Expected on Blu-ray on 4/28 are Michael Curtiz’s 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), David Butler’s King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), the Monogram Matinee: Volume 2 set—featuring Phil Karlson’s Louisiana (1947) and Wallace Fox’s Song of the Range (1944)—Irving Reis’ Crack-Up (1946), Victor Flemming’s Captains Courageous (1937), Howard Zeiff’s Private Benjamin (1980), and John Ford’s Arrowsmith (1931)! That same day, you’ll also get George Stevens, Jr.’s acclaimed documentary George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (1984) in 4K Ultra HD!

All of these have been meticulously restored from the original negatives, in many cases via new 4K scans. Here’s a look at the cover art for George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey…

Meanwhile, A24’s Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release of Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme (2025) will officially street on 3/31. Adjust your plans accordingly.

Paramount and Alliance Home Entertainment have set the animated The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and Walmart-exclusive Blu-ray Steelbook on 3/31.

Alliance Home Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios have made Timur Bekmambetov’s Mercy (2025), starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, official for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release on 4/7.

Kino Lorber Studio Classics has set Robert Totten’s Death of a Gunfighter (1969) for Blu-ray release on 5/5.

Neon has announced a new Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray edition of Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice (2025), including the theatrical cut and an expanded edition of the film. It’s available for pre-order now here, and will street sometime in October.

Decal Releasing has announced the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release of Ugo Bienvenu’s animated Arco (2025) on 5/19.

Our friends at Dead Crocodile have set Otakar Vávra’s Krakatit (1948) for 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray release on 5/12.

Here’s a nice surprise: Universal will release Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space (1953) in a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D Steelbook package on 5/5.

Universal has also set Gore Verbinski’s AI apocalypse comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025) for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 4/21.

The Cohen Media Group has set Leon Prudovsky’s My Neighbor Adolf (2022) for release on Blu-ray on 3/10.

Radiance Films has revealed that their June slate will include Shohei Imamura’s The Pornographers (1966) for 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray release (in the UK only) on 6/22. Also coming in the UK only on that day, this time on Blu-ray, is Imamura’s Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001). And following on Blu-ray on 6/22-23 (in both the US and UK) are Georges Franju’s La tête contre les murs (1959) and Jean-Pierre Mocky’s Solo (1970).

Radiance has also revealed some great additional titles as “coming soon,” including a 5-film Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray box set—that includes Adieu Philippine (1962), Du Côté d’Orouët (1973), The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976), Maine-Ocean Express (1985), and Fifi Martingale (2001)—Pedro Almodóvar’s Matador (1986) in 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, Johnnie To’s Romancing in Thin Air (2012) on Blu-ray, Damiano Damiani’s Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) on Blu-ray and—from Transmission—Ate de Jong’s Highway to Hell (1991-92) on Blu-ray. The street date for each is TBA.

ClassicFlix has just announced a great new Blu-ray… Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits – Volume 1. Look for it on 5/26.

And Severin Films has set a Suzzanna: Empress of Darkness Blu-ray box set, which will include 6 films on 3 discs plus a new documentary, for release on 5/26.

Also, pre-orders have now begun for Sony’s 6/9 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot (2000). Click here for the Amazon link.

And finally today, I had the pleasure (this past weekend) of joining my old friend Tim Millard for a chat on his excellent Warner-focused podcast, The Extras.

Tim was, for over a decade, a Warner Bros. Home Entertainment employee who created special features for Warner TV titles, among them Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, Westworld, Shameless, Young Sheldon, Lucifer, and Chuck, as well as animated titles featuring Peanuts, Scooby-Doo, Hanna-Barbera, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

So it was great fun to talk with him about the recent Warner Bros. Discovery purchase by Paramount Skydance (with its side of Netflix intrigue) as well as the upcoming Warner 4K Ultra hD catalog slate for 2026—titles I’ve previously revealed here on The Bits (and that I revealed first for our Patreon subscribers—and if you’re a longtime reader but not yet a subscriber, please consider joining us there!).

Anyway, I think you’ll enjoy our discussion, so here it is…

Back with more soon!

Stay tuned…

- Bill Hunt

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