Thursday, December 4, 2025

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

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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

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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

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.