For the period ending September 29, 2017: New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

For the period ending September 29, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

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4 Digital Media

09/26/17 — Released Cabin 28 and Gaelic King

Acorn Media

09/26/17 — Released Janet King: Series Three - Playing Advantage (3 disc set) and Line of Duty: Series 4 (2 disc set)

Alpha Video (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Behold the Man (aka: Golgotha) (French), Drugs: The Pit of Despair (4 short films: Drug Addiction, Subject: Narcotics, Narcotics: Pit of Despair, The Mind-Benders: LSD and the Hallucinogens), Empire of the Apes, Forbidden Cinema, Volum 20, Hal Roach's Rascals, Volume 2 (8 silent short films: One Terrible Day (1922), The Big Show (1923), A Pleasant Journey (1923), Circus Fever (1925), Monkey Business (1926), Thundering Fleas (1926), Uncle Tom’s Uncle (1926), Shivering Spooks (1926)), His First Flame (silent-1927), Know Your Enemy: Japan, Leon Errol Collection, Volume 3 (6 short films: One Live Ghost, Rented Riot, His Pest Friend, Radio Runaround, Wedtime Stories, Girls Girls Girls), Lost TV of the 50s, Volume 5 (Robert Montgomery Presents: Harvest, Robert Montgomery Presents: The Sheffield Story), Miami Undercover (4 episodes), Of One Blood, Passion (silent-1920), Rare Western Double Feature (2 film set: The Phantom Cowboy, Circle Canyon) and Rediscovered Comedies of Edgar Kennedy #5 (10 short films)

American Leather Records

09/26/17 — Released Legacy of Dysfunction: Poison Idea

Anon Trendz

09/26/17 — Released Tiyaan (Malayalam)

Artsploitation Films

10/17/17 — Sets Red Christmas (ARR of 53 days; box office: $1,550)

Bayview Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Callanetics Extreme and Callanetics Pure

Budo Videos

09/26/17 — Released Combat Hapkido, Kajukenbo Modern Concepts, Kyusho Sanchin Kata, Volume 1, Lameco Eskrima Doble Baston, Muay Boran #2: Mae Mai and Toyama Ryu Batto Jutsu

Championship Videos

09/26/17 — Released Bruce Weber: Rebounding Drills & Last-Second Plays

Cinedigm Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Greatest American Hero: The Complete Collection (9 disc set) and UnMiracle

Cinema Guild

09/26/17 — Released Death of Louis XIV (French) (ARR of 179 days; box office: $43,635)

Covenant Communications, Inc.

09/26/17 — Released Carthage

Dark Entity Music, LLC

09/26/17 — Released Red Net

Displacement Partners, LLC (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Displacement

DreamScape Media, LLC

09/26/17 — Released Interstates

E1 Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Downtime and Lake Fear 2: Swamp

EM3, LLC

09/26/17 — Released Masterclass Samurai Arts: Koshi and Shizumi - The Principals of Kihon, Mr. Mook Jong: Wooden Dummy, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (3 disc set) and Mr. Mook Jong: Wooden Dummy, Volumes 4, 5 and 6 (3 disc set)

EWTN

09/26/17 — Released Message of Fatima: The 5th Apparation

Eagle Rock Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at Fonda Theatre 2015 (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Eastern Star

09/26/17 — Released Crusher Joe: The Complete OVA Series, Project A-Ko #2, Project A-Ko #3, Project A-Ko #4 and Soul Link: Complete TV Series Collection (2 disc set)

Excel Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Love Kennedy (ARR of 116 days; box office: $402,207)

Film Movement

09/26/17 — Released In Country, Bite Size, Documented (ARR of 1,234 days; box office: $30,662), Joseph W. Sarno Retrospective Series (2 film set: All the Sins of Sodom, Vibrations) and Sign Painters

Films Around the World, Inc. (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Cinderella, Darkness Into Light: Guadalupe Mother of All Mexico, Kiss Me Kate, Love Affair, Tú Y Yo (Spanish language version of Love Affair) and When the War was Over

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Rock and a Hard Place

Hallmark Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Just The Way You Are

Hallmark Entertainment (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Harvest Moon and October Kiss

IMDFilms, LLC

11/21/17 — Sets Christian Dreadful, Grasslands, Noogies and Streets of Harvest

Icarus Films

11/07/17 — Sets Black is the Color (aka: The Color of Art)

Kino Lorber

09/26/17 — Released Cyborg 2087, Dimension 5, Killer Barbys (Spanish), Long Riders: Special Edition (2 disc set), Moonshine County Express, OSS 117: Five Film Collection (5 film set: OSS 117 Is Unleashed, OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok, OSS 117: Mission For a Killer, OSS 117: Mission to Tokyo, OSS 117: Double Agent) (French) (3 disc set), Pop Aye (Thai) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $67,637), Running Scared and Space Camp

Kozmo Magic

09/26/17 — Released Garret Thomas: Stand Up Monte Expansion Pack

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Founders

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (Mandarin) and Taken: Season One (3 disc set)

11/14/17 — Sets Wind River (ARR of 102 days; box office: $31,645,630)

11/21/17 — Sets Hitman's Bodyguard (ARR of 95 days; box office: $73,356,701)

MHz Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Blue Eyes (4 disc set), Camilla Lackberg: The Preacher, The Stonecutter and The Stranger (3 disc set), Inspector Winter (3 disc set) and Paris: The Great Saga (2 disc set)

MIG Music

11/03/17 — Sets Richard Thompson: Live at Rockpalast -1983, 1984 (2 DVD/3 CD Combo Pack)

MPI Home Video

09/26/17 — Released It Stains the Sands Red and Stakeland Collection (2 film set: Stake Land, Stake Land 2)

Magnolia Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released 2:22 (ARR of 88 days; box office: $395)

Marshall Publishing

09/26/17 — Released Lots and Lots of Animal Stories for Kids, Volume 2, Lots and Lots of Animal Stories for Kids, Volume 3, Lots and Lots of Animal Stories for Kids, Volume 4, Lots and Lots of Animal Stories for Kids, Volume 5 and Lots and Lots of Animal Stories for Kids, Volume 6

Network Ireland

09/26/17 — Released Trafficked (aka: Capital Letters)

PBS Direct

09/26/17 — Released Big Pacific (2 disc set) and Life on Parole

PR Studios/GI Studios

09/26/17 — Released Monster Prince, Volume 2 (4 episodes)

Paramount Home Media

10/24/17 — Adds Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (ARR of 88 days; box office: $3,496,795)

12/12/17 — Adds Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Chapters (2 disc set)

Passion River

09/26/17 — Released My Name is Water

SRS Cinema

09/26/17 — Released Frames of Fear

Severin Films, LLC

09/26/17 — Released Devil's Honey (Italian)

Shout! Factory

09/26/17 — Released Chuck Norris: Triple Threat (3 film set: Missing in Action, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, Braddock: Missing in Action 3), Halo: Nightfall, Hype: Collector's Edition, Kuu Kuu Harajuku: Super Kawaii, Ned and Stacey: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Paper Chase: Season Three (3 disc set) and Queen of the Desert

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released ABC of Love (silent-1919) and Which Shall it Be (silent-1924)

SONY Music

09/26/17 — Released David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii (2 disc set)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

09/26/17 — Released Dwelling

Stow Town Records

09/26/17 — Released Tim Lovelace: Living in a Coffee World

TLA Releasing

09/26/17 — Released Furious Desires (Italian)

TML Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Triumph: A Night of Triumph – Live and Triumph: Live at the US Festival

T-Series

09/26/17 — Released Sounds of Bollywood #24

Terry D. Films

09/26/17 — Released Coyote

Thai Duong Productions

09/26/17 — Released Nguoi Tu Te (15 disc set)

The Gioi Sao Online

09/26/17 — Released Quan Bao: So Tinh Ta Dang Do

The Orchard (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Boomtown, In the Radiant City and Lane 1974

Thomas Nelson Productions

09/26/17 — Released John Eldredge: All Things New

Tricoast Studios (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

09/26/17 — Released Channel Zero: Candle Cove - Season One (2 disc set)

10/17/17 — Sets Justice (ARR of 32 days; box office: $2,154)

10/24/17 — Sets Holiday Inn: 75th Anniversary Edition

11/07/17 — Sets Champion (ARR of 172 days; box office: $175,232) and Ingrid Goes West (ARR of 88 days; box office: $2,978,682)

11/14/17 — Sets Bob Hope: The Ultimate Collection (21 film set: The Big Broadcast of 1938, College Swing, Give Me a Sailor, Thanks for the Memory, Never Say Die, The Cat and the Canary, Road to Singapore, The Ghost Breakers, Road to Zanzibar, Caught in the Draft, Nothing but the Truth, Louisiana Purchase, Star Spangle Rhythm, My Favorite Blonde, Road to Morocco, Road to Utopia, Monsieur Beaucaire, Variety Girl, Where There's Life, The Paleface, Sorrowful Jones) (10 disc set) and Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You

11/21/17 — Sets Beach Rats (ARR of 88 days; box office: $393,320) and Birth of the Dragon (ARR of 88 days; box office: $6,895,695)

11/28/17 — Sets I Do … Until I Don't (ARR of 88 days; box office: $279,263) and Logan Lucky (ARR of 102 days; box office: $27,469,870)

VIZ Media

09/26/17 — Released Naruto Shippuden #32 (2 disc set)

Vertical Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released 6 Days and Layover

Virgil Films & Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Risk (ARR of 144 days; box office: $200,131)

Vision Video

09/26/17 — Released Greatest Miracle and Touch

VIZ Media

09/26/17 — Released Naruto Shippuden #32 (2 disc set)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

09/26/17 — Released Mickey Mouse: Merry & Scary

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Shameless: The Complete Seventh Season (3 disc set)

10/24/17 — Sets Annabelle: Creation (ARR of 74 days; box office: $101,104,430)

XLrator Media (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Patch of Fog and Salt and Fire

YRF Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Qaidi Band (Hindi) (2 disc set)

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AGFA

11/21/17 — Sets Violent Years/Anatomy of a Psycho

Aniplex of America

09/26/17 — Released Occultic;Nine, Volume 1

Arrow Video

09/26/17 — Released Legend of the Holy Drinker (Italian) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Cinema Guild

09/26/17 — Released Death of Louis XIV (French)

Dark Entity Music, LLC

09/26/17 — Released Red Net

Duke Video USA

09/26/17 — Released Le Mans: Official Review 2017

Eagle Rock Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at Fonda Theatre 2015 (Blu-ray/CD Combo Pack)

Eastern Star

09/26/17 — Released Kaiba: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Excel Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Love Kennedy

Film Movement

09/26/17 — Released Joseph W. Sarno Retrospective Series (2 film set: All the Sins of Sodom, Vibrations)

FUNimation

09/26/17 — Released Dance with Devils (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Hyouka, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Joker Game (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Puzzles and Dragons X, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Meatball Machine (Japanese), Meatball Machine: Kodoku (Japanese) and Ramblin' Freak

Kino Lorber

09/26/17 — Released Cyborg 2087, Dimension 5, Killer Barbys (Spanish), Long Riders: Special Edition (2 disc set), OSS 117: Five Film Collection (5 film set: OSS 117 Is Unleashed, OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok, OSS 117: Mission For a Killer, OSS 117: Mission to Tokyo, OSS 117: Double Agent) (French) (3 disc set) and Space Camp

Lionsgate

09/26/17 — Released Taken: Season One (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

11/14/17 — Sets Wind River (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

11/21/17 — Sets Hitman's Bodyguard (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MPI Home Video

09/26/17 — Released It Stains the Sands Red and Stakeland Collection (2 film set: Stake Land, Stake Land 2)

Magnolia Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released 2:22

PBS Direct

09/26/17 — Released Big Pacific (2 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

10/24/17 — Released Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Shout! Factory

09/26/17 — Released After Midnight, Hype: Collector's Edition, Queen of the Desert, Quiet Place in the Country (Italian), Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

SONY Music

09/26/17 — Released David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii and David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii (2 Blu-ray/2 CD Combo Pack)

Tempe Video

09/26/17 — Released Dead Next Door: Collector's Edition (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

09/26/17 — Released Mune: Guardian of the Moon (French) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

11/07/17 — Sets Ingrid Goes West (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

11/21/17 — Sets Beach Rats and Birth of the Dragon (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

11/28/17 — Sets Logan Lucky (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

VEI

09/26/17 — Released Diagnosis Murder: Season 5 (4 disc set)

Video Artists International

09/26/17 — Released Annie Get Your Gun

                 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/03/17 — Sets Justice League: The New Frontier - Commemorative Edition (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

10/10/17 — Sets Leftovers: The Complete Third Season (2 disc set)

10/17/17 — Sets Batman v Two-Face (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Samurai Jack: The Complete Fifth Season

10/24/17 — Sets Annabelle: Creation (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

09/26/17 — Released Longmire: The Complete Fifth Season (4 disc set)

10/31/17 — Sets Scarecrow

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Sets Speed Record With The Oct. 24 Arrival Of Director David F. Sandberg’s Annabelle: Creation

Last week we commented that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment seemed to be clearing the decks for some major theatrical-to-home entertainment announcements with a release blitz of catalog selections in October that included the unbundling of the previously released Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection (featuring such romantic comedies as Palm Springs Weekend and Roman Adventure) as stand-alone DVD editions, a pair of three-film vintage comedy collections — Guy Kibbee Triple Feature and Glenda Farrell Triple Feature — and some blu-ray debuts that include The Green Slime and Hell on Frisco Bay.

As if right on cue, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment was back this week with the first of the three summer hits that will be heading home during the fourth quarter of this year.   This would be director David F. Sandberg’s horror smash, Annabelle: Creation, which will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions on Oct. 24.

Box office receipts were an impressive $101.1 million and making the sequel a bigger draw than the original.   The October of 2014 release of Annabelle pulled in $84.3 million.   

For the record, the ARR is a sizzling-quick turn of just 74 days.   That is a new speed record for any theatrical film grossing in excess of $100 million.  Four films had previously clocked in at 81 days with that minimum level of box office performance — Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney, $504 million); Logan (20^th Century-Fox, $226.3 million); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (20^th Century-Fox, $113.7 million) and Passengers (Sony Pictures, $100 million).

 

Clearly, Warner Bros. wanted to get Annabelle: Creation placed at retail in time for Halloween promotions.

As to bonus chestnuts, with the exception of deleted scenes, these are all exclusive to the Blu-ray SKU.   These are commentary by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out), two short films, Attic Panic and Coffer, plus a pair of featurettes — “The Horror Continues” and “Directing Annabelle.” 

Of note, there are only three summer A-list theatrical releases (films grossing in excess of $25 million) that have not yet been given their home entertainment orders.   Two of these belong to Warner Bros. — Dunkirk and It — while Universal Pictures has Despicable Me 3. 

This sets up December this year as a very scant release month, which is reflective of both a very weak summer slate and the rush to move films from their theatrical venues to the home entertainment marketplace at ever-quickening rates.

The studios will have to “borrow” from post-Labor Day releases to fill in the gaps.

MIG Music Teams With MVD Entertainment Group For The DVD/CD Combo Pack Release Of Richard Thompson: Live At Rockpalast On Nov. 03

MIG Music, with domestic sales and distribution guidance provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a DVD/CD collectible set ready for fans of English songwriter, singer and legendary guitarist, Richard Thompson, which will be at retail on Friday, Nov. 3.

Titled Richard Thompson: Live at Rockpalast, it features a double-disc DVD presentation of his December of 1983 concert at the Hamburg Markthalle and his January of 1984 concert at Cannes — on tour promoting his “Hand of Kindness” album.  Plus there are three companion CDs — two showcasing the December set and the third featuring the Cannes concert.

The first event concert featured a 20-song set, running nearly two hours, while the Cannes session was cut to just 14 songs (clocking in at roughly 75 minutes).

The sets were identical for the first 14 numbers and included “The Wrong Heartbeat,” “A Poisoned Heart and a Twisted Memory,” “Tear-Stained Letter” and “Hand of Kindness,” which were all from the new album, plus earlier hits such as “Night Comes In” (from the 1975 “Pour Down Like Silver” album) and “Shoot Out The Lights,” “Wall of Death” and “Don't Renege on Our Love” (cuts from the 1982 album, “Shoot Out the Lights”).

Exclusive to the Hamburg Markhalle concert are such selections as “Both Sides Burning,” “Danny Boy,” “Great Balls of Fire” and “High School Hop.”

Icarus Films Announces Nov. 7 As The Domestic DVD Debut Date For Documentary Filmmaker Jacques Goldstein’s Black Is The Color

Icarus films has selected Nov. 7 as the domestic DVD debut date for documentary filmmaker Jacques Goldstein’s Black is the Color, an insightful look at the history of African-American art over the past 150 years.

The context of Goldstein’s work is set against a backdrop of post-Civil War reconstruction, the Jim Crow laws of the South, World War I and the civil rights movement … right up to the modern day.  

Within these constructs, the works of Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher and Jean-Michel Basquiat are explored.  Additionally, examples of wrong-headed attempts are given — for example, in 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York launched an exhibit titled “Harlem on My Mind,” but not a single African-American artist’s work was included in the exhibit.

Another example, it took 150 years for the same museum to finally getting around to hiring a curator to fill in the gaps of African-American artists not represented in its vast collection.

Black is the Color is presented in English, French and German, with English subtitles.

The American Genre Film Archive's 4K Restoration Of The Violent Years On Blu-ray On Nov. 21

The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced their latest 4K restoration (from the original 35mm camera negative) this past week.   It will be director William Morgan’s 1956 exploitation film (with script by Ed Wood), The Violent Years, which will be available on Blu-ray on Nov. 21.

Everything is twisted is this classic teen exploitation flick … role reversals!   We get a hint of something sinister during the film’s brief prologue that finds the Parkins — husband and wife, Carl (Art Millan) and Jane (Barbara Weeks) — getting some bad news from Judge Clara (played by I. Stanford Jolley).   We then flashback to the events that led up to to this courtroom hearing.

Paula (played by Playboy centerfold, Jean Moorhead — The Atomic Submarine, Motorcycle Gang) is their spoiled and privileged daughter, who has secretly organized an all-girl gang consisting of her high school pals, Phyllis (Gloria Farr), Georgia (Theresa Hancock) and Geraldine (Joanne Cangi).    

Now you can say what you will about Ed Wood as a filmmaker, but he has twisted things nicely here … taking Paul, Phil, George and Gerald and flipping the sexes to get these four sweet things as tough chicks who rob, rape and murder their way into the headlines of the local paper, which just happens to be run by Paula’s dad.   

By film’s end all will be dead as a result of their crime wave and the reason her parents are in court will finally, and ironically, be revealed.

Bonus goodies for this exploitation classic include commentary from Basket Case and Frankenhooker filmmaker Frank Henenlotter, who is joined by Ed Wood biographer Rudolph Grey (“Ed Wood: Nightmare of Ecstasy - The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.”) and as AGFA is including a new 2K scan (with the original 35mm theatrical print) of director Brooke L. Peters’ 1961 crime/thriller, Anatomy of a Psycho, as a bonus.