The Paramount Home Media
4K Ultra HD wave continues on June 12 with two new hit theatrical
upgrades.
On May 9 we will be getting
the first group with 4K Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack editions of Saving
Private Ryan, Braveheart and Gladiator. The release news this week focuses on a new
4K restoration of director Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture, Best Director
and Best Actor-winner (among others), Forrest Gump.
Joining Tom Hanks, Gary
Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and Robin Wright is a new 4K rendition of director Alan
Taylor’s 2015 reboot of the Terminator film franchise, Terminator
Genisys. This quite excellent
addition to the series features an alternate timeline with Emilia Clarke as
Sarah Connor, Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the
original Terminator … with Jason Clarke as alternate version of John Connor.
Of note, following the
release of Terminator Genisys initial plans for two sequels (forming a
trilogy) were put on hold … there was a long back-and-forth on what would be
next, but now it appears that the next installment in the series will be
released theatrically during Thanksgiving of 2019 (Linda Hamilton will be
back)!
In the meantime, we have
these new 4K Ultra HD editions from Paramount Home Media to keep us busy.
Also new this week — this
time on DVD and Blu-ray release front — from Paramount Home Media are two
anniversary editions from director John Landis featuring Eddie Murphy. Both films will be available on June 12.
First up is Trading
Places: 35th Anniversary Edition, a comedy featuring Murphy
as a Billy Ray Valentine, a smalltime Philadelphia con man, Dan Aykroyd as the
snotty Louis Winthorpe III and the Duke
Brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche), who set up a wager — for a dollar — just
to see what would happen if they switched the positions of Valentine and
Winthorpe.
Pivotal to the undoing of
their plan turns out to be a hooker name Ophelia (Jamie Lee Curtis), who makes
a savvy financial deal with the down-on-his-luck Winthorpe. When the blissfully ignorant Valentine
tumbles to the Duke’s nasty scheme, he teams up with Winthorpe and Ophelia to
exact the perfect revenge!
Bonus goodies include vintage
featurettes — “Inside Trading: The Making of Trading Places,” “Trading
Stories,” “Dressing the Part” and “The Trade in Trading Places.”
Skip ahead five years and
you have Coming to America: 30th Anniversary Edition, which
features Murphy as Crown Prince Akeem, who rejects his parent’s “arranged
marriage” plans and takes off to the United States with his friend Semmi (Arsenio
Hall) to find and win the heart of an independent woman. He finds his true love — Lisa (Shari Headley)
— but his lies and deceptions threaten to undo everything!
On the DVD-only front,
May 29 sees the debut of the Showtime comedy series, I'm Dying Up Here: Season One. Included are all ten episodes — as a
three-disc set — from the first season, starring Melissa Leo as Goldie
Herschlag, the owner of a 1970’s era comedy club called Goldie’s, which is home
to an ensemble group of up-and-coming comedians.
And, on June 12 look for
the eight-disc DVD collection titled Stephen King TV and Film Collection,
which features The Dead Zone, Pet Sematary, Silver Bullet, Graveyard Shift,
plus The
Stand, The Langoliers and Golden Years).
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