All the Movies, Shows & Specials Coming to 4K & Blu-Ray in August 2026

If you thought your physical media collection was finally getting a moment to breathe as summer winds down, I regret to inform your wallet that August 2026 has other plans. This month is stacked with boutique restorations, cult horror upgrades, big studio 4K releases, anime, steelbooks, Criterion titles, Warner Archive gems, TV seasons, documentaries and enough limited editions to make your shelf whisper, “Please, Kyle, I’m tired.”

As always, physical media release dates can shift because the home entertainment calendar is basically a haunted spreadsheet with UPC codes. But these are the verified 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases currently scheduled for August 2026.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

American Pie 2 - Starring: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan. Director: J.B. Rogers. The gang reunites for another summer of friendship, terrible decisions and early-2000s comedy chaos in this 4K UHD release. Also available as a limited edition 4K UHD SteelBook. . Get it here!

Exit 8. This psychological thriller arrives on Blu-ray, following a surreal, looping nightmare built around observation, repetition and escalating dread. Get it here!

Little Fockers - Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson. Director: Paul Weitz. The chaotic family comedy joins the August 4K slate, because apparently Greg Focker’s suffering deserves the highest possible resolution. Get it here!

Macao - Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix. Director: Josef von Sternberg. The Warner Archive title arrives on Blu-ray with noir-tinged intrigue, glamour and danger in the port city of Macao. 

Night of the Comet - Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran. Director: Thom Eberhardt. The cult sci-fi horror favorite gets a 4K UHD SteelBook release, bringing teenage survival, apocalypse vibes and comet-induced chaos to collectors. Get it here!

Random Harvest - Starring: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. The classic romantic drama arrives from Warner Archive on Blu-ray, following love, memory and identity after the trauma of war. 

Rooster Fighter: Season One Limited Edition SteelBook. The anime action-comedy arrives on Blu-ray in a limited edition SteelBook, because sometimes the hero the world needs is, apparently, a rooster. 

Safe - Starring: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman. Director: Todd Haynes. Criterion brings Todd Haynes’ unsettling psychological drama to 4K UHD, following a suburban woman whose mysterious illness becomes a chilling portrait of alienation. Get it here!

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: 20th Anniversary SteelBook - Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen. Director: Adam McKay. Shake, bake and upgrade your shelf: the NASCAR comedy classic speeds onto 4K UHD SteelBook.  Get it here!

The People vs. Larry Flynt - Starring: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton. Director: Miloš Forman. Arrow brings the provocative biographical drama to 4K UHD, revisiting the legal battles and cultural firestorm surrounding publisher Larry Flynt. Get it here!

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

A Bay of Blood - Starring: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso. Director: Mario Bava. Mario Bava’s influential giallo/slasher nightmare gets a 4K UHD release, bringing murder, inheritance schemes and body-count madness to the format. Get it here!

Barbarian - Starring: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long. Director: Zach Cregger. The modern horror favorite gets a 4K UHD SteelBook release, and yes, it is still best experienced knowing as little as possible. Get it here!

Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series - Starring: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff. The acclaimed sci-fi series arrives on Blu-ray as a complete-series release, bringing the war between humanity and the Cylons back to physical media. Get it here!

Beverly Hills Cop - Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton. Director: Martin Brest. Axel Foley brings the attitude, the jokes and the Detroit-meets-Beverly-Hills chaos to a 4K UHD limited edition SteelBook. Get it here!

Clear and Present Danger - Starring: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer. Director: Phillip Noyce. Jack Ryan heads into political conspiracy and covert operations in this 4K UHD limited edition SteelBook release. Get it here!

Death Warrant - Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb. Director: Deran Sarafian. Van Damme goes undercover in prison in this MVD Rewind Collection 4K UHD release, which is exactly as subtle as that sentence suggests. Get it here!

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert - Starring: Elvis Presley. Elvis gets the 4K UHD treatment with this concert release celebrating the King’s live-performance legacy. Get it here!

JFK: Theatrical Cut - Starring: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman. Director: Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone’s sprawling political thriller arrives on 4K UHD in its theatrical cut, revisiting the investigation and conspiracies surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Get it here!

Ju-on: The Grudge - Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara. Director: Takashi Shimizu. Arrow brings the Japanese horror landmark to 4K UHD, delivering cursed-house terror with one of the genre’s most enduring nightmares. Get it here!

Mars Attacks! - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening. Director: Tim Burton. Tim Burton’s alien-invasion cult comedy blasts onto 4K UHD, with both standard and SteelBook editions listed for August. Get it here!

New York, New York - Starring: Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander. Director: Martin Scorsese. Scorsese’s musical drama arrives on 4K UHD from the MVD Marquee Collection, pairing old-Hollywood style with bruised romance and big-band ambition. 

Project Hail Mary - Starring: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, Milana Vayntrub. Director: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The sci-fi adventure arrives on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, following a lone astronaut on a desperate mission that could decide the fate of Earth. Get it here!

Rent-A-Girlfriend: Season 4. The anime romantic comedy returns on Blu-ray, continuing the messy, emotional and increasingly complicated rental-girlfriend chaos. 

Sing Street - Starring: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor. Director: John Carney. The joyous coming-of-age musical gets a limited edition 4K UHD release, following a Dublin teen who starts a band to impress a girl and accidentally finds himself. acdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Krysten Cummings. Director: Jon Harris. The cave-horror sequel crawls onto 4K UHD SteelBook, because claustrophobia apparently needed more pixels. 

The Fast and the Furious: 25th Anniversary - Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez. Director: Rob Cohen. The original street-racing blockbuster celebrates 25 years with 4K UHD and SteelBook releases, before the franchise started launching cars into physics court. Get it here!

The Furious: Collector’s Edition -This action title arrives on 4K UHD in a collector’s edition release, adding more fists, kicks and high-impact chaos to August’s physical-media shelf. 

Friday, August 14, 2026

Popeye - Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul L. Smith. Director: Robert Altman. Robert Altman’s wonderfully strange live-action musical sails onto 4K UHD, giving Robin Williams’ spinach-powered icon a fresh physical-media upgrade. Get it here!

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Abandon Ship. This survival drama arrives on 4K UHD as part of the August physical media slate. 

Auntie Mame - Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne. Director: Morton DaCosta. Warner Archive brings the beloved comedy classic to 4K UHD, following an eccentric aunt whose larger-than-life worldview reshapes her nephew’s life. Get it here!

Buffet Froid a.k.a. Cold Cuts - Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet. Director: Bertrand Blier. Indicator gives the surreal French black comedy a limited edition 4K UHD release, mixing murder, absurdity and existential weirdness. Get it here!

Daylight - Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen. Director: Rob Cohen. Stallone heads into disaster-movie mode in this 4K UHD release about survivors trapped inside a collapsing tunnel. 

Dutton Ranch: Season One. The TV release arrives on Blu-ray, expanding the ranch-drama universe with more family power, land battles and generational conflict. 

Flight - Starring: Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Denzel Washington delivers a powerhouse performance in this 4K UHD release about a pilot hailed as a hero while his personal demons threaten to destroy everything. Get it here!

MacArthur - Starring: Gregory Peck, Dan O’Herlihy, Ed Flanders. Director: Joseph Sargent. The World War II biographical drama arrives on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, with Gregory Peck starring as General Douglas MacArthur. 

Merci la vie - Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc. Director: Bertrand Blier. Indicator brings Bertrand Blier’s French drama to limited edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray. 

Nightcrawler - Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed. Director: Dan Gilroy. The modern thriller gets a 4K UHD release, following a freelance crime videographer whose ambition is somehow even darker than the Los Angeles nights he prowls. Get it here!

One Piece: Season Fourteen - Voyage Ten. The long-running anime series continues its Blu-ray rollout with another voyage of pirate adventure, battles and emotional chaos. Get it here!

Repo Men - Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga. Director: Miguel Sapochnik. This sci-fi action thriller comes to 4K UHD, set in a future where artificial organs can be repossessed if you fall behind on payments. Healthcare horror, but make it cyberpunk. Get it here!

The Good, the Bad, the Weird - Starring: Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung. Director: Kim Jee-woon. The Korean action-western gets an Arrow 4K UHD release, bringing manic energy, treasure hunting and genre-blending spectacle to the format. Get it here!

The Hot Spot - Starring: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly. Director: Dennis Hopper. The neo-noir thriller arrives in a limited edition 4K UHD release, full of small-town heat, crime and bad decisions. Get it here!

The Island - Starring: Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor. Director: Michael Ritchie. The 1980 thriller comes to 4K UHD and Blu-ray, bringing pirate violence, survival suspense and very specific nightmare-vacation energy. Get it here!

The Swan Princess - Starring: Michelle Nicastro, Howard McGillin, Jack Palance. Director: Richard Rich. The animated musical fantasy arrives on 4K UHD, giving a nostalgic family favorite a high-resolution upgrade. Get it here!

Troy - Starring: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom. Director: Wolfgang Petersen. The swords, sandals and extremely dramatic hair return in Arrow’s limited edition 4K UHD release of the historical epic. Get it here!

Wag the Dog - Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche. Director: Barry Levinson. The political satire arrives on Blu-ray from Warner Archive, following a spin doctor and Hollywood producer manufacturing a fake war to distract from scandal. 

Monday, August 24, 2026

Emergency Squad. This action title arrives on Blu-ray as part of the late-August physical release slate. 

Supersonic Man. The cult superhero/sci-fi title comes to Blu-ray, bringing low-budget cosmic adventure and retro genre weirdness to collectors. 

Urban Warriors. This action title arrives on Blu-ray, adding dystopian genre chaos to the August 24 disc calendar. 

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

54 - Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell. Director: Mark Christopher. The Studio 54 drama gets a 4K UHD release, revisiting the glamour, excess and fallout of New York nightlife. Get it here!

Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story - Starring: Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Brady Hepner. Director: Natasha Kermani. This vampire-family horror story arrives on 4K UHD, following the sons of Abraham Van Helsing as their father’s dark past refuses to stay buried. Get it here!

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret - Starring: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates. Director: Kelly Fremon Craig. The beloved Judy Blume adaptation gets a 4K UHD release, bringing its tender coming-of-age story to physical collectors.  Check out the Pop Culture Weekly episode all about this movie, here!     Get Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret 4K UHD here!

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit. This title arrives on Blu-ray in both standard and deluxe editions as part of the August 25 release slate. Get it here!

Body Snatchers - Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker. Director: Abel Ferrara. Abel Ferrara’s take on the pod-people nightmare comes to 4K UHD, bringing paranoia and alien invasion dread to a new format. Get it here!

Disclosure Day - Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor. Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller arrives on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, including a limited edition SteelBook option. Get it here!

Enemy at the Gates: 25th Anniversary SteelBook - Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud. The World War II sniper thriller gets a 25th anniversary 4K UHD limited edition SteelBook release. Get it here!

Harlan County USA - Director: Barbara Kopple. Criterion brings the landmark labor documentary to 4K UHD and Blu-ray, revisiting the 1970s Kentucky coal miners’ strike with raw urgency and unforgettable access. Get it here!

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Original Series + The Secret of the Sword & Xmas Special - The animated fantasy classic arrives on Blu-ray in a complete-series package with additional specials, because nostalgia apparently has the power of Grayskull. Get it here!

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka - Starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas. Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans. The cult comedy spoof arrives on limited edition 4K UHD, bringing its blaxploitation parody energy to the format. Get it here!

Johnny Handsome - Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman. Director: Walter Hill. Walter Hill’s crime thriller gets a 4K UHD release, following a disfigured criminal whose second chance comes with revenge attached. 

Lady in White - Starring: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco. Director: Frank LaLoggia. The supernatural mystery arrives on 4K UHD, blending ghost-story atmosphere with coming-of-age horror. Get it here!

Little Odessa - Starring: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave. Director: James Gray. Criterion brings James Gray’s crime drama to 4K UHD and Blu-ray, following a hitman whose return home forces old wounds and family tragedy back into focus. Get it here!

Practical Magic - Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing. Director: Griffin Dunne. The beloved witchy romantic fantasy arrives on 4K UHD, including a SteelBook option, just in time for everyone to pretend August is basically Halloween season already. Get it here!

Reacher: Season Three - Starring: Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten. Prime Video’s hit action series gets a Blu-ray release for its third season, bringing Jack Reacher’s latest round of bone-crunching justice to physical media. 

She Rides Shotgun - Starring: Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger. The crime thriller arrives on 4K UHD, following a father and daughter on the run through a dangerous world of violence and survival. 

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - Starring: Pedro Pascal. Director: Dave Filoni. Din Djarin and Grogu make the leap to physical media with DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases, including SteelBook and Beskar Collector’s Edition options. Get it here!

The Audacity: Season One. The first season arrives on Blu-ray as part of the August 25 television release slate. 

The Bubble 3-D - Director: Arch Oboler. The 3-D cult title arrives from Kino Cult, bringing vintage genre spectacle and offbeat sci-fi mystery to collectors. 

The Executioner: Part II - Starring: Christopher Mitchum, Aldo Ray, Antoine John Mottet. Director: James Bryan. The exploitation action title arrives on 4K UHD, adding more grindhouse chaos to the late-August lineup. 

The Jane Austen Book Club - Starring: Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt. Director: Robin Swicord. The literary ensemble dramedy arrives on Blu-ray, following a group whose lives mirror the Jane Austen novels they read together. 

The Saint - Starring: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Šerbedžija. Director: Phillip Noyce. The 1997 action thriller gets a 4K UHD limited edition SteelBook, bringing disguises, espionage and peak Val Kilmer cool back to shelves. Get it here!

The Sheep Detectives. This mystery title arrives on Blu-ray as part of the August 25 physical media lineup. Get it here!

The Stunt Man - Starring: Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey. Director: Richard Rush. The cult classic comes to 4K UHD, blurring movie magic, manipulation and reality on a chaotic film set. Get it here!

The War Wagon - Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel. Director: Burt Kennedy. The western adventure arrives on 4K UHD, pairing John Wayne and Kirk Douglas for robbery, revenge and old-school frontier spectacle. 

Whistle. This title arrives on Blu-ray as part of the August 25 release calendar. Get it here!

Your Name. - Director: Makoto Shinkai. The beloved anime romance returns to Blu-ray, bringing its gorgeous body-swap, time-bending love story back to physical media in standard and SteelBook editions. 

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Creepshow 2 - Starring: Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour. Director: Michael Gornick. The horror anthology sequel arrives on 4K UHD, bringing Stephen King and George A. Romero’s comic-book nightmare energy to collectors. Get it here!

United 93 - Starring: Christian Clemenson, Cheyenne Jackson, David Alan Basche. Director: Paul Greengrass. Paul Greengrass’ intense September 11 drama comes to 4K UHD, revisiting the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 with real-time urgency and restraint. Get it here!

And that is August 2026 on 4K UHD and Blu-ray: Criterion is doing Criterion things, horror collectors are eating, steelbook people are being spiritually attacked, and somehow Talladega Nights, Safe, Mars Attacks!, Nightcrawler, Practical Magic, United 93 and The Mandalorian and Grogu are all part of the same month. Physical media is not dead. It is, in fact, standing in your living room asking where the rest of the shelf space is.

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