Unfriended, Hot Pursuit and The Knick are among the many titles hitting Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, August 11, 2015
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 11, 2015.
The week kicks off with Hot Pursuit, Warner Bros. Pictures‘ recent big screen comedy that pairs Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon with four-time Golden Globe nominee Sofia Vergara. Also arriving this week from a recent theatrical run is Universal Pictures’ stylish thriller, Unfriended, which takes place entirely within a computer monitor, weaving its narrative across video chat sessions and other forms of modern social media.
It was nearly 18 years ago that the world lost Chris Farley and the late comedian’s story is lovingly told in the new documentary I Am Chris Farley, boasting interviews with Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Christina Applegate and many more.
Scream Factory this week offers a special edition of Wes Craven’s 1991 tale of terror, The People Under the Stairs, while The Criterion Collection debuts Karel Reisz’s 1981 drama The French Lieutenant’s Woman, starring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. Hitting DVD only, meanwhile, is the Criterion Eclipse set Agnes Varda in California, which includes the films Uncle Yanco (1967), Black Panthers (1968), Lions Love (…and Lies) (1969), Mur Murs (1980) and Documenteur (1981).
On the small screen front, we’re getting the recent BBC telefilm adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the first season of Steven Soderbergh’s turn-of-the-century medical drama The Knick and fourth seasons sets for AMC’s Hell on Wheels, CBS’ Person of Interest and, on DVD only, ABC’s Scandal.
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 11, 2015
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Hot Pursuit
- The Womance - Reese and Sofía's on-set crazy-mashup-antics. From dance moves to car crashes, see these women light up the screen and leave us in stitches with their side-splitting comedic styling.
- Say What? - Watch the hilarity that ensued when Reese and Sofía each tried to speak the other's language. See Reese get her tongue tied trying to speak Spanish and watch Sofía's tongue actually go numb from trying to speak English.
- Action Like A Lady - In this action montage we will see all the crazy fun that went into creating the insane action scenes in the film. From jumping out a ten-foot high window, to a crazy girl fight to commandeering a tour bus during a high-speed shoot out… bring on the laughs.
- Alternate Ending
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I Am Chris Farley
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Unfriended
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The People Under the Stairs
- New Audio Commentary with writer/director Wes Craven
- New Audio Commentary with actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch
- House Mother – New interview with actress Wendy Robie
- What Lies Beneath – New interviews with special make-up effects Artists Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman
- House of Horrors – New interview with director of photography Sandi Sissel
- Settling The Score – New interview with composer Don Peake
- Behind-The-Scenes Footage
- Vintage "Making of" Featurette
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- Still Galleries (Original Storyboards and Official Stills) -
The French Lieutenant's Woman
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interviews with actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, editor John Bloom, and composer Carl Davis
- New interview with film scholar Ian Christie
- Episode of The South Bank Show from 1981 featuring director Karel Reisz, novelist John Fowles, and screenwriter Harold Pinter
- Trailer
- An essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton -
Agnes Varda in California
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
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Hell on Wheels: Season Four
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The Knick: Season One
- Audio commentaries with Jeremy Bobb, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson and creators and executive producers Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
- Post-op featurettes: Get educated on ground-breaking surgery techniques featured in the series -
Person of Interest: Season Four
- Music of Interest – Step inside the studio of Composer Ramin Djawadi for an intimate look at his process along with Show-Runners Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman as they discuss scoring sequences and key elements of music themes in Person of Interest.
- Going Underground with Root and Finch – Michael Emerson and Amy Acker give us a one on one tour through the newly created Subway Headquarters with the Production Designer, Rick Butler.
- Person of Interest 2014 Comic-Con Panel – Executive Producers Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight) and Greg Plageman (Cold Case) are joined by the series' stars for a special Q&A at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con.
- Gag Reel -
Scandal: Season Four
