For the period ending March 29, 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

05/07/19 — Sets No Offence: Series 3 (2 disc set)

Asylum Home Entertainment (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Zoombies 2

Bayview Entertainment

03/26/19 — Released BodyShaping: Beginner Fitness Workout and McBetter (Italian)

Breakthrough Chinuch (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Storyline of Chumash, Part 1, Storyline of Chumash, Part 2, Storyline of Chumash, Part 3 and Storyline of Chumash, Part 4

Big Blind Media

03/26/19 — Released Paul Zenon in Linking Rings

Breaking Glass Pictures

03/19/19 — Released Red Room

03/26/19 — Released Pinsky (Russian) and We are Boats

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Missiles of October

Cheezy Flicks

03/26/19 — Released Graveyard (aka: Persecution)

Coaches Choice/Healthy Learning

03/26/19 — Released Arkansas Wide Receiver Fundamentals and Wisconsin Badger Tight End Play

DreamScape Media

03/26/19 — Released Martina and Chrissie: The Greatest Rivalry in the History of Sports and Yukon: Wild Beauty

FilmRise (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Bachman

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Untogether

Giant Interactive (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released 306 Hollywood (ARR of 179 days; box office: $15,077)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Against the Clock, Aspire to the Sky: The Wilshire Grand Story, Digital Lives Matter, Middle Men and Roof Culture Asia

Hallmark Channel

03/19/19 — Released Chesapeake Shores: Season 3 (2 disc set) and Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again

Harpodeon (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Early Films of J. Warren Kerrigan (4 silent short films: Three Million Dollars (1911), The Borrowed Flat (1911), Man's Calling (1912), The Dancer (1916))

I-Cine

03/26/19 — Released Mua Cuc Susi (12 disc set), Ngon Gio Doi Toi, Part 1 (15 disc set) and Ngon Gio Doi Toi, Part 2 (15 disc set)

Icarus Films

05/21/19 — Sets Genesis 2.0

Kino Lorber

03/26/19 — Released Bad Banks: Season One (2 disc set) and For a Few Dollars More (2 disc set) and Jivaro

Life is My Movie Ent. (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Roadtrip Niger and True Cost

Lionsgate Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released King of Thieves

MHz Home Entertainment

03/26/19 — Released Sandhamn Murders: Volume One (3 disc set), Sandhamn Murders: Volume Two (3 disc set) and Welcome to Hindafing (3 disc set)

MVD Entertainment Group

06/11/19 — Sets The Illusionist

Mill Creek Entertainment

06/04/19 — Sets Drop Dead Diva (12 disc set)

Monarch Home Video

03/26/19 — Released Fortune Defies Death

Motion Picture Video, LLC (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Evil Beneath the Oldest City in America and Print Masters

NVG

03/26/19 — Released Swell

North Point Resources

03/26/19 — Released Andy Stanley: The Beginner's Guide To Predicting Your Future

PBS Direct

03/19/19 — Released NOVA: Apollo's Daring Mission

03/26/19 — Released Nature: Equus - Story of the Horse, NOVA: Pluto and Beyond and Victoria and Albert: The Wedding

PCN Productions (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released PA Books: Smiling Banjo and PCN Tours: Dangelo's Custom Built

Paramount Home Media

05/07/19 — Sets What Men Want (ARR of 88 days; box office: $54,051,616)

Passion River

03/26/19 — Released When Giants Fall

Random Media (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Flashout

Rogue Video (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Bloodlust and Terror

SBTN

03/26/19 — Released SBTN Voice: Finale (2 DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)

Shout! Factory

03/26/19 — Released Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released C*4 Wrestling: Reign of Fire - Ottawa, CN, DeathProof Fight Club: Give Us Your Money - Hamilton, ON, F1rst Wrestling: Uptown VFW 5 - Minneapolis, MN, IWA Mid-South: Battle of the Super Juniors - Jeffersonville, IN, IWA Mid-South: In Like a Lion - Jeffersonville, IN and Star Pro Wrestling: Jersey Brawl - Morganville, NJ

T-Series

03/26/19 — Released 52 Non Stop Dilbar Dilbar Remix Songs

The Teaching Company, LLC

03/26/19 — Released Great Tours: Washington D.C. (4 disc set), How to Write Best-Selling Fiction (4 disc set) and Understanding the Quantum World (4 disc set)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

04/23/19 — Sets Destroyer (ARR of 116 days; box office: $1,531,237)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released MFKZ (French) and Midnight, Texas: Season Two (2 disc set)

05/21/19 — Sets How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (ARR of 88 days; box office: $145,739,695)

VCI Entertainment

05/21/19 — Sets Red Ryder: The Color Westerns - The Complete Cinecolor Collection (4 film set: Ride, Ryder, Ride, Roll, Thunder, Roll, The Fighting Redhead, The Cowboy and the Prizefighter)

VIZ Media

03/26/19 — Released Naruto Shippuden #37 (2 disc set)

Virgil Films & Entertainment

03/19/19 — Released The Oyster Farmers

03/26/19 — Released I Am Richard Pryor

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released Kim Possible

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/21/19 — Sets Isn’t It Romantic (ARR of 95 days; box office: $47,501,280)

Zima Entertainment

03/26/19 — Released Dibujando El Cielo (Spanish), El Dia De La Union (Spanish) and Loca Por El Trabajon (Spanish)

Blu-ray New Additions

 

Aniplex of America

03/26/19 — Released Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, Volume 1 (2 disc set)

Cleopatra Records

07/12/19 — Sets Pretenders: With Friends (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with bonus CD)

Eastern Star

03/26/19 — Released Beyblade G-Revolution and Star Fleet X-Bomber

FUNimation

03/26/19 — Released Bikini Warriors (with Digital Copy), Darling in the FranXX, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Katana Maidens, Part 1 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Season One (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Ninja Slayer (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace - The Complete Collection (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Star Blazers Space Battleship Yatmato 2202, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Against the Clock, Aspire to the Sky: The Wilshire Grand Story, Digital Lives Matter, Middle Men and Roof Culture Asia

Kino Lorber

03/26/19 — Released For a Few Dollars More, Iceman Cometh (2 disc set), Jivaro 3D, Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore, Road to Utopia, Road to Zanzibar and Tarnished Angels

Life is My Movie Entertainment (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released True Cost

Lionsgate Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released King of Thieves (with Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group

06/11/19 — Sets The Illusionist

Mill Creek Entertainment

06/11/19 — Sets Double Team, Excess Baggage, Jury Duty and Opportunity Knocks

Motion Picture Video, LLC (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Dueling Dragons, Evil Beneath the Oldest City in America, Ghosts Behind the Screen and Print Masters

PCN Productions (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released PA Books: Smiling Banjo and PCN Tours: Dangelo's Custom Built

Paramount Home Media

05/07/19 — Sets What Men Want (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

06/04/19 — Sets Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season One (2 disc set)

Random Media (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released Flashout

Sentai FilmWorks

03/26/19 — Released Saiyuki: Complete Collection (3 disc set)

Shout! Factory

03/26/19 — Released Body Snatcher, Brighton Beach Memoir, Perfect Blue (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Japanese), Street Fighter Collection (3 film set: The Streetfighter, Return of the Street Fighter, The Street Fighter's Last Revenge) (Japanese) (3 disc set) and Warning Sign

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

03/26/19 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Uptown VFW 5 - Minneapolis, MN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released Multiplicity, Squeeze and White Nights

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

04/23/19 — Sets Destroyer (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

03/26/19 — Released MFKZ (French) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Midnight, Texas: Season Two (2 disc set)

05/21/19 — Sets How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/21/19 — Sets Isn’t It Romantic (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Lionsgate Home Ent.

04/02/19 — Sets Hell Boy Animated Double Feature (2 film set: Sword of Storms, Blood and Iron) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

05/21/19 — Sets Crank (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/21/19 — Sets How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (Digital Copy)

Drop Dead Diva: The Complete Series On DVD Toplines Mill Creek Entertainment First Wave Of June 04 DVD And Blu-ray Priced-To-Own Product Offerings

Sunday night at nine o’clock … the death hour for TV series, especially those relegated to down-the-dial cable channels.   Add to that a no-name star, whose previous on-screen credits included a bit part (“woman in park”) in What Women Want in 2000 and an appearance on a Law & Order: Trial by Jury episode five years later.

How is that combination a winner?   20^th Century-Fox even passed on the proposed series after reading the script for the pilot episode.   But a funny thing — make that, a VERY funny thing — happened in mid-July of 2009 on the Lifetime Channel, a star was born and a comedy series that had been passed on found an audience and became a hit!

Of course, for fans in the know, the series that became a six-season sitcom wonder on the Lifetime Channel was Drop Dead Diva and the then unknown Brooke Elliott became a star.

Mill Creek Entertainment announced this past week that its first wave of June 2019 price-to-collect DVD and Blu-ray product offerings will be top-lined by the 12-disc DVD collection of Drop Dead Diva: The Complete Series.

The set-up for the success of the series, and the reason why fans will be lining up on June 4 to grab their keepsake collections of Drop Dead Diva: The Complete Series, is the show’s delightful play on the Heaven Can Wait theme.   Two people die, sadly, one of which is Deborah "Deb" Dobkins (Brooke D'Orsay), a shallow, but gorgeous model, who arrives at the gates of heaven and is told that by “Fred,” the gatekeeper (played by Ben Feldman — Mad Men, Silicon Valley) that she cannot pass because she is neither good nor bad, but something of a zero.

No problem, Deb just smacks the “return” button before Fred can stop her and is zapped into the body of the recently deceased second person, Jane Bingum, played by none other than Brooke Elliott.   Deb is horrified, Jane is not, repeat NOT, supermodel material, but she is a whip-smart attorney.

To complicate things a little further, she — Deb that is, now in Jane’s body (with all of the smarts that comes with it) — discovers that her former fiancé, Grayson (Jackson Hurst — The Mist) is a colleague of Jane and is working at the same law firm.   Yikes!  

Throw in the now “guardian angel” Fred — a punishment of sorts for letting someone mess with the order of things — who has been sent to earth to keep Deb/Jane from spilling the beans and you have all the makings of a comedy series with “staying” power.

Comedian Margaret Cho provides plenty of comedy relief as the secretary sidekick at the law firm and the show is packed with a load of guest stars.

Mark it down, June 4, all 78 episodes of Drop Dead Diva: The Complete Series on DVD!

Not done yet!   Mill Creek Entertainment has added four new Blu-ray releases to its popular priced-to-collect line of Retro VHS films on Blu-ray … this time from the 1990s!  All four films in this June 4 Retro VHS blitz are making their Blu-ray debuts and all four are priced at just $14.98 each (and that’s before discounts at retail).

So what’s in the mix?   For starters, how about director Hark Tsui’s 1997 action comedy, Double Team, which features Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman working together — and odd pair if there ever was one — to stop a ruthless killer by the name of Stavros (played by Mickey Rourke).

Joining Double Team in the Blu-ray Retro VHS packaging hit parade are Excess Baggage (1997, teaming Alicia Silverstone with Benicio Del Toro and Christopher Walken), Jury Duty (1995, Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere and Stanley Tucci in the jury trial that never ends) and Dana Carvey leads the good life — in someone else’s home — in the 1990 comedy, Opportunity Knocks.

Paramount Home Media Tabs May 7 For DVD And Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Releases Of Director Adam Shankman's What Men Want

Paramount Home Media announced this past week that director Adam Shankman’s What Men Want will be making its home entertainment packaged media debut on May 7 as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offerings.

The ARR is a swift-to-market 88 days and domestic box office receipts were a solid $54.1 million.

In a flip on the Mel Gibson hit comedy, What Women Want, Taraji P. Henson (Empire’s Cookie Lyon) stars as Ali Davis, a sports agent who is constantly knocked out of the big sports deals because she is woman.   When she get the power to hear the thoughts of her rivals and potential male clients, everything changes … she’s a winner, winner, winner!

Not just in the competitive world of being an agent for high-profile professional athletes, but in other “endeavors” as well!!

Bonus features, which are exclusive to the Blu-ray SKU, are top-lined by commentary from director Adam Shankman (Rock of Ages, Hairspray, A Walk to Remember, The Wedding Planner), who also provides an introduction to deleted and extended scenes.   

Other bonus nuggets include a gag reel and half-dozen featurettes — “The Dream Team,” “Flipping the Narrative,” “What DO Men Want?,” “Poker Night,” “Ali + Athletes” and “Sister Spills the Tea infomercial.”

In other release news from Paramount Home Media this past week, the Amazon Prime cable series, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season One, will be available as a double-disc Blu-ray edition on June 4.

All eight episodes from the first season (already renewed for season two) are included here … bonus features include a quartet of deleted scenes.

MVD Entertainment Group Sets July 11 For The Marquee Collection Release On DVD And Blu-ray Of Writer/Director Neil Burger’s The Illusionist

MVD Entertainment Group will be bringing both DVD and Blu-ray editions of writer/director Neil Burger’s turn-of-the-century (Victorian era, that is) romantic mystery, The Illusionist, to the home entertainment marketplace as a newly-minted Marquee Collection product offering on June 11.

Austro-Hungarian Empire politics in Vienna during 1889 serve as the backdrop for a forbidden love affair featuring the son of a cabinet maker-turned-magician, Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and Sophie (Jessica Biel), the would-be bride of a vicious prince (played by Rufus Sewell).

The story of the affair involving the aforementioned magician and the young Duchess (Biel) is told in flashback by Vienna’s Chief Inspector Walter Uhl (Paul Giamatti) to the Emperor as he tries to explain her murder and how it involves the Emperor’s son, Prince Leopold (Sewell).   There’s a peasant magician involved as well, who has developed a magic act with illusions of the dead woman that cannot be explained.

This Illusionist is a clever mystery, with twists and turns and packed with plenty of magician directed tricks — the art of misdirection — that baffles both Chief Inspector Uhl and the audience in equal measure.   Remember, with “magic tricks” nothing is as it seems!!

Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Neil Burger (The Upside, Divergent, Limitless) and a pair of featurettes — “The Making of the Illusionist” and “Jessica Biel on the Illusionist.”

   

Icarus Films Teams With The KimStim Collection For The May 28 DVD Debut Of Director Christian Frei’s Genesis 2.0

Icarus Films will be teaming with The KimStim Collection on May 28 for the domestic DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Christian Frei’s Genesis 2.0.

Back in 1990, sci-fi writer Michael Crichton conjured up a bit of fiction that he titled “Jurassic Park,” which was brought to the screen three years later by Steven Spielberg.   Jurassic Park was a huge hit theatrically and it has spawned a whole film franchise that could go on forever.

Of course it is silly to imagine a bunch of scientists tapping into the DNA of an extinct species and bringing those creatures back to life.  But hell, it was (is) great fun to see Velociraptors and everyone’s favorite, the T-Rex, running loose once again.

But what if the fiction of Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” was the stuff that dreams are actually made of … and what if those dreams are the purview of geneticists who are actually working on bringing extinct species back from the grave?

Documentary filmmaker Christian Frei (Oscar-nominated for his 2001 film, War Photographer) teamed with adventure cinematographer Maxim Arbugaev to interweave two stories — a half-a-world apart — into one where sci-fi does indeed meet the world of science.

Frei works the circuit of researchers engaged in cloning and genetic research, while Arbugaev journeys to the remote New Siberian Islands, where access can only be had a few precious weeks each year — a place every bit as remote as the research station at the South Pole.

It is here that Arbugaev chronicles the search for Mammoth tucks in the frozen tundra — worth their weight in gold (in China) — and the discovery of an intact woolly mammoth, complete with frozen blood (the stuff of DNA).   So dangerous is the trip to this remote outpost that Arbugaev was able to capture on film a polar bear raid on their primitive encampment — a life and death struggle for outright survival again a trio of ravenous hunters, who know no fear of man.

The whole process of “weeding out” genetic material (disease cures) and the recreation of long-gone animals gives rise to all sorts of ethical issues, which are touched upon in Frei’s Genesis 2.0.   At what point does the fiction of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park film franchise meet the real world of genetic engineering?   Where is the line — these days — between science fiction and science reality?

Genesis 2.0 is presented in English, with some Russian (English subtitles when appropriate).