For the period ending May 10, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

4 Digital Media

05/07/19 — Released Bundy and the Green River Killer

1091 Media (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Club Life, Dior and I and Scotch: A Golden Dream

Altered Innocense

05/07/19 — Released Permanent Green Light (French)

Aspiration Entertainment (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Pursuit

BBC Home Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Liar: Season One (2 disc set)

Backyard Green Films

05/07/19 — Released Banjos, Bluegrass & Squirrel Barkers

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Amazing Race: Season 30 (3 disc set) and Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers - Season 35 (5 disc set)

Championship Productions

05/07/19 — Released Arthur Albiero's All-Encompassing Approach to Butterfly Training, Braden Holloway's All-Encompassing Approach to Backstroke Training (2 disc set), Creative Drills for Training Accountability, Defensive Essentials: On-Ball Techniques, Ball Screen Strategy & Rotations, Horns Sets vs. Man-to-Man Defense, How to Create Drills for Out-of-System Training, Nathan Davis' Offensive System, Rugby-Style Punting: Approach and Fundamentals, Rugby-Style Punting: Coverage Strategies, System: Create More Possessions, Score More Points (2 disc set) and Teaching the Fast Offense

Cinedigm Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released To Dust (ARR of 88 days; box office: $179,603)

Cleopatra Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival and Joe Louis Walker: Viva Las Vegas - Live (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Cohen Media Group

05/07/19 — Released Shoah: Four Sisters (French) (ARR of 172 days; box office: $7,323)

DreamScape Media, LLC

05/07/19 — Released Llama Destroys the World, Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian, Metamorphosis, Surviving Birkenau: The Dr. Susan Spatz Story and Zoo Zen

Dynamic

05/07/19 — Released Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Help, I Shrunk My Parents

Film Movement

05/07/19 — Released All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japanese)

FUNimation

05/07/19 — Released My Hero Academia, Season 3, Part 1 (2 disc set)

Get Digital World (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released 15 Minute Fitness Program for Women for Dummies, Boost Your Confidence by Unleashing the Power of Belief for Dummies, Bridging the Gap, Facebook Messenger Bot Marketing Made Easy, Facebook Retargeting Decoded for Dummies, Joomla for Complete Idiots, Juicing for Vitality, Juicing for Vitality for Dummies, Mastering the Healing Art for Health & Tranquility Through Yoga and Unstoppable Victory Through Emotional Intelligence

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Chasing Molly, Hydra (Ukrainian/Russian) and Westside vs. the World

Hallmark Channel

05/07/19 — Released Love, Of Course

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Impossible Mission: The Rose has Thorns (aka: The Vibe)

I-Cine

05/07/19 — Released Chu T Danh Vong (14 disc set), Lat Mat (14 disc set) and Luc Phien Mon (14 disc set)

ITN Distribution

05/07/19 — Released Amityville: Mt. Misery Road

Icarus Films

07/09/19 — Sets Eternity Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with Outsider Art (French/German)

Image Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Everything That Glitters

Kino Lorber

04/23/19 — Released Scream and Scream Again

04/30/19 — Released Fantomas: Three Film Collection (3 film set: Fantomas, Fantomas Unleashed, Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard) (French) (3 disc set) and Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, Volume 5

05/07/19 — Released Man Who Haunted Himself, Nightcomers, Sex Madness Revealed and Swing Vote

Lillenas Publishing Company

04/30/19 — Released Bible Truths and Fun Songs: Accompaniment

MGM Home Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Prodigy (ARR of 88 days; box office: $14,855,506)

MPI Home Media

05/07/19 — Released George Carlin: 40 Years Of Comedy

MVP

05/07/19 — Released Irreplaceables: Dance Movie

Magnolia Home Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released My Scientology Movie (ARR of 788 days; box office: $22,450)

Manorama Music Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Lonappante Mammodheesa (Malayalam) and Njan Prakashan (Malayalam)

Movie Detective (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released La Busca (Spanish), La Nuit des Traques (French), Le Crime ne Paie Pas (French), Rumyantsev Case (Russian) and Stranger Knocks (Dutch)

National Geographic

05/07/19 — Released National Geographic: Science Fair

Naxos

05/07/19 — Released Preljocaj: La Fresque

NCircle Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Floogals: Season 1, Volume 1 (2 disc set)

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/18/19 — Sets May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (ARR of 641 days; box office: $725,286)

PBS Direct

05/07/19 — Released Henry IX: The Lost King, NOVA: Rise of the Rockets and Unforgotten: Season Three (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released PA Books: Longstreet at Gettysburg and PCN Tours: Patterson Maple Farms

Paramount Home Media

06/18/19 — Sets Wonder Park (ARR of 95 days; box office: $48,182,676)

Rogue Video (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein (Spanish) and Horror Hotel (aka: The City of the Dead)

Samuel Goldwyn Films

05/07/19 — Released Sobibor (Russian)

Screen Media

05/07/19 — Released Toys That Made Us: Seasons 1 & 2 (2 disc set)

Serpent Films (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: The Silver Fleet, Sing, Sinner Sing), 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Sinister Hands, Sin Takes a Holiday), 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Speak Easily, Steamboat Bill, Jr. (silent-1928)) and 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Sunset Murder Case, Telephone Operator)

Shout! Factory

05/07/19 — Released When Calls the Heart: The Queen of Hearts

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released C*4 Wrestling: Heat - Ottawa, ON, Game Changer Wrestling: Joey Janela's Spring Break 3, Part 1 - Jersey City, NJ, Game Changer Wrestling: Joey Janela's Spring Break 3, Part 2 - Jersey City, NJ, Game Changer Wrestling: Josh Barnett's Bloodsport - Jersey City, NJ and On Point Wrestling: Blood Defines Us, Volume 1

T-Series

05/07/19 — Released Seasons of Love #12

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Baskets: The Complete Season Three (2 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Room for Rent and St. Agatha

Uni Music – Gaither Music Group

05/07/19 — Released Steven Curtis Chapman: A Great Adventure (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Uni Music - Hillsong

04/23/19 — Released People: United (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Everybody Knows (ARR of 88 days; box office: $2,644,690)

06/18/19 — Sets Run the Race (ARR of 116 days; box office: $6,422,414)

Venture3Media

04/23/19 — Released Planetshakers: Heaven On Earth (DVD/CD Combo Pack) and Planetshakers: Legacy (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Vertical Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Head Hunter

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

06/25/19 — Sets Dumbo (ARR of 88 days; box office: $109,788,200)

Blu-ray New Additions

Altered Innocense

05/07/19 — Released Permanent Green Light (French)

Arrow Video

07/02/19 — Sets FM

Aspiration Entertainment (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Pursuit

Dynamic

05/07/19 — Released Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Help, I Shrunk My Parents (English dubbed) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Film Movement

05/07/19 — Released All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japanese)

FUNimation

05/07/19 — Released Jormungrand: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Kakuriyo Bed & Breakfast for Spirits: Season 1, Part 1 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Kamisama Kiss: Season Two (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and My Hero Academia, Season 3, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Chashing Molly, Hydra (Ukrainian/Russian) and Westside vs. the World

Kino Lorber

05/07/19 — Released Broken Flowers, Delicate Balance, Man Who Haunted Himself, Nightcomers, Rhinoceros, Sex Madness Revealed and Swing Vote

MGM Home Entertainment

05/07/19 — Released Prodigy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Ariadne and MRG Collective: Women of Horror, Volume 1 (7 short films: Beyond Repair, Devil's Deal, Escape Room, Jax in Love, Tell-tale Heart Sisters, Underland, Used Body Parts)

Mill Creek Entertainment

07/09/19 — Adds Lonesome Dove (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Mothra (Japanese)

NFL Productions

05/07/19 — Released NFL: 3 Games to Glory VI (3 disc set)

Naxos

05/07/19 — Released Preljocaj: La Fresque and Ravel: Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Nozomi

05/07/19 — Released Please Twins (2 disc set)

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/18/19 — Sets May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released PA Books: Longstreet at Gettysburg and PCN Tours: Patterson Maple Farms

Paramount Home Media

06/18/19 — Sets Wonder Park (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

04/30/19 — Released Game Changer Wrestling: Orange Cassidy is Doing Something, or Whatever, Who Knows? - Jersey City, NJ

05/07/19 — Released Game Changer Wrestling: Josh Barnett's Bloodsport - Jersey City, NJ

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Better Call Saul: Season Four (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Hyena Road

05/14/19 — Sets Never Look Away (German)

05/28/19 — Sets Outlander: Season Four (5 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Steel Magnolias and Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

04/30/19 — Released St. Agatha

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (with Digital Copy) and Everybody Knows (Spanish) (with Digital Copy)

06/18/19 — Sets Run the Race (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/07/19 — Released They Shall Not Grow Old (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

07/16/19 — Sets Titans: The Complete First Season (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

06/25/19 — Sets Dumbo (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

08/27/19 — Sets Apocalypse Now: 40th Anniversary Edition (4K Ultra HD/3 Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

06/04/19 — Sets Natural (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

07/16/19 — Sets Moon (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

07/30/19 — Sets Glory (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

07/09/19 — Sets Hulk (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Icarus Films Picks July 9 For The DVD Debut Of Documentary Filmmaker Arthur Borgnis’ Eternity Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with Outsider Art

Icarus Films announced this past week that French documentary filmmaker Arthur Borgnis’ insightful look at an alternative world and movement of artists and their works, Eternity Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with Outsider Art, will be making its domestic DVD debut on July 9.

The “Art Brut” or “Outsider Art” movement, as an idea, was spawned by French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet following World War II.  Beyond commercial and/or “accepted” works of art, he reasoned there was an alternate world of artistic experience that included the mentally ill or delusional, devotees of a spiritual world and apparitional amateurs (artists without formal training).

Filmmaker Arthur Borgnis introduces us to the concepts of Dubuffet — and like-minded devotes of “Art Brut,” Swiss historian and artist, Harald Szeemann, French writer, André Breton and German art historian Hans Prinzhorn — and provides examples (the works of such “Art Brut” artists as: Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, Augustin Lesage and August Natterer) and insights into a world of art that seems “other worldly,” for lack of a better description.

Eternity Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with Outsider Art is presented in French and German with English subtitles.   

Bonus features include four featurettes — “Conversation with Laurent Danchin,” “Crossed Views on Art Brut,” “Lise Maurer Talks about Laure Pigeon” and “Louis Poulain and Bruno Gérard of the Atelier de la Pommeraie.”

Arrow Video Preps The Blu-ray Debut Of Director John A. Alonzo's FM For Delivery To Music Fans On July 2

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and marketing expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed July 2 for the Blu-ray debut of director John A. Alonzo’s 1978 music-themed film, FM.

Driven by a marvelous soundtrack — which includes such artists as Jimmy Buffett, Steely Dan, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger and Billy Joel (and more — FM was two-years in the making and is still a wonderful cinematic experience some 40 years later.  

Universal Pictures, working with music industry insider Irving Azoff (who provided most of the talent), eventually had a falling out over creative differences … Dustin Hoffman, Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Blakely were all rumored to be involved, but they never panned out.   He still maintained an interest in the production (financially), but asked that his named be removed from the final credits.

The ultimate irony of FM radio lies within the storyline itself.   The thing that created the rise of the broadcast format — commercial free, extended playsets and room for DJs (aka: “radio personalities”) to explore new music and artists — ended up being the very things that would bring about its undoing (technology aside).   Greed.   Money.   

Filmmaker John A. Alonzo (who made his directing debut here … Oscar nominated for Chinatown as a cinematographer — other cinematography credits included work on such films as Norma Rae, Steel Magnolias, Star Trek: Generations and more) captures this perfectly with the various DJs — Michael Brandon as Jeff, Eileen Brennan as “Mother,” Martin Mull as Eric Swan, Alex Karras as Doc Holiday and Cleavon Little as the Prince of Darkness — who find that their success brings about the need by the owners of the station to sell more and more advertising (the greed factor).  This ultimately undercuts the whole incentive of FM radio over AM radio.

 

Bonus goodies include newly-prepared video sessions with actor Michael Brandon (acting gigs aside, he’s made a career for himself as the narrator for the Thomas & Friends children’s series) and screenwriter Ezra Sacks (Small Circle of Friends, Wildcats), plus a newly-produced featurette titled “The Spirit of Radio,” featuring film and music critic Glenn Kenny.

Oscilloscope Laboratories Tabs June 18 For The Release Of DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Documentary Filmmakers Judd Apatow and Michael Bongiglio's May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers

The annual South by Southwest Conference & Festivals — or simply SXSW for short — brings together film, music, online professionals and creative talent to showcase their latest endeavors.    

At the gathering in March of 2017, representatives from Oscilloscope Laboratories were on hand and one of the films in competition that they took a shine to was from the documentary filmmaking team of Judd Apatow and Michael Bongiglio … Oscilloscope liked what they saw and snatched it up for both theatrical and home entertainment distribution.

Apatow and Bongiglio had previously collaborated on an ESPN 30 For 30 segment titled Doc & Darryl, a look at former New York Mets superstars, Dwight "Doc" Gooden and Darryl Strawberry.   On this second go-round on the documentary filmmaking front the pair selected folk/rock artists the Avett Brothers as their subject.

Titled May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, the film takes an intimate look at the making of the group’s “True Sadness” album, which is set against the backdrop of the rise and success of brothers Scott and Seth Avett over a 15-year period.

Oscilloscope took the documentary out theatrically after its SXSW award-winning premiere to just eight selected arthouse venues in the fall of 2017 where the film pulled in a remarkable $725,286 in box office receipts … just eight theatres over a four-week window!    The film had a contractual HBO showcase and now, finally, on June 18 it will be available for fans to enjoy as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

For the record, the ARR comes in at a leisurely 641 days.

This 15-year long look at the group’s rise, ups and downs saw them gains hree Grammy nominations and deliver 13 albums, with the subject of the film, their latest work, “True Sadness,” hitting number one on both the Rock and Folk charts and peaking at number three on the Billboard Top 200.

For fans of the Avett Brothers, May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, is an absolute must-have come June 18.   Bonus features include the music video, “Morning Song,” a live performance of “I Wish I Was,” deleted scenes and the recording session for “Satan Pulls the Strings.”

Mill Creek Entertainment Sets Special Edition Blu-ray Release Of Mothra For July 9

In the spring of 1956, Embassy Pictures released Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, starring Raymond Burr and a bunch of unknown Japanese actors.   It was actually a full-blown Japanese sci-fi film from two years earlier that was re-cut (some 16 minutes removed) and dubbed into English with additional footage of Raymond Burr added to make it accessible to domestic audiences.   It was a hit and with that the invasion of Japanese monster movies began.   

Indeed, another movie starring Godzilla is slated for a theatrical rollout on May 31 from director Michael Dougherty and is ironically titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Once American audiences accepted films from Japan as mainstream, there was no end to it … Rodan followed in the summer of 1957 and in 1962 Mothra arrived in theatres domestically … after that Godzilla showed up in all sorts of combinations, there was a flying turtle named Gamera, a three-headed dragon-like creature named Ghidorah and more. 

Mill Creek Entertainment announced this passed week that in celebration of the theatrical release of the latest big-budget Japanese monster movie — the aforementioned Godzilla: King of the Monsters ­— they will be releasing a new special SteelBook edition of Ishirô Honda’s Mothra on July 9.   The giant moth, Mothra, co-stars along with Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Sally Hawkins and others, so the timing is spot-on.

This will be the first time for Mothra on Blu-ray, and it comes complete with both the original Japanese-language version and the English-dubbed theatrical cut. 

Bonus features include commentary from Japanese sci-fi historians Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski, who co-wrote “Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa” … Ryfle also wrote “Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography Of Godzilla: An Unauthorised Biography of the Big G” and Ed Godziszewski wrote “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Godzilla.”

Also added to the July 9 slate of priced-to-collect Blu-ray products is a double-disc SteelBook edition of director Simon Wincer’s 1989 mini-series adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s epic Western novel, Lonesome Dove.   

Not only did the book receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but Wincer’s film production went on to win the Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series and was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, winning in seven categories, including Best Director.

Bonus features include a trio of featurettes — “Blueprints of a Masterpiece: Original Sketches and Concept Drawings,” “On Location with Director Simon Wincer” and “Remembering Lonesome Dove: Vintage Interviews with the Cast” — and a video session with author Larry McMurtry.