By David Weiner
11:52 AM PDT, September 3, 2013
Eisenberg, Harrelson, Fisher and Franco create magic in Now You See Me; Scandal season two; the final season of The Office; Parks and Rec; Vampire Diaries season four; The Fugitive is back on Blu-ray and more!
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New on Blu-ray & DVD: September 3
Summit Entertainment
Eisenberg, Harrelson, Fisher and Franco create magic in Now You See Me; Scandal season two; the final season of The Office; Parks and Rec; Vampire Diaries season four; The Fugitive is back on Blu-ray and more!
Now You See Me
Summit Entertainment
In this sleight-of-hand thriller, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco are "The Four Horsemen," a quartet of the world's greatest illusionists who pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of FBI Agent Mark Ruffalo and Interpol agent Melanie Laurent. Michael Caine also stars as a wealthy benefactor, and Morgan Freeman plays a former illusionist and now world-famous magic debunker determined to take down the Horsemen. Also starring Common and Michael Kelly, the film is directed by Louis Letterrier (Clash of the Titans, The Incredible Hulk). Bonus features include deleted scenes, commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes. Plus, the Blu-ray features 16 minutes of never-before-seen footage in an extended director's cut.
The Office: Season Nine - The Farewell Season
Universal
Join the Dunder Mifflin gang for the ninth and final season of the groundbreaking, Emmy-winning hit series as the all-star cast --including Ed Helms, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak, Craig Robinson, Mindy Kaling -- assembles for the last time, and everyone is excited to finally see the long awaited documentary about their lives in the office, an event nine years in the making! Watch all 23 final episodes back-to-back and uninterrupted in this must own 5-disc set, loaded with bonus features including rare cast audition tapes, deleted scenes, gag reel, and more!
Scandal: The Complete Second Season
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Kerry Washington is back for a second round as Olivia Pope in this hugely popular, much-talked about political thriller series. For Pope and her team of "gladiators in suits," cleaning up other people's messes takes a shattering personal toll. Season 2 blows the lid off Quinn's identity, exposes Huck's dark past, and uncovers Olivia's darkest secret - something so shocking and enormous that it threatens the entire nation. From boardrooms to bedrooms, relive all 22 episodes of Scandal's explosive second season, plus exclusive, never-before-seen bonus features.
The Fugitive 20th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray
Warner Home Entertainment
Harrison Ford's riveting remake of the cult '60s TV show celebrates two decades with an all-new Blu-ray containing a new featurettes and intro by Ford and director Andrew Davis; commentary by Davis and Tommy Lee Jones; and a look at the 2000 WB Fugitive pilot! Ford plays Dr. Richard Kimble, a brilliant surgeon unjustly accused of murdering his wife. Narrowly escaping a dramatic train wreck, he sets out to find the real killer while being doggedly pursued by a U.S. Marshall (Jones) and his crack team. Julianne Moore, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Jeroen Krabbe and Andreas Katsulas also star.
The Shield: The Complete Series
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Back in a newly repackaged and priced set, all seven seasons of the gritty, groundbreaking Emmy winner starring Michael Chiklis as morally challenged rogue detective Vic Mackey, is now available with new featurettes and a collectible, 34-page book filled with multiple photos, quotes and a special letter from creator Shawn Ryan. Glenn Close, Forest Whitaker, CCH Pounder, Michael Pena, Walton Goggins, Catherine Dent, John Diehl, Alex O'Loughlin, Michael Jace, Benito Martinez and more star.
The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fourth Season
Warner Home Video
The supernatural drama of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl starring Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesle and Ian Somerholder is back and more popular than ever. Catch up on all the drama of season three in 23 one-hour episodes! Special features include a gag reel, deleted scenes, five brand-new featurettes and a fan gallery!
Parks and Recreation: Season Five
Universal
Amy Poehler is back for another hilarious season as Leslie Knope, mid-level bureaucrat of the Parks and Rec Dept. in Pawnee, Indiana. In an attempt to beautify her town-and advance her career-Leslie takes on defensive bureaucrats, cranky neighbors and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes and the democratic process she loves so much. Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Scott and Lucy Lawless co-star.
Spartacus: War of the Damned - The Complete Third Season
Anchor Bay
The Spartacus saga continues... Liam McIntyre takes on the title role in a story that picks up following the defeat of Roman commander Gaius Claudius Glaber. With the rebel numbers swelling to more than 30,000 freed slaves, the Roman Republic is beginning to tremble at the threat of Spartacus and his army. Bonus features include extended episodes, commentaries and multiple behind-the-scenes featurettes.
Da Vinci's Demons: The Complete First Season
Anchor Bay
The world of Leonardo Da Vinci is reimagined in this thrilling new series that casts the renowned artist and inventor as a man (played by Tom Riley) tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. In a world where thought and faith are controlled, he fights to set knowledge free and finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future in an effort to lift his entire era out of darkness and into light. Bonus features include deleted scenes, commentaries and multiple behind-the-scenes featurettes.
Person of Interest: The Complete Second Season
Warner Home Video
Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson and Taraji P. Henson are back for a second season of thrills in this high-tech thriller from executive producer J.J. Abrams that tracks a former CIA agent and a reclusive billionaire who team up to identify impending acts of terrorism with the help of The Machine, the U.S. government's all-seeing, pattern-recognition technology.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie on Blu-ray
Shout Factory
The hilarious cult TV show that skewers some terribly terrible films hit the big screen in 1996 with a deliriously funny takedown of the 1955 alien invasion epic This Island Earth by Mike Nelson and his robotic companions Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo and Gypsy -- and now the fan favorite feature makes its Blu-ray debut in a collector's edition loaded with extras, including deleted scenes, making-of featurettes and a reversible cover wrap with all new art.
Arthur Newman
Cinedigm
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt co-star in this cross-country comic romance about two unlikely souls who fall in love and find out who they really are. Firth plays a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, then moves in with Blunt's character, who is also trying to leave her own past behind. A odyssey of self-discovery and renewal, the film is directed by Dante Ariola.
From Up on Poppy Hill
Cinedigm
Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki brings another stirring, emotionally rewarding tale to life with the vocal talents of Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Aubrey Plaza, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern and more in this tale set in Yokohama in 1963. As Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi (Sarah Bolger) and Shun (Anton Yelchin), but a buried secret from their past casts a shadow on the future and threatens to pull them apart. Contains three hours of bonus materials including a speech by Miyazaki days after the Fukushima earthquake; a cast recording featurette with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews; a 20-page booklet containing the original project proposal; original Japanese language and English language versions with subtitles and dubtitles and more.
The Iceman
Millennium Entertainment
Michael Shannon, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, Winona Ryder and Chris Evans star in this amazing story of one of the mob's most notorious hit men. Richard Kuklinski (played by Shannon) appears to be a devoted husband and father living the American dream, but in reality he's a ruthless killer-for-hire who knocked off more than 100 men for the mob before his arrest in 1986. Inspired by actual events, The Iceman follows his trajectory from a man caught between a rock and a hard place to the cold-blooded killing machine that earned him his notorious nickname. Robert Davi, Stephen Dorff and James Franco also star in the film directed by Ariel Vromen (Danika, Rx).