For the period ending October 05, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD New Additions:

 

4 Digital Media

10/02/18 — Released Legend of Halloween Jack

Arizona Public Media (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Desert Speaks: Beyond the Asphalt, Part 1, Desert Speaks: Beyond the Asphalt, Part 2, Desert Speaks: Chilean Wines - A Way of Life, Desert Speaks: Desert Descent - Chile's Atacama, Desert Speaks: Desert Venom, Desert Speaks: Dying Traditions in a Mexican Pueblo,  Desert Speaks: Finding Fault in California's Desert, Desert Speaks: Into the Swell - Utah's High Desert, Desert Speaks: Jaguars and Vaqueros, Desert Speaks: Marine Sanctuary - Preserving Desert Life, Desert Speaks: Navajo Canyon Lands, Desert Speaks: Patagonia's Cultural Trail - From the Coast to the Andes, Desert Speaks: Penguins in a Patagonia Desert, Desert Speaks: The Gadsden Purchase Part 1, Desert Speaks: The Gadsden Purchase Part 2, Desert Speaks: Tracking Trade in the Chilean Andes and Desert Speaks: Utah's Slick Rock Country

Artsploitation Films

10/02/18 — Released Molly

BR Productions (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released More Strange Than True, Seven Devils and To Love Somebody

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Barlates Beginner Series (3 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Jack LaLanne: Back to Basics Workout and Jack LaLanne: Forever Young - Exercise at Any Age

Big Blind Media

10/02/18 — Released Rogue

Breaking Glass Pictures

10/02/18 — Released Obsidian Curse

Candlelight Media Group

10/02/18 — Released In Emma's Footsteps

Championship Productions

09/25/18 — Released Multiple Set Plays for the Swing Offense

10/02/18 — Released Andy Enfield: Our Attacking Man-to-Man Offense, How to Beat 2-3 and 3-2 Zone Defenses, Keno Davis: Space and Pace Offense, Keno Davis: The Mix & Match-Up Zone Defense, Troy Steiner's Dominating Leg Ride Series: Rides, Defense & Counters and Using the Ball Screen in Your Transition Offense

Chrome Dreams/Sexy Intellectual

10/02/18 — Released Prince: Three Card Trick (3 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Battle of the Bulge: Wunderland, Monster Family and Strange Nature

Cohen Media Group

10/02/18 — Released Rodin (French) (ARR of 123 days; box office: $44,261)

DAR-APP Entertainment (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Tomy the Superhero, Episode 2

Distant Thunderworks, LLC (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Film Peddler

E1 Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Lake Fear 3, Nightblade and West of Hell

EWTN

09/25/18 — Released Women of Grace: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: Dispelling the Myths about the Catholic Church

10/02/18 — Released You and the Mercy of God (4 disc set)

Eagle Rock Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Imagine: John Lennon/Gimme Some Truth

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Alterscape and End of Fall

Factory 25

10/02/18 — Released Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Brothers Hypnotic

Film Movement

10/02/18 — Released La Familia (Spanish) (ARR of 60 days; box office: $3,622)

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Ayla

FUNimation

10/02/18 — Released Dragon Ball Super: Part Five (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released 3 Years in Pakistan: The Erik Aude Story and Kim Swims

Grupo Kaps

10/02/18 — Released Jorge Blass

HBO Home Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Barry: The Complete First Season (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Hallmark Channel

10/02/18 — Released Bramble House Christmas, Christmas at Holly Lodge, Christmas Next Door, Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through the Snow, Engaging Father Christmas, Good Witch: Season Four (2 disc set) and Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle

High Octane Pictures (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Curse of the Nun

Icarus Films

11/30/18 — Sets Planetary

Image Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Housewife

Indican Pictures

11/06/18 — Sets Painless (ARR of 46 days; box office: $5,229)

Joseph Alizio, Jr. (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Joe's Normal Life, Volume 01, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 02, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 03, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 04, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 05, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 06, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 07, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 08, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 09, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 10, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 11, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 12, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 13, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 14, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 15, Joe's Normal Life, Volume 16 and Joe's Normal Life, Volume 17

Kino Lorber

10/02/18 — Released Doctor from India (ARR of 165 days; box office: $64,392), Night Stalker, Night Strangler, Spiral Staircase and Wiggles: Nursery Rhymes

La Huit

10/02/18 — Released Giant Sand - Good Luck Suckers: The Last Tour (2 disc set) and Looking for Ornette (2 disc set)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Snow Queen: Fire and Ice

MGM Home Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Vikings: Season 5, Part 1 (3 disc set)

Movie Detective (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Amor de Perdicao (Portuguese), Bridge (Serbo-Croatian), Courage for Every Day (Czech), La Pretora (Italian), Le Navire Night (French), Martin Fierro (Spanish), Only Old Men are Going to Battle (Russian), Resurrection (Russian) and Wild Goose Chase (French)

Multicom Entertainment Group (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Black Panther

NCircle Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Octonauts: Season Two (2 disc set)

PBS Direct

10/02/18 — Released Mister Rogers: It's You I Like, Pinkalicious & Peterrific: Best Pink Present and Wonders of Mexico

Paramount Home Media

10/02/18 — Released Soul Food: The Complete Series (19 disc set)

12/04/18 — Sets Mission: Impossible – Fallout (ARR of 130 days; box office: $219,190,552)

12/11/18 — Sets Nathan For You: The Complete Series (9 disc set)

Passion River Films

10/02/18 — Released Behold the Earth, Dangerous Idea and William and the Windmill

Patio Press (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Don't Slam the Door on Your Way Out

Plunger Films, Ltd. (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Down in Suntown: San Diego's Homeless

POV Horror: Found Footage Films (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released POV Horror #3: The Mitchell Tapes

Prahast Singh Presentations (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Vishwavijay (Hindi)

Random Media (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Landing

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

09/25/18 — Released London by Night, Rumplestiltskin and the Golden Secret (German) and Strangers in the House (French)

10/02/18 — Released Der RosenKavalier (silent-1925), Flower and Snake (Japanese), House Under the Rocks (Hungarian), Mummy's Boys, Scotland Yard Commons (aka: Lonely Road), Solange Leben in Mir Ist (German), Ungen (Norwegian) and Voyage Without Hope (French)

Reel Nightmare Entertainment (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Dead by Christmas

Rodney Oliver (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Rewards

SBTN (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Nguyen Van Thieu (Vietnamese)

Scorpion Releasing

10/02/18 — Released I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Screamtime Films (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Axemas, Curse of the Slasher Nurse, Meathook Massacre, Meathook Massacre 2 and Meathook Massacre 3

Serpent Films (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released 2 Classic Sci-Fi Movies (2 film set: Destroy All Planets, Phantom from 10,000 Leagues), 2 Classic Sci-Fi Movies (2 film set: Menace from Outer Space, Plan 9 from Outer Space) and 2 Classic Sci-Fi Movies (2 film set: Prisoners of the Lost Universe, The Disappearance of Flight 412)

Shady Dawn Pictures, LLC (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Let's Not Meet

Shout! Factory

10/02/18 — Released 12th Man (Norwegian), Elmo's World: Elmo Explores and Feral

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Alexander the Great (silent-1917)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: Escape from Cleveland - Cleveland, OH, F1rst Wrestling: Uptown VFW 3 - Minneapolis, MN, GCW: Live Fast Die Young - Asbury Park, NJ, H2O Wrestling: Written in Blood - Williamstown, NJ, IWA Mid-South: Deathmatch Daze, Volume 1, IWA Mid-South: Deathmatch Daze, Volume 2, IWA Mid-South: Oooh Maria's Amazing - Best of Amazing Maria, Volume 1 and Vicious Outcast Wrestling: Lord of Anarchy 4 - Fairmont, WV

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

10/02/18 — Released Maximum Impact, Outlawed and Sleep No More

11/13/18 — Sets Alpha (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $35,493,229)

Strand Releasing

10/02/18 — Released Misandrists (German) (ARR of 130 days; box office: $25,316)

TMW Media Group (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Achoo Stop the Flu: Protect Your Kids from Getting Sick

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

10/02/18 — Released Peppa Pig: Stars and Resident: Season One (3 disc set)

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

10/02/18 — Released Bob's Burgers: The Complete Sixth Season (3 disc set), Bob's Burgers: The Complete Seventh Season (3 disc set) and Bob's Burgers: The Complete Eighth Season (3 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

10/02/18 — Released Born Racer, Death Race: Beyond Anarchy, S.M.A.R.T. Chase and Tales from the Hood 2

VIZ Media

10/02/18 — Released Sailor Moon S: The Movie

Vanishing, Inc.

10/02/18 — Released Decoded (2 disc set)

Vision Films

10/02/18 — Released Betrayed

Vision Films (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released McKellen: Playing the Part

WWE

10/02/18 — Released WWE: Shawn Michaels - The Showstopper (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/02/18 — Released DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis, Scooby-Doo! and the Haunted House and Scooby-Doo! and the Skeletons

11/13/18 — Sets The Meg (ARR of 95 days; box office: $141,980,287)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Deception: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

Well Go U.S.A.

10/02/18 — Released Afraid

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Arrow Video

12/11/18 — Sets Waterworld (2 disc set)

Artsploitation Films

10/02/18 — Released Molly

Cinedigm Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Battle of the Bulge: Wunderland and Blood Fest (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Cohen Media Group

10/02/18 — Released Rodin (French)

Distant Thunderworks, LLC (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Film Peddler

Eagle Rock Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Imagine: John Lennon/Gimme Some Truth

FUNimation

10/02/18 — Released Disastrous Life of Saiki K: Season One (4 Disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Dragon Ball Super: Part Five (2 disc set), Free!: Movie Collection (3 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack), Free!: Take Your Marks (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), High Speed (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Pop Team Epic: Season One (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Rosario + Vampire: The Complete Series (4 Disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released 3 Years in Pakistan: The Erik Aude Story and Kim Swims

Kino Lorber

10/02/18 — Released Night Stalker, Night Strangler and Spiral Staircase

MGM Home Entertainment

10/02/18 — Released Vikings: Season 5, Part 1 (3 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

12/04/18 — Sets Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Scorpion Releasing

10/02/18 — Released I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Shady Dawn Pictures, LLC (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released Let's Not Meet

Shout! Factory

10/02/18 — Released 12th Man (Norwegian) and Feral

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

10/02/18 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Uptown VFW 3 - Minneapolis, MN, GCW: Live Fast Die Young - Asbury Park, NJ and Vicious Outcast Wrestling: Lord of Anarchy 4 - Fairmont, WV

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

11/13/18 — Sets Alpha (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Switchblade Pictures

10/02/18 — Released Corpse Prison, Part 1 (Japanese)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

10/02/18 — Released S.M.A.R.T. Chase and Tales from the Hood 2

VIZ Media

10/02/18 — Released Sailor Moon S: The Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

11/13/18 — Sets The Meg (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and The Meg 3D/2D (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

Paramount Home Media Tabs Dec. 4 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Director Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Say what you will about Tom Cruise, but one thing that you have to acknowledge, he is one savvy player when it comes to his film career.   Like Sandra Bullock, Cruise relies on his instincts and has total control over the steps he takes and the films he makes, which are invariably commercial.    

His latest, director Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout — McQuarrie has teamed with Cruise on Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation and Jack Reacher (and provided scripts for Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy and Valkyrie) — is yet another box office smash.   

With that said, word arrived this past week from Paramount Home Media that Mission: Impossible – Fallout will be available as DVD, Double-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and 4K Ultra HD/Double-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack product offerings on Dec. 4.

That early December street date yields an ARR of 130 days and multiplex summer crowds chipped in $219.2 million in domestic box office sales — $790 million if you look at the worldwide picture.

The film is remarkable beyond the storyline and the action itself.   Tom Cruise does his own stunts and was injured during the rooftop chase sequence (broken ankle, etc.), which shutdown the film for seven full weeks.   The HALO jumps (High Altitude Low Opening) in the film that featured Cruise were real, however they were not done over the city of Paris (that was digitally painted in).

As to bonus features for this sixth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, we begin with three — count’em, three — commentary options.   The first features director Christopher McQuarrie and producer/actor Tom Cruise, the second also has McQuarrie, who is joined by film editor Eddie Hamilton (he also edited Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation and the two Kingsman films), and the third features commentary from composer Lorne Balfe.

There’s a seven-part making-of presentation titled “Behind the Fallout,” deleted scenes (with optional commentary by McQuarrie and Hamilton), storyboards and two additional featurettes — “Foot Chase Musical Breakdown” and “The Ultimate Mission.”

To get all of this extra material included in the release, both the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray SKUs include a second Blu-ray companion disc.  

In other home entertainment release news from Paramount Home Media this past week, the Comedy Central production of Nathan For You, starring comedian Nathan Fielder — who also just happens to have a degree in business — as a very unconventional “business consultant.”   His advice, while well-meaning and sincere, is often askew, which creates for very funny running skits.

Nathan For You: The Complete Series on DVD includes all four seasons of the series as a nine-disc presentation.    Bonus features include commentary by Fielder, who is joined by “Special Guests,” deleted scenes and two special featurettes — “Blue Smoke Detector Tutorial” and “The Banzai Predicament Studio Performance.”

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Rewind Collection Status On Director Alber Pyun's Dec. 11 Blu-ray Release Of Nemesis

MVD Entertainment Group just announced it next Rewind Collection Blu-ray release and it will certainly be a keeper come Dec. 11.

Director Albert Pyun teams up with Olivier Gruner for the 1992 sci-fi thriller, Nemesis, which will be a double-disc presentation, featuring three different cuts of the film … the original theatrical cut, a director’s cut and the Japanese Extended cut of the film.   Sweet!

Both filmmaker Albert Pyun and French kickboxer-turned-actor, Olivier Gruner have already been showcased by MVD Entertainment Group, with Pyun’s Crazy Six (starring the late Burt Reynolds) getting a Marquee Collection Blu-ray launch on Aug. 28 and Gruner’s all-action Angel Town going the Rewind Collection route on Sept. 25.

It’s 2027 in Los Angeles and Olivier Gruner is a cyborg/human police officer by the name of Alex Raine — actually more of a “hired gun” — who is ambushed by a radical group of cyborg-enhanced criminals who called themselves “The Red Army Hammerheads.”   

As the film progresses and Alex gets repaired and repaired and repaired (like that bunny, he takes a licking and keeps on ticking) we come to learn that the “Hammerheads” are actually the good guys and that there is a sinister plot afoot to replace key humans with android lookalikes.    

Nemesis clearly takes its cues from the Terminator franchise (Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released theatrical the previous year), but dials the action up several notches.   Nemesis works and it is certainly an enjoyable thrill ride … especially trying to keep up with who is who … android replicant or human!

As to bonus goodies, the “Director’s Cut” of the film includes optional commentary by director Albert Pyun, there are separate introductions by both Pyun and Gruner, a pair of making-of featurettes, a short video session with Gruner and a pair of production featurettes — “The Saga” and “Killcount.”

Icarus Films To Release Documentary Filmmaker Guy Reid’s Planetary On DVD On Nov. 20

Icarus Films and Bullfrog Films will team on Nov. 20 for the DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Guy Reid’s (with Steve Watts Kennedy) Planetary.

The idea for this film sprung from Reid’s 2012 short film, Overview, which examined the experience reported by astronauts when viewing Earth from hundreds of miles in space.   Dubbed the “Overview Effect,” Earth is seen in a different light — from a different perspective if you will — which is often described as seeing a fragile, life-sustaining orb floating in the vastness of an endless space.   

The film was so well-received, Reid decided to expand the discussion of this view of our planet and the implications thereof and include not only observations from astronauts, but from philosophers and the like.   

So that it wouldn’t just be a group of “talking heads” discussing an esoteric idea (read that as: boring), Reid teamed with photographer-turned-cinematographer Christopher Ferstad to juxtapose the stunning visuals from space with equally magnificent shots of our planet and then mix in the hustle and bustle of human endeavors on a global basis — cities, people at work and play, roads, airports … the scope of humanity.   

The result is a thought-provoking examination of the “Overview Effect” and the current state of human existence on this fragile floating orb.   The point that is examined is that we are all interconnected.

Contributing to the conversation are astronauts Ronald Garan and Mae Jemison, who are joined by the likes of natural resource management professor and author, Janine Benyus (“Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature,” “The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States”), Zen Buddhist instructor Joan Halifax (“The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth”) and author Paul Hawken (“The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability,” “Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution”) … among others.

Included with the DVD release of Planetary is the aforementioned short film from Guy Reid, Overview.