Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Holiday Gift Guide
With the holidays fast approaching, our friends over at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has sent us over a list of the upcoming Blu-Ray, DVD, and digital releases that we can all look forward to adding to our collection this holiday season. Let’s check them out.
Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts Collection – August 18 (Early digital download August 11)
Walt Disney Animation Studios is releasing a new collection of award-winning short films on Blu-ray and DVD. This is the first time Disney has packaged 12 animated shorts in a set. Never-before-released short films included in the collection are Frozen Fever, starring Frozen’s Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven, Kristoff, as well as Tick Tock Tale and the Oscar nominated Lorenzo. The Short Films Collection features Academy-Award winning shorts Feast and Paperman.
Aladdin Diamond Edition – October 13 (Early Digital Release September 29)
For the first time ever, a whole new world of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Aladdin will be revealed in a whole new way on Blu-ray with never-before-seen bonus. Rediscover how three wishes can change everything in Disney’s timeless adventure for the whole family.
Monkey Kingdom – September 15
From Disneynature, the studio that brought you Chimpanzee and Bears, comes a spectacular tale set among ancient ruins in the storied jungles of South Asia. Maya, a clever and resourceful monkey, finds her world forever changed when she welcomes her son Kip into her colorful extended family. As Maya strives to keep Kip safe through unexpected and sometimes perilous adventures, amazing footage captures all the magic and surprises of their magnificent world. Maya and her family will make you laugh and warm your heart as she realizes her dreams for her son’s future.
Cinderella – September 15
Walt Disney Animation Studios is releasing the live action version of Cinderella on Blu-ray Combo Pack, Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere. The movie stars Cate Blanchett as Stepmother (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), Lily James as Cinderella (TV’s “Downton Abbey”), Richard Madden (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as Prince, Stellan Skarsgård (Marvel’s: “The Avengers,” “Thor”) as Grand Duke, Holliday Grainger (“Jane Eyre”) as Anastasia, Derek Jacobi (“The King’s Speech” ) as King, and Helena Bonham Carter as Fairy Godmother (“Alice in Wonderland”).
Also coming this fall
Inside Out
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father (Kyle McLaughlan) starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Tomorrowland
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen (Britt Robertson) bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor (George Clooney) embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
Marvel Avengers: Age of Ultron
When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it’s up to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.
Are you excited about any of these movies? Planning on adding them to your collection? Let us know.