For The Crazies, look for a newly-recorded audio commentary with director Breck Eisner, 3 new featurettes (Establishing Shot with Director Breck Eisner, Sculpting the Horror of The Crazies, and Storyboard to Screen: Carwash), and an Alternate Ending, plus the legacy commentary and extras. With remastering supervised and approved by the director, the film will even include Lionsgate’s “Red” logos.
For Kick-Ass, you’ll get 4 new featurettes (Pure Cinematic Fun, Still Kicking Ass, The Work of Art, and Physical Media Kicks Ass) and the film’s theatrical trailer, plus the legacy commentary and features. Here’s a look at the 4K Steelbook art for The Crazies. We’ll share the final Steelbook art for Kick-Ass in high quality when it’s available.
In other announcement news, Paramount has now set Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995) for 4K Ultra HD release on 7/3.
Universal has set Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag (2025) for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release on 5/27.
Our friends at Vinegar Syndrome have revealed their April slate of 4K Ultra HD titles, which will include Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) (via the Mélusine label), John Badam’s Drop Zone (1994) (for Cinématographe), a double-feature of Lindsay Shonteff’s Devil Doll (1964) and Curse of the Voodoo (1965), Armand Weston’s The Nesting (1981), and Lucio Fulci’s Murderock (1984). All are expected to ship later this month from the company’s website.
Meanwhile, Second Sight has announced new Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, and 4K Ultra HD Limited Editions of Shane Black’s The Nice Guys (2016)—due on 6/2—and Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me (2022)—due on 6/16. Also coming to Blu-ray and Limited Edition Blu-ray on 4/28 are Ti West’s The House of the Devil (2009) and Caye Casas’ The Coffee Table (2022). You can pre-order those here.
Via Vision’s May Blu-ray Limited Edition slate will include Nelson McCormick’s Prom Night (2008), The Wolf Man Collection—featuring The Wolf Man (1941), Werewolf of London (1935), and She-Wolf of London (1946)—and Nathan H. Juran’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)—featuring the legendary stop-motion work of Ray Harryhausen—each with 3D lenticular covers and limited to 2,000 units. Those are available here.
RLJ Entertainment has set Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks (2023) for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 6/3.
Neon and Decal Releasing have set Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey (2025) for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD pre-order on Amazon and elsewhere. Also now available for pre-order online is Jared Hess’ A Minecraft Movie (2025) on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K UHD from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. The street date for both is obviously TBA.
And it looks like Warner Bros. is going to be re-releasing Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) in 4K Ultra HD Steelbook format on 5/27, the same day as The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
Finally, Arrow Video has announced on social media that they’ve delayed their 4K UHD release of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) 4K from 4/21 to 5/12 due to production delays. The company is also now taking requests for 4K replacement discs for Tarsem Singh’s The Cell (2000), which came out in January. As some of you may know, a couple of shots were out of order and one was repeated on the Director’s Cut 4K disc. Contact the company here to request your copy.
And before we go today, I wanted to mention my friend Jeffrey Morris’ new The Eagle Obsession documentary once again. Focused on the iconic Eagle Transporter spacecraft from Space: 1999, the project was Kickstarted last year. The doc features new interviews with actors Nick Tate and Barbara Bain (who played Alan Carter and Dr. Helena Russell on the show), VFX artist Brian Johnson (who designed the Eagle and who also worked on Alien and The Empire Strikes Back), sci-fi writer Kevin J. Anderson (who co-authored the Dune sequels with Brian Herbert), plus the great William Shatner, my friend Mike Okuda (who has worked on every Star Trek project from The Voyage Home to Enterprise), Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke (who was one of the last human beings to walk on the Moon), and more. It also features terrific visual effects by our mutual friend Tobias Richter of The Lightworks in Germany. I’ve now seen the first two feels of the finished documentary, and I’m really enjoying it. If you’re a fan of Space: 1999, or classic science fiction in general, I think you will too. And a Blu-ray of the project will be available at a later date. You can learn more here.
All right, that’s all for now! Back tomorrow with more.
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- Bill Hunt
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