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In today’s film news roundup, “Roma” is getting a DVD release, Joaquin Phoenix backs an animal rights documentary, Humanitas announces nominations and “The Wretched” finds a home.

Roma DVD

Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” has become the first Netflix movie to get a Blu-Ray and DVD release, thanks to the Criterion Collection launching a special edition in February.

The release will include five separate documentaries about the creation of the film, and will feature the same 4K master and Dolby Atmos sound that were in the theatrical release. The movie won Academy Awards for Cuaron’s directing and cinematography along with the foreign-language film Oscar.

“Roma” follows Yalitza Aparicio, who plays a live-in housekeeper in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. It became Mexico’s first winner of the Oscar for foreign-language feature. The pic, produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, joined foreign-language movies “Life Is Beautiful,...

Last week we brought you the official one sheet and trailer for Susan Montford's While She Was Out (trailer), now we got our hands on the first batch of official stills from the film hitting limited theaters on December 12th. A suburban housewife (Kim Basinger) is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive. Kim Basinger, Luis Chávez, Erika-Shaye Gair, Luke Gair, Lukas Haas, Jennifer Kitchen, Katie Messina, Craig Sheffer, Ari Solomon, Jamie Starr, Michael Strusievici and Leonard Wu all star in the film produced by Angry Films.

If you head on over to AICN you can check out the world premiere trailer debut for While She Was Out, a new thriller from Anchor Bay starring Kim Basinger. In the film a suburban housewife (Basinger) is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive. Written and directed by Susan Montford, Luis Chávez, Erika-Shaye Gair, Luke Gair, Lukas Haas, Jennifer Kitchen, Katie Messina, Craig Sheffer, Ari Solomon, Jamie Starr, Michael Strusievici and Leonard Wu also star.

IMDB reports that Luis Chávez, Erika-Shaye Gair, Luke Gair, Lukas Haas, Jennifer Kitchen, Katie Messina, Craig Sheffer, Ari Solomon, Jamie Starr, Michael Strusievici and Leonard Wu have all joined Kim Basinger in Angry Films' WHILE SHE WAS OUT, which was written and directed by Susan Montford. In addition, you can check out the first still from the film by reading beyind the break. A suburban housewife (Basinger) is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive. Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) produced the pic.