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, June 2.
This weeks brings quite a few recent theatrical releases home, including the madcap animated adventure The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, the conman romance Focus (starring future Suicide Squad members Margot Robbie and Will Smith), the Wachowskis’ sci-fi odyssey Jupiter Ascending, the inspirational true sports drama McFarland, USA (starring Kevin Costner) and the kaiju sequel Monsters: Dark Continent.
Flicker Alley has a treat this week for cinephiles with a new Dziga Vertov set, celebrating the father of cinéma vérité with the first-ever HD release of his works, including his epochal Man with a Movie Camera (1929), 1924’s Kino-Eye and more!
Two catalogue horror titles arrive this week with Warner Archive delivering a Blu-ray of director Michael Wadleigh’s 1981 cult classic Wolfen and Scream Factory offering William Wesley’s 1988 supernatural slasher Scarecrows.
On the small screen, we’re getting the fourth season of TNT’s “Falling Skies” in advance of the sci-fi series’ fifth and final season premiere June 28. There’s also the final season of FX’s “Justified”, a box set (sadly, DVD only) that includes every episode of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” as well as (also DVD only) the complete second season of “Rectify”. Look for the third season to premiere on SundanceTV July 9.
Finally, “The Wire” comes to Blu-ray in a 20-disc complete series set. Although the episodes boast never-before-seen HD transfers, buyers should be aware that the episodes are only available cropped for 16×9 screens. On his official site, series creator David Simon recently weighed the pros and cons of the new release.
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: June 2, 2015
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The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
- On the Surface:
SpongeBob SquarePants: Out of His World
When I Grow Up, I Want to Make Funny Sounds
Becoming Burger Beard
Making the Burger Mobile Chase Sequence
It's Hip to Be SquarePants
A Day in the Life of a Sponge- Underwater Awesomeness:
Plankton Rules the World!
Bikini Bottom Confidential: Rock Stars of the Sea
International Sponge of Mystery: Meet Bubbles & The Speech- Bikini Bottom Boogie:
Thank Gosh It's Monday
SpongeBob Sing-Alongs:
Thank Gosh It's Monday
Teamwork
Theme Song/Rap Battle
"Squeeze Me" Music Video by N.E.R.D.- Deleted/Extended/Alternate/Test Scenes
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Focus
- Masters of Misdirection: The Players in a Con
- Will Smith: Gentleman Thief
- Margot Robbie: Stealing Hearts
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternate Opening -
Jupiter Ascending
- Dolby Atmos Audio
- Jupiter Jones: Destiny Is Within Us
- Caine Wise: Interplanetary Warrior
- The Wachowskis: Minds Over Matter
- Worlds Within Worlds Within Worlds
- Jupiter Ascending: Genetically Spliced
- Bullet Time Evolved
- From Earth to Jupiter (And Everywhere In Between) -
McFarland, USA
- McFarland Reflections
- "Juntos" Music Video by Juanes
- Inspiring McFarland
- Deleted and Extended Scenes -
Monsters: Dark Continent
- Behind the Scenes Featurette
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Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works
- The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - Named the best documentary film of all time by Sight and Sound, it is presented here in its entirety for the first time since its original premiere. Discovered and restored at EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam—with extensive digital treatment by Lobster Films—the 35mm print from which this edition is, in part, sourced is the only known complete version of the film.
- Kino-Eye (1924) – A cinematographic poem in which Vertov lays the foundation of his Kino-Eye principles, the film shows the incredible force of his theories, but also the beauty and energy of a society fresh from revolution, ready to face the challenges of a difficult future.
- Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1931) – One of the first Soviet sound films, it deals with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s, and represents Vertov’s radical attempt to link economic progress with the introduction of sound in cinema.
- Three Songs About Lenin (1934) – Arguably Vertov’s most personal work, the triptych celebrates the Soviet leader 10 years after his death as seen through the eyes of the people. -
Scarecrows
- Audio Commentary with director William Wesley and producer Cami Winikoff
- Audio Commentary with co-screenwriter Richard Jefferies, Director of Photography Peter Deming and composer Terry Plumeri
- The Last Straw – an interview with Special Make-up Effects Creator Norman Cabrera
- Cornfield Commando – an interview with Actor Ted Vernon
- Original Storyboards
- Still Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer -
Wolfen
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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Falling Skies - Season Four
- Character Interviews with actors Colin Cunningham, Connor Jessup, Drew Roy, Maxim Knight, Moon Bloodgood, Noah Wyle, Sarah Carter and Scarlett Byrne
- Inside the Episode: Ghost In The Machine, The Eye, Exodus, Evolve Or Die, Mind Wars, Door Number Three, Saturday Night Massacre, A Thing With Feathers, Till Death Do Us Part, Drawing Straws, Season Finale Pt. 1 & 2
- Comic Con Panel -
Justified: The Final Season
- Hollywood to Harlan Featurette – Join the writers of Justified in Kentucky as they conduct research before sitting down to write the final season of the show. From a visit to the Lexington marshal's office to the coal mines of Harlan, the writers had an opportunity to experience Kentucky in a whole new way.
- Directing the Show: Adam Arkin – Go behind the scenes with Director Adam Arkin as he directs the episode "Trust."
- Dutch Speaks – A vintage interview with Writer Elmore Leonard about his thoughts on Justified.
- Deleted Scenes -
Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series
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Rectify Season Two
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The Wire: The Complete Series
- Audio Commentaries
- Four behind-the-scenes documentaries
- Three prequels that explore life before The Wire
- All-new cast and crew Q&A from the Paley Center for Media's The Wire reunion event.
