Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Lilo & Stitch
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
4. Wicked
5. Pink Floyd: Live at Pimpeii
6. Jaws
7. Gladiator II
8. The Terminator
9. Moana 2
10. Paddington in Peru
11. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
12. Final Destination 5-Film Collection
13. What Lies Beneath
14. Anora
15. Legend
16. Mufasa: The Lion King
17. Nosferatu
18. Flight Risk
19. The Fugitive
20. Mars Attacks!

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Lilo & Stitch
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. Gladiator II
5. The Terminator
6. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
7. What Lies Beneath
8. Jaws
9. The Fugitive
10. Anora
11. Wicked
12. The Lord of the Rings: The War of th eRohirrim
13. Dirty Harry
14. The Shawshank Redemption
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. The Outlaw Josey Wales
17. Star Wars: Andor - The Complete First Season
18. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
19. Inglorious Basterds
20. Blazing Saddles

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (40%)
2. Wicked (55%)
3. Paddington in Peru (33%)
4. Godzilla: Minus One (86%)
5. Mufasa: The Lion King (38%)
6. Lilo & Stitch (94%)
7. Moana 2 (42%)
8. Last Breath (6%)
9. Dog Man (32%)
10. Gladiator II (50%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-05-10
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-05-10
• Blu-ray Sales: May 4-10: Lilo & Stitch Tops the Charts Ahead of Live-action Remake

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by Simon Brew | May 14, 2025

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John Carpenter's Escape From New York is getting a deluxe VHS release in the UK, and it's available to order here. It is 2025.

The people at Vice-Press comfortably win this week's they-must-be-mad-but-love-'em award. It's announced a brand new physical media release of John Carpenter's seminal Escape From New York, and by absolutely unpopular demand, it's bringing the film back to VHS.

Two different editions are being offered. There's a limited slipcase edition, where the cover art has been done by Phantom City Creative, and comes with a screenprinted tape design.

Then there's a collector's edition with a double-sided cover, and Matt Ferguson has done the design work there.

As for the film itself, it's presented in the PAL format, and in widescreen. None of this pan and scan nonsense here.      

The release, inevitably, is a limited edition one, priced at £29.99 for each edition. Escape From New York's return to VHS comes on Thursday 15th June, and is shipping from the UK. You can find more details on the releases, and order yourselves copies on Vice Press's website.

We've covered Vice-Press and its VHS releases in our print magazine before, and over at its website, you can find its previous release of They Live, as well as its much in demand collection of posters as well. Note too that it has an open house coming up at its Sheffield premises in October, and you can find more details on the website.

If you're not familiar with the film, what a treat you're in for (there is a planned remake, but it's stalled.) It's absolutely worth the trouble of locating a VHS player, and the finding a modern day television that still accepts a SCART connection. A good double bill with The Purge: Anarchy too, arguably the highlight of that particular franchise.

Here's looking forward to more collectable VHS releases, and hopefully Vice-Press can get around to some HD DVD release soon, so I've got an excuse to get my player out of the garage.It's 2025, and Escape From New York has just got a new VHS release

Hard Boiled | John Woo's Hong Kong classic has been rescued and restored in 4K

by Ryan Lambie | May 16, 2025

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Once feared lost, the original negative of John Woo's action classic Hard Boiled has been rescued and restored. The 4K disc is due in June.

There's cool, and then there's 'Chow Yun-fat sliding down a banister, shooting bad guys with a toothpick in his mouth' cool. It's an early, iconic moment in an action thriller stuffed full of them: 1992's Hard Boiled cemented director John Woo's reputation in Hollywood, and remains a high point in Hong Kong cinema.

For years, however, it was thought that Hard Boiled's original print was lost. Although that film -- and other films in Woo's back catalogue -- can be purchased on disc online, some knotty rights issues mean a new 4K release was long thought to be impossible.

In the mid-90s, Golden Princess, the production company that made Hard Boiled and numerous other Hong Kong classics, went bust. The rights to its library of films were then purchased by a firm called Fortune Star, but as part of that acquisition deal, it only had the rights to distribute those movies in Asia.

Those rights eventually ended up in the hands of a massive real estate conglomerate, Kowloon Development Company (KDC), and it was feared that a generation of classic films could be in danger of vanishing into an archive somewhere; KDC refused to sell the rights to individual movies, and so purchasing the entire catalogue would have required a company with deep pockets.

Fortunately, Shout! Studios came to the rescue, and made a deal to buy Golden Princess's entire film archive in January 2025. This means it now owns 156 titles, from Woo's A Better Tomorrow and its two sequels, Ringo Lam's City On Fire, and too many others to list.

If you need a refresher on just how thrilling Hard Boiled is, here's the 4K restoration trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgvK_qhyqgA

In the months since the deal went through, the original print of Hard Boiled has been tracked down in the Hong Kong Film Archive and undergone a painstaking restoration process. In a report by Variety, the 33 year-old print was showing considerable signs of age, from dust and scratches to tears running right across the celluloid.

"Our team encountered a significant tear that had split the image across the frame," a film restoration expert Michael Coronado at a company called Duplitech, told the outlet. "To restore this section, our skilled restoration artists used clone-painting techniques by overlaying adjacent frames to repair the damaged footage."

"Restoring the film was both a challenge and a labour of love," added Henry Weintraub, restoration supervisor at Shout!. "Hard Boiled means a lot to so many people, myself included, and I wanted to be sure we did it justice. It was important to preserve the original look and sound design of the era, while also enhancing both to bring out their full potential."

The restored Hard Boiled is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival under its Cannes Classics section today (the 16th May). After that, though, it'll be getting a 4K Blu-ray release, making it the definitive home version of a true landmark in action cinema.

Hard Boiled will be released on disc in the US on the 25th June as part of its Hong Kong Cinema Classics line. You can find the full list of its planned releases on the Shout! website.Hard Boiled | John Woo's Hong Kong classic has been rescued and restored in 4K

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Anora
2. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
3. Dirty Harry
4. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales
6. Pale Rider
7. Paddington in Peru
8. Godzilla Minus One
9. Timecop
10. Star Trek: Section 31
11. Wicked
12. Gladiator
13. Legend
14. Mufasa: The Lion King
15. Full Metal Jacket
16. Moana 2
17. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
18. Dog Man
19. Flight Risk
20. The Terminator

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Dirty Harry
2. Anora
3. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. Pale Rider
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. Timecop
8. Star Trek: Section 31
9. Gladiator II
10. Full Metal Jacket
11. The Terminator
12. The Shawshank Redemption
13. Stripes
14. Inglorious Basterds
15. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
16. The Batman
17. Gandhi
18. The Fugitive
19. A Clockwork Orange
20. The Lost Boys

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (40%)
2. Anora (85%)
3. Paddington in Peru (37%)
4. Pink Floyd: At Pompeii (91%)
5. Last Breath (15%)
6. Dirty Harry (100%)
7. Mufasa: The Lion King (36%)
8. Dog Man (35%)
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales (100%)
10. Moana 2 (40%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-05-03
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-05-03
• Blu-ray Sales: April 27-May 3: Anora Feels Lucky in Debut

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Despite losing money in cinemas on Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola is said to be insistent that his oddball epic be seen on the big screen rather than streaming or disc.

Veteran filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola famously gambled a considerable amount of his personal fortune on his 2024 epic, Megalopolis. But given that his sprawling, $120m saga is said to have lost tens of millions for the director -- it's said to have made just $14m in cinemas -- you might be forgiven for thinking he'd be keen to recoup his cost through other means.

Quite the opposite.

According to a piece on The Hollywood Reporter, there's a good reason as to why you can't purchase Megalopolis on DVD and Blu-ray, at least in the US: Coppola wants it to remain a big-screen experience.

Megalopolis was available to stream not long after its cinema release in September 2024. By that November, the movie was available to rent on such platforms as Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Google Play; by early 2025, however, Megalopolis had been pulled from all those services, at least in the US. In the UK, Coppola's fable is available to purchase in UHD for £13.99 from Prime Video.

It's a similar story on disc. In the UK, such outlets as HMV and Amazon are happily selling Megalopolis on DVD, Blu-ray and its fancy 4K Ultra HD younger relative. In the US, the disc release still hasn't emerged; there have been reports from customers that it was available to pre-purchase at one stage, but they later had those orders cancelled.

Again, the reason for its obscurity in the US is because Coppola "wants it to play in theatres, the way it was intended," according to a THR source. Instead, the director appears to be personally taking his film around for special screenings; one such event in Boston was said to be sold out, while another is set to happen in Detroit later in May.

Adam Driver leads an all-star cast in Megalopolis, the actor playing Cesar Catalina -- a brooding architect determined to rebuild a shattered city after his own design. Coppola's piece is all retro-futuristic decadence and homebrew special effects, with similarly outlandish performances from such big names as Aubrey Plaza (here playing a TV reporter named Wow Platinum) and Jon Voight as a wealthy banker who likes to boast about his priapism.

Curiously, Voight himself seems to be on his own Cesar-esque quest to rebuild Hollywood after his own image, albeit with the aid of one Donald Trump. We'll have to wait and see how that works out for them.

Depending on who you talk to or read, Megalopolis is either a fascinating oddity or simply an outright disaster. Whatever your opinion, it seems that Coppola's intent on keeping his film shrouded in its own kind of mystique.

Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative…the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
• Building the World of Minecraft: Block Party (14:19)
• Creepers, Zombies, and Endermen Oh My! (13:14)
• A Minecraft Movie: Block Beats (9:01)
• A Minecraft Movie: Pixel Pals (14:02)
• Marlene + Nitwit (5:07)

Pre-order: Amazon · GRUV.com

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2. Tombstone
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. The Terminator
5. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
6. Gladiator II
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Mufasa: The Lion King
9. Legend
10. Flight Risk
11. Dog Man
12. Moana 2
13. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
14. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
15. Wicked
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey
17. Mars Attacks!
18. Inglorious Basterds
19. A Complete Unknown
20. Sneakers

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2. Tombstone
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. The Terminator
5. Gladiator II
6. Blazing Saddles
7. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
8. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Inglorious Basterds
11. Inception
12. Sneakers
13. Pacific Rim
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. 300
16. Schindler's List
17. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
18. The Big Lebowski
19. The Northman
20. Career Opportunities

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (51%)
2. Tombstone (94%)
3. Dog Man (36%)
4. Mufasa: The Lion King (38%)
5. Moana 2 (39%)
6. Flight Risk (42%)
7. Conclave (28%)
8. Godzilla Minus One (85%)
9. Gladiator II (52%)
10. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (65%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-04-26
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-04-26
• Blu-ray Sales: April 20-26: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Still Number One in Week Two

UPDATE: It was confirmed the movie WILL have shifting aspect ratios. My mistake.

Here they are - MORE Looney Tunes, MORE Merrie Melodues, MORE laughs, now restored and on Blu-ray Disc at long last. By popular demand, these are the rarest titles, the biggest stars, the most requested cartoons, direct from the Looney Tunes vault. Disc 1 presents 25 choice toons never before released on DVD or Blu-ray, including deep cuts directed by Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton. Disc 2 contains fan favorites, making their HD debut as part of a Looney Tunes collection, featuring the all-star team: Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, and the first appearances of Speedy Gonzales (1953), Pepé le Pew (1945) and Daffy Duck (1937). The Vault is now open, and the characters are on the loose! Best of all, they are yours to keep, to watch whenever you wish.

DISC ONE - 25 all never before included remastered in any DVD or Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

• Bars and Stripes Forever
• Beauty and the Beast
• A Day at the Zoo
• The Dixie Fryer
• Double or Mutton
• Each Dawn I Crow
• Easy Peckin's
• Feather Dusted
• A Fox in a Fix
• Good Night Elmer
• The Goofy Gophers
• I'd Love to Take Orders from You
• A Kiddies Kitty
• Let It Be Me
• Of Fox and Hounds
• Quackodile Tears
• Ready, Woolen and Able
• Robin Hood Makes Good
• The Squawkin' Hawk
• Terrier-Stricken
• Tweet and Lovely
• Tweety's Circus
• Two's a Crowd
• Wild About Hurry
• Zip 'n Snort

DISC TWO - 25 all never before included remastered in HD as part of any Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

• Ain't She Tweet
• Brth of a Notion
• Bye, Bye Bluebeard
• Cat-Tails for Two
• Daffy Dilly
• Daffy Duck & Egghead
• Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
• Gonzales' Tamales
• Hare Conditioned
• Hare Trigger
• Hare Trimmed
• Horton Hatches the Egg
• Little Boy Boo
• Much Ado About Nutting
• Odor-able Kitty
• Past Perfumance
• Porky's Duck Hunt (B&W)
• Rabbit Punch
• Red Riding Hoodwinked
• Rhapsody Rabbit
• Snow Business
• Tom Turk and Daffy
• Two Crows from Tacos
• Zoom and Bored

Technical Specs:

• 1080p High Definition 16x9 1.37:1 with Side Mattes
• Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 English
• Subtitles: English SDH

Pre-order: Amazon · MovieZyng

From Blumhouse, producers of M3GAN, and Platinum Dunes, producers of A Quiet Place, comes DROP, the action-packed thriller that proves dating can be deadly.

First dates can be rough. In this mind-bending action thriller from the director of Happy Death Day, they can also be deadly. Violet (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus) is a widowed mother who has worked up the courage to go on her first date in years with a charming photographer named Henry. The cute couple's killer chemistry is rudely interrupted by a series of anonymous drops to Violet's phone showing a masked intruder entering her home and ordering her to follow a series of instructions. Violet must do exactly as she's told or her loved ones will die. Her unseen tormentor's final directive? Kill Henry. From acclaimed director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day franchise, Heart Eyes), DROP stars Meghann Fahy ("The White Lotus," Your Monster), Brandon Sklenar ("1923," It Ends With Us), Violett Beane ("The Flash," Truth or Dare), and Jeffery Self ("Search Party," Spoiler Alert). Special Features and Technical Specs:

• HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
• FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER LANDON
• A RECIPE FOR THRILLS: MAKING DROP - Join the cast and crew of DROP as they sort through the ingredients of this date gone wrong.
• A PALATE FOR PANIC- Take a seat and devour the details that went into creating Palate, a film set that doubles as a fully operational restaurant.
• KILLER CHEMISTRY - Join Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar as they discuss their characters' first date and how they managed to keep Violet and Henry grounded throughout the escalation of events.
• Optional English, French Canadian, and Latin American Spanish subtitles for the main feature

Pre-order: Amazon · GRUV.com

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
3. Dog Man
4. Mufasa: The Lion King
5. Moana 2
6. Wicked
7. Gladiator II
8. Flight Risk
9. A Complete Unknown
10. Heart Eyes
11. My Hero Academia: You're Next
12. Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Complete Series
13. Legend
14. Nosferatu
15. Star Wars: Andor - The Complete First Season
16. Mars Attacks!
17. Love Hurts
18. Venom: The Last Dance
19. Donovan's Reef
20. Godzilla Minus One

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2. Gladiator II
3. Star Wars: Andor - The Complete First Season
4. Wicked
5. Planet Earth III
6. Chinatown
7. Chungking Express
8. Donovan's Reef
9. Arcane: League of Legends - Season One
10. Akira
11. Sands of Iwo Jima
12. Nosferatu
13. Middle-earth Ultimate Collector's Edition
14. Tommy Boy
15. Alien: ROmulus
16. Flight Risk
17. Twin Peaks: From Z to A
18. Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Complete Third Season
19. The Penguin: Season 1
20. Godzilla Minus One

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (54%)
2. Dog Man (38%)
3. Mufasa: The Lion King (39%)
4. Moana 2 (42%)
5. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (68%)
6. Flight Risk (42%)
7. Wicked (50%)
8. Heart Eyes (31%)
9. Gladiator II (53%)
10. Valiant One (N/A)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-04-19
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-04-19
• Blu-ray Sales: April 13-19: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Races to the Top of the Charts

The unique throwback sci-fi film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow didn't make the splash it was hoping for with audiences. In fact, we feel it's an overlooked film here at JoBlo as Chris Bumbray tries to shine a light on the alien invasion film with a retrospective video. He recommends it highly by saying, "If you haven't seen this movie, I urge you to check it out. It's a fun, old-fashioned adventure with a great score by Edward Shearmur, who never entirely became the A-list composer he should have been. It has a bouncy pace and even an early example of post-mortem casting with Laurence Olivier playing the bad guy despite having died 13 years before this came out. Give it a shot!"

However, some movies can still find audiences late in life, and perhaps that can happen with the new physical release of Sky Captain. Blu-ray.com has announced that Shout Factory will be distributing a new special 4K remastered Blu-ray this summer. Sky Captain was written and directed by Kerry Conran and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, and Michael Gambon.The new two-disc 4K Blu-ray is due to hit retailers on May 27.

The description reads,

"When giant robots attack New York City, intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow) enlists the aid of ace aviator and old flame Joseph 'Sky Captain' Sullivan (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) to stop a plot to destroy the world before it's too late. Co-starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow will thrill and amaze you right through to the action-packed finale."

Special Features and Technical Specs:

DISC ONE -- 4K BLU-RAY

• NEW 4K TRANSFER FROM THE 35MM DIGITAL NEGATIVE
• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• Audio Commentary with Director Kerry Conran, Production Designer Kevin Conran, Animation Director Steve Yamamoto, and Visual Effects Supervisor Darin Hollings
• Audio Commentary with Producer Jon Avnet
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature

DISC TWO -- BLU-RAY

• NEW 4K TRANSFER FROM THE 35MM DIGITAL NEGATIVE
• Audio Commentary with Director Kerry Conran, Production Designer Kevin Conran, Animation Director Steve Yamamoto, and Visual Effects Supervisor Darin Hollings
• Audio Commentary with Producer Jon Avnet
• "Brave New World" -- A Two-Part Look at the making of Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
• "The Art of World of Tomorrow" Featurette
• "Anatomy of A Virtual Scene"
• The Original Six-Minute Short
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Theatrical Trailers
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, in association with Amazon Studios, will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray David Ayer's A Working Man(2025), starring Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Peña, Jason Flemyng, and Eve Mauro. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on June 10.

There are no special features listed on the press release.

Description: Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.

Directed by David Ayer ("The Beekeeper", "End of Watch") from a screenplay by Ayer and Sylvester Stallone ("Rocky"), the film is produced by Chris Long, Jason Statham, John Friedberg, David Ayer, Bill Block, Kevin King Templeton.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, in association with Amazon Studios, will bring to 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Fallout: Season One (2024), starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, and Walton Goggins. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on July 8.

Description: Based on one of the greatest video games of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them above.

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Mufasa: The Lion King
2. Flight Risk
3. Dog Man
4. Moana 2
5. A Complete Unknown
6. The Long Kiss Goodnight
7. My Hero Academia: You're Next
8. Wicked
9. Love Hurts
10. Nosferatu
11. Inglorious Basterds
12. Gladiator II
13. Venom: The Last Dance
14. Red One
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
16. Kraven the Hunter
17. Deadpool & Wolverine
18. Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy
19. Tommy Boy
20. Godzilla Minus One

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. The Long Kiss Goodnight
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Gladiator II
4. Tommy Boy
5. Wicked
6. Flight Risk
7. Akira
8. Twin Peaks: From Z to A
9. The Prince of Egypt
10. Nosferatu
11. A Complete Unknown
12. Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy
13. Chinatown
14. Starship Troopers
15. They Live
16. Some Like it Hot
17. Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Complete Third Season
18. Sorority House Massacre
19. Constantine (tie)
20. Uncut Gems (tie)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

**Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Mufasa: The Lion King (42%)
2. Flight Risk (42%)
3. Dog Man (35%)
4. Moana 2 (41%)
5. Wicked (47%)
6. Gladiator II (32%)
7. A Complete Unknown (100%)
8. Love Hurts (47%)
9. The Long Kiss Goodnight (99%)
10. My Hero Academia: You're Next (100%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-04-12
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-04-12
• Blu-ray Sales: April 6-12: Mufasa Still King in Second Week

Sony PicturesSony Pictures Home Entertainment will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire (1985) with a brand new 4K Blu-ray release, which is scheduled to arrive on the market on June 24.

Description: Seven friends, recent college graduates, are searching for a place in the real world, as they face issues of career and commitment. Leslie and Alec (Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson) try to save a crumbling romance. Wendy (Mare Winningham), a shy virgin, hides a love for Billy (Rob Lowe), a reluctant father/husband still searching for goals. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) is a cynical writer who scorns love until he realizes he's in love with his best friend's girl. Kirbo (Emilio Estevez), a law student, obsessively pursues an older woman. The beautiful, neurotic Jules (Demi Moore) paints a poignant picture of life in the fast lane. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love one another as only the closest of friends can.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE

DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

DOLBY ATMOS TRACK + English 5.1 + English 2-Channel Surround

Audio Commentary with Director Joel Schumacher

Joel Schumacher Remembers 'St. Elmo's Fire' Featurette

12 Deleted Scenes

Original Making-of Featurette

"Man in Motion" Music Video

Theatrical Trailer

These problems don’t even come close to the biggest issue of them all, though. For the most part, the movies that you can’t stream can be purchased in DVD or Blu-ray form if you look hard enough. But if it’s an original release from a streaming service, you may discover that there is no amount of money you can pay to get a physical copy.

Last year, Mike Flanagan, the filmmaker behind horror movies like Hush, Gerald’s Game, and Doctor Sleep, as well as series like The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, revealed that Netflix actively avoids physical releases of their original properties.

“In the years I worked at Netflix, I tried very hard to get them to release my work on Blu-ray and DVD,” he said during a panel discussion. “They refused at every turn. It became clear very fast that their only priority was subs, and that they were actively hostile to the idea of physical media.” It’s up to companies like Criterion to break these movies out of streaming jail and given them a physical release. This is the only reason you can purchase hard copies of Roma, Marriage Story, and All of Us Strangers.

The problem goes far beyond a cinephile’s desire to own physical media, too. Film preservation relies on hard copies, be it film, tapes, or DVDs. Digital media is ephemeral. Licences can be revoked, files can be corrupted, and quality can be watered down for the sake of easy storage. Physical media, whether it’s sitting on your shelf at home or in the US Library of Congress, isn’t subject to the whims of an executive who has never heard of Akira Kurosawa or seen a low-budget cult film from the Czech New Wave.

Flanagan highlighted this point, saying that “while companies like Netflix pride themselves on being disruptors and have proven that they can affect great change in the industry, they sometimes fail to see the difference between disruption and damage. So much that they can find themselves, intentionally or not, doing enormous harm to the very concept of film preservation.”

The irony is that, while the idea of ‘owning’ physical media can look like a manifestation of a consumerist, materialistic society, it’s the digital realm that we have to worry about in that regard. Digital media is beholden to studios and corporations that are only concerned with the bottom line rather than the preservation of culture. In contrast, distributors like Criterion, Kino Lorber, Arrow Video, and Severin Films offer high-quality, physical restorations of movies that often include audio commentary, essays, multiple cuts, and elaborate artwork. In short, physical media treats films as enduring works of art, while streaming platforms reduce them to ‘content.’ I know which definition I want to be behind.

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Mufasa: The Lion King
2. A Complete Unknown
3. Flight Risk
4. Dog Man
5. My Hero Academia: You're Next
6. Moana 2
7. Wicked
8. Love Hurts
9. Companion
10. Summer Wars
11. Twin Peaks: From Z to A
12. Nosferatu
13. Tommy Boy
14. Gladiator II
15. The Brutalist
16. Superman & Lois: The Fourth and Final Season
17. Kraven the Hunter
18. The Hunger Games 5-Film Collection
19. Red One
20. Venom: The Last Dance

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. A Complete Unknown
2. Companion
3. Summer Wars (Amazon Exclusive SteelBook)
4. Flight Risk
5. Twin Peaks: From Z to A
6. Mufasa: The Lion King
7. Tommy Boy
8. Gladiator II
9. Wicked
10. Renfield
11. Nosferatu
12. Akira
13. Love Hurts
14. The Brutalist
15. Top Gun: Maverick
16. Inglourious Basterds
17. The Substance
18. Constantine
19. Venom: The Last Dance
20. Alien: Romulus

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Mufasa: The Lion King (46%)
2. Flight Risk (46%)
3. Dog Man (40%)
4. Moana 2 (40%)
5. A Complete Unknown (100%)
6. Wicked (51%)
7. Love Hurts (56%)
8. My Hero Academia: You're Next (100%)
9. Companion (62%)
10. Gladiator II (37%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-04-01
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-04-01
• Blu-ray Sales: March 30-April 5: Mufasa: The Lion King of the Charts

This stunningly restored and remastered Director's Cut adds more gravitas and organic characterization to the historical masterpiece, a cinematic experience that is further plussed when seen in Dolby Vision and heard with Atmos. Visionary director Ridley Scott crafted a passionate and perilous tale of the Crusades that has made its mark on audiences for decades, but never before has it been shown in such high-definition sight and sound, deepening the experience for longtime fans and a new generation alike.

Originally released on May 6, 2005, Kingdom of Heaven is one of Scott's most revered creative endeavors, having crafted a world rich in history, adventure, and visual splendor in which to tell an epic tale. Orlando Bloom stars as the courageous Balian, a young Frenchman in medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades. Having lost everything, Balian finds redemption through a heroic fight — against overwhelming forces — to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.

20th Century Studios will present a special one-night-only 4K theatrical re-release of Kingdom of Heaven on Wednesday, May 14. Beyond Fest will also host an advanced viewing of the 4K release on Friday, May 2 at The Egyptian Theatre, where fans can experience Ridley Scott's Director's Cut for the first time in stunning, remastered 4K. Tickets will be made available soon.

The 20th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray disc release of Kingdom of Heaven is a three-disc set encased in a collectible SteelBook® that honors the remarkable weaponry and masks featured in the film. Behind the scenes footage includes a look at the creation of spectacular visual effects, a retrospective of world premiere excitement, deleted scenes and insightful filmmaker reflections so that fans can appreciate and remember it as the brave and beautiful film Ridley Scott intended it to be.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• THREE DISC COMBO PACK
• RESTORED AND REMASTERED DIRECTOR'S CUT OF THE FILM
• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK

DISC ONE - 4K BLU-RAY

• Director's Cut Roadshow Version & Director's Cut
• Introduction by Director Ridley Scott Roadshow Commentary with Orlando Bloom, Ridley Scott and Writer William Monahan
• 2 Additional Roadshow Commentaries with Filmmakers
• The Enginer's Guide (Roadshow Version only)
• Optional English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles

DISC TWO - BLU-RAY

• Director's Cut Roadshow Version & Director's Cut
• Introduction by Director Ridley Scott
• Roadshow Commentary with Orlando Bloom, Ridley Scott and Writer William Monahan
• 2 Additional Roadshow Commentaries with Filmmakers
• The Enginer's Guide (Roadshow Version only)
• English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles

DISC THREE - BLU-RAY

• The Path to Redemption
• Sound Design Suite
• Visual Effects Breakdowns
• Press Junket Walkthrough
• World Premieres
• Special Shoot Gallery
• Poster Explorations
• Deleted & Extended Scenes with Optional Commentary
• Orlando Bloom "The Adventure of a Lifetime"
• Additional Featurettes and Much More

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