August 2014 DVD & Blu-rays

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Need for Speed PG-13

Rumored to involve a cross-county race from San Francisco to New York.
Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton, John Gatins, Mark Sourian, Aaron Paul, Harrison Gilbertson, Rami Malek, Kid Cudi
Action Adventure Thriller Based on Game

Divergent PG-13

Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into factions based on human traits, a 16-year old leaves her faction to join a rival faction, but during the violent initiation into the new faction, she falls in love with a young man. They realize each is a "Divergent" who doesn't belong to any specific group.
Zoe Kravitz, Shailene Woodley, Tony Goldwyn, Kate Winslet, Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shahbazian, Miles Teller, John Kelly
Drama Teen Sci-Fi

Oculus R

A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Mike Flanagan, Katie Parker, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Karen Gillan, Rory Cochrane, Jeff Howard, James Lafferty
Suspense Horror

God's Not Dead PG

Follows college student Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) whose faith is challenged by his Philosophy Professor Mr. Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) who believes God does not exist. It revolves around the lives of several individuals who are also challenged by a world that believes God doesn't exist.
Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, Harold Cronk, Shane Harper, Willie Robertson, Marco Khan
Drama

Drones

Two soldiers are tasked with deciding the fate of a terrorist with a single push of a button. As the action plays out in real time, their window to use a deadly military drone on the target slowly closes. With time running out, the soldiers begin to question what the real motives are behind the ordered lethal attack.
Rick Rosenthal
Action Adventure

Ping-Pong Summer

Set in the 1980s, a hip-hop and ping pong-obsessed 13-year-old from the Maryland suburbs travels with his family to Ocean City, where he encounters both a new best friend and a new worst enemy
Judah Friedlander, Lea Thompson, Michael Tully, Susan Sarandon, John Hannah, Amy Sedaris, Robert Longstreet, Emmi Shockley
Comedy
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Muppets Most Wanted PG

Sequel to the 2011 Muppets movie featuring Kermin and Miss Piggy.
Salma Hayek, Todd LIeberman, Nick Stoller, Steve Whitmire, Tina Fey, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Liotta, Eric Jacobson
Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids

Bears

Cozies up to the brown bears who call Alaska’s stunning coastal mountains and shores their home, revealing through tender moments and entertaining imagery how these animals are far from grizzly creatures.
Keith Scholey, Alastair Fothergill, Adam Chapman, Don Hahn
Documentary

Breathe In

A story about love, fidelity, marriage and music. No other plot details have been announced.
Felicity Jones, Michael Pruss, Guy Pearce, Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis, Drake Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling
Drama

Locke R

Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
Steven Knight, Paul Webster, Andrew Scott, Tom Hardy, Ruth Wilson, Tom Holland, Olivia Colman, Alice Lowe
Drama

Hateship, Loveship

A nanny is hired to care for a teenage girl whose mother has just died. Complications arise when the nanny falls in love with the teen's ailing father.
Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan Sellers, Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liza Johnson, Mark Poirier, Nick Nolte
Drama Comedy

Frankie and Alice R

A drama centered on a young woman with multiple personality disorder who struggles not give in to her racist alter-personality.
Halle Berry, Hassain Zaidi, Joe Shrapnel, Geoffrey Sax, Vincent Cirrincione, Simon DeKaric, Cheryl Edwards, Marko King
Drama Suspense

The Railway Man R

The capture and torture of Eric Lomax by the Japanese in World War II. Lomax was sent to work on notorious "death railway" in Burma and struggled for the next 30 years to come to terms with the trauma.
Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jonathan Teplitzky, Chris Brown, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson
Drama Biography True Story

Dancing in Jaffa

Renowned ball-room dancer, Pierre Dulaine takes his belief that dance can overcome political and social differences and applies it to eleven-year-old Jewish and Palestinian Israelis.
Hilla Medalia
Documentary Dance

Filth

Follows Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in drugs, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships, and 'the games' – cruel plots and systematic bullying of his coworkers and friends. While working on the murder case of a Japanese student, he starts coming unhinged, slowly losing his grip on reality and suffering from a series of increasingly severe hallucinations as he desperately tries to hold his life together.
James McAvoy, Imogen Poots, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Jon S. Baird, Iain De Caestecker, Emun Elliott, Joanne Froggatt
Drama Comedy Crime

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 PG-13

Will follow up on the events of The Amazing Spider-Man. Since it is early in the development process, no plot details are available.
Felicity Jones, Andrew Garfield, Avi Arad, Laura Ziskin, Matt Tolmach, Alex Kurtzman, Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti
Drama Action Adventure Sequel Superhero 3D

The Quiet Ones

An unorthodox professor uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist.
Sam Claflin, John Pogue, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Jared Harris, Erin Richards, Olivia Cooke, Rory Fleck-Byrne
Thriller Horror Supernatural

Fading Gigolo

John Turturro and Woody Allen play cash-strapped best friends who decide to go into the gigolo business together and subsequently attract the suspicion of the Hasidic Jewish community in which they live.
John Turturro, Sofia Vergara, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Bob Balaban, Sharon Stone, Liev Schreiber
Comedy

Only Lovers Left Alive R

A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries.
Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jeffrey Wright, Jim Jarmusch, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton
Drama Romance Vampires

The Olivia Experiment

Olivia Howell is a modern-day woman—brilliant, educated, funny, but with a secret. Turns out this 27-year-old graduate student thinks her intimacy issues might actually be a sign that she is—asexual. Confused and stressed out, Olivia's world is turned upside down when a concerned girlfriend offers to “loan” her very own boyfriend to Olivia for sex! Now with the support of her gay roommate, a lesbian friend and the digital age, Olivia embarks on a quest of exploration to understand the most basic of human mysteries: sex.
Skye Noel, Jen Lilley, Brett Baumayr, Sonja Schenk
Drama Comedy Romance LGBTQIA+

The Sacrament R

Sacrament stars AJ Bowen and Joe Swanberg as reporters for VICE Media who journey to a remote Central American compound along with a photographer (Kentucker Audley) hoping to reunite with his sister (Amy Seimetz), who has dropped off the map after struggling with drug addiction. They find an isolated community of true believers devoted to a shadowy but charismatic figure called “Father.” Skeptical at first, the journalists begin to come around to the group’s utopian claims, until things rapidly take a very dark turn.
Eli Roth, Maria Cestone, A.J. Bowen, Eric Newman, Kentucker Audley, Hoyt David Morgan, Sarah E. Johnson, Ti West
Thriller Horror
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Blended PG-13

After a disastrous blind date, a couple finds themselves stuck together with their kids from a previous marriage.
Bella Thorne, Adam Sandler, Frank Coraci, Jack Giarraputo, Josie Rosen, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale, Dan Patrick
Comedy Romantic Comedy

The Rover R

A man goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen car, which contains something invaluable to him.
Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce, Scoot McNairy, Liz Watts, David Field, Gillian Jones, David Michod, David Linde
Drama

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return PG

Summoned by Glinda, Dorothy and Toto return to the land of Oz. Joined by her old friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion, Dorothy sets out on a perilous journey to stop the Jester from using the power of the Wicked Witch of the West’s wand to turn the people of Oz into puppets.
Lea Michele, Kelsey Grammer, Dan St. Pierre, Will Finn, Bonne Radford, Adam Balsam, Randi Barnes, Barry Glasser
Fantasy Family Animation 3D

The Love Punch

A romantic caper about Richard (Brosnan) and Kate (Thompson), a divorced couple who, after their pension is stolen by an unscrupulous businessman, reunite to steal it back.
Joel Hopkins, Pierce Brosnan, Tim Perell, Timothy Spall, Louise Bourgoin, Emma Thompson
Romantic Comedy

Belle PG

Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.
Miranda Richardson, Sarah Gadon, Tom Wilkinson, Tom Felton, Amma Asante, Misan Sagay, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton
Drama True Story

The Possession of Michael King

Tells of a documentary filmmaker who does not believe in God or the Devil. When his wife dies, he sets out to make his next movie on religion and spirituality, hoping to prove those things are just myth. But in allowing demonologists, necromancers and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest, darkest spells and rituals on him, he unleashes a horrifying force.
Ella Anderson, Dale Dickey, David Jung, Shane Johnson, Cara Pifko, Tomas Arana, Julie McNiven
Horror Supernatural

Aftermath

The devastating horror of a nuclear apocalypse is now reality and nine desperate strangers find themselves clinging to life in a farmhouse cellar, while radioactive fallout descends on the darkened world above. These would-be survivors face the nightmare of dwindling supplies, poisonous air and the greatest threat of all – the hordes of zombie-like refugees who want in. With each dying day, their choice becomes clearer – stay and let the makeshift shelter become their tomb or face the unknown terrors of the world outside.
Monica Keena, Peter Engert, Edward Furlong, Andre Royo, C.J. Thomason

Heatstroke

On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his teenage daughter.
Peter Stormare, Stephen Dorff, Svetlana Metkina, Maisie Williams, Evelyn Purcell, David Lancaster
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