Mortal Kombat II
June 9, 2026
Newly available titles for home viewing June 9 include Mortal Kombat II digitally, while disc releases include 4K Steelbook sets for The Patriot and Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection.
New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat II will be available for premium digital rental and sale June 9 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. In the latest installment in the blockbuster video game-based movie franchise, the champions — now joined by Johnny Cage himself — are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders. Karl Urban stars as Johnny Cage, alongside Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman, with Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han, and Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi and Scorpion. Director Simon McQuoid returns to helm the follow up to his 2021 cinematic adventure, from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, based on the video game created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. The film is produced by Todd Garner, E. Bennett Walsh, James Wan, Toby Emmerich, and McQuoid, and executive produced by Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Jeremy Slater, Ed Boon and Lawrence Kasanoff. The film has earned $128 million at the global box office. It arrives on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc July 28.
The X4Pictures documentary Looking Up, about a young man overcoming potential blindness to climb El Capitan, will be available June 9 through North American digital retailers such as Prime Video and Fandango at Home, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Looking Up tells the story of Eitan Armon, who at age 20 was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a rare and incurable genetic disease that gradually causes blindness over time. With about 5% of his central vision remaining, Armon decides to learn to rock climb in order to ascend Yosemite’s El Capitan. Refusing to be limited by his visual disability, lets go of everything he can’t control and focuses on what he can. The film takes viewers to a breathtaking portaledge on El Capitan, where Armon camps 1,500 feet above Yosemite Valley, savoring peanut butter and soaking in the view with the limited central vision he has left. The film follows him as he navigates his New York City neighborhood with a white cane, consults with his doctors at the University of Iowa, and explores groundbreaking advancements in stem cell retinal transplantation at the Institute for Vision Research. Along the way, he connects with RP patients at more advanced stages of the disease, discussing positive mindset and the fundamentals of wellness with his professor and mentor Tal Ben Shachar, and developing a relationship with his climbing instructor, Willie Benegas. Looking Up was directed and produced by Elena Neuman, who won the NYWIFT excellence in directing award for the film.
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In anticipation of director Steven Spielberg’s new film Disclosure Day arriving in theaters June 12, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment,
in partnership with Paramount and Sony Pictures, will release a limited-edition boxed set of eight of his previous films available on 4K Ultra HD disc together for the first time. Arriving June 9, Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection will include 1975’s Jaws, 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1982’s E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial, 1993’s Jurassic Park, 1993’s Schindler’s List, 1998’s Saving Private Ryan and 2005’s War of the Worlds, plus more than 25 hours of bonus materials. The 20-disc collection, which is limited to a manufacturing run of just 5,700 units across the U.S. and Canada, offers the films on both 4K and regular Blu-ray Discs plus digital copies. Each film is stored in its own individual Steelbook case within a larger Steelbook library case that includes a numbered certificate of authenticity. The boxed set is available exclusively through Amazon in the U.S. for $199.99, and through Amazon and Gruv in Canada for $274.98.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the 2000 Revolutionary War film The Patriot a limited-edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Steelbook June 9. The two-disc set will include both the theatrical and extended versions of the film on separate 4K discs with Dolby Vision, English Dolby Atmos and English 5.1 sound. From Independence Day director Roland Emmerich and written by Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan), the film stars Mel Gibson as a former war hero in South Carolina in 1776 who is thrust into the American Revolutionary War against England when British soldiers attack his family. The cast also includes Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper, Tcheky Karyo, Rene Auberjonois and Tom Wilkinson. The disc containing the 165-minute theatrical cut also includes commentary with Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin, the featurettes “The Art of War” and “The True Patriots,” and the film’s theatrical trailer. The disc containing the 175-minute unrated version also includes seven deleted scenes with commentary, a visual effects featurette, and conceptual art to film comparisons.
Coming June 9 on Blu-ray Disc from the Criterion Collection is 1979’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty. Mauritanian-French director Med Hondo puts colonialism on trial with a one-of-a-kind musical spectacular set aboard an enormous mock slave ship. The Blu-ray Disc offers the film with a new 4K digital restoration and an uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
The 1995 drama Hollywood Deadbeat will be released on DVD June 9 from MVD Entertainment Group and Whacked Movies. Set in the late 1980s, it’s the story of struggling filmmaker Randy Calhern, whose efforts are met with rejection. He lives in a decaying Hollywood apartment with eccentric characters. His fascination with the Golden Age of movies leads him to visit the cemetery to ask the ghosts for guidance. Drinking leads him to believe his dilutions as the spirits show up to lure him into their world.
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