April Planner

1 Disney’s The Pirate Fairy, Dragon Ball Z: Season 3 and 1963 monster mashup King Kong vs. Godzilla are out on disc today. Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy offers the latest visual marvels, through April 6. (futurefilmfestival.org) 4

Prepare for a patriotic action spectacle as Disney releases Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. 5- 10

Check out the latest in broadcast tech at NAB Show in Las Vegas. (nabshow. com) 8

This week’s DVD/ Bluray options include The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Sofia the First: The Floating Palace and Naruto Shippuden: Uncut Box Set 18. 7- 10

Pack some comfortable shoes for the MIPTV content market in Cannes — you’ll thank us later. (miptv.com) 11

Blu, Jewel and their brood are back in Blue Sky’s Rio 2, directed by Carlos Saldanha. 13

Happy birthday to Disney Legend Glen Keane! 14

Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo celebrates his 60th today. 15 Opt for Toonbox’s The Nut Job, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty or One Piece: Collection 9 on disc. 18 Johnny Depp stars as an artificial intelligence researcher whose activities set antitechnology extremists against him in Wally Pfister’s Transcendence. Sergio Aragones, Jim Lee and Katie Cook are among the special guests attending WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif., this weekend. (comiccon.org/wca) 22- 25

FMX offers panels and discussions with animation, vfx and gaming majors this week (fmx.de) in Stuttgart, where you can also catch the Festival of Animated Film through April 27. (itfs.de) 29

The end of the month offers the Space Battleship Yamato movie, Star Trek: Enterprise - Season Four and Betty Boop - The Essential Collection, Vol. 3 on DVD or Bluray.