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Full details of the Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray release have been unveiled.

Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have confirmed a nine-disc Blu-ray collection in widescreen with 6.1 DTS Surround Sound. It will be released on September 12 internationally and September 16 in North America.

The collection includes the following:

Disc One – Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
Disc Two – Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
Disc Three – Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Disc Four – Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
Disc Five – Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
Disc Six – Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
(Discs one to six feature audio commentaries)

Disc Seven – New – Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III
Disc Eight – New – Star Wars Archives: Episodes IV-VI
(Discs seven and eight include deleted, extended and alternate scenes; prop, maquette and costume turnarounds; matte paintings and concept art; supplementary interviews with cast and crew a flythrough of the Lucasfilm Archives and more)

Disc Nine – The Star Wars Documentaries
Including:
New – Star Warriors (2007, Colour, Apx. 84 Minutes)
New – A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later (2010, Colour, Apx. 25 Minutes)
New – Star Wars Spoofs (2011, Colour, Apx. 91 Minutes)
The Making of Star Wars (1977, Colour, Apx. 49 Minutes)
The Empire Strikes Back: SPFX (1980, Colour, Apx. 48 Minutes)
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983, Colour, Apx. 48 Minutes)
Anatomy of a Dewback (1997, Colour, Apx. 26 Minutes)
Star Wars Tech (2007, Colour, Apx. 46 Minutes)

Today’s announcement was timed to coincide with ‘Star Wars Day’, with fans of the series posting the movie pun “May The 4th Be With You” on Twitter throughout the day.

The latest entry in the long-running The Fast & The Furious franchise has topped the US box office in its opening weekend, becoming the highest April debut ever in the process.

Fast Five took an estimated $83.6 million, putting it firmly in first place ahead of last week’s box office topper Rio, which took $14.4 million.

The record-breaking opening of Fast Five makes it the highest debuting entry in the franchise so far, and Universal’s biggest debut of all time.

Madea’s Big Happy Family falls to third place this weekend taking $10 million, while the Robert Pattinson-led romantic drama Water for Elephants took $9.1 million.

Rounding out the top five films this weekend is Disney’s teen film Prom, which opened to only $5 million.

This week’s US box office top ten in full (studio estimates):
1. (-) Fast Five – $83,600,000
2. (1) Rio – $14,400,000
3. (2) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family – $10,050,000
4. (3) Water for Elephants – $9,125,000
5. (-) Prom – $5,000,000
6. (-) Hoodwinked Too! – $4,100,000
7. (7) Soul Surfer – $3,300,000
8. (9) Insidious – $2,680,000
9. (4) Hop – $2,550,000
10. (10) Source Code – $2,530,000