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, television season sets and catalogue titles hitting the shelves today, April 7, 2015.
The week begins with J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, an intensely dramatic thriller that follows Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain as a married couple striving to keep their business afloat in New York in 1981, historically the most crime-ridden year in the city’s history.
The Voices, meanwhile, hails from Persepolis‘ Marjane Satrapi and stars Ryan Reynolds as a troubled man who begins to hear his pets speaking to him.
Then, Marion Cotillard takes the lead in Palme d’Or-nominated The Immigrant, directed by James Gray and also starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner.
Warner Bros. is digging up a few catalogue titles this week, including Alla Moyle’s cult-favorite Empire Records and Cameron Crowe’s equally-beloved Say Anything follow-up, Singles.
Universal brings to HD a double helping of Imitation of Life with a Blu-ray that includes both the 1934 John M. Stahl version, starring Claudette Colbert, and the 1959 Douglas Sirk version, starring Lana Turner.
Having already released The Funhouse and Lifeforce, Scream Factory has another Tobe Hooper classic joining their collection this week with a special edition of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre helmer’s 1986 sci-fi remake Invaders From Mars.
On the small screen, this week brings us the complete first season of WGN America’s historical drama Manhattan, the first two season’s of Comedy Central’s hit Inside Amy Schumer and, after a full decade, seasons nine and ten of Mike Judge’s “King of the Hill.”
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: April 7, 2015
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A Most Violent Year
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director J.C. Chandor and Producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb
- "Behind the Violence" featurette
- "A Conversation with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac" featurette
- "The Contagious Nature of Violence: The Origins of A Most Violent Year" featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- "Inner City Crew" Outtakes
- "We Can Cure Violence" Public Service Announcement -
The Immigrant
- Feature Commentary with Writer/Director James Gray
- The Visual Inspiration of The Immigrant -
The Voices
- "The Voices: From Fridge to Frame" featurette
- "The Voices of Ryan Reynolds" featurette
- "VFX: The Making of Bosco & Mr. Whiskers" featurette
- VFX Comparison Showreel
- Deleted Scenes
- Extended Scenes
- Animatics
- Cast & Costume Sketch Gallery -
Inside Amy Schumer - Seasons One and Two
- Outtakes & Deleted Scenes
- Video Commentary on select episodes
- Photo Gallery -
Manhattan: Season One
- "Ground Zero: Bringing the Bomb to Screen" featurette
- "P.O. Box 1663: Creating a City that Didn't Exist" featurette
- "'Now I Am Become Death': J. Robert Oppenheimer" featurette
- "Recreating an Era: 'Manhattan' Costume Design" featurette
- Select episode audio commentaries with Cast and Crew -
King of the Hill: Seasons Nine and Ten
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Singles
- 25 Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes
- The 16-minute "The Ballad of Janet and Dr. Jeff" compiling the entire relationship between Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman's characters
- Extended Tracking Shot Opening
- Mime Club Fight
- What Would The King Do?
- No Games
- Eddie Haskell Redux
- Three Complete Live Performances: Soundgarden - "Birth Ritual" and Alice in Chains - "Would?" and "It Ain't Like That Anymore"
- Two "Complete Take" Extras with Bill Pullman and Tad
- Gag Reel
- Theatrical Trailer -
Empire Records
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Imitation of Life
1934:
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Recommendations1959:
- Lasting Legacy – An Imitation of Life
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional Feature Commentary with Film Historian Foster Hirsch -
Invaders From Mars
- New Audio commentary with director Tobe Hooper
- The Martians Are Coming! - The Making of "Invaders From Mars", an all-new retrospective featuring interviews with Director Tobe Hooper, Actor Hunter Carson, Special Creature Effects Artists Alec Gillis and Gino Crognale, and Composer Christopher Young
- Theatrical Trailer & TV spot
- Original Storyboards
- Original Production Illustration Gallery from Artist William Stout with commentary by Stout
- Still Gallery