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 June 6, 2015 we have Gotham, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, and more. Find out when they’ll be out and what special features movie fans can expect from them after the break.
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD September 8
Gotham: The Complete First Season (Bruno Heller) Rated TV-14 [42 min] – The story behind Commissioner James Gordon’s rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman’s arrival. Starring Ben McKenzie, Jada Pinkett Smith, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Robin Lord Taylor
Special features include:
- Extended Pilot Episode
- Gotham Invented: Building Our Gotham
- Gotham Invented: Paving the Way for the Caped Crusader
- Gotham Invented: Fractured Villains of Gotham
- Designing the Fiction
- The Game of Cobblepot
- Gag Reel
- Unaired Scenes
- DC Comics Night at Comic-Con 2014 Presenting Gotham, The Flash, Constantine and Arrow
- GOTHAM: The Legend Reborn
- Character Profiles:
- Detective Harvey Bullock
- Detective James Gordon
- Oswald Cobblepot
- Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth
- Fish Mooney
- Dr. Leslie Thompkins
- Killer Character
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD September 1
The Originals: The Complete Second Season (Julie Plec) Rated TV-14 [45 min] – The Original vampire family, from The Vampire Diaries, return and settle in the city they helped build, New Orleans. Starring Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, and Phoebe Tonkin
Special features include:
- The Originals: Always and Forever – In this featurette, we will hear from cast and creators on how season two explored new depths of what it means to be a family.
- The Awakening Web Series – Explore this companion series on Kol Mikaelson (Nathaniel Buzolic) and his quest to form an alliance with the witches of New Orleans in 1914. Also, go behind the scenes with the cast and creators of the digital series.
- The Originals: 2014 Comic-Con Panel
- Come Visit Georgia PSA
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD September 1
The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Sixth Season (Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec) Rated TV-14 [43 min] – A high school girl is torn between two vampire brothers. Starring Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder
Special features include:
- The Vampire Diaries: Good Bite and Good Luck
- The executive producers and cast of The Vampire Diaries say a final farewell to Nina Dobrev, Steven R. McQueen, Marguerite MacIntyre, and Michael Trevino, after six memorable years.
- The Vampire Diaries: Best.Reaction.Ever.
- Fan reactions to big moments throughout the season will be curated from Twitter, fan sites and other social media, and pieced together to tell the story of season six via fans’ reactions.
- Ep.615 Audio Commentary
- Writer/Director Julie Plec provides commentary on her directorial debut
- The Vampire Diaries: 2014 Comic-Con Panel
- Come Visit Georgia PSA
- Deleted Scenes
- Second Bite: Gag Reel
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD September 8
Supernatural: The Complete Tenth Season (Eric Kripke) Rated TV-14 [44 min] – Two brothers follow their father’s footsteps as “hunters” fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth. Starring Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, and Misha Collins
Special features include:
- A Very Special Supernatural Special
- Supernatural Theatre: Staging the 200th Episode
- The Winchester Mythology: Battling the Mark and the Blade
- Supernatural Fans
- Supernatural at Comic-Con 2014
- Three (3) Audio Commentaries
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
Available on Blu-ray and DVD August 4
Adult Beginners (Ross Katz) Rated R [90 min] – A young, narcissistic entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in total disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and 3-year-old nephew in the suburbs – only to become their nanny. Starring Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Joel McHale, and Jane Krakowski
Special features include:
- The Making of Adult Beginners featurette
Available on Blu-ray and DVD September 8
Ramma 1/2: Set 7 (Episodes 139-161) (Rumiko Takahashi) Unrated [30 min] – Ranma is challenged by Ryoga to fight yet again, but this time he is completely defeated by Ryoga’s new technique, the ‘Lion’s-Roar Blast.” It is said that the more miserable the user, the stronger the technique becomes – does Ranma have a chance against the tragic Ryoga?! Starring Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, and Norko Hidaka
Special features include:
- We Love Ranma Part 8
- Next Episode Previews
- Clean Opening Animations
- Clean Closing Animations
Available on Blu-ray Combo Pack (w/DVD and Digital HD) August 18
Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection (Many Directors) – From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes an extraordinary new collection of award-winning and beloved short films for the first time with all-new extras including an inside look at the Disney Animation shorts, featuring introductions and interviews with the acclaimed filmmakers themselves.
Shorts include:
- Frozen Fever (2015) – Dir. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Aimee Scribner
- Feast (2014) – Dir. Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
- Get A Horse! (2013) – Dir. Dorothy McKim, Eric Goldberg, Adam Green
- Paperman (2012) – Dir. Kristina Reed, John Kahr
- Tangled Ever After (2012) – Dir. Nathan Greno, Aimee Scribner, Mark Kennedy
- The Ballad of Nessie (2011) – Dir. Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Dorothy McKim
- Tick Tock Tale (2010) – Dir. Dean Wellins
- Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa (2010) – Dir. Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Dorothy McKim
- How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (2007) – Dir. Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Ian Gooding
- The Little Matchgirl (2006) – Dir. Dave Bossert, Tom MacDougall
- Lorenzo (2004) – Dir. Mike Gabriel
- John Henry (2000) – Dir. Mark Henn
Special features include:
- Filmmaker Intros – The filmmakers behind the shorts share their journeys and introduce their films.
- @DisneyAnimation: A Short Story on Shorts – Continuing a legacy started in the earliest days of the Studio by Walt Disney, the Shorts Program is thriving today at the Animation Studios that bears his name, producing award-winning shorts that tell new stories and experiment with artistic and technical innovations. This latest chapter in the @DisneyAnimation series gives us an inside look at the process of developing and producing a short. Hosted by actor/comedian T.J. Miller (voice of “Fred,” Big Hero 6), we will meet a few of the artists and filmmakers who make the shorts, and learn why they are such an important part of the fabric of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Round Table Panelists include Lauren MacMullan (Get A Horse!), Mike Gabriel (Lorenzo), Kristina Reed (Feast, Paperman), Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind The Ballad of Nessie, Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater).
- Runaway Brain (1995) – DMA debut – Short film originally released in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures Collection: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Vol. 2 DVD set. This short was nominated for an Academy Award® and screened during 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD August 4
Barely Lethal (Kyle Newman) Rated PG-13 [96 min] – A teenage special ops agent coveting a “normal” adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of high school is more challenging than international espionage. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Sophie Turner, Jessica Alba
Special features include:
- Deleted Scenes
- Audio Commentary with Director Kyle Newman and Actors Dove Cameron and Thomas Mann
- “Back to School: On the Set of Barely Lethal” Featurette
Available on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand August 4; Digital HD July 21
Child 44 (Daniel Espinosa) Rated R [137 min] – A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, and Joel Kinnaman
Special features include:
- Reflections of History” featurette
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD July 14
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Andy Fickman) Rated PG [94 min] – After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers. Starring Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Eduardo Verástegui, and Daniella Alonso
Special features include:
- Featurettes
- Security Force: The cast of Paul Blart 2
- Back In The Saddle
- Le Reve
- No Animals Were Harmed…
- Sales Tactics With Richie Manervini
- Real Cops
- Six Deleted Scene
- Gag Reel
- Photo Gallery
Available on DVD, Digital HD and On Demand August 4
A la mala (Pedro Pablo Ibarra) Rated PG-13 [99 min] – When aspiring actress Maria Laura’s best friend begs her to flirt with her boyfriend to test his fidelity, Maria finds a lucrative new career. After being hired by women across the city, Maria is given a gig that should be business as usual until she ends up falling head over heels for her latest mark. Starring Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann, and Papile Aurora
No special features announced
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD June 23
The Forger (Philip Martin) Rated R [92 min] – A thief works with his father and son to forge a painting by Monet and steal the original. Together, they plan the heist of their lives. Starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, and Tye Sheridan
Special features include:
- Identifying The Forger: Creating Character and Conflict” featurette
And that’s it for this week. What are you looking forward to picking up when they release?
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