For the period ending November 30, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

For the period ending November 30, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD New Additions:

 

Ace of Wands Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Glinda the Good Witch Goes to the Starwood Festival and Lemon Drops

Acorn Media

11/27/18 — Released Elizabeth I and Her Enemies, Jack Irish: Season Two (2 disc set) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (2 disc set)

BBC Home Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Reindeer Family & Me

Blue Fox Entertainment (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Outer World

Brain Power Studio

11/27/18 — Released Christmas with a Prince and Hometown Holiday

Breaking Glass Pictures

11/27/18 — Released My Best Friend (Spanish)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Great Indoors (3 disc set)

Cinema Epoch (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Edge

DAR-APP Entertainment (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Kidnapper Clown 2 and Kidnapper Witch 2

Dark Night Films (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Indestructible: Afterlife

EWTN

11/27/18 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Questions and Answers Live - Jim and Joy Pinto, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Sacrament of Confession and Praying the Rosary Strengthens a Family's Faith - Jean Nixon, Called to Communion: Dr. David Anders, EWTN Live: Benedict XVI Institute of Sacred Music and Divine Worship - Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Life on the Rock: Angelic Warfare of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Fr. Gabriel Gillen OP

Excel Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Studio C: Greatest Sketches

FastCoast Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Zombies of the Living Dead

Filmlab Showcase Pictures (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released DEADtroid

FilmRise

11/27/18 — Released Boy Downstairs: Special Edition and Family I Had: Special Edition

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Future '38, Live, Misguided Behavior and Old Man Football

HBO Home Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Sharp Objects (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Get Digital World (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Blogger: The Advanced Course, Create Your Own Video Sharing Site, Joint Venture Secrets, Tips and Tricks, Make Money Online: The Fast Cash Generator System, Make Money Online: The Guru Spills it All, New Product Launch Ignition, PHP For Beginners, Revealed!: The Strategic Approach To Building An Insanely Responsive and Highly Profitable Email List!, Rising Up from the Challenges of Life, SEO: Social Bookmarking Backlinks and Work From Home: The Web Branding DNA Course

Grasshopper Films

01/29/19 — Sets Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach (German) (ARR of 333 days; box office: $17,527)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released After Party, At First Light (ARR of 60 days; box office: $3,292), Getting Over, How to Prepare for Prison, Hunky Dory, Obey and Soul Sessions

Icarus Films

01/22/18 — Sets Widowed Witch (Mandarin)

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Payday and Summer of ’67 (ARR of 151 days; box office: $8,941)

Inspirational Films (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Mr. Engagement

Just for the Hell of It (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Double Feature: The Courier of Death, The Last Witness (2 disc set) and Double Feature: Kill Squad, Sakura Killers (2 disc set)

Kino Lorber

11/27/18 — Released Grissom Gang and Killing of Sister George

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Animal House of Blues

Mascot Label Group

11/27/18 — Released Beth Hart: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Armenian Haunting and Screams of the Night (aka: The Howling)

Newt’s Classic Movie Store (MOD)

11/20/18 — Released World for Ransom

Open Sign Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Prudence Drive

PCN Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released PA Books: Radiation Nation

Paramount Home Media

02/05/18 — Sets Shimmer & Shine: Flight of the Zahracorns

Passion River

11/27/18 — Released Saving Brinton (2 disc set) (ARR of 436 days; box office: $56,218)

12/04/18 — Sets Bag of Marbles (French) (ARR of 256 days; box office: $409,862)

Provident Films

01/15/19 — Sets Like Arrows (ARR of 277 days; box office: $843,885)

Random Media (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released To Dream

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Adventures of Arsene Lupin (French), Der Forster vom Silberwald (German) and You're Not an Orphan (Uzbek)

SRS Cinema

11/27/18 — Released Gora: Son of Devil

Serpent Films (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released 2 Classic Blood and Gore Movies (2 film set: Driller Killer, Don't Look in the Basement), 2 Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Haldane of the Secret Service, Murder by Television), 2 Classic Space Invaders Movies (2 film set: Killers from Space, Invaders from Space), 2 Classic Space Invaders Movies (2 film set: Plan 9 from Outer Space, Warning from Space), NSFW: Behind the Scenes Making Erotic Art, Shake Hands with Murder and Spellbound (aka: The Spell of Amy Nugent)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released AAW: Legacy - LaSalle, IL, Blood Brothers Pro Wrestling: Southern California Crimson Cup 2 - Sun Valley, CA, Glory Pro Wrestling: Fear of the Dark - Collinsville, IL and IWA Mid-South: Harvest the Violence - Jeffersonville, IN

Strand Releasing

01/15/19 — Sets Last Suit (Spanish) (2 disc set) (ARR of 298 days; box office: $73,548)

Sunrise, Inc.

11/27/18 — Released Mobile Fighter G Gundam Collection 2 (4 disc set)

The Film Collectors Society of America  (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released 984: Prisoner of the Future, Above and Beyond, Abraxas Guardian of the Universe, Absent Minded Professor, Action in the North Atlantic, Adam's Rib, Africa Screams, Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens, Alien Factor, Alien Prey (aka: Prey), All About Eve, Allegheny Uprising, Ambush, Angel and the Badman, Angry Hills, Annie Oakley, Arsenic and Old Lace, Asphalt Jungle, Assassin, Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops, Attack of the Killer "B" Movies, Avenger, Babes in Arms, Bachelor Mother, Back to Bataan, Bad and the Beautiful, Badman's Territory, Bandit King of Texas, Bandits of Dark Canyon, Bandits of the West, Battle Beyond the Sun, Battle Circus, Battleground, Bells of St. Mary's, Beyond the Moon, Big Sky, Big Steal, Black Beauty, Black Hand, Black Hills Ambush, Blackboard Jungle, Body Snatcher, Bold Caballero, Bold Frontiersman, Boom Town, Boy's Town, Brain Twisters, Bride Came C.O.D., Bringing Up Baby, Brother from Another Planet, Caesar the Conqueror, Camille, Captive of Billy the Kid, Carson City Raiders, Catered Affair, Chain Lightning, Champion, China Seas, Christmas Carol, Christmas In Connecticut and Citadel

Tiny Tumblers Gym, Inc. (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Tiny Tumblers Gym: Phase 1 - Learning a Back Limber, Tiny Tumblers Gym: Phase 1 - Learning a Side Aerial, Tiny Tumblers Gym: Phase 2 - Achieving a Back Walkover and Tiny Tumblers Gym: Phase 2 - Mastering the Side Aerial

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

01/22/19 — Sets Hate U Give (ARR of 109 days; box office: $28,918,177)

20^th Century-Fox – Cinema Archives (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Big Noise, Murder Over New York, On the Avenue, Phone Call from a Stranger, Pinky, Rose of Washington Square and Something for the Boys

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Little Stranger (ARR of 88 days; box office: $713,143)

Vertical Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released School

WWE

11/27/18 — Released WWE: Super Show-Down 2018 (2 disc set)

Wild Eye Releasing

11/27/18 — Released Brutality and Cold Ground

02/26/19 — Sets A Man Possessed

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Acorn Media

11/27/18 — Released Jack Irish: Season Two (2 disc set) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (2 disc set)

Arrow Video

02/12/19 — Sets Horror Express

BMG Rights Management

11/27/18 — Released Manhattan Transfer & Take 6: The Summit - Live on Soundstage (Blu-ray/CD Combo Pack)

Code Red

11/27/18 — Released Almost Human

DAR-APP Entertainment (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Kidnapper Clown 2 and Kidnapper Witch 2

Dark Night Films (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Indestructible and Indestructible: Afterlife

Ei Independent Cinema

11/27/18 — Released Haunted House on Sorority Row

Eastern Star

11/27/18 — Released Dinosaur King: Season 1, Dinosaur King: Season 2 and Lupin III: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Blitz (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Double Feature: Martial Arts Action (2 film set: Ninja, Ninja II), Double Feature Starring Wesley Snipes (2 film set: The Recall, Nine Lives), Killing Season, Meg-A-Shark 8-Movie Collection (8 film set: Shark in Venice, Toxic Shark, Shark Attack, Shark Attack 2, Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, Malibu Shark Attack, Shark Man, Shark Zone) (2 disc set), Nicholas Cage Triple Feature (3 film set: Trespass, Bad Lieutenant, Stolen) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Steven Seagal 4-Movie Collection (4 film set: Driven to Kill, Kill Switch, Mercenary for Justice, Today You Die)

Filmlab Showcase Pictures (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Dead is Dead: Director's Cut and DEADtroid

FilmRise

11/27/18 — Released Boy Downstairs: Special Edition

FUNimation

11/27/18 — Released King's Game: The Complete Collection (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Three Leaves Three Colors (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released After Party, At First Light, Getting Over, How to Prepare for Prison, Obey and Soul Sessions

Grono Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Christmas Snowfall, Fireplace and Snow for Christmas

HBO Home Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Sharp Objects (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Indie Rights (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Payday

Kino Lorber

11/27/18 — Released Grissom Gang and Killing of Sister George

Mascot Label Group

11/27/18 — Released Beth Hart: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Screams of the Night (aka: The Howling)

Open Sign Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released Prudence Drive

PCN Productions (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released PA Books: Radiation Nation

Passion River

11/27/18 — Released Flowing Water (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Saving Brinton (2 disc set) (ARR of 436 days; box office: $56,218)

Ponycan

11/27/18 — Released Sound! Euphonium 2, Volume 2 (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

11/27/18 — Released Double Feature: Munchie, Munchies and What Keeps You Alive

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

11/27/18 — Released AAW: Legacy - LaSalle, IL and Blood Brothers Pro Wrestling: Southern California Crimson Cup 2 - Sun Valley, CA

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

11/27/18 — Released Little Stranger

Paramount Home Media Tabs Feb. 5 For The DVD Release Of Shimmer and Shine: Flight of the Zahracorns

Paramount Home Media and Nickelodeon Home Entertainment will be teaming up for the DVD release of the latest animated adventures of the twin genies, Shimmer and Shine, on Feb. 5 with the delivery of Shimmer and Shine: Flight of the Zahracorns.

Seven magical adventures unfold in this latest collection, with kicks off with Leah joining Shimmer and Shine on a journey to Zahramay Skies, where they meet the Stardust Princess.   They soon that Zahramay Skies is no ordinary place as pets can fly and counted among these flying creatures are Zahracorns!

It’s not all fun and games in this magical place as the jealous Zeta, a would-be sorceress, wants to take over … a big Zahracorn race is planned and Zeta wants in on it!

In another adventures, a lost Zahracorn is the focus on attention and a magical trip to find a Zahracorn Dragon allows Leah, Shimmer and Shine to meet Shaun, a Cloud Genie.

Arrow Video Announces New 2K Film Restoration For The Feb. 12 Blu-ray Release Of Director Eugenio Martin's Horror Express

Amicus Productions and Hammer Films were the kings of the horror films that reigned supreme in the 1960s and 1970s.   These delights included Amicus’ anthology series of films — The House That Dripped Blood, Tales from the Crypt  and Asylum (among others) — while Hammer served-up a seemingly endless stream of Dracula, Frankenstein and Mummy delights, often teaming Christopher Lee with Peter Cushing.

It was during this period that director Eugenio Martin’s Horror Express was released (around Christmas of 1973 by indie Scotia International), which is often confused as being one of the Amicus and/or Hammer theatrical releases from the period.   That’s an easy mistake since the film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Regardless of its origins, Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K restoration from the film’s original elements planned for Blu-ray on Feb. 12.

At the turn of last century, a Professor Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee), an anthropologist, makes an earth-shaking discovey in remote Manchuria.   An ape-like creature that he estimates to be some 2,000,000 years old!

He must get his find back to England, and thus books passage on the famed Trans-Siberian Express, which will more or less become a haunted house on wheels.    To complicate matters, Alexander’s chief academic rival, Dr. Wells (Peter Cushing) just happens to be in the same place with his assistant, Miss Jones (Alice Reinheart).

They are not even out of the station when a mysterious murder occurs.   And, as the train rumbles along in the remote reaches of Siberia, more killings … the creature is alive and on the prowl!

Horror Express, mixes in everything … from a body-jumping alien life form to zombies, to a murder mystery on a rolling train, with a crazed priest and even throws in a chew-the-scenery performance from Telly Savalas as a Cossack officer dispatched to find out what is going on aboard the Trans-Siberian Express (Savalas was in Spain, where the film was shot, and would work on both Horror Express and Pancho Villa for producer Bernard Gordon … the train was even used in both films).

As to bonus goodies, there is a newly prepared commentary featuring Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (co-authors of “Horror: The 100 Best Books” and “Horror: Another 100 Best Books”), a introduction to film by writer Chris Alexander, a video session with director Eugenio Martin and a pair of featurettes — “Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express” and “Telly and Me.”

Icarus Films Targets Jan. 22 For The Domestic DVD Debut Of Director Cai Chengjie’s The Widowed Witch

If Er Hou (Tian Tian) had any luck at all it would be bad luck.  

Icarus Films announced this past week that Chinese filmmaker Cai Chengjie’s social commentary tale, The Widowed Witch, will be making its domestic DVD debut on Jan. 22.

We pick up her story of sorrow after just being blown up (tossed about) when her illegal fireworks factory went up in a fiery blaze, taking her husband with it.   Bad enough, but Er Hou is now obviously cursed, so say relatives and fellow villagers.   One dead husband, OK, it happens.   Two, maybe it is just fate, or bad luck, but with this latest death, that’s three and it has become clear that she is a witch; cursed.

She is cast out with nothing more than an old delivery van and the clothes on her back.  Er Hou makes the rounds to former “relatives” (with three former husbands she has a few) with little luck — she is actually raped for her trouble — but does end up with a companion, her recently deceased husband’s teenage mute brother (he too is cursed).  

Through a series of almost comical events, her being a cursed witch actually works to her advantage as she takes on the trappings of a gifted shaman.   It’s a living, traveling the wintery countryside dealing in the “supernatural.”   Is this a deceit that can be maintained … or will one slip proved to be a “trick” too far?

Director Cai Chengjie’s The Widowed Witch is a clever mix of superstitious mysticism and social commentary on a largely patriarchal society.   By mixing color and black and white sequences, the mesmerizing tale of Er Hou unfolds with a stark beauty that often belies the dangers ever present in rural China.

The Widowed Witch is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles.

Writer/Director Amel Figueroa's A Man Possessed On DVD From Wild Eye Releasing On Feb. 26

Amel Figueroa, writer, director, producer … and with knowledge of all of the technical aspects of filmmaking, put together an action flick, with his SaintSinner Entertainment partner, Brandon Brooks, that is outside of his genre-themed comfort zone.   

With the likes of The Quiet Ones (Figueroa directing, Brooks producing) and Sickness (Brooks directing and Figueroa handling the producing chores), the pair have been working the horror-with-a-twist market.   Not the straight-up slasher or creature feature stuff, but films with an edge.

With their latest, A Man Possessed, which will be heading home on Feb. 26 on DVD from Wildeye Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, we get an introspective revenge thriller.

In a minimalist approach, Figueroa establishes the relationship between “The Man” (Ricardo Segarra – The Urn, The Pinelands Murders) and “The Man’s Wife” (Gina Martino — Sickness, The Avenue, etc.) — we never know their names.   They have a loving relationship, which is soon ripped to shreds.   “The Man” still breathes.   Blood flows through his veins, but is all but dead.

Very much in the spirit of director Michael Winner’s Death Wish, vengeance becomes “The Man’s” whole purpose.   Parallel to this is “The Detective” (played by Extreme Championship Wrestling superstar Tommy Dreamer), who is trying to solve a series of vigilante-style murders.   He too has a loving wife (played by Alex Russo) and perhaps there will be empathy for the killer he pursues … a killer whose path he eventually must cross!

Filmmaker Amel Figueroa’s A Man Possessed is about love, loss and the aftermath.

20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment Picks Jan. 22 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Director George Tillman, Jr.’s The Hate U Give

20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment looks to Jan. 22 for a three-SKU launch of director George Tillman, Jr.’s film adaptation of the Angie Thomas novel, The Hate U Give.

The ARR for this politically-charged tale of a traffic stop that escalates into a police shooting, gang violence and citywide protests — both peaceful and violent — works out to 109 days.  
SKU configuration will be a stand-alone DVD edition and combo-pack configurations for both 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray and Blu-ray/DVD presentations.

Bonus features include commentary by director George Tillman, Jr. (Soul Food, Men of Honor), who is joined by author Angie Thomas, actors Amandla Stenberg and Russell Hornsby, and film editor Craig Hayes, extended scenes and five featurettes — “Starting a Conversation,” “The Talk,” “Code Switching,” “The Heart of Georgia” and “Thank U Georgia.”

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rushes Director Ruben Fleischer's Venom To Market On Dec. 18

With a Marvel Entertainment product it is tough to keep a secret.   Over a week ago it was revealed from various sources (including amazon.com) that director Ruben Fleischer’s Venom would settle in as a three-SKU array of home entertainment packaged media product offerings on Dec. 18.   

But, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, which has struggled with the basics of PR for a number of years, got blindsided once again by these early announcements.   It wasn’t until Tuesday of this past week (Nov. 27) that they finally delivered an official press announcement (already past the pre-book window).   But such is life!

The ARR for the Dec. 18 street date works out to an extremely fast 74 days … that ties the speed record for any theatrical release grossing in excess of $100 million (Venom’s current domestic box office haul is $211.7 million).   Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s Annabelle: Creation also made the warp-speed trip from theatrical venues to the home entertainment marketplace in just 74 days back in 2017.

The very tight window could explain Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s difficulty with the press announcement for Venom.   Other shortcomings from the studio’s home entertainment division remain unanswered. 

As to SKU configuration, there will be Combo Packs for both 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray and Blu-ray/DVD configurations, as well as a stand-alone DVD edition.

Bonus features include deleted and extended scenes, the “Venom Mode” viewing option (annoying pop-ups for those with short attention spans), a half-dozen featurettes — “From Symbiote to Screen,” “The Lethal Protector in Action,” “Venom Vision,” “Designing Venom,” “Symbiote Secrets,” “Eight Select Scenes Pre-Vis Sequences” — and two music videos … Eminem’s “Venom” and Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower.”