For the period ending December 22, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending December 22, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

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Adult Source Media

12/19/17 — Released Whore to the Core

Aniplex of America

12/19/17 — Released Sword Art Online: The Movie - Ordinal Scale

Asia Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released Dang Vu: Ben Mo (2 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released Classic Nudes U.S.A. (2 disc set) and Growing Up Fat and Albanian

Blakbyrd Entertainment (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Boss

Bodywisdom Media

12/19/17 — Released Belly Dance: Beginners and Beyond (3 disc set)

Breaking Glass Pictures

12/19/17 — Released Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (Spanish)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Californians: Season One (5 disc set), Jane the Virgin: Season Two (5 disc set) and Survivor: Cagayan (6 disc set)

Championship Productions

12/19/17 — Released 1-1-3 and 3-2 Match-Up Zone Defenses, Dominate the Plate: Drills for Becoming a Complete Hitter, High/Low Motion Offense, Open Practice: Beating the 2-3 Zone with the 1-3-1 Set, Open Practice: On the Line Half Court Defense & Full Court Presses, Open Practice: Skill Development & Shooting Drills, Open Practice: Transition into the 4-Out 1-In Motion Offense & Special Situations, Read and Man-to-Man Full Court Presses, Situational Hitting: Team Drills to Manufacture More Runs and Trapping & Scrambling Pressure Defense

Cinema Guild

12/19/17 — Released 4 Days in France (French)

Classicflix

12/19/17 — Released Tomorrow is Forever

Compass Cinema

12/19/17 — Released Beyond Is Genesis History?, Volume 1: Rocks and Fossils (3 disc set)

DreamScape Media, LLC

12/19/17 — Released Enchanted Tales: The Princess Collection

12/26/17 — Sets Travel With Kids: Alaska, Travel With Kids: Bahamas, Travel With Kids: Caribbean, Travel With Kids: Caribbean Cruise, Travel With Kids: Florida, Travel With Kids: Greece, Travel With Kids: Hawaii - Island Of Kauai, Travel With Kids: Hawaii - Maui And Moloka'I, Travel With Kids: Hawaii – Oahu, Travel With Kids: Hawaii - The Big Island, Travel With Kids: Ireland, Travel With Kids: Italy, Travel With Kids: Jamaica, Travel With Kids: London, Travel With Kids: Mexico - Baja & Cabo, Travel With Kids: New York, Travel With Kids: Paris, Travel With Kids: Peru and Travel With Kids: Rome

Duke

12/19/17 — Released Official Review of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship (2 disc set)

Eagle Rock Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released The Tragically Hip: National Celebration

Elevate Entertainment, LLC

12/19/17 — Released Heal

F+W Media/InterWeave Press, LLC

12/19/17 — Released Intuitive Art: Expressive Figures, Intuitive Art: Get Started with Gesso and Intuitive Art: Poured Paintings

FilmRise (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released I Am Another You

Giant Interactive (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Newness

12/26/17 — Sets Mr. Roosevelt

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Alternate Universe: A Rescue Mission and Blood Circus

Herron Rail Videos (MOD)

12/12/17 — Released Santa Fe's Massive 2-10-4's

I-Cine

12/19/17 — Released Su Mang Song Sinh (13 disc set)

Kino Lorber

12/19/17 — Released Baffled, Double Feature: Betsy's Wedding/Holy Matrimony, Double Feature: Big Business/Scenes from a Mall, Etoile, Eye in the Labyrinth, Four Faces West, Headhunter and Whales of August

Kipepeo Publishing (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Art Masters #96: Birds, Cats, Dogs, Fish

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released Leatherface

MIG Records

02/09/18 — Sets Muddy Waters: Live at Rockpalast (2 DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)

Martial Arts History Museum (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Biography: Gerald Okamura

MediaStorm, LLC (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Fight Hate with Love

Mua Hong Music Productions

12/19/17 — Released Luu Anh Loan: Mua Buon Nho Anh

Murphy’s Magic Supply

12/19/17 — Released Darryl Vanamburg: Control

National Geographic (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released National Geographic: Drain Alcatraz

PBS Direct

12/19/17 — Released Mindfulness Goes Mainstream: Techniques (3 disc set), Nature: Charlie and the Curious Otters, Nature: Fox Tales, NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge, NOVA: Killer Volcanoes and War on the EPA

Paramount Home Media

02/06/18 — Sets Suburbicon (ARR of 102 days; box office: $5,775,178)

Rebel Seed Films (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Devil Dogs

Rethink Productions (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Body Electric

Serpent Films (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Red-Haired Alibi, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted) and Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Rich and Strange (aka: East of Shanghai), Seven Sinners)

Severin Films, LLC

12/19/17 — Released And Now the Screaming Starts and Asylum

Shout! Factory

12/19/17 — Released Blood Money and Police Story: Season Three (6 disc set)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Endless Slapstick. Larry Semon: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 2 (4 silent short films: Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs (1918), Solid Concrete (1920), The Bell Hop (1921), The Barnyard (1923))

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

01/09/18 — Sets Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (ARR of 102 days; box office: $768,646)

01/30/18 — Sets Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (ARR of 109 days; box office: $1,583,641)

02/06/18 — Sets Only the Brave (ARR of 109 days; box office: $18,062,909)

The Amazon Project (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Introduction to the Science in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and Parent and Daughter Self Defense

The Gioi Sao Online

12/19/17 — Released Tuyet Dinh Bolero Remix: Lien Khuc Dam Me

The Horror of it All Presents (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Curse of the Vampire and Into the Arms of Death

The Red Bulb Studios

12/19/17 — Released Missing on a Weekend (Hindi)

Thuy NGA, Inc.

12/19/17 — Released Paris by Night: Gloria 3 (2 DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)

Virgil Films & Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released I Am Sam Kinison

Vision Video

12/19/17 — Released Robert Hicks Story

Wheely Good Fitness (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Wheel-Flex: Flex and Stretch

Wolf in Wool Productions (MOD)

12/12/17 — Released Narcissist: An Autobiography

12/19/17 — Released Chalkskin 10 and Never Classic: A Wolf in Wool Anthology

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Anaplex of America

12/19/17 — Released Koyomimonogatari, March Comes in Like a Lion, Volume 1 (2 disc set) and Sword Art Online: The Movie - Ordinal Scale

Arrow Video

02/27/18 — Sets Basket Case

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Californians: Season One (4 disc set) and Jane the Virgin: Season Two (5 disc set)

Cinema Guild

12/19/17 — Released 4 Days in France (French)

Classicflix

12/19/17 — Released Tomorrow is Forever

Dark Entity Music, LLC

12/19/17 — Released Stressed to Kill

Duke

12/19/17 — Released MotoGP 2017, Official Review of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship (2 disc set) and World Championship Rally: 2017 Official Review (2 disc set)

Eagle Rock Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released The Tragically Hip: National Celebration

FUNimation

12/19/17 — Released Hundred (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Alternate Universe: A Rescue Mission, Blood Circus and We Love You, Sally Carmichael

Kino Lorber

12/19/17 — Released Double Feature: Betsy's Wedding/Holy Matrimony, Double Feature: Big Business/Scenes from a Mall, Four Faces West, Kentuckian, Valdez is Coming and  Whales of August

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released Blood Money (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Leatherface (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Stronger (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Mill Creek Entertainment

03/06/18 — Sets 9 Lives Movie Collection (9 film set: Last Action Hero, Universal Soldier: The Return, S.W.A.T., Vertical Limit, White Line Fever, Into the Sun, Silent Rage, Stealth, Blind Fury)

Paramount Home Media

02/06/18 — Sets Suburbicon (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

SSO Recordings

12/19/17 — Released Finn Mortensen: Symphony Op. 5

Severin Films, LLC

12/19/17 — Released And Now the Screaming Starts and Asylum

Shemaroo Entertainment

12/19/17 — Released Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Hindi)

Shout! Factory

12/19/17 — Released American Gothic and Town Called Panic: The Collection (French)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

02/06/18 — Sets Only the Brave (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

03/06/17 — Sets Dark Crystal (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Steam Train Videos (MOD)

12/05/17 — Released In Search of Steam, Volume 1: On the Mainline

Synapse Films

12/19/17 — Released Suspiria (Italian) (2 disc set with bonus CD)

VCI Entertainment

02/13/18 — Sets Twilight People (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

01/23/18 — Adds Hanging Tree

 

 

Paramount Home Media To Launch Suburbicon As DVD And Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Product Offerings On Feb. 13

The Coen Brothers — Joel and Ethan — are gifted filmmakers, auteurs in the best sense.   Their direction is usually spot-on and their scripts are clever and well-written … Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men (and more, take your pick, it is a long list).   

With Suburbicon, which is heading home courtesy of Paramount Home Media as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack offerings on Feb. 13, you got a clever — weirdly clever — script (which had been written and revised over a period of 20 years), but they didn’t direct, as their compatriot, George Clooney, handled that duty.

First, the business side of the equation … the ARR works out to 102 days and ticket sales for the film’s late October theatrical run (just a little over 2,000 screens) came in light at just $5.8 million.

With Matt Damon and Julianne Moore in starring roles, plus the Coen Brothers as the scriptwriters, the home entertainment launch by Paramount Home Media should generate a good deal of interest … especially among those who couldn’t fit in a trip to the local multiplex during the limited two-week theatrical run that Suburbicon had nationally during the last week of October and the first week of November.

There’s more than one way to look at Suburbicon: It’s either a very black comedy, wrapped in a delicious murder mystery, or a social commentary.   When you consider that the original script’s timeline came right after the Coen Brothers delivered Blood Simple, the focus by Clooney could have been solely on those elements (think: Blood Simple married with Gary Ross’ 1998 film release of Pleasantville).   The entire black segregation/block-busting side story might have been better left on the cutting room floor (or made as a separate film altogether). 

As to bonus goodies, Clooney provides commentary and he is joined by actor/writer-turned-producer Grant Heslov  — Heslov and Clooney teamed for the Best Picture nominee, Good Luck, and Good Night in 2005 … Clooney and Heslov, along with Ben Affleck, captured the Oscar for Best Picture for their film production of Argo in 2013, and the Heslov/Clooney combination have been involved in eight films together, including Money Monster, The Monuments Men and The Ides of March.

Also included as bonus features are three production featurettes — “Welcome to Suburbicon,” “The Unusual Suspects: Casting” and “Scoring Suburbicon.”

Mill Creek Entertainment Readies 9 Lives Movie Collection For Blu-ray Release On Mar. 6

As the lights were turned off and the doors were locked up for the Christmas Holiday celebration Mill Creek Entertainment teased the price-the-collection consumer market place with Blu-ray news that seems too good to be true.   

So here it is — and this is just the first title in what is sure to be another wave of new product offerings — on Mar. 6 Mill Creek Entertainment will be releasing the three-disc, nine-film Blu-ray collection titled 9 Lives Movie Collection, which carries a suggested retail price point of just $24.98.   Do the math, that’s $2.78 per film on Blu-ray … and that’s before discounts at retail.

Nine films!   You read that right!

So what is included in this terrific set of action films?   How about, for starters, Arnold Schwarzegger starring in director John McTiernan summer of 1993 blockbuster, Last Action Hero!!

That’s just the first of nine … the collection also includes Universal Soldier: The Return (1999, Jean-Claude Van Damme), S.W.A.T. (2003, with Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J and Jeremy Renner) and director Martin Campbell’s Christmas-season of 2000 film release of Vertical Limit, starring Chris O’Donnell, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton and Scott Glenn.

Those four films alone — Last Action Hero, Universal Soldier: The Return, S.W.A.T. and Vertical Limit — if purchased on Blu-ray separately, would easily set you back $24.98.

But Mill Creek Entertainment has packed five more hit films into the collection, which makes this a must-own for adrenaline junkies in particular and film fans in general.

So what else is included here?   How about Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz in writer/director Jonathan Kaplan’s 1975 action smash, White Line Fever; Steven Segal stars in the 2005 thriller, Into The Sun; Chuck Norris battles an unstoppable evil in director Michael Miller’s 1982 chiller, Silent Rage; Jamie Foxx stars in Stealth and we round out the 9 Lives Movie Collection with Rutger Hauer in Phillip Noyce’s action thriller, Blind Fury.

WOW!   And that’s just the first selection in the Mar. 6 parade of DVD and Blu-ray hits.   Stay tuned for the full announcement!

Arrow Video Tabs. Feb. 27 For A Blu-ray Limited Edition Release Of Director Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K restoration of director Frank Henenlotter’s iconic 1982 (ish) horror film, Basket Case, ready for distribution on Feb. 27 as  a limited edition Blu-ray release. 

This Blu-ray edition from Arrow Video comes packed with bonus goodies that will have genre fans salivating.   Leading the list is a new commentary presentation featuring writer/director Frank Henenlotter, who is joined by actor Kevin Van Hentenryck (Duane … the twin who carries the murderous Belial around in the basket) and the two are also featured in the video session titled “Basket Case 3-1/2,” in which filmmaker Frank Henenlotter interviews “Duane” in character.

There are also featurettes titled “Seeing Double: The Basket Case Twins” (featuring “nurse” twins Florence and Maryellen Schultz), “Blood, BASKET and Beyond” and “Belial Goes to the Drive-In,” plus a new making-of featurette.

Additionally, there are deleted scenes, two short films — “Slash of the Knife” and “Belial’s Dream” (which includes a “making-of” featurette — and the location-revisited featurette titled “In Search of the Hotel Broslin.”

Yes, circle Feb. 27 on your release calendar … if you are a genre-fan this is one upgrade that you will be adding to your DVD and Blu-ray film library.

VCI Entertainment Readies Director Eddie Romero's Twilight People For Blu-ray Release On Feb. 13

John Ashley and Eddie Romero, an unlikely, but winning film producing combination, will be the focus of VCI Entertinment’s Feb. 13 Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release of their 1972 horror hit, The Twilight People. 

A 2K restoration from the original 35mm negative (in widescreen) is planned. 

Ashley was a handsome “teen” film star — you know, those 20 and 30-year olds starring as delinquents and beach “kids.”  He appeared in most of the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello Beach Party films, plus such drive-in classics as Dragstrip Girl, Motorcycle Gang, High School Caesar, Hell on Wheels … do you see a pattern there?   By the time he appeared in Hell on Wheels he was 34-years old!!!

And then a funny thing happened, he got an offer to appear in a film being shot in the Philippines.   His marriage to Deborah Walley was on the rocks, so a “vacation” in the Philippines, as the story has it, was a welcomed break … little did he know that this little side trip was a career changer.   

The producer/director of the film that Ashley had signed on for was none other than Eddie Remero, a prolific Filipino filmmaker, who hadn’t quite cracked the lucrative U.S. market in a meaningful way with his films.   That was about to change.   

The two hit it off with Brides of Blood and with Ashley’s long-standing connections with AIP alumni Roger Corman and James H. Nicholson, he soon found himself in the role of producer (and star) in a series of films with Romero that all became commercial hits … in the United States!

Counted among these were Beast of the Yellow Night, The Big Doll House (a production credit in association with Roger Corman), Black Mama White Mama (Ashley as producer), Beyond Atlantis and the VCI Entertainment’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release on Feb. 13 of The Twilight People.

Pam Grier also stars in The Twilight People (the Panther Woman, Ayesa), who was also working in the Philippines at the time — The Big Doll House and Black Mama White Mama.   Needless to say, The Twilight People was a drive-in hit in 1972 and John Ashley’s career as a film (and TV) producer was off and running.

Bonus goodies lined up by VCI Entertainment include a video session with filmmaker Eddie Romero and a commentary track with film historian Toby Roan (author of “A Million Feet of Film: The Making of One-Eyed Jacks”).

MIG Music Readies Double-Disc DVD/CD Combo Pack Of Muddy Waters: Live at Rockpalast For Release On Feb. 9

Six-time Grammy-winner, Muddy Waters, will be the focus of attention on Friday, Feb. 9, when MIG Music and MVD Entertainment Group team up for the double-disc DVD/double-disc CD Combo Release of the legendary 1978 concert at Dortmund, Germany … Muddy Waters: Live at Rockpalast. 

After the back-to-back successes of the album releases of Hard Again (1977) and I’m Ready (1978), Muddy Waters was back on the road touring.   The famed Dortmund venue captured Waters at the height of his creative resurgence with a 12 song set that included “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” “Kansas City,” “Sweet Home Chicago” and “Got My Mojo Working.”

As a bonus, MIG Music is also including the summer of 1996 “reunion” concert at Loreley (St. Goarshausen, Germany), which showcased a 14 song set that included the likes of “Clouds In My Heart,” “Everything Gonna Be Alright,” “Hard Hard Way” and “Mannish Boy” (which was also the featured at the Dortmund concert 18 years earlier).

The accompanying CDs are audio versions of the two aforementioned concerts.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment To Release Director Delmer Daves' The Hanging Tree On Blu-ray On Jan. 23

Over the Christmas holiday period Warner Bros. Home Entertainment revealed that director Delmer Daves’ 1959 Western classic, The Hanging Tree, will be available as a Blu-ray release on Jan. 23.

The film stars Gary Cooper, Karl Malden, Ben Piazza, Maria Schell and George C. Scott and was originally released to the home entertainment marketplace in 2012 by Warner Bros. on DVD.

The Hanging Tree was nominated for the Oscar for Best Song, “The Hanging Tree” (performed by Marty Robbins), but it lost out to “High Hopes” (Frank Sinatra) from director Frank Capra’s film adaptation of the Arnold Schulman stage play, A Hole in the Head.