For the period ending June 29, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

DVD New Additions:

 

Acorn Media

06/26/18 — Released Girlfriends: Series 1 (2 disc set) and Heart Guy: Series 2 (3 disc set)

Alpha Video (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Captain Z-Ro, Volume 1, Captain Z-Ro, Volume 2, Detective Adam Sara Chronicles, Enchantment (silent-1921), Get Outta Town, I Beheld His Glory, Kidnapped in New York (silent-1914), Lost Silent Western Classics (2 film set: The Devil Horse (silent-1926), Ridin' Mad (1924)), Love Wanga, Ramparts We Watch, Sci-Fi Cartoon Classics, Volume 7: The Adventures of Scott McCloud, Studio One Presents Suspense, Volume Three (2 episodes: Plan for Escape, The Blonde Comes West) and Terror of Frankenstein

Artsploitation Films

06/26/18 — Released Taste of Phobia

BBC Home Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Last Post (2 disc set)

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Barlates Body Blitz Bounce Series

Bayview Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Bikini Chain Gang, Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde (with bonus CD) and Ground Zero

Breaking Glass Pictures

06/26/18 — Released Skin So Soft (French)

Central Home Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil (Malayalam)

Championship Productions

06/19/18 — Released Baseline Field Hockey: Strategies for Penetrating the Offensive Circle, Craig Skinner: Simplified Setter Training, Fundamentals of Defense: Basic Principles of 1v1, 2v1 and 3v2 Defense, High Tempo Hockey Drills to Advance the Puck, Implementing a Volleyball-Specific Start to Your Practice: Team Warm-Up Drills, Implementing the 5-3-2 Formation, Open Practice: Possession for Penetration, Open Practice: Pressing to Win the Ball Back, Open Practice: Transition - Looking to Play Off Your Highest Player, Passing Patterns, Transition Games & Finishing Games and Scoring Real Points and Tactical Serving

Chesslecture.com

06/26/18 — Released Rise of the Italian Game

ClassicFlix

06/26/18 — Released Complete Hal Roach Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection (21 short films: Beauty and the Bus, Backs to Nature, Air Fright, Babes in the Goods, Soup and Fish, Maid in Hollywood, I'll Be Suing You, Three Chumps Ahead, One-Horse Farmers, Opened by Mistake, Done in Oil, Bum Voyage, Treasure Blues, Sing Sister Sing, The Tin Man, The Misses Stooge, Slightly Static, Twin Triplets, Hot Money, Top Flat, An All-American Toothache, Pan Handlers, At Sea Ashore, Hill-Tillies) (3 disc set)

Cleopatra Music & Films

06/26/18 — Released China Salesman

Coaches Choice/Healthy Learning

06/26/18 — Released Evaluating An Opponent Through Film Study, Offensive Staff Communication & Process During Game Night and Planning and Practicing Situational Football

Comedy Dynamics

06/26/18 — Released Cameron Esposito: Marriage Material, Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional. Janeane Garofalo: If I May, Kevin Hart Presents: Lil Rel Howery: RELevent, Michael Ian Black: Noted Expert, Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour and Tom Segura: Completely Normal

DreamScape Media, LLC

06/26/18 — Released Shadow Nation and Tempest

EPF Media, Inc.

06/26/18 — Released Ascent Of Evil: The Story Of Mein Kampf, Dogs of Democracy and Searching For Victor ""young"" Perez: The Boxer Of Auschwitz

Eagle Rock Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Scream for Me Sarajevo

Eastern Star

06/26/18 — Released Like the Clouds Like the Wind, Lupin III: Part IV (4 disc set) and Space Warriors Baldios

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

06/26/18 — Released John Wayne: McLintock! (11 film set: McLintock, Sagebrush Trail, Helltown, Riders of Destiny, Rage at Dawn, To the Last Man, Abilene Town, Randy Rides Alone, The Fighting Westerner, The Desert Trail, Winds of the Wasteland) (2 disc set) and Sam Elliot: I Will Fight No More Forever (11 film set: I Will Fight No More Forever, Cry Blood Apache, Sunset Carson Rides Again, Sitting Bull, Yuma, The Great Indian Wars, The Proud and Damned, The Gunfighters, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West, Geronimo, The Apache Kid) (2 disc set)

Empire Video

06/26/18 — Released Chanakyathandram (Malayalam)

Fatboy Records

06/26/18 — Released moe: Live from the Fillmore, 2005

Films Around the World, Inc. (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Class of '74

Fox Hollow Pictures, LLC

06/26/18 — Released Gus: An American Icon and Smoke Screen

Frolic Pictures (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Curse of Bigfoot, Tormented), Double Feature (2 film set: Vampyres, They (aka: Invasion from Inner Earth)) and Double Feature (2 film set: Vengeance of the Zombies, Teenage Zombies)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released 3/4 (Bulgarian), Adventures in Public School, All for One, Don't Talk to Irene, Beyond Words (Polish), Hannah (ARR of 109 days; box office: $11,700), Kaos Brief, Nore Davis: You Guys are Dope, Road to Hell (aka: Stop Over in Hell), Stranger Fruit and You Disappear (Swedish)

Hallmark Channel

06/26/18 — Released Christmas is Evergreen

Hollywood Scrapheap (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Blood on the Moon

I-Cine

06/26/18 — Released Luu Luyen Khong Quen (12 disc set), Phi Ho Cuc Chien (12 disc set), Tieu Thu Uy Quyen, Part 1 (16 disc set) and Tieu Thu Uy Quyen, Part 2 (16 disc set)

Image Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Terminal

In the Studio with Dianne Mize (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Fifth Friday Extra Drawing Series: Thinking with Color

Indican Pictures

07/17/18 — Sets How to Get Rid of a Body and Still be Friends

Kino Lorber

06/26/18 — Released Banishment (Russian), Disorganized Crime, Martian Chronicles (2 disc set), Miracles and Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, Volume 2

Kitty Media

06/26/18 — Released Hentai Heaven 3.5

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Escape Plan: Hades, Spinning Man and Turtle Tale

MHz Home Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Antarctica: In the Footsteps of the Emperor (2 disc set) and Detective Montalbano: Part Eleven (2 disc set)

Music Box Films

06/26/18 — Released Back to Burgundy (French) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $256,201)

National Geographic Video (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released National Geographic: Operation Royal Wedding, National Geographic: Animal PD, National Geographic: Symphony For Our World and National Geographic: Wild Chile

Naxos

06/26/18 — Released Franz Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns

Our Daily Bread Ministries

06/26/18 — Released Prayer Coin: Daring to Pray with Honest Abandon

PBS Direct

06/26/18 — Released Going to War and NOVA: Decoding the Weather Machine

PNC Productions (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Capt. Johnston's Sunrise Reconnaissance, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Charge of the 1st Minnesota, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Col. Cross and the 5th New Hampshire, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Davis' Brigade, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Federal Artïllary Takes Cemetery Hill, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Gen. Greene Defends Culp's Hill, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Johnson and Slocum on Culp's Hill, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Pickett's Charge Aftermath, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Prisoners of War, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The 147th New York Infantry, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Eleventh Corp, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The High Water Mark, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Iron Brigade's Last Stand, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Last Full Measure and PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Peach Orchard

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Blut an Den Lippen (German), Der Herrscher (German) – Revised, Hungarian Cartoons of the 50s and 60s (7 animated shorts) and White Reindeer (Finnish)

Reliance

06/26/18 — Released Missing (Hindi) and October (Hindi)

Rogue Video (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Arcana (Italian) and Devil's Nightmare

Samuel Goldwyn Films

06/26/18 — Released Zoo

Serpent Films (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released They Came from Beyond Space, This is Not a Test, Tonto Kid, Transatlantic Tunnel, Trigger Trio and White Gorilla

Shout! Factory 

06/26/18 — Released Peyton Place: Part Four (5 disc set)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Café Electric (silent-1927)

Sleepy Oak Productions

06/26/18 — Released Incite Happiness With Lama Marut: Happiness is in Sight

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/12/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: Somebody's Gonna Hurt Somebody - Memphis, IN

06/19/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: Revolution - Strong Style Tournament 2018 - Memphis, IN and IWA Mid-South: Summer Sizzler 2018 - Memphis, IN

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent. (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Last Man on Earch: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set), Last Man on Earch: The Complete Sixth Season (3 disc set), Mick: The Complete First Season (2 disc set) and Mick: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set)

07/10/18 — Sets Exorcist: The Complete First Season (3 disc set), Exorcist: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set), Last Man on Earth: The Complete Fourth Season (3 disc set), Rosewood: The Complete First Season (5 disc set) and Rosewood: The Complete Second Season (5 disc set)

07/17/18 — Sets Cooper Barret's Guide To Surviving Life: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Pitch: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Second Chance: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Son of Zorn: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Wayward Pines: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set)

Uni Music – Gaither Music Group

06/26/18 — Released Lynda Randle: Homecoming Favorites & Songs of Inspiration

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/21/18 — Sets Show Dogs (ARR of 95 days; box office: $17,299,121)

08/28/18 — Sets Adrift (ARR of 88 days; box office: $29,090,864)

VIZ Media

06/26/18 — Released Hunter X Hunter Set 4 (4 disc set)

Vertical Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released In Darkness

Vision Video

06/26/18 — Released Animated Bible Series, Episode 1: The Creation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives and Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach

WWE

06/26/18 — Released WWE: Then, Now, Forever - The Evolution of WWE's Women's Division (3 disc set)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

06/26/18 — Released Big Hero 6 the Series: Back in Action!

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

06/26/18 — Released Black Lightning: Season 1 (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

07/10/18 — Sets Alice: The Complete Seventh Season (3 disc set), Bill Engvall Show: The Complete First Season, La Femme Nikita: The Complete First Season (6 disc set), Reckless Kelly and Young Dillinger

07/17/18 — Adds Captain Thunder, Flight From Glory and Teresa

07/24/18 — Adds Edge of Darkness, Northern Pursuit, Uncertain Glory and Wreck of the Mary Deare

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Aniplex of America

06/26/18 — Released Owarimonogatari, Volume Three (2 disc set)

Arrow Video

09/25/18 — Sets The Day of the Jackal

Artsploitation Films

06/26/18 — Released German Angst (Polish)

Cleopatra Music & Films

06/26/18 — Released China Salesman

Eagle Rock Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Scream for Me Sarajevo and Tommy Shaw: Sing for the Day!

Eastern Star

06/26/18 — Released Bananya: The Complete Series, Eat-Man: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Haruka Nogizaka's Secret (2 disc set), Haruka Nogizaka's Secret Purezza (2 disc set), Lupin III: Bye Bye Lady Liberty, Sister Princess: The Complete Original TV Series (4 disc set) and Sister Princess Re Pure: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

FUNimation

06/26/18 — Released Clockwork Planet (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Prison School - Live Action (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Sakura Quest, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released 3/4 (Bulgarian), All for One, Beyond Words (Polish), Don't Talk to Irene, Hannah, Nore Davis: You Guys are Dope, Road to Hell (aka: Stop Over in Hell), Stranger Fruit and You Disappear (Swedish)

Image Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Terminal

Kino Lorber

06/26/18 — Released Banishment (Russian), Disorganized Crime, Martian Chronicles (2 disc set), Miracles, Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, Volume 2 and The Return (Russian)

Kraken Releasing

06/26/18 — Released GARO: Special Beast of the Demon Night (Japanese)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/26/18 — Released Escape Plan: Hades (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Spinning Man (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group

09/11/18 — Sets Beauty Shop

Media Blasters

06/26/18 — Released Strawberry Picnic: The Complete Series (4 disc set)

Naxos

06/26/18 — Released Franz Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns

PNC Productions (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Capt. Johnston's Sunrise Reconnaissance, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Charge of the 1st Minnesota, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Col. Cross and the 5th New Hampshire, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Davis' Brigade, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Federal Artïllary Takes Cemetery Hill, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Gen. Greene Defends Culp's Hill, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Johnson and Slocum on Culp's Hill, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Pickett's Charge Aftermath, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: Prisoners of War, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The 147th New York Infantry, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Eleventh Corp, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The High Water Mark, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Iron Brigade's Last Stand, PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Last Full Measure and PCN Tours: Gettysburg Battlewalk: The Peach Orchard

Pied Piper, Inc.

06/26/18 — Released Skip Beat! (4 disc set)

Quarto Valley Records

06/26/18 — Released Paul Rodger: Free Spirit

Samuel Goldwyn Films (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Goya's Ghosts

Sentai Filmworks

06/26/18 — Released Grimoire of Zero: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

06/26/18 — Released Breed Apart, Curse of the Cat People and Survive!

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/12/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: Somebody's Gonna Hurt Somebody - Memphis, IN

06/19/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: Revolution - Strong Style Tournament 2018 - Memphis, IN and IWA Mid-South: Summer Sizzler 2018 - Memphis, IN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

06/26/18 — Released Sleepless in Seattle: 25th Anniversary Edition

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/21/18 — Sets Show Dogs (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

08/28/18 — Sets Adrift (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

VIZ Media

06/26/18 — Released Hunter X Hunter Set 4 (4 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

07/10/18 — Adds Billy Budd

07/17/18 — Adds Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

07/31/18 — Adds Village of the Damned

Well Go U.S.A.

06/26/18 — Released Endless

 

 

 

 

Indican Pictures Targets July 17 For The DVD Debut Of Director Russell Gannon's How To Get Rid Of A Body And Still Be Friends

Canandiagua — one of those “finger lakes” in up-state New York (there is actually such a place) — is a town where nothing ever happens!   That is until Maddie Harmon (Kristen Dattilo — perhaps best known as Detective Barbara Gianna on the TV series Dexter) decides to run for state senator.   

To find out whether she wins the office or not you will have to wait until July 17 as that is the street date for Indican Pictures’ DVD debut of writer/director Russell Gannon’s laugh-out-loud comedy, How to Get Rid of a Body and Still be Friends.

Maddie is going to run for office, it could be a big deal and it certainly is important to her two best friends — Amy (Nicole Burch) and Laura (Kristen Lynn) — who want to be there for her!   So the weekend before the big announcement, they arrive in Canandiagua to celebrate … and things go down hill from there!!!

We will not give one of the major plot twists away, so that spoiler will not be revealed here, but a hitman named Pete (Angelo Bua) arrives at the trio’s impromptu celebration, but instead of making the “hit,” he is accidentally killed by Mattie, Amy and Laura. 

 

Geeze … what to do with the body of the pizza delivery guy (who really isn’t a pizza delivery guy)?   Well, you can call the police, or you can look to other options.   

The police option seems simple enough, but there are things going on in the group that suggest a low profile — for example, Amy is pregnant and her boyfriend is moving to San Francisco (and there’s no girl out there waiting), so she is none too keen on media attention.   Mattie wants to be a state senator, this could be the end of that … and well, Laura — who is Mattie’s cousin — takes things in hand and argues for dumping Pete in the finger lake … and no one will be the wiser.

Meanwhile, Frank Risotta (James Sutorius), a big city mob boss — who sent Pete to whack “Jimmy the Rat,” his accountant (who has turned state’s evidence) — is wondering why no word on the “hit.”   So he’s send three more “associates” to make sure the job gets done.

You can see the fun of it … three good friends, dead pizza guy (who is starting to stink a bit) and all sorts of problems in getting rid of his body before the big news conference.   How to Get Rid of a Body and Still be Friends is laugh-out-loud funny and very much in the tradition of Weekend at Bernie’s.

MVD Entertainment Group Picks Beauty Shop As Marquee Collection Candidate For Blu-ray On Sept. 11

MVD Entertainment Group has tabbed Sept. 11 for the Blu-ray debut of director Bille Woodruff’s 2005 comedy hit, Beauty Shop, starring Queen Latifah as Gina, a Chicago-native uprooted to Atlanta, who finds herself like a fish out of water.

Beauty Shop will be the latest addition the MVD’s line of Marquee Collection of Blu-ray releases.

A widow, with a teenage daughter (Paige Hurd — The Cat in the Hat, A Girl Like Grace, Grandma's House, etc.) — who is an aspiring musician — Gina lands a dream gig in Atlanta, working for Jorge (Kevin Bacon) — a world renown stylist from Austria — but things quickly go south in their working relationship.  What to do?   Desperate, she acquires a rundown shop — with clients set their ways — and tries to turn the place around!

It won’t be easy.   The stylists already there are unruly and undisciplined, and the clients (as mentioned) are even worse.   But with talent — and her secret “hair crack” formula — Gina is bound and determined to make a go of it.   

Just when things start to look up, the spiteful Jorge — who isn’t all he seems — comes up with a devious plan to ruin her.   But, guess who has the last laugh!!!

Teaming up Queen Latifah in Beauty Shop are Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Alfre Woodard and Djimon Hounsou.

Bonus features include selected scene commentary with filmmaker Bille Woodruff (Honey, Honey 2), a gag reel and the featurette titled, “Beauty Shop: Inside the Style.”

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Selects July 31 For The Blu-ray Debut Of Village Of The Damned

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced this past week a wave of film catalog releases that will be headed to the home entertainment marketplace during the month of July as an eclectic assortment of DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

At the top of the list — at least for genre fans — is the July 31 Blu-ray debut of writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 creep-out, Village of the Damned.   This very-British tale about an alien invasion set on the shelf at MGM for nearly two years — probably for good reason — as the late 50s produced (perhaps, “over-produced” is a better description) a flood of sci-fi and horror films that seemed to arrive almost weekly at theatres nationwide (baby boom at its height).  

The truly eerie opening sequence, with the entire village of Widwich “falling asleep,” sets the rest of the film up perfectly.   The military arrives and all attempts to penetrate the circle of influence prove to be fruitless.   And then suddenly, everyone is awake again — except for that poor chap flying the plane — and the “time out” is over.   

A sense of dread follows during the weeks after the event, which is capped off by the discovery that all of the women — young and old alike — are all pregnant.  The local scientist, Gordon Zellaby (played by George Sanders) discovers that his wife, Anthea (Barbara Shelley — Blood of the Vampire, The Gorgon, Five Million Years to Earth, etc.), is to be counted among them.

Twelve in all, which come to term very quickly … and all, both boys and girls, are very similar in appearance, despite having different mothers.   They are creepy little kids, who grow very fast and Gordon soon discovers that if one learns something, they all suddenly know the same thing.

The ending is brilliant as Gordon deduces that the ever-growing brood (both physically and mentally) can read and manipulate the minds of us mere humans.  He uses that power to create a mental image in his mind that masks his true intensions to rid the world of these creatures!!

Also on the film catalog Blu-ray release front from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is the July 10 debut of actor/director Peter Ustinov’s 1962 film adaptation of the Herman Melville novel, Billy Budd, with Terence Stamp (nominated Best Supporting Actor for his performances the title character), Peter Ustinov, John Neville, David McCallum and Robert Ryan as the sinister (evil) Master of Arms, John Claggart.

July 17 brings to market the Blu-ray release of director John Huston’s 1972 anti-Western, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, starring Paul Newman as the “law west of the Pecos.”

On the DVD release front, there is a flurry of TV-on-DVD releases on July 10 — Alice: The Complete Seventh Season (a three-disc set), Bill Engvall Show: The Complete First Season and La Femme Nikita: The Complete First Season (a six-disc collection). 

On the feature film front, Fay Wray stars with Victor Varconi in the early sound film release (Christmas of 1930) of Captain Thunder and director Fred Zinnemann’s 1951 war-bride tale, Teresa, teaming Pier Angeli with John Ericson and Patricia Collinge, both make their DVD debuts on July 17.

Being “unpacked” on July 24 from previous collection-only sets — and now flying solo — are Edge of Darkness (1943, Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan), Northern Pursuit (also 1943, Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop and Helmut Dantine),  Uncertain Glory (1944, Errol Flynn) and Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959, teaming Gary Cooper with Charlton Heston).