Coming Soon: June 2023 | What’s New On 4K UHD & Blu-ray

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hey everyone Jeff here from films at

home thanks for coming back to the films

at home podcast today this episode is

another episode of my coming soon series

and today we're covering June 2023 so

what's going to happen in this episode

is I'm going to talk about all of the

major releases and things that I want to

highlight that are coming out in June of

2023 on physical media Blu-ray DVD 4K

then I'm also going to break down some

sales numbers from the past month from

media play news and all of their great

research so we'll look into how the

Market's been performing which discs

have been the big sellers what's been

really moving the market what's been

shaking things up and then I also do

want to talk about a little bit on how

the podcast here is going to work

throughout the summer we are going to

take sort of a slower approach during

summer months everyone's busy I'm busy

so we're going to have a different

approach to the the episodes there which

I'll describe for you at the end of the

episode but

to kick things off the first thing we've

got to do is we've got to talk about

what's coming out in June and so here we

go first date in June that's going to

have major releases is June 6th so just

about a couple days after you're getting

this episode for me even though these

are re-releases one of the really

exciting releases is the release of the

Indiana Jones 4K movies all four of the

movies that exist right now the fifth

one coming out later this year but

they're getting slip cover versions with

the original artwork so they had

steelbook versions with original artwork

but now they got slipcover versions with

that artwork as well the theatrical art

which I much prefer I actually sold the

old steelbook set with the white covers

didn't care for that now on top of those

Indiana Jones movies you're also getting

the rules of the game on 4K from the

Criterion Collection another real

classic movie this one's 1939 that's

coming from Criterion probably one I'd

wait for a flash sale on also getting

Lord of War 4K steelbook that one's

coming from Lionsgate another one of

they're really interesting steelbook

designs and another movie coming to 4K

for the first time and then for new

releases Renfield is the big Blu-ray

that's coming out that's the Nicholas

Cage Nicholas Holt vampire movie also

stars jean-ralphio

um oh my God why am I blanking on his

name

um Ben Schwartz thank you wow

um Ben Schwartz who I like a lot he's in

that movie

um so that's sort of the only big

release of the week there is a Star Trek

strange new worlds 4K release there's

Tulsa King coming out on Blu-ray but

that's really it for June 6th other than

that it's a few re-releases of other

things

when we get to June 13th moving ahead

one week there's actually a fair amount

of 4k on June 13th as well to kick

things off we got Rain Man on 4K coming

from MVD this is going to be one of

their first 4K releases so that's

exciting we've also got John Wick

chapter four coming to 4K that has

multiple different retailer exclusives

steelbooks unique types of packaging so

definitely look into that one you have a

few different options there for

packaging and we're getting Terry

gilliam's Time Bandits 4K upgrade from

Criterion they had previously done the

Criterion Blu-ray release and now

Criterion still apparently has the

rights and they're doing the 4K release

for Time Bandits on top of that there's

a Shaw Brothers set coming from Scream

Factory our Shout Factory I should say

and then there's also the movie Scream

but not ghost-faced scream this is

Scream from 1981 and it's coming to 4K

from dark force entertainment I actually

have it already I'm going to be checking

it out but it's another slash movie

called scream but from 15 years before

the scream that I think we all know

today was released now other than that

there's a couple of interesting Blu-rays

but the one that stands out to me is Dr

Caligari from 1989 that's getting a

Blu-ray release and then there's a

couple of MVD rewind collection releases

there's a witch trap from 1989 and then

there is Kill Zone from 1985 so a couple

MVD rewinds which are always cool with

really excellent artwork so a big week

for MVD with rain man and a couple of

their rewinds coming out

jumping ahead one more week June 20th

this is a massive day for 4K because

this is Avatar Avatar the way of water

4K hits the shelves on June 20th we also

get a 3D version of that so you have the

4K you have the 3D you have multiple

Blu-ray retailer packages all kinds of

exclusives but no 4K plus 3D combo pack

which is a little Annoying for people

who want all the formats from 4k on Kino

lorber's slate we have a couple titles

one Ronin from 1998 the Robert De Niro

movie this had an arrow video released

before so another one that Kino scooped

up from the boutique labels and put out

their own 4K and then The Manchurian

Candidate on 4K from Keno 1962 the

original with Frank Sinatra which was

another one that they took from

criterions collection on Blu-ray and

they got the 4K rights too so they

continue to do great work on the

classics in 4k and then Paramount has a

couple of Tom Cruise movies coming to 4K

starting with the firm from 1993 that's

a 30th Anniversary Edition and then

they're upgrading their previous

Paramount presents Blu-ray of Vanilla

Sky and giving that a 4K upgrade as well

on top of that the only other thing is

Insidious on 4K which

um just racking my mind I think that's

come out on 4K before but this is

another one of those Sony steelbooks

that adds Dolby Vision to the picture so

they're sort of like doing that I

wouldn't call it revisionist but they're

adding Dolby Vision they must have just

acquired the license because a lot of

their steel books add Dolby Vision

grading that their previous 4K releases

on their own did not have

now outside of 4K a couple interesting

Blu-rays one is the Covenant that's a

new movie with Jake Gyllenhaal which is

a little bit about

um they're trying to get a guy out of

the Middle East who's like a translator

for the US Army I've actually heard that

movie is very good and Skinnamarink one

of the most infamous horror movies in

recent years

um I watched it I didn't know what to

make of it a lot of people loved it a

lot of people hated it but that is

getting a Blu-ray release from shutter

and shutter continues to do great work

putting out these shutter Originals on

Blu-ray and making sure that although

they're a streaming service they can

still do physical media and profit from

both which I think is a lesson a lot of

others could learn from with their

Originals that are on streaming services

you can do both and still win and then

the last one to mention is Red Sun 1970

movie this is coming from a Radiance

film so another one in their entries

that they keep adding on to and a couple

of criterions the servant and medicine

from Melancholy but I don't think

anything like too big there for for

Criterion fans maybe if you're hardcore

and you collect them all and then the

last week of the month is June 27th and

this is another big day for 4K I'm

telling you the 4K format has come a

long long way in the last few years to

the point that we're getting you know

six seven eight releases every week now

on June 27th from uh screen Factory

we've got two 4K releases we've got

Creep Show 1982 that they're upgrading

to 4K from their previous collector's

edition and then Motel Hell from 1980

which they're also upgrading again from

a previous Blu-ray collector's edition

up to 4K

now from Warner Brothers we have a

couple titles continuing with that 100th

anniversary slipcover art that they've

been doing on everything this year we

got National Lampoon's Vacation from

1983 so we already got Christmas

vacation now we get the OG vacation and

it's the 4K release Blu-ray release

everyday release of Evil Dead rise 4k on

physical media so that's one that I wish

I had seen in the theaters didn't have a

chance to and cannot wait to watch on

physical media at home because I've

heard great things now Arrow video also

has Mall Rats coming out on 4K and Water

World coming out on 4K so a couple of

additional Arrow video releases there

and then just a couple Blu-rays to

mention but irreversible from vinegar

syndrome this is a big one Gasper no

movie that I think a lot of people have

been looking for it has the original cut

and the straight cut and then Arrow

video also has their enter the video

store box set which is a very cool set

of like mid to late 80s Video Store

class 6 Empire screams the dungeon

master dolls Cellar dweller Arena robot

jocks so tons of stuff in there for for

the real hardcore like video rental fans

you're probably gonna find something in

that box set that most likely you have

not seen in in a very long time so

that's cool and then I should mention

Mall Rats also has a cool steel book as

well but other than that there's some

other Blu-rays again there's like 20 30

40 Blu-rays coming out every single week

but the only other one to mention I

think which is big for people I know

they've been mentioning it for a while

with me is uh Young Sherlock Holmes

coming to Blu-ray for the first time

from Paramount and this is a movie from

1985 that I think a lot of people uh

remember fondly as as fans of of this

film especially if you grew up in the

80s and it didn't have a Blu-ray release

and it's getting one now it hasn't been

really like promoted that heavily but on

June 27th you can get Young Sherlock

Holmes on Blu-ray and the pre-order is

just 15 box so it's a really good deal

now shifting years here that's what's

coming out in June another big month

dozens of 4K discs to look at Boutique

horror classic films new releases all

kinds of just

awesome awesome stuff coming to 4K as

has been the case for many months now

but with that what does it mean for

sales how are sales actually doing

um and so you know if we look back at

just the last couple of weeks and sales

reports

um stuff is still down pretty

significantly in May

and I think that's because there weren't

really any major drivers in May you're

thinking you know you're you're three

months out from theatrical so you're

looking at movies that came out in like

February March which is

usually a pretty dead time for

theatrical movies

um there weren't any real big catalog

titles like knock at the cabin was one

of the big new releases but other than

that there wasn't a whole lot if you

look at the top selling discs yes

Ant-Man and the WASP quantumania came

out sold okay but again not one of the

big you know Marvel movies recently

um knock at the cabin there was a

Yellowstone season but a lot of stuff

like cocaine bear did okay with sales

but if we look at it

you know the the top 20 Blu-rays it's

kind of weird because the Italian job

for some reason was number one for the

last week of May and don't know why

that's a really interesting One Star

Trek strange new worlds Fast and Furious

Ant-Man plane top gun Maverick Black

Adam knock at the cabin black panther F9

Megan cocaine bear like there was not

much that came out

um recently they just there wasn't much

I mean those same titles still are in

the top 10 Black Adam playing F9 top gun

Maverick those are in the top 10 of the

UHD 4K market share

um even weeks and weeks and weeks after

they have been released so there just

wasn't much in May that really pushed

sales and even a movie like Ant-Man and

the WASP quantumania only sold 30 on 4K

knock at the cabin only sold 8 eight

percent on 4K so these movies that are

coming out on 4K still are not selling a

ton now knock at the cabin did sell 51

on Blu-ray but still half of people out

there who are buying a new movie like

knock at the cabin they're grabbing the

DVD 31 of people who bought Ant-Man in

the WASP quantumania bought it on DVD

and for a TV show like Yellowstone

season five part one which is the number

two seller in May

83 percent of people just bought that on

DVD did not buy the HD Blu-Ray so it

just continues to go to show like

these movies are popular on DVD DVD

still outsells Blu-ray like many times

over 80 for Brady another one 30 Blu-ray

70 DVD cocaine bear 39 Blu-ray 61 DVD

this is what's happening this is just

it's what's happening out there is DVD

is still selling and this still blows my

mind but every week I look at this 54 of

people bought top gun Maverick on

Blu-ray or 4K which means almost half of

the people that are watching that movie

at home are watching it on a DVD so

these Trends just they continue right I

mean it's not not much is changing the

the DVD format is still 60. 70 some

weeks Blu-ray is between 20 and 30 and

4K even on a good week like May 20th was

a pretty good week it sold 14 it's

building below 20 it's been below 10 in

some past weeks so you know it's it's

just it's niche of the it's really a

niche market even Blu-ray HD 1080p

Blu-ray a very very niche market it's

just not something that really sells a

bunch DVD still drives this market and

will continue to drive this market for a

very long time

consumers that's that's what they want

they want DVDs so that's what stores are

giving them

now for for news in the past couple of

weeks the big thing that I've been

paying attention to uh personally has

been the the shake-up of Disney plus and

Hulu uh removing shows so this is again

you know this is a reason why when I

talk to people and I talk to filmmakers

especially they're like I want my TV

show I want my movie I want this stuff

to be on physical media because

otherwise it just disappears and Disney

plus removes some stuff like Willow

which was actually pretty well received

uh they just removed it from Disney plus

doesn't exist maybe they'll license it

out somewhere else but it's gone they

also removed a Marvel show and I didn't

know this show runaways but it had three

seasons it was a Marvel Studios TV show

it's gone they didn't even tell people

that was leaving the service they just

pulled it off the service so stuff like

that is really it's just concerning

because like if you liked that show oh

or you liked Willow

um like literally how do you watch it

you are forced to get it through you

know other means you know this is why

piracy is going to keep hurting the

industry and they complain about it and

they say oh piracy hurts us and all this

and look I understand that like if

you're pirating you know Ant-Man and the

WASP quantumania which is widely

available on every digital platform it's

widely available on every physical media

format like if you're pirating that then

yeah you know what I think you kind of

suck you're stealing money from people

who work hard on these movies but what

are you supposed to do with a willow

what are you supposed to do with

runaways what are you supposed to do

with content that gets removed from

Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime or Apple

TV or like what are you supposed to do

other than pirate this stuff if you want

to watch it like this is they complain

about this as hurting the industry but

they're not doing themselves any favors

by not making shows and movies

accessible and it feels like every week

now we hear more about this got taken

off Netflix this got taken off Disney

plus now we got HBO Max which has become

Max the place to go for HBO which is

like horrible why didn't you just keep

HBO in the name

um there was a really funny thread on

Twitter of people making fun of that of

like

um like the sequels to HBO HBO Max and

then Max and then like maxed the max the

the Furious and like Max three the you

know they were like coming up with SQL

names because Max the place for HBO just

like makes no sense there's a really

funny thread out there if you find it

but

um you know that's just another place

where like stuff will disappear stuff

will come off of there content will

disappear and people are uploading it

online and it's the only way to get it

and I don't I really in that case I

don't know what

the industry wants people to do

if they can't access things

um it's just

it's really annoying it's really

annoying so I did want to cover that

I've talked about this many many times

on the channel like I've talked about

you don't own digital media streaming

services aren't catering towards you

know the filmmakers they aren't helping

them I mean look they're all going to go

on strike in the next few weeks and I

think it's it's no like

it's just not going to work out the way

they're doing things and a lot of this

comes down to streaming residuals and

the way they're handling people's

content and I'd be pissed too if I spent

my you know a year and a half two years

making a show like Willow which

everybody received really well but just

like didn't get as many views as they

wanted so we just pull it off the

service to save to save what to save

space like it's space is unlimited put

it in the cloud like I don't know why

they're removing stuff like that so it's

just really odd but just goes to show

like physical media is really the only

way forward for filmmakers and I think

more of them need to fight for their

stuff to come out on physical

um the other thing that I wanted to talk

about which is really

um good news that came out of Best Buy

believe it or not just last week May

25th Best Buy reported their first

quarter earnings which is a publicly

traded company they do

um which ended April 29th so you're

looking at the first quarter of the Year

ending April 29th they had entertainment

Revenue now this includes DVDs and

Blu-rays 4K discs this includes video

games uh software books music CDs stuff

like that but you know you have to think

their biggest driver is going to be

movies and video games they don't sell a

ton of books they don't sell a ton of

CDs they actually saw their revenue go

up by 22 million dollars from the

previous year period so

um this was actually an increase of four

percent whereas they had a 14 decrease

in the previous year period so it's kind

of interesting like you know Best Buy

has been declining overall sales wise

like 10 to 11

but and even though domestic like

revenue of this stuff is down a lot

um it's just interesting that their

entertainment Revenue went up which is

kind of a good sign like and this wasn't

triggered by Black Friday this wasn't

triggered by like any big sales like

that it wasn't like Black Friday way up

to their entertainment Revenue

um

it was actually a slow time of year

January February March April

um and they they saw an increase we

don't see many increases so even a four

percent increase over last year 22

million dollars I mean Best Buy will pay

attention to that they'll say well geez

if we can get four percent each month

all of a sudden we've made a hundred

million more dollars than we did last

year on our entertainment and if other

segments start to shrink down I don't

know maybe they maybe they rethink what

they're doing and maybe they pay a

little more attention to physical media

I still think it's going to be something

you have to buy online for the most part

that's why our uh all the retailers are

moving is going to be into an online

space it's going to be e-commerce

because the floor space for this stuff

just doesn't make sense for big

retailers and I get that but it's just

really interesting to see Best Buy you

know a place that hasn't been doing a

ton of physical media recently and has

been shrinking it actually get an

increase there could be a good sign

so that's the news and now just a little

news on the podcast here and uh you know

the YouTube channel whether you watch on

YouTube if you're listening along this

all applies but

um this is the the first episode of June

and for June July and August it's

summertime I've got kids we're going on

trips

um I'm taking some time off of work I

got lots to do around the house lots to

do around the yard it's a busy time of

year for me I know it's a busy time of

year for everybody so instead of doing a

weekly podcast episode with new guests

every week which has been a lot to keep

up with for the summer given that

everyone's busy guests are busy I'm busy

we're gonna do one a month

so you'll actually get two podcast

episodes a month you'll get this one for

June and then you'll get one guest

sometime in the middle late June then

you'll get a coming soon video for July

and then one guest for July and the same

for August so two videos one guest

interview each month and that's the way

it's gonna go for the rest of the summer

just to keep things kind of in check I

don't want to take a complete break and

stop like I have in the past I've taken

a complete break and like stopped for

three months not gonna do that gonna

keep up at least some episodes here but

taking a short summer break but hey

there's now over 40 different guest

interviews and episodes on this podcast

there are multiple coming soon episodes

so by me only doing one a month this

gives you uh some time to to catch up go

back listen to old episodes you're going

on a road trip you're working outside

you're cutting the grass you're doing

some yard work pop the headphones in I

got 40 episodes for you to go through

hours and hours and hours of content and

you can listen to it right on Spotify

Apple you can pop up YouTube you can get

you know pretty much anywhere you can

get podcasts I'm out there so it's a

great time to catch up I'll keep the

content coming basically you should

expect one episode every two weeks

between the coming soon episode the

beginning of the month and then the

guest interview at the mid-month point

that's the way it's going to work for

the summer so I just want to give you

guys that update I think it makes sense

it keeps the podcast going without

taking a hard stop but it just makes

sense for the guests and how hard it is

to line people up for the summer and how

hard it is for me to find time so we'll

get back at it in September and we'll

figure out what the Cadence is going to

be if it's weekly if it's bi-weekly but

we'll get back cranking full time in

September with guest interviews and more

stuff like this but for the summer going

to be a little bit slow but hey plenty

of content out there I know that you

guys haven't listened to every episode

because how could you even my favorite

podcasts I'm I'm behind you know dozens

and dozens of episodes but that's the

cool thing is they live forever and you

can always listen to them so go catch up

all the stuffs on Spotify it's on

YouTube it's everywhere else watch some

of the old episodes if I had to pull out

a few favorites I'd say check out the

one with James McCoskey we talk about

the Godfather 4K restoration that one's

really good the one with Todd sock love

from Paramount he's really good he's

worked in the home entertainment and in

physical media for a long time and he

has great insights I really enjoyed my

episode of course with Heath from Cyril

at midnight with Ken from mid-level

media with Mark from Tales from the

Shelf those guys are all great great

interviews to listen to

um Justin beam his interview and Cliff

Stevenson those two guys who work on

special features were highlights I had

so many great like I could go on and on

I mean I like them all but there's a

couple to start with if you haven't

checked those out go check them out but

like I said 40 plus episodes plenty of

uh content for you to consume this

summer and I'll keep it going on just a

little bit of a slower Pace throughout

the summer month so I appreciate all the

support thank you for everyone who

listens who watches it's been really

cool to do this and it's been a lot of

fun getting to meet with new people talk

to other collectors talk to really

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this episode I will catch you guys in a

few weeks with the next episode in June

but appreciate all the support thank you

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