By David Weiner
8:55 AM PST, January 24, 2012
Paranormal Activity 3is here to haunt your home; Hugh Jackman and rock 'em sock 'em robots inReal Steel;50/50;Annie Hallon Blu-ray and more this week in new releases.
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The Apartment on Blu-ray
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
The Story: The classic Billy Wilder comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine is finally on Blu-ray! Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Apartment casts Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an ambitious young employee who climbs the ladder of success by providing the perfect hideaway – his apartment -- for his philandering bosses. But when he lends the key to J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), he unexpectedly falls for the big boss's beautiful mistress (MacLaine) – and must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl -- or his job.
Notable Special Features: Audio commentary from film producer/AFI member Bruce Block and two featurettes, including a loving tribute to Jack Lemmon.
Notable Special Features: Audio commentary from film producer/AFI member Bruce Block and two featurettes, including a loving tribute to Jack Lemmon.
Spellbound on Blu-ray
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
The Story: Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller starring Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman is now on Blu-ray! Bergman is Dr. Constance Peterson, a dedicated psychiatrist who falls in love with Dr. Edwardes (Peck). But she soon finds out that Edwardes is an impostor -- and an amnesiac -- who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. The masterpiece of suspense also features an Oscar-winning score by Miklos Rozsa and a haunting dream sequence by none other than Salvador Dalí.
Notorious on Blu-ray
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
The Story: Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy thriller starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman is now on Blu-ray! Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, a troubled beauty who is recruited by a dashing American agent (Grant) to infiltrate a German spy ring in post-war Rio. When she receives orders to seduce a Nazi kingpin (Claude Rains), she must sacrifice her true love – and maybe even her life – for the perilous mission.
Manhattan on Blu-ray
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
The Story: Woody Allen's 1979 black-and-white classic is finally on Blu-ray! Featuring a magnificent Gershwin score and starring a very young Mariel Hemingway and Meryl Streep alongside Diane Keaton, the film casts Allen as a Manhattan native juggling a job he hates, a 17-year-old girlfriend in high school (Hemingway) and a lesbian ex-wife (Streep) who is writing a tell-all book about their marriage. When he meets his best friend's intellectual mistress (Keaton), he finds himself falling head over heels in love.
Annie Hall on Blu-ray
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
The Story: Woody Allen's 1977 Best Picture Oscar winner is finally on Blu-ray! Widely considered to be his greatest cinematic achievement, Annie Hall follows the love story of comedian Alvy Singer (Allen), who falls for ditzy, free-spirited nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). As their relationship develops, will Alvy's own insecurities sabotage the affair? Or will they live happily ever after? Also starring Christopher Walken, Carol Kane, Tony Roberts, Colleen Dewhurst, Shelley Duvall and Paul Simon.
The Whistleblower
Samuel Goldwyn Films
The Story: The Constant Gardner Oscar winner Rachel Weisz delivers an intense performance as a woman taking on sex traffickers in this film inspired by actual events. Weisz plays an American cop working as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia who encounters serious corruption at the highest levels – and must risk her own life to save the lives of others and expose the truth. Benedict Cumberbatch, David Hewlett, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci also star.
Notable Special Features: Cast and crew interviews.
Notable Special Features: Cast and crew interviews.
Restless
Sony Pictures Classics
The Story: Alice in Wonderland star Mia Wasikowska plays a terminally ill teen who falls for a left-of-center boy (newcomer Henry Hopper) who likes to attend funerals in this offbeat film by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk). As their relationship grows, they're counseled by the ghost of a Japanese WWII kamikaze pilot (Ryo Kase). Also starring, Jane Adams and Schuyler Fisk, this atmospheric, autumn piece was produced by Oscar winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
Notable Special Features: Gus Van Sant's Silent Film version of the movie; plus "Enoch & Hiroshi: The Best of Friends"; "Gus Van Sant: Independent Voice" and more.
Notable Special Features: Gus Van Sant's Silent Film version of the movie; plus "Enoch & Hiroshi: The Best of Friends"; "Gus Van Sant: Independent Voice" and more.
50/50

Summit Entertainment
The Story: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen play Adam and Kyle, best friends whose lives are changed by Adam's unexpected cancer diagnosis. Searching for optimism after the doctor's diagnosis gives Adam a 50/50 chance of survival, the two set out to beat the odds, avoid a nervous breakdown, meet women and live life to the fullest. Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston also star.
Notable Special Features: "The Story of 50/50"; deleted scenes; audio commentary and more.
Notable Special Features: "The Story of 50/50"; deleted scenes; audio commentary and more.
Real Steel

Dreamworks
The Story: Futuristic, rock 'em sock 'em robots meet Rocky for the PlayStation generation in this feel-good movie starring Hugh Jackman. Jackman plays a washed-up fighter turned small-time promoter -- who lost his chance at the title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring -- who reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to build and train a lean, mean championship contender. Evangeline Lilly, Hope Davis and Dakota Goyo also star.
Notable Special Features: Deleted and extended scenes; bloopers; a riveting profile with legendary boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard; and the Real Steel Second Screen app lets viewers sync their iPad or computer with the Blu-ray movie to peel back layers of effects with progression reels, check out 360-degree turnarounds of the robots, explore seamless branching pods that delve into the cutting-edge technology used to create the fights, and much more.
Notable Special Features: Deleted and extended scenes; bloopers; a riveting profile with legendary boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard; and the Real Steel Second Screen app lets viewers sync their iPad or computer with the Blu-ray movie to peel back layers of effects with progression reels, check out 360-degree turnarounds of the robots, explore seamless branching pods that delve into the cutting-edge technology used to create the fights, and much more.
Paranormal Activity 3

Paramount
The Story: The third installment of the hit horror franchise turns the clock back to the eighties and the beginnings of the disturbances in order to explain just how the "paranormal activity" began. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the filmmakers who created the unsettling Catfish, Paranormal Activity 3 continues to chill and scare the wits out of audiences with its patented "found footage" narrative.
Notable Special Features: Contains both the theatrical and unrated version of the film; Blu-ray exclusive "lost tapes"; and a digital copy.
Also available on VOD: Paranormal Activity: The Chronology, which presents all three films in chronological order as a seamless marathon.
Notable Special Features: Contains both the theatrical and unrated version of the film; Blu-ray exclusive "lost tapes"; and a digital copy.
Also available on VOD: Paranormal Activity: The Chronology, which presents all three films in chronological order as a seamless marathon.