For the period ending May 04, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending May 04, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

DVD New Additions:

4 Digital Media

05/01/18 — Released First We Take Brooklyn

Acorn Media

05/01/18 — Released Dear Murderer, Series One (2 disc set)

Adult Source Media

05/01/18 — Released Daddy's Little Princess

Alakazam Magic

05/01/18 — Released Adam Cooper: Mutation

BBC Home Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Broken (2 disc set) and Wonderful World of Puppies and Kittens

Bayview Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Mrs. Beasley's Adventure

Broken Knuckles Video Prod. (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the Arizona Forest (3 disc set) and Collision at CP 188

C Vision (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Winter Railroading in the Northland

Championship Productions

05/01/18 — Released Best of Club Swimming: Technical Progressions for Successful Breaststroke, Best of Club Swimming: Technical Progressions for Successful Butterfly, Coaching Youth Progressions & Mobility Training (2 disc set), Craig Doty: Offensive Success vs a Switching Man-to-Man Defense, Improving Leg Attacks & Building a Successful Wrestling Program (2 disc set), Mike Procopio: Building a Perimeter Player, Mike Procopio: Building a Shooter, Mike Procopio's 3-on-3 Player Development, Mike Procopio's Breakdown Drills to Build Your Motion Offense,Open Practice: Drills to Develop Your Program and Wide Receiver Drills, Tactics & Techniques

Chrome Dreams/Sex Intellectual

05/01/18 — Released Bob Dylan: The Greenwich Village Years (2 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Ballerina, Caught, County Line, Followers, Jade Pendant, Jesse James vs the Black Train, Josie, Lazer Team 2 and Son of Bigfoot

DreamScape Media, LLC

05/01/18 — Released Little Bible Stories: Joseph, Ruth, Jonah, and Esther, Mighty Moby, Rescue in the Philippines, Travel With Kids: Beijing, China & The Great Wall, Travel With Kids: Botswana, Africa, Travel With Kids: Fiji: Castaway Island and Travel With Kids: Maui, Hawai'i

E1 Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Family of Lies, Nanny and Trailer Park Shark

Eastern Star

05/01/18 — Released Ayakashi: The Complete TV Series (2 disc set), Toriko: Secret Recipe of Gourmet God, Zatch Bell: 101st Devil and Zatch Bell: Attack of Mechavulcan

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts Of Nantucket

Eros Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (Hindi) (ARR of 242 days; box office: $629,427)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released 1 Million Happy Nows, 2 Pigeons (aka: Freehold), Fishbowl California and Pre-Crime

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Spielberg

Halycon Valor Productions (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Depths

Hallmark Channel

05/01/18 — Released Darrow and Darrow and Royal Wedding Collection (3 film set: Dater's Handbook, When Sparks Fly, Royal Hearts)

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Royal Hearts

Hoshin Kan (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Move, Block, Strike

I-Cine

05/01/18 — Released Co Vo Tai Gioi (12 disc set), Danh Trao So Phan (14 disc set), Yeu Trong Lua Han, Part 1 (17 disc set) and Yeu Trong Lua Han, Part 2 (17 disc set)

IMV Blueline Records

05/01/18 — Released AC/DC: Live Wire - TV Broadcasts 1976-1979 and Metallica: Warriors – Live

Kalmbach Publishing Company

05/01/18 — Released Taking Care of Business, Volume 2

Kino Lorber

05/01/18 — Released Big Business, Blaze, Half-Breed (silent-1916)/The Good Bad Man (silent-1916), Jane Austen's Mafia, Legend of the Mountain (Mandarin) and Play it to the Bone

Lifestreams Media, Inc.

05/01/18 — Released Beware of Angels

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/12/18 — Sets I Can Only Imagine (ARR of 88 days; box office: $81,084,294)

06/26/18 — Sets Tyler Perry's Acrimony (ARR of 88 days; box office: $42,223,020)

Mill Creek Entertainment

06/05/18 — Adds 5 Family Favorites (5 film set: Are We There Yet?, North, Last Day of Summer, The Big Goofy Secret of Hidden Pines, Bandit and the Saints of Dogwood) (3 disc set), Action Triple Feature (3 film set: Vehicle 19, Go, Junkman) (3 disc set), Anime 3-Series Collection (3 Anime series: Kurozuka: The Complete Series, Ultraviolet Code 044: The Complete Series, Viper's Creed: The Complete Series) (3 disc set), Crime Time (TV crime programming: Miami Vice: Season One, Knight Rider: Season One, TV's Greatest Crime Stoppers) (10 disc set), Kid West (with Digital Copy) and Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (with Digital Copy)

Monarch Films, Inc. (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Weekend Killer and Z Effect

National Geographic Video (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released National Geographic: Chain of Command (2 disc set)

Naxos

05/01/18 — Released Tango Evening at the Teatro Colon

On-Demand Publishing, LLC (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released Hills of Old Wyoming

05/01/18 — Released Alfredo, Alfredo (Italian)

PBS Direct

05/01/18 — Released Civil War 360, Nature: Sex, Lies and Butterflies, NOVA: First Face of America and Spying on the Royals

PR Studios/GI Studios

05/01/18 — Released Monster Prince, Volume 3 (4 episodes)

Paramount Home Media

06/12/18 — Adds Great Summer Campout!

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Big Night (Italian), Children of Nagasaki (Japanese), Leutnant Bobby: Der Teufelskerl (German), Love Eternal (French), Mansion of the Living Dead (Spanish), Mutter Krausens Fahrt Ins Gluck (German), New Gulliver (Russian), Plea (Russian), Spiel Im Sommerwind (German), Tomorrow the World and When You Read This Letter (French)

Rogue Video (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Bermuda: Cave of Sharks (English dubbed), House of the Yellow Carpet (English dubbed) and Killer with a Thousand Eyes (English dubbed)

SPV – Laser Media

05/01/18 — Released Linkin Park: Live - Bleed it Out

Samuel Goldwyn Films

05/01/18 — Released Gook and Wait For Your Laugh

Shout! Factory

05/01/18 — Released Desolation, Kaleidoscope, Maya the Bee 2: The Honey Games and When Calls the Heart: Hearts and Minds

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

04/24/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: April Showers - Memphis, IN and IWA Mid-South: This is How We Do It - Memphis, IN

05/01/18 — Released Alpha 1 Wrestling: Game of Throws - Oshawa, ON and BBPW: Goddess of Gore 2018 - Sun Valley, CA

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

05/01/18 — Released God's Best Friend, Jerico and Taco Shot

Sunrise, Inc.

05/01/18 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Collection One (4 disc set)

Tucson, Pearl of Sonora - Steve Henke (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Tucson, Pearl of Sonora, Volume 107: Southwest Texas

The Orchard (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Duck Butter (ARR of 4 days; box office: $2,797)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

06/12/18 — Sets Love, Simon (ARR of 88 days; box office: $40,493,994)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Coffee and Defective

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/01/18 — Released All I Wish and Stephanie

06/19/18 — Sets Midnight Sun (ARR of 88 days; box office: $9,533,040)

Universal – Vault Series (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Fast and Loose, Honor Among Lovers, Jungle Princess, Private Worlds, She Loves Me Not and Six Bridges to Cross

VIZ Media

05/01/18 — Released Naruto Shippuden #34 (2 disc set)

Vanishing, Inc.

05/01/18 — Released Main Event: The Knockout Magic of Caleb Wiles

Virgil Films & Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Before We Vanish (Japanese) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $45,190)

Vision Films

05/01/18 — Released Unwilling

WWE

05/01/18 — Released WWE: Twist of Fate - The Best of The Hardy Boyz (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

06/05/18 — Sets Every Day (ARR of 102 days; box office: $6,087,943)

06/12/18 — Sets Tomb Raider (ARR of 88 days; box office: $56,896,683)

Winning Streak Films (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released An Idle Mind is the Devil's Playground

Zondervan

05/01/18 — Released John: A Video Study (3 disc set)

Blu-ray New Additions:

C Vision (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Winter Railroading in the Northland

Cinedigm Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released Caught and Josie

Cleopatra Music & Films

06/12/18 — Sets Devil’s Carnival (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Cohen Media Group

05/01/18 — Released Insult (Arabic)

Eastern Star

05/01/18 — Released Baldios and Fair, Then Partly Piggy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Garagehouse Pictures, LLC

05/01/18 — Released Ninja Busters

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released 1 Million Happy Nows, 2 Pigeons (aka: Freehold), 7 Guardians of the Tomb, All at Once, Fishbowl California and Pre-Crime

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Train Station

Kino Lorber

05/01/18 — Released Big Business, Blaze, Half-Breed (silent-1916)/The Good Bad Man (silent-1916), Jane Austen's Mafia, Legend of the Mountain (Mandarin), Play it to the Bone and Violent Professionals

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/12/18 — Sets I Can Only Imagine (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

06/26/18 — Sets Tyler Perry's Acrimony (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Magnolia Home Entertainment

05/01/18 — Released In the Fade (German) and Please Stand By

Naxos

05/01/18 — Released Tango Evening at the Teatro Colon

PBS Direct

05/01/18 — Released Nature: Sex, Lies and Butterflies

Sentai FilmWorks

05/01/18 — Released Atom the Beginning: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

05/01/18 — Released Desolation, Kaleidoscope and Maya the Bee 2: The Honey Games

Sunrise, Inc.

05/01/18 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Collection One (4 disc set)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

06/12/18 — Sets Love, Simon (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released Coffee and Defective

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/01/18 — Released Mary and The Witch's Flower (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Nostalgia (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

06/19/18 — Sets Midnight Sun (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Vision Films

05/01/18 — Released Unwilling

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/01/18 — Released Tomb Raider (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Tomb Raider 3D/2D (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Well Go USA

05/01/18 — Released Once Upon a Time (Mandarin)

 

Wild Eye Releasing To Challenge DC And Marvel With The DVD Release Of League Of Superheroes On July 24

Wild Eye Releasing, with the sales and distribution backing of MVD Entertainment Group, will be going head-to-head with Disney’s Marvel and Warner Bros. DC superhero film franchises on July 24 with the DVD debut of Jens Holzheuer and Oliver Tietgen’s League Of Superheroes.

 

Move over Thor, Black Panther and Iron Man, make some room there Batman and Wonder Woman you had better clear a path for the most over-the-top superheroes since the Awesomes took to the airwaves in 2013.

When the studios and their superhero franchises get so overwhelming, you can bet that indie filmmakers will have plenty of material to lampoon … and do they with League Of Superheroes!  

It begins innocently enough with a clever connecting story that features a young girl being given a comic book to shut her up … mom is too busy shopping, so here read this.   Imagine an eight year-old boy with a Hustler magazine as reading material to the pass the time!!

She delves in and the film takes off with a series of vignettes each showcasing the talents of a “superhero” ... there must be a couple dozen of them, with genre filmmakes like Uwe Boll, Fred Olen Ray and Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman joining in the fun.   Weird and funny are two words that describe the chaos … and that’s more than you can say about some of those “real” superhero films that you’ve found yourself sitting through (please end, please).  

So if you need a superhero fix while awaiting Avengers: Infinity War to arrive on DVD or Blu-ray later this summer, League of Superheroes on July 24 should easily tide you over!

Cleopatra Music And Films Picks June 12 For The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Release Of Director Darren Bousman’s The Devil’s Carnival

Cleopatra Music and Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, looks to June 12 for a special edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentation of director Darren Bousman’s The Devil’s Carnival.

It’s a musical.   It’s a horror show.   And it is a morality play all rolled into one playful presentation … The Devil’s Carnival is The Greatest Showman, only instead of Hugh Jackman as a singing B.T. Barnum, we get the greatest “showman” in the form of Lucifer (played by Terrance Zdunich) and his carnival of sideshow freaks.

Tonight’s bill of fare features three new souls — John (Sean Patrick Flanery), a suicide who could not deal with the grief of losing his son, Ms. Merrywood (Briana Evigan), a thief who does not survive a police shootout, and the foolish Tamara (Jessica Lowndes), a teen with a future who chose a boyfriend with a violent streak.

They awake at the entrance to the strange carnival to find that they each have tickets to enter … no turning back.   It will be a night of torments and visions that none of them will ever forget, with one of the three finding the path to salvation.

The Devil’s Carnival is, as mentioned, a musical … a morality play with your host for the evening, the Devil.   After all, it is his carnival!

Bonus features include commentary from Darren Bousman and the featurette titled “The Making of Devil’s Carnival.”

Mill Creek Entertainment Expands June 5 DVD Release Calendar With Addition Priced-To-Collect Product Offerings

With a special edition Blu-ray presentation of director Phil Joanou’s Gridiron Gang, starring Dwayne Johnson, DVD and Blu-ray collections of The 10^th Kingdom, a knock-your-socks-off Blu-ray collection of nine films for just $14.98 (titled simply, Action 9 Movie Collection) and much, much more already schedule for release on June 5, you would think that Mill Creek Entertainment would be out of June collectible treats … you’d be wrong.

Added to the calendar this week is ten-disc DVD collection priced at just $19.98.   Yes, you read that right, $19.98 for ten DVDs and over 46 hours worth of viewing enjoyment.    Titled Crime Time: Hot Streets & Cool Cops, this winning collection includes Miami Vice: Season One (all 23 episodes from the 1984/85 season starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas) and Knight Rider: Season One (22 episodes from the 1982/83 broadcast season starring David Hasselhoff).

Not done yet!!   Mill Creek Entertainment is also including in the Crime Time: Hot Streets & Cool Cops collection a sampling of 20 vintage detective, mystery and action series.   Twenty!   The smorgasbord of thrills includes such series as Dragnet, Code 3, Mr. & Mrs. North, Racket Squad, Boston Blackie, Decoy and Sky King. 

There are also two additional priced-to-collect movie collections being added to the June 5 mix.   The first (on DVD) is titled 5 Family Favorites and it includes Are We There Yet? (2005, starring Ice Cube in the comedy road trip from hell), director Rob Reiner’s whimsical comedy/adventure, North (1994, starring Elijah Wood, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Last Day of Summer (2007, starring Jansen Panettiere as an 11 year-old kid who wishes that his last day of summer would last just a little bit longer … be careful what you wish for!), The Big Goofy Secret of Hidden Pines (2013, wow, a baby Big Foot … what next?) and Bandit and the Saints of Dogwood (2017, written and directed by Brooks Benjamin … kids, their dog and a treasure map).

The other new film collection in the mix from Mill Creek Entertainment on June 5 is simply titled Action Triple Feature and it includes Vehicle 19 (2013, starring Paul Walker), the very clever comedy caper, Go (1999, directed by Doug Liman and starring Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, Desmond Askew and Nathan Bexton) and H.B. Halicki’s 1982 pedal-to-the-metal hit, Junkman.

And rounding out the new additions are DVD selections of writer/director Jesse Mast’s Kid West (with Digital Copy) and the mini-series Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (both with Digital Copy).

Paramount Home Media's The Great Summer Campout On DVD This Coming June 12

Paramount Home Media will be teaming up with Nickelodeon on June 12 for summer time animated fun with the DVD release of The Great Summer Campout.

Five summer-themed episodes have been collected from the popular Nickelodeon kid-friendly shows for this unique presentation.   The fun begins with the Bubble Guppies  —Molly, Gil and friends — are off to camp where Gil uses camping skills to rescue Bubble Puppy in the episode titled Bubble Guppies: Summer Camp Games!

Next it is Shimmer and Shine, who are invited over to Rainbow Zahramay for a treehouse sleepover, but Zeta the Sorceress wants to make mischief in Shimmer And Shine: Treehouse Retreat.   And speaking of sleepovers, in Nella the Princess Knight: Dueling Sleepovers, Nella and Trinket find that they’ve accidently double-booked sleepovers on the same night with Garrett and Minatori, where some tricks are played during a scary story told by Nella.

Rounding out the summer fun are Blaze and friends in Blaze and the Monster Machines: Truck Rangers (scouting adventures go topsy-turvy when Crusher mixes things up … and watch out for that skunk!) and Sunny, Rox and Blair go on a camping trip where someone gets lost in the woods in Sunny Day: Wild Styled.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Tomb Raider Heads Home On June 12

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced a four-SKU helping this past week of director Roar Uthaug’s reboot of the Lara Croft adventure and gaming series, Tomb Raider — starring Alicia Vikander (Oscar-winner for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Danish Girl, plus Ex Machina, Jason Bourne, Testament of Youth, etc.) as Angelina Jolie’s replacement — for delivery on June 12.

The ARR comes in at 88 days and the domestic box office gross was $56.9 million, which does not bode well for any sequels — not giving anything away, the film ends with hints that more Lara Croft adventures might be in the offing.

As for SKU configuration, there is a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition, plus two Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs — one with a 3D viewing option.   Additionally, there will also be a no frills stand-alone DVD product offering.

Bonus features include four production featurettes — “Tomb Raider: Uncovered,” “Croft Training,” “Breaking Down the Rapids” and “Lara Croft: Evolution of an Icon.”

Also on the release calendar from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is the DVD and Blu-ray arrival on June 5 of director Michael Sucsy’s film adaptation of David Levithan’s fantasy romance novel, Every Day.

The ARR is 102 days and box office receipts were a disappointing $6.1 million.

Levithan’s novel might simply not be a story that translates well to the screen.  That could be one explanation for the poor showing on the film’s close 1,700-screen rollout.   Basically, no one came to see it.

Or, it’s impossible to sell.  The novel was New York Times best-seller, so presumably there was a built-in audience.  They didn’t come.

It is a head-scratcher as Every Day is unique and when you get a film with a unique storyline that should at least be a curiosity item.  

Rhiannon (Angourie Rice — These Final Hours, The Beguiled, Spider-Man: Homecoming) is a high school teenager who is in a meaningless relationship with a fellow student named Justin (Justice Smith).   He’s cute, but self-centered and pretty shallow, but then one day he isn’t … he’s perfect.   The next day Justin is back to his same-old self.

Except Justin wasn’t Justin on the perfect day.   He was inhabited by “A,” that’s right just “A.”   “A” is something of a detached soul that wakes up in a different teenage body — male and female — of basically the same age each new day.

“A,” as it turns out, has fallen in love with Rhiannon — you can see how confusing that can be — and arrives in her life as a new individual each day.   Each actor/actress — and there are over a dozen — that play “A” are obviously different, but they are all the same.

That creates funny bits, amusing bits and sad bits … and an ending that can’t ever be quite right.   In kind of an odd way, maybe Every Day is the anti-social media and anti-electronic device film that delivers a message about human beings interacting one on one, even if the combinations seem unlikely.    

Like we said, it is a curiosity item and that should translate well to the home entertainment marketplace.

As to bonus goodies, there are deleted scenes and a quartet of featurettes — “An A By Any Other Name,” “Love is Love,” “Every Day People” and “Book to Film Adaptation.”