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James McAvoy stars in "Split" and Sennie Nanua co-stars in "The Girl with All the Gifts," both available on Blu-ray.
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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2017 file photo, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia. Federal authorities have expanded a bribery case against Williams but say they don’t plan to delay the scheduled May 31 trial. Williams remains in the $175,000-a-year job but has a deputy oversee legal matters because his law license is suspended. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery speaks during a news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. During the Q&A session, Montgomery was asked about the recent arrest of Aaron Juan Saucedo in connection with a series of unsolved murders in Arizona. For more than a year, Phoenix police were stumped by a string of killings in which a shooter stalked victims after dark and gunned them down as they stood outside their homes or sat in their cars. Saucedo now faces 26 felony counts of homicide, aggravated assault and drive-by-shooting for 12 shootings that took place between August 2015 and July 2016. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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Rachel Palermo, widow of Thomas Palermo, reads a brief statement to the media after a parole hearing of Heather Cook, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Jessup, Md. Cook, a former Episcopal bishop who struck and killed cyclist Thomas Palermo in Baltimore while driving drunk, will remain in prison after the Maryland Parole Commission rejected her plea for early release. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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FILE - This photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department shows Bishop Heather Cook. The former Episcopal bishop who struck and killed a cyclist in Baltimore while driving drunk will remain in prison after the Maryland Parole Commission on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, rejected her plea for early release. Cook pleaded guilty in October 2015 to manslaughter, drunken driving and leaving the scene. She is serving a seven-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/ Baltimore Police Department, File)
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This April 2015 photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago shows several guns that were stolen by street gangs from a train stopped in Chicago. The guns had been en route from New Hampshire weapon maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. to Spokane, Wash. The photo entered into evidence in the April 2017 trial of one suspect in the case. Norfolk Southern that operates a rail yard in a high-crime part of Chicago where thieves stole 150 guns in recent years says in a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin it has implemented new measures to thwart gun thieves. (U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago via AP)
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Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questions former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 8, 2017, during the subcommittee's on Crime and Terrorism hearing: "Russian Interference in the 2016 United States Election." Committee ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., listens at right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows convicted murderer William Morva, at the Greenville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Morva was convicted in 2008 for the murders of three people, is scheduled to be executed on July 6. (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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Sierra Lamar's father Steve, center, speaks in front of Sierra's mother Marlene, at left, and sister Danielle, right, after the conviction of Antolin Garcia-Torres outside of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. A jury found Garcia-Torres guilty of the killing and kidnapping of Sierra LaMar in 2012. Sierra disappeared on her way to a school bus stop near her home in Morgan Hill. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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The prosecution team, including lead prosecutor David Boyd, center at podium, make a statement outside of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice after the conviction of Antolin Garcia-Torres, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. A jury found Garcia-Torres guilty of the killing and kidnapping of Sierra LaMar in 2012. Sierra disappeared on her way to a school bus stop near her home in Morgan Hill. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Marlene LaMar, center, mother of Sierra LaMar, flanked by Sierra's father Steve LaMar, left, and sister Danielle, right, cries as she makes a statement following the conviction of Antolin Garcia-Torres outside of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. A jury found Garcia-Torres guilty of the killing and kidnapping of Sierra LaMar in 2012. Sierra disappeared on her way to a school bus stop near her home in Morgan Hill. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Assistant District Attorney Patrick Bomberg responds to the judge's query, after her decision, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River, Mass. Judge Susan Garsh ruled Tuesday, May 9, 2017, that former NFL star Aaron Hernandez's conviction in a 2013 murder can be erased because he died before his appeal was heard. Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell last month while serving a life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction in the death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Citing legal precedent, Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh vacates the first-degree murder conviction of Aaron Hernandez, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Fall River, Mass. Judge Garsh ruled Tuesday, that Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez's conviction in a 2013 murder can be erased because he died before his appeal was heard. Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell last month while serving a life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction in the death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Sheneah Jenkins, left, Odin Lloyd's girlfriend, and his sister Olivia Ward, center, react to the judge's ruling Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River, Mass. Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, right, sits stoically, right. Citing legal precedent, Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez killed himself last month inside his prison cell five days after he was acquitted in a 2012 double murder. He was serving a life sentence in Lloyd's murder. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Sheneah Jenkins, left, Odin Lloyd's girlfriend, and his sister Olivia Ward, center, react to the judge's ruling Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River, Mass. Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, right, sits stoically, right. Citing legal precedent, Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez killed himself last month inside his prison cell five days after he was acquitted in a 2012 double murder. He was serving a life sentence in Lloyd's murder. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Sheneah Jenkins, left, Odin Lloyd's girlfriend, and his sister Olivia Ward, center, react to the judge's ruling Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River, Mass. Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, right, sits stoically, right. Citing legal precedent, Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez killed himself last month inside his prison cell five days after he was acquitted in a 2012 double murder. He was serving a life sentence in Lloyd's murder. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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This undated identification photo released on the Maine State Police's Sex Offender Registry website shows Donald Beauchene, being held at the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta, Maine. Beauchene was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the 1969 killing of Bernardine Israelson in Portland. Lawyers for Beauchene were in court on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, appealing his denial of discharge from the state mental health hospital. (Maine State Police via AP)
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FILE – In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Cleveland police officers stand watch during an NBA basketball game between the Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. A federal judge overseeing an agreement to overhaul Cleveland's police department has been asked not to require officers to wear body cameras while moonlighting, in a May 5, 2017, court filing by city attorneys. None of the 630 officers approved for secondary employment volunteered to wear body cameras while moonlighting as part of a proposed pilot program, according to the court filing. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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This photo and sketch combo shows an undated photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office of Aaron Saucedo, left, and a July 2016 composite sketch provided by the Phoenix Police Department showing a suspect in a series of fatal shootings in Phoenix. Saucedo, a 23-year-old Phoenix man arrested in a string of 2016 serial killings that terrorized several Phoenix neighborhoods, is proclaiming his innocence. The former city bus driver declared "I'm innocent" during a brief court hearing Monday, May 8, 2017. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Phoenix Police Department via AP)
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Monroe County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Michael G. Roehrig gives his opening remarks to the jury as Daniel Clay is on trial for the death of Chelsea Bruck of Maybee, Mich., in front of 38th Circuit Judge Daniel S. White at the Monroe County Courthouse Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Behind on display is where Chelsea Bruck's body was found in Ash Township back in 2015. Clay, charged in the death of Bruck whose body was found months after she disappeared from a huge Halloween party in 2014 in southeastern Michigan. (AP Photo/The Monroe News, Tom Hawley)
