Arrow Video Tabs Jan. 6 For The 4K Ultra HD Release Of Director Andrew Davis' Under Siege

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, opens up its 2026 physical media release campaign on Jan. 6 with a new 4K restoration (from the original camera negative) of director Andrew Davis’ 1992 all-action terrorist thriller, Under Siege.

 
Steven Seagal absolutely nails the role of Casey Ryback, “ship’s cook” aboard the USS Missouri, which has been hijacked by terrorists William Strannix and Ernest Daumer (Tommy Lee Jones, Colm Meaney) — with the help of Commander Krill (Gary Busey) — during a fake birthday celebration for the ship’s captain.   The Missouri is to be decommissioned and only carries a skeleton crew, which is easily overwhelmed and imprisoned … those that resisted were killed!

 
Ryback teams up with the “entertainment,” Playboy Playmate Jordan Tate (played by real-life Playmate Erika Eleniak), and sets about to re-take control of the ship from Strannix and Krill, who are after the Missouri’s store of Tomahawk missiles.

 
Both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray “Limited Editions” will be available on Jan. 6, 2026.  

 
Bonus goodies include a newly-prepared commentary with filmmaker Andrew Davis (Above the Law, The Fugitive, A Perfect Murder, etc.), who is joined by screenwriter J.F. Lawton (Pretty Woman, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory).

 
There are also four new featurettes — “I’m on a Boat (with a Bomb),” “One of the Guys,” “A Tight Ship” and “The Introvision Files.”

Emma Stone Leads Alien Invasion In Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's Full-Spread Physical Media Launch Of Director Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia On Dec. 23

Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, the English language remake of Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 alien-invasion tale Save the Green Planet!, will get a full-spread physical media launch on Dec. 23 courtesy of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

The ARR is a swift-to-market 60 days and the domestic box office take currently stands at $17.4 million.

Planned for distribution are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray product offerings, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack purchasing option. 

Included as a bonus is “The Birth of the Bees: The Making of Bugonia.”

Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights Gets A 4K Ultra HD Launch From Warner Bros. Home Entertainment On Dec. 16

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has selected Dec. 16 as the 4K Ultra HD debut date for writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg as up and coming porn star Dirk Diggler and Burt Reynolds as filmmaker Jack Horner, who chooses art over commerce when it comes to making his targeted-for-adults productions.

Dirk (aka: Eddie Adams) has “talent, which Horner spots and cultivates into stardom.   At the time of the story (1977), adult films have become mainstream (think: Deep Throat, Devil in Miss Jones, etc.) and the forthcoming battle was over film versus video — Horner was having nothing to do with the “cheap” way to make adult films — and this would be a defining moment for the “genre.” Dirk, on the other hand, is too young and stupid to avoid the pitfalls of fame (drugs) … in the end they both have to find their way to the other side.

 
Ironically, Reynolds received his only Oscar nomination for his performance here as adult filmmaker Jack Horner.

 
Bonus features include two commentary options — one featuring Anderson and the second is a cast-mix that includes the likes of Mark Wahlberg (Dirk Diggler), Heather Graham (Rollergirl), Julianne Moore (Amber Waves), John C. Reilly (Reed), Don Cheadle Buck), Luis Guzman (Maurice), William H. Macy (“Little Bill”) and Melora Walters (Jessie St. Vincent).

 
Other goodies included here are additional scenes, the extended featurette titled “John C. Reilly Files: Outtakes and Extended Sequence” and two panel sessions at the 2023 American Cinematheque gathering.

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another Ready For Physical Media Launch On Jan. 20, 2026 Courtesy Of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment looks to January of 2026 for the full-spread physical media launch of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel, “Vineland,” which was retitled for the silver screen as One Battle After Another.
 

The street date will be Jan. 20, 2026, which yields an ARR of 116 days.  Domestic ticket sales currently stand at $67.8 million.

 
Scheduled for distribution in the New Year are stand-alone purchasing options for the DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD formats, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack SteelBook edition.
 

Bonus features are limited to the 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack SteelBook and are currently a work-in-progress being orchestrated by Anderson.

Director Scott Derrickson's Black Phone 2 As A Full-Spread Physical Media Rollout Just In Time For Christmas On Dec. 23 From Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has a last-minute stocking-stuffer for genre fans scheduled for delivery on Dec. 23.  This will be the full-spread physical media launch of director Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2, re-teaming Ethan Hawke as Grabber and Mason Thames as Finney, who thought he had done away with the child predator in Black Phone (2021).

 
The ARR is a swift-to-market 67 days and domestic ticket sales currently stand at $61.8 million.

 
Planned for distribution are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray purchasing selections, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition.

 
Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Scott Derickson (Sinister, Sinister 2, Doctor Strange, etc.), seven deleted scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Dialed In: The Cast of Black Phone 2,” “A Story Carved in Ice” and “Frozen in Time.”

Lionsgate Home Entertainment Targets Nov. 25 For The Physical Media Launch Of Director Francis Lawrence's Film Adaptation Of Stephen King's The Long Walk

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has tabbed Nov. 25 as the street for the full-spread physical media launch of director Francis Lawrence’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel — actually written by King in the late 60s but unpublished — The Long Walk.   

The ARR for the physical media rollout works out to 74 days and the current domestic box office take stands at $35.1 million.

Planned for distribution are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray selections, plus an Amazon-exclusion 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack SteelBook edition.

Bonus features are the five-part making-off documentary titled “Ever Onward: Making The Long Walk,” plus exclusive to the 4K Ultra HD SKU are two featurettes — “Stephen King: An Appreciation” and “Cooper & David Scene Read” — plus an alternate ending.

Film Masters Has A Limited Edition Blu-ray Of Director/Producer William Castle's House On Haunted Hill Ready In Time For Christmas With A Dec. 16 Street Date

In July of 1958 there was some chatter in the press that director William Castle was going to direct and produce two additional horror films, this was as a result of the success of Macabre.  

 

Up until this point he had been a prolific director of B-action fair, including a number of Westerns, four entries in “The Whistler” series, some television work and the 1947 script and associate producer credits on Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai.

 
Legend has it — and anything from the mid-1950s related to Castle will have some embellishments — that he got inspired by French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Diabolique and decided to branch into horror as both a director and producer.

 
The two future horror films — which would be written by the Macabre’s screenwriter, Robb White (Castle’s partner in Susina Productions) and directed by Castle — would be House on Haunted Hill and Hysteria (which ended up being The Tingler).

 

Film Masters has a new limited-edition Blu-ray of House on Haunted Hill ready for genre fans to enjoy just in time for Christmas … street date is Dec. 16.

 
Castle came up with the idea of issuing $1,000 insurance policies for anyone who dropped dead of a heart attack while in attendance at a showing of Macabre.   

 

For House on Haunted Hill, Castle teased the idea with Allied Artists (the film’s distributor) to have “Smell-O-Vision” and to use the newly developed “Emergo” process to give the illusion that objects were flying into the audience at the appropriate jump-scare points in the film.

The film got a test screening the Rives Theatre in Martinsville, Virgina on New Year’s Eve of 1958 and then opened at RKO’s Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 14, 1959 touting “The 13 Greatest Shocks of All Time” and being the “First Film with the Amazing New Wonder – EMERGO – The Thrills Fly Right in to the Audience!”

 
Film critic Paine Knickerbocker, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, dismissed the “Emergo” gimmick, but had this to say about the film itself: “The film is far better than one might suspect from the title, and yet it actually pretends to be more: it is merely an old-fashioned mystery suspense film and a pretty good one.”   

 
Indeed, “a pretty good one” and suddenly William Castle was on his way as the producer and showman extraordinaire of genre films during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s … The Tingler, 13 Ghosts, Homicidal, Mr. Sardonicus, Zotz, 13 Frightened Girls, The Old Dark House, Strait-Jacket, I Saw What You Did and more!

 
Bonus goodies include commentary by Cereal at Midnight host Heath Holland.