The release week July 11th Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for 2017 features top title The Fate of the Furious from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Universal also has The Fate of the Furious on 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision HDR – both versions feature DTS:X audio.

Also watch for Peter Jackson’s King Kong on Ultra HD, with DTS:X on a triple layer 100GB disc, and an anniversary Blu-ray release for Smokey and the Bandit from Universal.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has the animated family title Smurfs: The Lost Village this week, with only the 4K Ultra HD version of Smurfs: The Lost Village featuring Dolby Atmos audio.

Sony also has Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element on Ultra HD this week.

Indie titles this week include The Lost City of Z from Broad Green Pictures, A Quiet Passion from Music Box Films Home Entertainment, and The Man from Planet X from Shout! Factory.

Meanwhile the Criterion Collection is releasing the French movie L’argent and the Italian Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy on Blu-ray this week.

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The release week May 9th Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for 2017 features top title Fifty Shades Darker from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Fifty Shades Darker is also available as a 4K Ultra HD release, along with a 4K edition for Fifty Shades of Grey and a two pack Fifty Shades: 2-Movie Collection, with all 4K versions featuring DTS:X audio mixes.

Otherwise is it a bit of a quiet week, with releases including the popular Netflix series Orange is the New Black: Season Four from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Paramount Home Entertainment has re-releases, including Chinatown and 45th anniversary releases for The Godfather trilogy.

The Warner Archive Collection has William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist, and Fox Home Entertainment has re-releases for Michael Mann’s Heat and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Indie titles include Serial Mom from Shout! Factory, Belgian movie Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles from the Criterion Collection, and French film Things to Come from MPI Home Video.

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The release week October 11th Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for 2016 features top title Ghostbusters from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

You will also find a premium release for Ghostbusters that includes both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray 3D formats.

Sony also has the Ron Howard / Tom Hanks films The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons on 4K Ultra HD this week, both with remastered Dolby Atmos audio.

Speaking of Atmos, the Warner Home Video title The Legend of Tarzan Blu-ray release features Dolby Atmos audio, as does the The Legend of Tarzan 3D and the 4K Ultra HD edition for The Legend of Tarzan.

Warner also has the animated television title Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season, the classic On Dangerous Ground from the Warner Archive Collection, and the Amazon exclusive Middle-Earth 6 Film Collection Limited Collector’s Edition from New Line Home Cinema this week.

Fox Home Entertainment’s big release is the animated sequel Ice Age: Collision Course, which is also available as a deluxe edition of Ice Age: Collision Course with Blu-ray 3D, and a 4K Ultra HD edition of Ice Age: Collision Course with Dolby Atmos audio.

Also watch for Blood Father and Glengarry Glen Ross on Blu-ray Disc from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Paramount Home Entertainment has the 70th Anniversary edition for It’s a Wonderful Life that features a colorized version along with the original black and white.

Horror specialists Shout! Factory have John Carpenter’s The Thing and Brian De Palma’s Carrie in Blu-ray Collector’s Editions this week.

Art house titles include McCabe & Mrs. Miller and BoyHood from the Criterion Collection, and French film Les Cowboys from Cohen Media.

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Today I am taking a closer look at the Broad Green Pictures release The Neon Demon – on Blu-ray Disc September 27th, 2016.

Nicolas Winding Refn, Mary Laws, and Polly Stenham wrote this psychological horror film.

The story follows an aspiring model in Los Angeles whose beauty and youth cause fascination and jealousy in the industry.

The movie was the third by Refn to compete for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

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