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Paramount Home Entertainment is yet to officially announce that it will release on Blu-ray director J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, but online retailer Amazon already has live pre-orders for three different Blu-ray releases. Star Trek Into Darkness opened in cinemas across the United States on May 17th, 2013.
For the week of May 21st, Universal Studios Home Entertainment is bringing Side Effects to Blu-ray. Steven Soderbergh has claimed that this feature will be his last theatrical venture - he shot his Liberace docudrama, Behind the Candelabra, for HBO - and if the notoriously prolific director is telling the truth, then he's going out on a high note.
The Criterion Collection has announced five titles for Blu-ray release in August. On August 6th, the studio will release Max Ophuls' The Earrings of Madame de... (1953). On August 13th, it will release John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966). On August 20th, it will release Satyajit Ray's The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964). And on August 27th, it will release Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942).
British distributors Arrow Video have revealed that they are preparing a Blu-ray release of director Brian De Palma's The Fury (1978), starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, and Charles Durning. Exact technical specs and supplemental features to be included on this upcoming release are yet to be revealed.
Millennium Entertainment will bring to Blu-ray director Mark Steven Johnson's action thriller Killing Season (2013), starring Robert De Niro, John Travolta, and Milo Ventimiglia. The preliminary release date set by the studio is August 20th.
British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Japanese director Kaneto Shindo's The Naked Island (1960), starring Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, and Shinji Tanaka. The release will be available for purchase on June 17th.
British distributors Arrow Video have officially announced and detailed their upcoming standard and SteelBook Blu-ray editions of Jack Hill's landmark Blaxsploitation classic Foxy Brown (1974), starring Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, and Peter Brown. The two Blu-ray editions will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on June 24th.
Universal Pictures has released a new international trailer for writer/director Edgar Wright's The World's End, which reunites the filmmaker with his Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz stars, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and co-stars Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine and Rosamund Pike. The invasion action-comedy is set to arrive in U.S. theaters on August 23rd.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and its sequel, Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls, both of which star Jim Carrey as the eponymous private investigator. The zany '90s comedies arrive on Blu-ray on September 3rd.
Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new trailer, dubbed "Fate of Your Planet", for director Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, the Christopher Nolan-produced reboot of the Superman film franchise starring Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. The film is set to arrive in U.S. theaters on June 14th.
GKIDS and New Video Group, a division of Cinedigm Entertainment, are bringing Studio Ghibli's latest animated film, From Up on Poppy Hill, to Blu-ray this September. Written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his son, Goro Miyazaki, the critically acclaimed coming-of-age story is set to via a BD/DVD combo pack release on September 3rd, and is already available for pre-order.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing director Tom Shadyac's Liar Liar on Blu-ray on July 9th. The Jim Carrey comedy co-stars Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Anne Haney, Justin Cooper and Cary Elwes, and tells the tale of a lawyer who finds himself unable to lie for 24 hours.
PBS Distribution is releasing the next title in its Nova series this June: Australia's First 4 Billion Years, an overview of the history of the planet via an exploration of the land Down Under. The 2-disc Blu-ray edition of the four-hour documentary series streets on June 25th.
Currently available as a Best Buy exclusive, Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced the wide release of Battlestar Galactica (1978), the re-cut 124-minute version of "Saga Of A Star World," released in theaters (in Sensurround) several months after the TV pilot's broadcast premiere. The film will be available online and in retail stores on August 6th.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of director Steve Carr's Next Friday, starring producer/screenwriter Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce, Tamala Jones, Don "D.C." Curry, John Witherspoon and Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. The stoner comedy sequel to 1995's Friday arrives on Blu-ray on September 10th.
Anchor Bay Home Entertainment and RADiUS-TWC will release on Blu-ray director Philipp Stölzl's action thriller Erased a.k.a The Expatriate (2012), starring Aaron Eckhart, Liana Liberato, and Olga Kurylenko. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the United States on July 16th.
Madonna has confirmed in an exclusive interview with "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli that a Blu-ray with footage from her MDNA tour will be out in September. Exact technical specs and possible supplemental features to be included with this upcoming release, however, are yet to be revealed.
Independent British distributors Second Sight Films have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray acclaimed director Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire a.k.a La guerre du feu (1981), starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, and Nicholas Kadi. The release is expected to arrive on the market later this year.
Twentieth Century Fox has released a new trailer and poster for director James Mangold's upcoming film The Wolverine (2013), starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, and Tao Okamoto. The film is set to open in theaters across the United States on July 26h.
Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke's latest film A Touch of Sin (2013). The film was recently screened and nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Olive Films have revealed that they are planning to upgrade four titles from their catalog which were previously available only on DVD: Peter Glenville's Summer and Smoke (1961), Stuart Rosenberg's WUSA (1970), Guy Green's Once is not Enough (1975), and Gordon Douglas' Harlow (1965). All four titles will arrive on the market in July.
Doppelgänger Releasing, the new genre label of Music Box Films, has officially announced the Blu-ray release of writer/director Boris Rodriguez's Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal, starring Danish superstar Thure Lindhardt, Georgina Reilly and Dylan Smith. The horror-comedy and film festival favorite streets on August 6th.
Blu-ray.com and Image Entertainment are offering three members an opportunity to win a Blu-ray copy of director Kasper Barfoed's The Numbers Station, starring John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Liam Cunningham and Lucy Griffiths. The action thriller arrives on Blu-ray on May 28th.
