Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that Elysium will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and through digital services on December 17.
The sci-fi movie — my review of which can be read here — stars Matt Damon as a construction worker in a world where the rich live in a fancy space station and the rest live in squalor on Earth’s surface.
Fox Home Video have announced that they’ll release The Wolverine DVD and Blu-ray on December 3, while the movie will hit download services on November 19.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment have announced that The World’s End will be released digitally, on DVD, and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on November 19, as will The Ultimate Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy Blu-ray, which will add Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, the two previous movies that were directed by Edgar Wright, co-written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starred Pegg and Nick Frost.
In the South Park episode “Simpsons Already Did It,” Professor Chaos (y’know, Butters) keeps coming up with evil schemes, only to be told by his sidekick, General Disarray, that all of them have previously been done on The Simpsons.
Watching South Park: The Complete Sixteenth Season, though, it’s hard not to wish the people who put it together had watched some of The Simpsons DVDs and Blu-rays because, then maybe, they might do theirs like The Simpsons did it.
Adult Swim and Warner Home Video have announced that Robot Chicken Season 6 will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 8.
The collection will include all 20 episodes, which featured such guest voices as Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Chalke, Kat Dennings, Sam Elliott, Ben Foster, Whoopi Goldberg, Gillian Jacobs, Zachary Levi, J.B. Smoove, Liev Schreiber, Jon Stewart, Patrick Stewart, Stanley Tucci, Olivia Wilde, and Alex Winter.
FUNimation have announced their upcoming anime releases for both October and November.
The company will kick off October on the first with a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of Sankarea: Complete Series. While the limited edition version will be $69.98, a regular one will be $64.98.
The following week sees a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of We Without Wings: Season One. Again, FUNimation are issuing two versions: a regular one for $59.98 and a limited editon for $64.98.
Then, on October 15, they’ll release a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of Eureka Seven AO: Part 2 ($64.98) and a DVD of One Piece: Season 5: Voyage Three ($39.98).
October 22 brings a a DVD/Blu-ray combo packs of the movies Blood-C: The Last Dark ($34.98) and Sakura Wars ($34.98), while the movie Tales Of Vesperia: First Strike ($24.98) will be released on a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on October 29.
Moving to November, FUNimation kicks off the month on the 5th with Hetalia: World Series Complete Series on DVD ($44.98).
This will be followed on the 12th by the classic anime Akira ($34.98), which will include all three of the English soundtracks made since the film first came to the U.S. in 1989. It will be released on both DVD ($24.98) and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($34.98).
That same day also sees the release of Maken-Ki: Complete Series as both a regular edition of the DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($64.98) and a limited edition version ($69.98), as well as the movie Wolf Children on DVD ($29.98) and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($34.98).
Finally, on October 19, FUNimation will relase Good Luck Girl!: Complete Series as both a regular edition of the DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($64.98) and a limited edition $69.98), as well as One Piece: Strong World on both DVD ($29.98) and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($34.98).
For more information on these or other anime from FUNimation, please visit their website.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that Breaking Bad: The Complete Series will be released on Blu-ray on November 26, as will the DVD and Blu-ray of Breaking Bad: The Final Season.
Both collections will include exclusive new extras.
Warner Home Video have announced that Pacific Rim will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray on October 15.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (Blade II, Pan’s Labyrinth), and based on a script by del Toro and Travis Beacham, the sci-fi movie stars Charlie Hunnam (Sons Of Anarchy) and Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) as co-pilots of a giant mech who must fight similarly large monsters from another dimension. Which basically makes it Transformers vs. Godzilla.
BBC Home Video have announced that they’ll release Doctor Who: The Complete Series 1-7 Limited Edition Blu-ray Gift Set, a boxed set of every Doctor Who episode since the show relaunched in 2005, on November 5.
The 29-disc boxed set marks the first time that the first four seasons — i.e., the one with Christopher Eccleston playing the good Doctor, and the first three of David Tennant’s tenure — will be available on Blu-ray.