Monday, August 20, 2018

For the period ending August 17, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database



 

DVD New Additions:

 

4 Digital Media
08/14/18 — Released Last Warrior

7idea Productions
09/18/18 — Sets Union Pacific’s Cima Subdivision

AP International
08/14/18 — Released Sudani From Nigeria (Malayalam)

Alchemy Werks, LLC (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Aliens Within: The Inner Journey, Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge, Volume 1, Ancient Evil Unbound, Ancient Idols: Rituals and Worship, Ancient Secrets to Happiness, Decoding the Occult: The Knights of Malta, Jesus and Mary: The Hidden Bloodline, King Solomon’s Temple Revealed: Secrets of the Knights Templar, Life After Death: Quantum Realms, Mary Magdalene: The Ark and the Shroud, Occult Secrets of the Illuminati, Sacred Soul Science: The Lost Key, Sci-Fi Godfather: Jules Verne, Secret Societies: Belief Systems of the Ruling Elite, Serpent Cult: Origins of Sacred Religion, Sherlock Holmes: The Occult World of Arthur Conan Doyle, UFOs: Britain's Secret Files, Unlocking the Secret Power of Symbols and Vikings: Secrets of the Occult

Alpha Video (MOD)
07/24/18 — Released Adventures of Tarzan (silent-1921), Captain Z-Ro, Volume 3, Captain Z-Ro, Volume 4, Clutch Cargo, Volume 6, Forbidden Cinema, Volume 29, Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans #9 (4 episodes), John Wayne Triple Feature, Volume 6 (3 film set: The Lucky Texan, Blue Steel, The Trail Beyond), Private Snafu: Rare and Racy WWII Cartoons (16 cartoon set: Gripes, Spies, The Infantry Blues, Fighting Tools, The Home Front, Rumors, Booby Traps, Snafuperman, Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike, A Lecture on Camouflage, Gas, Outpost, Target: Snafu, Three Brothers, It's Murder She Says, No Buddy Atoll), Rediscovered Comedies of Edgar Kennedy #6 (10 short films), Sci-Fi Cartoon Classics, Volume 8: The Adventures of Scott McCloud, Silent Adventure Classics: The Sky Rider (silent-1928) / The Call of the Wilderness (silent-1926), Silent Literary Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (silent-1911) / Vanity Fair (silent-1911) and Three Pals (silent-1926)
08/21/18 — Sets Captain Z-Ro, Volume 5, Cowboy G-Men – Volume 8, Crazy Comedy Double Feature (2 film set: Horndogs Beach Party, F.A.R.T. The Movie), Forbidden Cinema, Volume 30, Grindhouse Double Shock Show (2 film set: Werewolf Woman, Bell from Hell), Motion Picture History of the Korean War, Queen of Broadway, Range Rider – Volume 6, Ranson's Folly (silent-1926), Sci-Fi Cartoon Classics, Volume 9: The Adventures of Scott McCloud, She: Expanded Edition (silent-1925), Sign of the Wolf (10 chapter serial), Silent Western Double Feature (2 film set: The Night Riders (silent-1920), Riding For Life (silent-1925)), Spaghetti Western Double Feature (2 film set: If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death,I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns For a Coffin) and War Double Feature (2 film set: Hell in Normandy, Five for Hell)

Atomic Cheesecake Productions
08/14/18 — Released Cosmic Curves

Bayview Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Fly Girls: The Girls of South Beach, Tropical Temptations and Waves of Pleasure: Naked in Cozumel

Bongiorno Productions (MOD)
07/17/18 — Released Love & Arguments, Painting Rules and Revolution '67

Cargo Film & Releasing
08/14/18 — Released Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story and Monster in the Mind

Charles Smiley Presents
08/14/18 — Released Midwest Electric Rails

Cheezy Flicks
08/14/18 — Released Beyond the Time Barrier

Cinedigm Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Saddle Club: Horse Crazy

Crimson Forest Films
08/14/18 — Released Peace Breaker (Mandarin)

Criterion Collection
11/06/18 — Sets Story from Chikamatsu (Japanese)
11/13/18 — Sets Some Like it Hot (2 disc set)
11/20/18 — Sets Magnificent Ambersons (2 disc set) and True Stories (2 disc set)

Dacapo Records
08/14/18 — Released Gesualdo Shadows

Dark Entity Music, LLC
08/14/18 — Released System

DreamScape Media, LLC
08/14/18 — Released Black Halt, Go Fish and Millions

Dynamic
08/14/18 — Released Donizetti: La Favorite (2 disc set)

Facets
08/14/18 — Released Rodrigo D.: No Future (Spanish)

FilmRise (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Family I Had, Learning to See: The World of Insects and Who We are Now (ARR of 81 days; box office: $19,128)

Flickering Candle Productions (MOD)
07/17/18 — Released Taku-He

Fox Hollow Features, LLC
08/14/18 — Released Show Yourself

Golden West Films (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Forgotten Music: 1926 - 1958

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Billy Boy, Imaginationland, My Generation, Sacred Heart and Snapshots

HBO Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Here and Now: The Complete First Season (4 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Hallmark Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Irresistible Blueberry Farm

Icarus Films
10/09/18 — Sets Angels Wear White (Mandarin)

IndiePix
08/14/18 — Released Suffering of Ninko (Japanese)

Kino Lorber
08/14/18 — Released Born Yesterday, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (ARR of 123 days; box office: $372,641), Hope Springs, Inkwell and Smashing Time

La Huit
08/14/18 — Released Yasmina & Mohammed: An Author Caught Within the Storm of Algerian History (French)

Leomark Studios (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Animal House of Blues

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Affairs of State, How to Talk to Girls at Parties (ARR of 81 days; box office: $84,809), Power Rangers: Ninja and Steel (3 disc set) and Yellow Birds

MPI Home Video
08/14/18 — Released Escape (ARR of 95 days; box office: $12,074)

Magnolia Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Higher Power (ARR of 95 days; box office: $528)

Manorama Music Home Entertainment
08/07/18 — Released Panchavarna Thatha (Malayalam)

Megaforce Records
08/14/18 — Released Mushroomhead, Volume 3

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Hex and Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide

Milestone Films
08/14/18 — Released Strange Victory

Mill Creek Entertainment
10/30/18 — Sets Chillers: The Complete 12-Part Anthology Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)
11/06/18 — Sets And the Award Goes to … 80 Years of the Academy Awards (with Digital Copy)
and Golden History of Hollywood (11 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Movie Detective (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Air Crew (Russian), Chronique des Annees de Braise (Arabic) (2 disc set), Dance in the Rain (Slovenian), Desire Called Anada (Czech), Divina Creatura (Italian), El Pisito (Spanish), Jambon d'Ardenne (French), La Violetera (Spanish), Last Stop (Polish), Les Dernieres Vacances (French), Lev Tolstoy (Russian) (2 disc set) and Nine Bachelors (French)

Oscilloscope Laboratories
10/02/18 — Sets The King (ARR of 102 days; box office: $245,456)

PBS Direct
08/14/18 — Released 10 That Changed America, Volume 2 and Arthur: D.W. and the Beastly Birthday

PCN Producitons (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released PCN Tours: D. C. Nauman, Chairmaker & Cabinetmaker and Pennsylvania's Historic Courthouses: York County Administrative Center

Paramount Home Media
10/16/18 — Sets Affair: Season Four (4 disc set) and Nick Jr.: Snow Awesome

Plets Express (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released New England Shortline & Regional Railroads, Volume 1: Maine - New Hampshire

Random Media (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released 6 L.A. Love Stories, Funeral Day and I Can I Will I Did

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Das Phantom Von Soho (German)

Reality Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Afterlife and Zooman

S’More Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Naked Monster

Shout! Factory
08/14/18 — Released Furlough and House of Tomorrow (ARR of 109 days; box office: $35,821)

Serpent Films (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released 2 Classic Comedy Movies (2 film set: Double Deal, Good Morning Boys), 2 Classic Drama Movies (2 film set: By Appointment Only, Confessions of a Vice Baron), 2 Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (silent-1921), Bloody Wednesday), 2 Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: Dominique, Embryo), 2 Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: Good Against Evil, I Eat Your Skin), 2 Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: How Awful About Allan, Maniac), 2 Classic Mystery Movies (2 film set: Flying Blind, The Great Flamarion) and 2 Classic Western Movies (2 film set: Gone with the West, Come on Rangers)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Guamatos Hardcore Crew: Hot as Hell - Guadalajara, Mexico and IWA Mid-South: Winner Takes All & Getting Shiggy With It - Memphis, IN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
08/14/18 — Released Bad Samaritan (ARR of 102 days; box office: $3,424,744) and Destined to Ride (aka: Pistachio)
10/02/18 — Sets Sicario: Day of the Soldado (ARR of 95 days; box office: $49,697,700)

TCM Media Group (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Military History: Attack Carrier, Military History: Battle Action, Military History: Combat Fury, Military History: Hell on the Western Front and Military History: Our Fighting Navy

TLA Releasing
08/14/18 — Released Paths (German)

T.M. Books/Video
08/14/18 — Released 21st Century Great Train Layouts, Part 3 and Modern O Gauge Remote Control, Part 2: Lionel TMCC & LEGACY Advanced

T-Series
08/14/18 — Released Laavaan Phere (Punjabi) and Laung Laachi (Punjabi)

Tempe Video (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Gridlock

Terror Films, LLC
08/14/18 — Released Savageland

The Film Collectors Society of America (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Christian Licorice Store, Portrait of a Legend (16 disc set) and Time to Love and Time to Die

The Orchard
08/14/18 — Released Kygo: Stole the Show - Director's Cut

The Teaching Company, LLC
08/14/18 — Released Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters (4 disc set), How to View and Appreciate Great Movies (4 disc set) and New History of the American South (4 disc set)

Universal - TCM
08/14/18 — Released Universal Rarities: Films of the 1930s (4 film set: Million Dollar Legs, Belle of the Nineties, Artists and Models, Souls at Sea) (4 disc set)

Universal – TCM (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Dark Crimes: Film Noir Thrillers, Volume 2 (4 film set: You and Me, Ministry of Fear, and Castle's Undertow, Hollywood Story) (2 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released A.P. Bio: Season One (2 disc set)

Urban Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Ernie & Cerbie

Vertical Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Shock and Awe (ARR of 32 days; box office: $77,333)

Vinegar Syndrome
09/25/18 — Sets Peekarama (2 film set: School Girl Reunion, Sensuous Fly Girls) and Peekarama (2 film set: The Sexorcist (aka: Undressed to Kill), Deviants in Love (aka: Fade to Red))

WWE
08/14/18 — Released WWE: Extreme Rules 2018 (2 disc set)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.
08/07/18 — Released Elena of Avalor: Realm of Jaquins
08/14/18 — Released Muppet Babies: Time to Play!

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Arrow: The Complete Sixth Season (5 disc set) and Cartoon Network: Steven Universe - Heart of the Crystal Games
10/09/18 — Sets 100: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)
11/20/18 — Sets Longmire: The Sixth and Final Season (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection, Volume 1 (2 Stupid Dogs, Secret Squirrel Show) (2 disc set) and Ill Behaviour: Season One

Wild Eye Releasing
08/14/18 — Released Alabama Sasquatch and Sitter

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Darkness Reigns

World Wide Multi Media
08/14/18 — Released 2 Die For and Home Videos

WOWnow Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Baby Fever, Bigfoot, Bible Town, Enter the Wild, Kung Fu: Masters of the Zodiac, Mad To The Max: Hoon Nation and Zoo Squad



Blu-ray New Additions:

7idea Productions
09/18/18 — Sets Union Pacific’s Cima Subdivision

Aniplex of America
08/14/18 — Released Eromanga Sensei, Volume 2 (2 disc set)

Arrow Video
10/16/18 — Sets 12 Monkeys

Atomic Cheesecake Productions
08/14/18 — Released Cosmic Curves

Classicflix
08/14/18 — Released Merrily We Live

Code Red
08/14/18 — Released Great Smokey Roadblock (aka: Last of the Cowboys)

Criterion Collection
11/06/18 — Sets Story from Chikamatsu (Japanese)
11/13/18 — Sets Some Like it Hot
11/20/18 — Sets Magnificent Ambersons and True Stories

Dark Entity Music, LLC
08/14/18 — Released System

FilmRise (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Family I Had, Learning to See: The World of Insects and Who We are Now

Fullmoon/Wizard Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Laserblast (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation
08/14/18 — Released Assassination Classroom: The Complete First Season (4 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Classroom of the Elite (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Ergo Proxy: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Outlaw Star (4 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Overlord (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Planetarian OVAs + Movie (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Seven Deadly Sins: The Complete Season One (4 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Billy Boy, Imaginationland, My Generation, Sacred Heart and Snapshots

HBO Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Here and Now: The Complete First Season (3 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Affairs of State (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Yellow Birds (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group
10/09/18 — Adds Out of Time

Magnolia Home Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Higher Power

Milestone Films
08/14/18 — Released Strange Victory

Oscilloscope Laboratories
10/02/18 — Sets The King

PCN Producitons (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released Pennsylvania's Historic Courthouses: York County Administrative Center

Paramount Home Media
10/30/18 — Sets Charmed: The Complete First Season (5 disc set) and MacGyver: The Complete First Season (5 disc set)

Plets Express (MOD)
08/14/18 — Released New England Shortline & Regional Railroads, Volume 1: Maine - New Hampshire

SPC – Napalm Records
08/14/18 — Released Moonspell: Lisboa Under the Spell (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack with 3 bonus CDs)

Sentai FilmWorks
08/14/18 — Released Kaiju Mono (Japanese)

Shout! Factory
08/14/18 — Released Boxcar Children: Surprise Island, Furlough, House of Tomorrow, Return of the Living Dead, Part II - Collector's Edition and Unborn

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
08/14/18 — Released Bad Samaritan, Blacklist: The Complete Fifth Season (5 disc set), Casualties of War and Last Warrior (Russian)
10/02/18 — Sets Sicario: Day of the Soldado (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
08/14/18 — Released 12 Monkeys: Season Three (2 disc set), 12 Monkeys: Season Four (2 disc set), Bean, Lonely Guy, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Pirates of Penzance and Zoot Suit

Vertical Entertainment
08/14/18 — Released Shock and Awe

Vinegar Syndrome
09/25/18 — Sets Body Melt (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), House on Tombstone Hill (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Memories Within Miss Aggie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
11/13/18 — Sets Justice League: Throne of Atlantis - Commemorative Edition (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)
10/09/18 — Sets 100: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)
11/20/18 — Sets Longmire: The Sixth and Final Season (3 disc set)



 

 

Oscilloscope Laboratories' Picks Oct. 2 For The Release Of DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Director Eugene Jarecki’s The King


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Oscilloscope Laboratories had it all planned out.   Aug. 16 would be the announcement date.   It was a date-certain; a special day in August for an equally special announcement.

And then the hand of fate stepped in and headline writers made it all the more so.   “Aretha Franklin Dies on the Same Day as Elvis Presley.”   41 years to the date!

The announcement in question was for the home entertainment release on Oct. 2 of both DVD and Blu-ray editions of documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s The King.  Of note, the ARR for that date is 102 days and ticket sales for the film’s limited theatrical release (just 45 screens at its widest) currently stand at $246,913.

Elvis is a cultural phenomenon, even to this day.   People, from all different socio-economic and political backgrounds see Elvis through their own personal prism as Jarecki would find out.   Elvis is a reflection of America … good, bad and everywhere in between.

For his film, he took one of Presley’s prized automobiles, a 1963 Rolls-Royce Phantom, on a national road trip.   The car served as a prop, a calling-card, a performance stage, a studio and a focal point for a series of encounters, interviews and musical sessions that Jarecki has incorporated into his documentary.
DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


An Emmy-winner for his film, Reagan (2011), the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winner in 2005 for Why We Fight, and again in 2012 for The House I Live In, Jarecki is not afraid to tackle thorny issues … he does so with The King as well.   It is the kind of film that could easily be one of the five Best Documentary contenders in this year’s Oscar competition (it opened theatrically on June 22 and is now qualified).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
For some, even if they were born after Elvis had died, they view him as a cultural appropriator, becoming “The King of Rock and Roll” for his delivery of “black” music.   For others in Jarecki's journey, the man, the music and the legend are celebrated with impromptu renditions of his songs.   

Regardless of your POV, The King is a fascinating road trip … and by any standard well done and remarkable for its ability to elicit emotions from a man — “The King” — who has been dead for 41 years.   Take any other car, from any other celebrity on the road and you are likely to pass unnoticed, but take a rolling symbol of Elvis Presley on the road and you get noticed.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey