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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There are a bunch of hot new titles in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of March 11th 2013.

The Blu-ray 3D release for Academy Award winner Life of Pi hits shelves today from Fox Home Entertainment, along with a regular Life of Pi Blu-ray release.

Fox also has the Lucasfilm title Willow and the biopic Hitchcock on Blu-ray this week.

Also on Blu-ray 3D this week is the animated Rise of the Guardians from DreamWorks Home Entertainment and Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has a bunch of new catalog titles this week, including the much anticipated Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mulan / Mulan II, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2 Movie Collection.

Over to the indie releases, look for  Dave Grohl’s music documentary Sound City on Blu-ray from RCA this week.

The Criterion Collection has the original The Blob along with Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear this week while E1 Entertainment has Luis Buñuel’s Tristana.

On the television side, watch for BBC Home Video’s Ripper Street and the Anime series Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season Four from FUNimation Productions.

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Quite a few highly anticipated titles in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of February 18th 2013.

The wait is over for the Game of Thrones: The Complete Second Season release from HBO Home Video this week.

Warner Home Video has Ben Affleck’s award winning Argo this week, along with catalog releases for Easter Parade and Best in Show.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has the SyFy channel show Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on Blu-ray this week.

We have a new Blu-ray 3D edition of Monsters, Inc. from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, along with a new Monsters, Inc. regular Blu-ray release and the catalog title The Insider.

Speaking of Blu-ray 3D, watch for Top Gun in a Limited 3D Edition 3D conversion from Paramount Home Entertainment.

MGM Home Entertainment has a remaster for the original The Terminator, while those who like classics should look for On the Waterfront from the Criterion Collection and Thief of Bagdad from Cohen Media Group.

This week also sees a Blu-ray release for the Academy Award winning documentary Undefeated from Anchor Bay Entertainment.

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A couple of big titles lead the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 4th of February 2013.

Top title this week is the Denzel Washington film Flight from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has their classic Peter Pan on Blu-ray Disc this week for the first time.

Look for Digibook releases for Cabaret and the 1976 version of A Star is Born this week from Warner Home Video.

Meanwhile Tyler Perry tries something different in Alex Cross from Summit Entertainment.

On the classic and art house side, watch for the classic Film-Noir Laura from Fox Home Entertainment, the Japanese film The Ballad of Narayama from The Criterion Collection and the digital film documentary Side by Side from New Video DVD this week.

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A bit of a slow week in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery this week, easily topped by End of Watch from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Otherwise most of the titles of interest are indie and classic catalog tiles, including Wim Wenders homage to Pina in Blu-ray 3D from the Criterion Collection, along with Tarkovskiy’s Ivan’s Childhood this week.

Olive Films has John Ford’s The Quiet Man and Hal Hartley’s Trust this week.

On the documentary side, watch for Searching for Sugar Man from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and the television mini-series The Men Who Built America from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Also watch for the Sherlock Holmes movie The Seven-Per-Cent Solution from Shout! Factory, Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai from New Video DVD, and Ira Sachs’ Keep the Lights On from Music Box Films Home Entertainment.

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In the better late than never category, the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week shows that the holidays are over with a nice slate of titles including some hot Blu-ray 3D releases.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment takes top honors this week with the Blu-ray 3D release for Dredd, which has both the 3D and regular Blu-ray combined on one disc.

Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie hits Blu-ray 3D this week from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, though the regular Blu-ray for Frankenweenie has its own release.

Cult favourite animated TV show Archer: The Complete Season Three is on Blu-ray from Fox Home Entertainment, just in time for the start of season 4 on FX.

Another popular title is Ron Fricke‘s latest visual masterpiece Samsara from MPI Home Video.

Classic titles this week include Digbook releases for Driving Miss Daisy and The Jazz Singer from Warner Home Video, who also have Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford in Grand Hotel.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has the original Cape Fear, and this week’s Criterion Collection release is Two-Lane Blacktop.

Other indie, foreign and special interest releases of note include Compliance from Magnolia Home Entertainment, Sleep Tight from MPI Home Video and American Masters: Inventing David Geffen from PBS Home Video.

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There are a number of late summer movies in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery in the last new release week before the holidays.

The title this week is Pitch Perfect from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has the remake of Total Recall this week along with a DVD Combo version for Total Recall.

Sony also has Resident Evil: Retribution too this week, which also comes in a Resident Evil: Retribution Blu-ray 3D package.

The new Clint Eastwood movie Trouble with the Curve hits Blu-ray this week from Warner Home Video, who also have Shameless: The Complete Second Season, a Digibook release for Danny Kaye’s Hans Christian Andersen, and an individual releases for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies from New Line Home Entertainment.

Other day and date releases this week include Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days from Fox Home Entertainment and Killer Joe from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Indie releases this week include Sleepwalk with Me from MPI Home Video, and Paul Newman’s Sometimes a Great Notion and Ridley Scott’s first film The Duellists from Shout! Factory.

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There are a ton of great titles in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the first week of December.

The top title this week has to be Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises from Warner Home Video, with a companion release The Dark Knight Trilogy box set.

Warner also has the sports movie Thunderstruck on Blu-ray this week.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is busting out more Pixar titles this week, with a Blu-ray 3D release for Finding Nemo this week, as well as a regular combo for Finding Nemo and a new Blu-ray 3D release for the Pixar movie Up.

Disney also has the new family title The Odd Life of Timothy Green this week.

Spielberg and Coppola fans should watch for Catch Me If You Can from DreamWorks Home Entertainment and the Francis Ford Coppola: 5 Film Collection from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Top television titles this week include Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Two from Paramount Home Entertainment, The Simpsons: The Fifteenth Season from Fox Home Entertainment and Eastbound & Down: The Complete Third Season from HBO Home Video.

The Criterion Collection has the Terry Gilliam classic Brazil this week, along with the French thriller Purple Noon.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has Hope Springs, while Fox Home Entertainment has the critically acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild this week .

There is also a great collection of indies, classics and foreign titles this week, including Ninja Scroll from Section23 Films, Cronenberg’s eXistenZ from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Frank Sinatra’s Suddenly from Image Entertainment, The Blue Angel from Kino Lorber Incorporated, documentary film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry from MPI Home Video, a re-release for French thriller Tell No One from Music Box Films Home Entertainment and a three disc version of Pearl Jam Twenty from Columbia.

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The week’s Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery reveals a big week for Pixar fans.

No only is the latest Pixar film Brave available from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, but the Blu-ray 3D version of Brave and The Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2 are also in stores.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment finally has the Blu-ray release for Lawrence of Arabia this week, which is also available in a Lawrence of Arabia 4 disc gift set.

Warner Home Video has a busy week too, with the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Parts 1 & 2 (Ultimate Edition), Friends: The Complete Series Collection and Watchmen (Ultimate Cut + Graphic Novel) Blu-ray sets.

Additionally Warner has a Digibook for Empire of the Sun , the original 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice and the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Warner is also distributing the My Big Fat Greek Wedding anniversary release from HBO Home Video.

Watch for the cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure from MGM Home Entertainment this week.

Fans of foreign movies might be interested in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life and Godard’s Weekend from The Criterion Collection or Painted Skin: The Resurrection from Well Go USA.

Magnolia Home Entertainment has The Queen of Versailles this week, while on the classics side, watch for Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin and Strike from Kino Lorber Incorporated and The Big Trail from Fox Home Entertainment.

Image Entertainment has an interesting television release with The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Series.

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