For the period ending May 17, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Energy Flow

05/14/19 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Functional Training

Breathing Center (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Breathing Normalization Method: Breathing and Physical Exercise - How to Stay in Motion Without Breathing Problems, Breathing Normalization Method: Breathing Awareness - Mouth Vs. Nose Breathing, Breathing Normalization Method: Food, Water and Beverages - Choose A Diet Conducive To Reduced Breathing, Breathing Normalization Method: Hidden Sources of Hyperventilation - Breathing During Sleep, Stress And While Talking and Breathing Normalization Method: Mind, Spirit & Breath - Thinking, Chanting, Prayers As Breathing Exercises

Central Home Entertainment

05/14/19 — Released June (Malayalam) and Vijay Superum Pournamiyum (Malayalam)

Championship Productions

05/14/19 — Released Scott Marr's Full Field Practice Drills and Scott Marr's Half Field Team Drills

Cinema Libre

07/30/19 — Sets Creating Woodstock

Cleopatra Entertainment

08/23/19 — Sets Ladyworld

Cohen Media Groups

05/14/19 — Released Buster Keaton Collection, Volume 1 (2 silent films: The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928))

Criterion Collection

08/06/19 — Sets Angel at My Table

08/13/19 — Sets Inland Sea

08/20/19 — Sets Magnificent Obsession

08/20/19 — Sets Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Japanese) and Koker Trilogy (3 film set: Where Is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees) (Persian) (3 disc set)

Dark Entity Music, LLC

05/14/19 — Released Navigator

DreamScape Media, LLC

05/14/19 — Released Green Place to Be, Magna Carta Unlocked (2 disc set) and To Every Nation

Get Digital World (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Discover How You Can Passively Extinguish Your Stress and Decrease Your Anxiety Using These Powerful Relief Solutions!, Ketogenic Diet 101, Ketogenic Diet 101 for Dummies, Kettlebell Transformation for Dummies, Make Money Online Mastering Website Traffic (2 disc set), Master Photoshop in Under 3 Hours (2 disc set) and Stress Extinguisher

Grapevine Video (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Adventures of Bill and Bob (8 silent short films: Catching a Fox, The Skunk, Trapping a Coyote, Trapping the Bob Cat, A Day in the Wilds, Capturing a Canadian Lynx, Catching a Koala Bear, Trapping the Mountain Lion), Battling Orioles (silent-1924) and Devil Horse (12 chapter serial) (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Dragon Unleashed, Frank and Ava (ARR of 158 days; box office: $12,020) and Mosul

Hope of the World (MOD)

05/07/19 — Released Baal Khalamote and King of the Return

05/14/19 — Released Love Beyond Love!

I-Cine

05/14/19 — Released Bao La Tinh Me, Part 1 (14 disc set), Bao La Tinh Me, Part 2 (14 disc set), Cung Duong Trang (15 disc set), Giot Nuoc Roi (12 disc set), Hinh Canh Hac Bao (12 disc set), Tinh Yeu Cua Eva, Part 1 (14 disc set), Tinh Yeu Cua Eva, Part 2 (14 disc set) and Tuoi Tre & Tham Vong (13 disc set)

InterVision Picture Corp.

05/14/19 — Released Masked Mutilator

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Jazz Arts Group of Columbus: Vision, Community and Big Band Jazz

Kino Lorber

05/14/19 — Released Bedroom Window, Landlord, Link and What is Democracy? (ARR of 116 days; box office: $44,326)

Kitty Media

05/14/19 — Released Hentai Heaven, Volume 7

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/14/19 — Released American Exit, Life Like, Never Grow Old (with Digital Copy) and Power: The Complete Fourth Season (3 disc set)

05/28/19 — Sets Climax (ARR of 88 days; box office: $800,547)

MVP (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Fake News: A Trump Story

Magnolia Home Entertainment

06/04/19 — Sets Woman at War (Icelandic)

Music Box Films

06/25/19 — Sets Transit (German) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $798,237)

Naxos

05/14/19 — Released Jazz Legends: Modern Jazz Quartet (2 disc set) and Jazz Legends: Thelonious Monk Quartet

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/11/19 — Sets Wrestle (ARR of 109 days; box office: $25,763)

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released PA Books: Troublesome Women

Paramount Home Media

07/30/19 — Sets Butterbean Café

Passion River

05/14/19 — Released Birds of Passage (Spanish) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $507,259)

Reliance

05/07/19 — Released Simmba (Hindi) (ARR of 130 days; box office: $5,102,129)

05/14/19 — Released Zero (Hindi) (ARR of 144 days; box office: $1,035,388)

Saina Video Vision

05/14/19 — Released Peranbu (Malayalam)

Severin Films, LLC

05/14/19 — Released Saint Bernard

Shout! Factory

05/14/19 — Released Valentine: The Dark Avenger (Indonesian)

07/02/19 — Sets Acceptable Loss (ARR of 165 days; box office: $30,199)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Mary Pickford Rare Shorts, Volume 3 (11 silent short films: The Renunciation (1909), Oh, Uncle! (1909), The Broken Locket (1909), What's Your Hurry (1909), The Mountaineer's Honor (1909), As It Is In Life (1910), A Romance of the Western Hills (1910), Love Among the Roses (1910), May and December (1910), Wilful Peggy (1910), When We Were in Our Teens (1910)) and Mary Pickford Rare Shorts, Volume 4 (9 silent short films: Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910), A Gold Necklace (1910), As a Boy Dreams (1911), Won by a Fish (1912), A Beast at Bay (1912), An Indian Summer (1912), The Inner Circle (1912), Friends (1912), The New York Hat (1912))  

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Combat Zone Wrestling: Best of the Best 18 - Voorhees, NJ, Fight or Die: Revenge of the Fifth - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: Crime Wave - Philadelphia, PA,, H2O Wrestling: Opportunity Knocks 3 - Williamstown, NJ, Making Towns Wrestling: 2019 Classic - Chattanooga, TN, On Point Wrestling: Best of Joey Janela in On Point Wrestling, Unsanctioned Pro: Unsanctioned 4 - Dime a Dozen - Columbus, OH and Women's Hardcore Hustle Organization: Blood, Broads & Barbwire - Williamstown, NJ

Sri Balaji Video

05/14/19 — Released Yogi (Telugu)

Strand Releasing

05/21/19 — Sets Sorry Angel (French) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $30,584)

06/25/19 — Sets Ramen Shop (Japanese) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $70,182)

07/23/19 — Sets Sauvage/Wild (French) (ARR of 102 days; box office: $49,361)

Studio 500/Studio 561 (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Animal Kingdom, Blue Steel, Bucket of Blood, Captain Kidd, Conspiracy, Deadly Companions, Emperor Jones, Glen or Glenda, Gold Rush (silent-1925), Great Flamarion, Indestructible Man, Inside the Lines, It's a Wonderful Life, Jackie Robinson Story, Joe Louis Story, The Kid (silent-1921), Letters of Introduction, Life with Father, Lonely Wives, Lucky Texan, Man From Utah, Man With the Golden Arm, Meet John Doe, Millie, Mr. Imperium, My Dear Secretary, Night of the Living Dead, Nothing Sacred and Of Human Bondage

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/18/19 — Adds Beach Bum (ARR of 81 days; box office: $3,482,198)

WWE

05/14/19 — Released WWE: Wrestlemania 35 (3 disc set)

Well Go U.S.A.

05/14/19 — Released Another Shot and Triple Threat (ARR of 53 days; box office: $73,409)

05/21/19 — Sets Big Brother (Cantonese) (ARR of 263 days; box office: $84,578)

05/28/19 — Sets Unity of Heroes (Mandarin)

06/11/19 — Sets T-34 (Russian)

06/25/19 — Sets Furie (Vietnamese) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $594,192)

07/09/19 — Sets Mojin: The Worm Valley (Mandarin) (ARR of 186 days; box office: $101,516)

07/23/19 — Sets Master Z: IP Man Legacy (Cantonese) (ARR of 102 days; box office: $188,676)

08/13/19 — Sets Shadow (Mandarin) (ARR of 102 days; box office: $169,350)

Blu-ray New Additions

 

AGFA

05/14/19 — Released Wakaliwood Supa Action, Volume 1 (2 film set: Who Killed Captain Alex?, Bad Black) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Arrow Video

05/14/19 — Released Yakuza Law (Japanese)

07/09/19 — Sets The Loveless

Cohen Media Groups

05/14/19 — Released Buster Keaton Collection, Volume 1 (2 silent films: The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928))

Criterion Collection

08/06/19 — Sets Angel at My Table

08/13/19 — Sets Inland Sea

08/20/19 — Sets Magnificent Obsession

08/20/19 — Sets Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Japanese) and Koker Trilogy (3 film set: Where Is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees) (Persian) (3 disc set)

Dark Entity Music, LLC

05/14/19 — Released Navigator

FUNimation

05/14/19 — Released Guilty Crown: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Lucky Star: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Grapevine Video (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Adventures of Bill and Bob (8 silent short films: Catching a Fox, The Skunk, Trapping a Coyote, Trapping the Bob Cat, A Day in the Wilds, Capturing a Canadian Lynx, Catching a Koala Bear, Trapping the Mountain Lion), Battling Orioles (silent-1924) and Devil Horse (12 chapter serial)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Dragon Unleashed, Frank and Ava and Mosul

InterVision Picture Corp.

05/14/19 — Released Masked Mutilator

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Jazz Arts Group of Columbus: Vision, Community and Big Band Jazz

Kino Lorber

05/14/19 — Released Bedroom Window, Landlord and Link

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/14/19 — Released American Exit, Life Like, Never Grow Old (with Digital Copy), Power: The Complete Fourth Season (2 disc set) and Power: The Complete Fifth Season (2 disc set)

05/28/19 — Sets Climax and The Oath

Maiden Japan

05/14/19 — Released Armored Trooper Votoms OVA: Collection 1

Mill Creek Entertainment

08/04/19 — Sets New Kids, Roxanne, True Believer and White Line Fever

Mondo Macabro

05/14/19 — Released Devil's Nightmare (French)

Music Box Films

06/25/19 — Sets Transit (German)

Olive Films

06/25/19 — Sets Believers and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/11/19 — Sets Wrestle

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released PA Books: Troublesome Women

Passion River

05/14/19 — Released Birds of Passage (Spanish)

Scorpion Releasing

05/14/19 — Released Conduct Unbecoming

Scream Team Releasing

05/14/19 — Released Cherokee Creek

Severin Films, LLC

05/14/19 — Released Saint Bernard

Shout! Factory

05/14/19 — Released The Chosen and Valentine: The Dark Avenger (Indonesian)

07/02/19 — Sets Acceptable Loss

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Fight or Die: Revenge of the Fifth - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: Crime Wave - Philadelphia, PA and Unsanctioned Pro: Unsanctioned 4 - Dime a Dozen - Columbus, OH

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/18/19 — Adds Beach Bum (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

WWE

05/14/19 — Released WWE: Wrestlemania 35 (2 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

05/14/19 — Released Prisoner of Second Avenue and A Star is Born

05/28/19 — Sets Golden Arrow and Patch of Blue

Well Go U.S.A.

05/14/19 — Released Triple Threat (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

05/21/19 — Sets Big Brother (Cantonese)

05/28/19 — Sets Unity of Heroes (Mandarin) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

06/11/19 — Sets T-34 (Russian) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

06/25/19 — Sets Furie (Vietnamese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

07/09/19 — Sets Mojin: The Worm Valley (Mandarin) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

07/23/19 — Sets Master Z: IP Man Legacy (Cantonese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

08/13/19 — Sets Shadow (Mandarin) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/14/19 — Released Field of Dreams (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

10/01/19 — Sets The Shining (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Well Go U.S.A.

08/13/19 — Sets Shadow (Mandarin) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Mill Creek Entertainment's Retro VHS Packaging Blu-ray Blitz On Aug. 13

Mill Creek Entertainment, this past week, announced its first round of priced-to-collect Blu-ray releases that will be heading home during the month of August.   

Streeting on August 13 will be four new additions to the company’s popular Retro VHS Packaging line of Blu-ray products.   With an SRP of just $14.98 each (and that’s before discounts at retail), these new film treasures on Blu-ray are just too good to pass up.

So where does one begin with this latest round of priced-to-own Retro VHS Packaging Blu-ray releases?   How about with director Fred Schepisi’s summer of 1987 comedy, Roxanne, which was based loosely on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac, and adapted for the screen by none other than the film’s star, Steve Martin (his first solo attempt). 

C. D. “Charlie” Bales (Steve Martin) is the fire chief in the Canadian resort town of Nelson and if you know Charlie, you know better than to make comments about the nature of his very long and distinctive nose.   Fights usually begin when someone snaps, “WOW, that’s a BIG nose!”

When an astrophysics student by the name of Roxanne (Daryl Hannah) shows up for the summer with her telescope in hand, the romantic sparks begin to fly.   She is there for the purpose of proving that her calculations about a rogue comet are correct … it will appear during the summer and she will be in the right spot at the right time to document it!   Her arrival does not go unnoticed by Charlie!

Through a series of comical events, Charlie becomes smitten with Roxanne, but can’t muster the courage to tell her about his feelings for her, except through a proxy … that nose, you know, it can get in the way!   

In the meantime, a new fireman by the name of Chris (Rick Rossovich — fresh from his Top Gun role), who is none too bright, but certainly has the good looks, gets involved with Roxanne … ironically, with the help of Charlie.

Roxanne is great fun and Steven Martin seems to be having a marvelous time with his Cyrano de Bergerac-like character … his success here as a solo screenwriter paid off with his next theatrical script in 1991 being for the classic comedy, L.A. Story.

One of the most unrated film releases of 1985 was director Sean S. Cunningham’s The New Kids.    Cunningham had become an instant horror icon with his 1980 film release of Friday the 13^th (as producer and director) and one suspects that genre audiences wanted more of the same, but instead got a well-written bullying tale that begins as a bet on who can bed the new girl in town and quickly escalated into attempts at rape, torture and more.

Loren (Shannon Presby … who gave up acting for a career in law enforcement) and Abby (Lori Loughlin — at the beginning of her entertainment career … who is making headlines these days for other reasons) play brother and sister military brats.   The know how to take care of themselves thanks to their father’s training (that will come into play as the story develops).   

When their parents are tragically killed in an auto accident, they end staying with their Uncle Charlie (Eddie Jones), who operates a dilapidated theme park called Santa’s Funland.   It is here that the local teenage thugs, lead by Eddie Dutra (James Spader) and his buddy, Gideon (John Philbin), encounter Abby and wager fifty bucks on who can have sex with her first.

When she keeps telling them to buzz off, things start to get ugly.   The theme park is vandalized, Loren uses his combat training to try and intimidate the bullies, but that just makes it worse.   Abby is eventually kidnapped, tortured and nearly set on fire by Eddie and his buddies … that was big, big mistake.

She escapes, teams up with her brother, and Santa’s Funland becomes a war zone … by dawn, Dutra and his gang will pay the ultimate price for messing with these siblings.    Action film … horror film … revenge thriller … pick one, they all fit and Cunningham’s The New Kids mixes these genres perfectly.

Rounding out this Aug. 13 Retro VHS Packaging Blu-ray promotion are writer/director Jonathan Kaplan’s 1975 thriller, White Line Fever, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz and director Joseph Ruben’s 1989 crime drama, True Believer, teaming Robert Downey Jr. with James Woods.

Cinema Libre Picks July 30 For The DVD Debut Of Documentary Filmmaker Mick Richards’ Creating Woodstock

You’ve likely seen director Michael Wadleigh’s Oscar-winning 1970 film, Woodstock, and perhaps even filmmaker Ang Lee’s 2009 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or nominated dramatic retelling of the Woodstock concert based on Elliot Tiber’s book, Taking Woodstock. 

Word arrived this past week from Cinema Libre that documentary filmmaker Mick Richards’ Creating Woodstock, an insightful examination of that landmark gathering at Max Yasgur's farm in August of 1969, will be making its DVD debut on July 30.

Creating Woodstock takes a look at the history of the event and how it all came together.   It is a 50^th Anniversary celebration of Woodstock and filmmaker Mick Richards has gathered interviews with the four unlikely concert promoters — John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang — who were the founders of Woodstock Ventures.   

He then added video sessions with the production talent that includes John Morris, Bill Belmont, Mel Lawrence and Chip Monck and these insights and remembrances from the creative and technical individuals involved with the four-day event were combined with sessions featuring some of the performers, including Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie and Leslie West.

To put the icing on cake, filmmaker Mick Richards has assembled archival footage and recently unearthed photographs to form this documentary “love letter” to an event that defined a generation.  Creating Woodstock on DVD on July 30 … perfectly timed to celebrate The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, or simply “Woodstock,” at 50!!

Oscilloscope Laboratories Targets June 11 For The Release Of Both DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Wrestle

The documentary filmmaking team of Suzannah Herbert and Lauren Belfer will see their award-winning — Denver International Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival (and many more) — documentary on the life and times of four members of Huntville’s J.O. Johnson High School’s wrestling team, Wrestle, arrive as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings from Oscilloscope Laboratories on June 11.

Wrestle hit the festival circuit beginning in April of last year and continued to chalk up wins and positive buzz throughout the balance of 2018.   In February of this year, Oscilloscope began to release the film in selected theatrical venues — it will continue to play in theatres here and there right up until the home entertainment launch.

For the record, the ARR works out to 109 days.

Filmmakers Herbert and Belfer set out to follow senior members of the high school wrestling team, but their journey quickly changed into coverage of four members of the team and their lives well-beyond the sport, training and competition. 

The film — culled from over 650 hours of filming and contact with members of the team — follows Teague Berres and his three black teammates, Jaquan Rhodes, Jamario Rowe and Jailen Young through their grueling practice routines, their home life — and street life — and the camaraderie of the competition.   

For the young black members of the team, the life in and around of being members of the wrestling team helps provide the “family” and discipline that is often lacking in their “real” world lives.   Does it make them perfect; better?   Perhaps, but they still make mistakes and Herbert and Belfer’s camera captures some of these potential life-changing moments. 

 

You have to remember, this is a documentary, not a drama; not scripted.  Wrestle is real world, but serves as a stark reminder of what life can be like for some young men when team (and all that goes with it) and a chance to excel might just be the difference between having a future … and the darkness.   

Bonus features include deleted scenes and a video session with filmmakers Suzannah Herbert and Lauren Belfer.