For the period ending July 05, 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

07/02/19 — Released Robert Reborn and Soul Reaper

Alive Mind

07/02/19 — Released Iyengar: The Man, Yoga and the Student's Journey (ARR of 81 days; box office: $131,180)

Ambient Relaxation Films (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Inspirational Bible Verses

Arizona Public Media (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Desert Speaks: You Can Go Home Again

Asylum Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Mommy Would Never Hurt You

Bayview Entertainment

06/25/19 — Released Fusion: Extreme Martial Arts Advanced Volume 1: Hand Techniques & Kicks, Fusion: Extreme Martial Arts Advanced Volume 2: Weapons, Tricks, & Dance, Fusion: Extreme Martial Arts Basic Volume 1: Hand Techniques & Kicks, Fusion: Extreme Martial Arts Basic Volume 2: Weapons, Tricks, & Dance, Fusion: Extreme Martial Arts Intermediate Volume 1: Hand Techniques & Kicks and Fusion: Extreme Martial Arts Intermediate Volume 2: Weapons, Tricks, & Dance

07/02/19 — Released Mindy Mylrea: All About Arms and Mindy Mylrea: Med Ball Madness

Brain Power Studio

07/02/19 — Released After the Storm

Breaking Glass Pictures

07/02/19 — Released Everything is Free

Championship Productions

07/02/19 — Released 1-on-1 Skill Development Drills for the 4-Out Drive & Kick Offense, All Access with Peter Smith: Coaching Your Team Through Match Day, Building a Postseason Culture in Your Program, Pass Blocking Drills and Run Blocking Drills

Cinedigm Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released RWBY: Volume Six and Storm Boy (ARR of 123 days; box office: $70,794)

Corinth Films

07/02/19 — Released Freedom (German), Miss Conception and Night Out (German)

EWTN

07/02/19 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Fr. Frankline Fumokong Renewing The Catholic Church, Generation To Generation, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, EWTN Live: Jim O' Day / Executive Director Of Integrity Restored, Journey Home: Jeff Cavins - Former Non-Denominational Minister and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Hal Moore, Gary Sinise, Sen. Jeremiah Denton

Film Movement

07/02/19 — Released Styx (German) (ARR of 123 days; box office: $70,794)

FUNimation

07/02/19 — Released Dragon Ball Super: Part Eight (2 disc set)

Get Digital World (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Art of Saving Thousands Per Month on Everyday Purchases, Blogging Cash Challenge, Bushido Code, Bushido Codes That Can Empower a Life of Mastery and Peak Performance, Cash in on the Kindle Gold Rush Now, Closely Guarded Work From Home Blueprint, Core Syntax Of Kotlin Made Super Simple, Create a Mad Rush of Targeted Traffic and Make Money Online With Facebook , Easy Ways To Make Money Online, Extreme Cash Profits , Extreme Couponing, Extreme Fat Burn for Everyone Made Easy., Extreme Profiting With Google Trends, Facebook Marketing 3.0 Made Easy, Facebook Marketing Made Easy, Facebook Stampede , Fat Burn Secrets , Finding Clients Made Easy, Generating Leads For Your Business or as an Independent Business Made Easy, Google Trends Money Machine , Home Workout Unisex Beginners Edition, How to Stop Making Excuses and Achieve Your Goals, Kindle Gold Rush, Kotlin Tutorials Made Easy, Lead Generation Niche Power, Life Changing Magic of Decluttering, Lose Weight & Lower Your Cholesterol Made Easy, Loyalty Lock Pro, Mack Daddy Ads , Magnetic Video Marketing , Mailing List Facts You Need To Know, Mailing List Gold Rush , Make It Happen, Make Money Blogging: The Unedited Course, Make Money Online Made Easy, Make Money Online: Open Your Own Digital Bookstore ...Today (4 disc set), Retaining Customer Loyalty, TLC Diet Transformation, Twitter Business Magic, Twitter For Business, Ultimate Client Finding For Online And Local Businesses, Ultimate Sales Blueprint (6 disc set), Your Way to Greater Success and Happiness , YouTube Ads Made Super Simple, Volume 2 and YouTube Ads Mastery 2.0

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Elevate, Revenge (French), River and the Wall and Zulu Summer

Hallmark Channel

07/02/19 — Released Summer to Remember

ITN Distribution

07/02/19 — Released Immortal Wars: Resurgence, Nightmare Shark, Shadow Wolves and Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey

Icarus Films

09/03/19 — Sets One Nation, One King (French)

Image Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released Deadsight

Kino Lorber

07/02/19 — Released Bob Le Flambeur (French), Léon Morin, Priest (French), Outsider (French) and Professional (French)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released Dead Trigger and Escape Plan: The Extractors

Maverick Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released Finding Me

Mill Creek Entertainment

09/03/19 — Sets Dead Don't Die in Dallas

09/17/19 — Sets Houses of Hell (4 film set: The Dunwich Horror, House of Bones, Mask Maker, American Horror House) (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), MVP: Most Valuable Primate/MVP 2:Most Vertical Primate - Double Feature (with Digital Copy), Pup Star Triple Feature (3 film set: Pup Star, Pup Star Better2Gether, Pup Star World Tour) (with Digital Copy) and Savage Nature (4 film set: Flu Birds, Headless Horseman, Monster Wolf, WolvesBayne) (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

National Geographic

07/02/19 — Released National Geographic: Hostile Planet (2 disc set)

Oscilloscope Laboratories

07/02/19 — Released Searching for Ingmar Bergman (ARR of 284 days; box office: $30,985)

PBS Direct

07/02/19 — Released Abortion Divide

Passion River

07/02/19 — Released Old Dog and We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Revelation Video (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Giant Returns: Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy

Samuel Goldwyn Films

07/02/19 — Released All Creatures Here Below and Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School

Screen Media

07/02/19 — Released Violent Separation

Shout! Factory

07/02/19 — Released Mia and the White Lion (French)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Best of Samoa Joe: The Missing Matches, CCW: Thy Kingdom Come - San Fernando, CA, Glory Pro Wrestling: Special Champion Edition - Colinsville, IL, IWA Mid-South: This is Us - Jeffersonville, IN, Pro Wrestling Trainwreck: Welcome To The Wreck Room - New Albany, IN, Ultimate Empire Wrestling: Bound by Blood - Sun Valley, CA, Ultimate Empire Wrestling: Empire Rising - Sun Valley, CA and Ultimate Empire Wrestling: March of the Damned - Sun Valley, CA

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Die Katze Im Sack (German), Die Erfindung des Verderbens (German), Die Lustige Witwe (German) and Wie Einst Im Mai (German)

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released Public (ARR of 88 days; box office: $571,172)

07/09/19 — Sets Magicians: Season Four (4 disc set)

07/16/19 — Sets Little Woods (ARR of 88 days; box office: $147,087) and Teen Spirit (ARR of 95 days; box office: $441,366)

08/06/19 — Sets Among the Shadows and Welcome to Acapulco

Vision Films (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Beyond the Line and Speed is My Need

Blu-ray New Additions

 

 

Arrow Video

09/17/19 — Adds Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 and Who Saw Her Die? (Italian)

Cinedigm Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released RWBY: Volume Six (2 disc set)

EMEC Recordings

07/02/19 — Released Agustin Maruri: Antologia de la Guitarra Clasica, Volume 1 and Como una Fantasia

Fleur de Son

07/02/19 — Released Legacy: Rebecca Penneys Plays Frederic Chopin

FUNimation

07/02/19 — Released Basilisk: The Complete Series (4 Blu-ray disc set), Black Clover Season 1, Part 5 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Part 2 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Dragon Ball Super: Part Eight (2 disc set), Steins; Gate 0, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (Digital Copy), Steins; Gate 0, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (Digital Copy) and Tokyo Ravens: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Elevate, Revenge (French), River and the Wall and Zulu Summer

Kino Lorber

07/02/19 — Released Bob Le Flambeur (French), Léon Morin, Priest (French), Outsider (French) and Professional (French)

Laymen Ministries

07/02/19 — Released Days of Noah (4 disc set)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released Dead Trigger (with Digital Copy) and Escape Plan: The Extractors (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

07/16/19 — Sets Fast Color (with Digital Copy)

Oscilloscope Laboratories

07/02/19 — Released Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Screen Media

07/02/19 — Released Violent Separation

Sentai Filmworks

07/02/19 — Released Those Who Hunt Elves: Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Shout! Factory

07/02/19 — Released Mia and the White Lion (French) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Okko's Inn (Japanese)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released Pro Wrestling Trainwreck: Welcome to the Wreck Room - New Albany, IN

Sunrise, Inc.

07/02/19 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin: Chronicle of the Loum Battlefield

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

07/02/19 — Released Public (with Digital Copy)

07/09/19 — Adds Magicians: Season Four (3 disc set)

07/16/19 — Released Teen Spirit (with Digital Copy)

VCI Entertainment

09/17/19 — Sets Lost City of the Jungle (12 chapter serial)

VIZ Media

07/02/19 — Released Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Season 4 (3 disc set)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

08/13/19 — Adds Iron Man (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Iron Man 2 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Iron Man 3 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Thor (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Thor: The Dark World (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

Paramount Home Media Tabs Sept. 24 For DVD Release Of Billions: Season Four

Paramount Home Media announced this past week that all twelve episodes of the Showtime series Billions: Season Four, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis, will be available on DVD this coming Sept. 24.

And yes, as with the other recent full-season DVD release announcements from Paramount — The Good Fight: Season Three (Sept. 10) and Bull: Season Three (Sept. 03) — it has been renewed for a fifth season.

The high-stakes games of legal wheeling and dealing versus the equally intense games of the financial community play out like chess pieces on a Manhattan-sized board.   Axelrod up against rivals (and old friends), with one eye over his shoulder, while “Chuck” trys to stay in the game and not get either back-stabbed or blind-sided!   Billions … always on the edge!

Mill Creek Entertainment Expands Its September Release Calendar

OK, let’s have some fun on Sept. 3.   Mill Creek Entertainment will be providing the excitement and laughs with the DVD debut of writer/director Israel Luna’s Dead Don’t Die in Dallas. 

As Rodney King famously said, “Can’t we all just get along?”   Can gays and “Bible Thumpers” find a common ground?   Perhaps, perhaps not, but when a cure-all for every virus is discovered and the pills start being taken in mass it is only then that a horrible side effect is discovered … cured forever of all forms of viral infections, but now a zombie (hell of a trade-off)!

Reverend Samuel Jeffress (Richard D. Curtin — Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives, Mangus!) and his wife, Janice (Krystal Summers — Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives), notice that there is something amiss on Sunday morning when no one shows up at their Pentecostal church for services.    Check that, there is actually one parishioner wandering about, and when the good reverend calls out to him he quickly discovers that he is of the walking dead … gulp, a zombie!!

Across town, the lovely Beth-Ann Fetterman (Willam Belli — A Star Is Born, Hurricane Bianca, Southern Baptist Sissies), the local transgender hairdresser, discovers the same zombie plague and makes a run for it … and in no time bumps into Sam and Janice.   

Polar opposites indeed, but when someone is trying to make you their noontime snack you have to put differences aside for survival’s sake.   Other miss-matched survivors soon fall in with Sam, Janice and Beth-Ann and the battle is joined … bonds are formed and differences are set aside.  Amen!

If you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, then Dead Don’t Die in Dallas is going to be right up your alley.

Also in September on DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment are four priced-to-collect film collections — all featuring Digital Copy — that will be available for consumers to enjoy on Sept. 17.

Houses of Hell is a four-film, double-disc collection featuring Syfy Channel horror tales.   Included in the mix is writer/director Leigh Scott’s 2009 adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story, The Dunwich Horror.   What’s pretty cool about this adaptation is that Dean Stockwell also appeared in director Daniel Haller’s 1970 theatrical version of The Dunwich Horror, playing the role of Wilbur Whateley … here he plays Dr. Henry Armitage (Ed Begley starred in the original).  

The other three films in the collection are director Jeffery Lando’s House of Bones (2010, with Charisma Carpenter and Corin Nemec as TV series “ghost hunters” who uncover more than they bargained for), director G.E. Furst’s Mask Maker (2011, starring Nikki Deloach and Stephen Colletti as a young couple, and their friends, who start working on a fixer-upper only to find that a crazed killer haunts the place) and director Darin Scott’s American Horror House (2012, Alessandra Torresani and Morgan Fairchild star in tale about a sorority house that comes complete with a killer psycho).

Savage Nature is another four-film, double-disc collection featuring Syfy Channel gems with a nod towards nature striking back.   Included in the mix is director Leigh Scott’s Flu Birds, featuring disease-ridden birds who attack unsuspecting delinquent teens, who are being rehabilitated in the woods.   A sort of “Animal Farm” defense is the response with some of the teens being as nasty as their feathered “friends.”   

Others in the Savage Nature collection include director Todor Chapkanov’s Monster Wolf (2010, Robert Picardo is an oil executive who drills where he shouldn’t have and unleashes the spirit a monster wolf), writer/director Anthony C. Ferrante’s Headless Horseman (2007, seven college kids on their way to a Halloween party get sidetracked and are stalked by a horseman without a head) and director Griff Furst’s WolvesBayne (2009, a newly cursed werewolf (Jeremy London) teams up with a vampire hunter (Rhett Giles) to stop the vampire queen Lilith (Yancy Butler)).

If killer birds, headless horsemen and werewolves are not your thing, no problem, Mill Creek Entertainment also has two family-themed priced-to-own collections available for release on DVD on Sept. 17.   And, both include Digital Copy.

From the creative mind of producer/director Robert Vince springs these two collections … the Pup Star Triple Feature is a three-film set that includes Pup Star, Pup Star Better2Gether and Pup Star World Tour and the double-feature presentation of MVP: Most Valuable Primate/MVP 2:Most Vertical Primate.

Oscilloscope Laboratories Targets Aug. 13 For DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Documentary Filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Oscilloscope Laboratories announced this past week that actress-turned-director Margarethe von Trotta’s documentary salute to the auteur filmmaker Ingamar Bergman, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings on Aug. 13.

The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018, worked both international markets and various film festivals, before getting a brief theatrical arthouse break in November of last year.   Unless you happened to be in the right place, at the right time, for most of us the first chance to see von Trotta’s excellent blend of film insights and interviews with family, colleagues and friends to better understand the filmmaker.

For cinephiles, especially those who have made a point of collecting the various film restorations of Bergman’s films that the Criterion Collection has released on DVD and Blu-ray over the years, Searching for Ingmar Bergman will be a must-have addition to these film libraries.

As both an actor and filmmaker, von Trotta knows the dramatics involved in directing and acting, having worked with both Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Gods of the Plague, The American Soldier) and Volker Schlöndorff (her husband of some 20 years… they co-directed The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum), and uses this hard-won knowledge in what has to be described as nothing short of a breathtaking opening.   

She cross-cuts the scene of Max von Sydow on the beach with Death in The Seventh Seal (in glorious black and white) with herself in the exact same shooting location to introduce her subject.   From here, the first third or so of the documentary focuses on Bergman’s career as a filmmaker.

She then shifts the focus to his family, friends and colleagues — through interviews — who talk of the man.   Flaws and all. 

  

As to bonus features, there is a newly-minted video session with director Margarethe von Trotta and a Q&A panel discussion at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna in June of 2018 featuring Margarethe von Trotta, her son, Felix Meoeller (who is also a filmmaker) and Jan Holmberg of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation.

Take note, Searching for Ingmar Bergman moves between at least six different languages, so it is best viewed with the English subtitle option that Oscilloscope has included with both the DVD and Blu-ray editions in the on setting.

Icarus Films Tabs Sept. 3 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Pierre Schoeller’s One Nation, One King

Icarus Films announced this past week that they will be teaming up with France’s premiere film distribution company, Distrib Films, for the domestic home entertainment release of writer/director Pierre Schoeller’s One Nation, One King.

The DVD release of One Nation, One King will take place on Sept. 3.

With the annual observance of Bastille Day in France right around the corner (July 14), the timing for this announcement is spot-on … Icarus Films has the entire summer to beat the promotional drums prior to its debut.   

Schoeller’s film opened at the Venice Film Festival before rolling out theatrically in France, which was the first clue that this is an upscale look at the French Revolution of 1789.   The second is the French cast list, which includes five-time César Awards nominee (the French equivalent to the Oscar) Louis Garrel as Robespierre and six-time César Awards nominee Adèle Haenel as one of Robespierre’s staunch “working class” allies, Françoise, with two-time César Awards nominee Olivier Gourmet playing the role of another working-class ally, L'oncle.

The list goes on, but the point is that Schoeller has assembled an impressive French cast to tell his mostly historical tale about the popular uprising against the rule of King Louis XVI (played by Laurent Lafitte — César Awards nominee for Elle and Au Revoir Là-Haut) and his “let them eat cake” wife, Marie-Antoinette (Maëlia Gentil).   

The bulk of the film focuses on the internal debates within the National Assembly, with the royal counterparts only surfacing when needed … the film is told primarily from the POV of the lower classes, with a mix of political opportunists willing to take which ever side would benefit them the most.

As to the production values, these too are top-notch, with Julien Hirsch’s cinematography being note worthy (César Awards winner for Lady Chatterley) and César Awards nominations going to Anaïs Romand for Best Costume Design and Thierry François for Best Production Design.

A must-see for history buffs and for those who enjoy a well-told story (regardless of the language), especially in the irony of many of the story points — women at the forefront, but even in the National Assembly they must remain mute.

One Nation, One King arrives in the United States virtually unseen by domestic audiences, so this is quite the coup for Icarus Films.

The film is in French, bien sûr, with English subtitles. 

Dark Side Releasing Readies Blu-ray Edition Of Writer/Director Joshua Hull’s Chopping Block On Sept. 17

A psycho killer tale with a twist and a sense of humor is not the norm for genre films of this ilk, but writer/director Joshua Hull’s Chopping Block is just such a film. 

Dark Side Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be releasing a new, updated Blu-ray edition of Chopping Block on Sept. 17.

In what can best be described as a foreshadowing of what is to come, a young woman, who we will eventually come to know as Danielle (Haley Madison — CarousHELL), is covered with blood and staggering down the sidewalk … obviously something pretty nasty has happened.   

We then turn our attention to Donnie (Michael Malone) and his co-workers, Hilary (Jasper Sams), Will (Bryan Wilson), Steve (Raymond Kester) and Richie (Alex Raaen ), who are all fired for Donnie’s incompetence.   This, of course, requires drinks at the local bar so that the events of the day make sense.

Drinks mean alcohol and pretty soon the five come up with a revenge scheme, which is hazy at best, but nevertheless it makes sense to the five of them in some sort of weird way.   They will kidnap the daughter of their boss (played by Dennis Crosswhite) and hold her for ransom … how that actually helps their cause is one of the loose ends of their plan as there is no dot-to-dot-to-dot end game that leads to a happy outcome.

If you haven’t guessed who the bosses’ daughter is, then you haven’t been paying attention.   We circle back to the opening sequence, which finds our five inept kidnappers stumbling upon the bloody Danielle and grabbing her off the street.   

Once back to their “secret hideout” they learn from her that she is being stalked by a serial killer, which has forced her to move again and again as the body count of her friends has piled up.   “You are all going to die.”   And soon enough, guess who is at the door.

Chopping Block is great fun and is certainly more of a stand-up sketch comedy then it is a horror film … discounting the slaughter of the pizza delivery guy and one of the members of this hearty band of kidnappers, oh yes, and the chopped-off hand of another member of the “gang.”

Bonus features include cast and crew commentary, deleted scenes, outtakes and a gag reel.