For the period ending April 26, 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

04/23/19 — Released Heart Guy: Series 2 (2 disc set) and Heart Guy: Series 3 (2 disc set)

Alpha Video (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Cantor's Son (Yiddish), Charles Dickens Classics Double Feature (2 film set: Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield), Euro-Horror Double Feature (2 film set: Naked Massacre, Seven Blood-Stained Orchids), Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italian), His Lordship Goes to Press, Lost Silent Double Feature (2 silent films: Reckless Youth (1922), Virtue's Revolt (1924)), Lost TV Mystery Classics, Volume 2 (4 TV episodes: The Visitor: Love Letters from a Stranger, The Cases of Eddie Drake: Shoot the Works, The Files of Jeffrey Jones: The Dusty Doll, The Telltale Clue: The Case of the Hit and Run), My Hero: Volume 6, Rare Avant-Garde and Experimental Films of the 20s and 30s (4 silent short films: Ballet Mecanique (1924), Überfall (1928), Regen (1929), The Fresh Lobster (1920); plus 4 silent short films: It's a Bird, City of Wax, And So to Work, The Heart of Age), Sherlock Holmes Silent Film Collection (3 silent short films: The Man with the Twisted Lip (1920), The Devil's Foot (1920), The Dying Detective (1920)), Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 10 (9 short silent films: The New Fire Chief (1912), A Day on the Force (1914), A Fatal Sweet Tooth (1914), The Feathered Nest (1916), The Blundering Blacksmith (1917), The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917), Rowdy Ann (1919), The Dumb-Bell (1922), Looking for Sally (1925)), This is Korea, U.S. Marshal, Volume 04, Wandering Jew (silent - 1921) and What 80 Million Women Want (silent-1913)

Ammo Content, LLC

04/23/19 — Released Rottentail and Rust

Championship Productions

04/16/19 — Released 2018 John Calipari Coaches' Clinic (2 disc set), Defensive System: Pack Line & Sparta Defense, Offensive System: High-Low Motion Offense, 3-Out/2-In Offense, 4-Out/1-In Offense, Raegan Pebley's 2018 "Raise the Game" Coaching Clinic: Open Practice, Strength Training & Prepping Next Level Athletes and Transition Offense and Transition Defense

04/23/19 — Released Cougar Air Raid System, No Back Passing Game, RPO Trap Game & Inside Pulls and RPO Zone Game

Criterion Collection

07/09/19 — Sets Europa, Europa (German/Russian)

07/16/19 — Sets Baker's Wife (French) and Klute (2 disc set)

07/23/19 — Sets 1984 and Do the Right Thing (2 disc set)

Déjà Vu, LLC (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Growing Up With I Spit on Your Grave, I Spit on Your Grave and I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu

Diverging Clear Productions (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Heritage Series: Conrail Memories of Big Blue, Heritage Series: Conrail St Loo to Horseshoe, Heritage Series: Santa Fe 1990s Memories, Heritage Series: Union Pacific and Cotton Belt Midwest Joint Lines and Steamin' in 2018

DreamScape Media

04/16/19 — Released O Captain, My Captain

04/23/19 — Released Around America to Win the Vote, Pup Scouts 2, Puerto Rico: Treasure Island, Utah: Natural Contrasts and Until Forever (ARR of 1,166 days; box office: $35,839)

Grasshopper Film

05/28/19 — Sets Bisbee '17 (ARR of 263 days; box office: $114,554)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released New Money, Standing Up and Zoo Wars 2

04/23/19 — Released 1st Summoning, Coyotaje and Light in the Water

Hope of the World (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Passover Seder Celebration 2019, Power to Turn All Things and Revolutionary Secret of Palm Sunday

04/23/19 — Released Power to End the Winter

I-Cine

04/16/16 — Released Mien Xanh (12 disc set) and Nu Than Tham (10 disc set)

04/23/19 — Released Chang Trai He Mat Troi (12 disc set), Hao Lan Truyen Ky, Part 1 (12 disc set), Hao Lan Truyen Ky, Part 2 (12 disc set), Hoa Lang Kiem Si (12 disc set), and Vi Su Sac Sao (15 disc set)

Indican Pictures

05/21/19 — Sets Made Me Do It (ARR of 39 days; box office: $5,948)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/11/19 — Sets Five Feet Apart (ARR of 88 days; box office: $45,040,875)

National Geographic (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released National Geographic: Bernie Madoff in Their Own Words, National Geographic: Dead by Dawn (2 disc set), National Geographic: Deepwater Horizon in Their Own Words, National Geographic: Narco Wars in Their Own Words and National Geographic: The Story of God, Season 3 (2 disc set)

Naxos

04/23/19 — Released Mozart: Don Giovanni - Sferisterio Opera Festival (2 disc set) and Shakespeare: King

Lear

PBS Direct

04/23/19 — Released Boss: The Black Experience in Business, Margaret: The Rebel Princess and Nature: Wild Way of the Vikings

PCN Productions (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released PA Books: American's Anchor

04/16/19 — Released PA Books: Good War, Great Men, PCN Sports Classics: Chester vs Scheney, 2007 Boys 4A Basketball Championship and PCN Tours: Kreider Farms

Pentrex

04/23/19 — Released 44 Years of Union Pacific's 8444

Random Media (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Yamasong

Rogue Video (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Curse of the Undead and Son of Dr. Jekyll

Serpent Films (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Men of Action, Midnight Manhunt) and 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Mr. Boggs Steps Out, Mr. Moto's Last Warning)

04/30/19 — Sets 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Murder by Invitation, Never Wave at a WAC)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released AAW: Hell Hath No Fury - Chicago, IL

04/23/19 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: WrestleRave - Lakewood, OH, Black Label Pro: The Player's Brawl - South Bend, IN, Combat Zone Wrestling: Twenty - Voorhees, NJ, IWA Mid-South: Opportunity Hurts - Jeffersonville, IN and RISE Wrestling: Legendary - Berwyn, IL

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

04/30/19 — Sets Miss Bala (with Digital Copy) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $14,998,027)

Studio 500 (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Dementia 13, Driller Killer, Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent - 1923), Rain, Reefer Madness, Royal Wedding, Shock (silent - 1923), Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Terror and Three Stooges: Brideless Groom

TPR Music (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Great Kat: Czardas for Violin and Piano

Tempe Video (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Robot Ninja

The Film Collector’s Society (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released Duke Ellington: Sophisticated Ladies, Good Time Rock 'N' Roll,  Gorilla,  Gretchen the Greenhorn (silent - 1916), Hallelujah Trail, He Ran All the Way, Here Come the Waves, High Voltage,  Hindenburg,  Human Desire,  I Want You,  If You Meet Sartana Pray For Death,  In Old Kentucky, It Can Be Done Amigo, John Coltrane Live,  Joshua, Kentucky Rifle,  Lady Windermere's Fan (silent  - 1925), Law and Lawlessm, Law of 45's, Leningrad Cowboys: Balalaika Show - Helsinki 1993,  Let the Good Times Roll, Lone Ranger, Lone Texan,  Lord Love a Duck, Mackintosh and T.J., Mad Dog Morgan, Mahalia Jackson: Give God the Glory,  Man Called Sledge, Man From Nowhere, Man Who Dared (silent - 1920), Manhunt, Maniac,  Maverick Queen, Mclintock!, Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis,  Midnight In Manhattan: F.Scott Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby, Move,  Murder Over New York,  Murder, Inc., Night of the Living Dead,  Nightfall, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, One-Eyed Jacks,  Paris After Dark,  Pin Up Girl,  Poor Little Rich Girl (2 disc set), Port of New York, Prehistoric Women, Prowler,  Rage at Dawn, Railroaded, Redskin (silent - 1929), Roxie Hart, Run Man, Run, Scarlet Clue, Second Wife,  Sin Town,  Skokie, Smoky, Sorrowful Jones, Soul Of Youth (silent - 1920), St. Louis Bank Robbery, Stampede,  Step Down to Terror, Storm Fear,  Summer of '42, Swamp Women,  Swing Kids,  Terror,  Three Stripes in the Sun, Tormented,  Treasure of Lost Canyon, Tropical Snow,  U.F.O. Incident,  Waikiki Wedding, Where Are My Children? (silent - 1916), White Comanche, Wild Dakotas,  Without Honors, Witness to Murder,  Woman Disputed (silent - 1928) and Yuma

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

04/16/19 — Released Steven Universe: The Complete Second Season (2 disc set)

04/23/19 — Released Shameless: The Complete Ninth Season (4 disc set)

Wolfe

06/11/19 — Sets Giant Little Ones (ARR of 109 days; box office: $181,507)

Blu-ray New Additions

Acorn Media

04/23/19 — Released Heart Guy: Series 2 (2 disc set) and Heart Guy: Series 3 (2 disc set)

Ammo Content, LLC (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Rottentail

Aniplex of America

04/16/19 — Released March Comes in Like a Lion, Volume 4 (2 disc set)

04/23/19 — Released Record of Grancrest War, Volume 1 (2 disc set)

Cinema Epoch (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Bereave

Criterion Collection

07/09/19 — Sets BRD Trilogy (3 film set: The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, Lola) (German) (3 disc set) and Europa, Europa (German/Russian)

07/16/19 — Sets Baker's Wife (French) and Klute

07/23/19 — Sets 1984 and Do the Right Thing

Dark Entity Music

04/23/19 — Released Doll Murder Spree

Darkside Releasing (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Glass (2 disc set), Lightest Darkness (Russian), Reversed (Italian), Soviet Zombie Invasion (Russian) and Yesterday (2 disc set)

Déjà Vu, LLC (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu

Film Movement

04/23/19 — Released Farinelli (French)

FUNimation

04/16/19 — Released Ancient Magus' Bride, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

04/23/19 — Released Maria the Virgin Witch (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Mikagura School Suite: The Complete Collection (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Sankara: Undying Love (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Garagehouse Pictures, LLC

04/23/19 — Released Supercock (aka: Fowl Play)

Grasshopper Film

05/28/19 — Sets Bisbee '17

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released New Money, Standing Up and Zoo Wars 2

04/23/19 — Released 1st Summoning, Coyotaje and Light in the Water

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Chasing the Win and Idea of Manhood

Kino Lorber

04/16/19 — Released Becky Sharp, Bend of the River, Highway Patrolman (Spanish), Of Fathers and Sons (Arabic), Summer in La Goulette (French/Arabic) and Zizou (French/Arabic)

04/23/19 — Released House of the Seven Gables, Informer (silent - 1929), Land Unknown, Scream and Scream Again, Shooting Stars (silent - 1928), Strange Door and Underground (silent - 1928)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/11/19 — Sets Five Feet Apart (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MPI Home Entertainment

04/16/19 — Released Master of Dark Shadows

Mill Creek Entertainment

07/09/19 — Sets Picasso Trigger (with Digital Copy) and Savage Beach (with Digital Copy)

Music Box Films

04/23/19 — Released Hagazussa (German)

Naxos

04/16/19 — Released Delibes: Coppelia, Leonard Bernstein: Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Volume 1 (4 disc set) and Levinas: La Passion Selon Marc

04/23/19 — Released Manon, Midsummer Night's Gala Grafenegg and Mozart: Don Giovanni - Sferisterio Opera Festival

Nozomi

04/16/19 — Released Please Teacher (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

04/09/19 — Released PA Books: American's Anchor

04/16/19 — Released PA Books: Good War, Great Men and PCN Tours: Kreider Farms

SRS Cinema

04/23/19 — Released Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair (Portuguese) and Strawberry Estates

Scorpion Releasing

04/16/19 — Released Brief Encounter

Screen Media

04/16/19 — Released Stray

Sentai FilmWorks

04/16/19 — Released Kokkoku: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

04/23/19 — Released Doreiku: The Animation - Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

04/16/19 — Released Grave of the Vampire, Manitou and Superstition

04/23/19 — Released Paradise Alley and Tito and the Birds (Portuguese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released AAW: Hell Hath No Fury - Chicago, IL

04/23/19 — Released Black Label Pro: The Player's Brawl - South Bend, IN and RISE Wrestling: Legendary - Berwyn, IL

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

04/23/19 — Released Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - 25th Anniversary Edition, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Modern Romance and White Sands

04/30/19 — Sets Miss Bala (with Digital Copy)

Syndicado (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released In Exile (Burmese) and Sea Tomorrow

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

04/30/19 — Adds Sixteen Candles: 35th Anniversary Edition (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

04/16/19 — Released Housesitter, Mr. Bean's Holiday, Muse, Smokey and the Bandit II and Smokey and the Bandit: Part 3

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

04/23/19 — Released Extremely Goofy Movie and Goofy Movie: Anniversary Edition

06/11/19 — Sets Captain Marvel (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

06/04/19 — Sets A Star is Born: Encore (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

04/23/19 — Released Shameless: The Complete Ninth Season (4 disc set)

04/30/19 — Sets Summer Stock

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/18/19 — Sets Scorpion King (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

06/11/19 — Sets Captain Marvel (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Marquee Collection Status On The DVD And Blu-ray Release Of Shortcut To Happiness On July 16

The Marquee Collection, the home entertainment promotional brand that MVD Entertainment Group has developed, has a new member this week.   

The film is directed by an Oscar nominee (in the Best Supporting Actor category), who also has 11 Golden Globe nominations (with three wins) and 15 Emmy nominations (three wins there as well) … this individual has a total of 141 acting credits (according to the IMDB), 20 producing credits and this one, lonely, directing credit.   This individual is also the star of the film.

This film that MVD is releasing on both DVD and Blu-ray on July 16 as a Marquee Collection entry is making its home entertainment debut and co-stars none other than Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anthony Hopkins.   

Have you guessed the name of the film from these clues?

Back in 2001, Alec Baldwin teamed with writer Peter Dexter (Paris Trout, Michael, Mulholland Falls) to update author Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1936 short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” which was first adapted for the screen in 1941 and released as All That Money Can Buy (at the time to avoid confusion with The Devil and Miss Jones), but within a month of its theatrical debut it was retitled back to The Devil and Daniel Webster (Walter Huston would be nominated Best Actor for his portrayal of Mr. Scratch … aka: The Devil).  

In this updated version, Alec Baldwin stars as Jabez Stone, a struggling writer, who sells his soul to The Devil (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and has second thoughts about his actions and seeks out Daniel Webster (Anthony Hopkins) to get him out of the contract.

The problem with the film, which is titled, Shortcut to Happiness, is not the writing, the directing or the acting — it’s got an A-list cast (with a ton of walk-ons and cameos) — but the film simply ran out of money.   Baldwin lost control, took his name off the film as director (the pseudonym of Harry Kirkpatrick was substituted) and everyone moved on.   

The production company went bankrupt and Shortcut to Happiness sat unfinished for 15 years.  Money was finally raised to complete the post-production and it had a brief run on cable … and now, finally, it can reach a wider audience thanks to MVD Entertainment Group and their Marquee Collection program!   Mark it down, July 16, Shortcut to Happiness on DVD and Blu-ray!!   

Wolfe To Release Writer/Director Keith Behrman’s Giant Little Ones On DVD On June 11

Wolfe announced this past week that writer/director Keith Behrman’s award-winning coming of age tale, Giant Little Ones, will be making the transition from its theatrical release run to the home entertainment marketplace on June 11 as a DVD product offering.

The ARR comes in at 109 days and the box office take was an impressive $181,507 … its widest run was only 32 screens!

Franky (Josh Wiggins — Max, Walking Out) and Ballas (Darren Mann — Even Lambs Have Teeth, Twisted Blues) seemingly have it all.   Childhood friends who are now high school jocks (swim team), with beautiful girlfriends, solid grades … in short, they are top of the pecking order and poised for a bright future.

Franky lives with his mom, played by Maria Bello (who was also involved as one of the film’s producers), and there is a backstory here about this single-mom relationship that will come into play as the story progresses.   

With that said, the pivotal moment for filmmaker Keith Behrman’s story comes on the night of Franky’s 17^th birthday party.   His buddy, Ballas, has it all set for him to score with “Cil”/Priscilla (Hailey Kittle), one of the cute chicks … party, beer, pot and score!   Except things don’t go quite as planned and Franky’s life is turned upside down.   The days that follow will be hell on earth.

You have it all, and in a very short period of time your only friends at school are the school’s “slut,” Natasha (Taylor Hickson — Hunting Pignut), a weakling named Michael (Carson MacCormac) and Mouse (Niamh Wilson), who has sexual identity issues.   Outcast; teenage pariah … and you haven’t done anything wrong.

With Giant Little Ones, you have a terrific story that doesn’t follow the normal teenage angst pattern.   Instead filmmaker Keith Behrman takes our protagonist out of his comfort zone, and his clearly defined teenage years trajectory, and makes him reexamine the things — and feelings — that are really important in his life.   

Mill Creek Entertainment Selects July 9 For The Release Of Blu-ray Editions Of Filmmaker Andy Sidaris' Picasso Trigger And Savage Beach

Bullets, Bombs and Babes are just three words that fans have to hear and they know immediately that cult filmmaker Andy Sidaris is the topic of discussion.   Mill Creek Entertainment will once again be promoting Bullets, Bombs and Babes with newly-prepared Blu-ray editions of his films during the month of July.

For 25 years he gathered up Emmys with ABC’s Wide World of Sports and after the 1968 Olympics (also an Emmy-winner) he tried his hand at filmmaking.   In 1985 he found the magic formula and became a legend for his efforts!

On Apr. 16, Mill Creek Entertainment released on Blu-ray the first two films in his Bullets, Bombs and Babes series of action flicks, Malibu Express (1985) and Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987).   With those two gems now in collector’s hands, it is time for the next two in the series to have their turn on Blu-ray.

On July 9, fans of Sidaris and his winning formula of combining Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets with solid action scripts and crisp production values continues with new 4K transfers (first time in widescreen) and the Blu-ray launch of Picasso Trigger (1988) and Savage Beach (1989).   Both are priced-to-collect and come complete with Digital Copy!

Dona Speir (Playmate of the Month for March of 1984) and Hope Marie Carlton (Playmate of the Month for July of 1985) star in both films as Donna and Taryn (first appearing in Hard Ticket to Hawaii), who are secret agents assigned to bring the bad guys to justice.    

The pair are assisted by Patticakes (Patty Duffek — Playmate of the Month for May of 1984) and other “super” talented agents, who can handle machine guns and disrobing with the best of them.

Both of these newly minted Blu-rays in the Bullets, Bombs and Babes series come complete with commentary and behind-the-scenes action.

July 9, mark it down … and Mill Creek Entertainment is just getting started!