New Home Entertainment Releases for Sept. 24 Led by ‘Despicable Me 4,’ ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die,’ ‘Longlegs,’ ‘Young Sheldon’ on Disc, ‘It Ends With Us’ Digitally
Despicable Me 4
September 24, 2024
The lineup of new home entertainment releases for Sept. 24 includes Blu-rays of Despicable Me 4, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Longlegs and Young Sheldon: The Complete Series, while It Ends With Us arrives for premium digital sale and rental.
Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD disc Sept. 24 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The fourth installment in the series follows Gru, Lucy and their girls as they welcome a new member to the family — Gru Jr. — who is intent on tormenting his dad as a new nemesis shows up and forces the family to go on the run. Despicable Me 4 features the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, Joey King, Stephen Colbert and Miranda Cosgrove. It earned $360.37 million at the domestic box office.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Sept. 24 releases the actioner Bad Boys: Ride or Die on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD disc. In the fourth film in the franchise, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence once again team up as Miami detectives in a mix of action and comedy, but this time he Miami’s finest are now on the run. When Captain Howard is unjustly accused of a lifetime of drug-related crimes, the Bad Boys vow to clear his name. It earned $193.57 million from U.S. theaters.
Neon’s highest-grossing theatrical film, Longlegs, will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD disc Sept. 24 from Decal. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins, the horror film stars Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt and Nicolas Cage. It follows an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer who uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree. Longlegs has grossed $74 million domestically.
Shout! Studios Sept. 24 releases the horror thriller Succubus on DVD and for digital purchase and rental. The R.J. Daniel Hanna-directed film, from Kiss and Tale Productions and Pixium Film Group in association with Convoke Media, stars Brendan Bradley, Rachel Cook, Olivia Applegate, Emily Kincaid, Rosanna Arquette and Ron Perlman. The film follows a young father going through a marital separation who joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman. Her powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined. Succubus was produced by Todd Slater, Anna Elizabeth James, Ari Novak, Perlman, and Hanna.
Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will release Young Sheldon: The Complete Seventh Season and Young Sheldon: The Complete Series on DVD and Blu-ray Sept. 24. A spinoff of “The Big Bang Theory” relating the story of the childhood of Sheldon Cooper, “Young Sheldon” premiered in 2017 and ran for 141 episodes. Young Sheldon: The Complete Seventh Season includes all 14 episodes from the final season of the show, which aired its series finale May 16. Jim Parson reprises his role as Sheldon to narrate the series, which stars Iain Armitage as the younger version Sheldon growing up in the early 1990s. The cast also includes Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Annie Potts, Montana Jordan, Raegan Revord and Emily Osment. A Blu-ray for season six also will be available Sept. 24.
Sony Pictures releases It Ends With Us for premium digital sale and rental Sept. 24. Based on the novel by Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us tells the empowering story of Lily Bloom. Grappling with a painful past, Lily embarks on a new life in Boston and opens her own flower shop. After falling in love with Ryle, Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her dangerous father. With the support of her friends and allies, Lily must find her own strength to break the pattern or the pattern will break her. The cast includes Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni (who also directed), Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj and Brandon Sklenar. The film earned $146.8 million at the domestic box office. It arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Nov. 5.
The animated film Cricket and Antoinette will be released via on demand and for digital purchase Sept. 24 from Lionsgate. The classic Aesop’s fable gets an update in the musical family adventure featuring original songs. In the film, when Antoinette, a hardworking ant, finds herself in the land of crickets, she’s shocked they don’t believe that winter is coming. When she falls for a handsome cricket rock star and joins his band, she plans to sing songs that warn of bad weather. But a meddling ant comes to “rescue” Antoinette, hoping to win her heart. Can she make it back to the crickets — and find her voice — in time for the Roachella Festival?
The Cinema Libre drama I Am Gitmo will be released for digital sale and VOD, as well as SVOD streaming, Sept. 24 from BayView Entertainment. In the film, taken from his home, Gamel Sadek, a Muslim schoolteacher, is delivered to a CIA black site and accused of involvement in 9/11. Despite insisting the accusations are false, Gamel is chained, hooded, and sent on a cargo plane to Guantanamo Bay. John Anderson, a military interrogator, is brought out of retirement and assigned to Gamel’s case. Despite relentless beatings, starvation, and torture, Gamel maintains he has no affiliation with al-Qaeda. John struggles with the mandate to force a confession at any cost. As Gamel prepares for a hearing on his status as an enemy combatant, he realizes he could be held indefinitely, and that John’s testimony will be the deciding factor. Directed by Philippe Diaz, the film stars Sammy Sheik, Eric Pierpoint and Paul Kampf.
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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will release Friends: The Complete Series on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray to celebrate the sitcom’s 30th anniversary. The boxed set includes all 236 original broadcast episodes from the NBC series released for the first time in 4K Ultra HD, plus more than 20 hours of extras, including all-new bonus content. The show, which ran 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004, follows the lives of six friends living in New York City: Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), and siblings Ross (David Schwimmer) and Monica Geller (Courteney Cox).
Brian DePalma’s classic Body Double will make its 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray debut Sept. 24 in honor of its 40th anniversary. The 1984 film, a look at voyeurism and sexuality that helped kick off the erotic thriller category, is being released as a 4K/Blu-ray combo pack in Steelbook packaging by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In Body Double, Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit at a luxurious hillside apartment. The home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who performs an arousing striptease. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of ‘X’-rated film, where he meets adult film star Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), who is a key to the crime. The limited-edition 4K Ultra HD combo pack includes the film on both 4K and Blu-ray discs. The 4K disc presents the film with Dolby Vision and English Dolby Atmos + English 5.1 + English 2-Channel Surround sound.
Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will release Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — Black & Chrome Edition on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Sept. 24. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — Black & Chrome Edition is a version of the theatrical film which has the color removed in favor of a black a chrome aesthetic. It will feature an introduction by director George Miller. As the world fell, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Due Sept. 24 from the Criterion Collection on 4K and Blu-ray is director Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, featuring 1993’s Totally F***ed Up, 1995’s The Doom Generation, and 1997’s Nowhere. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone-fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralizing. The Doom Generation offers a meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the margins of a menacing American wasteland, a chilled-out Cali bro (James Duval) and his spiky, foulmouthed girlfriend (Rose McGowan) find themselves on an increasingly violent, kinky and darkly comic journey after they inadvertently link up with a dangerously alluring drifter (Johnathon Schaech). In the sci-fi odyssey Nowhere, on the day when the world is foretold to end, a group of terminally horny, disillusioned, zonked-out teens in Los Angeles see their lives explode in a glitter bomb of drugs, sex, death and alien abduction. The collection includes a new 2K digital restoration of Totally F***ed Up and new 4K digital restorations of The Doom Generation and Nowhere, supervised and approved by Araki, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. The 4K edition includes one 4K UHD disc of The Doom Generation and Nowhere, and two regular Blu-ray discs with all three films and bonus materials.
Criterion Sept. 24 also releases 1998’s Happiness on 4K and Blu-ray. Director Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” The ensemble cast, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker, embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges, and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of whom just want to be loved. The film is presented with a new 4K digital restoration supervised by director of photography Maryse Alberti, with a 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack includes a 4K disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and a regular Blu-ray with the film and bonus materials.
Kino Lorber Sept. 24 releases a 50th anniversary edition of the classic Agatha Christie whodunit Murder on the Orient Express in a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Disc combo pack. The 1974 British mystery was directed by Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men) and is based on the 1934 mystery novel by famed author Christie. In the film, Albert Finney portrays dapper detective Hercule Poirot, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. After an American millionaire is killed aboard the Orient Express’s famed Calais coach, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard, hoping to solve the case before the local police arrive. Among the suspects: Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark and Michael York. The 4K transfer comes from a new HDR/Dolby Vision master from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative on a triple-layer UHD100 disc, with 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 stereo audio. The Blu-ray Disc transfer comes from a new HD master from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative on a dual-layer BD50 disc, also with 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 stereo audio.
The 1986 British horror film Link, starring Elisabeth Shue, makes its 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray debut Sept. 24 in a combo pack issued by Kino Lorber. Shue, who made her feature film debut just two years earlier as a cheerleader in The Karate Kid, co-stars with Terence Stamp. She plays a young graduate student, Jane Chase, who becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor (Stamp) at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Link was directed by Richard Franklin (Road Games, F/X2) and features a score by legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen).
The 1967 exploitation actioner The Million Eyes of Sumuru will be released as a 4K Ultra HD (plus Blu-ray) combo pack Sept. 24 from Blue Underground and MVD Entertainment Group. Two years before The Girl From Rio, Shirley Eaton (Goldfinger) also starred as Sumuru, a beautiful but deadly woman with plans for world domination. In the film, when a couple of wise-cracking, swingin’ secret agents uncover her scheme to eliminate male leaders and replace them with sexy undercover female operatives, they rush to Hong Kong and enlist the local police to stop her all-female army of assassins known as The Million Eyes of Sumuru. Frankie Avalon (Back to the Beach), George Nader (Beyond Atlantis), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Chamber of Horrors), Maria Rohm (99 Women), and Klaus Kinski (Venom) co-star in this action-packed spy spoof from producer Harry Alan Towers (Howling IV) and director Lindsay Shonteff (No. 1 of the Secret Service). The film is presented in a brand-new 4K restoration from its long-lost (and recently found) original camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR, including 10 minutes of additional footage missing from the previous release.
MVD Entertainment Group and Severn Films will release the Spanish cult drama The Creature (1977), the Spanish actioner A Dog Called … Vengeance (1977) and the horror flick The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals (1969) on Blu-ray Disc Sept. 24.
From Eloy de la Iglesia — the transgressive and controversial director of Cannibal Man, The Glass Ceiling and the Quinqui classics El Pico 1 and 2 and Navajeros — comes The Creature. In the film, after a heartbreaking miscarriage, a couple (Goya Award winners Ana Belén and Juan Diego) adopts a stray male dog in hopes of saving their rocky marriage. But as the wife develops an obsessive bond with her new companion, it will trigger jealousies and rivalries that may lead to the most inconceivable act of all. Claudia Gravi (Byleth: The Demon of Incest), Ramón Repáraz (The Priest) and Manuel Pereiro (The Night of the Walking Dead) co-star in the film, now scanned in 2K from the negative. Special features include “A Strange Movie,” an interview with assistant director Alejo Loren; “Gaspar / Eloy,” an interview With Filmmaker Gaspar Noé; and an introduction by Gaspar Noé at Cinémathèque Française (July 20, 2023).
Less than two years after the end of Spain’s oppressive Franco regime, Goya Award winning filmmaker Antonio Isasi (They Came to Rob Las Vegas, Summertime Killer) co-wrote and directed the action blockbuster A Dog Called … Vengeance (1977) that shocked European audiences and became one of the most culturally-charged survival thrillers of the decade. Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Jason Miller (The Exorcist, That Championship Season) plays a political prisoner who escapes custody, only to be relentlessly pursued by a military dictatorship dog driven to hate, hunt and kill. Donatello Award winner Lea Massari (L’Avventura) and Goya Award winners Marisa Paredes (High Heels) and Juan Antonio Bardem (The Corruption of Chris Miller) co-star in the film, now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative. Special features include “A Film Ahead of Its Time,” an appreciation by Ángel Sala, head of programming at the Sitges Film Festival; “Memories of a Guerilla Woman,” an interview with actress Marisa Paredes; “Daughter of Titans,” an interview with María Isasi, daughter of director Antonio Isasi and actress Marisa Paredes; and a trailer.
The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals (1969) is a notorious horror epic that’s been barely seen since its fly-by-night VHS release. Anthony Eisley (The Naked Kiss, Dracula Vs. Frankenstein) stars in this mash-up of dubious Egyptology, risible werewolf transformations, H.G. Lewis-level gore, cut-rate psychedelia and an oven-mitted mummy on a Las Vegas rampage, all set to a swinging soundtrack of lounge and surf instrumentals. The legendary John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath, Horror of the Blood Monsters) earns a day’s pay in this schlock horror flick written and produced by William Edwards (Dracula the Dirty Old Man), directed by Oliver Drake (The Mummy’s Curse) and scanned in 4K from the blow up internegative discovered at Ewing “Lucky” Brown’s Los Angeles estate sale, now with more than two hours of special features that include the thought-lost Vega International adult feature Angelica, The Young Vixen scanned from the sole surviving print and featuring audio commentary with exploitation film researcher Shawn Langrick, moderated by genre film historian Joe Rubin. Special features also include “The Vega International Story,” an interview with Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA; “Cowboys, Mummies and Oliver Drake,” an interview with film historian C. Courtney Joyner; and “Investing in the Jackal,” an interview with Garry Gassel, son of investors Milton R. Gassel and Judi Gassel.
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