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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming to home entertainment formats next month. Disney has confirmed that the latest Star Wars movie will be available to buy on digital platforms from March 13, with a physical release and on-demand following on March 27.

The studio has also revealed details of the bonus features that fans can enjoy. They are led by 14 deleted scenes and a two-hour behind-the-scenes documentary titled The Director and the Jedi, which is described as “an intimate journey into the creation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi with writer-director Rian Johnson.” There’s also a new trailer for the home entertainment release–check it out above.

The movie will be available in both 4K and HD, and there will different retailer exclusive versions. While we don’t know what the deleted scenes will be, last week star Mark Hamill suggested that there one cut scene featured Luke Skywalker and Laura Dern’s character of Admiral Holdo.

The list of bonus content is as follows (descriptions via Disney):

• The Director and the Jedi–Go deep behind the scenes with writer-director Rian Johnson on an intimate and personal journey through the production of the movie–and experience what it’s like to helm a global franchise and cultural phenomenon.
• Balance of the Force–Explore the mythology of the Force and why Rian Johnson chose to interpret its role in such a unique way.
• Scene Breakdowns
  – Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle–Get a close-up look at the epic space battle, from the sounds that help propel the action, through the practical and visual effects, to the characters who bring it all to life.
  – Snoke and Mirrors–Motion capture and Star Wars collide as the filmmakers take us through the detailed process of creating the movie’s malevolent master villain.
  – Showdown on Crait–Break down everything that went into creating the stunning world seen in the movie’s final confrontation, including the interplay between real-word locations and visual effects, reimagining the walkers, designing the crystal foxes, and much more.

• Andy Serkis Live! (One Night Only)–Writer-director Rian Johnson presents two exclusive sequences from the movie featuring Andy Serkis’ riveting, raw on-set performance before his digital makeover into Snoke.
• Deleted Scenes–With an introduction and optional commentary by writer-director Rian Johnson.
• Audio Commentary–View the movie with in-depth feature audio commentary by writer-director Rian Johnson.

The Last Jedi was the most successful movie of 2017, with a worldwide box office gross of $1.32 billion. The three month turnaround between the theatrical and home entertainment release is even faster than the four month window that 2015’s The Force Awakens enjoyed, possibly because the next movie in the franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story, hits theaters in May.

In related news, it was announced earlier this month that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will write and produce a new series of Star Wars movies. Disney confirmed that these films will be separate from the current Skywalker saga and the trilogy of movies that Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson is working on.

Battlefield 1 has received another new update, with some players also receiving access to Apocalypse, the game’s fourth DLC expansion, on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The latter introduces a variety of new content, including new maps, weapons, and gadgets.

Early access to Apocalypse is available to everyone who owns the game’s Premium Pass, as well as those who have bought Battlefield 1 Revolution (which consists of the base game and access to all of the DLC expansions). The DLC will be available for purchase individually after two weeks, beginning on March 6. Even if you only own the base game, you’ll still need to download the new update in order to play online. Patch notes for the update have not yet been released, but we’ll report back once we have them.

As for Apocalypse itself, it introduces five new maps. Three of these (River Somme, Caporetto, and Passchendaele) are standard multiplayer maps, whereas the other two (London Calling and Razor’s Edge) are designed specifically for Air Assault, a new aircraft-only game mode. This centers around dogfights but can culminate in a battle between giant Airships.

There are also a variety of new tools as your disposal: six weapons, including the RSC SMG; melee weapons, such as the meat cleaver; gadgets, like the AA Rocket Gun for the Assault class; two bombers, the Hansa Brandenburg GI and the Airco DH10; and a stationary weapon that fires poison gas. Additionally, Apocalypse adds new assignments and cosmetics to unlock, including dog tags, codex entries, ribbons, medals, and so on.

The trailer above briefly showcases much of what’s new in Battlefield 1. This is the last confirmed expansion for the game, though developer DICE has shown no signs of stopping its support for it altogether. Meanwhile, a new Battlefield game has been confirmed for release before the end of 2018, though EA has yet to officially announce any details about it.

The hugely successful reboot of Jumanji is still doing impressive business in theaters, but the ever-busy Dwayne Johnson will soon return to the screen in another spectacular action comedy. Rampage is the big-screen adaptation of the classic video game–it arrives on April 20, and a new international trailer has been released.

This Japanese promo puts the emphasis on the movie’s ridiculous-looking monster action. It also features an introduction from Johnson himself, who makes reference to Japan’s long history of monster movies and has a go at speaking Japanese. Check it out above.

This latest promo follows one released last week, and an earlier trailer that arrived in January. Rampage also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, and Joe Manganiello. It’s directed by Brad Peyton, who also worked with Johnson on the 2015 disaster smash San Andreas.

Rampage was originally released in arcades back in 1986 before being ported to more than a dozen other platforms–it’s appeared on everything from the Commodore 64 to the PS2. It’s also seen a number of sequels produced, though by the time the movie comes out, it will have been more than a decade since the last of these, Total Destruction, was released.

This is one of three movies Johnson has heading to the big screen this year, along with Skyscraper and the wrestling biopic Fighting with My Family–in which he plays himself and serves as executive producer. Rampage smashes into theaters on April 20.