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On June 8th you’ll be able to pick up this 4K Steelbook release of Hoppers, the latest from Pixar.

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In this animated comedy adventure, animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to ‘hop’ her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver and commuicate directly with animals. As she makes amazing discoveries, Mabel befriends a charismatic beaver and must rally the entire animal kingdom to face a major, imminent, human threat.

EXTRAS:

• The Critter Diaries: Wander behind the scenes with director Daniel Chong and the Pixar team as they explore Yellowstone, study wildlife, and find real-life inspiration for our favorite new animated characters from Hoppers.
• Hopping In: The Making of Hoppers: Hop into the making of the movie as filmmakers, cast, and crew share how their ideas, collaboration, and creative process brought the story, animation, and lovable characters to life in Pixar’s Hoppers.
• “Meet King George” Scene Breakdown: Dive deep with director Daniel Chong and his filmmaking team as they reveal the craft of making King George’s Superlodge. Get insight into the directing process, editing, VFX, animation, and production design.
• Beaverton Revealed: Explore Hoppers to find surprising Pixar film cameos, hidden references, and plenty of fun, behind-the-scenes facts.
• Dam Good Bloopers: Laugh along with your favorite voice actors from Hoppers as they have fun bringing their characters to life in the recording booth.
• Deleted Scenes: Check out these scenes that didn’t make the final cut, as introduced by director Daniel Chong and editor Axel Geddes.
• Steelbook Finish: Glossy Varnish

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While the character has gone on to headline several movies and a great Amazon TV series, his first big screen outing was almost as a supporting character in the excellent cold war thriller The Hunt For Red October, which is 4K Steelbook re-release on June 29th.

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Based on Tom Clancy’s bestseller starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, The Hunt For Red October seethes with state-of-the-art excitement and sweats with the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new, technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack, but a lone CIA analyst, Jack Ryan (Baldwin), has a different belief: Ramius is planning to defect. But Ryan has only a few precious hours to locate him and prove it — because the entire Russian Naval and Air Commands are trying to find him, too. With international peace at stake and time running out … The Hunt is On!

DISC 1: 4K ULTRA HD FEATURE FILM + SPECIAL FEATURE

• Commentary by Director John McTiernan

DISC 2: BLU-RAY FEATURE FILM + SPECIAL FEATURES

• Commentary by Director John McTiernan
• Beneath the Surface
• Theatrical Trailer

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On June 29th, the 4K steelbook of Super 8 is getting a re-release, so if you missed out the first time now’s your chance to grab a copy.

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J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg join forces in this extraordinary tale of youth, mystery and adventure. Super 8 tells the story of six friends who witness a train wreck while making a Super 8 movie, only to learn that something unimaginable escaped during the crash. They soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is what it wants. Experience the film that critics rave is “filled with unstoppable imagination and visual effects to spare. It will put a spell on you.”

Special Features:

• Commentary by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, and Larry Fong
• 8 Featurettes
• Deconstructing the Train Crash – Uncover the Secrets Behind Filming the Astonishing Scene
• 14 Deleted Scenes

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In the early 1980s a battle began over the nation’s viewing. The home video market was booming, and the unsatiable demand was met by a sudden influx of cheap, often explicit and violent films.

In Episode 4 we see how the relentless press campaign against nasties started to have an effect, with police seizures and prosecutions increasing, while politicians on all sides worked to pass the Video Recordings Bill into law, which would forever change how films were censored and consumed in the UK

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Later this year you’ll be able to pick up a new 30th Anniverary 4K Steelbook release of Eraser, which will be available as both a standard and Collectors Edition release.

Artwork, extras and release date are still TBC, but pre-orders are live now.

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Schwarzenegger’s back and tougher than ever! As an elite marshal for the Federal Witness Protection Program, he faces the toughest challenge of his lifetime in the electrifying action thriller Eraser.

When Lee Cullen (pop music star Vanessa Williams–The Pick Up Artist) stumbles upon a scheme to deliver a new superweapon into the hands of a hostile foreign power, her life as she knows it ends. Enter John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger–The Terminator films), the only man who can protect her from conspirators who will go to any extreme to silence her. To secure her future, Kruger must “erase” her past even if he becomes the next target.

On-Disc Special Features:

• Reinventing the Modern Action Hero — The Evolution of Arnold (6 mins)
• ’90s Action Thriller Reimagined (9 mins)

Featured In Pack (Subject to Change):

• Film on 4K UHD & Blu-Ray
• Steelbook
• Rigid Slipcase
• A3 Double-Sided Theatrical Poster
• 4x Double-Sided Behind-the-Scenes Cards
• 3x Double-Sided Action Scene Art Cards
• 2x Character Art Cards

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On July 13th Arrow are bringing us this new 4K release of Hush, featuring a great selection of extra feature and two versions of the film.

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SILENCE CAN BE KILLER. Before The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep, writer-director Mike Flanagan delivered Hush – a lean, nerve-shredding exercise in minimalist terror. Co-written with and starring Kate Siegel, this stripped-back home invasion thriller showcases the filmmaker’s mastery of sustained suspense. Maddie (Siegel), a deaf novelist living in secluded woodland isolation, finds her hard-won peace shattered when a masked killer (John Gallagher Jr.) appears at her window. Cut off from help, she is forced into a brutal game of cat and mouse where silence becomes both her greatest vulnerability and her only weapon. As the night deepens, Maddie’s survival will depend on ingenuity, resilience, and sheer strength of will. Claustrophobic, cleverly constructed, and relentlessly tense, Hush transforms a simple premise into a masterclass in pure tension, demonstrating that sometimes the quietest films make the loudest impact.

2-DISC 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais
• Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anton Bitel, Kat Ellinger, Amanda Reyes and Eloise Ross

DISC 1 – ORIGINAL VERSION

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in HDR10 of the original, full-colour version
• English Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary with co-writer/director Mike Flanagan, co-writer/actor Kate Siegel, and actors Samantha Sloyan, John Gallagher Jr. and Michael Trucco
• Picture-in-picture commentary with Flanagan, Siegel, Sloyan, Gallagher Jr., and Trucco
• The Dance Macabre, an interview with Mike Flanagan
• To Stand Alone, an interview with Kate Siegel
• The Constant Reader, an interview with Samantha Sloyan
• The Shape of Silence, an interview with John Gallagher Jr.
• Silent Witness, an interview with Michael Trucco
• One Good Scare, an interview with actor Trevor Macy
• Violent Strains, an interview with composers The Newton Brothers
• One Terrible Night, an interview with cinematographer James Kniest
• Original trailer
• Image gallery

DISC 2 – SHUSH CUT

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in HDR10 of the Shush Cut, presented in black & white with a revised audio mix
• English Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel
• Mike Flanagan Artist Talk, a feature-length Q&A with the filmmaker, recorded at Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal in 2024
• Beyond Fest Q&A with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel, recorded at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles in 2024
• The Silent Mask, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the film’s representation of deafness

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On July 27th Arrow are bringing us this new 4K release of Soylent Green, which will include a mix of new and archive extra features.

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IT’S THE YEAR 2022… PEOPLE ARE STILL THE SAME. THEY’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT THEY NEED. AND THEY NEED SOYLENT GREEN.

Across a forty year career, Richard Fleischer directed classic movies in almost every decade he was working: from the epic swashbuckling of The Vikings, to the psychological chills of 10 Rillington Place… and, of course, Soylent Green: a dystopian science-fiction thriller with a venomous sting in its tail. In a frighteningly prescient world of overpopulation and ecological collapse, resources are scarce. While the elite live in spacious, walled-off communities eating natural food and drinking clean water, the masses live in squalor, collecting water from communal taps and eating highly processed food wafers made by the Soylent Corporation. Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are a staple, but now there’s a tastier and more nutritious option: Soylent Green. When a member of the Soylent Corporation’s board is murdered, Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is called in to investigate. His search for answers will lead to a shocking discovery. The final entry in a trilogy of dystopian sci-fi classics starring Charlton Heston – following Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man – Soylent Green is a devastating vision of humanity on the brink, once seen, never forgotten.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films
• Original lossless mono audio • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Archive audio commentary with director Richard Fleischer and star Leigh Taylor-Young
• Brand new audio commentary with film historian Michael Brooke and author Johnny Mains
• Charlton Heston at the BFI, an archive on-stage interview with the star of Soylent Green
• Richard Fleisher at the BFl, an archive onstage interview with the director of Soylent Green
• A Look at the World of Soylent Green, a vintage featurette
• MGM’s Tribute to Edward G. Robinson’s 101st Film, a vintage featurette
• Theatrical trailer
• Image galleries
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh
• Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Frank Collins and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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On July 20th Arrow are bringing us this new 4K release of Falling Down, with a great selection of new and archive extra features.

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A TALE OF URBAN REALITY In 1993, director Joel Schumacher (Flatliners) delivered one of the most provocative studio thrillers of the decade with Falling Down, a darkly comic, razor-sharp portrait of modern urban frustration starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall at their very best. On a sweltering Los Angeles morning, a man known only as “D-Fens” (Douglas) abandons his car in a gridlocked traffic jam and sets off across the city on foot. He just wants to go home, but his path is marred by increasing everyday irritations that escalate into explosive confrontations, leaving a trail of violence in his wake. Trying to piece together these events is veteran cop Prendergast (Duvall), whose quiet final day before retirement becomes a chaotic hunt for a dangerous man on the edge. As the paths of these two very different men converge, the question of whether D-Fens is a victim of an oppressive society, or a man showing his true colors becomes unavoidable. Shocking, darkly funny, and eerily prescient, Falling Down remains one of the most unforgettable portraits of rage in modern American cinema. Now restored in stunning 4K, this controversial cult classic looks sharper and hits harder than ever before.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films approved by cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak
• Newly restored original lossless stereo 2.0 and DTS-HD MA 4.0 surround audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Archival audio commentary by director Joel Schumacher, editor Paul Hirsch, screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith, LA Times writer Shawn Hubler, and actors Michael Douglas, Michael Paul Chan, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Frederic Forrest
• Man on the Edge, a brand new interview with screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith
• At War with the World, a brand new interview with composer James Newton Howard
• Going Home, a brand new location featurette revisiting the real-life Los Angeles sites used in Falling Down
• Deconstructing D-Fens, an archival interview with Michael Douglas
• Original trailer
• Image gallery
• Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by film critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Simon Ward

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This July Arrow are bringing us this new 4K release of To Live And Die In L.A., packed with their usual selection of extra features.

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A FEDERAL AGENT IS DEAD. A KILLER IS LOOSE. AND THE CITY OF ANGELS IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE. In the seventies, one of America’s finest ever maestros behind the camera, William Friedkin, made The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer. In the eighties, he equalled them with the formidable To Live and Die in L.A., one of the most stylish thrillers the decade had to offer. When his partner is murdered just days before retirement, Secret Service Agent Richard Chance (William Petersen, Manhunter) begins an obsessive hunt for his killer — counterfeiter and all-round psychopath Eric Masters, played by Willem Dafoe at his villainous prime. Beautifully shot by Robby Müller (Repo Man, Paris, Texas) and with a driving score by British new wave act Wang Chung, To Live and Die in L.A. looks and sounds exceptional in this breathtaking 4K restoration from the original camera negative.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio option
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by director and co-writer William Friedkin
• Taking a Chance, an archive interview with actor William Petersen
• Doctor for a Day, an archive interview with actor Dwier Brown
• Renaissance Woman in L.A., an archive interview with Debra Feuer
• So In Phase: Scoring To Live and Die in L.A., an archive interview with composers Wang Chung
• Wrong Way: The Stunts of To Live and Die in L.A., an archive interview with stunt co-ordinator Buddy Joe Hooker
• Counterfeit World: The Making of To Live and Die in L.A., an archive featurette containing interviews with Friedkin, actors Petersen and Willem Dafoe, and others
• Alternative ending
• Deleted scene
• Stills gallery
• Trailers
• Radio spot
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee
• Collectors’ booklet featuring writing by Anne Billson and Ric Gentry

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The long-awaited film about (some of) the life of Michael Jackson – from the director of Training Day and The Equalizer trilogy – is hitting big screens around the world, and UK 4K Steelbook release has been confirmed.

Extras and release date are still all TBC, but pre-orders are live now.

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The story of the famous musician Michael Jackson, known as the King of Pop.

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On June 16th you’ll be able to pick up this new 4K Steelbook release of Warcraft, which will also include the movie on Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray.

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TWO WORLDS. ONE HOME. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, an unlikely set of heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their families, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.

OVER 90 MINUTES OF BONUS FEATURES:

• Deleted/Extended Scenes
• Gag Reel
• The World of Warcraft on Film
• The Fandom of Warcraft
• Warcraft: Bonds of Brotherhood Motion Comic
• Warcraft: The Madame Tussauds Experience
• ILM: Behind the Magic of Warcraft
• Warcraft Teaser

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In the early 1980s a battle began over the nation’s viewing. The home video market was booming, and the unsatiable demand was met by a sudden influx of cheap, often explicit and violent films.

In Episode 3 we take a look at the campaigners and press who stepped up to try and stop the invasion of filth into our living rooms.

But did they just end up making people want to see these films more? And were the campaigns really about protecting the children, or about control, censorship and trying to return to a more ‘moral’ country that had long since left behind those old-fashioned Victorian values?

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Later this year you’ll be able to pick up this 4K Steelbook release of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, from the director of the excellent Evil Dead Rise.

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Hot off the record-setting resurrection of EVIL DEAD RISE, writer/director Lee Cronin turns to one of the most iconic horror stories of all time with an audacious and twisted retelling: LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY. The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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On November 2nd Warner Bros are bringing us this new library case edition of Game Of Thrones, featuring all new artwork.

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Based on the bestselling fantasy book series by George R.R. Martin, ‘Game Of Thrones®’ follows kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and noblemen as they vie for power. In a land where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime, trouble is brewing. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north, and the ancient Wall that protects the realm from the darkness beyond, two powerful families are engaged in a deadly cat-and-mouse game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

Featured In-Pack:

• Collectible Booklet
• Limited Edition Numbered Steelbook Library Case (4K Ultra HD)
• x 8 Season SteelBooks – Exclusive with this Collection
• 12 page episode guide

On-Disc Special Features:

• Includes the Two-Part Game of Thrones: Reunion Special, Hosted by Conan O’Brien
• Game of Thrones: The Last Watch Documentary
• Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
• Audio Commentaries, Deleted Scenes, Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes and More

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On June 22nd you’ll be able to pick up this new 4K Steelbook release of Labyrinth, which will available as standard and Collectors Edition versions.

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From visionary filmmaker Jim Henson comes the unforgettable fantasy of a 16-year-old girl (Academy Award® winner Jennifer Connelly) who’s been given only 13 hours to traverse a dangerous and wonderful labyrinth to rescue her baby brother after her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King, played by the iconic David Bowie.

Contains the film on 4K UHD Blu-ray with HDR and regular Blu-ray, featuring English, French and German audio tracks with English, French and German subtitles.

Bonus features:

• Audio Commentary With Conceptual Designer Brian Froud
• Q&As With Brian Henson & Toby Froud
• Anniversary Q&A
• Contact Juggling Tutorial
• “Reordering Time: Looking Back At Labyrinth”
• “The Henson Legacy”
• “Remembering The Goblin King”
• “Inside The Labyrinth” Making-Of Documentary
• “Journey Through The Labyrinth: Kingdom Of Characters”
• Deleted & Alternate Scenes Including Audio Commentary With Brian Henson
• The Storytellers
• Picture Gallery

This Collector’s Edition Contents:

• Celebrating the 40th anniversary of this iconic film
• From visionary filmmaker Jim Henson
• Includes the film on 4K UHD Blu-ray
• Additional bonus Blu-ray disc packed with extra features
• 64-page art book
• Steelbook packaging

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