Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Will Release The Handmaid's Tale: The Complete Series On DVD This Coming Dec. 2

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has the perfect stocking-stuffer lined up for the Christmas season for fans of Bruce Miller’s episodic series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s famed 1985 novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale.”   Miller developed Atwood’s work into a six-season, sixty-six episode award-winning series.

On Dec. 2, fans can purchase The Handmaid’s Tale: The Sixth Season (for those who have been collecting the series on physical media as available) or The Handmaid’s Tale: The Complete Series (the perfect Christmas-season gift for those who enjoyed the series).

This is a 20-disc collection, with bonus features including “Inside the Episode” details.

Arrow Video Presents Solar System Sci-Fi Thrillers With New 4K Ultra HD Editions In November For Outland (Nov. 4) & Red Planet (Nov. 18)

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has 4K Ultra HD solar system action lined up for genre fans to savor come this November.   So let’s get right to it!

 
Sourced from the original 35mm camera negative and landing (or taking off as the case might be) on Nov. 4 is a newly-minted 4K Ultra HD edition of writer/director Peter Hyams’ 1981 trip to Jupiter’s sulfuric moon Io, Outland, starring an outgunned Sean Connery as a “Federal Marshall.”   

 
In this space Western, Marshall O’Niel (Connery) is set up to fail when he investigates a series of bizarre deaths on the super-productive Con-Am 27 mining operation on Io.  When he discovers the reason, which is directly related to why Con-Am 27 is so profitable, the manager, Mark Sheppard (played by Peter Boyle) calls in a hit team to do away with the pesky Marshall (think: High Noon in space).

 

Bonus features include two commentary options.   The first is an archived commentary with Hyams, and the second features film critic Chris Alexander.   There are also five newly-prepared featurettes included with this 4K Ultra HD presentation from Arrow Video on Nov. 4 — “A Corridor of Accidents,” “Outlandish,” “Introvision: William Mesa on Outland,” “No Place for Heroes” and “Hollywoodland Outland.”

 
The other thriller taking place in our solar system is director Antony Hoffman’s 2000 film release of Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore and Terence Stamp.  The 4K Ultra HD debut takes place on Nov. 18.

 
Bonus goodies kick off with Cereal at Midnight’s Heath Holland’s newly-prepared visual retrospective titled “Angry Red Planet.”   There are also deleted scenes and two additional featurettes — “The Martian Chronicles” and “Suit Up.”

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Celebrates The 60th Anniversary Of Director Robert Wise's The Sound Of Music With The 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack Debut On Sept. 23

The magic happened on a Tuesday at 8PM at the corner of Broadway and 49th Street in New York City.  The date was March 2, 1965 and the venue was the Rivoli Theatre.   

The magic?   The film debut of director Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music.

The reported production budget was right around $8 million (1965 dollars).   Ticket sales, domestically, were a whopping $163.2 million (again, 1965 dollars).   It won Best Picture and Best Director for Robert Wise (as producer and director), which was a double-Oscar repeat for Wise — West Side Story in 1962.

Julie Andrews was nominated for Best Actress, but the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences — perhaps — thought it was little much to give her Best Actress Oscars two years in a row (she won in 1964 for Mary Poppins), so they gave the little gold statue to Julie Christie for her performance as Diana Scott in director John Schlesinger’s Darling.   Ask yourself these 60 years later which is best remember (not saying the Academy got it wrong, mind you).

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has tabbed Sept. 23 (a very short window) as the 60th anniversary celebration street date for the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (with Blu-ray) debut of The Sound of Music.    There will also be a double-disc Blu-ray edition available on the same date.  

The 4K Ultra HD disc has a “sing-along” viewing option and also has vintage commentary tracks from, first, filmmaker Robert Wise and second, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr (as Liesl Von Trapp), Dee Dee Woods (choreographer) and Johannes Von Trapp.   

The first of two companion Blu-ray discs is a repeat of the 4K Ultra HD in terms of content.   

The second companion Blu-ray disc contains a collection of featurettes, newsreels and vintage interviews, including documentary filmmaker Steven C. Smith’s 2015 film, The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg and the featurette titled “A City of Song.”