HBO Announces Release Dates of 3 New DVD/Blu-ray Titles

Three of HBO’s current crop of series, Bored To Death, How To Make It In America and Hung, get release dates and specs for DVD and Blu-ray. 

How To Make It In America: The Complete First Season and Hung: The Complete Second Season on September 27th, 2011 and the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Bored to Death: The Complete Second Season on October 4th, 2011.

After the jump, check out press release info for each title.

“Terrific” – New York Post

  

“Irresistible…very funny” – Philadelphia Daily News  

 

  HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA®: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON    

From Producers of Entourage®   

Exclusively on DVD and Blu-ray™ Disc from HBO Home Entertainment® on

September 27th, 2011

Packed with Bonus Content Including Featurettes, Interviews,

Deleted Scenes and More!

 

With an appealing, hip young cast, How To Make It In America: The Complete First Season takes viewers on a high-energy ride with two enterprising twenty-somethings as they hustle their way through New York City’s competitive fashion scene determined to achieve the American Dream. Called “likable and absorbing” (Time Magazine), “with…scenes so finely and yet sharply observed” (Wall Street Journal), this HBO® comedy series explores the fascinating bohemian subculture of the city’s downtown and finds out just what it takes to make it to the big time. Loaded with entertaining bonus features,both the 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray sets will be released on September 27, 2011, for the suggested retail price of $39.98 and $49.99 respectively.

 

After his failed skateboard-deck business goes bust, Ben (Bryan Greenberg, October Road) tries to be the next big thing on the runway.  Along with his friend and business partner Cam (Victor Rasuk,

Lords of Dogtown), they use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition.  With the help of Cam’s cousin Rene (Luis Guzman, Traffic), who is trying to market his own high-energy drink, and their well-connected friend Domingo (Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Grammy® nominated hip hop artist), the burgeoning entrepreneurs set out to make it big, encountering obstacles along the way that will require all their ingenuity to overcome.

Bonus content on the How To Make It In America: The Complete First Season DVD and BD sets include: 

• “The Get By: Making It On The Streets of NYC,” a look at the lives of skateboarders and how they survive and thrive in the Big Apple
• “The Legend of Wilfredo Gomez,” the story of the elusive Gomez featuring interviews with those who have known the man and heard of his legendary exploits.  
• “Hustle Stories,” interviews with cast, crew and guest stars who talk about their own roads to success
• Eight Audio Commentaries featuring actors Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, Lake Bell and Luis Guzmàn,  creator/executive producer Ian Edelman and executive producers Rob Weiss and Julian Farino
• Deleted Scenes

The cast of How To Make It In America also includes Lake Bell (It’s Complicated) as Ben’s ex-girlfriend Rachel; Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope) as Rachel’s boss Edie, an eccentric interior designer; Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight’s Tale) as Gingy, Ben and Cam’s artsy friend; and Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie) as David Kaplan, a successful hedge fund manager and high school friend of Ben’s.  The series is executive produced by Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Stephen Levinson, Emmy® nominee Rob Weiss, series creator Ian Edelman, Emmy® nominated director Julian Farino, Jada Miranda and Mark Wahlberg.

“…has distinguished itself as the most topical fictional program on television.”  – The New York Times 

HUNG®: The Complete Second Season   

 

Exclusively on DVD and Blu-ray Disc from HBO Home Entertainment® 

On September 27, 2011

 

DVD and BD Versions Packed with Bonus Content Including a Behind-the-Scenes Featurette, Deleted Scenes and Talent Commentaries

In its debut, Hung became a breakout hit and was declared “HBO’s best new comedy” by The New York Times.  The second season expertly built on this momentum “layering on even more heart, smarts and danger” (Red Eye), for a “fresher…more textured”(The Washington Post.com) making it one of the networks most watched shows.  Now fans can catch up when Hung: The Complete Second Season comes to stores on September 27, 2011.  The two-disc DVD and Blu-ray Disc sets include all 10 episodes and bonus materials for the suggested retail price of $39.98 and $49.99 respectively.     

Hung follows the travails of Ray Drecker, a well-endowed former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach.  In this season, Ray, and his unlikely pimp Tanya, have taken on slick “life coach” Lenore Bernard as co-pimp, devastating Tanya in the process. With Lenore pushing a debonair version of hooker Ray on her upscale clients, Tanya wants to prove she has the “right stuff” when it comes to being a successful – and far more ethical – pimp than Lenore.  Meanwhile, Ray finds his feelings for his ex-wife Jessica rekindled.

     

Hung: The Complete Second Season on DVD and BD includes a host of entertaining bonus features including “Hung – Inside the Series” a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the second season, deleted scenes and five audio commentaries with series creators/executive producers Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, co-executive producer/writer Angela Robinson and writers Brett C. Leonard, Julia Brownell and Kyle Peck.

The series stars Thomas Jane (The Punisher,*61 from HBO) as Ray Drecker and Jane Adams (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) as Tanya Skagle, both of whom received Golden Globe® nominations for their roles; Anne Heche (Men in Trees) as Ray’s ex-wife, Jessica Haxon; Eddie Jemison (Ocean’s Thirteen) as Jessica’s successful husband Ronnie; Sianoa Smit-McPhee (As the Bell Rings) as Ray’s daughter Darby; and Charlie Saxton (The Lovely Bones) as Ray’s son Damon.

“Hilarious” – New York Magazine

 

“Grade A” – Entertainment Weekly

  

Bored to Death®: The Complete Second Season 

New Cases. No Clue.

DVD and Blu-ray Released Exclusively from HBO Home Entertainment®
on October 4, 2011  

  

Based on the Semi-Autobiographical Musings of Eclectic Author Jonathan Ames,

DVD and BD Formats Include Hilarious, Never-Before-Seen Bonus Features

 

Praised as “another gem unearthed by HBO” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “flat-out inspired comedy” (The Wall Street Journal), the second season of Bored to Death keeps the laughs coming as Jonathan Ames, a noir fiction-obsessed writer who moonlights as a private eye, continues to deal with the mounting mishaps that befall his life.  Loaded with entertaining bonus features, both the 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray sets of Bored to Death: The Complete Second Season will be released on October 4, 2011, for the suggested retail price of $39.98 and $49.99 respectively.    

This season, Ames (Jason Schwartzman) has recently finished his second novel (which remains unpublished) and decides to augment his meager income by becoming a creative-writing teacher, while also taking on new, even more desperate clients.  With his continuing misadventures alongside his henpecked friend Ray (Zach Galifianakis) and eccentric boss George (Ted Danson), how he solves anything is a mystery.

Bored to Death: The Complete Second Season on DVD and BD contain hysterical bonus materials that give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at Ames’s amusing and quirky world. Features include hilarious never-before-seen deleted scenes, outtakes, “Inside the Episodes” segments, and five audio commentaries featuring Schwartzman, Danson, writer/series creator Jonathan Ames, director Michael Lehmann and director/consulting producer Alan Taylor.

  

Guest stars this season include Emmy® nominee Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live), Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Kevin Bacon (HBO’s Taking Chance), Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Oliver Platt (Frost/Nixon), John Hodgman (The Daily Show) and Oscar® winner Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck).

The Emmy® Award-winning series is the brainchild of Guggenheim Fellowship-winning author Jonathan Ames (The Double Life is Twice as Good), whose fascination with noir writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett led him to write a short story in 2007 that became the basis for the show. Ames also serves as executive producer and writer of the show.