Via Vision Announces Their August Line Up

Via Vision has announced their August line-up with a whopping 3 releases that are that encompass an entire franchise.

The action-packed post-apocalyptic blockbuster Dredd arrives on 4K & Blu-ray in a Limited Edition 3D Lenticular Hardcase with six exclusive Art Cards. 

Based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, Dredd is filled with stunning visual effects and action sequences. 

Starring Karl Urban (The Boys), Olivia Thirlby (Juno), and Lena Headey (Game Of Thrones), directed by Pete Travis, and written and produced by Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina).

The America of the post-apocalyptic future is an irradiated wasteland – a vast, ultraviolent world where criminals control the mean city streets. Ultimate law enforcers like Dredd (Karl Urban) and his new partner, Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are Judges – the only force battling for justice. Dispatched by the central authority, the Judges’ target is Ma-Ma (Lena Headey), a ruthless boss bent on expanding her criminal empire through sales of Slo-Mo, a dangerous reality-altering drug. With Dredd calling the shots, the two judges declare full-scale war on crime in this unrelenting, brutal thrill ride.

Special Features & Technical Specs:

Disc One: 4K UHD

• HDR10 presentation of the film on 4K UHD
• Mega City Masters: 35 Years of Judge Dredd
• Day of Chaos: The Visual Effects of Dredd 3D
• Dredd – featurette
• Dredd’s Gear – featurette
• The 3rd Dimension – featurette
• Welcome to Peach Trees – featurette
• Dredd – motion comic prequel
• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio: Dolby Atmos
• Aspect Ratio 2.40:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

Disc Two: Blu-ray

• 1080p High-Definition presentation on Blu-ray
• NEW Audio Commentary by award-winning comic book and Dredd film concept artist Jock, & 2000 AD Brand Manager and author of “I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future”, Michael Molcher
• Mega City Masters: 35 Years of Judge Dredd
• Day of Chaos: The Visual Effects of Dredd 3D
• Dredd – featurette
• Dredd’s Gear – featurette
• The 3rd Dimension – featurette
• Welcome to Peach Trees – featurette
• Dredd – motion comic prequel
• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Aspect Ratio 2.40:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

Disc Three: 3D Blu-ray

• 1080p High-definition 3D presentation on Blu-ray
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Aspect Ratio 2.40:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

Head off on the ride of a lifetime in the hilarious hit action comedy adventure Smokey and the Bandit and its two sequels! 

Starring Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds as truck-driving bootlegger Bo “Bandit” Darville, with iconic performances from Sally Field, Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason.

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Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Smokey and the Bandit stars Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason in an outrageous comedy that boasts full-throttle laughs and high-velocity thrills. 

Reynolds is the Bandit, a king-of-the-road trucker hero who accepts the ultimate challenge: pick up a truck load of Coors beers in Texarkana – the closest place it can be legally sold – and haul it cross-country to Atlanta in 48 hours. The reward? $80,000! The result? The wildest series of car chases and crashes ever filmed in this hilarious all time box office smash!

Once described as a favourite film of Alfred Hitchcock (that’s right!), rediscover the original laugh-out-loud, enduring comedy that spawned a franchise. 

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• The Bandit – feature length making-of documentary
• Loaded Up and Truckin’: Making Smokey and the Bandit
• Snowman, What’s Your 20?: The Smokey and the Bandit CB Tutorial
• 100 Years of Universal: The 70s
• 100 Years of Universal: The Lot
• Theatrical Trailer
• Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

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Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason team up again with an all-star cast as a raucous political race results in the comeback of the wild ways of the Bandit. 

Once again, he’s pursued Sheriff Buford T. Justice, who is still madly obsessed with apprehending him. But this time the loot is even bigger – a pregnant elephant. And the risks are riskier, the action wilder and the stakes for the winner infinitely higher!

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• NEW Audio Commentary by cinema author and critic Matthew Asprey Gear
• Theatrical Trailer
• Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

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Smokey and the Bandit III (1983)

The good ol’ boys of high speed high-jinks are back in their third and final Smokey and the Bandit adventure. Starring Jackie Gleason, Paul Williams, Jerry Reed and Pat McCormick reprising their original side-splitting roles, with a special cameo from Burt Reynolds. 

Sheriff Buford T. Justice is ready to retire when the notorious Big and Little Enos Burdette challenge both him and the Snowman to make a special delivery from Miami to Texas in 24 hours. With a $250,000 prize on the line, everyone’s out to beat the next guy to the finish line – with no holds barred! It’s a wild free-for-all featuring some of the most incredible action driving stunts ever filmed.

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• NEW Audio Commentary by film historian / filmmaker Daniel Kremer
• Theatrical Trailer
• Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

Limited to a maximum of 2000 units.

Get ready for fistfights and explosive battles with The Substitute Collection – four electric action-thrillers packed with guns, swords and grenades.

Tom Berenger stars as the retired mercenary turned substitute teacher in the hit action crime thriller The Substitute (1996), with Treat Williams taking over the lead for The Substitute 2: School’s Out in 1998. The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999) and The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2001) make their worldwide Blu-ray debut in this release!

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The Substitute (1996)

Shale (Tom Berenger), a battle-scarred mercenary, finds that the war has moved closer to home when his girlfriend is attacked by a ruthless band of teenagers. Determined to root out this menace, Shale goes undercover at a local high school. Posing as a teacher, he and his team of mercenaries set a trap to catch the ringleaders in this explosive thriller from director Robert Mandel (School Ties). 

Also starring Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Marc Anthony, and Luis Guzmán.

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Theatrical Trailer
• Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
• Audio LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

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The Substitute 2: School’s Out (1998)

Treat Williams stars in the action-packed sequel The Substitute 2: School’s Out (1998). 

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral – his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in order to investigate Randall’s murder. With his military training, he can easily dispense with knife-wielding students. But when he traces the bullet that killed his brother back to someone within school, Karl is forced to break out the big guns.

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Theatrical Trailer
• Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

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The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999)

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

The Substitute goes undercover once again to bring justice to the classroom. The university football team is deep into an underworld of drugs and blackmail and are using their muscle off the playing field as well. In this action-packed sequel, it’s up to The Substitute and his crew of mercenaries to teach these students a lesson they will never forget.

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Theatrical Trailer
• Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2001)

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

When a clandestine gang of neo-Nazi students threaten an elite military school, undercover cop Karl Thomasson poses as a teacher and plunges into a deadly cat-and-mouse game of shifting alliances and murderous treachery in a one-man war to prevent an academic apocalypse!

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Audio Commentary by director Robert Radler
• Theatrical Trailer
• Deleted Scenes
• Behind-the-scenes footage
• Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

Genre auteur Rob Zombie wrote and directed this gritty and shocking horror, shot on location in Salem, Massachusetts. 

Produced by Jason Blum (Get Out) and starring Sheri Moon Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses) and Bruce Davison (X-Men), The Lords Of Salem was nominated for the Audience Award at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.

Radio DJ Heidi LaRoc receives a mysterious record labeled “a gift from The Lords”. But when Heidi plays it, the bizarre sounds it emanates will trigger visions of the town’s depraved past, release the darkness within her own damaged soul, and unleash the long-awaited vengeance of Satan himself.

“a psychological horror treat that burrows into the brain and tickles with ideas. … This is satanic horror done right, carefully twisting the knife until the big finale without sacrificing scares along the way.” – Fangoria

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Audio Commentary by writer / producer / director Rob Zombie
• NEW Audio Commentary by film critic / author Patrick Bromley
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Aspect Ratio 2.40:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

A chilling dystopian horror starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, produced by cult filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil). 

It’s pitch black on an abandoned ship 500 miles from Earth. For crew members Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) and Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) an unflinching vision of terror is about to be unleashed. Witness a horrifying descent into madness for a pair of astronauts who wake up in a hyper-sleep chamber, disorientated, with no memory of how they got there. With an unspeakable horror lurking around every corner, the astronauts uncover the terrifying reality that the survival of mankind hinges on their actions.

“Pandorum is the finest interstellar horror in years” – SFX

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Audio Commentary by director Christian Alvart and producer Jeremy Bolt
• NEW Video Essay by film historian Bryan Reesman
• The World of Elysium – Making-of featurette
• What Happened to Nadia’s Team
• Flight Team Training Video
• Deleted and alternative scenes
• Storyboard comparisons
• Interviews with cast and crew
• Behind-the-scenes footage
• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

“I have to return some videotapes.”

This exclusive Limited Edition collection is housed in a Blood Pack, featuring red blood-like liquid securely sealed in a Hardcase, with the controversial cult classic American Psycho on 4K UHD & Blu-ray, alongside the 2002 sequel American Psycho 2 on Blu-ray.

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American Psycho (2000)

Based on acclaimed author Bret Easton Ellis’ hit novel of the same name, Christian Bale took the big screen by storm as the iconic Patrick Bateman, a New York City yuppie with a dark double life. 

With an all-star supporting cast including Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Justin Theroux, and Reese Witherspoon, American Psycho is a bloodthirsty satirical dissection of sanity and consumerism in the video age, and a must-see piece of contemporary cinema history.

Patrick Bateman is a high-powered Wall Street executive – rich, handsome, and highly intelligent. In many ways, he’s just like everyone else enjoying the excesses of America in the 80s. But unlike his colleagues, Patrick prefers murders and executions to mergers and acquisitions!

Special Features and Technical Specs: 

Disc One: American Psycho 4K UHD

• Dolby Vision / HDR10 presentation of the film on 4K UHD
• Two Audio Commentaries by director and co-writer Mary Harron
• Audio Commentary by co-writer and actor Guinevere Turner
• Deleted Scenes with optional audio commentary by director and co-writer Mary Harron
• American Psycho: From Book to Screen
• The 80s: Downtown
• Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
• Audio: Dolby Atmos
• Optional English Subtitles

Disc Two: American Psycho Blu-ray

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Audio Commentary by director and co-writer Mary Harron
• Audio Commentary by co-writer and actor Guinevere Turner
• Deleted Scenes with optional Audio Commentary by director and co-writer Mary Harron
• The 80s: Downtown
• Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
• Audio DTS ES 6.1 + Dolby Digital EX 5.1
• Optional English Subtitles

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American Psycho 2 (2002)

The direct-to-video sequel American Psycho 2 stars Mila Kunis and William Shatner, following a murderous criminology student and her unhealthy obsessions. 

Patrick Bateman is dead, but his evil legacy continues in the body of Rachael Newman, the only victim who managed to escape Bateman’s grasp. However, she did not remain unscathed from the encounter; instead, Rachael has developed an obsession with serial killers.

“a strange, entertaining and surprising little film. Bloody and funny and twisty and turny” – ComingSoon.net

Special Features & Technical Specs:

Disc Three: American Psycho 2 – Blu-ray 

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Audio Commentary by actress Mila Kunis and director Morgan J. Freeman
• Audio Commentary by director Morgan J. Freeman
• Deleted Scenes
• Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
• DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + 2.0
• Optional English HOH Subtitles