Tuesday Releases: Eight Grade, Hotel Artemis, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, & Skyscraper

Official Synopsis: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, HOTEL ARTEMIS is an original, high-octane action-thriller starring Jodie Foster as The Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only hospital for criminals. Jodie Foster is joined by an all-star cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, and Dave Bautista.

Official Synopsis: More than six years have passed since Praimfaya has ravaged the planet and killed most of the human race. As Clarke waits to hear from the group on the Ark, or in the bunker, a prison ship drops from the sky. Are they friend or foe? And what do they want?

• The 100: 2018 WonderCon Panel
  
• Season 5 Mythology
  
• Deleted Scenes
  
• Gag Reel

Official Synopsis: Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen (Gottfried John) and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves (Hanna Schygulla), his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. Rarely screened since its popular but controversial initial broadcast, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder’s earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama.

• New 2K digital restoration by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• “Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day”: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion, a 2017 documentary directed by Juliane Lorenz, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller
• New interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by scholar Moira Weigel

New cover by Sam Hadley

Official Synopsis: John Callahan has a lust for life, a talent for off-color jokes, and a drinking problem. When an all-night bender ends in a catastrophic car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up drinking. But when he reluctantly enters treatment -with encouragement from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a charismatic sponsor (Jonah Hill) -Callahan discovers a gift for drawing edgy, irreverent newspaper cartoons that develop an international following and grant him a new lease on life. Based on a true story, this poignant, insightful and often funny drama about the healing power of art is adapted from Callahan’s autobiography and directed by two-time Oscar (R) nominee Gus Van Sant. Jack Black, Carrie Brownstein, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon also star.

• “Inside the Accident” Featurette
  
• “Inside the Hospital” Featurette

Official Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school–the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year before she begins high school.

• Deleted Scenes
• Audio Commentary with Director Bo Burnham and Actress Elsie Fisher
• “You’re Not Alone: Life in Eighth Grade” Featurette
• Music Video ​

Official Synopsis: In Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, join our favorite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else’s vacation at the hotel. It’s smooth sailing for Drac’s Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind.

Audio Commentary with Tartakovsky, Scott Wills (production designer), and Michael Ford (VFX supervisor)

• Tartakovsky reveals that almost every early audience screening wanted to cut the opening scene on the train in Transylvania.

Original Shorts!:

• Puppy!
• Goodnight Mr. Foot

Scary-oke Sing-Alongs

• Dennis Had a Giant Dog
• Monsters Like to Party Down
• Oh These Wolf Pups!

Monster Lullaby Scary-oke Sing Along with Denisovitch!

• Hush Little Monster
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat
• Vlady Had a Little Drac
• Holiday Scary-oke “Deck the Halls”

Behind the Screams: The Voices of Hotel Transylvania 3 (10 minutes):

• Cast featurette including returning players Samberg, Gomez, Spade, Michael-Key, and Aaron Laplante, and newcomers Hahn, Gaffigan, Teigen, Parnell, and Joe Jonas
• Tartakovsky and producer Michelle Murdocca also weigh in on the new and returning cast members and their characters

Meet the New Characters (5 minutes)

• Michael Ford (VFX supervisor), Tartakovsky, and Alan Hawkins (senior animation supervisor) walk viewers through this character featurette
• New characters featured include the gremlins, Captain Ericka, Van Helsing, and The Kraken

Johnny’s Home Movies (5 minutes)

• Johnny (Samberg) and Denisovitch (Blinkoff) look back on old “home movies” to explain the franchise so far

Drac’s Zing-Tastic Read Along (3 minutes):

• Cute little story narrated by the cast that explains Drac’s backstory

Monster Activities – Fun home activities with a Hotel Transylvania theme!

• Plan Your Own Spooktacular Sleepover with Murray Lanterns, Dracustraws, Franken-Pillows, Transylvania Table-Top Shuffleboard, and Blobby Gelatin
• Mavis & Drac Make-Up Tutorial – Just in time for Halloween, here’s how to look like your favorite Hotel Transylvania characters!
• Creating Drac: Designing the Character – Tartakovsky goes through a drawing tutorial of Drac’s design, including his coffin-shaped head, animated cape, and a look at early concept art. Animation Process – A basic walkthrough of animation itself and the specific style used for Hotel Transylvania.
• Watermelon Jack O’Lantern – Video tutorial swapping a summer fruit for a fall favorite, with bonus watermelon-lemonade.

“I See Love” Dance Party Dance Along (3 minutes)

Lyric Videos

• “It’s Party Time”
• “I See Love”
• “Float”
• “Seavolution” by Tiësto
• “Mommy, My Hero”

More Hotel T

• Trailers for Hotel Transylvania, Hotel Transylvania 2 and the mobile game
  

Official Synopsis: A Prayer Before Dawn is the remarkable true story of Billy Moore, a young English boxer incarcerated in two of Thailand’s most notorious prisons. He is quickly thrown into a terrifying world of drugs and gang violence, but when the prison authorities allow him to take part in the Muay Thai boxing tournaments, he realizes this might be his chance to get out. Billy embarks on a relentless, action-packed journey from one savage fight to the next, stopping at nothing to do whatever he must to preserve his life and regain his freedom. Shot in a an actual Thai prison with a cast of primarily real inmates, A Prayer Before Dawn is a visceral, thrilling journey through an unforgettable hell on earth.

• “Locked Inside the Walls: Making A Prayer Before Dawn” Featurette
  
• “Billy Moore: In His Own Words” Featurette

Official Synopsis: Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary’s SKYSCRAPER as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building…above the fire line.

• Includes Blu-ray, DVD and a digital copy of Skyscraper (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
• Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Rawson Marshall Thurber
• Extended Scenes with Commentary by Director Rawson Marshall Thurber
• Dwayne Johnson: Embodying a Hero Inspiration
• Opposing Forces
• Friends No More
• Kids in Action
• Pineapple Pitch
• Feature Commentary by Director Rawson Marshall Thurber