Mill Creek Entertainment Picks Feb. 4 For The DVD Debut Of Director Christopher Martini's What The Night Can Do

Mill Creek Entertainment has already announced Q1 DVD and Blu-ray product offerings that include complete collections of both The Mindy Project: The Complete Series (10 disc sets for both Blu-ray and DVD on Jan. 14) and Unbreakable Kimmy Smith: The Complete Series (8 disc sets for both DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 4). 

In addition to those fan-pleasing collections there is a sweet DVD compilation on Jan. 14 titled Air Bud: 6 Movie Team-Up, which features all of the Buddy the stray dog family films — Air Bud, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch, Air Bud: Strikes Back and Air Buddies (and the set comes complete with Digital Copy).

There are also “VHS Retro” Blu-ray releases (four new films, including When a Stranger Calls on Feb. 11) and new double-feature Blu-ray releases on Jan. 14, including the double-bill of Reservation Road (first time on Blu-ray) and Return to Paradise (also first time on Blu-ray), both starring Joker’s Joaquin Phoenix, who is a lock for a Best Actor nomination.

The first quarter is packed with price-to-own collectibles and you’d just have to figure that Mill Creek Entertainment would be done, but you’d be wrong.   

Word arrived this past week that the company has acquired the distribution rights to director Christopher Martini’s family-themed drama, What the Night Can Do, which is written and produced by Emmy-winner Stuart Margolin. 

The DVD debut date for What the Night Can Do will be Feb. 4.

This multi-generational family story was filmed on location in Lewisburg, West Virginia and features Margolin (as Angel on The Rockford Files) as the family patriarch who has to guide his granddaughter, Launa (Peyton Kennedy — as “Dr. O” in the Odd Squad series, plus such series as Everything Sucks! and Grey’s Anatomy), through some rocky times, including deep divisions within her own family.   

JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist, The Big Chill), Mercedes Mason (perhaps best known as Captain Zoe Anderson on The Rookie television series and Ofelia Salazar on Fear the Walking Dead series) and Max Martini (as Taylor in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy) co-star as various members of the Dreyer/Cole family group.

What the Night Can Do, a feel-good family tale, complete with a happy ending, comes complete with Digital Copy (co-star, producer and writer Stuart Margolin wanted it that way … he has grown weary over the years of too many “downer” films from Hollywood).