By David Weiner
11:29 AM PDT, September 4, 2012
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt postpone their nuptials in The Five-Year Engagement; Chris Hemsworth is trapped in The Cabin in the Woods; The Good Wife; The Office; Grey's Anatomy; Person of Interest; the ultimate Harry Potter set and much more in this week's new releases.
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New on Blu-ray & DVD: September 4
Universal
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt postpone their nuptials in The Five-Year Engagement; Chris Hemsworth is trapped in The Cabin in the Woods; The Good Wife; The Office; Grey's Anatomy; Person of Interest; the ultimate Harry Potter set and much more in this week's new releases.
The Cabin In The Woods
Lionsgate
Thor star Chris Hemsworth teams up with The Avengers mastermind Joss Whedon for a horror tale unlike anything you've ever seen before. Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford star in the story of five college friends who head for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures while being observed by technicians in a hidden control room. With their efforts continually thwarted by the all-powerful eye in the sky, do they have any chance of escape?
The Five-Year Engagement
Universal
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt reunite in a new romantic comedy that begins where most end, following what happens when an engaged couple keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. When job opportunities and other distractions prevent setting a wedding date, how long can they stay engaged without going crazy? Also starring Alison Brie, Chris Pratt and David Paymer, The Five-Year Engagement was produced by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin).
Harry Potter Wizard's Collection
Warner Bros.
Rejoice, muggles! The ultimate must-have for the ultimate Harry Potter fan, this limited-edition box set is the most comprehensive movie collection yet, featuring all eight films, over 37 hours of special features, nearly five hours of exciting, never-before-seen bonus features, all-new documentaries and must-have memorabilia designed exclusively for the Wizard's Collection, from high-quality concept art prints and a colorful fabric map of Hogwarts to the hard-bound Harry Potter Catalogue of Artefacts, the artistic Label Collection, a Horcrux locket prop replica and a certificate of authenticity.
Big-Screen Favorites on Blu-ray
Disney
Four big-screen favorites make their debut on Blu-ray this week, sold separately: Jeff Daniels must battle rare, deadly spiders in his small California town in Arachnophobia; Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy are kooky, spooky witches resurrected on Halloween night in Hocus Pocus; Rebecca De Mornay is a psycho babysitter in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle; and Kristen Stewart is the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone in the edge-of-your-seat thriller Cold Creek Manor.
Quick
Shout Factory
It's Speed on a motorcycle in this pulse-pounding, action-packed Korean thriller featuring spectacular street chases and action that reaches new, outlandish heights. While driving a female pop star to a live broadcast appearance, motorcycle-riding messenger Gi-su receives a mysterious call that there's a bomb wired to the pop star's helmet and will blow up if he fails to make a series of deliveries within a fixed time limit. Caught up in a terrorist attack on the grandest scale smack in a heavily populated city along with the police hot on his trail, he and his passenger must embark on a high-speed race against time that their very lives depend on.
Hung: The Complete Third Season
HBO
Thomas Jane is back as "well-endowed" Ray Drecker -- a former ball player, now a divorced coach and teacher with a unique side job. Grappling with a recession-plagued economy, Ray and his unlikely pimp Tanya (Jane Adams) take matters into their own by hands by opening the "Happiness Consultants Wellness Center for Women" – until their former partner Lenore and her 25-year-old busboy turned male hooker begin to steal their clientele.
Bored to Death: The Complete Third Season
HBO
Jason Schwartzman is back as Jonathan Ames, a struggling noir writer who moonlights as a private eye, getting caught up in increasingly risky jobs and absurd adventures around New York City with pals George (Ted Danson) and Ray (Zach Galifianakis) in this third season of inspired comedy. This time around, a shocking revelation drives Ames to embark on one of his most important cases yet: the quest to find his biological father.
2 Broke Girls: The Complete First Season
Warner Bros. Home Video
The hit series from Sex and the City's Emmy Award winner/executive producer Michael Patrick King stars Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as Max and Caroline, unlikely roommates and even more unlikely friends waiting tables in a Brooklyn diner while amassing the startup money it takes to launch a cupcake business. 2 Broke Girls also stars Garrett Morris, Jonathan Kite and Matthew Moy.
Person of Interest: The Complete First Season
Warner Bros. Home Video
Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson and Lost star Michael Emerson star 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.
The Office: Season Eight
Universal
Big changes are afoot for the staff of Dundler Mifflin this season as Andy (Ed Helms) takes over as manager and will stop at nothing to win their affections, while James Spader steps in as the enigmatic CEO Robert California and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) makes his own grab for power. Ellie Kemper, Craig Robinson, Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Leslie David Baker, Kate Flannery and Phyllis Smith star.
The Good Wife: The Third Season
Paramount
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Julianna Margulies is back for a third season of the politically charged drama as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who re-enters the work force after her husband's (Chris Noth) very public sex and political corruption scandal. This season, will she give in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner (Josh Charles)?
Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Eighth Season
ABC Studios
McDreamy, McSteamy and all your Grey's favorites are back for another season as things heat up in the operating room and the bedroom for the docs of Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. Starring Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens, Jr., Sara Ramirez, Eric Dane, Chyler Leigh, Kevin McKidd, Jessica Capshaw, Kim Raver, Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew.