August 16 brings home The Angry Birds Movie, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Gotham Season Two and lots more!
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top titles arriving this week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at the major new releases, catalogue films and television collections hitting shelves and/or VOD beginning Tuesday, August 16, 2016.
The only recent major release coming home August 16 is Sony Pictures’ animated box office smash The Angry Birds Movie. It’s still a very busy week, however, when it comes to indie releases, catalogue titles and television sets.
Drafthouse Films delivers Raiders!, the recent documentary about a group of fans who spent years and years meticulously reconstructing Raiders of the Lost Ark as a shot for shot fan film.
Universal Pictures brings home a half dozen catalogue comedies August 16, debuting all six on Blu-ray for the first time. Look for Tom Hanks starring opposite Shelley Long in 1986’s The Money Pitand headlining Joe Dante’s 1989 dark comedy The Burbs. There’s also the John Hughes-scripted 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors(starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy), the 1989 ensemble comedy The Dream Team, 1992’s franchise-launching canine comedyBeethovenand the 1998 comedy biopic Patch Adams, starring the late Robin Williams.
Shout! Factory this week launches their new Shout! Select line with the first ever Blu-ray release of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension. If that’s not enough for collectors, the company also brings home John Carpenter’s early and little seen telefilm Elvis, starring Kurt Russell as the King. They’ve also got a new entry in their Scream Factory line with Brad Anderson’s impressive 2001 horror thriller, Session 9.
Warner Archive brings to Blu-ray Richard C. Sarafian’s 1971 western, Man in the Wilderness, starring Richard Harris, as well as a pair of MOD DVDs: a 1930 adaptation of Moby Dick, starring John Barrymore as Ahab, and the 1969 historical drama Alfred the Great.
Debuting via Digital HD August 16 are a trio of recent big screen releases including the dramas A Bigger Splashand Me Before Youand the Lonely Island mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Stopping. Meanwhile, Imperium, starring Daniel Racliffe, debuts exclusively to iTunes this Friday, August 19.
You can check out cover art for all the August 16 releases in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable).
August 16, 2016: This Week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD
The Angry Birds Movie
Raiders!
Beethoven
The 'Burbs
The Dream Team
The Great Outdoors
The Money Pit
Patch Adams
Man in the Wilderness
Alfred the Great
Moby Dick
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
Elvis
Session 9
Microwave Massacre
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Community: The Complete Series
Gotham: Season Two
Hell on Wheels: Season 5
Once Upon a Time: Season Five
Power Rangers Megaforce: The Complete Series
Power Rangers Super Megaforce: The Complete Series