For the period ending December 14, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD New Additions:

 

Altered Innocense

12/11/18 — Released Wild Boys (French)

Ambient Relaxation Films (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Aurora Borealis: Backgrounds

Ammo Content, LLC

12/11/18 — Released Chasing the Blues (ARR of 67 days; box office: $14,030)

Artsploitation Films

12/11/18 — Released Snowflake (German)

BBC Home Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Death in Paradise, Season Seven (2 disc set), Father Brown: Season Six (2 disc set) and Top of the Lake: China Girl (2 disc set)

Big World Pictures, LLC

12/11/18 — Released Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (French)

Blue Fox Entertainment (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Solis

Breaking Glass Pictures

12/11/18 — Released Male Shorts: International, Volume Two (Spanish)

Cheezy Flicks

12/11/18 — Released Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide and Dr. Dildo's Secret

Cinedigm Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released River Runs Red

Cleopatra Music & Films

03/26/19 — Sets Life After Flash

Corinth Films

12/11/18 — Released And If I Am Not There (Bosian), Calm at Sea (French), Dark Fortune (German) and Dede (Georgian)

Criterion Collection

03/12/19 — Sets Kid Brother (silent-1927) (2 disc set) and Magic Flute (Swedish) (2 disc set)

03/19/19 — Sets Detour and Wanda

03/26/19 — Sets I Wanna to Hold Your Hand and Japón (Spanish) (2 disc set)

DreamScape Media

12/11/18 — Released Habana Instant, Island: A Story of the Galápagos, Lockpicker and Occupy, Texas

EM3, LLC (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released 39 Steps, Christmas Carol, Fog Island, Kid Sister, Li'l Abner, Tales of Robin Hood, Thunder in the Desert and World at War, Volume 1

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

12/04/18 — Released Ghost Beyond, Hitman Never Dies, Killing House and Remote Viewing

12/11/18 — Released Frenzy, Runnin' from My Roots (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Second Chance Christmas and Tiny Christmas

Empire Video

12/11/18 — Released Mangalyam Thanthunanena (Malayalam)

Film Movement

12/11/18 — Released Un Traductor (Spanish)

FilmRise (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Mantovani: The King of Strings

First Run Features

12/11/18 — Released Mademoiselle Paradis (French) and Quiet Heroes

Full Moon Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Pet Shop

Giant Interactive (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Matangi / Maya/ M.I.A.  (ARR of 74 days; box office: $229,533)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released 22 Chaser, Bitter Melon, Newly Single, Rainbow Experiment, Social Animals and Trigger

12/18/18 — Sets Dark Highlands, Frozen New Year's, Mercy's Girl, Take Light and Transformer

12/25/18 — Sets Bayou Caviar, Brown Girl Begins, Cam Life and Go-Getters

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

Hallmark Channel

12/11/18 — Released Christmas Cure, Christmas in Homestead and Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground

Hollywood Scrapheap (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Three Young Texans

Icarus Films

02/05/19 — Sets Free Lunch Society and No Date, No Signature (Farsi) (ARR of 186 days; box office: $33,877)

Image Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Galveston

Kino Lorber

12/11/18 — Released Foxfire, Last Command, Makala (French) and Wild Women

01/01/19 — Sets El Paso

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Welcome to the Men's Group

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Deadman Standing and Sk8 Dawg

Mill Creek Entertainment

02/19/19 — Sets Cleopatra (with Digital Copy), Five People You Meet in Heaven (with Digital Copy), Lonesome Dove (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Moby Dick (with Digital Copy), Scarlett (with Digital Copy), The 10th Kingdom (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), The Odyssey (with Digital Copy) and The Titanic (with Digital Copy)

MPI Home Video

12/11/18 — Released Await Further Instructions and Perry Como's English Christmas

Monarch

12/11/18 — Released Sound and the Fury

Movie Time Video

12/11/18 — Released E Ee (Telugu) and Nenorakam (Telugu)

National Geographic (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released National Geographic: The '80s Greatest (2 disc set), National Geographic: Genius - The Complete Second Season (3 disc set), National Geographic: Pupparazzi and National Geographic: Wicked Tuna - Outer Banks, Season Two (2 disc set)

Newt’s Classic Movie Store (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Patterns

PBS Direct

12/11/18 — Released Real Story: Master and Commander, Secrets of the Dead: The Woman in the Iron Coffin and Trump's Showdown

PCN Productions (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs: Grove City, PA Books: The Forgotten and PCN Tours: Tex Vision

Pentrex

12/11/18 — Released 8444 Rides Again: The Greatest Road Trip Ever

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Heute Nacht Passiet's (German), Pot-Bouille (French) and Warrior Empress

SRS Cinema

12/11/18 — Released Slaughter Drive

Samuel Goldwyn Films

12/11/18 — Released Somme III

Serpent Films (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released 2 Classic Adventure Movies (2 film set: The Silver Fleet, The Lost Zeppelin), 2 Classic Comedy Movies (2 film set: The Camerman (silent-1928), There Goes the Bride), 2 Classic Comedy Movies (2 film set: King Kelly of the U.S.A., Love Laughs at Andy Hardy), 2 Classic Comedy Movies (2 film set: Meet the Boyfriend, Misbehaving Husbands), 2 Classic Comedy Movies (2 film set: Mr. Boggs Steps Out, Palooka), 2 Classic Comedy Movies (2 film set: Private Snuffy Smith, The Milky Way) and 2 Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Mr. Moto's Last Warning, The Darkest Hour)

Shout! Factory

12/11/18 — Released High Chaparral: Season Two (6 disc set)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released AAW: Unstoppable - Chicago, IL, Absolute Intense Wrestling: Rubber City Con - Akron, OH, GCW: Joey Janela's L.A. Confidential - Los Angeles, CA, GCW: The G Code - Asbury Park, NJ, H2O Wrestling: Bloody Burgers - Williamstown, NJ and IWA Mid-South: Do You Believe in the Man in the Moon - Jeffersonville, IN

Stonecutter Media

12/11/18 — Released Extreme Wrestling Legends: Public Enemy the Extreme Originators Rip, Extreme Wrestling Legends: Rob Van Dam & Raven, The Original Feud and Extreme Wrestling Legends: The Violent Sabu

TMW Media Group (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Alcohol: Addiction & Recovery - Teens in Treatment, American Sign Language: Learn ABCs, Numbers, Fingerspelling, Colors, Grammar Basics & Everyday Useful Signs, Shedding Light on the Physics of Motion: Acceleration, Unity 2D & 3D Ultimate Game Development Course: Adding Multiple Jumps & Using Ray-Casts, Unity 2D & 3D Ultimate Game Development Course: Handling Physics Interactions & Handling Input, Unity 2D & 3D Ultimate Game Development Course: Project Setup & Player Movement and Unity 2D & 3D Ultimate Game Development Course: The Wall Jump Mechanic & Adding Character Animations

The Orchard (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Straight Up: Kentucky Bourbon

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

12/04/18 — Released Family Guy: Season Sixteen (3 disc set)

12/11/18 — Released Orville: The Complete First Season (4 disc set)

02/05/19 — Sets The Sisters Brothers (ARR of 137 days; box office: $3,135,006)

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

12/04/18 — Released Bullfighters, Dancing Masters and Dolly Sisters

12/11/18 — Released Trust: The Complete Season One (3 disc set)

Unearthed Films

12/11/18 — Released Brutal (Japanese)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

12/11/18 — Released Bold Type: Season Two (2 disc set) and Last Kingdom: Season Three (4 disc set)

Vertical Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Welcome Home

WWE

12/11/18 — Released WWE: Best of 2018 (2 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

01/08/19 — Sets Castle Rock: The Complete First Season (3 disc set) and LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu - Season Eight (2 disc set)

02/19/19 — Sets Star is Born (ARR of 137 days; box office: $197,042,665)

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Punished

Blu-ray New Additions:

Altered Innocense

12/11/18 — Released Wild Boys (French)

Artsploitation Films

12/11/18 — Released Snowflake (German)

BBC Home Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Dan & Phil: 2018 World Tour (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Cinedigm Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released River Runs Red

Cleopatra Music & Films

03/26/19 — Sets Life After Flash

Criterion Collection

03/12/19 — Sets Kid Brother (silent-1927) and Magic Flute (Swedish)

03/19/19 — Sets Detour and Wanda

03/26/19 — Sets I Wanna to Hold Your Hand and Japón (Spanish)

DAR-APP Entertainment (MOD)

12/04/18 — Released Albert the Plush, Cat Kidnapper, Christmas Dog Kidnapper, Disappearance of Helina, Disappearance of Oracio, Dog Kidnapper 2, Extraterrestrial Kidnapper, Helina the Plush, I Forgot Helina, I Forgot Helina 2 and Kidnapper Witch 2

12/11/18 — Released Adventure After Life, Crazy Dog Kidnapper, Ghost Dog Kidnapper, Kidnapper Clown Kidnapper Robot and Kidnapper Witch

Full Moon Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Pet Shop

FUNimation

12/04/18 — Released Silver Guardian (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

12/11/18 — Released Anime-Gataris: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released 22 Chaser, Bitter Melon, Newly Single, Rainbow Experiment, Social Animals and Trigger

12/18/18 — Sets Dark Highlands, Frozen New Year's, Mercy's Girl, Take Light and Transformer

12/25/18 — Sets Bayou Caviar, Brown Girl Begins, Cam Life and Go-Getters

Image Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released Galveston

Kino Lorber

12/11/18 — Released Female on the Beach, Foxfire, Last Command and Wild Women

01/01/19 — Sets El Paso

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/11/18 — Released I Still See You (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MPI Home Video

12/11/18 — Released Await Further Instructions

MVD Entertainment Group

02/26/19 — Sets Showdown

Maiden Japan

12/11/18 — Released Xabungle (2 disc set)

NYEH Entertainment (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Love is Dead

PCN Productions (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs: Grove City, PA Books: The Forgotten and PCN Tours: Tex Vision

Pentrex

12/11/18 — Released 8444 Rides Again: The Greatest Road Trip Ever

Samuel Goldwyn Films

12/11/18 — Released Somme III

Sentai Filmworks

12/11/18 — Released Dive!!: The Complete Collection (2 disc set) and Princess Tutu: The Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Shout! Factory

12/11/18 — Released Hang 'em High: 50th Anniversary Edition, Mangler, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2: Collector's Edition  and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation: Collector's Edition

12/18/18 — Sets Dracula: Prince of Darkness: Collector's Edition and Starman: Collector's Edition

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

12/11/18 — Released AAW: Unstoppable - Chicago, IL, , GCW: Joey Janela's L.A. Confidential - Los Angeles, CA and GCW: The G Code - Asbury Park, NJ  

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

12/11/18 — Released Oliver and Toy Soldiers

01/08/19 — Sets Heroes of Telemark and Stay Tuned

Switchblade Pictures

12/04/18 — Released Corpse Prison, Part 2 (Japanese)

Twilight Time

12/18/18 — Sets Anne of the Thousand Days, Satan Never Sleeps and X, Y & Zee

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

02/05/19 — Sets The Sisters Brothers (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Unearthed Films

12/11/18 — Released Brutal (Japanese)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

11/27/18 — Released Sinner: Season Two (2 disc set)

VIZ Media

12/04/18 — Released Castlevnia: Season One

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/19/19 — Sets Star is Born (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Mill Creek Entertainment Targets Feb. 19 For An Eight-Strong Mini-Series Blitz On DVD

Mark it down right now.   Feb. 19, an eight-selection mini-series blitz from Mill Creek Entertainment … all priced at just $14.98 each and all eight DVD releases include companion Digital Copy!   It just doesn’t get any better than that for price and viewing content!

Where does one begin?   How about with director John Erman’s Scarlett, the 1994 mini-series event sequel to Gone With the Wind!    Timothy Dalton (as James Bond/007 in 1987 with The Living Daylights and back again in 1989 in License to Kill) stars as Rhett Butler with Joanne Whalley as Scarlett O’Hara.

The double-disc mini-series based on Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Western epic, Lonesome Dove, teaming Robert Duvall with Tommy Lee Jones, plus Danny Glover and Diane Lane, is also to be found among the Feb. 19 mini-series selections.

Looking for an event mini-series based on classic literature?   How about Homer’s tale of Odysseus (Armand Assante) and his amazing adventure in the Emmy-winning presentation of The Odyssey?   Or, perhaps the seductive nature of Egypt’s “Queen of the Nile” and her affairs with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in director Franc Roddam’s Cleopatra is more to your liking … Leonor Varela is Cleopatra and Timothy Dalton and Billy Zane take up the roles of Caesar and Antony.

Adventures and drama on the high seas … is that what you have in mind?   Mill Creek Entertainment has you covered with director Franc Roddam’s 1998 adaption of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, Henry Thomas as Ishmael and Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab in the 1956 theatrical version) won the Golden Globe for his performance as Father Mapple.

And then there’s director Robert Lieberman’s 1996 tale of ocean-going tragedy, The Titanic, starring George C. Scott as Captain Smith, with the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter Gallagher, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry and Marilu Henner (as Molly Brown) among the passengers on the ill-fated ship.

Rounding out the selections of Feb. 19 mini-series events (and remember, all are priced at just $14.98 each and include Digital Copy) are the double-disc presentation of The 10^th Kingdom, starring Dianne Wiest as the Evil Queen, with Daniel Lapaine as Prince Wendell, who is trapped in New York City (in a parallel universe) where he meets Virginia (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) and her father Tony (John Larroquette), who help him get back to where he belongs (and he finds true love in the process) and director Lloyd Kramer’s mini-series adaptation of the Mitch Alborn book, Five People You Meet in Heaven, starring Jon Voight as Eddie … Ellen Burstyn and Jeff Daniels co-star.

Icarus Films Preps Director Christian Tod's Free Lunch Society And Iranian Filmmaker Vahid Jalilvand’s No Date, No Signature For DVD Release On Feb. 5

Austrian documentary filmmaker Christian Tod, who was — by his own admission — heavily influenced by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and certain episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation back in the 1990s, asks the question, “What would you do if your income were taken care of?”

The result is the feature-length documentary titled Free Lunch Society, which will be making its domestic DVD debut courtesy of Icarus Films on Feb. 5.

How would it work?  Is it possible?   These are the questions (and more) that Tod explores with the likes of Götz Werner, self-made billionaire and the head of the Cross-Department Group for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Fran Ulmer, educator, Director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research and former Lt. Governor of Alaska; Peter Barnes, journalist, author and environmentalist; Charles Murray, author of “Our Hands” and Libertarian Political Scientist; University of Manitoba professor Evelyn Forget; UC Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez and more.

 

The film raises the issue, should the Calvinistic work ethic continue to be the backbone of modern society or can there be constructive alternatives?

Free Lunch Society is presented in a mix of English and German, with English subtitles where necessary.

 

Bonus features include the featuretted titled “The Free Lunch Society Talk Show” and several promotional videos.

Also announced this past week by Icarus Films is the Distrib Films presentation of director Vahid Jalilvand’s No Date, No Signature, the official Best Foreign Language entry by Iran for this year’s Academy Awards (nominations will be revealed on Jan. 22).

The domestic DVD debut date will also be on Feb. 5.

No Date, No Signature had a very limited Oscar-qualifying theatrical release in early August of this year (limited to just three screens) and generated $33,877 in ticket sales … the ARR comes in at 186 days.

Class distinctions in current day Iran (filmed in and around Tehran) are explored in this intense dramatic tale — critic rave reviews and multiple award-winning film festivals results give credence to just how well-made this foreign-language entry is (including Best Director and Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 2017, losing-out to Nico, 1988 in the Best Film category).

In the opening sequence, Dr. Kaveh Nariman (Amir Aghaee — We're All Sinner, Mermaid, The Second Wife, etc.), a renowned Forensic Pathologist, collides with an over-loaded motorcycle on a dark street — father, mother, young boy and infant.   It appears to be a no-harm, no-foul incident and that’s that as they all go their separate ways.

Later, he crosses paths with the young boy again, this time as a dead body that is awaiting an autopsy.   This sets in motion a series of events that filmmaker Vahid Jalilvand uses to explore both class divisions, but long-standing customs and traditions that may seem alien to Western audiences.

Dr. Nariman’s colleague, Dr. Sayeh Behbahani (Hediyeh Tehrani — Red, Fireworks Wednesday, Israfil, etc.), performs the autopsy when he begs off and she discovers that the boy has died of food poisoning, which comes full circle to the father (played by Navid Mohammadzadeh) when Sayeh informs the parents.  He had bought cheap, rancid chicken and his wife immediately knew that something was amiss.

The father goes on a rampage against those who sold him the meat, while Dr. Nariman guilt-ridden over the boy’s death and eventually orders his body exhumed for a second autopsy.   Neither father, nor doctor can let “their” guilt go … it becomes all-consuming.

No Date, No Signature is presented in Farsi with English subtitles.

MVD Entertainment Group's Rewind Collection Status For The Blu-ray Launch On Feb. 26 Of Director Robert Radler's Showdown

MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that the next Blu-ray entry under the company’s popular “MVD Rewind Collection” promotional label will be none other than Robert Radler’s 1993 martial arts thriller, Showdown.   The street date will be Feb. 26.

In an establish prologue we see a police officer by the name of Billy Grant (played by Tao Bo fitness guru Billy Blanks) answer some sort of domestic disturbance call which quickly escalates into an accidental death.   Guild-ridden over the death, Grant quits the force … but it is established in these opening sequences that he is a gifted martial arts practitioner (that will quickly become an important plot element).

We then shift to a high school senior named Ken (played by Kenn Scott — as Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Shootfighter: Fight to the Death, Sworn to Justice, etc.) and his down-on-her-luck mother, who have just moved into town (filmed in and around Tucson, Arizona).    He arrives at his new school and immediately walks into a bad situation when he spots the lovely Julie (Christine Taylor — Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) and thinks that it would be a terrific idea to strike up a friendship.

Before you can say “kick-some-ass” he is confronted by Julie’s boyfriend, Tom (Ken McLeod) and his sidekick Rob (Michael Cavalieri) and roughed up.   Here’s where it comes full circle, the school’s janitor just happens to be Billy Grant and he befriends the overmatch kid … if he to survive his senior year (and get the girl) he needs to learn some defensive skills and Billy is just the man to be his mentor.

Meanwhile, just to close the circle even tighter, the brother of the man Billy accidently killing in the opening set-up, just happens have a karate school in town — he’s a nasty fighter, with all sorts of criminal associates — and Tom just so happens to be one of his students!!!

Showdown delivers exactly what it promises … plenty of action and the parallel storylines will come together in a massive no-holds-barred beat-down!   Plenty of action and, of course, a happy ending!

Bonus goodies are still a work in progress at this time.