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 August 1, 2015 we have Mad Men: The Complete Collection, Justified: The Complete Collection, 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
Mad Men: The Final Season – Part 2 (Matthew Weiner) A drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm’s most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper. Starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, John Slattery, and Christina Hendricks
Special features include:
- Audio commentaries with cast and crew on all episodes
- “Laurel Canyon” featurette
- “Unmarried Professional Women” featurette
- “Generation Boom” featurette
- “Earth Day” featurette
- Interactive Advertising Timeline (Blu-ray Exclusive)
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD October 13
Mad Men: The Complete Collection is a must-own for MAD MEN fans! Offered as a limited-edition gift set, it features the complete seven seasons and all special features ever released plus four hours of brand-new bonus material (including a look at the casting and design of the show), a one-on-one sit-down with Matthew Weiner and two hand-made silver-rimmed lowball tumblers and four cork coasters.
Special features include:
- Bonus material from all seven seasons
- “The Fellas at Sterling Cooper” cast wrap Interviews
- “Matthew Weiner: One on One” featurette
- “Casting MAD MEN” featurette
- “Design of a Decade” featurette
- Main Cast Wrap Interviews
- MAD MEN Advertising Archives (interactive feature)
- MAD MEN Historical Timeline
- Audio commentaries with cast and crew on all episodes, including previously unreleased commentaries for Season 6
- Gift With Purchase Includes:
- 2 silver-rimmed lowball tumblers
- 4 cork coasters
Available on Blu-ray October 15
Justified: The Complete Final Season (Graham Yost) While U.S. Marshal Raylan is torn by just how far he will go to bring Boyd down – including using Boyd’s fiancée Ava as his secret informant – both Raylan and Boyd must now contend with the new incendiary force in town, a drug lord intent on building his own pot empire in Harlan. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Damon Herriman, Michael Rapaport, and Nick Searcy
Special features include:
- All extras included on the previous releases
- That’s a Wrap Gag Reel (NEW)
- Three All-New Featurettes (NEW)
- Writers’ Room Tour with Graham Yost (NEW)
- Leaving Harlan Alive: Making the Final Season (NEW)
- Harlan Revisited: Favorite Moments (NEW)
- In Elmore’s Words – featuring actors, who worked with Elmore Leonard, reading select passages from some of his most well-known pieces of work (NEW)
- Justified Flask
- Collectible Packaging
- Commemorative Disc Book
Available on Blu-ray and DVD October 6
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Rated PG [103 min] – A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect. Starring Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, and Susumu Terajima
Special features include:
- The Making of When Marnie Was There
- Yohei Taneda Creates the Art of When Marnie Was There
- Feature-Length Storyboards
- Behind the Scenes with the Voice Cast
- Foreign Trailers and TV Spots
- US Trailer
Available on Blu-ray and Digital HD November 3
Toy Story That Time Forgot (Steve Purcell) Rated TV-G [22 min] – It’s a post Christmas play date and the toys have to go up against the fearsome and aggressive new dino toys. Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Kristen Schaal, Kevin McKidd, Emily Hahn, and Wallace Shawn
Special features include:
- Reptillus! – In this behind-the-scenes look at “Toy Story That Time Forgot,” the filmmakers share a peek at the origins of the Battlesaurs world and culture, and explain the character design and development of its greatest hero, Reptillus Maximus.
- Commentary – Commentary with “Toy Story that Time Forgot” director, Steve Purcell, and head of story, Derek Thompson, on the process of making “Toy Story That Time Forgot.”
- Toy Story Goes to Comic-Con – The “Toy Story that Time Forgot” team heads to San Diego to unveil the project to the public, led by their own longtime Comic-Con veterans, director Steve Purcell and head of story Derek Thompson.
- My Unexpected Friend – Feel the power – and sing along – as Reptillus Maximus expresses the depth of his feelings for Trixie in this 80’s-inspired karaoke video for his soulful ballad, “My Unexpected Friend.”
- Battlesaurs Animated Opening – A 2D animated opening for the fictional animated TV series, “Battlesaurs.”
- Deleted Scenes with Intros &Outros – “Toy Story That Time Forgot” director, Steve Purcell, introducesscenesthatwere developed and storyboarded for the special, but were ultimately cutfromthefinal version:
- Battlesaurs Christmas
- Light of Play
- Prisoners of Bone
- SOS
- Trixie’s Proposal
Available on DVD and Digital HD October 13
Ascension: A TV Mini-Series (Philip Levens and Adrian A. Cruz) Rated TV-MA [60 min] – A young woman’s murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return. Starring Tricia Helfer, Gil Bellows, and Brian Van Holt
Special features include:
- “Ascension: A Behind the Scenes Look” featurette
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