Lionsgate has also announced that Paul Feig’s The Housemaid (2025) is coming to Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 3/17. The title will include a pair of audio commentaries, one with Feig and another with Feig joined by his creative team, along with 3 featurettes (From Page to Panic: Making The Housemaid, Secrets of the Winchester House: A Housemaid Tour, and A Peek Inside) as well as Deleted Scenes.
And Lionsgate will release 4K + Blu-ray Steelbook and VHS (no kidding) exclusive editions of Mark Jones’ Leprechaun (1993) on Lionsgate Limited on 3/17. Extras will include both new and legacy content.
A couple more Lionsgate announcements: They’re releasing Jonathan English and John Glenn’s Robin Hood (2025) MGM+ streaming series on Digital only on 3/30. And they’re also releasing ABC’s The Conners: Season Seven (2025) via Digital that same day.
Sony has confirmed the 4/21 Blu-ray, DVD, 4K, and 4K Steelbook release of Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026). Extras will include audio commentary with the director, the Behind the Scenes: New Blood, the Doctor and the Devil, Beneath the Rage featurette, a deleted scene, and Infected Takes: Bloopers.
Sony is also taking pre-orders on the TBA release of Tyree Dillihay’s CG-animated GOAT (2026) on all formats (via all the usual retailers) including 4K.
Our friends at Celluloid Dreams are finally releasing the landmark 1971 giallo The Black Belly of the Tarantula, directed by Paolo Cavara, as a 3-disc 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Limited Edition on 5/12. It will include both new and legacy special features, all in beautiful packaging. The company has just spent a good long time restoring and remastering the film, so it should look and sound amazing. You can only get this title directly from the Celluloid Dreams website, and (for international customers) DiabolikDVD.com. Act fast!
Paramount and Alliance are releasing a standard Amaray 4K version of Matthew Vaughn’s Stardust (2007) on 4/28. They’re also reissuing Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975) on Blu-ray that same day.
Universal is releasing Jay Roach’s Meet the Fockers in 4K Ultra HD on 4/14.
Warner’s forthcoming 4K Ultra HD release of the Wachowski’s Speed Racer (2008) is starting to appear for pre-order via more retailers—it’s now up on Gruv and Target. There’s no official street date yet, but we’ve confirmed with sources that it’s likely to be 5/19. We expect an official announcement very soon.
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has revealed that they’re working on a Blu-ray box set, the Angélique: Complete Five Film Collection, which includes Bernard Borderie’s Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964), Angélique: The Road to Versailles (1965), Angélique and the King (1966), Untamable Angélique (1967), and Angélique and the Sultan (1968). Also coming to Blu-ray is the Brit Noir: Collection 1 box set that includes Basil Dearden’s Cage of Gold (1950), Guy Hamilton’s Edgar Wallace’s The Ringer (1952), and John Lemont’s The Frightened City (1961). The street date for both sets is TBA.
And StudioCanal in the UK is releasing Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas (1995) in 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray in the UK on 5/18. Extras will include “new Zoom interviews with Mike Figgis, Nicolas Cage, and Elisabeth Shue TBC, a new documentary by Mike Figgis TBC, a new audio commentary with Mike Figgis, original interviews, B-Roll, a making of featurette and a new 20-page booklet.”
Finally today, we have sad news to report. The legendary actor Robert Duvall has died. Duvall starred or appeared in many films and series we loved here at The Bits, among them To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), True Grit (1969), THX 1138 (1971), The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather II (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), The Natural (1984), the Lonesome Dove (1989) miniseries, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), Deep Impact (1998), and Get Low (2009). He also directed The Apostle (1997), Assassination Tango (2002), and many more. (I’ve left out a LOT.)
But my personal favorite of Duvall’s many roles is one that sadly far too many people haven’t had the pleasure of seeing—the seasoned cattleman Boss Spearman in Kevin Costner’s Open Range (2003), which I personally think is one of the finest Westerns of the last fifty years. (I also think it’s Costner’s best film, and if anyone from the home entertainment team at Disney is reading this: You should damn well release Open Range on both Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc right now. Like ASAP. It’s that good and it deserves to be seen!) The silver lining in Duvall’s passing is that he’s left us with such a great catalog of work, and when he passed away on Sunday he was 95. You can read more about his life and work here, here, and here today.
Damn, he’ll be missed.
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- Bill Hunt
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