For the period ending July 06, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD New Additions:

 

4 Digital Media

07/03/18 — Released Eruption L.A.

AFA Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Desert Commandos and The Pyx

Acorn Media

07/03/18 — Released Delicious: Series 2 and Striking Out: Series Two (2 disc set)

BBC Home Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Top Gear America: Season One (2 disc set)

Blue Fox Entertainment (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Primal Rage: Bigfoot Reborn

Breaking Glass Pictures

07/03/18 — Released Male Shorts: International, Volume One (Portuguese)

Cadiz Recording Company

07/03/18 — Released Here To Be Heard: The Story of the Slits and Lee J Thompson: One Man's Madness

Central Home Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Kuttanadan Marpappa (Malayalam)

Chrome Dreams – Sexy Intellectual

07/03/18 — Released Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Rare Video Broadcast Collection, Foo Fighters: Times Like These - TV Broadcast Paris 2005 and Foo Fighters: Under The Spotlight

Cinedigm Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Recall

Dominique Duvivier Magic

07/03/18 — Released Dominique Duvivier: Oil & Water 3.0

DreamScape Media, LLC

07/03/18 — Released Australian Penguins, China's Hidden Monkeys, Rhys Jones' Wildlife Patrol (2 disc set), Travel With Kids: Venice, Italy and Very Very Very Long Dog

E1 Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Griddle House and Immortal Wars

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

07/03/18 — Released Amanda and the Fox, Toxic Shark and Treasure Hunters

Excel Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Trek: The Movie

Film Movement

08/07/18 — Sets Bye Bye Germany (German) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $58,131)

Films Around the World, Inc. (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Island Claws

Foundation Rock Ministries Int’l (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Genesis Factor, Volume 1, Genesis Factor, Volume 2, Genesis Factor, Volume 3, Genesis Factor, Volume 4 and Genesis Factor, Volume 5

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Alex and the List, Christian Audigier the VIF, Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story and Wacken

Gunpower & Sky (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Don't Worry Baby and Mansfield 66/67 (ARR of 249 days; box office: $17,930)

09/14/18 — Sets Hearts Beat Loud (ARR of 98 days; box office: $1,295,308)

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Dead List

I-Cine

07/03/18 — Released Doi Doi (13 disc set), Nguoi Dam Phan (15 disc set) and Tieu Phu Luu Hai (12 disc set)

Icarus Films

09/04/18 — Sets This is Our Land (French) (ARR of 137 days; box office: $11,567)

Image Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Another Wolfcop

In the Studio with Dianne Mize (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Merging Shapes: Simplify with Value Fields

Indie Rights (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Lesson in Cruelty

Kino Lorber

07/03/18 — Released Jericho Mile and Personal Problems

Leomark Studios (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released 7 Year Itch (Korean), Seducing Neighbors (Korean), Seducing Teacher (Korean) and Wife Swap (Korean)

Lionsgate Home Ent.

07/03/18 — Released Shark Week: Sharktacular Adventure (3 disc set)

Magnolia Home Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Don't Grow Up and Ismael's Ghosts (French) (ARR of 102 days; box office: $102,286)

Maverick Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Unwanted

Mill Creek Entertainment

09/11/18 — Adds Unwanted

Missing Shade Media, LLC (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released By Any Other Name

Movie Channel

07/03/18 — Released Orayiram Kinakkalal (Malayalam)

Multicom Entertainment Group (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released America Adrift, Dangerous Intensions, Take and They Nest

National Geographic (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released National Geographic: Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER Season 5 (2 disc set)

Naxos

07/03/18 — Released Verdi: Nabucco

Onesmedia (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released Captain Duncan MacLain Films Collection (2 film set: Eyes in the Night, The Hidden Eye) and The Falcon (13 film set: The Gay Falcon, A Date with the Falcon, The Falcon Takes Over, The Falcon's Brother, The Falcon Strikes Back, The Falcon in Danger, The Falcon and the Co-eds, The Falcon Out West, The Falcon in Mexico, The Falcon in Hollywood, The Falcon in San Francisco, The Falcon's Alibi, The Falcon's Adventure) (8 disc set)

Random Media (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Sunset

Reel Magic Quarterly

07/03/18 — Released Reel Magic Quarterly #50: Steve Valentine

SPV – Laser Media

07/03/18 — Released David Bowie Live: The TV Broadcasts and Offspring: Come Out And Play, Woodstock 1999

Samuel Goldwyn Films

07/03/18 — Released Wish Upon a Star

Serpent Films (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Tomorrow at Seven, Torture Ship, Trapped by Television, Trouble in Texas, UFO: Target Earth, Under the Red Robe, Where There's a Will and Windbag the Sailor

Shout! Factory

07/03/18 — Released Midnighters

Sideshow Cinema (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Short Cuts, Volume 1

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/05/18 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Wrestlepalooza 11 - Minnesota, MN

06/12/18 — Released Freelance Wrestling: Freelance vs. the World 4 - Chicago, IL

06/26/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: Wrestlemaniwa - Memphis, IN

07/03/18 — Released C*4 Wrestling: Point Break - Ottawa, CN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

07/03/18 — Released Finding Your Feet (ARR of 95 days; box office: $1,413,278) and Khali the Killer

08/07/18 — Sets The Rider (ARR of 116 days; box office: $2,265,237)

Sunrise, Inc.

07/03/18 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Collection One (4 disc set) and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden OVA

The Film Collectors Society of America (MOD)

06/19/18 — Released Dead Air, Moon Over Miami, Music Man, Robin Hood and the Pirates, Rodney Dangerfield: Life and Comedy, Strange Case of Doctor Rx, Together?, Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies, The Word (2 disc set) and You Were Never Lovelier

06/26/18 — Released Black Tights (French), Charge of the Lancers, The Colony, Joe Palooka Movies Collection (11 film set: Palooka, Gentleman Joe Palooka, Joe Palooka in the Big Fight, Joe Palooka in the Counter Punch, Joe Palooka Champ, Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad, Joe Palooka in Winner Take All, Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey, Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance, Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle, Joe Palooka in Triple Cross) (11 disc set), McVicar, Son of Captain Blood, Toughest Man in Arizona and Witness for the Prosecution

07/03/18 — Released Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince, Fifth Monkey (Portuguese), For You I Die, From Hollywood to Deadwood, Greatest Boxing Fights Ever (2 disc set), I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes, Incredibly Strange Film Show: Ed Wood Jr., Lady Vanishes (1979)/Lady Vanishes (1938), Midnight Story, Outlaw (colorized version), See You at the Polls!, Son of the Morning Star and When the Applause Died

The Video Beat (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Blast-Off Girls and Torched by Love (aka: To Elvis with Love)

Virgil Films & Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Maynard

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Jurassic Games and The Lullaby

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

07/03/18 — Released Angelina Ballerina: Ballerina Princess, Angelina Ballerina: Ballet Dreams, Angelina Ballerina: Dance Around the World, Angelina Ballerina: Dancing on Ice, Angelina Ballerina: Dreams Do Come True, Angelina Ballerina: The Mouseling Mysteries, Angelina Ballerina: Mousical Medleys, Angelina Ballerina: Musical Moves, Angelina Ballerina: The Nutcracker Sweet, Angelina Ballerina: On with the Show, Angelina Ballerina: Spring Fling, Angelina Ballerina: Superstar Sisters, Angelina Ballerina: Sweet Valentine, Angelina Ballerina: Twirling Tales, Barney: All About Opposites, Barney: Barney's Worldwide Adventure!, Barney: Be My Valentine, Barney: Best Fairy Tales, Barney: Big World Adventure, Barney: Celebrating Around the World, Barney: Christmas Star, Barney: Clean Up, Clean Up!, Barney: Dance with Barney, Barney: Dino Dancin' Turns/Musical Scrapbook, Barney: Egg-cellent Adventures, Barney: Happy Birthday Barney!, Barney: Halloween Party, Barney: I Love My Friends, Barney: Imagine with Barney, Barney: It's Showtime with Barney, Barney: Let's Go to the Doctor, Barney: Let's Go to the Moon, Barney: Most Huggable Moments (2 disc set), Barney: Most Loveable Moments, Barney: Perfectly Purple, Barney: Planes, Trains and Cars, Barney: Play With Barney, Barney: Playground Fun, Barney: Red, Yellow and Blue!, Barney: Storytime with Barney, Barney: Tee-rific Bugs and Animals, Barney: This is How I Feel, Barney: A Very Merry Christmas, Barney: We Love Our Family and Where is Kyra? (ARR of 88 days; box office: $59,717)

08/07/18 — Sets On Chesil Beach (ARR of 81 days; box office: $729,240)

VIZ Media

07/03/18 — Released Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Season 2 (4 disc set)

Vintage Rails Video (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released St. Louis Railroads in the 1970's

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Arrow Video

09/25/18 — Sets The Baby

Excel Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Trek: The Movie

FUNimation

07/03/18 — Released Assassination Classroom: 365 Days' Time (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Centaur's Life (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and In Another World With My Smartphone (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Alex and the List, Christian Audigier the VIF, Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story and Wacken

Gunpower & Sky (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Mansfield 66/67

Image Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Another Wolfcop

Indie Rights (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Lesson in Cruelty

Kino Lorber

07/03/18 — Released Jericho Mile and Personal Problems

MVD Entertainment Group

09/11/18 — Sets Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Magnolia Home Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Don't Grow Up

Multicom Entertainment Group (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Streaker (German)

Nozomi

07/03/18 — Released Sweet Blue Flowers (2 disc set)

SRS Cinema

07/03/18 — Released House Shark

Sentai FilmWorks

07/03/18 — Released Magic of Stella (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

07/03/18 — Released Midnighters

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/26/18 — Released IWA Mid-South: Wrestlemaniwa - Memphis, IN

Sunrise, Inc.

07/03/18 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Collection One (4 disc set) and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden OVA

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

07/03/18 — Released Jurassic Games and The Lullaby

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

07/03/18 — Released Where is Kyra? (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

VCI Entertainment

10/23/18 — Sets Blood and Black Lace (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

VIZ Media

07/03/18 — Released Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Season 2 (4 disc set)

Virgil Films & Entertainment

07/03/18 — Released Borg vs. McEnroe

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

07/24/18 — Adds Supergirl (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

 

 

 

 

 

MVD Entertainment Group's Marquee Collection Grows By Two With Blu-ray Editions Of Barbershop And Barbershop 2: Back In Business On Sept. 11

MVD Entertainment Group just got two new Marquee Collection additions with news this past week that director Tim Story’s 2002 comedy blockbuster, Barbershop, and its 2004 hit-sequel from director Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, will be available for the first time on Blu-ray on Sept. 11.

Already heading home as a Blu-ray product offering — also for the first time — on Sept. 11 is the 2005 spin-off, Beauty Shop, starring Queen Latifah.

Ice Cube plays Calvin Palmer, the proprietor of a South Side Chicago barbershop that he inherited from his father.   The place is more than just a barbershop, it is a gathering place, but Calvin doesn’t quite get that, so he decides to cash out and do something else with his life (big plans to set up a recording studio).

That’s the catalyst, his desire to abandon his special role in the local community, that sets things in motion … he sells the place to Lester (Keith David), the local loan shark, and then has second thoughts about that decision when one of his employees, Ricky (Michael Ealy), is falsely arrested by the police.   

A pick-up truck owned by Ricky — a former gangbanger with two strikes against him — ripped an ATM out of the wall of the local market and made off with it.   When Calvin discovers who the real ATM bandit is he knows in his heart-of-hearts that he has to set things right.

Meanwhile, news of the sale — and closing — of the barbershop does not sit well with the staff, who demand that Calvin “un-think” his decision!

Barbershop is a non-stop laugh fest that swings back and forth between Calvin’s frustrations in trying to undo what he has done and the antics of the staff, especially Eddie (played by Cedric the Entertainer), who has wild theories on just about any aspect of black culture.

Bonus features include commentary by director Tim Story (Taxi, Ride Along, Think Like a Man, etc.), writer Don Scott, Jr., producers Robert Teitel (Soul Food, Men of Honor, Mudbound, etc.) and George Tillman, Jr. (Roll Bounce, Mudbound), plus seven deleted scenes with optional commentary from filmmaker Tim Story.

Other bonus nuggets are outtakes, a blooper reel, a quartet of “Behind-the-Scenes” featurettes, the featurette titled “Barber Banter” and the Fabolous music video — with P. Diddy and Jagged Edge — titled “Trade it All.”

Barbershop was such a monster theatrically that a sequel was a no-brainer … so two years later director Kevin Rodney Sullivan delivered Barbershop 2: Back in Business, which match the original almost dollar for dollar at the box office.

Calvin has settled into his role in the neighborhood, most of the cast from the original Barbershop are back — including Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) and Terri (played by recording artist Eve) — and we have the introduction of Gina (Queen Latifah, who will star in the spin-off, Beauty Shop in 2005).

The MacGuffin this time is the arrival of big time developer Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix) and his Nappy Cuts upscale operation across the street from Calvin’s place.   The fun and chaos spin out from this, but we all know — or at least sense — that order will be restored to the neighborhood by the final reel.

Bonus features include two commentary options.   One features cast members Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garity and Jazsmin Lewis, while the second teams director Kevin Rodney Sullivan (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) with the aforementioned producing team of George Tillman, Jr. and Robert Teitel.

Additional bonus goodies included with the Marquee Collection Blu-ray presentation of Barbershop 2: Back in Business are a half-dozen deleted scenes, outtakes, the Mary J. Blige music video “Not Today,” the music video from Sleepy Brown, “I Can’t Wait” and a behind-the-scenes photo gallery.

Icarus Films Targets Aug. 14 For The Domestic DVD Debut Of Director Lucas Belvaux’s This Is Our Land

Two weeks ago Icarus Films announced that the true-life serial killer shocker from France’s Distrib Films, Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart, would be making its domestic DVD debut on Aug. 14.   It’s a stunning film that should not be missed.

This week, Icarus Films is teaming once again with Distrib Films for the domestic DVD debut of director Lucas Belvaux’s “torn from the headlines” political thriller, This is Our Land.   The street date assigned is Sept. 4.

A quick two-screen theatrical release — DVD to the rescue for those who couldn’t be in either Los Angeles or New York City — yields an ARR of 137 days and arthouse ticket receipts of $11,567.

This fictionalized drama focuses on the world of current French politics, which are always testy, but with the rise Marine Le Pen and the FN — which saw her go head to head against Emmanuel Macron last year for the presidency of France — it was only natural that films would emerge on the subject.

We are introduced to Pauline Duhez (Émilie Dequenne — Our Children, Rosetta, Brotherhood of the Wolf, etc.), a nurse in rural France, who becomes an unlikely candidate for the mayor of her town when she is recruited by a far-right political operative to try her hand at politics.   

She soon finds herself cut off from the community — she more or less represents French society as a whole, some of whom see their country “invaded” by refuges (and terrorists), while others fret that the dream of a united Europe is quickly slipping away.   In the end, her entry into politics becomes personally overwhelming.

This is Our Land is presented in French with English subtitles.

Mill Creek Entertainment Adds Four-Disc DVD Collection Of Hollywood's Best And Brightest To Its Sept. 11 Release Slate

Mill Creek Entertainment has add the four-disc DVD collection (complete with Digital Copy) titled 30 Living Legends and the Hollywood History They Made to its Sept. 11 release slate.

Carrying a priced-to-collect SRP of just $14.98, this unique collection features in-depth profiles on thirty screen legends — 15 female and 15 male stars.

Included in the fan-pleasing mix are presentations for Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway — famed for Bonnie and Clyde (among other films) — 007/James Bond legend, Sean Connery, filmmaker/actor Clint Eastwood, John Travolta, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino.   Also getting profiled are the likes of Shirley MacLaine, Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch and Barbra Streisand.    Thirty in all!!!

Arrow Video Looks To Sept. 25 For The Release Of A Blu-ray Edition Of Director Ted Post's The Baby

They just don’t come any odder than producer/writer Abe Polsky’s The Baby, which will be getting a Blu-ray push from Arrow Video this coming Sept. 25 — domestic sales and distribution expertise courtesy of MVD Entertainment Group.

Abe Polsky wrote the original script sometime in the late 60s and optioned it off to the production team of Bobby Roberts and Hal Landers, who were responsible for such films as Monte Walsh, The Hot Rock and Death Wish in the early 1970s.   At some point the legendary William Castle was attached to the film, but then everyone fell out of love with the project and it got “shelved.”

Polsky, who had, in the meantime, worked on scripts for writer/director Martin B. Cohen’s Rebel Rousers and director Jerry Jameson’s Brute Corps, saw that The Baby wasn’t going to happen, so he did the only sensible thing and bought it back with the idea of producing it himself.

By the spring of 1973 it was ready for releases with Ted Post as the director (busy year for him … The Harrad Experiment and Magnum Force) with a cast that featured Ruth Roman and Anjanette Comer, plus Marianna Hill (who had worked with Ted Post on High Plains Drifter) and Susanne Zenor as the “sisters” Germaine and Alba … and, of course, David Mooney as the title character.     

 

What makes the film particularly creepy is that mom (Ruth Roman) and her two daughters have turned the other sibling (Baby) into a man-child, or better yet, a man-baby, complete with diapers and crib!   It all has something to do with collecting welfare for his maintenance, etc., etc. … any attempts by him to assert himself are met with beatings, taunts and the old standby, an electrified cattle prod. 

The creepier part — complete with a terrific third act payoff — is the arrival of the social worker, Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer), who suspects that Baby is being abused.   A backstory story has her living alone with her mother, Judith (Beatrice Manley), having lost her husband to some unspecified “accident.”  

There are hints that something else is going on, but Polsky’s script keeps you focused on the mom and the daughters, so that Ann’s real motives come as a brilliant twist.    Swimming, anyone?

Bonus nuggets include commentary from MovieMaker Magazine’s Travis Crawford, a new retrospective titled “Down Will Come Baby” hosted by professor Rebekah McKendry (USC School of Cinematic Arts) and two vintage audio interviews — one featuring Ted Post and the other David Mooney.