We’ve got another full week of home video announcements to share with you Coming Soon to Blu-ray and DVD. While we provide you with a list of releases Now Available to Own every Tuesday, Coming Soon looks at all of the pre-orders. For the week of March 7, 2015 we have The Newsroom, Orange is the New Black, Mr. Turner, and more with newly announced release dates. Find out when they’ll be out and what special features are in store after the break.
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) Rated R [150 min] – An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner’s life. Starring Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, and Marion Bailey
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Director Mike Leigh
- The Cinematic Palette: The Cinematography of Mr. Turner
- Many Colors of Mr. Turner
- Deleted Scene
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be making this release available on DVD and Blu-ray on May 12, 2015.
The Newsroom: The Complete Third Season (Aaron Sorkin) Rated TV-MA [55 min] – A news anchor’s life is stirred up when he’s forced to work with a new team of colleagues. Starring Jeff Daniels, Margaret Judson, and Emily Mortimer
No special features have been announced yet.
HBO Home Entertainment will be bringing the third and final season of The Newsroom to Blu-ray on June 16, 2015.
Orange is the New Black (Season 2) (Jenji Kohan) Rated TV-MA [55 min] – From the creator of “Weeds” comes a heartbreaking and hilarious original series set in a women’s prison. Piper Chapman’s wild past comes back to haunt her, resulting in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates. Starring Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Uzo Aduba, and Jason Biggs
No special features have been announced yet.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment is set to release the second season of Orange is the New Black on Blu-ray and DVD on May 19, 2015.
Black Sea (Kevin Macdonald) Rated R [115 min] – In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold. Starring Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, and David Threlfall
Special features
- A Dive into the Black Sea
- Feature Commentary with Director Kevin Macdonald
Focus Features and Universal Studios Home Entertainment will be bringing Black Sea to stores on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD combo pack on May 5, 2015.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour) Unrated [99 min] – In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire. Starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, and Marshall Manesh
Special Features:
- 70-page Booklet with the First Issue of the Graphic Novel and Essay by Eric Kohn
- Behind-the-scenes Documentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Interview with Ana Lily Amirpour
- Location Scouting
- Makeup Tests
- Stills Gallery
- Trailer
This release will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on April 21, 2015.
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) Rated R [111 min] – A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack
No special features have been announced yet.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment is bringing Maps to the Stars on Blu-ray on April 14, 2015.
And that’s it for this week. What are you looking forward to owning?
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All plot synopses courtesy of IMDb.com