Coming Soon to Blu-Ray and DVD: Insurgent, Slow West, While We’re Young, and More

Coming Soon to Blu-Ray and DVD Insurgent, Slow West, While We're Young, and More

While we provide you with a list of available new releases Now Available to Own every Tuesday, Coming Soon to Blu-ray and DVD looks at all of the recent home video announcements. For the week of May 23, 2015 we have Insurgent, Slow West, While We’re Young, and more. Find out when they’ll be out and what special features movie fans can expect from them after the break.

Divergent Series Insurgent Blu-Ray Box Cover Art

Available on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD August 4

The Divergent Series: Insurgent (Robert Schwentke) Rated PG-13 [119 min] – Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side. Starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Mekhi Phifer, Miles Teller, Octavia Spencer, Zoë Kravitz, and Ashley Judd

Special features include:

  • Audio Commentary with Producers Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher
  • “Insurgent Unlocked: The Ultimate Behind-the-Scenes Access” (Feature-Length Documentary)
  • Featurettes:
    • “Diverging: Adapting Insurgent to the Screen”
    • “From Divergent to Insurgent”
    • “The Others: Cast and Characters”
    • “The Train Fight Unlocked”
    • “The Peter Hayes Story”
  • Marketing Gallery

While We're Young Blu-Ray Box Cover Art

Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD June 30.

While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) Rated R [97 min] – A middle-aged couple’s career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives. Starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, and Amanda Seyfried

Special features include:

  • Six Behind-the-Scenes Vignettes:
    • “The Cast”
    • “Working with Filmmaker Noah Baumbach”
    • “Generation Tech”
    • “Working with Charles Grodin”
    • “Ayahuasca Ceremony”
    • “Hip-Hop Class”

Slow West Blu-Ray Box Cover Art

Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD July 7

Slow West (John Maclean) Rated R [84 min] – Slow West follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, and Ben Mendelsohn

Special features include:

  • “On Strange Land: Making Slow West” featurette
  • Deleted Scenes

Two Days One Night Blu-Ray Box Cover Art

Available on Criterion Blu-ray August 25

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) Rated PG-13 [95 min] – Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal. She has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. Starring Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, and Batiste Sornin

Special features include:

  • New 2K digital transfer, approved by directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • New interviews with the Dardennes and actors Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione
  • When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (1979), a forty-five minute documentary by the Dardennes, featuring a new introduction by the directors
  • New tour of the film’s key locations with the directors
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu

Absolution Blu-Ray Box Cover Art

Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD July 7

Absolution (Keoni Waxman) Rated R [96 min] – When a contract killer (Steven Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a mob boss (Vinnie Jones) with powerful political ties, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him for the mission. Starring Steven Seagal, Byron Mann, and Howard Dell

Special features include:

  • “Behind the scenes of Absolution” featurette
  • Cast Interviews
  • Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Director Keoni Waxman, Actor Josh Barnett and Producer Binh Dang

The Cell Blu-Ray Box Cover Art

Available on Blu-ray July 7

The Cell (Tarsem Singh) Rated R [107 min] – An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D’Onofrio

Laverne and Shirley Complete Series DVD Box Cover Art

Complete series on DVD available June 16

Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983) (Lowell Ganz, Garry Marshall, and Mark Rothman) Rated TV-G [30 min] – The misadventures of two single women in the 1950’s and ’60’s. Starring Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, and David L. Lander

No special features announced yet

The Odd Couple Complete Series DVD Box Cover Art

Complete series on DVD available June 16

The Odd Couple (1970–1975) (Jerry Belson and Garry Marshall) Unrated [30 min] – Two men, a neat freak and a slob separated from their wives, have to live together despite their differences. Starring Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, and Al Molinaro

No special features announced yet

And that’s it for this week. What are you looking forward to picking up when they release?

Stay tuned for more Blu-Ray and DVD announcements every Saturday.


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All plot synopses courtesy of IMDb.com

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