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 July 4, 2015 we have Empire (Season 1), Reign (Season 2), Robot Chicken (Season 7), and more. Find out when they’ll be out and what special features movie fans can expect below.
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD October 13
The Following: The Complete Third and Final Season (Kevin Williamson) Rated TV-14 [43 min] – A brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command. Starring Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, and Shawn Ashmore
Special Features:
- When Heroes Lie
- Evil Has Many Faces
- Ryan and Romance
- The Art of the Crime Scene
- The Following: Funny AND Die
- Severed Scenes
- Gag Reel
- 2014 New York Comic-Con Panel
Available on Blu-ray and DVD September 15
Empire: The Complete First Season (Lee Daniels and Danny Strong) Rated TV-14 [42 min] – A father, who runs a successful music business, is diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and has to choose one of his three sons to take over when he dies. Starring Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Jussie Smollett, Trai Byers, Grace Gaeley, Kaitlin Doubleday, and Bryshere Y. Gray
Special features include:
- No Apologies – Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) Uncut Music Performance
- I Wanna Love You –Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) Uncut Music Performance
- Come Away With Me – Video Medley – Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon)
- Whatever Makes You Happy (feat. Jennifer Hudson & Juicy J) Uncut Music Performance
- Keep it Movin – Byshere Y. Gray (Hakeem Lyon) and Serayah McNeill (Tiana) Uncut Music Performance
- Tell the Truth – Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) Uncut Music Performance
- Nothing to Lose – Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) Uncut Music Performance
- Power of The Empire Video Medley – Byshere Y. Gray (Hakeem Lyon)
- For My God – Jennifer Hudson (Michelle) Uncut Music Performance
- Good Enough – Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) Uncut Music Performance
- You’re So Beautiful – Estelle, Terrence Howard (Lucious Lyon), Taraji P. Henson (Cookie Lyon), Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon), Byshere Y. Gray (Hakeem Lyon) feat. Serayah McNeill (Tiana) Uncut Music Performance
- You’re So Beautiful – Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) Uncut Music Performance
- Drip Drop (DIRTY i-Tunes) – Byshere Y. Gray (Hakeem Lyon) feat. Serayah McNeill (Tiana) Uncut Music Performance
- What is Love Video Medley – feat. Veronika Bozeman
- Featurette: Empire: It’s in the Music
- Featurette: The Empire of Style
- Special Feature: Commentary on the “Pilot”
Available on Blu-ray and Digital HD August 4
A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman) [Limited] Rated R [117 min] – Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles. Starring Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, and Matthias Schoenaerts
- No special features listed at this time
Available on DVD October 6
Reign: The Complete Second Season (Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie Sengupta) Rated TV-14 [42 min] – Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court. Starring Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby Regbo, Celina Sinden, Caitlin Stasey, and Anna Popplewell
Special features include:
- Playing By Her Rules: A Day on Set with a Queen and Her Court – behind-the-scenes featurette will take fans on set for one day in the life of their favorite reigning Queen, Adalaide Kane, and her co-stars.
- Deleted Scenes
Available on DVD July 21
Robot Chicken: The Complete Seventh Season (Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, and Mike Fasolo) Rated TV-MA [11 min] – From creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, ‘Robot Chicken’ is stop-motion animation with a demented twist. Starring Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, Matthew Senreich
Special features include:
- Commentary on all Twenty Episodes
- Bonus Christmas Special with Commentary
- Featurettes
- Cut Sketches
Available on DVD September 29
iZombie: The Complete First Season (Diane Ruggiero and Rob Thomas) Rated TV-14 [42 min] – A medical resident finds that being a zombie has its perks, which she uses to assist the police. Starring Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley, and Blaine DeBeers
- Deleted Scenes
- iZombie: 2014 Comic-Con Panel
Available on VOD and Digital Download August 4
The Last Survivors (Thomas S. Hammock) Unrated [95 min] – A teenage girl fights to protect the last working well in a drought-stricken valley from a greedy water baron. Starring Haley Lu Richardson, Booboo Stewart, Max Charles, and Nicole Arianna Fox
- No special features listed until Blu-ray/DVD release later this year
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD July 14
Little House on the Prairie (Blanche Hanalis) Rated TV-PG [60 min] – The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the 19th century American West. Starring Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Lindsay Greenbush, Sidney Greebush, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson
- “The Little House Phenomenon – Part Six: “A Lasting Legacy”
Available on DVD, Digital HD, and On Demand September 1
Lawless Kingdom [Original Title: “Si da ming bu 2”] (Gordon Chan) Unrated [114 min] – Four detectives, each with supernatural powers, dedicate their unique and special skills to solving crimes and apprehending powerful criminals. Starring Chao Deng, Yifei Liu, and Anthony Chau-Sang Won
- No special features listed at this time
Available on DVD, Digital HD, and On Demand September 1
Lords of London (Antonio Simoncini) Rated R [90 min] – A London gangster must confront his ruthless father’s past in order to alter the gritty, abusive path that his life is spiraling down after a shakedown goes awry. Starring Glen Murphy, Ray Winstone, and Serena Iansiti
- No special features listed at this time.
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.
All plot synopses courtesy of IMDb.com