For the period ending April 27, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's Database.

For the period ending April 27, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

 DVD New Additions:

 

3 Crows B4 Midnight Ent. (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Southern Pride Championship Wrestling, Volume 2 and Southern Pride Championship Wrestling, Volume 3

Asia Entertainment, Inc.

04/24/18 — Released Asia 81: Gio Xuan (2 DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)

Bayview Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Mermaid's Fantasy, Mermaid's Passion, Mermaids at War, Mermaids Illustrated and Mermaids of Seas, Sand and Surf

Breaking Glass Pictures

04/24/18 — Released Last Seen in Idaho

Cheezy Flicks

04/24/18 — Released War of the Planets

Cinedigm Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Dear Dictator

Classicflix

04/24/18 — Released Down Three Dark Streets and Five Steps to Danger

Cohen Media Group

05/01/18 — Sets Insult (Arabic) (ARR of 109 days; box office: $1,000,038)

06/19/18 — Sets Double Lover (French) (ARR of 123 days; box office: $167,093)

DreamScape Media, LLC

04/24/18 — Released Much Ado About Nothing

Eagle Rock Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Nashville in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Film Movement

05/22/18 — Sets Nuclear Nightmares

06/05/18 — Sets Great Silence: 50th Anniversary Edition (Italian) and Oh Lucy! (ARR of 95 days; box office: $304,891)

First Run Features

05/15/18 — Sets ACORN and the Firestorm (ARR of 39 days; box office: $2,621)

07/03/18 — Sets American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs (ARR of 123 days; box office: $2,823)

Gas Money Pictures (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Campus

Global Digital Releasing

06/12/18 — Sets Elizabeth Blue (ARR of 263 days; box office: $2,286) and Garlic and Gunpowder

08/14/18 — Sets Broken Angels Club (aka: The Inner Circle) and Passing (Welsh)

Grasshopper Film

04/24/18 — Released Escapes (ARR of 270 days; box office: $14,016)

07/10/18 — Sets Bronx Gothic (ARR of 361 days; box office: $20,460)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released 7 Guardians of the Tomb, Crazy Famous, Mermaids, Number (Zulu) and Ravens (Swedish)

ITN Distribution

04/24/18 — Released Saltwater: Atomic Shark

I-Cine

04/24/18 — Released Ben Kia Song (13 disc set), Gia Cua Nu Cuoi (14 disc set) and Tinh Yeu Khong Dong Cua (15 disc set)

Icon Independent Films, LLC (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Black Eagle of Harlem, Part 1 and Black Eagle of Harlem, Part 2

Kino Lorber

04/24/18 — Released Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story (ARR of 151 days; box office: $744,737), Boneyard, Dogfather, Holy Mountain (German), Maze, Misterjaw (2 disc set), Ruby Gentry and Woman’s Devotion

05/29/18 — Sets West of the Jordan River (ARR of 123 days; box office: $1,047)

06/19/18 — Sets Keep the Change (ARR of 95 days; box office: $128,012)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Backstabbing for Beginners and Forever My Girl (ARR of 95 days; box office: $16,363,361)

05/01/18 — Sets Winchester (ARR of 88 days; box office: $25,060,919)

05/22/18 — Sets Early Man (ARR of 95 days; box office: $8,238,168)

MHz Home Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released 1864 (3 disc set), Fantomas (2 disc set) and Missing (2 disc set)

Magnolia Home Entertainment

05/01/18 — Adds Please Stand By (ARR of 95 days; box office: $9,269)

Megaforce Records

04/24/18 — Released Anthrax: Kings Among Scotland (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Monarch Home Video

04/24/18 — Released Strings

Multicom Entertainment Group (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Things We've Seen

NCircle Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Gumby: The Best of Gumby

National Geographic Video (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released National Geographic: Monster Croc Wrangler: Season 3 (2 disc set)

Naxos

04/24/18 — Released Handel: Arminio (2 disc set) and Julius Caesar

Olive Films

04/24/18 — Released Hope and Glory, Joe and Mermaids

On-Demand Publishing, LLC (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Father's Little Dividend, Gothic and Hoppy Serves a Writ

PBS Direct

04/24/18 — Released Impossible Builds, Volume One, Jesus: Countdown to Calvary, Nature: Animals with Cameras, Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living and Unforgotten: Season One (2 disc set)

Passion River

04/24/18 — Released Do Not Resist

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Bad Guys (Arabic), Behind Convent Walls (Italian), Bismarck (German), Blonde Witch (French), Boris Godunov (Russian), Captain Fraasse (silent-1929), Clear Skies (Russian), Das Zweite Gleis (German), Der Blaue Strohhut (German), Der Falscher von London (German), Der Verkannte Lebemann (German), Die Geschichte Vom Armen (German), Die Goldene Gans (German), Die Seltsame Grafin (German), Eve's Daughter (silent-1928), Girl Next Door (Portuguese), Heimatglocken (German), Kleines Madel (German), Kohlhiesels Tochter (German), La Fuggitiva (Italian), Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier (French), Mighty Crusaders, Sir Arne's Treasure (silent-1919), Schon Muss Man Sein (German), Und Uber Uns Der Himmel (German), Unter Ausschlub der Offentlichkeit: Revised (German), Verrat an Deutschland (German) and Wenn Das Herz Spricht (German)

Serpent Video (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Code Name Zebra, Jane Eyre, Juke Joint, Kentucky Rifle, Kept Husbands, Lady Windermere's Fan (silent-1925), Man With Two Lives, Monte Carlo Nights, My Outlaw Brother, Night Life in Reno, One Frightened Night and Postmark for Danger

Shout! Factory

04/24/18 — Released Digimon Adventure tri: Loss and Power Rangers: KyuuKyuu Sentai GoGoFive: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

06/05/18 — Sets Freak Show (ARR 144 days; box office: $17,770)

07/03/18 — Sets Cured (ARR of 130 days; box office: $9,306) and Female Brain (ARR 144 days; box office: $16,273)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Silks and Saddles (aka: Queen of the Turf) (silent-1921)

Sinister Cinema (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released B Western Collections, Ken Maynard, Volume 4 (4 film set: Trails of the Wild, Timber War, Phantom Patrol, Song of the Trail) (2 disc set), B Western Collections: Bob Steele, Volume 8 (4 film set: Texas Buddies, Galloping Romeo, Desert Patrol, The Feud Maker) (2 disc set), B Western Collections: Rex Bell, Volume 3 (4 film set: The Tonto Kid, Saddle Aces, Law and Lead, West of Nevada) (2 disc set), B Western Collections: Tom Tyler, Volume 7 (4 film set: Mystery Ranch, The Fighting Hero, Fast Bullets, The Lost Ranch), Cat and Mouse (aka: The Desperate Men), Counterblast, Death by Invitation, Death Dive (aka: Submarine of Horror), Death Haunts Monica (Spanish), Dracula in Pakistan (Urdu), Easy Money, Ghosts of Kasane Swamp (Japanese), I Am a Criminal, Kilink in Istanbul (Turkish), Killer is on the Telephone, Lady in the Death House, Lust for Dying (aka: Blood and Roses), Mission Phantom, Murder at the Baskervilles, Oval Portrait (aka: One Minute Before Death), Rip Van Wyk, Schalcken the Painter, Secrets of Counter Espionage (aka: Secret Agent) (Russian), Small World of Sammy Lee, Stolen Airship (Czech), There Goes Barder (French), Voodoo Black Exorcist, Welcome to Blood City, Who Killed Doc Robbin (plus bonus short film: Haunted Palace), Winter of the Witch/Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Woman of Evil (aka: Queen Margot) (French), World Will Tremble (French) and Yellowstone

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

04/17/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: 2018 Candido Cup - Memphis, IN and IWA Mid-South: Miss Independent - Memphis, IN

04/24/18 — Released IWA Mid-South Deep Cuts, Volume 3: The Women of the IWA

Strand Releasing

05/22/18 — Sets Souvenir (French) (ARR of 81 days; box office: $10,466)

08/07/18 — Sets Zama (Spanish) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $75,479)

T-Series

05/01/18 — Sets Padmaavat (Hindi) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $11,846,060)

The Orchard (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Devil and Father Amorth (ARR of 4 days; box office: $8,378)

The Teaching Company, LLC

04/24/18 — Released Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (4 disc set), Nuclear Physics Explained (4 disc set), Tai Chi Fitness Workouts (2 disc set) and Thinking About Religion and Violence (4 disc set)

Time-Life Video

04/24/18 — Released Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Concert (4 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

04/24/18 — Released VeggieTales: Beauty and the Beet and VeggieTales: MacLarry & The Stinky Cheese Battle

06/05/18 — Sets Thoroughbreds (ARR of 88 days; box office: $2,747,595)

Vertical Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Strange Ones

VIZ Media

04/24/18 — Released Sailor Moon Super S (3 disc set)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

04/24/18 — Released Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

06/05/18 — Sets Wrinkle in Time (ARR of 88 days; box office: $93,718,321)

Well Go U.S.A.

05/15/18 — Sets Monkey King 3 (Mandarin) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $184,419)

Wild East Productions

04/24/18 — Released Spaghetti Western Collection #60 (2 film set: Days of Vengeance, Erik the Viking)

Wild Eye Releasing

04/24/18 — Released Dead Justice

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released House of Salem

Winning Streak Films (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Coldest Kiss

WOWnow Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Him

Zondervan

04/24/18 — Released Clay Scroggins: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Arrow Video

06/12/18 — Sets Vigil

Cinedigm Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Dear Dictator

Classicflix

04/24/18 — Released Down Three Dark Streets and Five Steps to Danger

Cult Epics

04/24/18 — Released Moon Child (Spanish) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

04/24/18 — Released KADO: The Right Answer (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Koro Sensei Quest! (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Crazy Famous, Mermaids, Number (Zulu), Ravens (Swedish) and Valley of Shadows (Swedish)

Kino Lorber

04/24/18 — Released Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story, Boneyard, Dogfather, Holy Mountain (German), Maze, Misterjaw (2 disc set) and Woman’s Devotion

06/19/18 — Sets Keep the Change

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/24/18 — Released Backstabbing for Beginners (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

05/22/18 — Sets Early Man (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MGM Home Entertainment

06/05/18 — Sets Death Wish (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group

06/12/18 — Adds Lionheart (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Mill Creek Entertainment

06/05/18 — Adds Action 9 Movie Collection (9 film set: Universal Soldier: The Return, Maximum Risk, Double Team, The Hard Corps, Second in Command, You Got Served, Gridiron Gang, Vehicle 19, Stomp the Yard) (5 disc set)

Naxos

04/24/18 — Released Handel: Arminio and Julius Caesar

Olive Films

04/24/18 — Released Hope and Glory, Joe and Mermaids

PBS Direct

04/24/18 — Released Bill Nye: Science Guy and Unforgotten: Season One (2 disc set)

Sentai FilmWorks

04/24/18 — Released ClassicaLoid: The Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Shout! Factory

04/24/18 — Released Cyborg: Collector's Edition, Daughters of Satan, Digimon Adventure tri: Loss (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Doctor Detroit and Grey Lady Down

06/05/18 — Sets Freak Show

07/03/18 — Sets Cured and Female Brain

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

04/17/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: 2018 Candido Cup - Memphis, IN and IWA Mid-South: Miss Independent - Memphis, IN

04/24/18 — Released IWA Mid-South Deep Cuts, Volume 3: The Women of the IWA

Time-Life Video

04/24/18 — Released Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Concert (2 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/05/18 — Sets Thoroughbreds (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

VCI Entertainment

08/14/18 — Adds Boss Nigger (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

VIZ Media

04/24/18 — Released Sailor Moon Super S (3 Blu-ray/3 DVD Combo Pack)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

04/24/18 — Released Parent Trap

06/05/18 — Sets Wrinkle in Time (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Paramount Home Media Targets July 17 For A 4K Ultra HD Edition Of Director Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack parade continues with the latest announcement form Paramount Home Media that director Jonathan Liebesman’s 2014 box office blockbuster, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, will be retail-ready on July 17.

In quick succession Paramount has announced upgrades to the 4K Ultra HD format for the entire Mission: Impossible series (June 26), Terminator Genisys (June 12) and Best Picture-winners, Braveheart and Gladiator on May 15.

Plus director Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan arrives a 4K Ultra HD/double-disc Blu-ray Combo Pack selection on May 8.

MVD Entertainment Group's Popular "Rewind Collection" Gets A New Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Addition With The Release Of Lionheart On June 12

MVD Entertainment Group’s popular “Rewind Collection” gets a new Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack additon on June 12 with the hi-def release of director Sheldon Lettich’s 1991 super-charged crime thriller, Lionheart, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

The equivalent of cockfighting, but substituting humans for the unlucky roosters, is what Cynthia Caldera (Deborah Rennard) — a wealthy New Yorker, with too much time on her hands — organizes for her upper crust friends.  It is into this combat circle that French Legionnaire Lyon Gaultier (Jean-Claude Van Damme) finds himself when he jumps ship in New York harbor — in a prologue we learn that his brother was a police informant who was outted by Los Angeles thugs and literally burned alive.   He is now in intensive care and Lyon is desperate to get out to the coast.

Scurrying through the streets of Manhattan he comes across a streetfight, complete with a crowd of wagering fanatics — big money is being bet on who can pound who into submission.   Short on cash, Lyon enters the competition and scores big!   He even gets a street-wise manager (and friend) in the process named Joshua (Harrison Page), who helps out in a very tight spot. 

 

That little performance catches the attention of Cynthia and it is all-in for her, she’s got to have Lyon in her stable of fighters.   She even gives him a new fighting moniker, Lionheart!

Not interested, Lyon and his new buddy, Joshua, head out to Los Angeles, but soon discover that his brother is dead and his widow, Helene (Lisa Pelikan) and her daughter (played by Ashley Johnson in her film debut, who has gone on to have quite the career as a “voice talent,” plus such TV series as Growing Pains, All-American Girl, Blindspot, etc.) are destitute.   

No sooner can he say, “I’ll help out,” when up pops Cynthia and her “assistant,” Russell (Brian Thompson) … she simply can’t take no for an answer.   If that wasn’t enough to put the pressure on, the arrival of two Legionnaire skip-tracers intent on taking Lyon back to Djibouti puts the icing on the cake.

All of this is, of course, the set-up.   Cynthia has in mind a high-stakes “death match” for Lionheart against the unbeatable Attila (Abdel Qissi), a streetfighter who has killed no less than eight of his opponents.

As any fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme knows, Attila-smila, Lionheart is going to mop the floor with him.   So director Sheldon Lettich and Van Damme himself, needed to come up with a little something that would make the outcome in doubt.   So they wrote in an altercation with the two blokes from the Foreign Legion who were on Lyon’s tail that left him bruised and bloodied … and with a cracked rib!

Cynthia’s “death match” will be a real fight-to-the-finish and Lionheart might not survive Attila’s beatdown.   

Bonus goodies in this all-action thriller include commentary from director Sheldon Lettich (Double Impact, Only the Strong … and screenplays for Max, Rambo III, Bloodsport, Russkies, etc.), who is joined by actor Harrison Page (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Carnosaur, etc. … and as Captain Trunk in the Sledge Hammer! sitcom), and two new video sessions, one with filmmaker Sheldon Lettich and the other featuring Harrison Page.

Plus, there is the newly-prepared documentary, The Story of Lionheart, two new production featurettes — “Inside Lionheart” and “Lionheart: Behind the Fights” — the vintage of “Making of Lionheart” featurette and a bonus featurette titled, “Behind the Scenes of the Audio Commentary.”

VCI Entertainment Restores Fred Williamson's "BOSS" For Blu-ray Release On Aug. 14

VCI Entertainment announced this past week that director Jack Arnold’s 1974/1975 Blaxploitation film, Boss Nigger, starring and written by Fred Williamson, will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offering on Aug. 14.

A new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative is the offing.

The title of the film, of course, is offensive and even during the height of the Blaxploitation wave it arrived it some theatrical venues as simply Boss or The Black Bound Hunter, with the “N” word nowhere to be found.

You have to put the film and its star, Fred Williamson, in the context of the Blaxploitation genre, which was kicked off by the arrival of director Melvin Van Peebles’ 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative will be released by Vinegar Syndrome as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on May 29).   

It was in full steam by the summer of 1972 when Fred Williamson and Bernie Casey announced that they would be producing and starring in a spin-off of the surprisingly successful March of 1972 film release of director Martin Goldman’s The Legend of Nigger Charley.

A sequel, director Larry G. Spangler’s The Soul of Nigger Charley, arrived the following year and somewhere during the timeframe between the release of the two films Bernie Casey dropped out of the project, but Williamson continued in his efforts to produce his own installment in the series.  

To complicate Williamson’s efforts to product Boss Nigger, his film career had taken off and he was in demand big time … Hammer, Black Caesar, Hell Up in Harlem and Three the Hard Way (and others) all arrived theatrically and those films took up space and time.

Finally, during the summer of 1974 he was able to put together the financing and brought Jack Arnold on board to direct — the two had just worked together on the Warner Bros. production of Black Eye, which was released theatrically in the spring of 1974.

Two years from start to finish and finally Boss Nigger went into production.  Williamson returned to the same filming locations for The Legend of Nigger Charley in New Mexico and D’Urville Martin reprised his role as Williamson’s sidekick.   Within a few months of the film being completed, Lawrence Woolner’s Dimension Pictures acquired domestic distribution rights (this is not the same Dimension that was founded by Bob Weinstein in the early ‘90s) and began to platform the release of the film on a regional basis … opening the film at Christmas of 1974 and “bicycling” prints around the country for an entire year!

As to bonus goodies, VCI Entertainment has three featurettes included with the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release — “A Conversation with Fred “The Hammer” Williamson,” “Jack Arnold Tribute” and  “A Boss Memory.” 

 

Mill Creek Entertainment To Release A Nine Film Blu-ray Collection For Just $14.98 On June 5

This is not a misprint.   We even ask Mill Creek Entertainment if the pricing was correct … and they said, YES.

On June 5, consumers can create an instant Blu-ray library of nine action films for just (drum roll, please), $14.98.   Tippy-tap, tippy-tap, calculator working … WOW, that’s a $1.66 per Blu-ray film title.   

This five-disc Blu-ray collection is titled Action 9 Movie Collection and it includes not one or two, but no less than five Jean-Claude Van Damme action thrillers, plus two from Fast & Furious alumni, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson.

So let’s crack it open and let’er rip … 

Director Mic Rodgers’ 1999 sci-fi entry, Universal Soldier: The Return, starring Van Damme as Luc Deveraux (aka: GR44), the dead Vietnam vet, who was resurrected as a deadly cyborg in Universal Soldier … well, he’s back!   

The implants have been removed and he is back among the living, but when the secret program he is working on — new Universal Soldiers, or simply, UniSols — is about to be shutdown, the master control computer, S.E.T.H (an acronym for Self-Evolving Thought Helix), will have none of it and turns the UniSols loose … who are a truly unstoppable force.   Oh wait, they haven’t met Jean-Claude Van Damme!

Between the first Universal Soldier film in 1992 and Universal Soldier: The Return in 1999, Van Damme starred in one hit after another.   Mill Creek Entertainment has two of those from period.   These are director Ringo Lam’s 1996 box office smash, Maximum Risk, which finds Van Damme assuming the role of his dead twin brother — a Russian mobster — to solve his murder (Natasha Henstridge co-stars as his dead brother’s fiancé) and director Tsui Hark’s 1997 buddy action/comedy, Double Team, who teams up with none other than Dennis Rodman to stop an international terrorist (Mickey Rourke) who has kidnapped Van Damme’s pregnant wife (Natacha Lindinger).

Also in the mix are two direct-to-video action films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Second in Command (2006), Van Damme must defend the American Embassy in Moldavia with just a handful of Marines against impossible odds, and The Hard Corps (also from 2006 and co-starring Vivica A. Fox), which finds Van Damme as a body guard to a former boxing champ (Raz Adoti), who is being hounded by the mob.

Five Jean-Claude Van Damme and we’re not done yet!!!

The Fast & Furious alumni kick in with Vehicle 19 (Paul Walker) and Gridiron Gang (Dwayne Johnson), plus Mill Creek Entertainment rounds out the nine-film collection with You Got Served and Stomp the Yard.