Paramount Home Media Selects May 5 For Ray Dononvan: Season Seven On DVD • May 5 For Director Reed Morano's The Rhythm Section On DVD And Blu-ray

This past week word arrived from Paramount Home Media that two new releases — destined for delivery to the home entertainment packaged media marketplace — will be available on May 5.

First up, Paramount will be teaming up with Showtime on May 5 for the DVD release of the eagerly anticipated return of Ray and Mickey in the four-disc, 10-episode release of Ray Donovan: Season Seven.

This final season arrives with bonus features that include “Dash Directs 705” and “Deconstructing Ray.”

Also heading home May 5 from Paramount Home Media are both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of director Reed Morano’s film adaptation of the Mark Burnell novel, The Rhythm Section.

The ARR works out to 95 days and the box office take from the film’s theatrical break at the end of January was $5.4 million.

Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively — The Shallows, A Simple Favor, The Age of Adaline, etc.) is a drug-addicted hooker working the streets of London.   Not exactly the makings of a heroine, an assassin and instrument of revenge.

We learn that her family was killed in a plane crash three years earlier and that she has basically given up on life.   It is not that her lifestyle will shorten her life, she could care less about, it is that in her mind, she is already dead.

With this in mind, a “client” hooks up with her by the name of Keith (Raza Jaffrey — Code Black, Homeland, Lost in Space), who turns out not to be looking for sexual favors, but is an investigative journalist who has been doing research on the crash that killed her family.   He shares the information with her, which points to a terrorist by the name of Reza Mohammed (Tawfeek Barhom) and she sets out after him with a hastily concocted plan to kill him.   

She fails and Keith is later found murdered.   Stephanie is in over her head — in over her drug- addled head that is.   But she uses the information she got from Keith to find an MI6 agent with the code name of “B,” whose real name is Iain Boyd (Jude Law). 

Why on earth, Boyd reasons, would he want to help her in a mission that is absolutely certain to fail.  Nevertheless, he agrees to train her and even gives her a new name, that of a known killer, Petra Reuter (who is actually dead), and then sends her on her way.  

So there you have it.  A drug-infused hooker (widow), with a fictitious name, sets out on a mission to kill those who killer her family.   Go girl!

Bonus features include deleted and extended scenes, plus featurettes (complete count is a work in progress).