For the period ending July 12, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

BBC Entertainment

07/09/19 — Released Shakespeare and Hathaway: Season Two (2 disc set)

Championship Productions

07/09/19 — Released 15 Keys to Developing a Great Team Culture, Aggressive Match-Up Zone Defense, Ball Screen Defense, Ball Screen Offense vs. 2-3 Zone, Culver Way: Teaching Foundations for Ice Hockey, Developing Players for a Free-Flowing Offensive System, Early Shot Clock Offense and Side Out Specials, Our Approach to Defense: Philosophy & Drills, Supercharge Your Offensive System: The Best Offensive Concepts I've Seen and Ways to Enhance Your Full & Half Court Defense

Cinedigm Entertainment

07/09/19 — Released Tell it to the Bees

DreamScape Media

07/09/19 — Released Bee Team 2, Good Son, Highlights: Making Friends, Pup Scouts 3 and Rescue and Jessica

Dynamic

07/09/19 — Released Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Get Digital World (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Big Traffic Firesale, Bulletproof Keto Diet, Calisthenics Home Workout: Beginners Edition, EZ Free Fanpages, Fitness Tracking, Lose Weight and Reboot Your Metabolism With the Keto Diet and Sales University: Master Course (6 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Above the Best, I Like Me and Shadows of Sofia

Hallmark Channel

07/09/19 — Released Sun, Sand and Romance

I-Cine

07/09/19 — Released Dinh Menh Ta Gap Nhau (10 disc set), Hoang Phi So - Kieu Truyen (24 disc set) and Song Mo Coi (11 disc set)

Icarus Films

09/03/19 — Adds Ghosts of Attica

09/10/19 — Sets DIVEST! The Climate Movement on Tour

Kino Lorber

07/09/19 — Released 3 Faces (Farsi) (ARR of 123 days; box office: $71,613) and Dead of Night

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Behind the Face (Mongolian), Lease, Of Sinners and Saints and Spiders' Man

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/09/19 — Released High Life (ARR of 95 days; box office: $1,221,064) and The Professor

Lionsgate Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Outlaws

Naxos

07/09/19 — Released Lully: Te Deum; Biber: Missa Salisburgensis and Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame - The Queen of Spades (2 disc set)

PBS Direct

07/02/19 — Released Rhythm of the Dance

07/09/19 — Released Arthur Celebrates Community, Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World (2 disc set), Chasing the Moon (3 disc set), Endeavour: The Complete Sixth Season (2 disc set), Last Survivors, Ready Jet Go!: One Small Step and Trump's Trade War

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released African American Experience: Camp William Penn and the U.S. Colored Troops, It's History: DeBence Antique Music World, Keystone Cuisine: The Brewerie and PCN Profiles: Odin Rathnam

Paramount Home Media

09/03/19 — Sets Sunny Day: Welcome to the Pet Parlor

09/10/19 — Sets Hawaii Five-O: The Ninth Season (6 disc set) and SEAL Team: Season Two (5 disc set)

09/24/19 — Sets Billions: Season Four (4 disc set) and Madam Secretary: Season 5 (4 disc set)

Rainbow Media Group (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Der Brave Soldat Schwejk (German) and Wanda's Trick (silent-1918)

07/16/19 — Sets Ein Stern Fallt Vom Himmel (German)

Screen Media

07/09/19 — Released Clara

Serpent Films (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Curse of the Swamp Creature, Destroy All Planets) and 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Doomsday Machine, First Spaceship on Venus)

07/09/19 — Released 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Invaders from Space, Invasion of the Bee Girls), 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: King of the Zombies, Lady Frankenstein) and 2 Classic Movies (2 film set: Moon of the Wolf, Night Fright)

Seventh Art Productions

07/09/19 — Released Exhibition on Screen: Young Picasso

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

07/02/19 — Released White Moth (silent-1924)

07/09/19 — Released His Grace's Last Will (silent-1919)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released IWA Mid-South: Egg Sucking Dog Days of Summer - Jeffersonville, IN, IWA Mid-South: This One's for Papa Saint - Jeffersonville, IN and Underground Empire Wrestling: Explicit Endeavors - Los Angeles, CA

The Film Collector’s Society (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Affair in Monte Carlo, Alimony Madness, Animal Kingdom, Bear Island, Beatles: Their Golden Age, Big News, Bird of Paradise, Broadway to Cheyenne, Broken Dream, By Appointment Only, Cary Grant: American Movie Legend, Cavalcade of Dance, Channel Crossing, Cheating Blondes, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Constant Woman, Corruption, Count of Monte Cristo, Cowboy Counsellor, Crooked Circle, Cross Examination, Crusader, Damnation Alley, Daring Daughters, Dark Tide, Diamond Trail, Discarded Lovers, Docks of San Francisco, Dream House, Drifter, Ecstasy, Dupont Show of the Month: Harvey, Emperor Jones, Exposure, Falling For You, Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door, Ferry to Hong Kong, Finnegan Begin Again, Five Weeks in a Balloon, Flames (aka: Fire Alarm), Flaming Signal, For Keeps, Forgotten, Friday the Thirteenth, Frogmen, Gambling Sex, Ghoul, Gideon of Scotland Yard, Gideon's Trumpet, Gigolettes of Paris, Girl From Calgary, Girl From Chicago, Girl From Mandalay, Glass Menagerie, Gold, Great Lie, Green for Danger, Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter, Hamlet, Hard Knox, Hard Man, Hard Rock Harrigan, Harlow, Harriet Craig, Haunted Trails, Headless Woman (Spanish), Heart Punch, Hearts of Humanity, If I Were Rich (aka: Cash; aka: For Love or Money)

Two Little Hands Productions (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Baby Signing Time, Volume 1: It's Baby Signing Time, Baby Signing Time, Volume 2: Here I Go, Baby Signing Time, Volume 3: A New Day and Baby Signing Time, Volume 4: Let's be Friends

Uni Music – Deutsche Grammophon

07/09/19 — Released Wagner: Lohengrin - 2018 Bayreuth Festival (2 disc set)

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

08/27/19 — Sets Secret Life of Pets 2 (ARR of 81 days; box office: $140,658,930)

WWE

07/09/19 — Released WWE: The MIZ - A-List Superstar (2 disc set)

Wild Eye Releasing

10/29/19 — Sets Plaguers: 10th Anniversary Special Edition

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released From the Dead

Blu-ray New Additions

AGFA

10/15/19 — Sets Scary Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Cohen Media Group

07/09/19 — Released Buster Keaton Collection, Volume 2 (2 silent films: Sherlock Jr. (1924) The Navigator (1924))

07/16/19 — Sets Ash is the Purest White (Mandarin)

Dark Night Films (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Evil Deeds

Dynamic

07/09/19 — Released Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Flicker Alley

07/09/19 — Released Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers (12 silent short films: A.W.O.L. (1918), The Extra-Quick Lunch (1919), Egged On (1926), Fatal Footsteps (1926), He Done His Best (1926), Now You Tell One (1926), A Wild Roomer (1927), Many A Slip (1927), Nothing Doing (1927), Say Ah-h! (1928), There It Is (1928), Whoozit (1928); plus five short films: It's A Bird (1930), Believe It Or Don't (1935), Pete-Roleum and His Cousins (1939), A Sleepless Night (1940), Wild Oysters (1941)) (2 disc set)

FUNimation

07/09/19 — Released In Another World With My Smartphone (2 disc set),  Island: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt: Complete Series (2 disc set)

GKids, Inc.

07/09/19 — Released Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Above the Best, I Like Me and Shadows of Sofia

Grindhouse Releasing

07/09/19 — Released Tough Ones (Italian) (2 disc set with bonus CD)

Kino Lorber

07/09/19 — Released 3 Faces (Farsi), Annihilators, Dead of Night, Peter Pan (silent-1924) and Tuff Turf

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/09/19 — Released High Life (with Digital Copy) and The Professor (with Digital Copy)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Outlaws

MPI Home Media

07/09/19 — Released Edge of Love

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released Nine Meals from Chaos: Director's Cut

Mill Creek Entertainment

10/15/19 — Sets Ultra Q: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Ultraman: The Complete Series (6 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Naxos

07/09/19 — Released Casella: La Donna Serpente, Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame - The Queen of Spades and Verbier Festival: The 25th Anniversary Concert

PBS Direct

07/09/19 — Released Chasing the Moon (3 disc set) and Endeavour: The Complete Sixth Season (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released African American Experience: Camp William Penn and the U.S. Colored Troops, It's History: DeBence Antique Music World, Keystone Cuisine: The Brewerie and PCN Profiles: Odin Rathnam

Paramount Home Media

09/24/19 — Released Stephen King's The Stand: Collector's Edition (2 disc set)

Sentai Filmworks

07/09/19 — Released Pet Shop of Horrors

Shout! Factory

07/09/19 — Released Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, Silent Hill: Collector's Edition (2 disc set) and This Island Earth

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/09/19 — Released CCW: Thy Kingdom Come - San Fernando, CA, IWA Mid-South: Egg Sucking Dog Days of Summer - Jeffersonville, IN, Underground Empire Wrestling: Blood by Blood - Sun Valley, CA, Underground Empire Wrestling: Empire Rising - Sun Valley, CA, Underground Empire Wrestling: Explicit Endeavors - Los Angeles, CA and Underground Empire Wrestling: March of the Damned - Sun Valley, CA

T-Series

07/09/19 — Released Smash Hitz, Volume 7

Uni Music – Deutsche Grammophon

07/09/19 — Released Wagner: Lohengrin - 2018 Bayreuth Festival

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/27/19 — Sets Secret Life of Pets 2 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

09/03/19 — Sets Ma (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

VCI Entertainment

10/25/19 — Sets Leg Fighters (Mandarin) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Wild Eye Releasing

10/29/19 — Sets Plaguers: 10th Anniversary Special Edition

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

08/27/19 — Sets Secret Life of Pets 2 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Paramount Home Media Targets Sept. 24 For The DVD Debut Of Madam Secretary: Season 5

It was another very busy week for Paramount Home Media with multiple street-date assignments for hit selections from their extensive TV-on-DVD library.

In the last couple of weeks we’ve learned that Billions: Season Four will be available on Sept. 24, The Good Fight: Season Three arrives on Sept. 10 and Bull: Season Three hits retail outlets on Sept. 3.

This week we find that not one, but three more full seasons of popular TV series will be available on DVD for fans to enjoy during the month of September.

Sept. 24 marks the arrival of Madam Secretary: Season 5 — all 20 episodes — on DVD.   And, as with other current announcements, Madam Secretary, starring Téa Leoni, has been renewed for a sixth season.

Also getting full-season release packages on DVD — both streeting on Sept. 10 — are SEAL Team: Season Two and Hawaii Five-O: The Ninth Season.

But wait, there is more … from Nickelodeon on Sept. 3 is the latest round of adventures of Sunny Day and her talking dog Doodle, Sunny Day: Welcome to the Pet Parlor.   Four fun-filled episodes will be available on DVD featuring a royal pet wedding, the design and conversion of a truck into the new dog-grooming truck, “Groom & Vroom,” and more.

Lastly, and timed to take full advantage of the theatrical release of Stephen King’s It Chapter Two on Sept. 6, is a new Blu-ray presentation of Stephen King's apocalyptic mini-series, The Stand.    The double-disc special edition Blu-ray set will be available on Sept. 24.

Mill Creek Entertainment Acquires Distribution Rights To The Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd Ultraman Library • First Wave On Oct. 15

Mill Creek Entertainment announced this past week that the company had acquired domestic distribution rights to the entire Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd Ultraman library.   Over 50 years of programming, which represents in excess of 1,100 series episodes and 20 feature films.

This is a big one and Mill Creek wasted no time in setting Oct. 15 as the street date for Blu-ray sets of both Ultra Q: Complete Series 01 and Ultraman: Complete Series 02 … Steelbook special editions will be available on Oct. 15 as well.

When domestic audiences were gathered around their TV sets in 1966 to watch Star Trek, half a world away Japanese audiences were treated to Ultra Q, a “Kaiju” (literally translated as giant monsters or beasts … think along the lines of Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and you will be in the right ball park) anthology of stories and weird tales featuring exotic beasts, dragons, aliens, you name it and Ultra Q threw in just about everything, including ghostly aberrations.

A reporter (Hiroko Sakurai) and a sci-fi writer/aviator (Kenji Sahara) are the forerunners to the X Files’ Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, who investigate and report on the various creatures that are among us.

All 28 episodes in the Ultra Q series will be available on Blu-ray as a four-disc collection … with Digital Copy as a bonus.   These are the original Japanese-language broadcast episodes (with optional English subtitles).

Also arriving on Oct. 15 is the first installment in the Ultraman series.   With the huge success of Ultra Q, Tsuburaya Productions sprung into action and quickly developed a slew of “Ultra” series adventures that continue to run to this day.    

The first of these was a 39-episode series titled Ultraman, which starred Susumu Kurobe as “Ultraman,” Akiji Kobayashi as the leader of “The Science Patrol” and both Kenji Sahara and Hiroko Sakurai are back, but in different personas. 

More monsters, more aliens … bigger, bigger, bigger and even more exciting with a member of Earth’s defense force, “The Space Patrol,” as the hero who is the very mysterious “Ultraman” — he can who grow to a giant size in order to battle monsters and save the earth!!!   

Ultraman will be available as a six-disc collection on Blu-ray, with Digital Copy as a bonus.  Ultraman is also presented in its original Japanese broadcast form, with English subtitles.

67 episodes down … Mill Creek Entertainment is just getting started.   Stay tuned fans!!!

Wild Eye Releasing's Plaguers: 10th Anniversary Edition Will Ship As DVD And Blu-ray Product Offerings On Oct. 29

Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Oct. 29 as the street date for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of writer/director Brad Sykes’ outer space thriller, Plaguers: 10^th Anniversary Edition.

The Pandora is returning to Earth, the captain is dead and the ship’s cargo is something that should have been left where it was found, the blob-like thing known as Thanatos.   Somehow the crew will sell the thing (some mumbo-jumbo about a source of unlimited energy), profit from it and the death of their captain will be quickly forgotten.   Just get back to Earth!!

A simple plan, but when the derelict Diana sends out a distress call, the acting captain of the Pandora, Darian Holloway (Alexis Zibolis — The Da Vinci Treasure, Mouthpiece, etc.), diverts course to attempt a rescue and her and her crew get quite the surprise and the prospects of returning to Earth grow dim.   Four sexy “nurses,” in cheerleader-like outfits, are the only survivors of a space pirate attack!!

Before you can say “ahoy, matey,” or “shiver me timbers!,” or something else pirate-appropriate, the crew of the Pandora discovers that the sexy wenches, led by Kyra (Noelle Perris), are in fact the pirates.   Well there’s booty aplenty aboard the Pandora and when one of these sweet young things tampers with the Thanatos she is splattered with a green ooze that mutates her into a pirate zombie.

It doesn’t take long for both the crew of the Pandora, including their “synthetic human,” Tarver (played by Steve Railsback), and the remaining three mini-skirt clad pirates, to unite in common purpose.   

But one by one they too become zombies!   Who will be the final girl — Kyra or Darian?   Yes, Plaguers has all of the elements of a slasher-in-space thriller, with the Pandora acting as a haunted house in space and the crew and pirates the victim pool.

Plaguers is great fun!!   As to bonus goodies, we have filmmaker Brad Sykes and producer Josepina Sykes providing two commentary options … one with and one without actor Steve Railsback.   Plus there is a behind-the-scenes documentary titled “Scares in Space” and a Q&A session with the cast and crew.

Icarus Films Tabs Sept. 3 As The DVD Street Date For Documentary Filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein’s Ghosts Of Attica

Emmy-nominee and two-time Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards-winner, Brad Lichtenstein’s 2001 look back at the bloody carnage of the Attica Prison riot of September 1971, Ghosts of Attica, will be available on DVD from Icarus Films on Sept. 3.

In retrospect, Attica was a disaster waiting to happen.   Originally designed to house 1,200 prisoners, by September of 1971 the number of inmates was nearly twice that number.   A small, seemingly innocuous event on the morning of Sept. 9, 1971 triggered the takeover, which saw 42 guards and prison staff members taken hostage.

For four days negotiations drug on and then broke down, even though most of the demands of the prisoners had been agreed to.   Shortly before ten in the morning on Sept. 13 the prison was retaken … and in the aftermath ten guards were dead along with 29 prisoners. 

 

Only after the smoke had cleared and order had been restored did the true horror of the re-taking of the Attica become clear.   New York State Police had, in their zeal to put down the rebellion, killed nine of the ten guards and 25 prisoners in their barrage of fire (one guard had been killed in the early going, while four prisoners were murdered by their fellow inmates for various reprisal reasons). 

Lichenstein’s “time capsule” documentary uses vintage newsreel and broadcast footage from the period and contemporary interviews with guards, inmates and officials some thirty years after the events.   Ghosts of Attica, as a result, is a scholarly-like review of the Attica Prison riot and its aftermath that expertly draws out the experiences from all those who were there and experienced it first hand.

Narration is by Susan Sarandon.

Also getting a DVD release date from Icarus films this past week is documentary filmmakers Josh Fox and Steve Liptay’s DIVEST! The Climate Movement on Tour … the DVD will be available on Sept. 10.

350.org was founded back 2008 by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben (“The End of Nature,” “Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth,” etc.) and colleagues with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million.   

Filmmakers Fox and Liptay caught up with McKibben on his “Do the Math” national bus tour, which began in November of 2012 and hop-skipped across the country to packed venues.    DIVEST! The Climate Movement on Tour captures the presentations — which features such guest lecturers such as author Naomi Kline (“No Logo,” “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” etc.) Desmond Tutu, radio personality Ira Glass (“This American Live”), environmentalist Winona LaDuke (executive director of Honor the Earth) and Reverend Lennox Yearwood — and the bus journey itself which features candid interviews.

AGFA's 2K Film Restoration Of Writer/Director Daniel Erickson’s Scary Movie Ready On Oct. 15 As Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Edition

Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that you are crazy.   Such is the case with Warren (played by Oscar-nominated John Hawkes — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, plus such films as Everest, Winter's Bone, The Sessions), the star of writer/director Daniel Erickson’s 1991 horror tale, Scary Movie.

AGFA (American Genre Film Archive), with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced this past week that a new 2K restoration from the original 16mm camera negative of Erickson’s long-lost indie film production will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack edition on Oct. 15.   If you’ve seen a bootleg copy on VHS from back in the day, toss it … it’s crap, this is the real deal.

As near as can be sketched together, Scary Movie was filmed in and around Austin, Texas, using a lot of local talent, and then premiered at the WorldFest Houston International Independent Film Festival in April of 1991.   Around Halloween of the same year it had a screening in Austin and then more or less disappeared.

Thanks to the efforts of the American Genre Film Archive, genre fans will have an opportunity to enjoy this little gem for the first time on Blu-ray.

The story revolves around a young man by the name of Warren, who is barely hanging on emotionally.   Call him fragile.   In any case, he agrees to go with his buddy Brad (Jason Russel Waller), Brad’s girlfriend, Shelley (Virginia Pratt), and their friend, Barbara (Suzanne Aldrich), to the opening of the local Halloween Haunted House.   

Warren hears that a mental patient has escaped during a routine transfer from one nut house to another and begins to worry that the Haunted House will be a good place for him to hide.   This fear is only reinforced when the gathering crowd begins to the spread the same news … killer on the loose and heading this way!!!

A paranoid young man, a crazed killer on the loose and a Halloween Haunted House ... what could possibly go wrong!!

Bonus goodies include commentary from filmmaker Daniel Erickson, who is joined by AGFA’s Joseph A. Ziemba and there are two short films from Erickson, Mr. Pumpkin and Little Hero.