For the period ending November 24, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending November 24, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

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A&E Networks

11/21/17 — Released High School Lover

Acorn Media

11/21/17 — Released Fall: Series Three (2 disc set)

Adult Source Media

11/21/17 — Released Naughty College School Girls 2

Alakazam Magic

11/21/17 — Released Steve Cook: ID

Arrow Video

01/09/18 — Sets Witches (Italian)

Asylum Home Ent. (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Sinister Minister

BBC Home Entertainment

11/21/17 — Released Red Dwarf: XII (2 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

11/21/17 — Released Classic Callanetics

Blue Crown Magic

11/21/17 — Released Beau Cremer: iTime Rewind

Boag’s Productions (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Hubble's Diverse Universe

Breaking Glass Pictures

11/21/17 — Released Rift (Icelandic)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Amazing Race: Season 22 (3 disc set), Amazing Race: Season 23 (3 disc set) and Amazing Race: All Stars - Season 24 (3 disc set)

Championship Productions

11/21/17 — Released Best of Club Volleyball: Blocking, Marvin Menzies: Practice Drills to Improve Your Team, Setting the Tone on the First Day: Running Competitive Practices, Teaching Youth Volleyball Skills & Fundamentals and Youth Volleyball: The Progression from Tots to Juniors

Cheezy Flicks

11/21/17 — Released Superman and the Mole Men

Chess on DVD

11/21/17 — Released Foxy Openings #178: Dominate the Endgames Like 13 World Champions for the Tournament Player - Vol. 1, Foxy Openings #179: Domination Studies - Ghenrikh Kasparyan for the Tournament Player - Vol. 2 and Foxy Openings #180: Domination Studies - Bernhard Horwitz for the Tournament Player - Vol. 3

Cleopatra Music & Records

01/23/18 — Sets Act & Punishment: The Pussy Riot Trials (Russian)

Coaches Choice/Healthy Learning

11/21/17 — Released Air-Wing Offense: The Passing Game, Air-Wing Offense: The Play-Action and the Dropback Passing Game and RPOs, Air-Wing Offense: The Running Game, Blocking the Inside Zone Game, Defensive Line Drills and Techniques, Defensive Line Pass Rush Techniques and Drills, Defensive Line Run Techniques and Schemes, Introduction to the Air-Wing Offense, RPO Game and Special Teams: Field Goal Protection Kickoff Return, and Kickoff Coverage

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

11/21/17 — Released Backup Dancer (aka: Sticky Notes)

12/05/17 — Sets Better Half and Border Cross

12/12/17 — Sets Night of the Living Dead Plus Five Bonus Movies (6 film set: Night of the Living Dead, The Devil Bat, White Zombie, The Bat, The Last Man on Earth, House on Haunted Hill) (2 disc set)

Essential Magic Collection

11/21/17 — Released Max Maven & Luis de Matos: Kayfabe (4 disc set)

F+W Media/InterWeave Press

11/21/17 — Released Mastering Composition from Photos: Landscape Painting, Mastering Composition from Photos: Light and Shadow and Mastering Composition from Photos: Narrative Art

11/28/17 — Sets Building the Collapsable Trestle Table with Will Myers (2 disc set)

Film Movement

12/12/17 — Sets Architects of Denial (ARR of 67 days; box office: $58,472) and White King

FilmRise (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Good Postman (Bulgarian) and I Dream in Another Language (Spanish)

Films Around the World, Inc. (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Golden Age of Looney Tunes (7 theatrical cartoons: Smile, Darn YA, Smile, Have You Got Any Castles?, Hamateur Night, A Corny Concerto, The Dover Boys “At Pimento University”, Pigs In A Polka, Hollywood Steps Out), Lady of Burlesque, One Touch of Venus, Piasan (Italian), Sciuscia (Italian), Seven Alone and Woman on the Run

Garvitas Ventures (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Christmas in New York, Magnum Opus, Night Watchmen and Ryde

12/12/17 — Sets Thrill Ride

Hallmark Channel

11/21/17 — Released Christmas in Conway and November Christmas

International Historic Films

11/21/17 — Released Total Self Defense

Kino Lorber

11/21/17 — Released Cease Fire, Driftwood, I'll be Seeing You, Innsaei and Since You Went Away

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Unleashed

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/21/17 — Released Good Time, One Last Heist, Santa Files and Saving Christmas

01/09/17 — Adds Friend Request (ARR of 109 days; box office: $3,758,339)

Magic on Demand

11/21/17 — Released Criss Smith: Perplex

Magnolia Home Entertainment

11/21/17 — Released Lemon (ARR of 95 days; box office: $29,074)

Mill Creek Entertainment

02/06/17 — Sets Kids in the Hall: The Complete Series (12 disc set)

Momentum Pictures, LLC

11/21/17 — Released Jungle

Movietime Distributors

11/21/17 — Released Real Fights 3: Caught on Camera

Nandar Home Entertainment

11/28/17 — Sets Angels of Our Better Nature and Colors of Emily

National Geographic (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released National Geographic: The State and National Geographic: When Nature Calls (3 disc set)

Nimble Mind Magic

11/21/17 — Released Skirt

PBS Direct

11/21/17 — Released Cook's Country: Season 10 (2 disc set), Craft in America: Borders and Neighbors, Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World, Vermeer: Beyond Time and Year in Space and Beyond a Year in Space

Paramount Home Media

02/06/17 — Sets Bosom Buddies: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

Passion River Films

11/21/17 — Released Mully

SRS Cinema

11/21/17 — Released Scarecrowd

Sentai FilmWorks

11/21/17 — Released Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto: The Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

11/21/17 — Released Porco Rosso (Japanese) and Secret World of Arrietty (Japanese)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

11/21/17 — Released Librarians: Season Three (3 disc set)

The Orchard (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Thumper

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Bunnyman Vengeance and Out of Nothing

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

11/21/17 — Released Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie and Thomas & Friends: Holiday Collection (6 disc set)

01/02/18 — Sets Brad's Status (ARR of 109 days; box office: $2,129,076)

01/09/18 — Adds Marshall (ARR of 88 days; box office: $8,760,472)

01/16/18 — Adds Snowman (ARR of 88 days; box office: $6,656,880)

Virgil Films & Entertainment

11/21/17 — Released Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story (ARR of 1,488 days; box office: $28,449)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Living Single: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)

Well Go U.S.A.

11/21/17 — Released Villainess (Korean) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $27,741)

12/05/17 — Sets Better Watch Out (ARR of 60 days; box office: $20,272)

XLrator Media (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released American Mary, Dark Signal, Feel Rich, Housebound, Legend of 420, Mule, Nola Circus, Savage Dog, Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation and Under the Bed

Zondervan

11/21/17 — Released Theology of Luke and Acts (2 disc set)

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Acorn Media

11/21/17 — Released Fall: Series Three (2 disc set)

Aniplex of America

11/21/17 — Released Kizumonogatari, Part 3: Reiketsu

Arrow Video

01/09/18 — Sets Witches (Italian)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Amazing Race: Season 22 (3 disc set) and Amazing Race: Season 23 (3 disc set)

Cinelicious Pics

11/14/17 — Released Funeral Parade of Roses (Japanese) (2 disc set)

Code Red

11/14/17 — Released Sweet Baby Charlie (aka: The Sadist)

Cohen Media Group

11/14/17 — Released My Journey Through French Cinema (French)

Dark Entity Music, LLC

11/21/17 — Released Hostile Takeover

FilmRise (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Divine Divas (Portuguese), Good Postman (Bulgarian), I Dream in Another Language (Spanish) and Tormentero (Spanish)

FUNimation

11/21/17 — Released Future Diary: The Complete Series + OVA (4 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack), Myriad Colors Phantom World (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), New Game!: Season One (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Tales of Zestiria the X Season 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures

11/21/17 — Released California Typewriter

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Birthright: A War Story, Christmas in New York, Christmas in the Heartland, Magnum Opus, Night Watchmen and Ryde

K Street Pictures (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released Alex & Eve

Kino Lorber

11/21/17 — Released Cease Fire 3D/2D (2 disc set), Driftwood, Fritz Lang: The Silent Films (12 silent films: Metropolis (1927), Die Nibelungen (1924), Spies (1928), Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Destiny (1921), The Spiders (1919), Woman in the Moon (1929), Four Around the Woman (1921), Harakiri (1919), The Wandering Shadow (1920), The Plague of Florence (1919)) (12 disc set), Hangover Square, I'll Be Seeing You, Innsaei and Since You Went Away: Roadshow Edition

Kitty Media

11/21/17 — Released Kite: Uncut

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

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

11/21/17 — Released Good Time (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

01/09/18 — Sets Friend Request (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and My Little Pony: The Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Mill Creek Entertainment

02/06/18 — Sets Benji (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Momentum Pictures, LLC

11/21/17 — Released Jungle (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Naxos

11/14/17 — Released Wagner: Die Walküre

SRS Cinema

11/21/17 — Released Teenage Slumber Party Nightmare

Sentai FilmWorks

11/21/17 — Released Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto: The Complete Collection (2 disc set) and Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto: The Complete Collection - Premium Edition (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Shout! Factory

11/14/17 — Released Attack of the Puppet People, Incredible Shrinking Woman: Collector's Edition and Paul Naschy Collection 2 (5 film set: Hunchback of the Morgue, Devil's Possessed, The Werewolf and the Yeti, Exorcism, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse) (Spanish) (5 disc set)

11/21/17 — Released Porco Rosso (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Secret World of Arrietty (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

01/16/18 — Sets Better Call Saul: Season Three (3 disc set)

Troma

11/14/17 — Released Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta

Twilight Time

11/14/17 — Released Bananas, Doctor Dolittle, Gidget, Sayonara and Yellow Handkerchief (Japanese)

Ultra

11/21/17 — Released Bareilly Ki Barfi (Hindi) and Phillauri (Hindi)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released AfterDeath, Bunnyman Vengeance, Circus Kane, Ice Cream Truck and Gremlin

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

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

01/16/18 — Adds Snowman (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

12/05/18 — Sets Auntie Mame

Well Go U.S.A.

11/14/17 — Released Villainess (Korean) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Wizard/Full Moon

11/14/17 — Released Puppet Master: Axis Termination

XLrator Media (MOD)

11/21/17 — Released American Mary, Dark Signal, Feel Rich, Housebound, Legend of 420, Nola Circus, Savage Dog, Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation and Under the Bed

 

 

 

 

Mill Creek Entertainments Readies The Kids in the Hall: The Complete Collection For DVD On Feb. 6

Mill Creek Entertainment announced its first wave of February 2018 priced-to-collect DVD and Blu-ray product offerings this past week and leading the way is the 12-disc DVD presentation of the Canadian comedy series, The Kids in the Hall: The Complete Collection (with Digital Copy), starring comedians Bruce “Cabbage Head” McCulloch, Mark “Chicken Lady” McKinney, Dave “The Axe Murderer” Foley, Kevin “King of Empty Promises” McDonald and finally Scott “Stoner Baurer” Thompson. 

The street date will be Feb. 6.

Included in the collection from Mill Creek Entertainment are all five seasons — that’s 102 UNCENSORED episodes — plus the 2010 eight-episode mini-series titled The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town!

Also on the release calendar is a newly prepared film restoration (from the original 35mm source elements) of writer/director Joe Camp’s 1974 family-favorite, Benji.   

It will also be ready on Feb. 6 as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release … and Benji will be presented for the first time on Blu-ray in the proper theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1!!!

Joe Camp and his son Brandon (who is re-launching the franchise theatrically in 2018) will be providing commentary.

Cleopatra Music and Films Sets Jan. 13 For The DVD Debut Of Act & Punishment: The Pussy Riot Trails

Cleopatra Music and Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided my MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Jan. 23 as the DVD debut date for documentary filmmaker Evgeny Mitta’s Act & Punishment: The Pussy Riot Trails.

The story of the punk rock group Voina’s female exodus by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mariya Alyokhina to join with Yekaterina Samutsevich (and others) to form the feminist punk rock group (or troupe) known as Pussy Riot and their rise to fame (or notoriety) plays out in this insightful documentary by Russian artist-turned-filmmaker Evgeny Mitta.

The trio — who along with their Pussy Riot compatriots — would stage impromptu public performances (which, were of course, forbidden) and film them (punk rock music videos) and that would eventually lead to their arrest, trial and imprisonment for “premeditated hooliganism.” 

The great irony is that their arrest and trial took these members of the punk rock group Pussy Riot from Moscow-based troublemakers to international celebrities!!

Act & Punishment: The Pussy Riot Trails is in Russian with English subtitles.

Documentary Filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s CERN On DVD From Icarus Films On Jan. 16

Icarus Films will be teaming with The KimStim Collection on Jan. 16 for the DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s CERN, a behind-the-scenes look at the Large Hadron Collider on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland.  

It is difficult to imagine a machine, a “particle collider” composed of superconducting magnets, which operates at 520.3 degrees (Fahrenheit) below zero, and is 16.78 miles in circumference.   

It took ten years to build (after 14 years of planning), the involvement of over 100 countries and a team of scientists and engineers that totaled over 10,000 to complete the project … and it still wasn’t done.   They shut it down for two years and upgraded it, finishing the work in 2015.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread, Homo Sapiens, etc.) gives us insight into the workings of the massive structure through interviews with a number of the the researchers/ physicists and a tour of the facility.   The purpose of the Large Hadron Collider (simply “CERN,” hence the title of the documentary) is to take two “high-energy particle beams” and fire them at each other, using an array of massive “dipole” and “quadrupole” magnets to focus the beams, which slam into each other in a recreation of the “Big Bang.”  

Of note, the arrival of Geyrhalter’s CERN on DVD occurs just three months after the facility fired Xenon atoms for the first time (Xenon is a “noble gas,” which according to researchers at CERN closely replicates heavy-ion collisions) … normally they fire lead atoms at each other, so this event (Oct. 16) was considered a major milestone in the history of the facility.

CERN is a fascinating look at the world of theoretical science — even for the uninitiated into such things — and sheer size and scope of the project.

Arrow Video Restores The Witches For DVD And Blu-ray Delivery On Jan. 9

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be delivering a new 2K restoration of the Dino De Laurentiis-produced anthology, The Witches, to market on Jan. 9 as both DVD and Blu-ray selections.

Arrow will be delivering the original Italian-language version, which was released in Europe in 1967 and eventually made its way to these shores in 1969 as an English-dubbed theatrical release.   

The film is of interest on several levels, the first of which is the choice made by De Laurentiis to have five different Italian filmmakers direct a chapter — a short story, if you will — of the film.   Each of these segments feature Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Five Branded Women, Barabbas, Dune, etc.), who was married to De Laurentiis at the time, and although the film is titled The Witches, the subject of the piece (and its segments) is about social commentary and satire.

The choice in directors is also noteworthy in that it reads like a who’s who of the period … Luchino Visconti (Death in Venice, The Damed, Ludwig), Vittorio De Sica (Oscar-winner for The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, plus such films as Woman Times Seven, A Brief Vacation, Umberto D.) Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales), Franco Rossi (The Seducer, The Woman in the Painting, Three Nights of Love) and Mauro Bolognini (Wild Love, The Lovemakers, Young Husbands, etc.).

And lastly, The Witches features a segment with none other than Clint Eastwood, who had finished For a Few Dollars More and was about to begin production on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — before departing Europe after his Spaghetti Western successes — had time for a small role in this De Laurentiis production.

As to bonus goodies, film critic and author Tim Lucas (“Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark”) provides commentary, plus there is a newly-minted video session with Ninetto Davoli (featured in the Pasolini segment and an actor in a number of Pasolini’s films, including The Hawks and the Sparrows, The Decameron and Arabian Nights) and the segment featuring Clint Eastwood, “An Evening Like the Others” by Vittorio De Sica is presented here in English.

Paramount Home Media Targets Feb. 6 For The DVD Release Of Bosom Buddies: The Complete Collection

Paramount Home Media announced this past week that the Tom Hanks 1980/1982 sitcom series, Bosom Buddies, will be available on Feb. 6 in the six-disc DVD collection titled (what else!), Bosom Buddies: The Complete Collection.

All 37 episodes from the comedy’s two season run teaming Tom Hanks as Kip “Buffy” Wilson with Peter Scolari as Henry “Hildegarde” Desomond, who are two Madison Avenue creative types who need a place to live and hit upon a scheme to move into the Susan B. Anthony Hotel … which is for female clientele only!

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Tabs Dec. 19 For 4K Ultra HD Editions Of Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has added some last minute additions to its Christmas-season release calendar that should generate some interest at retail, especially among those looking to add to their 4K Ultra HD libraries.

So let’s get to it!    Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy of films is at the forefront with all three in the series — Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises — getting 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions on Dec. 19.  All of the bonus nuggets associated with the original Blu-ray presentations are included with these Combo Pack SKUs.

Batman Begins (2005) comes with the 2005 short film title Tankman Begins and 11 production featurettes — “Batman: The Journey Begins,” “Shaping Mind and Body,” “Gotham City Rises,” “Cape and Cowl,” “Path to Discovery,” “Saving Gotham City,” “Genesis of the Bat,” “Reflections on Writing Batman Begins,” “Digital Batman” and “Batman Begins Stunts.”

The Dark Knight (2008) includes the multi-part “Focus Points” presentation titled “Gotham Uncovered: Creation of a Scene,” plus six episodes of Gotham news broadcast titled “Gotham Tonight,” a collection of “Joker Cards,” concept art and other graphic materials in “The Galleries” and a pair of featurettes — “Batman Tech” and “Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight.” 

And The Dark Knight Rises (2012) comes packed with bonus goodies — over “Three Hours” — that include director Roko Belic’s 2012 feature-length documentary, The Batmobile, and the three-part presentation of “Ending the Dark Knight,” which runs nearly two hours in length and is divided into “Production,” “Characters” and “Reflections” segments. 

Also on the way from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is a Blu-ray edition of director Morton DaCosta’s 1958 Best Picture nominee Auntie Mame, starring Rosaland Russell — who was nominated Best Actress — as novelist Patrick Dennis irresistible force.    The Blu-ray street date will be Dec. 5.