For the period ending December 20, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

Abingdon Press

12/17/19 — Released Adam Hamilton: The Walk, Grace of Les Miserables and Passion Play: Living the Story of Christ's Last Days

Aflick TV (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Love Triangle

Bayview Entertainment

02/11/20 — Sets Moscow Days, L.A. Nights, Mountain of Gold, My Country (Portuguese) and Un Mundo Secreto (Spanish)

Championship Productions

12/17/19 — Released Running the Princeton 2-Guard Offense

Cinedigm Entertainment

12/17/19 — Released Acceleration

Cinema Guild

02/11/20 — Sets Suburban Birds (Mandarin) (ARR of 312 days; box office: $10,587)

Criterion Collection

03/10/20 — Sets Salesman

03/17/20 — Sets Bamboozled (2 disc set)

03/24/20 — Sets Cranes are Flying (Russian) and Leave Her to Heaven

03/31/20 — Sets Prince of Tides (2 disc set) and Show Boat

EM3, LLC (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Committed (2 disc set)

EWTN

12/17/19 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Ryan Hanning, Ph. D.: Renewal of the culture through family, highlighting examples for Advent and Christmas, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Bishop Joseph Perry and Christopher Foley / discussion of portayal of Fr. Augustus Tolton, Journey Home: Father Jonathan Duncan - Form Episcopal Priest and Sunday Best: Father Groeschel - Steps of the Spiritual Life: Step 2 - Growing in Virtue

12/24/19 — Sets Called to Communion

GVN Releasing

02/04/20 — Sets High Strung: Free Dance (ARR of 116 days; box office: $82,529)

Get Digital World (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Affiliate Marketing for Dummies

Gravitas Ventures

12/17/19 — Released Black Spruce, In God I Trust and Prey

Gunpowder & Sky (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Villains

Hope of the World (MOD)

12/10/19 — Released Hanukah Secrets of a Victorious Life

12/17/19 — Released Ministry of Light

I-Cine

12/17/19 — Released Co Nang Manh Me (10 disc set), Con Ruot Con Rieng, Part 1 (14 disc set),  Con Ruot Con Rieng, Part 2 (14 disc set),  Cuoc Doi Thu 2 (10 disc set) and Lua Tham Toi Loi (10 disc set)

Icarus Films

02/11/20 — Sets What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (ARR of 179 days; box office: $4,672)

Image Entertainment (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Wrath (Korean)

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Rice Girl

MVD Entertainment Group

03/17/20 — Sets David Susskind Archive: Gay Rights Pro And Con, David Susskind Archive: Howard Hughes The Watergate Connection and David Susskind Archive: I Was A Hitman For The Mafia

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released MRG Collective: Drama, Volume 3 (6 short films: Day Off, Riva, The Apparel, The One I Adore, The Pit, The Son, The Father), MRG Collective: Horror, Volume 3 (6 short films: Akuji Devil's Board, Peek A Boo, Portrait(s), Postpartum, Secretions, Senses) and MRG Collective: Sci-fi/Fantasy Volume 3 (6 short films: Followed Back, Outer, The Door, The Forgotten Children, The Progress, What Follows the Night)

Paramount Home Media

01/28/20 — Sets Terminator: Dark Fate (ARR of 88 days; box office: $62,077,463)

Ruthless Films, LLC (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Malignant

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

12/10/19 — Released Combat Zone Wrestling: Down with the Sickness 2019 - Voorhees NJ, Combat Zone Wrestling: Night of Infamy, 2019 - Voorhees, NJ, Combat Zone Wrestling: To Hell and Back - Voorhees, NJ and IWA Mid-South: Man Up - Jeffersonville, IN

12/17/19 — Released C*4 Wrestling: Combat Shock, IWA Mid-South: Big Ass Christmas Bash 2019 - Jeffersonville, IN, IWA Mid-South: Winter Tryout Show, 2019 and IWA Mid-South: Wrestlefest 2019 - Jeffersonville, IN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

01/21/20 — Sets Black and Blue (ARR of 88 days; box office: $21,981,411) and Pain and Glory (Spanish) (ARR of 109 days; box office: $3,695,666)

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released 2019 AAA 2A Football Championship Junction City vs Fordyce, 2019 AAA 3A Football Championship Harding Academy vs Osceola, 2019 CIAC L Football Championship Daniel Hand vs St. Joseph, 2019 CIAC LL Football Championship Darien vs Newtown, 2019 CIAC M Football Championship Weston vs Killingly, 2019 CIAC S Football Championship Sheehan vs Bloomfield, 2019 GHSA 1A Public Football Championship Marion County vs Irwin County, 2019 GHSA 3A Football Championship Crisp County vs Cedar Grove, 2019 GHSA 4A Football Championship Oconee County vs Blessed Trinity, 2019 GHSA 7A Football Championship Lowndes vs Marietta, 2019 LHSAA Class 1A Football Championship Oak Grove vs White Castle, 2019 LHSAA Class 4A Football Championship Warren Easton vs Edna Karr, 2019 LHSAA Class 5A Football Championship Destrehan vs Acadiana, 2019 NCHSAA 1A Football Championship Northampton County vs Robbinsville, 2019 NCHSAA 1AA Football Championship Tarboro vs East Surry, 2019 NCHSAA 2A Football Championship Northeastern vs Reidsville, 2019 NCHSAA 2AA Football Championship Salisbury vs Shelby, 2019 NCHSAA 3A Football Championship Southern Nash vs Charlotte Catholic, 2019 NCHSAA 3AA Football Championship Lee County vs Weddington, 2019 NCHSAA 4A Football Championship Cardinal Gibbons vs East Forsyth, 2019 NCHSAA 4AA Football Championship Zebulon Vance vs Leesville Road, 2019 OSSAA 1A Football Championship Ringling vs Cashion, 2019 OSSAA 2A Football Championship Metro Christian vs Vian, 2019 VHSL Class 1 Football Championship Galax vs Riverheads, 2019 VHSL Class 2 Football Championship Appomattox County vs Stuarts Draft, 2019 VHSL Class 3 Football Championship Lord Botetourt vs Hopewell, 2019 VHSL Class 4 Football Championship Lake Taylor vs Tuscarora, 2019 VHSL Class 5 Football Championship Stone Bridge vs Maury and 2019 VHSL Class 6 Football Championship Oscar Smith vs South County

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

12/17/19 — Released Atlanta Robbin': Season 2 (2 disc set), Chi: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set) and Mr. Inbetween: The Complete Season Two (2 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Crypsis

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/04/20 — Sets Doctor Sleep (ARR of 88 days; box office: $31,414,419)

Wolfe

02/04/20 — Sets 5B (ARR of 270 days; box office: $72,968)

Blu-ray New Additions

 

Arrow Video

03/24/20 — Sets Beyond the Door (2 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment

12/17/19 — Released Acceleration

Cinema Guild

02/11/20 — Sets Suburban Birds (Mandarin)

Criterion Collection

03/10/20 — Sets Salesman

03/17/20 — Sets Bamboozled

03/24/20 — Sets Cranes are Flying (Russian) and Leave Her to Heaven

03/31/20 — Sets Prince of Tides and Show Boat

Film Movement

12/17/19 — Released Passport to Pimlico and Titfield Thunderbolt

Flicker Alley

12/17/19 — Released Trapped (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

12/17/19 — Released Akashic Record of Bastard Magic (2 disc set), Hand Shakers: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Kiddy Girl: The Complete Series (4 disc set) and Yona of the Dawn: The Complete Series (4 disc set)

GVN Releasing

02/04/20 — Sets High Strung: Free Dance

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Black Spruce, In God I Trust and Prey

Gunpowder & Sky (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Villains

Image Entertainment

12/17/19 — Released Trick

12/24/19 — Sets Adopt a Highway

Kino Lorber

12/17/19 — Released Boat is Full (German), Heartbreak Hotel, Mad Love, Paradise, Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, Volume 6, Sunday in the Country (French) and White Squall

Left of Center Films (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released $500 Dress and Ten Questions

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

12/17/19 — Released Blood Prism

Mill Creek Entertainment

03/17/20 — Sets Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect the Wishes! (Japanese) (with Digital Copy) and Ultraman Orb the Movie: The Power of Bonds! (Japanese) (with Digital Copy)

Paramount Home Media

01/28/20 — Sets Terminator: Dark Fate (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Sentai FilmWorks

12/17/19 — Released Bloom Into You: Complete Collection (2 disc set) and Golden Time: The Complete Collection - New English Dubbed (3 disc set)

Shout! Factory

12/17/19 — Released Feast of the Seven Fishes, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Silver Bullet: Collector's Edition, To the Devil a Daughter and Universal Horror Collection, Volume 3 (4 film set: The Tower of London, Man-Made Monster, Horror Island, The Black Cat) (4 disc set)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

12/17/19 — Released Cable Guy, Heist, Look Who's Talking: 30th Anniversary Edition and Remains of the Day

01/21/20 — Sets Black and Blue (with Digital Copy) and Pain and Glory (Spanish)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

12/17/19 — Released Killjoys: Season Five (2 disc set)

Vinegar Syndrome

01/28/20 — Sets Flesh Eating Mothers (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Hard Soap, Hard Soap/Disco Lady (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Justine (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Thousand and One Erotic Nights 1 & 2 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Zombie Island Massacre (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/04/20 — Sets Doctor Sleep (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Paramount Home Media

01/28/20 — Sets Terminator: Dark Fate (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/04/20 — Sets Doctor Sleep (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

Paramount Home Media Picks Jan. 28 For The Home Entertainment Packaged Media Debut Of Director Tim Miller's Terminator: Dark Fate

Paramount Home Media has tabbed Jan. 28 as the home entertainment packaged media rollout date for director Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate, reuniting Linda Hamilton with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

That end-of-January street date yields a quick-to-market 88 days.   Domestic box office receipts currently stand at $62.1 million.

This will be a three-SKU array of packaged media product choices — Combo Pack editions for both the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus a stand-alone DVD edition.

The honored timeline of protecting John Connor (variously played over the years by Edward Furlong, Nick Stahl, Christian Bale and Jason Clarke, among others, at various times in the character’s life) is stood on its head in the opening minutes of Terminator: Dark Fate as the machine assassin from the future finally succeeds ... it is a T-800!!

We then skip ahead to the present day and the arrival of a new, even more deadly “terminator” from the future, the Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna), whose mission is to terminate Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) the future leader of the resistance.   She too has a guardian angel sent back in time from the future, a cyborg soldier by the name of Grace (Mackenzie Davis — The Martian, Blade Runner 2049), who has been by an adult Ramos to protect her younger self.  

Together with Sarah Connor (a return to the character by Linda Hamilton) and a remorseful T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), the new challenge is met … an open ending at least sets the stage for future Terminator movies.

Bonus goodies include deleted and extended scenes and four production featurettes — “A Legend Reforged,” “World Builders,” “Dam Busters: The Final Showdown” and “VFX Breakdown: The Dragonfly.”

MVD Entertainment Group's Next Wave Of DVD Releases From The David Susskind Archive Arrive On Mar. 17

MVD Entertainment Group has targeted Mar. 17 for the next wave of classic television interviews conducted by David Susskind between 1958 and 1986.

The first up is David Susskind Archive: I Was a Hitman for the Mafia, which was first broadcast on June 11, 1973 and features the confessions of a Mafia hitman (identity is hidden), who was the co-author of a 1972 best-seller, “'Killer: The Biography of a Mafia Hit Man.”

During the course of the interview, “Joey the Hitman,” outlines how he killed 38 people, 35 under contract and three as “revenge” killings against those who tried to have him whacked.   Chilling in detail.

Of note, the identity of the hitman was finally revealed in 1982 when he was killed by a shotgun blast in San Mateo, California.   His name was Max Kurschner, the brother of a New York City police officer, who at the time of his death was credited with murdering 53 people … which means, following the David Susskind interview session in June of 1973 Max Kurschner, or “Joey the Hitman,” would go on to kill another 18 people!!!

Next up is the Feb. 1, 1976 presentation of David Susskind Archive: Howard Hughes The Watergate Connection, which features a panel discussing the possible connection between Howard Hughes and the infamous Watergate affair that ultimately brought down president Richard Nixon.   The panel includes New Yorks Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas, who had just written, “Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years,” Hank Greenspun of the Las Vegas Sun and former chief counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee, Terry Lenzner.

The third broadcast arriving on DVD on Mar. 17 from MVD Entertainment Group is David Susskind Archive: Gay Rights Pro And Con, a 1982 broadcast featuring the likes of Jesse Lee, Pastor, Neighborhood Church, Dr. William Marra, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham and Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Family Defense Coalition in debate with Matt Foreman, Dignity New York, David Rothenberg, Executive Director of the Fortune Society and Tom Stoddard, Executive Director Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund.

Documentary Filmmaker Robert Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? On DVD From Icarus Films This Coming Feb. 11

Icarus Films will be guiding the KimStim Collection release of documentary filmmaker Robert Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? to the domestic DVD marketplace on Feb. 11.

Minervini didn’t initially set out to make an award-winning documentary on race relations in America, but instead wanted to develop a film about the rich tradition of black music in Louisiana.   It is always fascinating to see how one thing; one path can lead to an unexpected journey. 

His trip to the south led him to a woman by the name of Judy Hill, a former addict and the owner of the Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar in New Orleans.   He spends time with her and this leads him to brothers Titus and Ronaldo, who have been raised by a single mom in neighboring Mississippi.   And finally to a third element, which took longer to develop, the introduction of Krystal Muhammad and the New Black Panther movement in the aftermath of the decapitation murder of Jeremy Jackson, the shooting of Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge and the death of Phillip Carroll.   

Minervini’s film moves freely between these three elements, circling back to Hill for insights, views of the young brothers jetting around on their bikes and the anger of the New Black Panthers.

The film is shot in black and white, which gives it a different tone and feel … it’s hard to imagine that the same emotions would be felt if this journey was presented in color.   That observation might be a bit subjective.

Nevertheless, once Minervini felt that he a story to tell, he assembled What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? and took the finished product out on the festival circuit, opening at the Venice Film Festival in 2018, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion and won not one, but four separate awards, including the Venice Film Festival Fair Play Cinema Award and the Venice Film Festival Premio Vivere da Sportivi Award. 

The film then went on a hopscotch journey across the globe, with stops at the Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Munich International Film Festival and more … followed by a brief arthouse theatrical showcase that took place in mid-August of this year (for the record, the ARR comes in at 179 days).   The awards piled up … as did the glowing reviews.

What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? may have started out as one thing, but the cinéma vérité result of Minervini’s journey makes for a far more interesting film.   

Mill Creek Entertainment's Next Ultraman Wave On Blu-ray Arrives On Mar. 17

Way back in the middle of July, Mill Creek Entertainment announced that it had acquired the distribution rights to the Ultraman library from The Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd.   The first releases — Ultra Q: Complete Series 01 and Ultraman: Complete Series 02 — arrived on Blu-ray on Oct. 15 and a steady flow of fan-pleasing collections have been released on a regular basis since that date.

With over 50 years of programming, which includes some 1,100 individual episodes and 20 feature films, Mill Creek Entertainment will be busy for the foreseeable future.

Indeed, the latest announcement arrived this past week and there are two of the 20 feature films in the Ultraman library now on the release calendar for delivery on Blu-ray on Mar. 17.

First up is director Koichi Sakamoto’s 2018 sci-fi thriller, Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect the Wishes!, starring Tatsuomi Hamada (from the Ultraman Geed: The Series, released on Nov. 19 by Mill Creek) as Riku (aka: Ultraman), who teams up with Airu Higa (Yuika Motokariya) to thwart the plans of the Galactron Army … things look grim until reinforcements arrive!!!

Also streeting on Mar. 17 is director Kiyotaka Taguchi’s 2017 Ultraman Orb the Movie: The Power of Bonds!, featuring Hideo Ishiguro as Gai (aka: Ultraman Orb) in this foreshadowing of the events that would unfold in Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect the Wishes! the following year.    Key to action here is the alliance of the space witch Murnau (Oniyakko Tsubaki) with the sinister Jugglus Juggler (Takaya Aoyagi)!!

Both films are presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

Arrow Video Picks Mar. 24 For The Blu-ray Release Of Director Ovidio G. Assonitis' Beyond The Door

You go outside and you are in San Francisco.  You go inside and you are on a set in the De Paolis Studios in Rome, Italy.   Ah, the magic of filmmaking.

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K-film restoration of this bit of cinematic magic ready for a double-disc Blu-ray release on Mar. 24.

The film in question is producer/director Ovidio G. Assonitis’ 1974 (1975 for domestic consumption) horror tale, Beyond the Door (aka: The Devil Within Her), starring Juliet Mills (Emmy-winner for her performance in the 1974 mini-series production of QB VII, but perhaps best known as Nanny in Nanny and the Professor) as the possessed wife and mother, who is pregnant … will the baby be the devil’s spawn?  

It’s amazing that American International Pictures, which was the king of the exploitation films for years, turned Beyond the Door down (that had a first-look deal with Assonitis) … it fell to Film Ventures International to distribute it theatrically.   Despite the film being successful, it got tied up in a legal battle with Warner Bros. over the claim that it was a rip-off of The Exorcist.    A no-fault settlement was eventually reached.

Another quirk, simply because it was Film Ventures and not AIP, Beyond the Door opened in Texas and other venues in the south in May of 1975, but did not reach the Los Angeles market until August. 

As mentioned, this is a double-disc Blu-ray release, featuring both the domestic theatrical release of Beyond the Door and the UK version, which was titled The Devil Within Her.

Other bonus goodies include the feature-length documentary titled Italy Possessed, and five newly-prepared featurettes — “The Devil and I,” “Barrett’s Hell,” “Beyond the Music,” “The Devil’s Face” and “Motel and Devils.”