For the period ending February 08, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD New Additions:

 

Acorn Media

02/05/19 — Released 40 & Single (2 disc set) and 800 Words: Season 3, Part 2 (2 disc set)

Adult Source Media

02/05/19 — Released Training Day 2

Aflick TV (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Broken Walls, Deep Room 1, Deep Room 2, Dirty Princess 1, Dirty Princess 2, Throne of Disaster 1, Throne of Disaster 2, Thrown Into Confusion 1, Thrown Into Confusion 2, Traced Identity 1 and Traced Identity 2

BJJ Fanatics (MOD)

01/29/19 — Released Kimura Logic by Harry Grech

02/05/19 — Released 1% Better Every Day: Strength Building System (4 disc set) and No Gi Road Map (4 disc set)

Championship Productions

02/05/19 — Released High Post Offense and Winning with the Clamp: Advanced Face-off Tactics & Techniques

Cinedigm Entertainment

02/05/19 — Released Finding Josephine

Cinetrove International

03/26/19 — Sets Monsieur La Souris (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (French)

Cleopatra Music & Film

04/05/19 — Sets Johnny Thunders: Madrid Memory (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

DreamScape Media, LLC

02/05/19 — Released Captain Kidd, Caribbean Dream, Combat America, Cowboy and the Senorita, Divorce His, Divorce Hers, Granddaddy's Turn, Guy from Harlem,  Jack London, Lady Windermere's Fan (silent-1925), Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb (German), Maybe Something Beautiful - Bilingual Edition and Yoga Friends: A Pose-by-Pose Partner Adventure for Kids

EM3, LLC (MOD)

01/29/19 — Released Dixie Jamboree and Gang's All Here

02/05/19 — Released Dishonored Lady, Driftin’ Kid, Gangster Story, Ghosts Can't Do It, Hi De Ho, Million to One and Stilwell Road

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

02/05/19 — Released Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (with Digital Copy)

GVN Releasing

02/05/19 — Released Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (ARR of 116 days; box office: $8,350,005) and Shine (ARR of 123 days; box office: $332,833)

Greenwich Entertainment

03/26/19 — Sets World Before Your Feet (ARR of 123 days; box office: $209,964)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released 1 Billion Orgasms, Electric Love, Father's Kingdom, Havana Darkness, Heat: A Kitchen Revolution and Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

HBO Home Entertianment

02/05/19 — Released Deuce: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Hallmark Channel

02/05/19 — Released Love on Safari and Winter's Dream

Harmonia - Belvedere

02/05/19 — Released Cleveland Orchestra: Centennial Concert

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Fighting the Sky, Loophole, Terror Tales and Viking Siege

Hope of the World (MOD)

01/29/19 — Released Desert Warrior Creed #1

02/05/19 — Released Ways of the Nations

I-Cine

02/05/19 — Released Le Co Truyen Ky (16 disc set)

Kino Lorber

02/05/19 — Released Charly, Diamonds for Breakfast, Kotch and Zachariah

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/05/19 — Released All the Devil's Men, Bernie the Dolphin and Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel (3 disc set)

02/12/19 — Sets At Eternity's Gate (ARR of 88 days; box office: $2,259,226)

03/05/19 — Sets Ben is Back (ARR of 88 days; box office: $3,665,767)

Magnolia Entertainment

02/05/19 — Released Guilty (Danish) (ARR of 109 days; box office: $206,203)

Manny Velazquez Films (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Dolls

Movie Detective (MOD)

01/29/19 — Released Brute (Hungarian)

02/05/19 — Released Adventures in Vienna (German), Portrait of an Unknown Woman (German), Rotaie (silent-1929), Sturme der Leidenschaft (German)Un Uomo Ritorna (Italian) and Westward Desperado (Japanese)

Naxos

02/05/19 — Released Adam: Le Corsaire

Oscilloscope Laboratories

03/26/19 — Sets Columbus (ARR of 599 days; box office: $1,001,381)

PCN Productions (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs: Carlisle and PA Books: Insight Philadelphia

Paramount Home Media

04/09/19 — Sets PAW Patrol: Ultimate Rescue

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

01/29/19 — Released Liebesgesschichten (German) and Seitensprunge (German)

02/05/19 — Released Bedaure, Falsch Verbunden (German), Berlin Correspondent, Big Parade (Mandarin), Der Barenhauter (German), Der Schweigende Engel (German), Der Tater ist Unter Uns (German), Golden Horde, Ihre Majestat Die Liebe (German), Im Schwarzen Rossl (German), It Happened at the Inn (French), Leichte Muse (German), Madchen Im Vorzimmer (German), Pursuit of the Graf Spee (aka: The Battle of the River Plate), Rote Rosen: Blaue Adria (German), Ski Patrol, Tale of Two Cities and Weisser Flieder (German)

Screen Media

02/05/19 — Released You Might be the Killer

Serpent Films (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Classic Silent Movie: Raffles the Amateur Cracksman (silent-1917), Classic Silent Movie: Scaramouche (silent-1923), Classic Silent Movie: Suds (silent-1920) and Classic Silent Movie: The White Rose (silent-1923)

Shemaroo

02/05/19 — Released Ishqeria (Hindi)

Shout! Factory

02/05/19 — Released Lu Over The Wall (Japanese) (ARR of 270 days; box office: $109,875), Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms (Japanese) and Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (Russian)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Game Changer Wrestling: 400 Degreez - Summit, IL

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

02/12/19 — Sets Front Runner (ARR of 95 days; box office: $1,994,179)

02/26/19 — Sets Possession of Hannah Grace (with Digital Copy) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $14,802,916)

03/19/19 — Sets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (with Digital Copy) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $175,424,664)

The Orchard (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Anywhere With You

The Teaching Company, LLC

01/29/19 — Released Effective Research Methods for Any Project (4 disc set), Language Families of the World (6 disc set) and Skeptic's Guide to Health, Medicine and the Media (4 disc set)

20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment

02/19/19 — Sets Can You Ever Forgive Me? (ARR of 123 days; box office: $8,350,005)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/05/19 — Released Long Dumb Road (ARR of 88 days; box office: $4,667) and Private War (ARR of 95 days; box office: $1,631,837)

VCI Entertainment

04/09/19 — Sets Norman Wisdom Comedy Collection, Volume 1 (6 film set Trouble in Store, One Good Turn, Man of the Moment, Up In the World, Just My Luck, The Square Peg) (3 disc set) and Norman Wisdom Comedy Collection, Volume 2 (6 film set Follow A Star, The Bulldog Breed, On the Beat, A Stitch In Time, The Early Bird, Press For Time) (3 disc set)

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Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/05/19 — Released Scooby-Doo! and Curse of 13th Ghost

03/05/19 — Sets Krypton: The Complete First Season (2 disc set)

03/12/19 — Sets Last Ship: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)

03/26/19 — Sets Aquaman (ARR of 95 days; box office: $323,622,378)

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Cinetrove International

03/26/19 — Sets Monsieur La Souris (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (French)

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

02/05/19 — Released Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Flicker Alley

02/05/19 — Released Der Hund von Baskerville (German) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

02/05/19 — Released Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Part 1 (2 disc set), Deadman Wonderland (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), FlCL: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Free!: Iwatobi Swim Club - Season One (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Free!: Eternal Summer - Season Two (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World, Season 1, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Samurai 7 (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Samurai Champloo (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Steins; Gate (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released 1 Billion Orgasms, Electric Love, Father's Kingdom, Havana Darkness, Heat: A Kitchen Revolution and Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

HBO Home Entertianment

02/05/19 — Released Deuce: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Harmonia - Belvedere

02/05/19 — Released Cleveland Orchestra: Centennial Concert

Kino Lorber

02/05/19 — Released Charly, Diamonds for Breakfast, Kotch and Zachariah

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/05/19 — Released All the Devil's Men (with Digital Copy)

02/12/19 — Sets At Eternity's Gate (with Digital Copy)

03/05/19 — Sets Ben is Back (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group

05/14/19 — Sets Boogie Boy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Magnolia Entertainment

02/05/19 — Released Guilty (Danish)

Maiden Japan

02/05/19 — Released Space Runaway Ideon (8 disc set)

Naxos

02/05/19 — Released Adam: Le Corsaire

Oscilloscope Laboratories

03/26/19 — Sets Columbus

PCN Productions (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs: Carlisle and PA Books: Insight Philadelphia

SRS Cinema (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Sexsquatch Double Feature: Sexsquatch: The Legend of Blood Stool Creek/Sexsquatch 2: Sexsquatch vs. Teen Ape

Screen Media

02/05/19 — Released You Might be the Killer

Shout! Factory

02/05/19 — Released Lu Over The Wall (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (Russian)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Game Changer Wrestling: 400 Degreez - Summit, IL

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

02/05/19 — Released Higher Learning and Poetic Justice (with Digital Copy)

02/12/19 — Sets Front Runner (with Digital Copy)

02/26/19 — Sets Possession of Hannah Grace (with Digital Copy)

03/19/19 — Sets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Sunrise, Inc.

02/05/19 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam Tunderbold Bandit Flower

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Scarecrows

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/05/19 — Released Long Dumb Road and Private War (with Digital Copy)

04/09/19 — Sets On the Basis of Sex (with Digital Copy) and Welcome to Marwen (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

02/05/19 — Released Countess from Hong Kong, Greedy, Heart and Souls, In Good Company and Shadowlands

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Sets Aquaman (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

4K Ultra HD New Additions:

 

Kino Lorber

04/30/19 — Sets Hannibal (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/09/19 — Sets Man on a Ledge (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

03/19/19 — Sets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Sets Aquaman (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

Oscilloscope Laboratories Will Release DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Writer/Director Kogonada' Columbus On Mar. 26

Oscilloscope Laboratories announced this past week that video essayist-turned-writer/director Kogonada will see his award-winning film, Columbus, available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings on Mar. 26.

The ARR comes in at a long-in-the-tooth 599 days and domestic ticket sales generated from the film’s arthouse run were right at $1 million, which is an impressive number for a film festival entry.    

Columbus debuted at Sundance in 1997, traveled the world throughout 1997 and into early 1998.   In the middle of that road trip there was a limited arthouse theatrical run that began in early August of 1997 and, largely through word-of-mouth, was extended again and again until early November of that year.

Oscilloscope, savvy to such events, worked on acquiring home entertainment distribution rights … and succeeded.   

OK, we are going to give away a trade secret right up front here.   If you see the name “Parker Posey” in an independent film it is a sign the film in question is one worth seeing.   Any indie filmmaker that is lucky enough to have her sign on — even if the role is minor (a couple of days on the set and gone) — means that they’ve found the lucky penny; their film is blessed by a muse … and film-goers in the know look for these little films with Parker Posey.

The same holds true for genre films … fans of those are drawn like moths to a flickering flame if they see Debbie Rochon’s name in the credits.   

Hmmmm, what masterpiece of filmmaking might be in the offing if Debbie Rochon and Parker Posey closed that six-degrees of separation and appeared in film together?

But we digress, all you need to know is that Parker Posey has a small role in Columbus, which says quite a bit since this is Kogonada’s debut as a director.

The film itself features Columbus as one of the framing components to the narrative — no not that famed university city with the Best Damn Band in the Land and the home of Brutus the Buckeye, but the Columbus next door in Indiana.

For those not in the know, Columbus, Indiana is the home to no less than seven National Historic Landmarks, including five designed by Eliel Saarinen, and 13 additional Modern marvels — basically the architectural go-to place in the country.   There are buildinga here designed by the likes of Gunnar Birkerts, I. M. Pei, Charles Franklin Sparrell, Robert Venturi and Harry Weese.

As we mentioned, Kogonada makes good use of Columbus, Indiana and its rich heritage of architect as a framing device for the two main characters to interact with.   The first of these is Jin (who is immediately recognizable as the new “Sulu” in the current Star Trek round of films, plus “Harold” of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle … among others in the comedy series), who is stuck in Columbus as a result of his famous father being hospitalized (now in a coma) — he was there to lecture on, architect.

The second is a life-long resident by the name of Casey (Haley Lu Richardson — Split, Operation Finale, The Edge of Seventeen, The Last Survivors, etc.), who had a rough up-bringing (mother was into drugs) and has made the most of it.   She has a bright future and knows every nook and cranny of Columbus … and all of the history; a regular little docent for the history of the architect of the city.

This mismatch pair — sort of like a September/April couple — meet and find an unlikely kinship.   He wants to get out of Columbus and she spends a considerable about of energy convincing him of its charm and beauty, while she really needs to get out and experience the world; go to college and let her mother go … so he works on showing her a future beyond the confines of Columbus.

Columbus emerges as a sweet character study where the audience is quickly invested in the happiness, if not the love, that both Jin and Casey might find.   A sweet film … and remember, it has Parker Posey in it!!!

Bonus features include commentary from John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson, deleted scenes and the short film from Kogonada titled “Columbus Story.”

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Rewind Status On The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Release Of Writer/Director Craig Hamann's Boogie Boy On May 14

MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that Rewind Collection status has been bestowed on writer/director ­ Craig Hamann’s 1998 thriller, Boogie Boy — starring Double Dragon’s Mark Dacascos.

A 4K restoration from the original camera negative (supervised by filmmaker Craig Hamann) will be available a Special Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on May 14. 

Jesse Page (Dacascos) is a loser, he’d like to be a rocker (drummer), but somewhere along the way crime and stupid things piled up and landed him a jolt (or two) in prison.   He’s fresh out of the joint, but doesn’t seem to have much in the way of plans … future-looking sort of thing.

In any case, a former buddy from prison named Larry (Jaimz Woolvett — Unforgiven, Dead Presidents, Rites of Passage, etc.), drops by with a tasty bit of bait — a cycle — which works like a charm as Jesse, who says he wants to remain on the right side of the law, is quickly sucked in to a drug deal that, naturally, goes south.

On the run, the pair end up in a sleazy motel named, appropriately enough, The Lost Oasis.   The joint is run by a good natured fellow by the name of Edsel Dundee (played by none other than Frederic Forrest), who has a dim-bulb of a wife, Hester (another surprise, Emily Lloyd — A River Runs Through It, Wish You Were Here), who will eventually create enough sexual tension to get our boy Jesse into more trouble.

What makes Boogie Boy a real keeper — and certainly a prime Rewind Collection candidate — is the incredible cast that was assembled.   In addition to to Emily Lloyd and Frederic Forrest, the film features the likes of Traci Lords, scream queen Linnea Quigley and Joan Jett, playing a seedy rocker who takes a liking to Jesse and offers him a gig … if he can just get out of the mess that Larry has gotten him into.

A clever twist-ending, that was later used in one of the Breaking Bad episodes, also adds to the film’s cult-like status ... and on Blu-ray for first time!!   Put May 14 for this primo 4K presentation of Boogie Boy.

Bonus features, which are still being worked on, include extensive video sessions with the cast and crew and a newly-prepared making-of featurette.

Cinetrove International To Release A Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Edition Of Director Georges Lacombe's Monsieur La Souris On Mar. 26

Cinetrove International announced this past week that French filmmaker Georges Lacombe’s 1942 “detective” mystery, Monsieur La Souris — produced and released in occupied France during World War II — will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offering on Mar. 26.

Adapted from the novel by prolific Belgian-born writer, Georges Simenon (who would gain fame for his series of Jules Maigret detective novels … some 75 in all) and starring Raimu (aka: Jules Auguste Muraire), a popular stage and screen actor of the 1930s and ‘40s (he died of heart failure from a minor operation in 1946), Monsieur La Souris is an odd little film in which filmmaker Georges Lacombe may have gotten away with a little bit of anti-Nazi propaganda.

Remember, the film opened theatrically in France in October of 1942, almost two full years before the Liberation of Paris in August of 1944, so filmmakers, writers, actors, etc., all had to tread lightly or end up on a train bound for a concentration camp.   Ironically, novelist Georges Simenon was both suspected of being a collaborator (nothing came of it, although he left France as soon as the war ended) and was investigated by the Gestapo at the same time. 

In any case, Raimu plays a street vagrant known as “La Souris” (The Mouse), who makes a few francs by doing odd jobs at a cabaret in Paris.   During one evening he stubbles onto a dead body behind the wheel of car, but before the police can be summoned, the automobile suddenly drives away … leaving behind an important clue, a wallet chockfull of money (plus other tidbits of information).

The police officials arrive — Commissioner Lucas (Paul Amiot — Madame Sans-Gêne, Orpheus, Queen's Necklace, etc.) and Inspector Lognon (René Bergeron — The Count of Monte Cristo, Remorques) — but The Mouse, detests these “authority” figures (remember, occupation of France, etc.) and launches his own investigation (common hero) of the murder.  Naturally, his sleuthing draws the attention of the inept Lucas and Lognon, who suspect that The Mouse might be in on it!!

Monsieur La Souris plays-out as a clever whodunit with enough twists and turns that would make Agatha Christie proud.   Presented in French with English subtitles, the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release of Monsieur La Souris by Cinetrove International includes an extensive photo gallery and the featurette titled “The French Detective.”   

Cleopatra Music And Film Looks To Apr. 5 For The DVD/CD Combo Pack Release Of Johnny Thunders: Madrid Memory

The New York Dolls lost their lead vocalist, Johnny Thunders, and their drummer, Jerry Nolan in the spring of 1975.   The pair briefly teamed up with Richard Hell, but creative differences saw that mix fall apart with Billy Rath replacing him and the core of Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers was set.

It didn’t last … by 1991 Johnny Thunders was gone (drug overdose) and the following year, 1992, Jerry Nolan stroked out.   But during their moment in the limelight that generated a following that lasts until this day.

Cleopatra Music and Film, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Friday, Apr. 5, for the special DVD/CD Combo Pack release of Johnny Thunders: Madrid Memory.  A newly-minted vinyl edition is also being released the same day.

During their 1984 “reunion” world tour — it was about this time that Thunders had acquired the original L.A.M.F. album tapes and remixed them (aka: L.A.M.F.: Revisited) with excellent results — the band popped-in at the Madrid studios of La Edad de Oro (aka: “The Golden Age”) for a live set, which was recorded for posterity.

The result was a 90-minute live concert featuring a 17-song set that included “Born Too Loose” from L.A.M.F., “I Love You” from the 1979 album, Live at Max's Kansas City; plus quite of material drawn from Johnny Thunders’ solo albums 1979 and 1983 … “Too Much Junkie Business,” “You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory,” “Pipeline” and “In Cold Blood.”

Appearing in this live concert are Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Billy Rath and Sylvain Sylvain (another alumni of The New York Dolls.