Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top entertainment hitting this week on Blu-ray and DVD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at all the major new releases, television season sets and catalogue titles hitting the shelves today, April 14, 2015.
Big Eyes kicks things off this week with the recent Tim Burton drama that won Amy Adams a Golden Globe Award. Also recently on the big screen, Jennifer Kent’s truly terrifying The Babadook, the crime thriller Kidnapping Mr. Heinken (starring Sir Anthony Hopkins), David Cronenberg’s haunting Hollywood tale Maps to the Stars and the Hammer sequel The Woman in Black 2 are now available.
Debuting directly to Blu-ray and DVD are both DC Comics’ animated Batman vs. Robin and, a live-action sequel presented by and starring RZA, The Man with the Iron Fists 2.
Last’s year’s documentary I Am Steve McQueen comes home courtesy of Shout! Factory, whose diverse slate this week also includes an Eddie and the Cruisers / Eddie Lives! double feature (the HD debut for both titles), the complete “Heavy Metal”-inspired Metal Hurlant Chronicles, the aforementioned The Babadook and, in a collector’s edition, the punk apocalypse cult classic Class of 1984.
The Criterion Collection, meanwhile, adds another Carol Reed title with the tense 1947 noir thriller Odd Man Out and also upgrades Preston Sturges’ screwball comedy masterpiece Sullivan’s Travels to Blu-ray.
Finally, on the small screen, the critically-acclaimed British miniseries “The Missing” arrives, offering all eight chapters on two Blu-ray discs.
You can check out all the cover art in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable):
This Week on Blu-ray and DVD: April 14, 2015
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Big Eyes
- The Making of Big Eyes Featurette
- Q&A Highlights -
The Babadook
- Director-Approved Limited Run "Pop-up Book" slipcover packaging
- Director Jennifer Kent's short film MONSTER
- Deleted Scenes
- Cast and Crew interviews and a look behind-the-scenes of the making of the film:
- Creating The Book with illustrator Alex Juhasz
-A Tour of the House Set
- The Stunts: Jumping the stairs
- Special Effects: The Stabbing
- Theatrical Trailers -
The Woman in Black 2
- The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death: Chilling Locations
- Pulling Back the Veil: The Woman in Black 2:
- Angel of Death (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Deleted Scene
- Theatrical Trailer -
Maps to the Stars
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I Am Steve McQueen
- McQueen’s Garage – Cars, Planes and Motorcycles
- Steve McQueen’s Yucatan – McQueen’s Passion Project
- Trailer -
The Man with the Iron Fists 2
- Rated and Unrated Cuts of the Film
- Feature Commentary with Director Roel Reiné and Executive Producer/Co-Writer/Star Rza (Both Versions)
- Chi Warriors: The Making of The Man with the Iron Fists 2 -
Batman vs. Robin
- Gotham's City Secret: The Mythic Court of Owls
- Talons of the Owl
- Batman Vs. Robin Audio Commentary
- A Sneak Peak at Justice League: Gods & Monsters
- Bonus cartoons from the DC Comics Vault -
Class of 1984
- New High-Definition Transfer of the Film From the Interpositive
- New interviews with Director Mark Lester, composer Lalo Schifrin and Actors Lisa Langlois and Erin Noble
- New career retrospective interview with Actor Perry King
- Audio Commentary with Mark Lester
- Blood and Blackboards featurette – featuring interviews with Mark Lester, Perry King and Merrie Lynn Ross
- Poster & Still Gallery
- Original Theatrical Trailer & TV Spots -
Eddie and the Cruisers / Eddie 2: Eddie Lives!
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
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The Metal Hurlant Chronicles
- Exclusive Alternate French-Language Versions
- Featurettes
- San Diego Comic-Con International Panel -
The Missing
- Time Changes All
- Transformations
- Behind the Scenes -
Odd Man Out
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics
- Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film
- New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score
Home, James, a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown
- Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O’Herlihy
- An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith -
Sullivan's Travels
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2001 by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean
- Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990), a seventy-five-minute documentary made by Bowser for PBS’s American Masters series
- New video essay by film critic David Cairns, featuring filmmaker Bill Forsyth
- Interview with Sandy Sturges, the director’s widow, from 2001
- Interview with Sturges by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper from 1951
- Archival audio recordings of Sturges
- An essay by critic Stuart Klawans
