Aug. 26 Home Entertainment Releases Include ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ on Disc

John Latchem

August 26, 2025

The slate of new home entertainment releases for Aug. 26 includes the live-action Lilo & Stitch, Karate Kid: Legends and Materialists on Blu-ray, and Locked on DVD.

The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action Lilo & Stitch will be released on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and 4K Ultra HD Aug. 26. The film, a reimagining of the 2002 animated classic of the same name, tells the story of a lonely Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong) who befriends a runaway alien named Stitch, who is being pursued by alien agents and the CIA. The live-action Lilo & Stitch was directed by Oscar-nominated Dean Fleischer Camp and also stars Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis and Maia Kealoha. The film earned $421.8 million at the domestic box office and $1 billion worldwide. Read a review here.

Karate Kid: Legends is available on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc Aug. 26 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In the latest addition to the “Karate Kid” franchise, when kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang) relocates to New York City with his mother to attend a prestigious new school, he finds solace in a new friendship with a classmate and her father. But his newfound peace is short-lived after he attracts unwanted attention from a formidable local karate champion. Driven by a desire to defend himself, Li embarks on a journey to enter the ultimate karate competition. Guided by the wisdom of his kung fu teacher Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and the legendary Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), Li merges their unique styles to prepare for an epic martial arts showdown. A Walmart exclusive “Karate Kid: Legends 4K UHD + Collectible Skateboard” package includes Karate Kid: Legends on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and digital and a limited-edition collectible skateboard. The film earned $52.5 million at the domestic box office.

An Amazon-exclusive limited-edition “4K UHD + Blu-ray Ultimate 6-Movie Collection” includes all six “Karate Kid” films on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and digital, hours of new and archival special features — including the complete 1989 animated television series (in SD) — and exclusive collectibles, all within pop-up packaging with a movie sound chip.

A24’s romantic comedy Materialists will be released on Blu-ray Disc Aug. 26 from Alliance Home Entertainment. In the film, a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. The film stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans. The film earned $36.5 million at the domestic box office.

Paramount Home Entertainment will release the horror thriller Locked on DVD Aug. 26. From producer Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Drag Me to Hell) comes a horror-thriller where luxury becomes deadly. When Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William (Anthony Hopkins), a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear. It earned $1.6 million at the domestic box office.

The wartime drama Vermiglio arrives on Blu-ray Disc and DVD release Aug. 26 from Criterion’s Janus Contemporaries. The film takes place in a remote Alpine village, where a strict schoolteacher’s family undergoes a profound shift when a mysterious Sicilian soldier arrives fleeing the front lines of World War II. As the seasons change, the family’s three very different daughters will each find their lives transformed. The film earned $216,786 during a limited U.S. theatrical run, and $3.95 million worldwide.

Well Go USA will release the Japanese action comedy Baby Assassins 3 on Blu-ray Disc and through digital retailers Aug. 26. Released in theaters as Baby Assassins: Nice Days, the third installment of the “Baby Assassins” franchise, Chisato (Akari Takaishi) and Mahiro (Saori Izawa) are at the apex of their skills when they take on a brutally nihilist freelance killer who aims to take their place atop the assassin food chain. The cast also includes Sôsuke Ikematsu, Atsuko Maeda, Atomu Mizuishi, Tomo Nakai, Tsubasa Tobinaga, while Mondo Otani, Kaibashira, karma and Mr. Bunny make their feature debuts. The film is directed by Sakamoto Yugo, with stunts by Sonomura Kensuke.

Cinephobia Releasing makes Brute 1976 from director Marcel Walz’s (That’s A Wrap, Pretty Boy) and writer Joe Knetter (George A. Romero’s Twilight of the Dead) available for digital sellthrough and VOD rental release Aug. 26. An homage to 1970s horror cult classics The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, Brute 1976 takes place in 1976, when Raquel and her girlfriend have car trouble and break down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. At the same time, a group of people are in the desert for a photoshoot. Soon, they stumble upon an abandoned town where a family of masked psychopaths reside. Brute 1976 stars Adriane McLean (Miracles of Christmas), Sarah French (Blind), Gigi Gustin (The Retaliators), Dazelle Yvette (Garden of Eden) and Adam Bucci (“NCIS: Los Angeles”). From production company Neon Noir, Walz, Knetter and Sarah French produced, with Dirk Schürmann and Tobias Schürman serving as executive producers. Robert Kern III (Prey, Creepypasta) provided makeup effects, and Marcus Friedlander (The Getback) served as director of photography.

A double feature of the horror flicks Attack of the Corn Zombies and Return of the Corn Zombies will be released on Blu-ray Disc Aug. 26 from BayView Entertainment via the Allied Vaughn manufacture-on-demand service. In Attack of the Corn Zombies, it’s 1969 and infected corn leads to an outbreak of the walking dead in a small Midwest town. With nowhere to run, a group of friends and family must fight their way through the hordes of the undead to survive. In Return of the Corn Zombies, in a world ravaged by a corn virus that creates zombies, a band of survivors embarks on a perilous journey. Their destination: Homestead, a sanctuary that promises safety amidst the chaos. Written and co-directed by Steve Herrman and co-directed by Ashley Hefner and Mia Katz, the film stars Lynn Lowry, Magdelena Conway, Mia Katz, Angel Nichole Bradford and Kelsey Livengood.

Shout! Studios Aug. 26 will release City Hunter: Angel Dust, a feature film that is the latest entry in the popular anime action franchise, on Blu-ray Disc in North America only. The latest installment in Ryo Saeba’s crime sweeping adventures will be available in select North American e-commerce stores from Anime Limited, with distribution by Shout! The film, based on Tsukasa Hojo’s popular manga of the same name, boasts the franchise’s signature blend of hard-boiled humor with gritty combat. Produced by the Sunrise studio and directed by Kayuyoshi Takeuchi — with general direction by franchise veteran Kenji Kodama, the original director of the “City Hunter” TV series — Angel Dust reunites voice legends Kamiya Akira (Ryo Saeba) and Ikura Kazue (Kaori Makimura) for what is considered the beginning of the franchise’s epic final chapter. Spanning 35 manga volumes and spawning hit anime series, spin-offs, and live-action adaptations, “City Hunter” is a cultural touchstone. Ryo Saeba is known as City Hunter, the top “sweeper” within the underworld. Based in Shinjuku as a private detective, he and his partner Kaoru Makimura take on a variety of clients. City Hunter: Angel Dust covers their latest case, a request by Angie, a filmmaker, to find her missing cat. Ryo is thrilled by Angie’s beautiful looks while Kaori is thrilled by the hefty reward. Meanwhile, Saeko Nogami of the Metropolitan Police investigates an invention of the biotech company Zoltech — a dark technology that turns soldiers on the battlefield into superhumans. Created at the request of a mysterious underworld organization, this invention is the newest version of Angel Dust, which once almost destroyed Ryo and sent his partner Hideyuki Makimura to his death.

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Slated for Aug. 26 on Blu-ray Disc and DVD from The Criterion Collection is 1999’s Compensation, a portrait of deaf African-Americans and the complexities of love at both ends of the 20th century. In dual performances, Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks play an educated dressmaker and an illiterate migrant in 1910s Chicago, and a resilient graphic artist and an endearing librarian living in the same city eight decades later. The film includes a new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Zeinabu irene Davis, in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Wimmin with a Mission Productions, and in conjunction with the Sundance Institute, with an uncompressed stereo soundtrack, plus English subtitles and intertitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, and English descriptive audio. 

Also arriving Aug. 26 on Blu-ray Disc from Criterion is 2004’s Saving Face. Just as Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a harried young surgical resident, begins a promising romance with the flirtatious dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen), her life is turned upside down when her more traditional Chinese mother (Joan Chen) — unwed and unexpectedly pregnant — moves in with her, forcing both women to confront the generational and cultural barriers that have long troubled their relationship. The film includes a high-definition digital master, approved by director Alice Wu, with a 5.1 surround DTS-HD master audio soundtrack, plus English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. 

The Conjuring, the 2013 New Line Cinema supernatural horror film from filmmaker James Wan, will be available on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on Aug. 26 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. Based on the true-life story, The Conjuring tells the tale of how world-renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. The Conjuring stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) and Patrick Wilson (Insidious) as the Warrens, and Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor as Roger and Carolyn Perron, residents of the house. Joey King, Shanley Caswell, Hayley McFarland, Mackenzie Foy and Kyla Deaver play the Perrons’ five daughters, and Sterling Jerins is the Warrens’ little girl Judy. Rounding out the cast are Marion Guyot as Judy’s grandmother; Steve Coulter as Father Gordan; Shannon Kook as the Warren’s investigative assistant Drew; and John Brotherton as the local law enforcement official skeptical of the Perrons’ claims and the Warrens’ tactics. James Wan (Saw, Insidious) directs from a screenplay by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes (The Reaping).  The film is produced by Tony DeRosa-Grund, Peter Safran and Rob Cowan, with Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers. Reuniting with the director are members of his Insidious creative team, director of photography John R. Leonetti, editor Kirk Morri, costume designer Kristin M. Burke, composer Joseph Bishara and his Saw production designer Julie Berghoff.

The 2018 documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers, the 1968 drama Negatives, the 1978 comedy The Odd Job and the horror collection “High Tension: Four Films by Lamberto Bava” are available on Blu-ray Disc Aug. 26 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

In 1973, Peter Sellers — then at the peak of his box-office power and comedic genius — invited Peter Medak, whose recent smash The Ruling Class, had been nominated for the Palme d’Or and an Oscar, to direct a 17th century pirate epic called Ghost in the Noonday Sun. But with soon-to-be-discovered nightmares that included an unfinished script (re-written by co-star and fellow comedy legend Spike Milligan), rough seas, sinking ships and Sellers’ own wildly erratic behavior, the production became an unprecedented catastrophe. The barely completed film was dumped into very limited release, and the director’s career and spirit were nearly destroyed by the experience. Over four decades later in The Ghost of Peter Sellers, Medak revisits this personal and professional fiasco to search for answers — and possibly redemption.

With his feature film directorial debut Negatives, Hungarian émigré Peter Medak (The Ruling Class, Romeo Is Bleeding) created a provocative U.K. classic and launched one of the most unique careers in cinema history. In the film, when a young couple (Peter McEnery of Entertaining Mr. Sloane and two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson in her film debut) grows bored with their kinky role-play games, they invite an uninhibited photographer (Academy Award nominee Diane Cilento of Tom Jones and The Wicker Man) to come between them. Maurice Denham (Sunday Bloody Sunday) co-stars in the film, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by The British Film Institute. Also included is a bonus disc of the 1963 comedy Sparrows Can’t Sing — starring James Booth (Zulu) and Barbara Windsor (the “Carry On” series) and directed by Joan Littlewood (Oh! What a Lovely War) and assistant directed by Medak — scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal. 

In the 1978 black comedy The Odd Job from director Peter Medak, Graham Chapman — just prior to Life of Brian — stars as happily married Arthur Harris, who becomes suicidal when his wife suddenly leaves him. Unable to complete the task himself, he asks a strange handyman (BAFTA Award winner Sir David Jason of Only Fools and Horses, in a role once intended for Keith Moon) to kill him instead. But when Arthur’s wife comes back, he discovers that his homicidal hire has every intention of finishing the job. Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited), Carolyn Seymour (The Ruling Class), Simon Williams (Jabberwocky), Bill Paterson (“Fleabag”) and Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) co-star in this comedy, now scanned in 2K from Peter Medak’s personal 35mm print. 

In the late ’80s, Lamberto Bava agreed to direct a four-part anthology series for Italian TV under the title “High Tension.” But when executives saw the completed features’ extreme themes and graphic violence, their broadcast was blocked for nearly a decade and they have only existed as grey market bootlegs since. Severin Films now presents their official worldwide Blu-ray premiere in High Tension: Four Films by Lamberto Bava. In the series, Tomas Arana stars as a horror director stalked by evil forces in The Prince of Terror, written by Dardano Sacchetti and featuring grisly FX by Sergio Stivaletti. In The Man Who Wouldn’t Die, adapted from a short story by poliziotteschi novelist Giorgio Scerbanenco, the survivor of a home invasion seeks vengeance. Daria Nicolodi stars in School of Fear, about a student academy with a dark secret. And in the giallo shocker Eye Witness, Barbara Cupisti stars as a blind woman who “sees” a murder. All four films are scanned in 2K from the original camera negatives with Italian and first-time-ever English tracks, plus more than five hours of special features and a soundtrack CD curated by Simon Boswell featuring music from High Tension, The Mask of Satan, Demons 2, Delirium and more.