Blu-ray News
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on 4K Blu-ray A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (1984-1994). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 30.
Blue Underground has confirmed via social media that its highly anticipated 4K restoration of Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice (1983) is finally underway. A 4K Blu-ray release was pre-announced in 2020, but the label and its partners were unable to locate the original camera negatives, and the project was canceled.
Osciloscope Pictures will bring to Blu-ray Timm Kröger’s The Universal Theory (2023), starring Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, and David Bennent. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on August 5.
Reel Vault has informed us that it will add two new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. They are: Pointed Heels (1929) and King Kung Fu (1976). The two titles will be available for purchase on August 26.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer (2024), starring Nic Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little, Miranda Tapsell, and Nicholas Cassim. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 9.
British label Final Cut Entertainment is preparing a Blu-ray release of Peter Collinson’s Up the Junction (1968), starring Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta, and Liz Fraser. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 22.
Capelight International and MPI Home Video will bring to Blu-ray Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda (2004), starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, and Desmond Dube. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 16.
This September, GKIDS will introduce theatrically a brand new 4K restoration of Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda (2005), starring Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine, and Lily.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Peanuts: Ultimate TV Specials Collection. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 7.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has dated and detailed its upcoming 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Len Wiseman’s Ballerina (2025), starring Ana de Armas, Ian McShane, Keanu Reeves, Anjelica Huston, and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on September 9.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will issue a SteelBook Edition of Chucky: The Complete Series. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 23.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has provided complete details for its upcoming 4K Blu-ray release of The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), which will be available for purchase on August 12.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later (2025), starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on September 23.
StudioCanal will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva (1981), starring Richard Bohringer, Dominique Pinon, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, and Thuy An Luu. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on October 6.
French label Carlotta Films has released a promotional trailer for the recent 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963), starring Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, and Isao Kimura. The 4K will begin screening in French cinemas on September 3.
Shout Factory has provided final details for its upcoming 4K Blu-ray release of Oliver Stone’s Salvador (1986), starring James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, and Elpidia Carrillo. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 2.
20th Century Studios has provided an official domestic trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar Fire And Ash (2025). The film is set to open in IMAX venues and theaters across the nation on December 19.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Jonathan Lynn’s Clue (1985) with a brand new 4K Blu-ray SteelBook release, which is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 7th.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Karyn Kusama’s Aeon Flux (2005) with a brand new 4K Blu-ray SteelBook release, which is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 7th.
Cult Epics has dated and detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s School in the Crosshairs (1981), starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, Ryôichi Takayanagi, Masami Hasegawa, and Shingo Yanagisawa. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 14.
For the week of July 28th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Thunderbolts* on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Other new releases include The Phoenician Scheme from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Sissy from Shudder, Limbo (2023) from Brainstorm Media, The Diabolik Trilogy (2021-2023) from Kino Lorber, Rounding from Music Box Films and Cash Cow from Cartuna. Catalog titles include 4K UHD upgrades for The Blood of Fu Manchu and The Castle of Fu Manchu from Blue Underground, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Golden Child, Jade (1995) and Dirty Work (1998) from Vinegar Syndrome, Fade to Black (1980), The Jet Li Collection (1993-1994) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective from Shout Factory and Hiding Out, Billy Madison and Curdled from Kino.
Kino Lorber have revealed that they are preparing a 4K Blu-ray release of Ted Post’s classic western Hang ‘Em High (1968), starring Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, and Ben Johnson. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market in early 2026.
British label Fabulous Films will release on Blu-ray Night Gallery: The Complete Series (1969-1973). The nine-disc box set is scheduled to arrive on the market on August 25.
British distributors 88 Films have provided final details for their upcoming 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Bruno Mattei’s Rats: Night of Terror (1984), starring Ottaviano Dell’Acqua, Geretta Geretta, Massimo Vanni, Gianni Franco, and Fausto Lombardi. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on Augusy 11.
Dark Force Entertainment, in association with Kino Lorber, will bring to Blu-ray Mark Lester’s The Ex (1996), starring Yancy Butler, Suzy Amis, and Nick Mancuso. The release is expected to arrive on the market later this year.
For the week that ended on July 19th, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s Sinners (2025) remained on top of both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media and UHD Sellers charts in its second week. Second place on the Blu-ray-only chart went to Warner’s A Minecraft Movie, while third place went to 20th Century Studios’ The Amateur (2025).
British label Old Gold Media has provided us with final details for its upcoming Blu-ray release of
The Sweeney: Series Two (1975). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 1.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is preparing 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Juan José Meza-León’s Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2024). The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on September 23.
Arrow Video has announced its October batch of 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases. They are: Ms .45 (1981), Spawn (1997), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Three / Three… Extremes (2002-2004), The Return of the Living Dead (1985), The Sadness (2021), and Trick ‘r Treat (2007).
British label Screenbound Pictures has detailed its upcoming 4K Blu-ray release of Jim Wynorski’s The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), starring Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas, Dick Durock, and Joey Sagal. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 29.