Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

I was gifted a 4K bluray player for Christmas. Whopper!

I immediately bought my favourite movie of all time - Aliens. I only got around to watching it recently and HOLY COW the detail. I grew up watching it on a VHS that I recorded off the TV.

I'm looking for some recommendations for things to visually blow me away. I was thinking of Interstellar, but I did watch that recently enough.

All suggestions welcome and thank you!

edit: Some absolute bangers of recommendations here, many of which I wouldn't have considered. Thanks folks!

Widely regarded as the greatest British film of all time, and making its 4K debut, director Carol Reed’s noir The Third Man, brilliantly scripted by Graham Greene – and set to Anton Karas’s evocative zither score – is a justly celebrated classic further enhanced by Orson Welles in one of his most iconic roles. After writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in post-WWII Vienna to meet his old friend Harry Lime (the incomparable Welles), he discovers Lime has been killed in a suspicious accident. As the accident’s witnesses disappear, the sardonic Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) and Lime’s mistress, Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli), complicate Martins’s search for answers regarding his friend’s death. But will his relentless curiosity lead him to discoveries about Lime he’d rather not know?

Key Features

This stunning 4K UHD™ edition – available for the first time in the U.S. – preserves Carol Reed’s cinematic vision, as well as Robert Krasker’s starkly dramatic black-and-white cinematography (winner of the 1950 Academy Award®).

• SteelBook® art by William Walker
• Special Features:
  • 56-page booklet featuring on-set photos and essays describing the cinematic impact of The Third Man
  • Collector's poster
  • Four art cards:
    • Two mockups of pulp Western paperback covers written by Holly Martins
    • Anna Schmidt’s forged passport
    • Original 1949 poster
  • Audio Commentary with Guy Hamilton, Simon Callow, and Angela Allen
  • The Third Man Interactive Tour
  • The Third Man on the Radio
  • Interview and Zither Performance by Cornelia Mayer
  • Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery
• Lionsgate Limited Extras
  • Joseph Cotten’s Alternate Opening Voiceover Narration
  • Noreen Ackland on Saving The Third Man
  • The Third Man – A Filmmaker’s Influence
  • Restoring The Third Man
  • Shadowing The Third Man
  • 75th-Anniversary Trailer

Pre-order: Lionsgate Limited

KRAVEN THE HUNTER is the action-packed, R-rated, standalone story of how one of Marvel's most iconic villains came to be. AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff (RUSSELL CROWE), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared. Special Features & Technical Specs:

• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
• Deleted & Extended Scenes
• Becoming Kraven
• Beast Mode: The Stunts of the Hunt
• Outtakes and Bloopers
• Kraven's First Hunt: The Direction
• Allies & Antagonists: The Killer Cast
• 4K BLU-RAY Audio: English Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 compatible) , French (Doublé au Québec) 5.1 DTS-HD MA, Spanish, English & French (Doublé au Québec) Audio Description Tracks 5.1 Dolby Digital
• 4K BLU-RAY Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish
• BLU-RAY Audio: English, French (Doublé au Québec) 5.1 DTS-HD MA, Spanish, English & French (Doublé au Québec) Audio Description Tracks 5.1 Dolby Digital BLU-RAY Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish

Pre-order: Amazon

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Terrifier 3
2. The Wild Robot
3. Transformers One
4. Alien: Romulus
5. Deadpool & Wolverine
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. Reagan
8. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Twisters
11. Joker: Folie à Deux
12. Arcane: League of Legends - Season One
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
14. John Wick: Chapter 4
15. The Searchers
16. Dune: Part Two
17. Interstellar
18. Borderlands
19. Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Complete Third Season
20. House of the Dragon: The Complete Second Season

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Transformers One
2. Terrifier 3
3. Alien: Romulus
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Wild Robot
6. The Searchers
7. Arcane: League of Legends - Season One
8. Deadpool & Wolverine
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. Interstellar
11. Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Complete Third Season
12. Dune: Part Two
13. Star Wars: Ahsoka - The Complete First Season
14. Hatari!
15. Snake Eyes
16. John Wick: Chapter 4
17. Joker: Folie à Deux
18. Twisters
19. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
20. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Terrifier 3 (61%)
2. The Wild Robot (51%)
3. Transformers One (60%)
4. Alien: Romulus (60%)
5. Deadpool & Wolverine (60%)
6. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (44%)
7. Twisters (46%)
8. Joker: Folie à Deux (46%)
9. Godzilla Minus One (69%)
10. The Forge (20%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top 20 Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-01-04
• Top 20 Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-01-04
• Blu-ray Sales: December 29-January 4: Terrifier 3 Still Number One in Third Week

Director Fede Álvarez, says he run out of time to get the look of the character Rook completed to his satisfaction. For the home release, he's apparently spent more money correcting it which according to him, leans more towards the practical animatronic than the CGI face.

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Terrifier 3
2. The Wild Robot
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Transformers One
5. Deadpool & Wolverine
6. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. Reagan
9. Twisters
10. Joker: Folie à Deux
11. The Grinch
12. The Searchers
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
14. Dune: Part Two
15. Interstellar
16. Arcane: League of Legends - Sesaon One
17. No Country for Old Men
18. House of the Dragon: The Complete Second Season
19. Despicable Me 4
20. Dune 2-Film Collection

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Transformers One
2. Terrifier 3
3. The Searchers
4. Alien: Romulus
5. Deadpool & Wolverine
6. Interstellar
7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
8. Godzilla Minus One
9. The Grinch
10. The Wild Robot
11. Dune: Part Two
12. No Country for Old Men
13. Joker: Folie à Deux
14. Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Complete Third Season
15. Arcane: League of Legends - Season One
16. Star Wars: Ahsoka - The Complete First Season
17. Demolition Man
18. Twisters
19. The Boy and the Heron
20. Galaxy Quest

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Terrifier 3 (65%)
2. The Wild Robot (53%)
3. Transformers One (58%)
4. Alien: Romulus (63%)
5. Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (32%)
6. Deadpool & Wolverine (60%)
7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (53%)
8. Twisters (50%)
9. Joker: Folie à Deux (51%)
10. Godzilla Minus One (71%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top 20 Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2024-12-28
• Top 20 Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2024-12-28
• Blu-ray Sales: December 22-28: Terrifier 3 Searches Out the Top Spot in Second Week

With over 18 years of history, Blu-ray technology was designed to take CDs and DVDs to the next level. Not only can they hold significantly more data than their predecessors, but Blu-ray discs even let you view high-quality (and 3D content) that often are closer to the experience of watching in theaters than the compressed versions you'll find elsewhere. Not to be confused with DVDs, Blu-ray discs use a different kind of laser technology, which eventually became the industry standard for film and movies by 2008. In part, this is due to the fact that its players could be backwards-compatible with DVDs, but not the other way around.

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Although some things can (and have) lasted the test of time, the natural progression of most technology is that something becomes obsolete when a newer, better, or more efficient model comes along. In terms of the Blu-ray discs, there are several things that have pushed them to obsoletion. 

If you have a physical media collection for movies, TV shows, games, music, or something else, you’ve probably wondered “do I already have this?” while shopping. There’s an easy way to solve this problem: make a simple list.

There are many apps and services intended for tracking your collection of movies, games, music, and other media across digital and physical formats. Those are useful tools, especially the ones with the ability to add extra metadata, but they aren’t strictly necessary. If you just want to know what you already own, so you can quickly check you aren’t about to buy the same movie or game again, you can go for a more basic solution.

In the fifth and final season of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing "space potholes" – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Boimler (Jack Quaid), Tendi (Noël Wells) and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero)…if they didn't also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all: their own career aspirations. This 2-disc collection includes every episode along with 25 minutes of exclusive bonus content including commentaries and a featurette.

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS THE COMPLETE SERIES will also be available on Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook featuring an exclusive art card that includes the signatures of your favorite Lower Decks crew. The 10-disc collection includes nearly 5 hours of special features, including audio commentaries, "Lower Decktionaries," featurettes and so much more!

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS is produced by CBS' Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios' animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producers include Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth. Titmouse, the Emmy Award-winning independent animation production company, serves as the animation studio for the series.

Pre-order: Final Season · Complete Series

Perched on the end of a row of terraces in a small town is one of the last DVD rental shops in the UK.

In 2022, there were thought to be as few as 10 remaining.

For 43 years Steve Webber has been behind the desk of Northgate Video, but how has he kept going amid the demise of chain retailers like Blockbuster and the rise of streaming services?

Sitting on the corner of Northgate Street in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, it is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shop.

But for those who head inside, it is like stepping back in time as customers are greeted by walls of shelves packed with thousands of DVDs for sale and rent. And a movie is always playing on a TV by the window.

Mr Webber, 72, says while he has some regulars, he gets passing trade from people intrigued by the idea a video or DVD rental shop still exists.

"It's just nice to see people come in and say, 'Oh wow, I didn't realise places like this existed'," he said.

"I had a lad come in months ago, a real film buff, and he was gobsmacked by it."

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"Back in the early days it was just VHS tapes, which cost me £50 or £60."

He would then rent them out for £2 a night, rising to about £2.50 in the early 2000s.

One thing never changed though, the most popular rentals were always new releases or horror films - "anything not available on TV".

The most popular items over the years have included the lesser-known Zombie Flesh Eaters alongside hits like Apocalypse Now, Mad Max, Life of Brian and Star Trek.

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He still offers DVD rentals but said the market was "pretty much non-existent" with the focus now on sales.

"I've got a few regulars come in every week and a few come in randomly every month or so, or parents bringing in kids for special occasions.

"But it's mainly sales, I've got 2,000 to 3,000 ex-rentals up for sale for £1 a time and I pride myself on being able to get pretty much anything anyone wants.

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However, the rise of platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime has hit the business harder, especially in the last 12-18 months, with the rise of films being produced by the streaming giants.

"It's got to the stage now a new film will come out on Netflix and Amazon Prime before it actually comes out on DVD.

"Back in the day we always had a six-month window before it came out but now it's an impossible situation.

"Now they do things principally for Netflix or Amazon and then they come out on DVD," he said.

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Mr Webber said, although trade had slowed down, he had never put a definitive date on when to shut up shop.

"I keep saying I'll close at the end of the year, then the end of the financial year.

"Then something will happen, it will pick up again."

He said he would keep going for as long as people were still enjoying it.

"To put it bluntly, the money I make out of this is what they call my beer money.

"Unless streaming services all go down or the world goes to pot, then I shall still be here. I shall be the last man standing," he said.

Reports of physical media's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Apologies to anyone with a birthday in the upcoming month, but, let's be honest, January famously kind of sucks. If you're on a comedown from the festive high, never fear – we have a balm for your blues in the form of 10 of the best upcoming 4K and Blu-ray releases hitting horror shelves this January.

They are:

• April Fool's Day (4K UHD) - Kino Lorber Films
• Azrael (Blu-ray) - IFC Films
• Cure (4K UHD) - Eureka Video
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Collector's Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray) - Scream Factory
• Incubus (Limited Edition 4K UHD/Limited Edition Blu-ray) - Arrow Video
• Smile 2 (4K UHD SteelBook) - Paramount
• The Substance (Blu-ray/4K UHD + Blu-ray combo) - MUBI
• Se7en (4K UHD SteelBook) - Warner Home Video
• Vampires (4K UHD + Blu-ray Collector's Edition) - Shout Factory
• Yellow Dragon's Village/Visitors (Blu-ray Double Feature) - Terror Vision

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Terrifier 3
2. Transformers One
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Joker: Folie à Deux
5. Deadpool & Wolverine
6. The Wild Robot
7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
8. Godzilla Minus One
9. Digimon: Digital Monsters - The Movies 1-3
10. The Grinch
11. Twisters
12. Demolition Man
13. Reagan
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Pictur eTrilogy
15. Dune: Part Two
16. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
17. Interstellar
18. Seinfeld: The Complete Series
19. Kickboxer
20. The Mean One

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Transformers One
2. Terrifier 3
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Joker: Folie à Deux
5. Demolition Man
6. Deadpool & Wolverine
7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
8. Interstellar
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. Kickboxer
11. The Grinch
12. Seinfeld: The Complete Series
13. Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Complete Third Season
14. Dune: Part Two
15. Galaxy Quest
16. Stir of Echoes
17. The Wild Robot
18. Star Wars: Ahsoka - The Complete First Season
19. The Holdovers
20. Shaun of the Dead

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Transformers One (69%)
2. Terrifier 3 (73%)
3. Alien: Romulus (63%)
4. The Wild Robot (45%)
5. Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (29%)
6. Joker: Folie à Deux (63%)
7. Deadpool & Wolverine (61%)
8. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) (32%)
10. Twisters (49%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top 20 Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2024-12-21
• Top 20 Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2024-12-21
• Blu-ray Sales: December 15-21: Terrifier 3 Isn't Clowning Around on Blu-ray

As streaming and downloadable media increase their dominance, Blu-ray players are being discontinued across the industry, which means that sooner or later you won't find any players on the shelf should your current one give up the ghost. So what now?

In December 2024, LG announced that it would be ceasing production of Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Oppo who both left the market about half a decade earlier.

LG was one of the last great holdouts making players, but now only Sony and Panasonic are left, and while having fewer players to share the market makes it more viable for them to stay in for a while, I suspect it's only a matter of time before the remaining big brands pull the plug.

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So there's no reason to rush out and do something financially inadvisable. Instead, take this as a medium-term warning that those of us who like collecting media are on notice. If you want your disc library to remain playable for as long as possible, you'll have to do something about it soon.

Luckily, this isn't for grain removal but to fix mistakes that still bugged Fincher.

Fincher got together with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff and told her how AI was used to achieve the restoration. Fincher mentions the scene in a bar where Detectives Somerset and Mills chat about the case. Turns out, the scene had a teeny tiny mistake in it, but Fincher is known as a bit of a perfectionist, so it probably bothered him.

“In this case, there was this unasked-for and unearned camera pan where a character moved, and then the camera panned over to follow them but followed them late and overshot them and ended up seeing more of the bar than was intended,” Fincher described. A character’s jacket proved to be a real problem in trying to fix the shot, but now, with the help of AI, Fincher was able to get the shot he wanted on the new version.

“So we took three or four different shots from earlier, which had a jacket in them that we liked, and then we input that, and then we had it spit back out AI, and then took the background from where the camera landed and just composited them together.”

Easy peasy! Fincher seems to have also found other uses for AI than just the one bar scene.

“There were shots that I didn’t even realize where I would consider today to be unusably out of focus, and some of those things we were able to go in, make mattes of the section that we wanted, and use AI to at least get the focus in the eyes to be on the soft side, but not completely useless,” the director told Collider.

For reasons known only to them, the studios have been saving some of their absolute best and most interesting 4K releases for the waning days of 2024, among them the most hotly debated movies of the past 12 months, as well as cult favorites and a few outright classics. In between the egg nog and the champagne, we pulled together this list of must-see-in-Ultra-HDs for your consideration as we toss another calendar into the recycling bin.

They are:

• The Searchers 4K (Warner Archive)
• No Country for Old Men 4K (Criterion Collection)
• Joker: Folie à Deux 4K (Warner)
• The Wild Robot 4K (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 4K (Warner)
• Demolition Man Limited Edition 4K (Arrow)
• Alien: Romulus 4K (20th Century/Disney)
• Transformers One 4K (Paramount)
• Legends of the Fall 4K (Sony)
• Willow 4K (Walt Disney)

The monstrous Godzilla is colossal in more ways than one, dominating screens since 1954. One of the most recognizable reptilian figures in cultural history, fans lap up the spectacle of this kaiju (a Japanese term for large monster) towering over urban landscapes and battling with other untamed beasts. In 1989, one of the weirdest movies in the genre was released, Godzilla vs. Biollante, becoming a firm franchise favorite for many fans..

Director Kazuki Ōmori delved deep into his imagination for Godzilla vs. Biollante. The film proudly displays some of the coolest special effects of the franchise, one of its strangest antagonists, and some great social commentary. It's been a challenge for anyone to track down a watchable physical copy of the movie, and anything on streaming usually has poorly translated subtitles, but that all ends next spring. Audiences will be able to get their hands on the 4K restoration of the film (with new, properly handled subtitles and a 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack), so they can judge how wonderfully eccentric it is for themselves.

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Along with the restoration, The Criterion Collection release is stuffed with special features as usual:

There's a new audio commentary featuring film historian Samm Deighan, host of the podcast Eros + Massacre and coeditor of the book Revolution in 35mm. There's also a making-of program from 1993 featuring director Kazuki Ōmori and special-effects director Koichi Kawakita, among others. There are deleted special effects, TV spots, and a short documentary from 1993 about the Biollante and Super X2 vehicle concepts.

Robert Eggers has confirmed that “Nosferatu” will be released on 4K Blu-Ray in an extended cut. Is it the near 3-hour version that was test screened earlier in the year? Quite possibly.

In 2023, I read the script and after having seen the released cut, all I can say is that Eggers left a lot of footage out of version we saw in theaters.

Clip of the announcement (if you don't want to watch the full video linked), on Reddit

With 2024 coming to a close, I’m looking back on everything that happened with 4K Blu-ray over the past year. Needless to say, it’s been a year of ups and downs. We’ve seen some excellent releases, especially from independent distributors. We’ve also seen brands and retailers exit the 4K Blu-ray market, whether it’s selling discs or players.

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But 2024 really has been a rollercoaster year for us 4K Blu-ray fans. There have been reports of increasing disc sales from major UK retailers, and then elsewhere you read that the state of physical media is in decline and it’s all very doom and gloom. So what did happen in the world of 4K Blu-ray in 2024?

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4K Blu-ray and physical media in general has faced a year of highs and lows in 2024 and while I’m hopeful for its future in 2025, I know there is still uncertainty. Physical media sales overall remain on the decline and despite rising prices, streaming services are still the main way people watch movies and TV shows.

But, 4K Blu-ray is the best way to enjoy movies on your home theater system and the more people get to experience this wonderful format, the more popular it will become.

Any highlights or low points for you in 2024?

WICKED, one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, arrives on your screen as a generation-defining cinematic sensation. The untold story of the witches of Oz, WICKED stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman who has yet to discover her true power, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet at Shiz University and forge an unlikely friendship – before their lives take different paths following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Their extraordinary adventures will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. Wicked is an immersive, cultural celebration you'll want to experience over and over again!

Based on the stage play with music and lyrics by the legendary Grammy and Oscar® winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, WICKED is expertly directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights). The film also stars Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Crazy Rich Asians), Oliver Award winner and Emmy nominee Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton, Fellow Travelers), Tony nominee Ethan Slater (Broadway's SpongeBob SquarePants, Fosse/Verdon), Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), and Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park, Independence Day).

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
• SING ALONG - ALTERNATE FEATURE-LENGTH VERSION – Rejoicify, it's your turn to sing your way through Oz! Sing-along to all of your favorite Wicked songs as you join Elphaba and Glinda on their magical journey.
• DELETED AND EXTENDED SCENES
  • Pfannee & ShenShen Meet Glinda - Reunited at Shiz University, Glinda, Pfannee, and ShenShen recall their past by performing a twirling routine together.
  • Shiz Gazette Introduces Fiyero - Excitement spreads across Shiz as word gets out that Prince Fiyero is on his way.
  • Toss Toss - Glinda teaches Elphaba the art of Toss Toss, with mixed results.
  • Elphaba & Fiyero in the Forest - The relationship between Elphaba and Fiyero takes a turn as they come to care for a lost lion cub.
  • Elphaba's Promise - Elphaba makes a pledge to Glinda that they both hope will strengthen their friendship.
  • Train Platform Farewell - Glinda, Madame Morrible, and Governor Thropp gather to send Elphaba off to Emerald City.
  • Boq & Elphaba Talk - Elphaba challenges Boq to face the truth about his feelings for Nessa Rose, but she has difficulty doing the same when it comes to Fiyero.
  • Train Ride to Emerald City- Glinda and Elphaba expand their world by taking a luxurious train ride to Emerald City.
  • In the Emerald City - The bustling streets of Emerald City take Glinda and Elphaba one step closer to finally meeting the Wizard.
  • Palace Monkeys Chase - Elphaba and Glinda race through a maddening maze of winged monkeys determined to take them down.
• MAKING WICKED – Return to Oz for a fantastic behind-the-scenes journey with this expansive look inside the characters, choreography, and creativity that make up the movie's unforgettable world.
• WELCOME TO SHIZ – Unlimited imagination, couture fashion, and spectacular production design come together at Shiz University, providing a place for performers and viewers to be fully immersed in the fantasy. Designed from details in L. Frank Baum's books, the uniforms, clever contraptions, and circular sets create a sprawling campus where magic feels like an everyday occurrence.
• A WICKED LEGACY –Take delight in the cast and filmmakers sharing personal memories of their first encounters with the original Broadway production, and how those lasting connections created emotional experiences while making the movie. Also highlighted are the iconic cameos that pay tribute to the cultural phenomenon that became one of the most popular musicals of all time.
• THE WONDERFUL WIZARD – Follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City for an in-depth look at the infamous Wizard of Oz. Inside the palace's throne room, the Wizard himself, Jeff Goldblum, pulls back the curtain to peer at his character's magic and mechanics with senior special effects technician Christopher Clarke, who details how the Wizard's massive robotic head comes to life.
• FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR JON M. CHU
• FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH STARS CYNTHIA ERIVO AND ARIANA GRANDE
• Optional English, French Canadian, and Latin American Spanish subtitles for the main feature

Pre-order: Amazon · GRUV.com

Hailed as "the single greatest movie of the year" (Dave Morales, FOX TV) and "an epic sequel worthy of its Oscar®-winning predecessor" (Scott Mantz, KTLA), GLADIATOR II boasts breathtaking action and sensational performances from a star-powered cast, including Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, and the sublime Denzel Washington in "one of his most charismatic and riveting performances" (Clayton Davis, Variety).

Fans who purchase the film on 4K Blu-ray will have access to over 100 minutes of fascinating behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. Discover the epic journey of the highly anticipated film as the cast and filmmakers share their personal experiences. Explore some of the exotic filming locations, including Malta and Morocco, and see the extraordinary sets that brought the Roman Empire back to life. Plus, enter the arena to find out how carefully choreographed combat and visual effects combined to deliver mind-blowing battles on a truly epic scale.

From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome. Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
• A Dream That Was Rome: Origins—Director Ridley Scott and producers delve into the history behind Gladiator II and how the story developed over many years before coming to the screen. What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity: The Cast—Take an inside look into Ridley Scott's casting process.
• In The Arena: Filmmakers—Go behind the scenes as the cast and crew journey to Malta, Morocco, and the UK for the epic production.
• To Those About To Die, We Salute You: Combat—Discover how Ridley Scott and his team combined choreographed combat with cutting-edge visual effects to take the action to a whole new level.
• Building An Empire: Post-Production—Join the filmmakers for insights into the fascinating process of crafting the finished movie, which includes a scoring session led by composer Harry Gregson-Williams.
• The Making Of Gladiator II—Explore how Ridley Scott, the cast, and crew worked to bring Gladiator II to life.
• Deleted Scenes

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