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

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

 

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Arrow Video

01/30/18 — Sets Viva L'Italia (Italian)

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Barlates Body Blitz Fit Ball Series and Barlates Body Blitz Step Barre Fusion

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released If Tomorrow Comes (2 disc set) and Oddball Couple (2 disc set)

Championship Productions

12/26/17 — Released Coaching the Technical Aspects of the Long Jump & Triple Jump and James Thomas' Unconventional Approach for High Jump Consistency

Cleopatra Music & Films

03/13/18 — Sets Are We Not Cats

Discovery Channel

12/26/17 — Released Manhunt: Unabomber (2 disc set)

ESPN Films

12/26/17 — Released ESPN Films 30 for 30: George Best- All By Himself, ESPN Films 30 for 30: Celtics/Lakers - Best of Enemies, ESPN Films 30 for 30: Mike and the Mad Dog and ESPN Films 30 for 30: Year of the Scab

Five Carat Films (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Deal

Gravatis Ventures (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released 9 Rides, From Hell to the Wild West, Nightworld and Unraveling

High Octane Pictures (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Sightings

I-Cine

12/26/17 — Released Lan Lang Vuong Phi (16 disc set) and Nhung Nang Bau Hanh Dong (15 disc set)

Icarus Films

02/06/18 — Sets I Am Somebody: Three Films by Madeline Anderson (3 short films: I Am Somebody, Integration Report 1, A Tribute to Malcolm X; plus bonus short film: Celebrate Moe!)

02/13/18 — Sets Rebels on Pointe (ARR of 88 days; box office: $15,088)

Image Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Mayhem

In the Studio with Dianne Mize (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Steelyard Balance: Assigning Visual Weight, Steelyard Balance: Emphasis on the Axis, Steelyard Balance: Facing Outward, Steelyard Balance: Shifting with a Triangle and Unraveling Intensity: Emphasizing with Saturation

Indican Pictures

01/23/18 — Sets Lucky Man (ARR of 32 days; box office: $10,398)

02/13/18 — Sets Wastelander

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Killing Gunther

Mill Creek Entertainment

03/06/18 — Sets Baby First: ABC Galaxy of Learning, Baby First: Color Crew - New Adventures, Kevin Bacon 6 Movie Collection (6 film set: The Big Picture, Flatliners, Hollow Man, Where the Truth Lies, Trapped, In the Cut) (2 disc set), Legend of the American Sniper (with Digital Copy) and Robert Altman Presents Gun (2 disc set)

Not So Sane Entertainment (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Serial Rabbit vs. The Epic Hunt

Open Sky Press (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Made Guys

PBS Direct

12/26/17 — Released Fight for Mosul, Nature: Cheetah Children and NOVA: Secrets of the Forbidden City

Paramount Home Media

02/20/18 — Sets Daddy’s Home 2 (ARR of 102 days; box office: $101,791,381) and Same Kind of Different As Me (ARR of 123 days; box office: $6,394,006)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

12/19/17 — Released Der Alte und der Junge Konig (German) and Die Rosl Vom Traunsee (German)

12/26/17 — Released Kadetten (1939) (improved edition) (German), Kolberg (German), Oberst Strogoff (German) and Tuntematon Sotilas (Finnish)

Reel Nightmare Films (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Alpha Delta Zatan and First Date

Reelclassicdvd.com (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Haunted Castle (silent-1921), plus Lights Out: The Hidden Staircase

Serpent Films (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Classic Drama Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Hell in a Circus (aka: The Constant Woman), Hill Number One), Classic Drama Movie Double Bill (2 film set: I Conquer the Sea, I Cover the Waterfront), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Arrest Bulldog Drummond, Bulldog Drummond Comes Back), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge, Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Double Cross), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: American Empire, Behave Yourself), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Blonde Ice, Boarding House Blues), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: The Cat and the Canary (silent-1927), Three Blondes in His Life), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Breaking the Ice, Candlelight in Algeria), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: The Choppers, The Duke is Tops), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Clancy Street Boys, Club Paradise), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: The Dark Hour, They Met in the Dark), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Doll Face, Dreaming Out Loud), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Eagle in a Cage, Evergreen), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Fit for a King, Five Minutes to Live), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Follow Your Heart, Hearts of Humanity), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did), Love Laughs at Andy Hardy), Two Great Classic Movies (2 Film Set: The Lost World (silent-1925), Milky Way), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Manfish, Meet the Boyfriend), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Men of Action, Misbehaving Husbands), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Morals for Women, Night Tide), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: No, No, Nanette, Oh, Susanna), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (silent-1928), The Cameraman (silent-1928), Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Timber Queen, The Unfinished Task), Two Great Classic Sexy Movies (2 film set: Nude on the Moon, Sex Madness), Two Great Horror Classics (2 film set: Dead Men Walk, The Human Monster), Two Great Horror Classics (2 film set: Horror Express, The Head), Two Great Sci-Fi Classics (2 film set: Creature from the Haunted Sea, Curse of the Aztec Mummy), Two Great Sci-Fi Classics (2 film set: The Day the Sky Exploded, Nabonga), Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Aces and Eights, Alias John Law), Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Ambush Valley, Billy the Kid Returns), Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Arizona Days, Bells of San Angelo), Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Dawn on the Great Divide, Days of Jesse James), Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: I Killed Wild Bill Hickok, Kansas Pacific) and Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Law of the Lash, Lawless Land)

Shemaroo Entertainment

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

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released Endless Slapstick. Larry Semon: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 3 (4 silent short films: Well, I'll Be (1919), Dew Drop Inn (1919), Horseshoes (1923), No Wedding Bells (1923)) and Endless Slapstick. Larry Semon: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 4 (5 silent short films: Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies (1917), Between The Acts (1919), Kid Speed (1924), Trouble Brewing (1924), Dummies (1928))

T-Series

12/26/17 — Released Chef (Hindi)

The Gioi Sao Online

12/26/17 — Released Long Son, Part 1 (6 disc set), Long Son, Part 2 (6 disc set) and Tinh Bolero: Phien Ban Nghe Si (2 disc set)

Tieng To Dong Productions

12/26/17 — Released Tinh Nghe Sy 12 (2 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released 13th Friday

Vertical Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Revolt

Vina Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Gang Son Tu Le Truyen, Part 1 (6 disc set), Gang Son Tu Le Truyen, Part 2 (6 disc set) and Gang Son Tu Le Truyen, Part 3 (6 disc set)

Vision Video

12/26/17 — Released Inheritance, Sin: From Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel and When the Saints

01/02/18 — Released Torchlighters: The Harriet Tubman Story

01/16/18 — Sets C.S. Lewis On Stage: The Most Reluctant Convert

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

01/23/18 — Adds Judgement Night and SubUrbia

Zee Music

12/26/17 — Released Qarib Qarib Singlle (Hindi)

Zondervan

12/26/17 — Released Know Why You Believe (2 disc set)

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Acorn Media

12/26/17 — Released Acceptable Risk: Series One (2 disc set)

Anniplex of America

12/26/17 — Released Kiznaiver (2 disc set) and Occultic;Nine, Volume 2

Arrow Video

02/06/18 — Sets Gruesome Twosome

Discovery Channel, LLC

12/26/17 — Released Manhunt: Unabomber (2 disc set)

Eastern Star

12/26/17 — Released Barefoot Gen: Movies 1 & 2 and Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

12/26/17 — Released Recall (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

12/26/17 — Released Disastrous Life of Saiki K Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Disastrous Life of Saiki K Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravatis Ventures (MOD)

12/26/17 — Released 9 Rides, From Hell to the Wild West, Nightworld and Unraveling

Image Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Mayhem and Riot in Cell Block 99 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Killing Gunther (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Mill Creek Entertainment

03/06/18 — Adds Hammer Films Double Feature (2 film set: Maniac, Die! Die! My Darling), Hammer Films Double Feature (2 film set: Never Take Candy from a Stranger, Scream of Fear!), Kevin Bacon 6 Movie Collection (6 film set: The Big Picture, Flatliners, Hollow Man, Where the Truth Lies, Trapped, In the Cut) (2 disc set), Legend of the American Sniper (with Digital Copy) and Lords of Dogtown

Paramount Home Media

02/20/18 — Sets Daddy's Home 2 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Same Kind of Different As Me (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

12/26/17 — Released Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Fletch Lives, For Richer or Poorer and The Paper

Vertical Entertainment

12/26/17 — Released Revolt

Icarus Fims Selects Feb. 13 As The DVD Debut Date For Documentary Filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart’s Rebels On Pointe

They will be touring the United States beginning Jan. 20 through Mar. 4.   Make note of those dates, because if after reading this news from Icarus Films, you just might want to catch one their live performances.

The announcement this past week from Icarus Films was that documentary filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart’s Rebels on Pointe will be making its DVD debut on Feb. 13.   The film had a brief arthouse theatrical break in mid-November (limited to just three screens), so a much-wider audience stands ready to enjoy this gem.

For the record, the ARR works out to 88 days.

Rebels on Pointe documents the rich history of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an American ballet group that bills themselves as “The World’s Foremost All-Male Comic Ballet Company.”   Founded way, way back in 1974, the ballet artists of this company have fun with classical ballet — playing both the male and female parts — but as the New York Times review of Rebels on Pointe (by Jeannette Catsoulis) pointed out … “The performances are hilarious, but the dancing is no joke.  As Gia Kourlas, a dance critic for The New York Times, points out, it takes exceptionally strong technique to merge classical choreography and comedy.”

The film itself details the group’s history, provides behind-the-scenes access to their work (and preparation), plus interviews with cast members and clips from the various presentations — just the trailer for the documentary can get you hooked; the film itself will make you a fan!

Bonus features on the DVD provided by Icarus Films include a whopping 145 minutes worth of bonus interviews and outtakes! 

Also new from Icarus Films this week, and timed for release during the celebration of Black History Month is the DVD presentation of I Am Somebody: Three films by Madeline Anderson (Feb. 6).

The DVD release from Icarus includes three of Madeline Anderson’s short films … the heart of which is the 30-minute presentation of I Am Somebody.  Documentary filmmaker Madeline Anderson was in the right place at the right time when the events unfolded in the spring of 1969 at the South Carolina Medical College Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.   Her film is like a time capsule view of what unfolded at time.

By any standard the black workers — mainly nurses and aides — were treated poorly.  Their wages were not only below those of whites performing similar duties, but a full 30 cents per hour below the Federal Minimum Wage ($1.30 at the time).    12 said enough and were immediately fired.   Their co-workers went out on strike to protest and the National Guard (with fixed bayonets) was called in … the unrest lasted for 100 days.   Dr. Ralph David Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was there to help with the strike and Coretta Scott King spoke to the strikers during this period.

Eventually, the strike was resolved, wages raised and the 12 who were fired were rehired … the threat of $12 million in Federal Funds being withheld was a mighty hammer.

The other two films in this unique collection are Integration Report 1 (circa 1960) and A Tribute to Malcolm X (1967).   Icarus Films is including, as a bonus, the short film titled Celebrate Moe!  

Paramount Home Media Picks Feb. 20 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Writer/Director Sean Anders' Daddy's Home 2

Paramount Home Media wasted no time in the New Year with the announcement this past week that writer/director Sean Anders’ smash comedy sequel, Daddy’s Home 2, will be available as a three-SKU product offering on Feb. 20.

The ARR comes in at 102 days and ticket sales currently stand at a robust $102.3 million.  That’s outstanding for a sequel, especially when the major media critics panned it … but audiences howled and that, in the end, means that they had the last laugh!   With those numbers for a sequel, you can expect a re-match with these various dads (just a question as whether you can corral the actors). 

As to SKU configuration for Daddy’s Home 2, Paramount will be delivery a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and a stand-alone DVD edition.

The casting of Mel Gibson as Mark Wahlberg’s father was inspired, equally so was that of John Lithgow as Will Ferrell’s eccentric dad.   Since director/writer Sean Anders and Mark Wahlberg served as executive producers, there’s a good chance that another go‘round for this winning combination could surface (if Wahlberg can work it into his busy schedule).

As to bonus nuggets, which are exclusive to the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray SKUs, there are deleted, extended and alternate scenes, a gag reel and five featurettes — “Making a Sequel,” “Look Who’s Back,” “Co-Dads: Will & Mark,” “The New Dads in Town: Mel & John” and “Captain Sully.”

Also heading home on the same date, Feb. 20, is writer/director Michael Carney’s faith-based film adaptation of Ron Hall and Denver Moore’s best-selling biographical novel, Same Kind of Different as Me.   Blu-ray and DVD editions will be available.

The ARR is 123 days and domestic box office receipts came in at $6.4 million.

Based on a true story (and told in flashback), Greg Kinnear stars as a Texas-based international art dealer by the name of Ron Hall, who strikes up what proved to be a life-changing friendship with a homeless man named “Suicide” (aka: Denver Moore) played by Djimon Hounsou, while volunteering at a homeless shelter.    Renée Zellweger plays Hall’s wife, Deborah, who had a “vision” of Moore’s character and instructed her husband to befriend him. 

As to bonus features, there is commentary from Ron Hall and filmmaker Michael Carney, who are joined by co-screenwriter Alexander Foard, plus there are deleted and extended scenes and a pair of featurettes — “Love is Patient, Love is Kind: The Making of Same Kind of Different as Me” and “Filming in Mississippi.”

Mill Creek Entertainment Preps Six-Film Kevin Bacon Promotion For Both DVD And Blu-ray Release On Mar. 6

You won’t have to play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” to take advantage of Mill Creek Entertainment’s Mar. 6 Blu-ray and DVD priced-to-collect product promotion featuring Kevin Bacon.

Titled Kevin Bacon 6 Movie Collection, fans — and film fans in general — can snap up these double-disc Blu-ray and DVD presentations at very attractive pricing.   So what do they get … let’s get right to that!

Two of his best sci-fi thrillers are included here, director Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, which teamed him with the likes of Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Oliver Platt and William Baldwin and director Paul Verhoeven’ Hollow Man, which saw Kevin as a crazed scientist stalking his fellow researchers, which included Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin.

Kevin Bacon gets to torment both Charlize Theron and Dakota Fanning in director Luis Mandoki’s 2002 kidnapping thriller, Trapped, and Meg Ryan is the object of Bacon’s obsessions in director Jane Campion’s 2003 thriller, In the Cut, which also features Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Ruffalo and Nick Damici.

Rounding out this six-film collection featuring Kevin Bacon are writer/director Atom Egoyan’s 2005 mystery-within-a-mystery tale, Where the Truth Lies, which co-stars Colin Firth and Alison Lohman, and lastly, director Christopher Guest’s 1989 romantic comedy, The Big Picture, where Kevin, as a film school graduate, learns about the shark-infested waters of Hollywood.

Also arriving on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment on Mar. 6 is the Blu-ray debut of director Catherine Hardwicke’s 2005 award-winning bio-pic, Lords of Dogtown, starring Heath Ledger … this is the unrated, extended-cut not seen in theatres!    Bonus features include commentary, deleted scenes and much more!! 

And, get this, the SRP is just $14.98 for Lords of Dogtown (and that’s before discounts at retail). 

Also among the priced-to-collect Blu-ray product offerings from Mill Creek Entertainment on Mar. 3 are two double-features from the famed Hammer Films library — director Maniac, featuring Kerwin Mathews and Nadia Gray, is teamed with the 1965 horror-thriller, Die! Die! My Darling, which stars Stefanie Powers and Tallulah Bankhead (and yes that is Donald Sutherland in one of his very early film roles).  The other double feature on Blu-ray from the Hammer Films library is director Cyril Frankel’s 1960 film adaptation of the Roger Garis stage play, Never Take Candy from a Stranger, which is teamed with director Seth Holt’s 1961 horror-thriller, Scream of Fear!, featuring Susan Strasberg and Hammer Films icon, Christopher Lee.   

Rounding out the Blu-ray selections on Mar. 6 are both Blu-ray and DVD editions of the documentary feature debut of Legend of the American Sniper (which includes Digital Copy).   This is an insightful look at what it takes be an elite sniper for American ground forces in combat.

On the DVD front, Mill Creek Entertainment has two for the young ones with the release of Baby First: ABC Galaxy of Learning and Baby First: Color Crew New Adventures — over two hours of fun and learning comes with both of these priced-to-own DVD product offerings (the SRP is just $9.98 each).

On the TV front, Mar. 6 brings collectors the Robert Altman anthology six-part mini-series, Gun, and the six-disc set of Crossbow: The Complete Series, starring Will Lyman as the legendary William Tell.

Arrow Video Preps Blu-ray Edition Of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1967 Horror Gem: The Gruesome Twosome

The tale of the “kindly” Mrs. Pringle (Elizabeth Davis), landlord and proprietor of the Little Wig Shop (a home-based business), is the subject of horror icon Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1967 horror gem, The Gruesome Twosome, which will be a getting a hi-def spin on Blu-ray from Arrow Video — MVD Entertainment Group provides the domestic sales and distribution expertise — this coming Feb. 6.

You can put the pieces together.   Mrs. Pringle runs a wig shop that features real human hair.   Mrs. Pringle rents out a room to young women attending the local college.    Mrs. Pringle’s son, Rodney (Chris Martell — Scream Baby Scream, Flesh Feast), is nuts.   Girls are scalped and Mrs. Pringle’s business has a steady supply of new raw materials.

Don’t you just love it when it all just fits together!   The “Godfather of Gore” nailed this one, right down to talking mannequin heads and a stuffed bobcat (or whatever it is) named Napoleon.   It’s a gore-fest of the first order featuring young women being scalped, decapitated and gutted — the innards of beautiful corpses can be a delight to play with, just ask Rodney!

As to bonus features, we have an introduction to the film by the late Herschell Gordon Lewis, a vintage commentary track featuring the filmmaker and a trio of featurettes — “Peaches Christ Flips Her Wig!,” “It Came from Florida” and “HG Lewis vs. the Censors.”

And, as an extra special bonus, Arrow Video is including Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1967 film release of A Taste of Blood, starring Bill Rogers (Flesh Feast) as a newly minted vampire (the result of drinking brandy sent to him by a distant relative).   

Indican Pictures Selects Feb. 20 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Angelo Lopes' Post- Apocalyptic Thriller Wastelander

Circle Feb. 20 on your DVDs-to-see calendar as word arrived this past week that Indican Pictures has tagged that date for the DVD debut of writer/director Angelo Lopes’ post- apocalyptic thriller, Wastelander.

A limited threatrical run of Wastlander is planned just prior to DVD launch, which promises to be the first installment in a trilogy. 

Rhyous Solidor (Brendan Guy Murphy), a former soldier, is a wanderer in the wasteland, only vaguely remembering bits and pieces of his past … visions of “Eden” haunt him.   One day he happens upon an odd assortment of fellow survivors, whose leader is only sustained by his “cryo” suit, but who does confirm that such a place exists.

In a clever mix of Mad Max meets Prince Arthur, our “knightly” hero embarks upon his quest to find this lost “Eden” with a motely group that includes the resourceful “mechanic” Neve (played by the alluring Carol Cardenas — Zero Point Theory, The Z, etc.) and the screw-loose Solek (Jon Proudstar — Jackrabbit Sky, Legend of the Phantom Rider).   The only thing that binds them together is their collective fear of The Scourge, a band of ruthless killers who roam the wasteland doing as they please and taking what they want.  

Oddly, The Scourge actually fear the presence of “Eden” and that makes it all the more imperative that Rhyous and his group succeed in their quest.

Also on the way from Indican Pictures is writer/director Norman Gregory McGuire surreal “road trip” story, The Lucky Man, starring Jesse James (As Good as it Gets, The Butterfly Effect, The Amityville Horror, etc.) as a con artist preacher named Reverend Johnny Jones, who discovers that he actually does have the “power.” 

The street date for the DVD release is Jan. 23.   The film had a brief theatrical showcase run in December, which yields an ARR of 32 days.

His scam is to move from small town to small town with his tag-along girlfriend, Rebecca (Mariana Paola Vicente — Self/Less, Nocturna), preaching to the locals — he’s actually pretty good at it — to get enough money for the next motel, the next round of drugs and enough booze to make him forget what a lowlife grifter he is.   When a pair of young thugs decide one evening that he’s an easy mark things happen … unexpected things, that is, as Johnny is able to revive one of his attackers from the dead (the results of a stray bullet). 

Rebecca listens to his tale, but thinks it’s the drugs or booze talking.   It happens again, this time he causes harm to an old man by accident and then makes it right.  She’s now a believer!

The power to heal … it proves to be both a blessing and a curse as events unfold and the sins of the past have a strange and ironic way of overtaking this newfound “healer” and his faithful companion.      

The Lucky Man is a strange, strange roadtrip … one that is worth taking coming Jan. 23 when it becomes available on DVD.