Arriving Tuesday, August 4 are The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Adult Beginners, Burying the Ex and more!
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 the major new releases, catalogue titles and television collections hitting shelves on Tuesday, August 4, 2015.
Shailene Woodley’s young adult sci-fi action franchise continues with the the home release of The Divergent Series: Insurgent, arriving on Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray 3D with plenty of time for audiences to catch up before the third big screen chapter, Allegiant – Part 1 arrives March 18.
Other recent big screen releases include: Adult Beginners, the comedy drama starring Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale; Barely Lethal, Kyle Newman’s teenage assassin action comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba and Sophie Turner; Child 44, Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa’s crime thriller starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Noomi Rapace; Every Secret Thing, the Amy Berg-helmed mystery starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning; A Little Chaos, a period romantic drama directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet; Madam Bovary, Sophie Barthes’ take on the Gustave Flaubert novel, headlined by Mia Wasikowska; and True Story, director Rupert Goold’s based-on-fact mystery, starring James Franco and Jonah Hill.
Also arriving this week is Joe Dante’s Burying the Ex, starring Anton Yelchin, Ashley Green and Alexandra Daddario. Dante and Yelchin recently dropped by our studio for an episode of Most Craved. The film is hitting wide release on DVD-only, but is available on Blu-ray as a Best Buy exclusive.
The Criterion Collection this week upgrades Jules Dassin’s 1950 noir classic Night and the City to Blu-ray. It wasn’t long ago they upgraded Dassin’s Rififi, too, so perhaps reissues of Brute Force, The Naked City and Thieves’ Highway will be along in due time
On the small screen front, this week brings us the recent telefilm take on J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy as well as the third seasons of both Orphan Black and Strike Back. There’s also the fully-restored “Ultimate” second season of legendary sitcom I Love Lucy and, both arriving on DVD only, the first seasons of How to Get Away with Murder and The Affair.
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: August 4, 2015
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The Divergent Series: Insurgent
- Audio Commentary with Producers Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher
- "Insurgent Unlocked: The Ultimate Behind-the-Scenes Access" (Feature-Length Documentary)
- "Diverging: Adapting Insurgent to the Screen"
- "From Divergent to Insurgent"
- "The Others: Cast and Characters"
- "The Train Fight Unlocked"
- "The Peter Hayes Story"
- Marketing Gallery -
Adult Beginners
- The Making of Adult Beginners featurette
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Barely Lethal
- Deleted Scenes
- Audio Commentary with Director Kyle Newman and Actors Dove Cameron and Thomas Mann
- "Back to School: On the Set of Barely Lethal" Featurette -
Burying the Ex
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Child 44
- Reflections of History" featurette
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Every Secret Thing
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A Little Chaos
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Madame Bovary
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True Story
- Alternate Ending
- Deleted Scenes
- Mike Finkel Featurette
- Who is Christian Longo?
- The Truth Behind True Story
- The Making of True Story
- Audio Commentary by Director Rupert Goold
- Gallery -
The Casual Vacancy
- An Introduction to The Casual Vacancy
- Adapting The Casual Vacancy
- Casting The Casual Vacancy -
Night and the City
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Complete 101-minute British version of the film
- Audio commentary from 2005 with film scholar Glenn Erickson
- Interview with director Jules Dassin from 2005
- Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with Dassin
- Comparison of the scores for the British and American versions of the film
- An essay by critic Paul Arthur -
I Love Lucy: Ultimate Season Two
- Audio commentary on the classic "Job Switching" (aka "Chocolate Factory") episode.
- A newly-colorized version of "Job Switching."
- Scenes from "Stars in the Eye," a CBS special from November, 1952, featuring the I Love Lucy cast.
- An I Love Lucy comedy sketch originally presented on "The Red Skelton Show" from May, 1953.
- A French-Canadian version of "Job Switching," including unique opening and closing graphics and French-Canadian audio track. -
Orphan Black: Season Three
- "Creating the Castor Clones, a glimpse of a day in the life of actor Ari Millen, and the origins of the male clones
- "The Rendition Camp: Behind the Walls," a tour around the elaborate rendition camp soundstage led by co-creator John Fawcett, cinematographer Aaron Morton and VFX supervisor Geoff Scott
- "Dissecting the Scenes," the cast and crew of Orphan Black pull back the curtain to reveal the magic of creating Season Three's four-clone scenes
- "The Look of Orphan Black," cinematographer Aaron Morton and director John Fawcett describe how they devised the distinctive look of Orphan Black and how it's developed over the last three seasons
- "Team Hendrix: Rockin' the Suburbs," Tatiana Maslany and Kristian Bruun dig into the strange appeal of the annual Alison/Donnie episodes
- A blooper reel featuring hilarious outtakes from the season -
Strike Back: Season Three
- 3 Cast and Crew Audio Commentaries
- 9 "How to Strike Back" Featurettes -
The Affair: Season One
- Tale of Two Costumes
- Character Profile: Montauk
- Character Profile: Noah
- Character Profile: Helen
- Character Profile: Alison
- Character Profile: Cole
- Happyish: Episode 1
- Happyish: Episode 2
- Ray Donovan S1: Episode 1
- Madam Secretary S1: Episode 1 -
How to Get Away with Murder: Season One
- First Year Law
- "Bye Felicia" Music Video
- Deleted Scenes
- Bloopers
