drama joins the Criterion Collection this week in a restored 2K digital film transfer that's backed by new interviews, documentaries and the 2002 short film "You Owe Me One," directed by Alfonso's brother, Carlos Cuaron.
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Toy Story of Terror!
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack reprise their big screen roles for a Halloween-themed special that brings the toys to a terrifying motel room and face to face with a Combat Carl action figure (voiced by Carl Weathers). The Blu-ray includes an audio commentary, deleted scenes, three "Toy Story Toons" (with their own commentaries) and a series of "vintage" faux toy commercials.
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Pedro Almodovar's 1989 comedy crime drama follows a former mental patient (Antonio Banderas) in his quest to kidnap a porn star (Victoria Abril) and have her fall in love with him. The film join the Criterion Collection this week and is accompanied by a new documentary on the making of the film and quite a few interviews with the film's cast and crew.
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Rosemary's Baby
Zoe Saldana headlines NBC's recent four-hour miniseries adaptation of the terrifying novel by Ira Levin. The miniseries comes to Blu-ray with two behind-the-scenes featurettes.
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Revolution: The Complete Second Season
NBC's post-apocalyptic series "Revolution" won't be coming back next year, but fans have the opportunity to own the complete series with the second and final season hitting store shelves today. Twenty-two episodes follow a band of freedom fighters 15 years after the loss of electronic power worldwide. Special features include a behind-the-scenes featurette and several deleted scenes.
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The Quiet Ones
Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke and Erin Richards star in director John Pogue's story of a university that sets out to create a poltergeist from the dark energy surrounding a young woman. The Blu-ray includes deleted scenes, a featurette, a documentary and a feature-length commentary with Pogue and producer Tobin Armbrust.
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Parks and Recreation: Season Six
The penultimate season of NBC's ensemble comedy arrives on DVD today in advance of the upcoming final episodes. Although Chris Pratt is in fewer episodes this season because of filming Guardians of the Galaxy, a London-set episode offers a guest appearance by Pratt's interstellar co-star, Peter Sarafinowicz.
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The Mindy Project: Season Two
Mindy Kaling's hit sitcom continues with another 22 episodes hitting in advance of the show's third season premiere on September 16. Special features include deleted scenes on all three discs and a gag reel.
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch's latest offers a deeply meditative look at civilization in decay, setting Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as vampires who meet against the crumbling backdrop of Detroit and who, through their nights together, weigh their eternities against an unrelenting sense of ennui. Mia Wasikowska and Anton Yelchin also star in the film, which hits Blu-ray with deleted and extended scenes, a music video and a video portrait of Jarmusch.
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Once Upon a Time: The Complete Third Season
All 22 episodes of the third season of ABC's hit series bring fans back to Storybrooke, Maine and into the lives of the fair tale characters that inhabit it. The Blu-ray comes jam-packed with special features, including commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes and more.
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Leviathan
Scream Factory brings to HD director George P. Cosmatos' 1989 deep sea thriller, which follows a group of explorers who discover that the sunken wreckage of a freighter houses a deadly genetic experiment gone wrong! Leviathan lands on Blu-ray with its original theatrical trailer and newly recorded interviews.
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Fading Gigolo
Acting outside of one of his own films for the first time in more than a decade, Woody Allen stars opposite writer/director John Turturro in the story of two New York friends, one of whom decides to become a gigolo as a way of making ends meet. The film comes to Blu-ray with deleted scenes and a feature-length audio commentary.
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Chaplin's Mutual Comedies
Commemorating 100 years of the Little Tramp, Flicker Alley is today releasing a box set of early Charlie Chaplin shorts full restored for high definition. Included are "The Floorwalker," "The Fireman," "The Vagabond," "One A.M.," "The Count," "The Pawnshop," "Behind the Screen," "The Rink," "Easy Street," "The Cure," "The Immigrant" and "The Adventurer."
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Boardwalk Empire: Season Four
The penultimate season of the hit HBO show comes home this week in a four-disc box set that includes all 12 fourth season episodes in addition to new featurettes, audio commentaries and the show's full 26-minute PaleyFest panel.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Director Marc Webb pits Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker against Jamie Foxx's Max Dillon, the man who becomes the super-charged villain Electro. As if that's not enough to deal with, an old friend from Peter's past returns in Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) while the promise Peter made in the first film means that he may loose Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) forever. The film lands on Blu-ray this week with hours of special features and behind-the-scenes material.
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