For the period ending August 30, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

 

7idea Productions (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released East to Laramie: Union Pacific's Rawlins and Laramie Subs

Alpha Video (MOD)

08/20/19 — Released Bruceploitation Double Feature (2 film set: The Real Bruce Lee, The Image of Bruce Lee), Celebrity Commercials of the 50s and 60s, Fighting Caravans, I Led 3 Lives, Volume 1, Last Mile, Michael Shayne (2 episodes: Murder and the Wanton Bride, Murder in Wonderland), Mr. Imperium, Overture to Glory (Yiddish), Rock 'n' Roll Revue, True Heart Susie (silent-1919), When the Nickelodeon Was King (1 silent short film Kid's Auto Race (1914), segments of Plunder (1923), The Movies March Along, Selected Newsreels from World War I) and World War II Documentary Double Feature (2 film set: Report from the Aleutians, Target for Today)

Arizona Public Media (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Desert Speaks: A River Again

Arrow Video

10/22/19 — Sets Dead Center

C Vision Productions (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Big Boy Tours the Midwest

DreamScape Media, LLC

08/27/19 — Released Learning with Penguins: Cool Creatures, Planes with Brains 3 and Train Town: Around the World

EWTN

08/20/19 — Released Called to Communion, Journey Home: Father Bart Stevens - Former Episcopal Priest and Life on the Rock: Abbie Reese - Journey of Women Answering God's Call to Embrace Life as a Cloistered Nun

08/27/19 — Released Called to Communion and Life on the Rock: Dr. Scott Powell - Seek/Focus Conference

Get Digital World (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Authority Backlinks, Authority Blog Advantage, Authority Traffic, Auto Blogging Revealed, Automated Membership Machine, Avalanche List Building, Aweber Insider Info, Azon Commission Formula, Azon Physical Product Mastery, Backend Sales Mastery, Detoxing Made Easy, Evergreen Income Profits, Evil Article Marketing, Expert Content Videos, Expert Graphics, Exposing Freemind, Forum Marketing Secrets, Free Business Videos, Freebie List Converter, Freedom is Forgiveness, Healthy Business, Healthy Life, High Paying Clients, High Paying Clients Secrets, Hiring and Outsourcing , Hit 2 Fit, Home Studio on a Budget, Home Workout Bible , Hosting Panel Secrets, How to Host Your Own Autoresponder on Wordpress, Infopreneur Academy, Inside Gimp, Inside YouTube, Instagram Ads Made Easy, Instagram Marketing 3.0 Made Easy, Instagram Stories, Instant Affiliate Income, Learn How to Set Up a Download Page & Film Protection System for Free, Limitless Energy Training, Linkedin Ads 2.0 Made Easy, Linkedin Ads 3.0 Made Easy, Linkedin Ads Made Easy, Linkedin Profit System, List Building 3.0 Made Easy, List Building Catapult, List Building Domination, List Building How-To Videos, List Building Pro Training, List Building Profit Kit, List Building Success, List Building Superstar, Power Of The Subconscious Mind, Viral InfoGraphic Traffic, Viral List Autopilot, Viral Marketing 2.0 Made Easy, Viral Marketing Made Easy, Warrior Forum Master, Warrior Mindset, Web Branding DNA, Web Conversion Demystified, Web Traffic Blueprints, Webinar Authority, Webinar Marketing Made Easy, Windows 10 Tips and Tricks, Wired for Success, YouTube Authority, YouTube Marketing Excellence and YouTube Marketing Expert

Hope of the World (MOD)

08/20/19 — Released Arch Secret of Overcoming Sin

I-Cine

08/27/19 — Released Ban Linh Nguoi Vo (13 disc set)

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Colourblind, Confessions of a Ladykiller (aka: How to be a Sex Star) and Tabernacle 101

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

08/27/19 — Released Into the Badlands: The Complete Third Season (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Killers Anonymous and Last Black Man in San Francisco (ARR of 81 days; box office: $4,487,574)

Movie Detective (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Der Engel mit der Posaune (German), El Bosque del Lobo (Spanish), La Venere d'Ille (Italian), Le Mataf (French), Marriage in the Shadows (German) and Saladin and the Great Crusades (Egyptian)

PBS Direct

08/27/19 — Released NOVA: The Planets (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released African American Experience: The Christiana Resistance of 1851, It's History: Old Economy Village, Keystone Cuisine: Revival on Lincoln and PCN Profiles: Chris Martin

Paramount Home Media

10/15/19 — Sets Haunting of Hill House (4 disc set)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Handsome Serge (French) and Swindle (Italian)

Rogue Video (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Garden of the Dead

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released AAW: Bad Times at the Blue Genie, AAW: Destination Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI, C*4 Wrestling: Fighting Back 9 - Ottawa, CN, Game Changer Wrestling: The New Face of War - Tokyo, Japan, Game Changer Wrestling: Worst Behavior - Tokyo, Japan, Guantos Hardcore Crew: Se Buscan: Vivos o Muertos - Guadalajara, MX, Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2019 - Milwaukee, WI, Maria Manic: The Maneater, RISE: Pride and Joy - Chicago, IL and Ultimate Empire Wrestling: Pledge Your Allegiance - Sun Valley, CA

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

10/01/19 — Sets Spider-Man: Far from Home (ARR of 88 days; box office: $379,751,480)

Synergy Entertainment

10/01/19 — Sets Festival of Fright: A Treasury of Classic Horror Movie Trailers (with bonus CD)

Thuy NGA

08/27/19 — Released Mo Ve Anh

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

09/10/19 — Sets Dead Don’t Die (ARR of 88 days; box office: $6,504,595)

09/24/19 — Adds Inside Man: Most Wanted

10/01/19 — Sets Doom: Annihilation and Jarhead: Law of Return

10/15/19 — Sets Art of Self-Defense (ARR of 95 days; box office: $2,410,914)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/01/19 — Sets Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island

10/15/19 — Sets Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans

10/29/19 — Sets Christmas Story: Christmas Wish

Blu-ray New Additions

 

7idea Productions (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released East to Laramie: Union Pacific's Rawlins and Laramie Subs

Acorn Media (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Place Called Home: Season 3 (3 disc set) and Place Called Home: Season 4 (3 disc set)

Aniplex of America

08/27/19 — Released Cells at Work (3 disc set)

Arrow Video

10/22/19 — Sets Dead Center

Cohen Media Group

08/27/19 — Released Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (French)

Eastern Star

08/27/19 — Released Megabeast Investigator Juspion (2 disc set) and Sorcerer Hunters: The Complete TV Series and OVA (2 disc set)

FUNimation

08/27/19 — Released Danganronpa: The Animated Series (2 disc set), Danganronpa 3 Despair Arc: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Danganronpa 3 Future Arc: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released 16th Episode, Big Top Evil, Creatress and Narcissists

Hen’s Tooth

08/27/19 — Released Flesh Gordon

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Colourblind, Confessions of a Ladykiller (aka: How to be a Sex Star) and Tabernacle 101

Kino Lorber

08/27/19 — Released Alps (Greek), Aspen Extreme, Blue, Butley, Day of the Outlaw, Dogtooth: 10th Anniversary Edition (Greek), The Garden, In Celebration and Man Without a Star

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

08/27/19 — Released Into the Badlands: The Complete Third Season (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Killers Anonymous (with Digital Copy)

MPI Home Media

08/27/19 — Released Good and Six Wives of Henry Lefay

MVD Entertainment Group

12/17/19 — Sets Shade

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released MRG Spotlight Collection: Monte Light (5 short films: Garage Sale, Drag, Look and See, Paper Anvil. Thanatopolis)

PBS Direct

08/27/19 — Released NOVA: The Planets (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released African American Experience: The Christiana Resistance of 1851, It's History: Old Economy Village, Keystone Cuisine: Revival on Lincoln and PCN Profiles: Chris Martin

Paramount Home Media

10/15/19 — Sets Haunting of Hill House (4 disc set)

Scorpion Releasing

08/27/19 — Released Love Letters

Sentai FilmWorks

08/27/19 — Released Devil's Line: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Severin Films, LLC

08/27/19 — Released Wax Mask (Italian) (with bonus CD)

Shout! Factory

08/27/19 — Released Fear in the Night and Leech Woman

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released AAW: Bad Times at the Blue Genie, AAW: Destination Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI, , Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2019 - Milwaukee, WI, RISE: Pride and Joy - Chicago, IL and Ultimate Empire Wrestling: Pledge Your Allegiance - Sun Valley, CA

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

08/27/19 — Released People vs. Larry Flynt

10/01/19 — Sets Spider-Man: Far from Home (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/27/19 — Released Jerk, Krampus, Ouija, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and World's End

09/10/19 — Sets Dead Don’t Die (with Digital Copy)

09/24/19 — Adds Inside Man: Most Wanted (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

10/01/19 — Sets Doom: Annihilation (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Driven (with Digital Copy) and Jarhead: Law of Return (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

10/15/19 — Adds Art of Self-Defense (with Digital Copy)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

10/01/19 — Sets Spider-Man: Far from Home (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

09/24/19 — Sets Maleficent (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

10/01/19 — Sets Ant-Man (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Doctor Strange  (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Guardians of the Galaxy (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy),

Paramount Home Media's The Haunting Of Hill House Arrives As Blu-ray And DVD Sets On Oct. 15

Paramount Home Media has something special for the Halloween promotional season this year!!   

Arriving on Oct. 15 are both Blu-ray and DVD collections of director/producer Mike Flanagan’s re-imagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 gothic horror novel, The Haunting of Hill House.

This ten-part series gives genre fans a full ten-nights of Halloween horrors on the run-up to October 31.   Or, if are so inclined, you can just binge-watch it … but what’s the fun in that?

In any case, filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Ouija: Origin of Evil … his film adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 novel, Doctor Sleep, opens theatrically on Nov. 6) expands the core haunting of the Hill House Mansion to follow the Crain family over a number of years as chronicled in Steven Crain’s autobiographic novel, “The Haunting of Hill House.”   Both Michiel Huisman (as Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones) and Paxton Singleton play the writer as both an adult and young boy.

As we come to know the Crain family, Hugh (Henry Thomas and later Timothy Hutton) and his wife Olivia (Carla Gugino), have purchased the old place to renovate it, sell-it and use the profits to build a house of their own based on Olivia’s design.   The Crain’s have five kids, including the aforementioned Steven and his siblings — Shirley, Theodora, Luke, and Nell — and get to know them as both kids and adults, who are still troubled by their childhood experiences in the creepy old place.

As to bonus chills, three of the episodes are extended and featured as “director’s cut” presentations, complete with optional commentary.

So successful was The Haunting of Hill House as an event series, that the concept has been renewed for a second season titled The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is based on Henry James’ 1898 Collier’s Weekly serial tale, “The Turn of the Screw.”

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Rewind Collection Status On Writer/Director Damian Nieman’s Shade

MVD Entertainment Group’s popular Rewind Collection will be getting a new member on Dec. 17 with the Blu-ray debut of director Damian Nieman’s 2003 neo-noir thriller, Shade.

This is a hidden gem — and we’d love to know the full backstory — that fits right in the MVD Rewind Collection universe.   A complete filmmaking unknown by the name of Damian Nieman, not only wrote the film, but directed it … and managed to assemble a cast that includes Sylvester Stallone, Jamie Foxx, Gabriel Byrne, Melanie Griffith, Hal Holbrook and Thandie Newton.

Really?   Well, there’s a little more to it than some film school whiz kid making one film, with an all-star cast and then calling it quits.   He’s actually an accomplished magician — a regular at the famed Magic Castle, where he learned the ins-and-outs of the “magic world,” especially slight of hand with cards.

He studied the pros, he saw how cards could be manipulated for fun … and how cards could be manipulated in the world of cheating; “card play.”   

He wrote a script (he really did attend film school at Loyola Marymount University) and through various connections he got Merv Griffin to take an interest in his story — a story about grifters and hustlers and card cheats (mechanics).   Pretty soon Bo Hopkins was on board as a producer (his only foray into producing) … he also has a small role in the film.   

It steamrolls and pretty soon Stallone is starring as Stevens, “The Dean” of the high-stakes poker hustle; the realm of underground gambling is his kingdom … and Gabriel Byrne comes on board as Miller, a small-timer who wants to move up the food chain.

The queen bee is Tiffany (played by Thandie Newton … as Maeve Millay in the Westworld cable series), who can size up the chumps.   Throw in a few more hustlers and card mechanics and you have all the makings of a neat little thriller where who-is-doing-what-to-whom is never that clear (hustlers hustling hustlers … if you get the drift).

The film actually opened the film festival circuit in April of 2003, bounced around the world and then got a very limited theatrical release in May of 2004 … and then Warner Bros. pushed it to DVD and that was it.   

MVD Entertainment Group to the rescue with their Rewind Collection focus and now magician/director Damian Nieman’s Shade is ready for a whole new audience to discover on Blu-ray come Dec. 17.

As to bonus goodies, Nieman provides commentary and he is joined by actor Stuart Townsend (as Vernon … as Lestat in Queen of the Damned and Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), there is also an extended video session with Nieman, Townsend, Stallone, Newton, Byrne, Foxx and Melanie Griffith.    Additionally, there are two featurettes — “The Making of Shade” and “Tricks of the Trade.”

Synergy Entertainment's Festival of Fright: A Treasury of Classic Horror Movie Trailers Head To DVD On Oct. 01

Grab the beer, or “monster grog” if you like, and the pop corn because Synergy Entertainment has 39 classic reasons to celebrate on Oct. 1.   That’s the street for the DVD/CD Combo Pack presentation of Festival of Fright: A Treasury of Classic Horror Movie Trailers.

This treasure trove of classic horror theatrical trailers is the perfect ice breaker for an evening of genre thrills … the warm up, if you please.   Honestly, current theatrical trailers suck.   They are lazy, they grab a scene here or there, throw in some music from the soundtrack and cut, cut, cut as fast as a film editor can.

But back in the day, there were screen crawls, block narrative wipes, narration (the perfect voice to sell, sell, sell), ominous music cues … and none better were theatrical trailers for horror and sci-fi films of the 1940s, 50s and even into the 60s, and then, at some point, Hollywood got lazy.

Synergy Entertainment, in conjunction with The Monster Club, has assembled 39 of these trailer greats for genre fans to savor, enjoy and yes, talk about; critique.   How can you not but beam with joy as the coming attraction for The Mole People flashes before your eyes?   Or Tarantula — as it rolls your mind drifts off to the musical lines from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, “…I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel when Tarantula took to the hills.”

Every trailer, a memory; hours sitting in the dark, pop corn at the ready and all primed to be scared, horrified and thrilled.   Oct. 1, there will be 39 reasons to celebrate … From Hell it Came, Black Sunday (a love affair begins with Barbara Steele) and The Unearthly.   Or, how about Vincent Price, the master of horror, on view in the likes of The Masque of the Red Death, House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler.   

The bonus goodie included with this DVD release is a CD compilation of Halloween-themed party music … a little background to set the atmosphere as the night begins.  Recall that immortal line from Bela Lugosi in Dracula, “Listen to them.  Children of the night.   What music they make!” … and you know in your heart of hearts that any Halloween party needs that touch of properly-themed spooky, eerie, creepy music, complete with sounds from “children of the night.”    It’s here, Oct. 1 … trailers and music, the perfect combination.

Arrow Video Preps Writer/Director Billy Senese’s The Dead Center For DVD And Blu-ray Release On Oct. 22

The Halloween season gets a slow-burn horror tale that would put a sinister smile on any crypt-keeper’s otherwise stoic puss.   Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise supplied by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Oct. 22 as the street date for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of writer/director Billy Senese’s twisted horror tale, The Dead Center.

Senese arrived on the feature film scene in 2014 with Closer To God, his award-winning take on the Frankenstein legend as presented in terms of modern science.    With The Dead Center, he is back with another horror gem that is both claustrophobic in its setting and at the same time filled with dread … dread in terms of the inevitability of a fearful outcome that builds, and builds … and builds! 

Unidentified, the toe-tag simply reads “John Doe” — he actually has a name, Michael Clark (played by Jeremy Childs — Closer to God, The Last Castle, After Darkness), but that isn’t important.   We are introduced to him on the slab of a morgue run by medical examiner Edward Graham (Bill Feehely — Blood Rogues, At the Edge) … he’s dead, dead, dead.   

But in no time, Michael awakes and takes to walking the halls of the hospital, which leads him to an empty bed in the psych ward, where he settles in for a little nap — it’s been a rough day, being dead and all.   

He’s soon discovered by a nurse making her rounds — an “extra” nut job, that’s strange — who alerts Dr. Daniel Forrester (Shane Carruth — perhaps best known as a filmmaker in his own right … the award-winning Upstream Color), the head shrink, who takes the mysterious new arrival under his wing and tries his best to sort out how “John Doe” got there.

Meanwhile, Graham has begun an inquiry of his own.   Where did “John Doe” get off to … and who the heck is he!!   Unbeknownst to him, Forrester has begun interviewing the mysterious “John Doe,” only to hear a story from the now lucid “corpse” that gives him the chills.   

As events unfold, it becomes clear that the wandering stiff has some real issues that can’t be explained by the rational Forrester … and there in lies the path to his own hold on sanity.  

Bonus goodies include commentary with filmmaker Billy Senese, producers Denis Deck and Jonathan Rogers and cinematographer Andy Duensing, plus there are nine deleted scenes, an alternate ending and a newly-prepared documentary on the making of The Dead Center which is titled “A Walk Through The Dead Center.”

Other bonus nuggets are on-set video sessions with actors Shane Carruth and Poorna Jagannathan, the featurette titled “Head-Casting with Jeremy Childs,” Billy Senese’s 2011 short film, The Suicide Tapes, and a half-dozen Midnight Radio Theatre radio plays written, produced and directed by Billy Senese — “Insomnia,” “The Long Weekend,” “Disposable Life,” “The Suicide Tapes,” “The Woman In The Basement” “Blood Oath” and “Flu.”

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Spider-Man: Far From Home Ready On Oct. 01

When retailers (we won’t say who, but they are usual suspects) and at least one distributor (Ingram) gang up on poor Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and say that director Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Far From Home will be heading home as a three-SKU product offering (plus “exclusives”) on Oct. 1, you would like to think that Sony would take some sort of punitive action about breaking the “announce date,” but they won’t (so it will continue).   Oct. 1 it is … despite no official press release.

The ARR for that date is just 88 days and domestic multiplex revenues currently stand at a tasty $379.8 million.   

Despite the late August blow-up between Sony and Disney over future Marvel Comics Spider-Man adventures, when you pull in those kind of box office numbers you can fully expect yet a third (or more) film to be developed in the current series (Spider-Man: Far From Home is a sequel to 2017 release of Spider-Man: Homecoming).

As for consumer home entertainment packaged media selections, there will be a stand-alone DVD edition, plus Combo Pack options for both the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats.

Bonus features, which appear to be limited to the Combo Pack SKUs, include deleted scenes, a blooper reel, at least four featurettes — “Far, Far, Far From Home,” “Suit Up,” “Fury & Hill” and “Thank You, Mrs. Parker” — plus the short film titled “Peter’s To-Do List.”