For the period ending June 22, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

DVD New Additions:

 

AFA Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released The Dentist

Acorn Media

06/19/18 — Released Best of Agatha Christie, Volume Three (5 episodes: The Secret Adversary, Part 1, The Secret Adversary, Part 2, The Secret Adversary, Part 3, Ordeal by Innocence, The Hollow) (2 disc set) and Best of Agatha Christie, Volume Four (4 episodes: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Dead Man's Folly, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, A Caribbean Mystery) (2 disc set)

Anwar Rasheed Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released Parava (Malayalam)

Asylum Home Ent. (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Flight 666 and Triassic World

BBC Home Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released In the Dark and Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 2008 (2 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released Leslie Sansone's 4 Mile Power Walk, Leslie Sansone's Belly Blasting Walk and Leslie Sansone's Walk Slim - 5 Really Big Miles

Big Blind Media

06/26/18 — Sets Boris Wild's Sensations (2 disc set)

Championship Productions

06/19/18 — Released Peter Smith: Serving Techniques & Drills

Cinedigm Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released Class Rank (ARR of 39 days; box office: $10,452)

DreamScape Media, LLC

06/19/18 — Released Sound Barrier

FUNimation

06/19/18 — Released Dark Matter: Season Three (5 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Cardinals, Corbin Nash, Face of Evil, Hidden Peaks, Shangri-la Suite (ARR of 599 days; box office: $14,073) and Wetlands

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Agnelli

I-Cine

06/19/18 — Released Hon Nhan & Su Nghiep (10 disc set) and Yeu Em Tu Cai Nhin Dau Tien (10 disc set)

IMV/Blueline Records

06/19/18 — Released Guns N Roses: Live In New York, 1987

Icarus Films

08/07/18 — Sets Bitter Money (Mandarin)

08/14/18 — Sets Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart (French) (ARR of 865 days; box office: $815)

In the Studio with Dianne Mize (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Creating Distance: Gauging Sizes

Kalmbach Publishing Company

06/19/18 — Released Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Freight Trains

Kino Lorber

06/19/18 — Released Gross Anatomy, I, Jane Doe and Woman in the Window

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released Frat Pack

M.A. Kleen Productions (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Tinker's Shadow: The Hidden History of Tinker Swiss Cottage

Magnolia Home Entertainment

08/28/18 — Sets RBG (ARR of 116 days; box office: $10,116,762)

Manorama Music Home Ent.

06/12/18 — Released Punyalan Private Limited (Malayalam)

Mill Creek Entertainment

09/11/18 — Sets Born Free: The Complete Collection (Born Free, Living Free, Born Free: A New Adventure, plus Born Free: The Series (13 episodes) (4 disc set)

Monarch

06/19/18 — Released The Swap

Murphy Magic Supplies

06/19/18 — Released Chris Ramsay: R2

National Geographic Video (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released National Geographic: Africa's Deadliest - Season 4 (2 disc set)

Naxos

06/19/18 — Released Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94, 92, 88 - Leonard Bernstein, Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Leonard Bernstein (3 disc set)

Our Daily Bread Ministries

06/19/18 — Released Land Without Borders

PBS Direct

06/19/18 — Released Chinese Exclusion Act, Jazz Ambassadors, Man in the Orange Shirt and Secrets of the Dead: Hannibal in the Alps

PCN Productions (MOD)

06/12/18 — Released Principle Based Offensive Strategies and Tactics - Putting Theory into Practice

06/19/18 — Released Voices of Veterans: Charles Reddig - Major in the U.S. Army Air Corps and B-25 Pilot Who Served During WWII

PR Studios/GI Studios

06/19/18 — Released Drive In Intermission Ads

Paramount Home Media

09/11/18 — Sets PAW Patrol: Halloween Heroes, Scorpion: The Final Season (6 disc set) and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom

09/18/18 — Sets Madam Secretary: Season Four (6 disc set)

Phantom Martial Arts (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Chinatown JKD: Finger Jab

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

06/12/18 — Released Der Kurier des Zaren (German) and East Berlin as it Once Was (German)

06/19/18 — Released Das Geheimnis Der Roten Katze (German), Das Verratertor (German), For the Love of Mike and Story of Little Mook (English-dubbed)

Reliance

06/19/18 — Released Newton (Hindi)

Sean Yang Magic

06/19/18 — Released Keanu Ho and Al Chen: Holy Light

Serpent Films (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Penalty (silent-1920), Shock (silent-1923), Sundown and The Swap

Shout! Factory

06/19/18 — Released Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Ingmar Inheritance (silent-1925)

Sinister Cinema (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Drive-In Double Feature #79 (2 film set: Liane, Jungle Goddess, Unnatural), Drive-In Double Feature #104 (2 film set: Assignment Terror, Mission Stardust), Drive-in Double Feature #175 (2 film set: Creature from Black Lake, Devil's Kiss), Drive-in Double Feature #176 (2 film set: Island of Terror, Projected Man), Drive-in Double Feature #177 (2 film set: Bloody Judge, Legend of the Spider Forest), Drive-in Double Feature #178 (2 film set: Face in the Rain, Stop Train 349), Drive-in Double Feature #179 (2 film set: Neutron and the Black Mask, Neutron vs. the Amazing Dr. Caronte), Drive-in Double Feature #180 (2 film set: Wild Ones on Wheels, Secret File: Hollywood), Drive-in Double Feature #181 (2 film set: Face of Terror, No Place Like Homicide), Drive-in Double Feature #182 (2 film set: The Amazing World of Ghosts, UFO: Target Earth) and Drive-in Double Feature #183 (2 film set: The Burning Court, The Night They Killed Rasputin)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: JLIT Day 1, Day 2 and Chandler Biggins Tag Tourney - Cleveland, OH (3 disc set)

SONY Music

06/19/18 — Released Verdi: Otello - Royal Opera House in London

Strand Releasing

06/19/18 — Released Workshop (French) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $21,611)

Terror Films, LLC

08/14/18 — Sets Dead Body

The Orchard (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Mrs. Hyde (French) (ARR of 53 days; box office: $10,904)

The Teaching Company, LLC

06/19/18 — Released Ancient Civilizations of North America (4 disc set), Biblical Hebrew: Learning a Sacred Language (6 disc set), Graphic Design Fundamentals (4 disc set) and iRest: Integrative Restoration Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation (4 disc set)

Ultra DVD

06/19/18 — Released Aval (Tamil), Nachiyaar (Tamil) and Vivegam (Tamil)

Unearthed Films

08/14/18 — Sets Song of Solomon

Vertical Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released Hollow Child

Video Artists International

06/19/18 — Released Early Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 - Songs of a Wafarer

Vinegar Syndrome

07/31/18 — Sets Showdown

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

06/19/18 — Released Alex & Me

Well Go U.S.A.

06/19/18 — Released Furious (Russian) (ARR of 60 days; box office: $6,964)

Zondervan

06/19/18 — Released Cultures in Conflict: Paul Proclaims Jesus As Lord – Part 2 and Making Your Case for Christ

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

BBC Home Entertainment

06/19/18 — Released Doctor Who: Tom Baker - Complete Season One (6 disc set)

Cohen Media Group

06/19/18 — Released Double Lover (French)

FUNimation

06/19/18 — Released Dark Matter: Season Three (3 disc set), Dragon Ball Super: Part Four (2 disc set), Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Royal Tutor (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Seven Mortal Sins (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Flicker Alley (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Garden of Eden (silent-1928)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Cardinals, Corbin Nash, Face of Evil, Hidden Peaks, Shangri-la Suite and Wetlands

Kino Lorber

06/19/18 — Released I, Jane Doe, Keep the Change, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Maids, Under Capricorn and Woman in the Window

Magnolia Home Entertainment

08/28/18 — Sets RBG

Maiden Japan

06/19/18 — Released Spirit of the Sun

Naxos

06/19/18 — Released Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94, 92, 88 - Leonard Bernstein, Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Leonard Bernstein

PBS Direct

06/19/18 — Released Man in the Orange Shirt

Sentai Filmworks

06/19/18 — Released BanG Dream!: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

06/19/18 — Released Alien Predators, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn and Night of the Lepus

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: JLIT Day 1, Day 2 and Chandler Biggins Tag Tourney - Cleveland, OH (3 disc set)

SONY Music

06/19/18 — Released Verdi: Otello - Royal Opera House in London

Unearthed Films

08/14/18 — Sets Song of Solomon and Song of Solomon (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with bonus CD)

Twilight Time

06/19/18 — Released Let's Make Love, My Gal Sal, My Sister Eileen and Take a Girl Like You

Vinegar Syndrome

07/31/18 — Sets 5 Films • 5 Years, Volume 3 (5 film set: Dracula Sucks, Corporate Assets, Vixens of Kung-Fu, Tropic of Desire, Baby Rosemary) (2 disc set), 5 Films • 5 Years, Volume 4 (5 film set: Cry Wilderness, Vampire Hookers, Evil Come, Evil Go, The Cut-Throats, Teenage Seductress) (2 disc set), Buddies (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), House of the Dead (aka: Alien Zone) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Liquid Assets

Well Go U.S.A.

06/19/18 — Released Furious (Russian) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

 

Mill Creek Entertainment To Release Born Free: The Complete Collection On DVD On Sept. 11

Mill Creek Entertainment continued to expand its DVD and Blu-ray product offerings for the month of September (street date: Sept. 11) with news this week that Born Free: The Complete Collection will be available as a four-disc DVD collection for the bargain price of just $19.98.

Before we get to the details of that prized DVD collectible, Mill Creek announced this past week bonus materials associated with the Aug. 7 release of the Blu-ray and DVD collections of Masters of Sex: The Complete Series (an eight-disc set) and Happy Endings: The Complete Series (a six-disc collection).   So let’s to those bonus goodies first!

Masters of Sex: The Complete Series comes with commentary for the pilot episode featuring writer Michelle Ashford (Emmy nominee for her work on The Pacific mini-series, plus WGA nomination for Masters of Sex), executive producer Sarah Timberman (Elementary, Unforgettable, Justified, etc.) and actors Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, Caitlin FitzGerald and Teddy Sears.

Other bonus features include deleted scenes (approximately 40 minutes worth) and a whopping eight featurettes — “Making Masters of Sex,” “A Masterful Portrayal: Michael Sheen as Dr. Masters,” “Ahead of Her Time: Lizzy Caplan as Virginia Johnson,” “The Real Masters: A Conversation with Thomas Maier,” “Surprising Facts About Sex: The Masters’ Great Discoveries,” “The History of Sex,” “The Women of Sex” and “The Men of Sex: Actors’ Roundtable.”

Happy Endings: The Complete Series is presented in “story continuity order,” plus there are deleted scenes and outtakes and a quartet of featurettes —  “Banana Republic Style Previews,” “Mike Relm Remix,” “Mark Douglas Interview with Adam Pally and Casey Wilson” and “Mark Douglas Parody Theme Song.”

With that bit of housekeeping done, let’s return to the Sept. 11 DVD release of Born Free: The Complete Collection.   This super collection joins the previously announced Blu-ray selections for that same date — Benji: Off the Leash! (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Community: The Complete Series (a 12-disc set), Rescue Me: The Complete Series (a 16-disc collection) and the Blu-ray double features of Age of Consent and Cactus Flower … and Nightwing and Shadow of the Hawk.

The Born Free package includes the original 1966 film release of director James Hill’s film adaptation of the Joy Adamson book, Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna as the naturalist Adamson, with Bill Travers as her husband, George.  Born Free won two Oscars — Best Song (“Born Free”) and Best Original Music Score (John Barry — nominated six times for Best Music, Original Score … winning for Dances with Wolves, The Lion in Winter and Born Free).

Teamed with it are director Jack Couffer’s 1972 sequel, Living Free, with Susan Hampshire as Joy Adamson and Nigel Davenport as George; the 1996 made for TV film, Born Free: A New Adventure and all 13 episodes of the 1974 TV series, Born Free: The Series, featuring Diana Muldaur as Joy Adamson and Gary Collins as George.

Also heading to DVD on Sept. 11 is director Rod Hardy’s Emmy-nominated (Outstanding Miniseries and ten others) 1995 mini-series adaptation of the Larry McMurtry novel, Buffalo Girls (with Digital Copy), starring Anjelica Huston (Emmy nominated for her performance here) as Calamity Jane and Melanie Griffith as Deadwood, South Dakota madam, Dora DuFran.  

Others in this notable cast include Sam Elliott (Emmy-nominated) as Wild Bill Hickok, Reba McEntire as Annie Oakley, Peter Coyote as Buffalo Bill, Russell Means as Sitting Bull, John Diehl as Custer, plus Gabriel Byrne as Teddy Blue and Jack Palance as Bartle Bone!!

Also on Sept. 11 is director Philip Saville’s Emmy-nominated 1993 mini-series adaptation of Sue Miller’s best selling novel, Family Pictures: The Complete Mini-Series, starring Sam Neill and Kyra Sedgwick.

Both Buffalo Girls and Family Pictures: The Complete Mini-Series are priced at just $14.98 each … and both include Digital Copy.

Unearthed Films To Release DVD And Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Editions Of Writer/Director Stephen Biro's The Song Of Solomon On Aug. 14

Unearthed Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has picked out Aug. 14 as the street date for writer/director/producer Stephen Biro’s latest installment in the American Guinea Pig horror series.

Titled The Song of Solomon, Unearthed Films will be releasing both DVD and Blu-ray editions, plus a special edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, which includes a CD of the film’s soundtrack.

The story itself is about a seemingly ordinary woman by the name of Mary, played by none other than “Scream Queen” Jessica Cameron (Camel Spiders, Resurrection, Intrusive Behavior, Run Like Hell, etc.), so you know — as a genre fan — from the get-go that this is going to be something special.   

Cameron is a real pro, who is more than willing get into her part — wow, does she really know all of that Latin? — and that means in The Song of Solomon getting bloody … really bloody!!!

Filmmaker Stephen Biro sets the hook early with a grab-you-by-the-throat opener and then settles in for a narrative set-up as Mary, at the behest of her mother, gets a little counseling from a well-meaning local professional, who quickly realizes that he’s in way over his head.

Mary’s issues devolve very quickly and before you know it she is in the middle of a series of exorcisms that all end quite badly.   

Stop!   You’re thinking Exorcist rip-off right about now.   In the hands of a lesser filmmaker — and without the performance of Jessica Cameron — that assumption would certainly be the case.

But, Biro came up with a script that almost wrote itself.   It was inspired!!  He turned, as the backstory goes, to the Catholic Church in his quest for knowledge about possession, exorcisms and the like.   They responded, again as the story goes, by sending him a copy of “De Exorcismis Et Supplicationibus Quibusdam” (aka: “Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications”), which is in Latin.   It is literally an 84-page how-to manual, which became the basis for his script; his vision.

As to bonus nuggets, there are two commentary options.  The first features filmmaker Stephen Biro, who is joined by the very talented Jessica Cameron; the second teams Biro f/x whiz Marcus Koch (We are Still Here, Die Die Delta Pi, American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore, etc.) and make-up artist Jerami Cruise (Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Revenge Is Her Middle Name, etc.), a behind-the scenes featurette and a trio of video sessions — actress Jessica Cameron, writer/director/producer Stephen Biro and f/x artist Marcus Koch.

Icarus Films Tabs Aug. 14 As The Domestic DVD Debut Date For Director Cédric Anger’sNext Time I’ll Aim For The Heart

Icarus Films announced this past week that their next Distrib Films home entertainment release will be French filmmaker Cédric Anger’s award-winning true-life thriller, Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart.   

Unless you were one of the very lucky theatre patrons back in April of 2016 to catch the two-cinema arthouse release of Anger’s story about the infamous French serial killer — with a twist — known by the name of Alain Lamare, this film is likely a mystery to you.   Icarus Films solves that mystery with the DVD debut of Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart on Aug. 14.

Back in the 1970s, Paris was the location of a mysterious killer, who boldly taunted one of his targets — a young woman who survived — with a note that chillingly concluded with the phrase, “next time I will aim for the heart …”   

The terrifying aspect of Anger’s story — adapted from Yvan Stefanovitch’s novel, “Un Assassin Au-Dessus de Tout Soupçon” (roughly translated as “An Assassin Above All Suspicion”) — is that the killer is a French Constable. Renamed for the film as Franck Neuhart (Guillaume Canet — Tell No One, Hunting and Gathering, etc.), this police officer is usually the first one to arrive at the crime scene.   He is one sick puppy (with some really disturbing habits; rituals), who begins with assaults and soon works his way up to murder.

As the police lay traps and work to catch “The Killer of the Oise,” they soon have one of those OMG moments … as Sherlock Holmes is famous for saying, “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,” and in this case everything points to the killer as being one of their own!!!

If you only catch one French-language film this year, make Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart that film, especially if you are drawn to thrillers and mysteries.   Aug. 14, mark it on you viewing calendar now.

Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart is presented in French with English subtitles.

Also on the way to DVD from Icarus Films is the Aug. 7 DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Wang Bing’s Bitter Money.

The City of Silk is what Huzhou is known as.   A city with a population equivalent to that of Chicago, it is just to the west of Shangai on Lake Tai, and roughly ten percent of the population of the city works in the garment industry … massive factories (read that as sweatshops) devoted to clothing, some 18,000 different companies in all.

Filmmaker Wang Bing introduces us to 15-year old Xiao Min and her cousin as they make the long train journey to Huzhou.   They are typical of the workforce that literally live — in tenement-like dormitories — where they work … young, rural and doomed to 12-hour days and little pay.   

However, once the introduction to factory conditions are established, Bing takes us on several side journeys — almost as if they were dramatic tales all onto themselves.   Bitter Money becomes an exposé on life and working conditions in this bustling industrial city — the City of Silk — that is every bit as compelling as any dramatic work of fiction.

Bitter Money is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles.

Paramount Home Media Expands Its September DVD Release Calendar With PAW Patrol: Halloween Heroes, Scorpion: The Final Season ... And More!

Paramount Home Media continued to expand its post-Labor Day line-up of DVD and Blu-ray selections with four new announcements this past week.   So let’s get right to it!!!

First up is the latest DVD collection of “tails” from the popular Nickelodeon PAW Patrol series.   Titled PAW Patrol: Halloween Heroes, Ryder and his K-9 friends star in seven “spooktacular” adventures (actually eight, as one is a double-length special).   The DVD launch is on Sept. 11.

Included in the mix are “Pups and the Ghost Pirate,” which features a mystery aboard Cap’n Turbot’s Halloween Ghost Ship that must solved before the Halloween costume party at the Lookout can get underway!    

Bats!  Did someone say bats?   In “Pups Save a Bat,” playtime at the Lookout is put on hold when Ryder, Chase and Marshall have to rescue a baby bat that has fallen asleep underneath the bell at City Hall … it’s pandemonium, but with a happy ending!

Other adventures in this fun-filled mix include “Pups Save a Ghost,” “Pups and the Ghost Cabin,” “Pups Fall Festival,” “Pups Save the Corn Roast” and “Pups Save a Show.”

Also arriving on Sept. 11 from Nickelodeon is the stop-motion SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween special — Nickelodeon and Screen Novelties teamed for the production of this delight — titled SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom.

SpongeBob is none too sure about the Halloween festivities in Bikini Bottom as he is worried about being scared.   Soon the Flying Dutchman arrives and the scares are a plenty, but in the end SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy and the rest of the gang realize that a few good scares can be fun … it all concludes with a celebration at the Krusty Krab!

On the TV-on-DVD front, Paramount Home Media kicked off the post-Labor Day release onslaught last week with Sept. 4 street dates for both Bull: Season One and Hawaii Five-O: The Eighth Season (box six-disc sets).

This week the focus turns to Sept. 11 with the farewell to Walter O’Brien (World War Z, Interstellar, etc.) and his “gifted” band of asocial misfits with the release of Scorpion: The Final Season.

All 22 fourth season episodes are included in the six-disc DVD set.   The tension is building within the Scorpion group, with a season finale (series farewell) that will bring it all to a head!

The following week, Sept. 18, Paramount Home Media has the next installment in the hit CBS series Madam Secretary, starring Téa Leoni as Secretary of State McCord.   Madam Secretary: Season Four features all 22 episodes as a six-disc DVD collection.

Bonus features include deleted and extended scenes … in mid-April, CBS announced that Madam Secretary will be returning for a fifth season (which should begin airing in early October).