For the period ending September 06, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

Ammo Content, LLC

09/03/19 — Released Meanest Man in Texas (ARR of 109 days; box office: $5,769)

Eagle Rock Entertainment

09/03/19 — Released Ballet for Life and Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

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

09/03/19 — Released Absolution (aka: Harmony), Behind the Bullet, Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk (ARR of 88 days; box office: $79,438) and Steam Room Stories: The Movie

Hope of the World (MOD)

08/27/19 — Released Jubilean Man

09/03/19 — Released Desert Mountain Prophecy Clock

I-Cine

09/03/19 — Released Ba Trum Lao Dai Giang Ho (12 disc set) and Biet Doi Co Dong PTU (10 disc set)

Josh Way (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Fun With Shorts, Volume 17, Fun With Shorts, Volume 18, Fun With Shorts, Volume 19, Fun With Shorts, Volume 20, Fun With Shorts, Volume 21, Fun With Shorts, Volume 22 and Fun With Shorts, Volume 23

Kino Lorber

09/03/19 — Released Good Mother

MVD Entertainment Group

12/17/19 — Sets Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Mill Creek Entertainment

11/05/19 — Sets Angela's Christmas (with Digital Copy) and Elfette Saves Christmas (with Digital Copy)

PCN Productions (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released 2019 Sports Classics: 2000 PIAA 4A Football Championship, Battlefield Pennsylvania!: The Battle of White Marsh, Keystone Cuisine: The Greystone Restaurant and PCN Profiles: George Wolff

Paramount Home Media

10/15/19 — Sets Crawl (ARR of 95 days; box office: $39,001,882)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Admiral Yamamoto (Japanese), Der Kapitan (German), Liebe, Jazz und Umermut (German), Madamigella di Maupin (Italian), Never Open That Door (Spanish), Night Ambush and Sexexpress in Oberbayern (German)

Serpent Films (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Classic Drama: City Without Men and Classic Western: Cowboy and the Indians

Shout! Factory

09/03/19 — Released Santana: Live at the US Festival 1982

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Destructo Pro: Riot on the River - Jeffersonville, IN, 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, Mexico and IWA Mid-South: Dodgebrawl - Jeffersonville, IN

20^thCentury-Fox Home Ent

10/15/19 — Sets Stuber (ARR of 95 days; box office: $22,351,126)

Blu-ray New Additions

Acorn Media

09/03/19 — Released No Offense: Series 2 (2 disc set)

Cheng Cheng Films (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Crosscurrent (Mandarin)

Cinedigm Entertainment

09/03/19 — Released Nightmare Cinema

Eagle Rock Entertainment

09/03/19 — Released Ballet for Life and Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Emphasis Entertainment

09/03/19 — Released Mercury in Retrograde

FUNimation

09/03/19 — Released Ace Attorney, Season 2, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Interviews with Monster Girls: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Kakuriyo Bed & Breakfast for Spirits: Season 1, Part 2 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), My Hero Academia, Season 3, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Tatami Galaxy: Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Absolution (aka: Harmony), Behind the Bullet, Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk and Steam Room Stories: The Movie

Image Entertainment

09/03/19 — Released Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, I Got the Hook-Up 2 and Into the Ashes

Image Entertainment (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Catching Faith

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Edge of Isolation

Kino Lorber

09/03/19 — Released Good Mother

MPI Home Video

09/03/19 — Released Darlin'

Maiden Japan

09/03/19 — Released Art Club has a Problem: Complete Series (2 disc set)

Mill Creek Entertainment

11/05/19 — Sets Santa With Muscles

Naxos

09/03/19 — Released This is Rattle (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Nozomi

09/03/19 — Released Gravitation: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

10/15/19 — Sets Crawl (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Screen Media

09/03/19 — Released Cold Blood

Shout! Factory

09/03/19 — Released Mary Magdalene, Santana: Live at the US Festival 1982, Squadron 303: The Battle of Britain and Wind: Demons of the Prairie

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Destructo Pro: Riot on the River - Jeffersonville, IN, 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, Mexico and IWA Mid-South: Dodgebrawl - Jeffersonville, IN

20^thCentury-Fox Home Ent

10/15/19 — Sets Stuber (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Uncork’d Entertainment

09/03/19 — Released Night Sitter

VIZ Media

09/10/19 — Sets Infini-T Force: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/03/19 — Released Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

10/22/19 — Sets Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

09/03/19 — Released Young Sheldon: The Complete Second Season (2 disc set)

09/10/19 — Adds Dial M for Murder, Jetsons: The Complete Original Series (3 disc set), Kiss Me Kate and Touch of Class

09/17/19 — Adds Lethal Weapon: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set), My Favorite Year and Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 (17 theatrical cartoons)

09/24/19 — Adds Action Jackson, Letter and Set-Up

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

10/15/19 — Sets Stuber (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

10/01/19 — Adds Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Paramount Home Media Targets Oct. 15 For The Home Entertainment Release Of Alexandre Aja's Crawl

Come on folks, who could possibly believe that a hurricane could slam into Florida?   Pure fiction … oh, ahhh, wait, didn’t something like that happen this past week?  OK, so maybe we could have hurricanes in Florida, point conceded.

But certainly there aren’t any real alligators left in the Sunshine State.   Florida Gators is just a university mascot, right?   Those gator attacks you hear about in the news — a little seven-year old girl, a 24-year old woman, etc., etc. — that’s fake news, right?

We don’t have any gator attacks out here in California … the occasional mountain lion and lots of coyotes to be sure, but no gators, so it is all just a myth or just something you tell little kids to keep them from swimming in murky canals and lakes, right?

Now suppose screenwriting brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen put these two far-fetched things together.   A hurricane in Florida and gators, it might work, oh, wait, this is the same writing-duo that gave genre fans The Inhabitants and Dark Feed (nice indie chillers), so maybe a movie, directed by, for example, Alexandre Aja (who gave us the re-boot of The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D), might work.

Fine, enough with the teasing!  Genre fans got chills and thrills and jolts-aplenty in mid-July when Crawl opened up theatrically and pulled in a solid $39 million.  It was a huge word-of-mouth creature-feature that combined the elements of being isolated and on ones own in the middle of a hurricane with the terror of being stalked by a hungry gator.

Paramount Home Media announced this past week that the terror of Crawl, starring Kaya Scodelario as Haley (as Teresa in the Maze Runner movies, plus as Effy Stonem in the Brit-TV series, Skins), the dutiful daughter who ignores orders to evacuate to help her father (played by Barry Pepper, who co-starred with her as Vince in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and Maze Runner: The Death Cure … and won the Emmy for his portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy in The Kennedys mini-series), will be ready on Oct. 15 as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offerings.

For the record, that mid-October release date yields an ARR of 95 days.

Kaya knows it is coming … get out is the warning.   But, she can’t get a hold of her father, Dave.   He’s not at the condo, but Sugar, his dog is.   Perhaps, she reasons, he’s out at their old house in Coral Lake and despite every reason to turn tail and run, she heads there.  

It’s a nice set-up … Haley, along with Sugar, has placed herself in a no turning-back situation and in doing so we know, as the audience, that there will be no help coming (and any help that does happen by gets eaten).   

The next element in this edge-of-your-seat thriller takes place at Dave’s old home, complete with a crawl-space under the house.   She finds him there, hurt and unable to escape … the water is rising and in comes the gators.   Trapped, they will both either be drowned or be eaten unless they can escape to the upper part of the house.    

Crawl is a summer thrill ride that delivered the goods.    Dog, father, daughter, a swarm of hungry gators and the unrelenting fury of a hurricane … a non-stop adrenaline rush!!!

Bonus features include an alternate opening, deleted and extended scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Alligator Attacks,” “Beneath Crawl” and “Category 5 Gators: The VFX of Crawl.”

Mill Creek Entertainment Announces First Wave Of November 2019 Releases On DVD And Blu-ray

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!   And yet the college football season is just beginning and summer-like conditions prevail, but it’s the beginning of the Christmas season nonetheless as Mill Creek Entertainment announced its first wave of holiday-themed collectibles available on DVD and Blu-ray this past week.

Kicking off the parade of hits on Nov. 5 is the Blu-ray debut of director John Murlowski’s 1996 funfest, Santa With Muscles, starring WWF icon Hulk Hogan as billionaire Blake Thorne, who makes Scrooge look like a pleasant fellow.

Blake detests the Christmas season and all that goes with it until he has to avoid the police (a little paintball stunt that got out of hand) and he has to hide “unnoticed” at local mall until things cool down.   To blend in, he dons a Santa suit and settles down to wait-out the authorities, but things don’t go quite as planned (what’s the fun in a miserable human being getting “away with it”).

With the police in hot pursuit, including Officer Hinkley (Clint Howard), Blake, Santa costume and all, jumps into a trash chute and miraculously disappears from his pursuers only to be clunked on the head by a load of trash.   Dazed, and egged-on by a mischievous “Elf” named Lenny (Don Stark — Star Trek: First Contact, Peggy Sue Got Married, Café Society), who is actually a small-time hustler who sees dollar signs dancing about if he can take advantage of Blake’s amnesia and keep him in full Santa-mode.   

However, things for Lenny the Elf don’t go quite as planned either as he and “Santa” end up battling evil scientists headed by Ebner Frost (Ed Begley Jr.), who want to shut down an orphanage and toss the little children out into the street (they need the property for some sort of sinister research).   But this isn’t just any Santa, with Hulk Hogan in the red suit these evil-doers will prove to be no match against this “Santa with Muscles!!!”

Also keeping with the Christmas theme on Nov. 5 is the DVD debut of director Christian Cashmir’s Elfette Saves Christmas, starring Brielle Carter in her film debut as a vacationing elf (by the name of Elfette), who is suddenly thrown into a real Christmas mess when Santa Claus (played by Quinton Aaron — The Blind Side, Paranormal Movie) is kidnapped by mobster Little Georgie (George Vricos)!  

Elfette just happens to be the closest to the situation, but she is a real fish out of water (so to speak) in the human world and doesn’t know quite where to begin in her attempt to rescue Santa and save Christmas.   To make matters worse there’s an evil elf-hunter by the name of Ernest Killingsworth III (Zachary Vasquez — Baywatch, Don't Shoot the Messenger) out to catch as many elves as he can.   And poor little Elfette could be his next victim!

Join the fun on Nov. 5 and see if Elfette can accomplish the impossible, rescue Santa, avoid Killingsworth and save Christmas.   Elfette Saves Christmas includes Digital Copy.

Also heading to DVD on Nov. 5 (with Digital Copy) from Mill Creek Entertainment is writer/director Damien O’Connor’s Emmy-nominated animated adaptation of Frank McCourt’s children’s book, “Angela and the Baby Jesus,” … titled for it’s Netflix premiere as Angela’s Christmas.

The story takes place in Limerick, Ireland in 1914 and follows events in writer Frank McCourt’s mother’s life when she was just a child of six.   Angela is voiced by Lucy O'Connell, with Ruth Negga (Best Actress nominee for Loving) providing the voice of her mother.

Marquee Collection Status For MVD Entertainment Group's Blu-ray And DVD Release Of Writer/Director Dito Montiel's A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints On Dec. 17

Word arrived this past week that MVD Entertainment Group’s popular Marquee Collection line of home entertainment packaged media products will be getting a new member on Dec. 17 when writer/director Dito Montiel's award-winning biographic drama (based on his book), A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints. 

Both DVD and Blu-ray editions will be available on that date … Blu-ray for the first time!!

Dito Montiel's burst upon the scene in January of 2006 when it captured both the Directing Award and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.   A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints then proceeded to work the festival circuit, gathering-up more awards and solid critical reviews, through the end of the summer.   In late September of 2006 the film got a very limited theatrical release by way of an independent distributor, never rising above 60 screens nationwide. 

Only the lucky ones were able to catch a festival screening or one of the limited theatrical venues in October and November of 2006 … for the most part, because of its limited theatrical exposure, it went virtually unseen.  

In early 2007 it was released, again independently, on DVD and that was it.  Despite starring Robert Downey Jr. and Shia LaBeouf (just before his breakout in Disturbia and Transformers) as filmmaker Dito Montiel at various ages (2006 and 1986), the film never got the full exposure that it deserved.    Until now, that is.

We follow Montiel in his old neighborhood in Queens (LaBeouf) and the often violent-filled events that shaped his life in 1986 … the story jumps back and forth to current times (with the adult Montiel played by Robert Downey Jr.) as a successful writer revisiting his old stomping grounds and connecting with the people of his past.

Bonus features included commentary by writer/director Dito Montiel (Empire State, Boulevard), who is joined by film editor Jake Pushinsky (he also served as the editor for Montiel’s Empire State, Boulevard and The Clapper), plus there are 11 deleted scenes (with optional commentary), an alternate opening and no less than four alternate endings (all with optional commentary.

Additionally, there are two featurettes — “Sundance Labs: Rooftop Scene” and “Full Monty” — and audition footage of Diane Carcando as “young Laurie” … the part eventually went to Melonie Diaz (Lords of Dogtown, Fruitvale Station).

Arrow Video Tabs Nov. 12 For A Blu-ray Reissue Of Director Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead End Drive-In

Leave it to Aussie filmmakers to come up with some creative views of the future.   Back in 1979 director George Miller delivered Mad Max, it was a theatrical hit and spawned a generation of sequels and film homages.   

Just seven years after Mad Max another Aussie director by the name of Brian Trenchard-Smith came up with yet another post-apocalyptic vision, Dead End Drive-In.   And it too has stood the test of time … a genre fan tale of horrific delights.

Word arrived this past week that Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be re-issuing the 2K restoration of Dead End Drive-In — from the original film elements — on Blu-ray this coming Nov. 12.

A visionary film, Dead End Drive-In speaks of a world that has collapsed economically, with many of the young people living without skills and addicted to sex, drug and punk rock music.    The iPhone has not yet arrived, but all of the elements of disaffected youth — isolation, loneliness and despair — are prevalent, just in a different form.

In this future world, the “authorities” have hit upon the perfect solution.   Prison camps — actually converted drive-in movie theatres — where the youthful, lay-about inmates are fed an unending dose of punk tunes, exploitation films (riddled with sex and violence) and all the drugs, alcohol and unhealthy foods they can consume.   

It is a junkie heaven, but in reality these places are hell on earth with the “prisoners” on a nihilistic mission of self-destruction … they simply accept their fate, drink, get drugged out and lose their minds to the music and violence.   

Into this world comes Jimmy “Crabs” Rossini (Ned Manning), who just wanted the perfect date with the alluring Carman (Natalie McCurry), but ended up stranded at the drive-in.   He wants out, but everyone, including Carman, thinks the set-up is wonderful.   Food, entertainment, drugs, you name it, and the drive-in, the “dead end” drive-in, has it all.

Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Quest, Night of the Demons 2, Arctic Blast), his 1973 feature-length documentary titled The Stuntmen (aka: Dare Devils) and his 1978 short film titled Hospitals Don't Burn Down.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Adds 4K Ultra HD Presentation Of Director Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth To Its Oct. 1 Release Calendar

The rumors that were floating around about week ago are true.   Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has been working on a 4K re-mastering of director Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 Best Foreign Language Oscar-nominee, Pan’s Labyrinth (Oscar wins for Art Direction, Makeup and Cinematography) and now we have the confirmation as to the street date for the release of a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition.

The retail-ready date will be Oct. 1.   This is the third 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack being released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on the first day of October.   Already in place are director Joe Dante’s Gremlins: 35^th Anniversary Edition and director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

As to bonus materials, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro provides commentary on the 4K Ultra HD disc.    The accompanying Blu-ray disc also includes commentary, plus a video introduction by del Toro and four featuettes — “The Power of Myth,” “The Faun and the Fairies,” “The Color and the Shape” and “The Director’s Notebook.”

20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment Looks To Oct. 15 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Director Michael Dowse's Stuber

20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment will be serving up a three-SKU helping of director Michael Dowse’s miss-matched buddy comedy, Stuber, on Oct. 15.

The ARR comes in at 95 days, but the mid-July launch of this comedy teaming Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), as an Uber driver, with former WWE Tag-Team Champion, Dave Bautista (as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame), who plays a Los Angeles Police Detective out to revenge his partner’s death (but can’t drive over eye issues), didn’t generate the box office excitement that was expected … just $22.4 million in ticket sales.

Available for consumers on Oct. 15 will be Combo Pack selections for both the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus a stand-alone DVD edition.

As to bonus goodies, filmmaker Michael Dowse and actor Kumail Nanjiani team up for commentary, plus there is a gag reel, deleted scenes, the featurette titled “Georgia Film Works” and an interactive feature titled “Joke-O-Rama.”