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.
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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