OUT on DVD: Into The Woods

From the director of "Chicago" and the producer of "Wicked" comes a modern twist on the beloved fairy tales you thought you knew. Academy Award-Winning actress Meryl Streep (Best Actress, The Iron Lady), leads an all-star cast in this enchanted adventure about daring to venture Into The Woods. 

 Out on Blu-Ray Combo Pack, Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA) on March 24. 

OUT on DVD and Blu-ray: Dallas Buyers Club

Golden Globe Award nominee Matthew McConaughey (delivers a career-defining performance in the “hugely entertaining” Dallas Buyers Club, the inspiring and powerful story of an imperfect man’s fight for survival during an uncertain time in America (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal). 

Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof (McConaughey) sees his free-wheeling life overturned when he’s diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After his journey to find a cure leads him to an unlikely ally in Rayon played by Golden Globe Award nominee Jared Leto, he establishes a hugely successful “buyers’ club” and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined.

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, Dallas Buyers Club arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on February 4 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Out on DVD/Blu-ray: A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951

Set primarily in the early 1950s and focusing on James Dean’s experiences as an up-and-coming actor in Los Angeles, Writer/Director Matthew Mishory’s debut feature film is a series of revealing and sometimes dreamlike vignettes that blend biographical and fictionalized elements to present pivotal moments in a remarkable life.

A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951 debuts across all digital platforms beginning May 7th and on DVD June 4th from Wolfe Video. Shot in gorgeous 35mm black and white punctuated by bursts of color, A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951 was dubbed “mesmerizing and sexy” by the San Francisco Chronicle and “dreamy” by London’s The Guardian. The film stars James Preston (TV’s “The Gates”) in the title role, with Dan Glenn (TV's "Pushing Daisies"), debutante Dalilah Rain, Edward Singletary, Jr. (Palo Alto), Robert Gant (TV’s "Queer as Folk") and Erin Daniels (“The L Word,” A Single Man) rounding out the cast in an intimate portrait of James Dean as he is on the cusp of achieving notoriety as both a great actor and an American icon.

OUT on DVD/Blu-ray: Barbra Steisand in FUNNY GIRL

Legendary superstar Barbra Streisand demonstrates why she’s the greatest star in her Academy Award^® winning role (Best Actress, 1968) as “Fanny Brice” in the celebrated musical biography FUNNY GIRL.  Commemorating its 45^th anniversary, the classic film was meticulously restored from the original negative by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 4K at Sony Pictures’ Colorworks and will screen at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 25^th.  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release FUNNY GIRL for the first time on Blu-ray April 30^th, exclusively available at Amazon.

OUT on DVD and Blu-ray: Skyfall

Director Sam Mendes blew us all away with the latest installment of the Bond franchise, SKYFALL. Starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, SKYFALL dominated the worldwide box-office and has become the highest grossing film ever in the United Kingdom – Bond’s home country. Accolades continued with the recent announcement of eight BAFTA® [British Academy of Film and Television Arts] nominations and five Academy Award® nominations.

SKYFALL will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on February 12 across North America via Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

So let's take a look at why we already loved the director’s films including American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Road to Perdition.

American Beauty
Sam Mendes made his directorial debut in1999 in the critically loved American Beauty. Written by Alan Ball, the film follows Lester Burnham and his family who lead a perfect life on the outside in their perfect neighborhood, except, inside Lester is slipping deeper into depression and becomes infatuated with one of his daughter’s friends. American Ball stars Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari and Chris Cooper.

Road to Perdition
 Mendes followed American Beauty with the crime film Road to Perdition, which was based on a graphic novel of the same name. Paul Hanks plays the lead role of Michael Sullivan, a hitman who works Irish mob boss, John Rooney (as played by Paul Newman). However, when Sullivan’s son becomes a witness to one of his killings, Sullivan must act accordingly and outrun those who are now after him and his family.

Jarhead 
Released in 2005, Jarhead is based on US Marine Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir of the same name about his pre-Desert storm experience in Saudi Arabia and his time in Kuwait. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the lead role of Anthony Swofford.

Revolutionary Road
In 2008, Sam Mendes directed his then wife Kate Winslet, as one-half of married couple whose marriage is falling apart, in the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road. Winslet plays April Wheeler, who lives in Connecticut with her two young children and husband - Frank (as played by Leonardo DiCaprio). The film follows the personal struggles that Frank and April must come to terms with both individually and as a couple.

Away We Go
Written by husband-and-wife team Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, the film stars John Krasinki and Maya Rudolph and tells the story of a young couple expecting their first child as they travel around the US to find the perfect place to start their family and the misadventures and assortments of relatives & friends they bump to along their way.

Out on DVD/Blu-ray: Cabaret

Please to enjoy Liza Minnelli singing "Mein Herr" from Bob Fosse's Oscar®-winning musical drama Cabaret, which celebrates its 40th anniversary with a Blu-ray debut from Warner Bros. next week.

OUT on DVD/Blu-ray: Forever Marilyn

Celebrate the life, the legend and the beauty of Marilyn Monroe.  The iconic blonde bombshell shines in high definition in FOREVER MARILYN: THE BLU-RAY COLLECTION.  

With classics like The Misfits and Some Like It Hot as well as new-to-Blu-ray titles How to Marry A Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Seven Year Itch, There’s No Business Like Show Business and River of No Return this unique set of films, those that made Marilyn a star, is a collector’s dream.  

Marking the 50^th anniversary of the passing of this Hollywood legend, the seven disc collection will be available as a Blu-ray set and individual titles beginning July 20^th Internationally (Germany) and on July 31^st in North America from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Out on DVD/Blu-ray: The Kids are All Right

Acclaimed as “funny, smart and sexy” (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly), the Focus Features release 'The Kids Are All Right' debuts on Blu-RayTM, DVD, Digital Download and On-Demand on November 16, 2010 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Prepare to fall in love with the big-hearted hit comedy that critics are calling “one of the best films of the year” (Michael Phillips, 'At the Movies').