August 16 brings home The Angry Birds Movie, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Gotham Season Two and lots more!
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top titles arriving this week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at the major new releases, catalogue films and television collections hitting shelves and/or VOD beginning Tuesday, August 16, 2016.
The only recent major release coming home August 16 is Sony Pictures’ animated box office smash The Angry Birds Movie. It’s still a very busy week, however, when it comes to indie releases, catalogue titles and television sets.
Drafthouse Films delivers Raiders!, the recent documentary about a group of fans who spent years and years meticulously reconstructing Raiders of the Lost Ark as a shot for shot fan film.
Universal Pictures brings home a half dozen catalogue comedies August 16, debuting all six on Blu-ray for the first time. Look for Tom Hanks starring opposite Shelley Long in 1986’s The Money Pit and headlining Joe Dante’s 1989 dark comedy The Burbs. There’s also the John Hughes-scripted 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors (starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy), the 1989 ensemble comedy The Dream Team, 1992’s franchise-launching canine comedy Beethoven and the 1998 comedy biopic Patch Adams, starring the late Robin Williams.
Shout! Factory this week launches their new Shout! Select line with the first ever Blu-ray release of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension. If that’s not enough for collectors, the company also brings home John Carpenter’s early and little seen telefilm Elvis, starring Kurt Russell as the King. They’ve also got a new entry in their Scream Factory line with Brad Anderson’s impressive 2001 horror thriller, Session 9.
Not to be outdone, Arrow Films offers an HD treatment for the 1983 cult cannibal comedy Microwave Massacre while the Criterion Collection this week inducts the 2015 documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words.
Warner Archive brings to Blu-ray Richard C. Sarafian’s 1971 western, Man in the Wilderness, starring Richard Harris, as well as a pair of MOD DVDs: a 1930 adaptation of Moby Dick, starring John Barrymore as Ahab, and the 1969 historical drama Alfred the Great.
Small screen releases arriving August 16 include (on DVD only) the second season of Showtime‘s The Affair and complete season/series sets for both Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Super Megaforce. There’s also a DVD-only complete series set of NBC‘s Community, arriving as an Amazon exclusive.
Arriving on DVD and Blu-ray is the second season of FOX‘s Gotham, the fifth season of ABC‘s Once Upon a Time, the seventh season of The CW‘s The Vampire Diaries and the first half of the fifth season of AMC‘s Hell on Wheels.
Debuting via Digital HD August 16 are a trio of recent big screen releases including the dramas A Bigger Splash and Me Before You and the Lonely Island mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Stopping. Meanwhile, Imperium, starring Daniel Racliffe, debuts exclusively to iTunes this Friday, August 19.
You can check out cover art for all the August 16 releases in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable).
August 16, 2016: This Week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD
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The Angry Birds Movie
- Bonus Scene: Chuck's Rescue
- Symphony Mode
- Making Music! With Composer Heitor Pereira
- Blake Shelton Music Video Friends
- Photo Gallery
- All-New Short - The Early Hatchling Gets the Worm (Blu-ray exclusive)
- 3 More Hatchlings Shorts (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Deleted Scenes (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Crafty Birds - How to Build Your Own Piggy Tower (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Dance Along Birds and Pigs (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Creating the Real World of Angry Birds (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Meet The Birds (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Meet The Pigs (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Meet The Hatchlings (Blu-ray exclusive) -
Raiders!
- Dual audio commentary tracks (with Tim Skousen & Jeremy Coon as well as Chris Strompolos & Eric Zala)
- Deleted scenes from the documentary
- Outtakes from the Adaptation
- Q&A footage from the Adaptation's 2003 premiere at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX
- A photo booklet featuring storyboard art from the Adaptation -
Beethoven
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The 'Burbs
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The Dream Team
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The Great Outdoors
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The Money Pit
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Patch Adams
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Man in the Wilderness
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Alfred the Great
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Moby Dick
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
- NEW Into The 8th Dimension – A Two-Hour Retrospective Documentary including brand-new interviews with cast and crew
- NEW Audio Commentary with Michael and Denise Okuda
- Audio Commentary with Director W.D. Richter and Writer Earl Mac Rauch
- Buckaroo Banzai Declassified Featurette
- Deleted Scenes (including the Alternate Opening with Jamie Lee Curtis)
- New Jet Car Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer -
Elvis
- “Bringing A Legend To Life" Featurette With Archival Interviews Of Kurt Russell And John Carpenter (1979)
- Commentary By "The Voice Of Elvis" Ronnie McDowell And Author Edie Hand
- Rare Clips From American Bandstand
- Photo Gallery -
Session 9
- NEW Return To Danvers: The Secrets Of SESSION 9 Featuring Interviews With Director/Co-writer Brad Anderson, Actor/Co-writer Stephen Gevedon, Actors Josh Lucas, Brendan Sexton III, Larry Fessenden, Composers The Climax Golden Twins And - Director Of Photography Uta Briesewitz
- NEW Horror's Hallowed Grounds – Revisiting The Locations of The Film
- Audio Commentary With Brad Anderson And Stephen Gevedon
- Deleted Scenes And Alternate Ending With Optional Commentary By Director Brad Anderson
- Story To Screen Featurette
- The Haunted Palace Featurette
- Theatrical Trailer -
Microwave Massacre
- Brand new 2K restoration of the original camera negative
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary with writer-producer Craig Muckler moderated by Mike Tristano
- Brand new making-of featurette including interviews with Muckler, director Wayne Berwick and actor Loren Schein
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork -
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
- High-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Stig Björkman, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Björkman
- Selection of 8 mm home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s
- Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman’s daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone
- Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings
- Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role
- Outtakes from Bergman’s 1936 film On the Sunny Side
- Music video for Eva Dahlgren’s song “The Movie About Us,” which is included on the film’s soundtrack
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by film scholar Jeanine Basinger -
Community: The Complete Series
- All six seasons with all previously released special features
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Gotham: Season Two
- All 22 episodes of the show
- Gotham: 2015 Comic-Con Panel – Warner Bros. Television Presents a Night of DC Entertainment at Comic-Con 2015: Gotham
- Gotham by Noir Light – Gotham is deeply cast into the film noir technique and edgy attitude. The camera's lens is able to pick up on the subtlety for the fans to enjoy a modern update to an age old tradition, of how to paint with shadow and light.
- Alfred: Batman's Greatest Ally – This story is about Gotham's take on the father/son bond between Bruce Wayne and his butler Alfred. The depth of the mythology from the comic books comes to life on the series. Poignant and powerful.
- Cold Hearted: The Tale of Victor Fries – The mix of cold blood and a warm heart. We examine the humanistic melt-down of Victor Fries in pursuit of a cure for his love, Nora.
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Hell on Wheels: Season 5
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Once Upon a Time: Season Five
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Power Rangers Megaforce: The Complete Series
- Zord Gallery
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Power Rangers Super Megaforce: The Complete Series
- Power Rangers: A Legacy Featurette
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The Vampire Diaries: Season Seven
- All 22 One-Hour Episodes
- The Vampire Diaries: 2015 Comic-Con Panel
- Featurette "Directing Vampires": Behind the scenes with Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, as they answer Twitter questions and explain the process of directing episodes of The Vampire Diaries.
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel -
A Bigger Splash
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Me Before You
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Popstar: Never Stop Stopping
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Imperium
