For the period ending January 19, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending January 19, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

DVD Releases: 

 

Acorn Media

01/16/18 — Released Alibi and Commander: The Complete Series (7 disc set)

Arcana

01/16/18 — Released Mr. Pearl: Svengali

BBC Home Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released Doctor Blake Mysteries: Season Four (2 disc set) and Him

Barlates Body Blitz

01/16/18 — Released Barlates Body Blitz Express Mat Series

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Jane the Virgin: Season Three (5 disc set)

Championship Productions

01/16/18 — Released Ball Handling with a Purpose, Best of Club Volleyball: Passing & Serving, Best of Club Volleyball: Team-Oriented Ball Control Drills, Blueprint for Success: Building a High School Program, Building a Better Shooter, Building an Aggressive Adjacent Defense, Controlling Opponents with the Short Serve, Finishing at the Rim, Latest Developments in Freestyle Wrestling & Year-Round Strength Training for Wrestling (2 disc set), Planning Practice & Drills to Achieve Success and Techniques and Tactics from the Neutral Position & Optimal Nutrition and Safe Weight-Cutting Practices for Wrestlers (2 disc set)

Chrome Dreams/Sexy Intellectual

01/16/18 — Released David Bowie: Floating in a Tin Can - The Missing Years, 1968-1972

Cinedigm Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released Gangster Land and Loving Vincent (ARR of 116 days; box office: $6,478,819)

Classicflix

01/16/18 — Released Raw Deal

Coaches Choice/Healthy Learning

01/16/18 — Released College Agility and Accuracy Drills for Lacrosse, Dynamic Warm-Up and Agility Drills for Lacrosse, Offensive System, Part 2: Situational Offense, Starting a Girl’s and Women’s Lacrosse Program: Formations, Plays and Drills and Track & Field Coaching Methods: Planning a Training Season

Criterion Collection

04/10/18 — Sets Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years (6 film set: The Count of Old Town, Walpurgis Tonight, Intermezzo, Dollar, A Woman's Face, June Night) (Swedish) (6 disc set)

04/17/18 — Sets Awful Truth and Color of Pomegranates (Armenian)

04/24/18 — Sets Dead Man and Virgin Suicides (2 disc set)

DreamScape Media, LLC

01/16/18 — Released Big in Bollywood and Lady Luck

Farsight Presentations (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Tunguska Complexity

FilmRise (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Pornocracy

Films2C

01/16/18 — Released SILA

GKids, Inc.

01/16/18 — Released Cat Returns (Japanese), My Neighbors: The Yamadas (Japanese) and Whisper of the Heart (Japanese)

Gorilla Tree Film Co. (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Devil's Acid

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Almost Friends and Break Night

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Carnivore: Werewolf of London

I-Cine

01/16/18 — Released Nhung Ke Ba Hoa (15 disc set) and Tro Ve Tuoi 20 (10 disc set)

Icarus Films

03/13/18 — Sets The Assistant (French)

Kino Lorber

01/16/18 — Released Cemetery Club, Kills on Wheels (Hungarian) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $15,856), Redemption of the Devil and Taking of Beverly Hills

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released Cook Off!

Lotus Five Star

01/16/18 — Released Nibunan (Tamil)

MPI Home Video

01/16/18 — Released 100 Men

Mua Hong Music Productions

01/16/18 — Released Sen Nhay Song Ca: The Best of Remix (2 disc set), Song Ca Bolero: Khuu Huy Vu & Luu Anh Loan and Tuyet Pham Lien Khuc: Nhung Chuyen Tinh Do Dang (2 disc set)

National Geographic Video (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released National Geographic: Air Force One and National Geographic: The Story of Us (2 disc set)

PBS Direct

01/16/18 — Released Caillou: Caillou's Kitchen, Real Mad Men of Advertising and Secret of Tuxedo Park

PR Studios/GI Studios

01/16/18 — Released Planet of Storms (Russian)

Paraclete Press

01/16/18 — Released Reclaiming Life: Faith, Hope and Suicide Loss

Paramount Home Media

03/06/18 — Sets The Good Wife: Season One (3 disc set)

Passion River

01/16/18 — Released I Voted?

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Das Madchen vom Pfarrhof (German), Liebesbriefe (German), Suvorov (Russian), Treasured Earth (Hungarian), Un Eine Nasenlange (German) and Verlobung am Wolfgangsee (German)

Serpent Films (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Classic Sci-Fi & Horror: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Driller Killer, Naked Massacre), Classic Science Fiction: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Assignment Outer Space, Battle of the Worlds), Classic Science Fiction: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Attack of the Eye Creatures, Curse of Bigfoot), Classic Science Fiction: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Beast from the Haunted Cave, The Killer Shrews), Classic Science Fiction: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Buck Rogers: Planet Outlaws, Cat Women of the Moon), Classic Science Fiction: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Curse of the Swamp Creature, Yongary), Classic Science Fiction: Two Retro Classics (2 silent film set: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), The Lost World (1925)), Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Fighting Deputy, Fighting Stallion) and Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Water Rustlers, Man of the Frontier (aka: Red River Valley))

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Endless Slapstick. Larry Semon: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 6 (5 silent short films: Gall and Golf (1917), Hindoos And Hazards (1918), Golf (1922), The Agent (1922), A Simple Sap (1928)) 

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released Crooked House

Synergetic

01/16/18 — Released Gunhill Road: Every 40 Years

The Sprocket Vault

01/16/18 — Released Charlie Chase: At Hal Roach - The Talkies, Volume 1: 1930-1931 (18 short films: The Real McCoy, Whispering Whoopee, All Teed Up, Fifty Million Husbands, Fast Work, Girl Shock, Dollar Dizzy, Looser Than Loose, High C's, Thundering Tenors, The Pip from Pittsburg, Rough Seas, One of the Smiths, The Panic Is On, Skip the Maloo!, What a Bozo!, The Hasty Marriage, La Señorita de Chicago) (2 disc set)

Thuy NGA, Inc.

01/16/18 — Released Paris by Night: Divos (2 disc set)

TomCat Releasing

01/16/18 — Released 911: Officer Down (aka: L.A. Beat)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

01/16/18 — Released 9/11 (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) (ARR of 130 days; box office: $170,000)

UMN, LLC

01/16/18 — Released Inside Metal: The Rise of L.A. Thrash Metal

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Alien Reign of Man, Anti Matter, Cold Moon and Cute Little Buggers

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

01/16/18 — Released Extraordinary

01/23/18 — Sets Thank You For Your Service (ARR of 88 days; box office: $9,437,885)

03/06/18 — Adds The Man Who Invented Christmas (ARR of 102 days; box office: $5,671,802)

03/13/18 — Sets I, Tonya (ARR of 95 days; box office: $10,767,204)

03/27/18 — Sets Mr. Robot: Season Three (3 disc set)

Vinegar Syndrome

02/27/18 — Sets Night Caller and Peekarama (2 film set: Sessions of Love Therapy, 101 Acts of Love)

Vision Films (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Created Equal and Dying King: The Shah of Iran

WWE

01/16/18 — Released WWE: Clash of Champions 2017

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released 4 Kid Favorites: WWE Tag Team Collection (4 film set: Scooby-Doo!: WrestleMania Mystery, The Flintstones & WWE StoneAge Smackdown, Scooby-Doo and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon, Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania) (2 disc set), Be Cool, Scooby Doo! Season One, Part Two (2 disc set), Girls' Night In (2 film set: Miss Congeniality, Miss Congeniality 2) and Looney Tunes Let Loose (2 film set: Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, Tweety's High Flying Adventure; plus Taz-Mania: Taz on the Loose (7 episodes)) (2 disc set)

03/13/18 — Sets Justice League (ARR of 116 days; box office: $227,522,271)

Wild Eye Releasing

03/27/18 — Sets The Butchering

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released 2047: Virtual Revolution, Antihuman and My Little Sister

Blu-ray Releases: 

 

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Jane the Virgin: Season Three (5 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released Gangster Land and Loving Vincent

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released So B. It

Classicflix

01/16/18 — Released Raw Deal

Criterion Collection

04/17/18 — Sets Awful Truth and Color of Pomegranates (Armenian)

04/24/18 — Sets Dead Man and Virgin Suicides

Films2C

01/16/18 — Released SILA

FilmRise (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released From Nowhere and Pornocracy

FUNimation

01/16/18 — Released Berserk: Season 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Season 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Morose Mononokean (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

GKids, Inc.

01/16/18 — Released Cat Returns (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), My Neighbors: The Yamadas (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Whisper of the Heart (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Almost Friends and Break Night

Harmonia Mundi

01/16/18 — Released Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Kino Lorber

01/16/18 — Released Cemetery Club, Kills on Wheels (Hungarian), Taking of Beverly Hills and Trouble Bound

Severin Films, LLC

01/16/18 — Released Beast Must Die

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released 13th Friday, Anti Matter, Cold Moon and Cute Little Buggers

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

01/16/18 — Released Extraordinary

01/23/18 — Sets Thank You For Your Service (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

03/06/18 — Adds Man Who Invented Christmas (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

03/13/18 — Sets I, Tonya (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Vertical Entertainment

01/16/18 — Released Beyond Skyline

Vinegar Syndrome

02/27/18 — Sets Mary! Mary! (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Penitentiary 2 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Prey (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

03/13/18 — Sets Justice League (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Justice League 3D/2D (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

01/16/18 — Released Flight of the Dragons

02/13/18 — Sets Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

 

Vinegar Syndrome Announces Its Feb. 27 DVD And Blu-ray Release Calendar

It should have received a theatrical run back in the late 1970s, but, sadly, it didn’t and eventually went the direct to video route in 1984 and then disappeared for another 20 years.

We are talking about the UK-produced sci-fi thriller, Prey, directed by Norman J. Warren (Horror Planet, Bloody New Year, etc.) and starring Barry Stokes (Enemy Mine) as a shape-shifting alien on a mission to survey humans as a potential source of food!   His mission gets a little sidetracked when he becomes fascinated with a lesbian couple played by Sally Faulkner and the late Glory Annen.

The reason we bring this up is that Vinegar Syndrome announced this past week that Prey is getting a 2K restoration from the original 35mm negative and will be available for genre fans to savor on Feb. 27 as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.

Bonus features include commentary from Norman J. Warren and Sally Faulkner,  a trio of featurettes — “Directing the Prey,” “Becoming the Prey” and “Producing the Prey.”

Also on the Feb. 27 release calendar from Vinegar Syndrome is Jamaa Fanaka’s 1982 hit sequel, Penitentiary II, starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as former convict Martel “Too Sweet” Gordone.

This is a 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative and Penitentiary II will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.

Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka and two production featurettes — “In the Raw” and “Too Sweet on the Outside.”  

It should be noted that Jan. 30 is the street for the original, Penitentiary … Vinegar Syndrome will be serving-up a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack — it is a 4K restoration also featuring commentary from filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka and other bonus goodies.

Also on the Feb. 27 release calendar as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release is director Bernard Morris’ 1976 shoot-on-film adult classic Mary! Mary!, starring the legendary John Leslie (over 300 film credits before his untimely death of heart failure in 2010), with co-stars Constance Money (The Opening of Misty Beethoven) and Sharon Thorpe (she also teamed with John Leslie in filmmaker Anthony Spinelli’s 1978 adult film, SexWorld).

Vinegar Syndrome has lined up a 2K restoration of Mary! Mary! from the original 35mm camera negative!

And speaking of adult filmmaker Anthony Spinelli, his 1975 adult-thriller, Night Caller, has been given a new 2K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome and will be available on Feb. 27 as a DVD product offering.

And last, but not least, the company’s popular “Peekarama” DVD line of products will see its next entry on the 27^th with the double feature release of Sessions of Love Therapy (1970, featuring Rene Bond, Sandy Dempsey and Suzanne Fields) and 101 Acts of Love (1971, starring Lindis Guinness).

Icarus Films Will Release The French Filmmaking Team Of Christophe Ali And Nicolas Bonilauri's The Assistant On DVD On Mar. 13

Icarus Films will be delivering the France-based Distrib Films thriller, The Assistant, to the domestic DVD marketplace on Mar. 13.

The French filmmaking team of Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri (who also teamed for Camping Sauvage in 2005) deliver a twisted tale of misguided revenge that features a tour de force performance from the incredible Nathalie Baye (four-time César Awards-winner — Every Man for Himself, Strange Affair, La Balance, Le Petit Lieutenant) as a grieving mother who slowly comes unhinged.

We meet Thomas Lemans (Malik Zidi — Poison Friends, Changing Times, etc.) as he is rushing to the hospital — with his very pregnant wife — in the rain, at night, when the unthinkable happens, he hits a young man.   He does not flee, but instead stops and tries to help the dying lad, he gives him comfort, calls for help and then he is gone.   It is a tragic accident.

The mother, Marie-France Ducret (Nathalie Baye), is, understandably, grief stricken over her loss.   But, we soon discover that her loss, her grief, metastasizes into an insane plan of revenge … a nine-year plan to get revenge upon Thomas and his family for the death of her son.   Talk about creepy!!!

She becomes his secretary at the architectural firm where he works — he does not know her as the mother of the young man he killed.   She strikes up a relationship with Thomas’ father, and eventually marries him (we said it was creepy).   Nine years of waiting, plotting and now she is in the heart of his family.   

Buckle-up, Nathalie Baye delivers a performance that would make a black widow blush with envy and Alfred Hitchcock proud!!

The Assistant is presented in French with English subtitles.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainments Picks Mar. 13 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Director Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Last week Walt Disney Home Entertainment announced back-to-back street dates for both the animated smash, Coco (Feb. 27), and the super-hero blockbuster, Thor: Ragnarok (Mar. 6).   With this done, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment wasted absolutely no time in jumping into the fray on Mar. 13 with a four-SKU helping of their own super-hero hit, director Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

The ARR comes in at 116 days and domestic box office receipts currently stand at $227.5 million.

Planned for delivery to the home entertainment marketplace are a stand-alone DVD edition, a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, a double-disc Blu-ray selection featuring both 2D and 3D viewing options and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray combo pack.  Lots of choices for Justice League fans!!!

In a post-Superman world, Lois Lane (Amy Adams) is in mourning and a smorgasbord of (DC) super heroes — Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Mamoa), The Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) — are pitted against the timeless Steppenwolf (voiced by Ciarán Hinds) and his legion of flying demons.   Will they be enough to stop the destruction of our planet?   Can hope be “resurrected” (is that a spoiler?) to overcome Steppenwolf and his hellish creatures?   Join the fun on Mar. 13 and all will be revealed!

Bonus features common to all SKU configurations include a half-dozen featurettes — “Road to Justice,” “Heart of Justice,” “Technology of the Justice League,” “Justice League: The New Heroes,” “Steppenwolf the Conqueror” and “Suit Up: The Look of the League” — plus four specific “Scene Studies” (Revisiting the Amazons, Wonder Woman’s Rescue, Heroes Park and The Tunnel Battle).

Exclusive to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD product offerings are the featurette titled “The Return of Superman” and bonus scenes not shown theatrically.

Arrow Video's 4K Restoration Of Killer Klowns From Outer Spaces Heads To Blu-ray On Mar. 27

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has staked out Mar. 27 as the release date for a new 4K restoration (from the original camera negative) of writer/director Stephen Chiodo’s 1988 tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror film, Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

With Stephen King’s It making clowns scarier than ever — come on, you know in your heart of hearts that clowns are just creepy by nature — it didn’t take long for Arrow Video to update this alien clown tale with a new Blu-ray release chockfull of extras.

Much like the 1958 Steve McQueen/Aneta Corsaut sci-fi thriller, The Blob, we are introduced to two “high school” kids out for an evening of “necking” at the local lover’s lane.   These would be Mike Tobacco (Grant Cramer — Hardbodies, New Year’s Evil … and the forthcoming release (September of this year) of The Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space in 3D) and his main squeeze, Debbie Stone (Suzanne Snyder) — don’t you just love those name Tobacco and Stone!!!

Pretty soon the night sky lights-up and something lands (or crashes) in the nearby woods.   Buy unlike The Blob, this alien craft looks like a circus tent and Mike and Debbie are soon confronted by an alien invasion of … Killer Klowns!!!

Bonus goodies include commentary from writer/director Stephen Chiodo and co-writer Charles Chiodo (who also doubles as Klownzilla), two newly-prepared production featurettes — “Let the Show Begin! Anatomy of a Killer Theme Song” and “The Chiodos Walk Among Us: Adventures in Super 8 Filmmaking” — video sessions with Grant Cramer and Suzanne Snyder, and vintage featurettes titled “The Making of Killer Klowns,” “Visual Effects with Gene Warren Jr.,” “Kreating Klowns” and “Komposing Klowns.”

Lastly, there are deleted scenes (with commentary) a blooper reel and Klown auditions.

   

Paramount Home Media Looks To Mar. 6 For The DVD Release Of The Good Fight: Season One

CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media will be teaming up on Mar. 6 for the three-disc DVD debut of The Good Fight: Season One.    This is the debut series from the newly-launched CBS All Access subscription streaming service … Star Trek: Discovery, based on this announcement for the home entertainment marketplace launch of The Good Fight, should follow soon.

When The Good Wife series ended there was major loose end (a monster financial scam) and this series picks up with Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) disgraced and in ruin … and forced out of her law firm.   She has to start over.

Presented here are all ten episodes from the series first season.   Bonus features include a gag reel and deleted scenes.

Wild Eye Releasing Tabs Mar. 27 For The Domestic DVD Debut Of Director Leo McGuigan’s The Butchering

He’s known locally as the Braxton Butcher, a looney tunes teen by the name of Tommy Miller.   He butchered his classmates and lumbered off into the nearby woods … never to be seen again!   Until now!!

Belfast filmmaker Leo McGuigan’s slasher flick, The Butchering, will be making its domestic DVD debut on Mar. 27 by way of Wild Eye Releasing, with MVD Entertainment Group providing sales and distribution expertise.

Filmed on location in Belfast, we are introduced to Tommy (Oisín Cash), a bullied kid, who snaps at the annual “Town Hall” party and hacks up a bunch of his tormentors.   Before he can be subdued, he escaped and literally dropped out of sight … gone!

After the carnage, we skip ahead ten years and we are introduced to a young Belfast detective by the name of Ryan Fenton (Shaun Blaney), who just happened to be one of the “Town Hall” party guests who managed to survive Tommy’s onslaught.   He’s on a new a case, a new “slasher” case, and all the clues point to the return of crazy Tommy, the Braxton Butcher!!!

The Butchering will keep you guessing … is it Tommy, back for another round?   Or, is this an insane homage to the legend of the Braxton Butcher being perpetrated by a copycat?   Either way, the body count will mount and blood will flow!