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, TV series sets and catalogue titles hitting the shelves Tuesday, May 19.
Grossing an impressive $543 million at the worldwide box office, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper, kicks off the list of this week’s new releases, joined by the R-rated comedy sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2, the Oscar-nominated Russian drama Leviathan and, hitting DVD only, Lucasfilm’s animated family adventure Strange Magic.
The Criterion Collection this week has a pair of offerings that tell two very different stories about fame. Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight becomes the sixth Chaplin film to join the collection, while Mark Rydell’s The Rose, starring Bette Midler, hits Blu-ray with a new restoration and quite a few newly-created special features.
Some catalogue horror also hits this week with Scream Factory delivering a special edition of Rupert Wainwright’s 1999 thriller Stigmata and MGM releasing both Poltergeist II & III as a double feature set, just in time for the upcoming Poltergeist reboot.
New arrivals from the small screen include the second season of the acclaimed Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, as well as complete series sets for both HBO’s prohibition era drama Boardwalk Empire and, hitting DVD only, Glee.
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: May 19, 2015
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American Sniper
- One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper
- The Making of American Sniper -
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
- Unrated version of the film
- Commentary by director Steve Pink and writer Josh Heald
- The Making of Hot Tub Time Machine 2
- The Future as Seen from the Tub!
- You’re in the Hot Tub Now!
- Deleted/Extended Scenes
- Bloopers and General F%#! Ups by the Cast -
Strange Magic
- Creating the Magic Featurette
- Magical Mash-Up: Outtakes, Test and Melodies -
Leviathan
- Audio Commentary with Director Andrey Zvyagintsev & Producer Alexander Rodnyansky
- The Making of Leviathan
- TIFF Q&A with Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Deleted Scenes -
Poltergeist II and III
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Stigmata
- Audio commentary with director Rupert Wainwright
- Incredible But True – Stigmata: Marked For Life (45 Min.)
- Divine Rights: The Story Of Stigmata (26 Min.)
- Music Video – “Identify” by Natalie Imbruglia
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternate Ending
- Theatrical Trailer -
Limelight
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Chaplin’s “Limelight”: Its Evolution and Intimacy, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- New interviews with actors Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd
- Chaplin Today: “Limelight,” a 2002 documentary on the film
- Archival audio recording of Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights
- Two short films by Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915) and the uncompleted The Professor (1919)
- Outtake and two trailers -
The Rose
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Vilmos Zsigmond, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD master audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring director Mark Rydell
- New interview with actor Bette Midler
- New conversation between Rydell and film historian and filmmaker Charles Dennis
- New conversation between Zsigmond and cinematographer John Bailey
- Archival interviews with Midler and Rydell, with on-set footage
- An essay by critic Paula Mejia -
Orange is the New Black: Season Two
- Audio commentaries with cast and crew (on episodes "Hugs Can Be Deceiving" and "You Also Have a Pizza")
- "Back Before the Potato Sack" featurette
- "Orange Peeled" featurette
- "A Walk Around the Block" featurette
- "The VEE.I.P. Treatment" featurette -
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Series
- Building The Boardwalk - Executive Producer/Director Tim Van Patten and crew discuss how the Atlantic City boardwalk was brought to life
- Shooting The Series - Learn how the look of the series was developed through conversations with Directors of Photography Jonathan Freeman and Bill Coleman
- Designing The Series - Production Designer Bill Groom and Set Decorator Carol Silverman discuss their process and the challenges faced in creating the authentic look of the series
- Visual Effects - Whether bringing to life Atlantic City or Havana, Cuba, Visual Effects Supervisor Lesley Robson-Foster illustrates the creation of some of the show's award-winning visual effects
- The Final Shot: A Farewell To Boardwalk Empire - A look back with the cast and crew as they discuss the origins of the show, their favorite moments and more
- Anatomy Of A Hit - Creator/Executive Producer/Writer Terence Winter, Executive Producer/Director Tim Van Patten and Executive Producer/Writer Howard Korder discuss the choreography for some of the series' most murderous hits -
Glee: The Complete Series
