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 February 20, 2016 we have The Big Short, The Hateful Eight, Grace and Frankie (Season 1), 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 March 15
The Big Short (Adam McKay) Rated R [2h 10min] – Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight. Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, and Brad Pitt
Special features include:
- In the Tranches: Casting (Blu-ray exclusive)
- The Big Leap: Adam McKay (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Unlikely Heroes: The Characters of The Big Short (Blu-ray exclusive)
- The House of Cards: The Rise of the Fall (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Getting Real: Recreating an Era (Blu-ray exclusive)
- Deleted Scenes (Blu-ray exclusive)
Available on Blu-ray and DVD March 29; Digital HD March 15
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Rated R [3h 7min] – In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, and Channing Tatum
Special features include:
- Beyond the Eight: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
- Sam Jackson’s Guide to Glorious 70mm
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD March 15
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (Walt Becker) Rated PG [1h 32min] – Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami…and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother. Starring Jason Lee, Jesica Ahlberg, Josh Green, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, and Justin Long
Special features include:
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Story So Far
- Cue the Chipmunks: The Great Big Chipmunks Music Finale
- Our Furry Planet
- Alvinisms
- WETA and the Chipmunks: Animators’ Reference Reel
- Ultimate Playlist:
- Music Machine
- “Juicy Wiggle”
- “South Side”
- “Iko Iko”
- “When the Saints Go Marching In/Uptown Funk”
- “Home”
- “Funkytown”
- “I Love Rock N Roll”
- “Get You Goin'”
- “Hot N Cold”
- “Real Wild Child”
- “Born This Way/Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now/Firework”
- Music Machine
- Music Videos (with optional Sing-Along):
- “Shake Your Groove Thing”
- “Vacation”
- “Bad Romance”
- Lyric Videos:
- “Juicy Wiggle”
- “Uptown Munk”
- “Wreck the Halls”
- “Pizza Toots”
- “I Want Chipmunks for Christmas (a.k.a. Pester Song)
- Munk Rock
- RedFoo “Squeaky Wiggle” Dance Instructional
- After the Party: A Munkumentary
Available on DVD and Digital HD April 12
Grace and Frankie (Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris) Rated TV-MA [30min] – Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last 20 years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together. Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston
Special features include:
- “Beginning of the End” Featurette
- Gag Reel
- Audio Commentaries with the Cast and Crew
- The Elevator – Commentary with Creators Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris
- The Vows – Commentary with actors Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and creators Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris
- Season Two Sneak Peek
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD March 1
Strike Back (Andy Harries) Rated TV-MA [45min] – The actions of ‘Section 20’, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions throughout the globe. Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, and Michelle Lukes
Special features include:
- No special features included
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD April 19
Misconduct (Shintaro Shimosawa) Rated R [1h 46min] – When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption. Starring Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, and Al Pacino
Special features include:
- “The Making of Misconduct” Featurette
- Deleted Scenes
Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD April 12
Standoff (Adam Alleca) Rated R [1h 20min] – Carter, a troubled veteran, gets a chance at redemption by protecting a 12 year-old girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Starring Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, and Ella Ballentine
Special features include:
- No special features available 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