For the period ending April 12, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

 

AGFA

04/09/19 — Released Blood Lake

Acorn Media

05/28/19 — Sets Blood: Series One (2 disc set)

06/18/19 — Sets Patrick Melrose (2 disc set)

Aflick TV (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Kiss and Tell

Ammo Content, LLC

04/09/19 — Released Deal with the Devil, Rust and Virus of the Dead

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Bounce Express

Bayview Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Perfect 8's: Workout Set One, Perfect 8's: Workout Set Two and Powerstrike: Abs and Push-Ups

Championship Productions

04/09/19 — Released Strength Training for Distrance Runners and Winning with the 1-2-2 Match-Up Zone Defense

Cheezy Flicks

04/09/19 — Released The Power

Chemical Burn Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released 8 Ball Clown and Toxic Tutu

DreamScape Media

04/09/19 — Released Alma and How She Got Her Name

Dynamic

04/09/19 — Released Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo (2 disc set)

Film Movement

04/09/19 — Released Cam Girl (Italian)

Full Moon Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Real Naughty Housewives, Real Naughty Real Wild and Sex School: Student Bodies!

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Browsing Effect, Divorce Party, God Inside My Ears, Grace is Gone and Iron Cowboy

Hallmark Channel

04/09/19 — Released Dater's Handbook and Royally Ever After

Honey Releasing (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Laplace's Demon (Italian)

Hope of the World (MOD)

04/02/19 — Released Dungeon Master

04/09/19 — Released Bones, The Scrolls and the Prophecy

Kino Lorber

04/09/19 — Released Cold Sweat, Emmanuelle (French), Emmanuelle 2 (French), Goodbye Emmanuelle (French), Gospel of Eureka (ARR of 60 days; box office: $20,578), Rider on the Rain and Touch Me Not (ARR of 88 days; box office: $13,782)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Berlin, I Love You, Matriarch and Project Blue Book: Season One (2 disc set)

04/16/19 — Sets Replicas (ARR of 95 days; box office: $4,044,960)

06/04/19 — Sets Medea Family Funeral (ARR of 95 days; box office: $72,090,992)

MPI Home Video

04/09/19 — Released Mega Time Squad

MVD Entertainment Group

06/25/19 — Released Winter Passing

My Spotlight Entertainment (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Hunters Lodge

NVG

04/09/19 — Released Sunrise in Heaven

NCircle Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Munki and Trunki: Meet the Jungle Crew!

Naxos

04/09/19 — Released Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz - Teatro Alla Scala and Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Opernhaus Dusseldorf

PBS Direct

04/09/19 — Released Mrs. Wilson, Ready Jet Go! - Chasing the Sun and Wild Kratts: The Briny Blue Sea

04/16/19 — Sets Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, NOVA: Kilauea: Hawaii on Fire, Sealab, Victoria: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set) and WordWorld: Fun and Games!

PDSD, Inc. - Shami Media

04/09/19 — Released K-Trips (Korean) and Ruthless Spectator, Volume 1

Paramount Home Media

06/04/19 — Adds Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra: The Complete Collection (24 disc set)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Canaris (German)

Reality Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Ancient World Exposed and War Over Reality

Rogue Video (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Hitch-Hiker, I Bury the Living, Man Who Cheated Himself, Murder Mansion (aka: Revenge of the Living Dead) and Too Late for Tears

Serpent Films (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: The Beast of Borneo, Beggars in Ermine), 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Big Fella, Blonde Ice), 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: The Bloody Brood, Boys of the City) and 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Breaking the Ice, Bulldog Drummond Comes Back)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Black Label Pro: Adventures in Wrestling - Jersey City, NJ, Black Label Pro: Year One and IWA Mid-South: Legendary - Jeffersonville, IN

The Club House Press (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Introduction to Air Distribution System Upgrades for Buildings for Energy Efficiency, Introduction to Hazardous Sludge and Soil Treatment, Introduction to Small Dam Types and Introduction to Steam Electric Power Plants

The Film Collector’s Society (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Andre Rieu: Fiesta Mexicana (2 disc set), Andre Rieu: Schonbrunn – Vienna, Any Gun Can Play, Apache Rifles, Ape (aka: King Kong), Applause, Arch Of Triumph, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Patrick Swayze, B.S. I Love You,  Barnaby Jones: The Deadliest Species, Between God, The Devil and a Winchester,  Black Camel, Black Magic (aka: Meeting at Midnight), Bluebeard, Boot Hill, Boston Pops: Broadway's Best at Pops, Broadway's Lost Treasures: The Best of the Tony Awards (3 disc set), Brothers Rico, Bullet for Joey, Cab to Cananda, Castle in the Desert, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo,  Charlie Chan at the Circus, Charlie Chan at the Olympics, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Charlie Chan at the Racetrack, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Charlie Chan in Egypt, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Charlie Chan in London, Charlie Chan in Panama, Charlie Chan in Paris, Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, Charlie Chan on Broadway, China 9, Liberty 37, Chinese Cat, Chinese Ring, Christmas With Andre Rieu, City in Darkness, City of Fear, Colorado Sundown, Copacabana Palace,  Cover Her Face (2 disc set), Cry Blood, Apache, Dan Candy's Law, Dark Tide, Dead Aim, Dead Men Don't Make Shadows, Deadly Companions,  Deadwood '76,  Deserter,  Desperadoes,  Diagnosis Murder: Murder Blues, Divine Bette Midler, Django Kill!,  Django Kills Softly, Double Or Nothing,  Down Argentine Way, Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, Dream of Living, East Side of Heaven,  Easy Living,  Elvis 1968 Comeback Special, Erich Von Stroheim: The Man You Loved to Hate,  Find a Place to Die, First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb, Fistful of Lead,  Flap, Foolish Wives (silent-1922), Frontier Gunn, Getting Straight, Girl In Gold Boots, Gloria, Godless Girl (silent-1928), Gone With the West (aka: Little Moon and Jud McGraw) and Jade Mask

Tomcat Releasing

04/09/19 — Released Apocalypse Day One (aka: The Odyssey of Destiny)

Uni Music – Gaither Music Group

04/09/19 — Released David Phelps: Hymnal

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/14/19 — Adds Apollo 11 (ARR of 74 days; box office: $8,080,698)

06/11/19 — Sets Captive State (ARR of 88 days; box office $5,899,810)

VCI Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released I Married Joan: Classic TV Collection #5

VIZ Media

04/09/19 — Released Boruto Naruto: Next Generation, Set 1 (2 disc set)

Vision Films (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Lady You Shot Me

Wolfe

04/09/19 — Released Just Friends (Dutch)

WOWnow Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Pixy Dragons and Zoo Squad 2

Blu-ray New Additions

 

Acorn Media

05/28/19 — Sets Blood: Series One (2 disc set)

06/18/19 — Sets Patrick Melrose (2 disc set)

Arrow Video

04/09/19 — Released Melo (French)

06/04/19 — Sets Andromeda Strain

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Strange Nature

Cult Epics

04/09/19 — Released Moon Child (Spanish) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with bonus CD)

Dynamic

04/09/19 — Released Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo

FUNimation

04/09/19 — Released Black Clover Season 1, Part 4 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Sky Wizards Academy: Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Sword of the Stranger (with Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Browsing Effect, Divorce Party, God Inside My Ears, Grace is Gone and Iron Cowboy

Kino Lorber

04/09/19 — Released Cold Sweat, Emmanuelle (French), Emmanuelle 2 (French), Goodbye Emmanuelle (French), Rider on the Rain and Touch Me Not

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Berlin, I Love You (with Digital Copy), Project Blue Book: Season One (2 disc set) and We Die Young (with Digital Copy)

04/16/19 — Sets Replicas (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

06/04/19 — Sets Medea Family Funeral (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MPI Home Video

04/09/19 — Released Mega Time Squad

MVD Entertainment Group

06/25/19 — Released Winter Passing

Naxos

04/09/19 — Released Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz - Teatro Alla Scala and New Year's Eve Concert 2018

PBS Direct

04/16/19 — Sets Victoria: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)

SRS Cinema

04/09/19 — Released Meat Market and Meat Market 2

S’more Entertainment

04/09/19 — Released Enigma

Sentai Filmworks

04/09/19 — Released Is it Wrong to Expect a Hot Spring in a Dungeon? and Princess Resurrection: Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Severin Films, LLC

04/09/19 — Released Blood Drinkers, Brain of Blood and Curse of the Vampires

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Black Label Pro: Adventures in Wrestling - Jersey City, NJ and Black Label Pro: Year One

Shout! Factory

04/09/19 — Released Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, Talk to Me and This Gun for Hire

Skyline Entertainment (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Amityville Murders

VIZ Media

04/09/19 — Released Boruto Naruto: Next Generations, Volume 1 (2 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/14/19 — Adds Apollo 11 (with Digital Copy)

06/11/19 — Sets Captive State (with Digital Copy)

Well Go U.S.A.

04/09/19 — Released Golden Job (Cantonese)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/14/19 — Sets Cold Pursuit (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/11/19 — Sets Fast and Furious (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Fast Five (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

MVD Entertainment Group Selects May 25 For The Marquee Collection Launch On Blu-ray And DVD Of Director Adam Rapp's Winter Passing

Back in 2005, playwright Adam Rapp (perhaps best knows for his 2018 mini-series, The Looming Tower) turned his attention to the writing and directing of a movie.   It was a new experience for him.   The film was titled Winter Passing and he managed to assemble an impressive cast for a first effort, which had a modest budget, a limit theatrical break and then it was gone.

Word arrived this past week that MVD Entertainment Group has bestowed Marquee Collection status on that film and it will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings this coming May 25.

In light of Zooey Deschanel’s Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her performance as Jess Day in the long-running sitcom New Girl, you might jump to the conclusion that Winter Passing — teaming her once again with Will Ferrell (they co-starred together in Elf) — is a comedy.   Ed Harris and Amelia Warner (Aeon Flux, Gone, Quills) also star.  It has all the elements of an off-beat comedy, but that is not what you get here; that is not what filmmaker Adam Rapp conjured up.

MVD Entertainment Group has developed the Marquee Collection promotional line of home entertainment products to showcase just this sort of film.   It is a character study … dysfunctional characters, yet engaging.  Further, it is the kind of film that was overlooked when first released theatrically, but whose time has come for a second look … hence: Marquee Collection status.

We are introduced to Reese (Zooey Deschanel), an attractive young woman living in New York City … a wannabe actress, who tends bar to pay the rent.   She lives without purpose.   There is sex and drugs and alcohol, but without the rock ‘n’ roll.  

She is approached one day by a publisher by the name of Lori Lansky (Amy Madigan in a small role … she is Ed Harris’ wife and often appears in his films), who wants her to obtain the letters written between her famous father (Ed Harris) and her equally famous mother (recently deceased) when they were at the top of their game as writers.   $100,000 for the letters!

Reese is so estranged from her father that she didn’t even bother to attend her mother’s funeral, but she now has 100,000 good reasons to head back home.  

With the offer in hand, she arrives at her father’s home and this is where it starts to get really weird.   She is met at the door by Corbit (Ferrell), a very strange man, who demands to see some sort of identification after she claims to be the daughter of the man who owns the house ... and, by the way, where is he?   

Reese comes to learn that Corbit is now living in her father’s house, her father is living in an unheated shed in the back (quite willingly) and Corbit has a roommate by the name of Shelly (Amelia Warner), who was a former student of Harris when he was a college professor.

All the elements are here for a weird, ever dark comedy, but Rapp keeps the focus elsewhere.   It is absolutely amazing that Ferrell never breaks character … he’s a lonely, shy man, who wants to sing and play guitar, but is so inhibited that it will take a miracle for that to happen.

Reese’s father is back to writing.  He is also back to drinking.   He is good at both.  Reese settles in and discovers a certain “rhythm” to living with Corbit and Shelly in the house while her father works away on his writing.   

Like many stories, it is often not the destination — in this case, retrieving the letters and collecting $100,000 — but the journey, where Reese comes away from her personal journey with way more than she ever thought she would.

Filmmaker Adam Rapp’s 2005 film, Winter Passing, as time itself has passed, deserves a second look … DVD and Blu-ray edition will be available for just that purpose on June 25.

Bonus features include a behind-the-scenes featurette.

Indican Pictures Looks To Apr. 30 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Daniel Stine's Virginia Minnesota

Indican Pictures has selected Apr. 30 for the DVD debut of writer/director Daniel Stine’s award-winning gem-of-a-film, Virginia Minnesota.

The film is fresh off a limited theatrical run which yields an ARR of 60 days … and prior to that Stine’s film worked the film festival circuit and piles up win after win!

Stine’s story is based on his own memories as a child — his grandparents ran a home for troubled boys — and he coupled this with his desire to showcase the rugged beauty of the northern shore of Lake Superior (filmed in and around Grand Maris, Minnesota) … a place where few people travel, but nonetheless magnificent.

For an independent film, sometimes that is all you need to tell a story that draws you in and stays with you long after the credits have run.   Stine has switched up the boys home to that of a former home for girls and that is where the story begins with Lyle (Rachel Hendrix — October Baby, The Perfect Wave, Unbridled, etc.) “coming home” at the behest of Hillman (played by Stine), the nephew of the woman who ran the foster home.   Other alumni have arrived for the reading of the will, which can only happen when all included in it have been assembled.

There is one hold out, Addison (Aurora Perrineau — Truth or Dare, Jem and the Holograms), who refuses to come back to the place (we will learn the backstory of a tragedy that took place there that continues to haunt her and Lyle) for the reading the will.   

The core of film is what happens next, Lyle goes to the small little town on the Lake Superior shore to retrieve the reluctant Addison and it is the interaction between the two that makes Virginia Minnesota such a marvelous little film.  Call it a road trip with beautiful vistas; a bonding series of events … and a cathartic experience for the two alienated young women.   

Virginia Minnesota is well-written, blessed with wonderful performances — Aurora Prrineau and Rachel Hendrix are terrific together — and has some nice little touches (a talking robot/computer named “Mister”) that makes this a road trip well worth taking.  

In other DVD release news from Indican Pictures this past week, we learn that writer/director Nathaniel Lezra’s In Echo Park will be making its DVD debut on May 14. 

 

Lezra's film is an intense look at the mean streets of Los Angeles, specifically the community that lies between Hollywood and downtown L.A., Echo Park.  You know, that area north of the Hollywood Freeway, West of the Pasadena Freeway and known for its picturesque lake (seen in dozens of films dating back to the dawn of film).   Tens of thousand of La La Land commuters drive by the outskirts of this melting pot community each day, but rarely venture in.

Filmmaker Nathaniel Lezra, who makes his feature-length directing debut here, lived here, he knows the streets and has fashioned a story that draws from his personal experiences.  

He takes us off of the busy freeways and into the heart of the community where we are introduced to millennial street hustler JJ (Andrew Asper — Retake, Cilla … and who previously teamed up with Lezra for two of his short films, Waiting for George (2014) and Young Bull (2015)) and his girlfriend Nina (Kodi Saint Angelo — 14 Cameras, Throwdown, etc.).   Their current home in an abandoned box spring mattress with a view of downtown … JJ is a “musician,” while Nina is an attractive young woman and clearly comes from an upscale family, but for now she has chosen the street.

Crossing their path is Jared (played by Jared Brown … he also previously worked with Lezra on his short films No Place for Soft Eyes (2014) and Waiting for George (2014)), a would-be comedian who works the clubs and hopes for his big break.  

And the mix of characters is completed with Luis (Bryan Michael Nunez — Pretty Dudes), the son of immigrants from El Salvador, who is trying to get an education and make something of himself, but the local ethnic gang views him as nothing more than a future recruit … join us “brother” or else.

Their paths intersect, the mix is volatile and we know that it will be explosive.   Their current state cannot be sustained.   JJ and Nina, must find a path forward and get off of the streets or bad things will eventually happen.   Jared needs the big break, or he must move on.   And Luis, he either joins the gang-bangers, gets out … or dies.

In Echo Park captured Best Feature and Best Feature Director at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, plus the Award of Merit at IndieFest Films Awards … Indican Pictures gave it a brief arthouse showcase as well.   This one is certainly worth a look-see.

Paramount Home Media Targets June 4 For Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra: The Complete Collection On DVD

Paramount Home Media will be teaming up with Nickelodeon on June 4 for the DVD release of Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra: The Complete Collection.

This marks the first time the complete Avatar saga, with Aang and Korra, will be together as one collection.   

Bonus features include the vintage making-of featurettes from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, including a behind-the-scenes with the cast and crew and “The Women of Avatar: The Last Airbender.”   Plus, vintage featurettes from The Legend of Korra series, selected episode commentaries and the two-part featurette titled “The Making of a Legend: The Untold Story.”