For the period ending June 07, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

40L Phonics Productions (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Advanced Phonics and Spelling Lessons (3 disc set)

Acorn Media

06/04/19 — Released London Kills: Series 1 (2 disc set)

Altered Innocence

06/04/19 — Released Knife+Heart (French)

Arizona Public Media (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Desert Speaks: Baja's Pacific Islands, Part 1 and Desert Speaks: Baja's Pacific Islands, Part 2

Chrome Dreams/Sexy Intellectual

06/04/19 — Released Avril Lavigne: In Her Own Words and Freddie Mercury and Queen: How It All Began

DreamScape Media, LLC

06/04/19 — Released Big Mooncake for Little Star, Choices and Fire Island

EWTN

06/04/19 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Questions and Answers Live from the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: The Most Reverend Bishop Baker Speaks About The Upcoming Eucharist Celebration in Birmingham, Alabama and Offers Insight on His New Pastoral Letter, Journey Home: Casey Chalk Former Presbyterian, Life on the Rock: Alexey Gotovskiy and Anthony Johnson Share Their Experiences Covering Catholic News From The EWTN Rome Office, Sunday Best: Father Benedict Groeschel - Inspiring and Encouraging the Faith and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Father Gerald Murphy, Robert Royal, Steve Mosher

Film Movement

06/04/19 — Released All You Ever Wished For

Get Digital World (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Affiliate Marketing Profit Kit, Extreme Money Making with Fiverr, Fiverr Blueprint, Jumpstart Any Business with These Secret Internet Marketing Tools, Making Money on oDesk for Dummies, oDesk Insider Tips & Tricks and SAT Math Store (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Acres and Acres (aka: Mum's List), First to the Moon, Owned: A Tale of Two Americas, Poisoning Paradise and Surviving the Outback

Hope of the World (MOD)

05/28/19 — Released Secrets of The Dynamic Believer

06/04/19 — Released Leviticus Code

I-Cine

06/04/19 — Released Chuyen Bay Tu Than (10 disc set), Go Roi Tinh Yeu (13 disc set), Nhat Ky Anh Sang (14 disc set) and Quoc Si Vo Song Hoang Phi Hong (13 disc set)

Icarus Films

08/06/19 — Sets Girl in the Fog (Italian)

Image Entertainment

06/04/19 — Released Cleaning Lady

Kino Lorber

06/04/19 — Released Money For Nothing and Veronica Guerin

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Wedding Swingers (aka: Porthole; aka: Can't Have You)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/04/19 — Released Gloria Bell (ARR of 88 days; box office: $5,607,414) and The Kid (ARR of 88 days; box office: $1,501,788)

MPI Home Media

06/04/19 — Released Secret of Moonacre

Maiden Japan

06/04/19 — Released Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise

Paramount Home Media

08/13/19 — Sets I Love Lucy: The Colorized Collection (5 disc set)

Rogue Video (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Hatchet for a Honeymoon

Samuel Goldwyn Films

06/04/19 — Released Avengement and Mapplethorpe (ARR of 95 days; box office: $91,002)

Screen Media

06/04/19 — Released Man Who Killed Don Quixote (ARR of 46 days; box office: $380,679)

Sentai FilmWorks

06/04/19 — Released Godannar: The Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Serpent Films (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Billy the Kid Returns, Border Caballero), 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Blue Steel, Call of the Wilderness (aka: Training the Killer)) and 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: With Words and Music, Trocadero)

Shout! Factory

06/04/19 — Released I'll Take Your Dead

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released C*4 Wrestling: The Filth and the Fury - Ottawa, ON and Short Stories: Marko Stunt Interview

TPR Music Group (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Great Kat: Chef Great Kat Cooks Paganini's Ravioli, Great Kat: Chef Great Kat Cooks Russian Caviar and Blini With Rimsky-Korsakov, Great Kat: Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Great Kat: Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy and Great Kat: Terror

The Film Collectors Society (MOD)

05/28/19 — Released Fighting Caravans, Forgotten Women, Frame , Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Free and Easy , Front Page, Full Circle (aka: The Haunting of Julia), Ghost Patrol, Grief Street, Half Shot At Sunrise, Hard Hombre, Hell Harbor, Hitch-Hiker, Hot Curves, Indiscreet, Iroquois Trail, Julius Sizzer, Just Like Heaven, Kathleen Mavourneen, Kept Husbands, Kiki , Ladies In Love, Lady Confesses, Lady Frankenstein and Lady Refuses

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Back Fork and Witch in the Window

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/04/19 — Released J.T. Leroy

07/30/19 — Sets Ugly Dolls (ARR of 88 days; box office: $19,588,805)

08/06/19 — Sets Poms (ARR of 88 days; box office: $13,213,810)

Virgil Films & Ent. (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Brave Girls

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

06/04/19 — Released 3 Film Collection: Clint Eastwood (3 film set: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Unforgiven) (2 disc set), 5 Kid Favorites: Scooby-Doo Movie Collection (5 film set: Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness, Scooby-Doo! & Kiss: Rock & Roll Mystery, Scooby-Doo! and WWE Curse of the Speed Demon, Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost) (2 disc set), Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, Volume 2 (8 film set: A Good Medium is Rare, Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll and Hyde, The Secret of Shark Island, The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall, The Phantom of The Country Music Hall, The Haunted Showboat, Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie (Mystery in Persia), The Spirited Spooked Sport Show) (2 disc set), New Scooby-Doo Movies, The: Almost Complete Collection (23 film set: Ghastly Ghost Town, The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair, The Frickert Fracas, Guess Who’s Knott Coming to Dinner!, A Good Medium is Rare, Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll And Hyde, The Secret of Shark Island, The Spooky Fog, Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy, The Ghost of the Red Barron, The Ghostly Creep From the Deep, The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall, The Phantom of the Country Music Hall, The Caped Crusaders, The Loch Ness Mess, The Mystery of the Haunted Island, The Haunted Showboat, Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie (Mystery in Persia), The Spirited Spooked Sport Show, The Exterminator, Weird Winds of Winona, The Haunted Candy Factory, Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke) (6 disc set), Peanuts by Schulz: Lucy & Friends, Stars of Space Jam Collection: Volume 1  and What's New Scooby-Doo?: The Complete Series (4 disc set)

Wild Eye Releasing

08/27/19 — Sets Doll Factory

Blu-ray New Additions

ABKCO Music

06/04/19 — Released Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (2 bonus CDs)

Acorn Media

06/04/19 — Released London Kills: Series 1 (2 disc set)

Altered Innocence

06/04/19 — Released Knife+Heart (French)

Arrow Video

08/06/19 — Sets Alice, Sweet Alice

Flicker Alley

06/04/19 — Released Last Warning (silent-1929) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Man Who Laughs (silent-1928) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

06/04/19 — Released Black Lagoon: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Brothers Conflict: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Hellsing Ultimate (4 disc set), Laughing Under the Clouds (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), No-Rin: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Soul Eater: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

Gatorblade Films, LLC

06/04/19 — Released Hart-Break Killer

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Acres and Acres (aka: Mum's List), First to the Moon, Owned: A Tale of Two Americas, Poisoning Paradise and Surviving the Outback

Image Entertainment

06/04/19 — Released Cleaning Lady

Kino Lorber

06/04/19 — Released Bright Angel, Money For Nothing and Veronica Guerin

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/04/19 — Released Gloria Bell (with Digital Copy), Haunting of Sharon Tate (with Digital Copy), The Kid (with Digital Copy) and Lady macbeth

MPI Home Media

06/04/19 — Released Secret of Moonacre

Screen Media

06/04/19 — Released Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Shout! Factory

06/04/19 — Released I'll Take Your Dead and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/04/19 — Released Short Stories: Marko Stunt Interview

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

06/04/19 — Released Lost in Space: Season One (3 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/04/19 — Released Arabesque, Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Flushed Away (with Digital Copy), How to Make an American Quilt, J.T. Leroy, LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers, Mr. Baseball, Over the Hedge (with Digital Copy), Shark Tale (with Digital Copy), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (with Digital Copy), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (with Digital Copy) and Winning

07/30/19 — Sets Ugly Dolls (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

08/06/19 — Sets Poms (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

06/04/19 — Released Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), New Scooby-Doo Movies, The: Almost Complete Collection (23 film set: Ghastly Ghost Town, The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair, The Frickert Fracas, Guess Who’s Knott Coming to Dinner!, A Good Medium is Rare, Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll And Hyde, The Secret of Shark Island, The Spooky Fog, Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy, The Ghost of the Red Barron, The Ghostly Creep From the Deep, The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall, The Phantom of the Country Music Hall, The Caped Crusaders, The Loch Ness Mess, The Mystery of the Haunted Island, The Haunted Showboat, Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie (Mystery in Persia), The Spirited Spooked Sport Show, The Exterminator, Weird Winds of Winona, The Haunted Candy Factory, Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke) (2 disc set) and Venture Bros.: The Seventh Season (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

06/11/19 — Sets Jonny Quest: The Complete Series (3 disc set) and None But the Brave

06/18/19 — Sets Corvette Summer

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/01/19 — Adds Gremlins: 35th Anniversary Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Icarus Films Picks Aug. 6 For The Domestic DVD Debut Of writer/director Donato Carrisi’s The Girl In The Fog

Icarus Films will be teaming up with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, on Aug. 6 for the domestic DVD debut of Italian writer/director Donato Carrisi’s film adaptation of his own novel, The Girl in the Fog.

Regardless of the language that you speak, The Girl in the Fog is a film for those who love their mysteries.   Murder mysteries.   Detective thrillers.   

The first mystery we encounter is that of a man involved in an auto accident, covered in blood, however as things turn out the blood is not his.   He ends up in the care of a psychiatrist by the name of Augusto Flores (played by Jean Reno) and the mystery of this man unfolds in flashback.

He is Detective Agente Vogel (Toni Servillo — One Man Up, Gorbaciof, The Confessions, etc.), who has been investigating the disappearance of Anna Lou Kastner, a sixteen year-old girl living in the remote Alpine village of Avechot.  The investigation has turned into a media circus of Vogel’s deliberate making (for reasons of his own rehabilitation) and he has cynically turned the focus of the girl’s disappearance on one of her teachers, Professor Loris Martini (Alessio Boni — The Goodbye Kiss, The Hush, Wild Blood, etc.).

The “collective” press is like a ravenous animal.   They are egged-on by the investigator, but to what purpose?

The teacher could be the killer.   And, then again, maybe not.  Indeed, it could be anyone in this close-knit village … and, for all we know, Vogel might even be involved.   In the meantime, it is her teacher who must dangle in the wind as the chief suspect.  And, another thing to consider, without a body, is the girl even dead?

The Girl in the Fog is a delicious mystery that unfolds like a puzzle.   It is up to the armchair detectives in the audience to decipher the clues and solve the mystery before the reveal in the final act.   Good hunting!

The Girl in the Fog is presented in Italian with English subtitles.

Arrow Video Restores Writer/Director Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice For Delivery As A Blu-ray Product Offering On Aug. 6

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K restoration (from the original negative camera) of writer/director Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice awaiting a Blu-ray release on Aug. 6.

Filmed in Paterson, New Jersey beginning in the summer of 1975, it would take a long and winding path to domestic theatres.   First, Sole need something like 18 months to finally finish the film and during that time his original release window evaporated.   

What to do?   Alice, Sweet Alice went out under its original title, Communion, and worked the festival circuit ‘ Virgin Island Film Festival (a Gold Medal winner) and the Chicago Film Festival (nominated Best Picture) — in late 1976.   Hemdale then picked it up for distribution in the U.K. 

Suddenly, there is interest in the domestic market for the film.   Communion was the debut film for a nine year-old girl by the name of Brooke Shields.   But in the meantime, Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby grabbed the spotlight and was heralded for Shields performance as a young New Orleans’ prostitute.   Allied Artists steps in and obtains the distribution rights, retitles the film to Alice, Sweet Alice and it is finally released theatrically in the United States in May of 1978.

A long and winding road, but it got there.

Alice, Sweet Alice is a Gothic murder mystery that focuses on who killed Alice’s sister, Karen (Brooke Shields), during her first communion.   Everything points to Alice (played by Paula E. Sheppard (Liquid Sky), but even as the evidence piles up we come to learn that someone else is actually doing the killings.  But who … and more importantly, why?

Bonus features include not one, but two commentary options.   The first is an archival commentary featuring filmmaker Alfred Sole, who is joined by editor Edward Salier.   The second is by FilmStruck’s Richard Harland Smith.

Additionally, there are deleted scenes, the TV cut of the film titled Holy Terror and a trio of featurettes — “First Communion: Alfred Sole Remembers Alice, Sweet Alice,” “Sweet Memories: Dante Tomaselli on Alice, Sweet Alice” and “Lost Childhood: The Locations of Alice, Sweet Alice.”

Paramount Home Media Readies Five-Disc DVD Set Of I Love Lucy: Colorized Collection For Release On Aug. 13

Paramount Home Media and CBS Home Entertainment will be celebrating Lucille Ball’s birthday on Aug. 13 (officially 108-years-young on Aug. 6) with the release of a five-disc DVD collection showing all 16 colorized I Love Lucy episodes.  

The I Love Lucy: Colorized Collection is also being promoted by Fathom Events on Aug. 6 with a nationwide theatrical event that features five of the colorized episodes.

A sampling of some of the episodes included in the collection are: “Job Switching,” which fans know and love as “Lucy and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Million Dollar Idea,” (trying to market a secret family recipe turns into a disaster when every unit sold loses money), “Pioneer Women” (turn out the lights as Lucy and Ethel take on Ricky and Fred in a test of wills), “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (Lucy does a TV commercial for Vitameatavegamin) and “L.A. at Last!” (William Holden and the Brown Derby will never be the same).

Wild Eye Releasing Looks To Aug. 27 For The DVD Release Of Writer/Director Stephen Wolfe's Doll Factory

Clowns get a bad rap … dolls, puppets and the like can, at times, be much scarier because they are the playthings of innocent children.

Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, makes this point on Aug. 27 with the DVD release of writer/director Stephen Wolfe’s Doll Factory.

Of course, Warner Bros. gets its turn with Clown terror a week later with the theatrical release of It Chapter Two … between these two it could be a healthy debate for genre fans.   Dolls — Chucky has been quite the terror — or Clowns (a sewer adventure with Pennywise anyone?), pick your terror.

With Doll Factory, we have a willing victim pool of Halloween revealers who find an ancient “book of spells” and do the naturally stupid thing by using it for fun and games.   With a backstory opening we already know that things will go south in a hurry.

The lovely Allison (Tracy Collins — Midnight Abyss) finds the book and convinces a half-dozen of her friends to head over to the abandon “doll factory” and have some fun.    It’s a bust.   Nothing.  Nada.   And Allison takes the heat for making everyone look foolish. 

 

But just as they are about to head back to party central the place comes alive with a bunch of creepy looking dolls (what kid would be playing with these ghouls?) and poor Allison bites the dust.    When the carnage is done, only Kay (Nicole Elliott — The Devil's Hand) and Mark (Justin Herman — Midnight Abyss) manage to escape the factory alive.

Your friends have just been slaughtered by creepy little dolls — who need souls to feed their master, Vegor (Patrick Sane — Sugar Mountain, Blood Corral) — and when you go to the local police they just laugh you off.   Come on, it’s Halloween, why don’t you kids grow up!!

If you saw Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut in the 1958 version of The Blob, then you have a pretty good idea as to what their modern versions, Kay and Mark, are up against.   The terror grows and no one believes them!

Fortunately, Darius Grumley (played by Boo Gay) had a run in with the dolls and Vegor years ago (the prologue) and brings Sheriff Bart Barclay (Chris Fender) and his Deputy, Donnie Harris (Larry Wade Carrell), around to his way of thinking … they join forces with Kay, her brother Melvin (Andy Palmer) and Mark to take on Vegor and his army of demonic dolls!    The fate of Goober, Texas … and for that matter, the world, hangs in the balance!!!

Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Stephen Wolfe, a gag reel and a Behind-the-Scenes featurette.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Preps 4K Ultra HD Edition Of Director Joe Dante's Gremlins For Delivery On Oct. 1

You are warned, don’t get them wet … and whatever you do, don’t feed them after midnight!!!

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced this past week that the 35^th Anniversary of director Joe Dante’s horror tale (with loads of humor), Gremlins, will be celebrated on Oct. 1 with the debut of a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition.

Of note, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has also placed director Stanley Kubricks’ The Shining on the new-to-4K Ultra HD release list for delivery on Oct. 1 as well. 

The presentation comes packed with bonus goodies, including two separate commentary options — the first features director Joe Dante, who is joined by producer Michael Finnell and f/x artist Chris Walas, while the second commentary option includes Dante and actors Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Dick Miller and Howie Mandel.

Additional bonus nuggets with the 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition of Gremlins are two motion comics — “The Last Gremlin” and “Gremlins: The Gift of the Mogwai” — additional scenes (with commentary) and four featurettes — “Gremlins: Behind the Scenes,” “Cute.  Clever.  Mischievous.  Intelligent: Making Gremlins,” “From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures” and “Hangin’ with Hoyt on the Set of Gremlins.”

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment To Release Ugly Dolls On DVD And Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack On July 30

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will be teaming up with STX Entertainment on July 30 for the home entertainment launch of director Kelly Asbury’s animated adventure, Ugly Dolls.

Box office receipts currently stand at $19.6 million and the ARR comes in at a quick-to-market 88 days.

Planned for family home viewing are a stand-alone DVD edition and a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentation.

Bonus features include two featurettes — “Making UglyDolls” and “Fun with the Cast of UglyDolls.”

Also added to the new release calendar this past week by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is the STX Entertainment production of director Zara Hayes’ retirement community comedy starring Diane Keaton, Poms.

It is slated for a DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack rollout on Aug. 6 … the ARR is also 88 days and multiplex box office receipts registered $13.2 million in ticket sales.