Ready Player One Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD details announced!
Warner Bros. Pictures has annoucned the first details on the home media release for Ready Player One! The Steven Spielberg film will be available on digital platforms beginning July 4 and will arrive on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 24.
The Ready Player One 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, and Blu-ray Combo Packs contain the following special features:
– Game Changer: Cracking the Code – Effects for a Brave New World – Level Up: Sound for the Future – High Score: Endgame – Ernie & Tye’s Excellent Adventure – The ’80’s: You’re the Inspiration
The Ready Player One standard definition DVD contains the following special features:
– The ’80’s: You’re the Inspiration
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud), Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Bates Motel) and Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Bloodline). The ensemble cast also includes Lena Waithe (Master of None), T.J. Miller (Deadpool, Silicon Valley), Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Simon Pegg (the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies) and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk).
In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spend their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone — the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the OASIS to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends — known as the High Five — are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS and their world.
Three-time Oscar winner Spielberg directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline. The project was produced by Donald De Line, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Dan Farah. Adam Somner, Daniel Lupi, Chris deFaria and Bruce Berman served as executive producers.
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s May 22 Digital HD, Blu-ray and DVD column! As you can see, we’ve added a video player at the top highlighting this week’s releases, and you can find more detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!
Game Night Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams co-star in this outrageous comedy about a couple who thinks they are participating in a couples game night that turns into a very real nightmare.
The 15:17 to Paris Real-life heroes Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone play themselves in director Clint Eastwood’s dramatic interpretation of their heroic prevention of a terrorist attack onboard a train.
I Kill Giants Based on the graphic novel, this fantasy follows a teenage girl who escapes the realities of school and a troubled family life by retreating into her magical world of fighting evil giants. Zoe Saldana co-stars.
Daphne & Velma This original live-action movie stars Sarah Jeffrey and Sarah Gillman as the title Scooby-Doo duo as they meet each other for the first time in high school.
A Fantastic Woman This Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film involves a Chilean trans woman who has to deal with the fallout of her husband’s death. She is treated with suspicion by police and disdain by his family, who bar her from his funeral.
Criterion Corner
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters The Criterion Collection issues their deluxe Blu-ray of director Paul Schrader’s 1985 masterpiece about acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata), which utilizes different filmmaking styles for different aspects of the man’s life and death. Contains an all-new 4K digital transfer of the director’s cut, as well as an alternate narration track by Roy Scheider and other fascinating extras.
SALES!
The fine folks at Vinegar Syndrome, one of our favorite labels restoring and reissuing quality vintage grindhouse fare, are having a Halfway to Black Friday Sale this week from May 25 through May 28 in which nearly their entire catalogue will be available at 50% off! To honor the occasion, they sent me one of their recent releases: British director Norman J. Warren’s 1978 cult classic Terror. Featuring well above average performances and an intriguing story about a centuries-old witch extracting vengeance on her killer’s modern-day descendant, this is the kind of genre hybrid horror flick that isn’t exactly a slasher or a supernatural ghost story or an erotic thriller, but rather is all of those things. It also features an end gag involving a levitating car that has to be seen to be believed. If you’re a fan of films like Black Sunday or Suspiria then this is right up your alley, and it features a rare non-Chewbacca appearance by Peter Mayhew as well as a leading performance by John Nolan, the uncle of Christopher Nolan!
Here are some more Vinegar Syndrome titles we recommend picking up during the big sale: The Hearse, Count Dracula’s Great Love, Witchtrap, Crypt of the Living Dead, House of the Living Dead, Dolemite, Penitentiary, Snapshot and the trash classic Night Train to Terror!
Reissues
The Bloodthirsty Trilogy Arrow Video issues our favorite discovery of the week with this Japanese trilogy of vampire films made in the early 70’s that have the same gothic horror feel of the Hammer Studios Dracula movies or the Roger Corman Poe films. These are exactly the kind of eerie little gems true gothic horror fans dream of: Thunderstorms, secluded mansions, creaking doors, pale vampire girls & huge sideburns. Cannot recommend enough!
A Fistful of Dollars The movie that kicked off the Italian spaghetti western phenomenon comes to Blu-ray in a new, fully-loaded edition from Kino Lorber. The film itself, Sergio Leone’s pseudo remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, is just as startling and gorgeous as ever, and contains a literal career-making performance from Clint Eastwood as the iconic Man With No Name.
Of Unknown Origin Scream Factory reissues this brilliant, overlooked 1983 Canadian horror film directed by George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone) starring RoboCop‘s Peter Weller as a yuppie executive whose life unravels during two weeks alone in his New York brownstone trying to kill a giant rat. His “Moby Dick”-esque pursuit of this viscious rodent leaves his home (and sanity) in shambles.
Death Smiles on a Murderer Klaus Kinski stars in this 1973 Italian horror film set in the early 1900s, about a dead woman brought back to life who reaps terrible vengeance upon her family.
Savannah Smiles This 1982 family film centers on a politician’s six-year-old daughter who causes a stir when she runs away from home with a pair of wanted fugitives.
Black Venus Abdellatif Kechiche of Blue is the Warmest Color made this 2010 film about Saartjie Baartman, who was taken from her South African home and displayed in 19th century London.
New on Digital HD
Annihilation (exclusive clip) Our favorite movie of the year so far is Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller that takes a deep dive into Lovecraftian cosmic dread. Natalie Portman plays a scientist (and ex military) who ventures into a zone affected by an alien energy known as The Shimmer, where the longer plants and animals stay the more their DNA gets rearranged. Check out an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip below that comes with both the digital release and eventually the Blu-ray as well.
Death Wish Bruce Willis steps into Charles Bronson’s shoes as a mild mannered doctor who takes the law into his own hands after his family is attacked. The vigilante classic is remade by Hostel director Eli Roth.
The Strangers: Prey at Night The sequel to the 2008 hit stars Christina Hendricks as a woman who has to contend with three masked maniacs.
Lost in London (exclusive clip) Directed by and starring Woody Harrelson, this is he first film ever broadcast live to theaters in January of 2017, and finally comes to Digital HD on May 25. Harrelson and co-stars Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson all play themselves in a comedic version of a real life event in which Harrelson was arrested in Soho in 2002. Check out an exclusive clip from the release below!
Beauty Mark Inspired by true events, a poverty-stricken young mother is forced to move when her house is condemned. With no money and no options, she must confront her abusive past in order to save her family.
TV on Blu-ray and DVD
Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season Volumes 1 & 2 The 13th season of the James Arness TV classic western comes home to DVD from CBS in a two-disc set, with Volume 1 containing 15 episodes and Volume 2 containing 10 episodes.
