Aside from a big new release from Warner, it is a mostly quiet week in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for mid June 2013.

Bryan Singer’s latest movie Jack the Giant Slayer 3D is on the Blu-ray 3D format this week from New Line Home Entertainment, along with a regular Blu-ray combo release for Jack the Giant Slayer.

Other popular titles this week are the new catalog titles Lifeforce and The Howling from Shout! Factory.

Fox Home Entertainment has new titles this week too, including Stoker,  Movie 43, and 21 & Over.

Fox also has the cult television favourite Wilfred: The Complete Season 2 this week, and other television releases include Workaholics: Season Three from Comedy Central and Call the Midwife: Season Two from BBC Home Entertainment.

The Criterion Collection has three releases this week as well, with the 20′s Harold Lloyd film Safety Last!, the 30′s science fiction movie Things to Come, and the 60′s Czech film Marketa Lazarova.

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We have a couple of big Blu-ray 3D releases in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of  June 10th 2013.

First up is the fantasy action movie Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, along with the Limited 3D Edition of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has Oz the Great and Powerful this week, also with an Oz the Great and Powerful 3D edition.

Disney also has some new animated double feature releases, including Lilo & Stitch / Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, The Emperor’s New Groove / Kronk’s New Groove, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire / Atlantis: Milo’s Return.

Paul McCartney and Wings feature in Rockshow this week from Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Summit Entertainment has The Rock in his latest movie Snitch this week.

For classic cinema, watch for a new release for Enter the Dragon from Warner Home Video this week, as well as Bergman’s Wild Strawberries from the Criterion Collection, and documentary How to Survive a Plague from MPI Home Video.

Television releases include The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Third Season from Image Entertainment,  The Newsroom: The Complete First Season from HBO Home Video and the Netflix original series House of Cards: The Complete First Season from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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A few new hot titles in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for this week.

Fox Home Entertainment has Bruce Willis’ latest A Good Day to Die Hard this week. taking the top title honors.

Identity Thief is the first of many new titles from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, while Summit Entertainment has the romantic zombie film Warm Bodies.

Other Universal titles include disaster epic Earthquake, with other classic releases including Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hitchcock’s Rope, the 1932 version of The Mummy, The Invisible Man and Phantom of the Opera.

New titles with UltraViolet now thrown in include The Sting, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has television release Breaking Bad: The Fifth Season this week, while Warner has Falling Skies: The Complete Second Season, Adventure Time: The Complete First Season and Adventure Time: The Complete Second Season.

Other Warner releases include The Odd Couple and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has a Blu-ray 3D release this week for the computer animated Escape from Planet Earth, while MGM Home Entertainment has the Daniel Craig 007 Collection.

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While this week’s Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery lacks blockbuster titles, there was a whole slew of catalog and indie titles.

The top title this week is the new Digibook packaged Cleopatra from Fox Home Entertainment, who also have Cleopatra in regular packaging this week.

BBC Home Video has the new Doctor Who: Series Seven – Part Two, as well as a single episode release for Doctor Who: The Snowmen.

One of the few new release titles is Dark Skies from Anchor Bay Entertainment, who also have a huge bunch of catalog titles, including The Star Chamber, while Shout! Factory has Rolling Thunder this week.

Art House and foreign titles include Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet from Criterion Collection, German movie Lore from Music Box Films Home Entertainment, and Reuben, Reuben from Olive Films.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has a re-release of Despicable Me 3D and Despicable Me with an UltraViolet Digital Copy code this week.

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A great week for Gangster movies in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of May 20th.

Top title is the latest season of True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season from HBO Home Video.

Warner Home Video has quite a collection of titles this week, including the new movie Beautiful Creatures.

Lots of classic crime titles too, with the Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics, along with individual releases for White Heat, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest and Little Caesar.

There is also an Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary edition and a new anniversary edition of National Lampoon’s Vacation.

Great to see Warner re-releasing some of the earlier titles that didn’t get the best initial Blu-ray treatment this month.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has new titles too with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand and Stand Up Guys out this week.

Jason Statham fans will like his new film Parker from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment this week.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has a couple of key new Anime titles - My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has the Steven Soderbergh movie Side Effects out this week, and the Criterion Collection has Medium Cool this week.

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The last Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for April 2013 is again a little quiet, before things pick up big time in May.

Top title for the week is Academy Award winning  Silver Linings Playbook from Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Music documentary title History of the Eagles is out this week, and Amazon has a special edition History of the Eagles from Jigsaw Productions.

It is a big Star Trek week too, with Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Three and Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Best of Both Worlds from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Paramount also has individual releases for original Trek movies, including Star Trek I: The Motion Picture and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Seth Rogen’s new movie The Guilt Trip is also new from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Fox Home Entertainment has Broken City this week, while Sony Home Entertainment has Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.

Look for Baz Luhrmann’s first feature Strictly Ballroom in a catalog release from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Warner Home Video has individual releases for Friends: The Complete First Season and Friends: The Complete Second Season this week.

Over to classic cinema, look for Humphey Bogart in The Enforcer and Gary Cooper in Cloak and Dagger this week from Olive Films.

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Another quiet week in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery this week, where the top seller is the new Blu-ray 3D release for Jurassic Park from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Universal also has the spoof comedy A Haunted House and Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land this week.

Warner Home Video has their 40′s crime movie Gangster Squad this week and Summit Entertainment has tsunami drama The Impossible.

Over to indies and classics, watch for Ken Burns’ The Central Park Five from PBS Home Video, as well as Laurence Olivier’s Richard III and the Pierre Etaix Collection from Criterion Collection.

Olive Films has a bunch of John Wayne movies this week, including The Fighting Seabees, as well as Hal Hartley’s Flirt this week.

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Fans of Martial Arts should certainly take a look at the Blu-ray Disc for Dragon, which was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment this week on April 16th, 2013.

The film is a martial arts thriller with action sequences arranged and directed by Donnie Yen.

The movie premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Midnight Screenings category, where the billboard was 3591 square metres and broke the World Record for its immense size.

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This week’s Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery looks to be mostly dominated by television releases in a quiet week for movie titles.

Stand up comedy wins out with the Comedy Central title Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy.

The Criterion Collection has David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch this week, along with the Japanese film Gate of Hell.

BBC Home Video has a big selection this week, including the popular Merlin: The Complete Fifth Season and documentary shows The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, One Life and Great Barrier Reef .

Lionsgate Home Entertainment also has a television release with Boss: Season Two and Image Entertainment has The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete First Season.

Watch later in the week for a giveaway of the Japanese comedy horror Deadball from Well Go USA.

Meanwhile Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing UltraViolet bundled versions of The Fast and the Furious , Fast & Furious , Fast Five and 2 Fast 2 Furious.

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The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of April Fools Day is a little on the light weight side.

The top titles this week come from Fox Home Entertainment, with the ‘epic miniseries’ The Bible and catalog releases for That Thing You Do! and Hello Dolly!.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has put together a 6 movie Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray collection – the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled – that also features a new supplemental disc.

On the indie side, look for John Dies at the End from Magnolia Home Entertainment, British crime movie The Sweeney from Entertainment One and the Japanese horror Tormented 3D in the Blu-ray 3D format from Well Go USA.

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