For the period ending November 17, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending November 17, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

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A&E Networks

11/14/17 — Released Hamilton: Building America

Acorn Media

11/14/17 — Released Best of Agatha Christie, Volume One (3 episodes: And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Death on the Nile), Best of Agatha Christie, Volume Two (3 episodes: The Witness for the Prosecution, Three Act Tragedy, Hallowe'en Party), Murder on the Orient Express and Rake: Series 4 (3 disc set)

Altered Innocense

11/14/17 — Released Brothers of the Night (German)

Aniplex of America

11/14/17 — Released Blue Exorcist Kyoto Saga, Volume 1

BBC Home Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Doctor Who: The Complete Tenth Series (5 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Dark Forces on Planet Earth

Breaking Glass Pictures

11/14/17 — Released Santa & Andres (Spanish)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Survivor: Blood vs. Water (6 disc set)

Carson Entertainment Group

11/14/17 — Released More Tonight Starring Johnny Carson (2 disc set)

Championship Productions

11/14/17 — Released 94 Feet of Defense: Full Court & Half Court Match-up Press, Best of Club Volleyball: Libero Training, Creating a Good Volleyball Culture in the Gem, Josh Gamblin: Half Court Sets for Must-Score Situations and Todd Lorensen: Pack Line Defense for Undersized Teams

Cinedigm Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Palm Swings

Cinema Guild

11/14/17 — Released Wrong Light (ARR of 123 days; box office: $7.553)

Criterion Collection

02/06/18 — Sets Elevator to the Gallows (French)

02/13/18 — Sets Night of the Living Dead (3 disc set) and Silence of the Lambs (2 disc set)

02/20/18 — Sets Actor's Revenge (Japanese) and The Hero (Bengali)

02/27/18 — Sets Tom Jones (2 disc set)

DreamScape Media, LLC

11/14/17 — Released Lost Journey, Raven Tales: A Day in the Life, Raven Tales: Change and Butterflies, Raven Tales: Musicians of the Sun, Raven Tales: The Return of Kulos, Raven Tales: Work and Play and Rosie Revere: Engineer

Dynamic

11/14/17 — Released Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione Di Dario (2 disc set)

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

11/14/17 — Released 5 Movies: Evil Spirits (5 film set: The Devil's Partner, Cruel Will, Kill Baby … Kill!, 19 Doors, Dominique is Dead), 12 Movie Collection: Puppet Master - The Complete Series/Killjoy - The Complete Series (12 film set: Puppet Master, Puppet Master 2, Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge, Puppet Master 4, Puppet Master 5, Curse of the Puppet Master, Retro Puppet Master, Puppet Master the Legacy, Puppet Master Axis of Evil, Killjoy, Killjoy 2, Killjoy 3) (3 disc set), 15 Movie Family Collection (15 film set: White Lion, Jack and the Beanstalk, Running Wild, Gulliver's Travels, Simon and the Spirit Bear, Little Heroes, The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird, Little Wizard: Guardian of the Magic Crystals, Kidnappers, After the Wizard, Secret Kingdom, Alligator Pie, Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale, Black Beauty, The World of Hans Christian Andersen) (3 disc set), Chilly Dogs Plus 4 Bonus Movies (5 film set: Chilly Dogs (aka: Kevin of the North), Smother, Mooch Goes to Hollywood, Rescue from Gilligan's Island, Dream a Little Dream 2), Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge and WWII Collection: Brothers in Combat (2 disc set)

Film Movement

11/14/17 — Released Atheist America, Harmonium (Japanese) and Time to Die (Spanish) (ARR of 60 days; box office: $13,308)

FilmRise (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Tormento (Spanish)

Gabriel Communications

11/14/17 — Released Country's Family Reunion: Honky Tonk (2 disc set)

Garvitas Ventures

12/19/17 — Sets We Love You, Sally Carmichael (ARR of 137 days; box office: $113,284)

Garvitas Ventures (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Fallen and Gilbert

Grasshopper Film

11/14/17 — Released Casa de Lava (Portuguese)

Hoa Sen Productions

11/14/17 — Released Dua Con Khac Ho, Part 1 (6 disc set) and Dua Con Khac Ho, Part 2 (6 disc set)

Hometown Media Productions

11/14/17 — Released Breaking Balls

House Lights Media

11/14/17 — Released Firehouse Christmas

I-Cine

11/14/17 — Released Danh Y Lung Dang (8 disc set)

Icarus Films

01/16/18 — Sets In Her Name (French)

In the Studios with Dianne Mize (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Unraveling Intensity: Creating Unity with Neutrals, Unraveling Intensity: Enhancing Natural Colors, Unraveling Intensity: Taming Strong Intensity and Using Alternation: Texture Taking Turns

JSP Records

11/14/17 — Released Blues Live and Alive

Jewish Educational Media

11/14/17 — Released Living Torah #172

John Pechulis Media (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Along the Jersey Central, Volume 4

K Street Pictures (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Alex & Eve

Kino Lorber

11/14/17 — Released Aquarius (Portuguese) (ARR of 396 days; box office: $285,930), Last Laugh (German) (2 disc set), Man Who Died Twice, Nightkill and This World, Then the Fireworks (ARR of 7,431 days; box office: $19,906)

Ligonier Ministries

11/14/17 — Released Whole Christ (2 disc set)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Amityville: The Awakening (ARR of 18 days; box office: $742) and Unlocked

01/09/18 — Sets My Little Pony: The Movie (ARR of 95 days; box office: $21,520,056)

MPI Home Video

11/14/17 — Released Indiscretion

Menemsha Films

11/14/17 — Released Fanny's Journey (French)

Momentum Pictures, LLC

11/14/17 — Released 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain

Monterey Video

11/14/17 — Released Looking for Grace

Nandar Home Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Good Grief

Naxos

11/14/17 — Released Bellini: Norma - The Royal Opera, Debussy: Pelleas & Melisande (2 disc set), Les Indes Galantes (2 disc set) and Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (2 disc set)

PBS Direct

11/14/17 — Released Miffy's Adventures Big and Small: Play Date with Miffy!, NOVA: Eclipse Over America and Regal Academy: Rose Cinderella in Fairy Tale Land

Paramount Home Media

01/30/18 — Sets Ray Donovan: Season Five (4 disc set)

02/06/18 — Sets War of the Worlds: The Complete Series (11 disc set)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Der Strom (aka: Flooden) (German), Hans in Allen Gassen (German), Henker, Frauen und Soldaten (German), Ich Liebe Dich - Bangen Machen Gilt Nicht (German), Stimme des Herzens (German), Unter Heissem Himmel (German) and Volanta (German)

Reliance

11/14/17 — Released Mukti Bhawan (Hindi)

Sentai FilmWorks

11/14/17 — Released Haikyu!! 1st Season - The Complete Series (5 disc set)

Shout! Factory

11/14/17 — Released D.C. Follies: The Complete Series (4 disc set), In This Corner of the World (Japanese) and Simon & Simon: Season 7 (4 disc set)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Mary Pickford Rare Shorts, Volume 1 (9 silent short films: Sweet and Twenty (1909), Ramona (1910), Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910), What the Daisy Said (1910), An Arcadian Maid (1910), The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910), When a Man Loves (1911), Iola's Promise (1912), Lena and the Geese (1912))

Social Theory Films (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Bourdieu: Habitus, Field and Capital, Bourdieu: Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture, Durkheim's Theory of Suicide, Ideology: Marx, Althusser, Gramsci, Marx's Theory of Alienation and Species Being, Postmodernism: Lyotard and Baudrillard, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Saussure: Foundations of Semiology, Sociology at the End of the World and Unconscious: Freud and Lecan

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

11/14/17 — Released Preacher: Season Two (4 disc set), Teletubbies: Big Hugs and Baby Animals, Teletubbies: Learning Colors, Teletubbies: Let's Go for a Ride and Teletubbies: Making Music

12/26/17 — Sets Flatliners (ARR of 88 days; box office: $16,857,840)

Thomas Nelson Productions

11/14/17 — Released Lynn Cowell: Make Your Move

TomCat Releasing

11/14/17 — Released Unlisted Owner

TomCat – Summer Hill

11/14/17 — Released Lovejacked

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

12/05/17 — Sets Fargo: Season Three (4 disc set) and Simpsons: The Complete Eighteenth Season (4 disc set)

12/12/17 — Sets Strain: Season 4 (3 disc set)

Ultra DVD

11/14/17 — Released Lucknow Central (Hindi)

Uncork’d Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Ice Cream Truck

Uni Music - Decca

11/14/17 — Released Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (2 disc set)

Uni Music - Republic

11/14/17 — Released Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

12/05/17 — Adds Dementia 13

01/09/18 — Sets The Foreigner (ARR of 88 days; box office: $33,474,379)              

01/16/18 — Sets Happy Death Day (ARR of 95 days; box office: $54,908,045)

Vertical Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Secret Scripture

Vina Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Tan Bien Thanh Lang Tu, Part 1 (6 disc set), Tan Bien Thanh Lang Tu, Part 2 (6 disc set), Tan Bien Thanh Lang Tu, Part 3 (6 disc set), Tuy Linh Lung, Part 1 (6 disc set), Tuy Linh Lung, Part 2 (6 disc set) and Tuy Linh Lung, Part 3 (6 disc set)

Virgil Films & Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Wasted! The Story of Food Waste (ARR of 32 days; box office: $17,189)

Vision Films

11/14/17 — Released My First Miracle

WWE

11/14/17 — Released WWE: Double Feature - No Mercy/Hell in the Cell and WWE: NXT - From Secret to Sensation (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

01/09/18 — Sets It (ARR of 123 days; box office: $326,628,183)

Wolfe

12/19/17 — Sets Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall

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10 Spot Music

11/14/17 — Released Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

Altered Innocense

11/14/17 — Released Brothers of the Night (German)

Aniplex of America

11/14/17 — Released Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Volume 1 (2 disc set)

BBC Home Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Doctor Who: The Complete Tenth Series (4 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Palm Swings

Cinema Guild

11/14/17 — Released In Pursuit of Silence

Dynamic

11/14/17 — Released Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione Di Dario

Film Movement

11/14/17 — Released Time to Die (Spanish)

FUNimation

11/14/17 — Released 91 Days (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Mobile Suit Gunddam Iron-Blooded Orphans, Season 1, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Mobile Suit Gunddam Iron-Blooded Orphans, Season 1, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Ninja Hunter (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Rosario + Vampire: The Complete Series (4 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack)

Grasshopper Film

11/14/17 — Released Casa de Lava (Portuguese)

Garvitas Ventures (MOD)

11/14/17 — Released Fallen and Gilbert

Kino Lorber

11/14/17 — Released Aquarius (Portuguese), Last Laugh (German) (2 disc set), Man Who Died Twice, Nightkill and This World, Then the Fireworks

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/14/17 — Released Unlocked (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Memesha Films

11/14/17 — Released Women's Balcony (Hebrew)

Momentum Pictures, LLC

11/14/17 — Released 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Naxos

11/14/17 — Released Bellini: Norma - The Royal Opera, Debussy: Pelleas & Melisande, Les Indes Galantes and Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet

Sentai FilmWorks

11/14/17 — Released Haikyu!!: 1st Season - The Complete Collection (3 disc set)

Shout! Factory

11/14/17 — Released In This Corner of the World (Japanese)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

11/14/17 — Released Preacher: Season Two (4 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Uni Music - Decca

11/14/17 — Released Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Uni Music - Republic

11/14/17 — Released Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

01/09/18 — Sets Foreigner (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

01/16/18 — Sets Happy Death Day (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

VIZ Media

11/14/17 — Released Pokemon Indigo League, Season 1 (6 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

01/09/18 — Sets It (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)3

 

Icarus Films Teams With Distrib Films For The Domestic DVD Debut On Jan. 16 Of In Her Name

Hollywood often turns out scripts for movies that, when watching the final result, you find yourself rolling your eyes and muttering to yourself, “really?!”  You’ve certainly seen mysteries, thrillers and horror tales that are so convoluted that even the “suspension of disbelief” can’t save them.

Enter French filmmaker Vincent Garenq and the Distrib Films release of In Her Name, which is the story about the mysterious death of a 14-year old girl and the cat-and-mouse legal — and extralegal — game between a father and stepfather that unfolds.   Icarus Films announced this past week that this French-language import will be making its domestic DVD debut on Jan. 16.

So this is just a French version of a Hollywood script mash-up, right?   A girl dies under mysterious circumstances, the father accuses the stepfather of murder and France (the home of the father) and Germany (where the stepfather lived and the teenager died) refuse to cooperate with each other over the “incident.”   Eventually the father takes matters into his own hands and has the stepfather kidnapped, spirited out of Germany and into France … and France agrees to put him on trial for murder!

Now who on this planet is going to believe a story like that?   Well, get ready for this, In Her Name, is based on actual events!!!  

The film is based on the case of Kalinka Bamberski, played in the movie by Emma Bessonm, who was living with her stepfather, Dieter Krombach (Sebastian Koch — Bridge of Spies, A Good Day to Die Hard, etc.), in Germany when she died under mysterious circumstances.   Her grieving father, upon reading the autopsy report, becomes convinced that it was no accident.

Germany both refused to prosecute or extradite Krombach for the crime.   France agreed to try him in absentia, but the verdict of manslaughter was set-aside.   With the statute of limitations clock ticking down to zero, a plot was hatched to kidnap Krombach and deliver him to French authorities for an official trial.  What happened next was a real eye-opener!

Filmmaker Garenq delivers an intense thriller that follows the events, plus there are some major shocks in store for the viewer … was justice served?   On Jan. 16 Icarus Films will reveal it all with the domestic DVD rollout of In Her Name.

In Her Name is presented in French (with some German) and English subtitles.

MVD Entertainment Group Picks Feb. 13 For The Release Of A Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Edition Of Director Eric Karson's Black Eagle

MVD Entertainment Group’s “MVD Rewind” label will be releasing a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack edition of director Eric Karson’s 1988 Cold War marial arts/spy-versus-spy thriller, Black Eagle, on Feb. 13.

A state of the art fighter jet, with a top-secret laser tracking system, goes down in the Mediterranean (near Malta) and this begins a life and death race to recover it between the KGB, lead by Colonel  Klimenko (Vladimir Skomorovsky) and his “killing machine,” Andrei (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and CIA operative Ken Tani (Sho Kosugi).   

It’s martial arts mayhem as these two action superstars clash with Ken Tani seemingly outmatched, but as we know from his performances in Ninja Assassin and Revenge of the Ninja, his size can be deceiving!

MVD will be presenting both cuts of the film — the 1988 theatrical cut and the “Uncut Extended” edition (clocking in at an extra 11 minutes).    Other bonus goodies include deleted scenes and four newly-prepared featurettes — “Sho Kosugi: Martial Arts Legend,” “The Making of Black Eagle,” “Tales of Jean-Claude Van Damme,” and “The Script and the Screenwriters.”

Wolfe Tabs Dec. 19 For The DVD Debut Of Documentary Filmmaker Katherine Fairfax Wright’s Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall

Wolfe announced this past week that documentary filmmaker Katherine Fairfax Wright’s fun-filled documentary, Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall, will be making its DVD debut on Dec. 19.

Todrick Hall, a YouTube sensation — and a force of nature — is the subject of her gaze, which, as the backstory tells us, was quite by accident.   Hall had a commitment to Awesomeness Films that was beginning to encroach upon his time and a project that was he committed to was literally consuming all of his time — we won’t say “and energy” since he seems to have an unlimited supply of that.   

The solution, let Wright film “the project” that you are working on and let her tell your story and that will fulfill your obligation … it was a deal.   And, if the truth be known, we are all the better for this moment of business inspiration as the filmmaker becomes an insightful part of Hall’s creative process.

So who is Todrick Hall?   He’s a gay, black man from Plainview, Texas who took to ballet at the age of nine.   He made a living as a dancer and performer — a professional entertainer, if you will — and that might have been his future, but in 2009 he auditioned for American Idol and made it all the way to the semi-finals.  It was clear that he had a gift that would take him creatively “out of the chorus line.”

Meanwhile, his YouTube.com presence grew and grew — a showcase for his material.   Hall had envisioned a “video album” based on The Wizard of Oz, which he called “Straight Outta Oz.”   Enter filmmaker Katherine Fairfax Wright during this creative process, who wound up spending the next nine months chronicling Hall’s work to fulfill his creative dream.    

“Straight Outta Oz” became both a performance album and a touring stage play … once you see Wolfe’s DVD release of Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall you will want to seek out Hall’s YouTube channel and enjoy all 16 videos that encompass his “Straight Outta Oz” performance.   If you are already a fan, then this documentary from Katherine Fairfax Wright is a must; a keepsake!!

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Looks To Jan. 9 For The Release Of Stephen King's It

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment made it official this past week that director Andy Muschietti’s remake of Stephen King’s 1986 best-selling novel, It, will be heading home in the New Year.   As a result, Dunkirk will get all of the Christmas-season attention from the studio.

The street date will be Jan. 9, which yields an ARR of 123 days … box office receipts are in the stratosphere with a cumulative total of $326.6 million.   The studio is already looking to the Labor Day weekend of 2019 for the next installment, which was foreshadowed — without spoilers — in the storyline of this release … so a “part two” (with those box office numbers) was a sure-thing!!!

Planned for release will be a stand-alone DVD edition, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack selection and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack SKU.  

As to bonus goodies, there are eleven deleted (or “extended”) scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Pennywise Lives!,” “The Losers’ Club” and “Author of Fear.”

Arrow Video's 4K Restoration Of Dario Argento's Cat O' Nine Tails Arrvies As A Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack On Jan. 9

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Jan. 9, 2018 as the street date for a new 4K restoration (from the original camera negative) of writer/director Dario Argento’s 1971 giallo horror/mystery, The Cat O’ Nine Tails.

Franco Arnò (played by Karl Malden), a blind man, teams with an inquisitive reporter by the name of Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus), to unravel a series of murders that seem connected to research at the Terzi Institute.   Who is the killer?   And why?  

As with the good giallo films of the period, The Cat O’ Nine Tails is a nifty blend of horror and mystery.   Stylish murders and with a purpose!

Bonus goodies include a newly-prepared commentary by critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman and new series of video sessions with filmmaker Dario Argento, co-writer Dardano Sacchetti, actress Cinzia De Carolis (as Lori, Karl Malden’s niece in the film) and production manager Angelo Iacono.

Arrow Video is presenting The Cat O’ Nine Tails in both the original Italian-language version (with English subtitles) and the English-dubbed theatrical version.