For the period ending February 07, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

ACM Films

02/04/20 — Released What Love Looks Like

Artiflix (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released All the Kind Strangers, American Playhouse: Under the Biltmore Clock, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, El Cid (2 disc set), Final Comedown, Flying Deuces, Ghost Dance (aka: The Glory Boys), Great Rupert, Hatchet for a Honeymoon, Heidi, Invisible Ghost, North West Frontier, Nutcracker, Pieces, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Sirens, Spirit of West Point, Stunts, Terror by Night and Treasure Island

Championship Productions

02/04/20 — Released Building Game-Ready Defenders, Developing Tactical Training Patterns for Players, Fast-Paced Offensive Drills for Developing Players, Let the Games Begin! How to Run a Game-Based Tennis Practice, Open Practice: High-Intensity Defensive Practice Drills & Concepts, Open Practice:Transition Offense, Spread Attack & Skill Development, Personnel Pack Line and Transition Tennis: Approach Shot Footwork and Volleys

Cohen Media Group

02/04/20 — Released Serendipity (ARR of 109 days; box office: $2,213)

Get Digital World (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Anti-Aging Course to Prodect Your Brain, Looks and Health, Exploring Cupping Therapy, Graphic Design Expert in Just One Course, Make Money Online With Arbitrage, Making Promo Videos for Dummies, Meatless Spartan Vegan Hero, Surefire Clickbank Mastery, Time Management Secrets Anyone Can Use and Video Marketing Made Easy

Gunpowder & Sky (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Everybody’s Everything (ARR of 81 days; box office: $544,800)

Hope of the World (MOD)

01/28/20 — Released Direct Your Mind to the Highway

02/04/20 — Released Argument

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/04/20 — Released Arctic Dogs (ARR of 95 days; box office: $5,798,942) and Waves (ARR of 81 days; box office: $1,646,240)

Movie Detective (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Amore e Chiacchiere (Italian), Destinazione Piovarolo (Italian), Girls in the Sun (Greek), Guendalina (Italian), Premier Rendez-vous (French) and Virginity (Czech)

Mystique Magic

02/04/20 — Released Dani DaOrtiz: The Boundless (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs: Lewiston, PA Books: Oscar Charleston, Pennsylvania Country Roads: Birthplace of the American Railroad, Pennsylvania Country Roads: Dorflinger Glass, Part 1, Pennsylvania Country Roads: Pennsylvania Farm Show, Tom Ridge: An Oral History, Part 1 and Tom Ridge: An Oral History, Part 2

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

01/28/20 — Released Abenteuer Im Grand Hotel (German), Canterbury Tale, Hallo Janine (German), Gastspiel im Paradies (German), In Jenen Tagen (German), La Corona di Ferro (Italian), Leinen Aus Irland (German) and Went the Day Well/Tonight We Raid Calais

02/04/20 — Released Am Seidenen Faden (German), American Wartime Newsreels, Volume 1, American Wartime Newsreels, Volume 2, Da Stimmt was Nicht (German), Das Bad Auf der Tenne (German), Die Teusflischen (French), Himmel Ohne Sterne (German), La Tulipe Noire (French), Man Escaped (French) and Riso Amaro (Italian)

Shout! Factory

02/04/20 — Released House That Jack Built (2 disc set) (ARR of 417 days; box office: $86,635), Nightingale (ARR of 186 days; box office: $400,209), Rabid and White Snake (Mandarin) (ARR of 81 days; box office: $33,905)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Best of Matt Tremont: The Bulldozer 2019: Veteran Of Violence 2, H2O Wrestling: Subterranean Violence, Vol. 666 - Williamsport, NJ, IWA Mid-South: Battle Broads - Jeffersonville, IN and IWA Mid-South: No Retreat No Surrender and This Means War - Jeffersonville, IN

The Film Collectors Society (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Abilene Town, And Then There Were None, Annie Christmas Show, 1977, Anything Goes, Bandit Queen, City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel), Evening With Nat King Cole: BBC Concert, Oct. 13, 1963, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fort Invincible (aka: Only the Valiant) and Gas House Kids In Hollywood

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released 2020 ASAA DII Hockey Championships - Quarter-Final Game 1 Glennallen vs. Palmer, 2020 ASAA DII Hockey Championships - Quarter-Final Game 2 Houston vs. Soldotna, 2020 ASAA DII Hockey Championships - Quarter-Final Game 3 Tri-Valley vs. Homer, 2020 ASAA DII Hockey Championships - Quarter-Final Game 4 Kenai Central vs. North Pole, 2020 NYSPHSAASVII Ice Hockey Championship Franklin Acad. vs. Plattsburgh, 2020 NYSPHSAASX Ice Hockey Championship Salmon River vs. Potsdam and 2020 WIAA State Cheerleading Championships

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

04/07/20 — Sets Cats (ARR of 109 days; box office: $27,085,590)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

03/17/20 — Sets Richard Jewell (ARR of 95 days; box office: $22,328,256)

Blu-ray New Additions

 

4 Digital Media

02/04/20 — Released Hunt for Vlad the Impaler

ACM Films

02/04/20 — Released What Love Looks Like

Acorn Media

02/04/20 — Released 800 Words: Season 2, Part 1 (2 disc set) and 800 Words: Season 2, Part 2 (2 disc set)

Cleopatra Entertainment

04/24/20 — Sets Bush: Live in Tampa (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack with bonus CD)

Cohen Media Group

02/04/20 — Released Serendipity

FUNimation

02/04/20 — Released Garo: The Animation - The Complete Series (4 disc set), Isekai Quarter: Season 1 (with Digital Copy), Kingdom: The Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Japanese) (with Digital Copy), Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Season 1, Part 2 (2 disc set)

Grapevine Video (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Blazing the Overland Trail (15 chapter serial), Dinty (silent-1920) and Honeychile

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Hiro's Table, Mandela Effect, Sand Dune and Sisu

Gunpowder & Sky (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Everybody’s Everything 

Image Entertainment

02/04/20 — Released Mon Mon Mon Monsters

King Records

02/04/20 — Released Hired Hand

Kino Lorber

02/04/20 — Released Clockers, Crooklyn, Jungle Fever, Mo' Better Blues, Oscar and Summer of Sam

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/04/20 — Released Arctic Dogs (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Trauma Center (with Digital Copy) and Waves (with Digital Copy)

Naxos

02/04/20 — Released Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, New Year's Eve Concert 1997: A Tribute To Carmen and Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

PBS Direct

02/04/20 — Released Sanditon: Season One (2 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs: Lewiston, PA Books: Oscar Charleston, Pennsylvania Country Roads: Birthplace of the American Railroad, Pennsylvania Country Roads: Dorflinger Glass, Part 1, Pennsylvania Country Roads: Pennsylvania Farm Show, Tom Ridge: An Oral History, Part 1 and Tom Ridge: An Oral History, Part 2

Scorpion Releasing

02/04/20 — Released Fraternity Vacation

Scream Team Releasing

02/04/20 — Released 10/31: Part II

Screen Media

02/04/20 — Released Grand Isle

Sentai FilmWorks

02/04/20 — Released Magnificent KOTOBUKI: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

02/04/20 — Released Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds (3 film set: One Year After the Battle, The Tragedy of Fuuma Ninja Tribe, Conspiracy of the Military) (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), House That Jack Built: Director’s Cut (2 disc set), Nightingale, Rabid and White Snake (Mandarin) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

02/04/20 — Released IWA Mid-South: Battle Broads - Jeffersonville, IN

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/04/20 — Released Dragonheart: Vengeance (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Here Comes Peter Cottontail (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

04/07/20 — Sets Cats (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/04/20 — Released FCLC: Progressive/Alternative (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

03/17/20 — Sets Richard Jewell (with Digital Copy)

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/26/20 — Sets Deer Hunter: Collector's Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

03/03/20 — Sets Bug's Life (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Monsters, Inc. (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Up (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Wall-E (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

03/10/20 — Sets Beauty and the Beast (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Beauty and the Beast (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Cleopatra Entertainment Tabs Apr. 24 For The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Release Of Bush: Live In Tampa

Cleopatra Entertainment, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Friday, April 24, as the debut date for the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentation of Bush: Live in Tampa.

London rockers, Bush, with Gavin Rossdale as the lead vocalist, embarked upon the 2019 Altimate Tour, which began June 6 at the Grand Theatre at Foxwoods in  Mashantucket, Connecticut and hopscotched across the U.S. an Canada until in wrapped at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, Texas on Oct. 26 … 49 stops including an Aug. 16 stop at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida where a 15 camera set up, using 4K UHD, was waiting to record the 12-song live concert.

The song set included “Machinehead,” “Everything Zen,” “Body,” “Little Things,” “Glycerine” and “Comedown” from Bush’s 1994 breakout album, “Sixteen Stone.”   Other songs from the 90-minute set included “Bullet Holes” from John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, “Swallowed” from the 1996 “Razorblade Suitcase” CD, “The Disease of Dancing Cats” and “The Chemicals Between Us” from their 1999 album “The Science of Things.”

As a bonus, the Bush: Live in Tampa Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack includes a CD presentation of the concert.

Bayview Entertainment's Domestic DVD Debut Of Director Sang-hoon Ahn’s The Witness Will Take Place On Mar. 24

Bayview Entertainment will be bringing director Sang-hoon Ahn’s Mandarin-language remake of his own film, The Witness, to the domestic home entertainment marketplace on Mar. 24.

His first version, Blind, was a South Korean hit in 2011.   Normally, when a foreign-language film is a surprise hit, it gets an English-language remake … some are successful — The Departed (Internal Affairs), The Birdcage (La Cage aux Folles), A Fistful of Dollars (Yojimbo) — some not so much.  

It speaks volumes about the rise of the Chinese film industry in the past 20 years … a Mandarin-language remake of a detective thriller from a foreign country.   And by the same director, which is even more interesting.

The new version, The Witness, was released in 2015 and pulled in $33.5 million in China … it was also released in the United States about the same time and generated $418,063 in domestic ticket sales.   That is a very impressive number for a Mandarin-language film with English subtitles.

And what is in more interesting, it didn’t get a domestic DVD and/or Blu-ray release, despite being a huge theatrical hit … that is, until now!   For the record, the ARR works out to a whopping 1,607 days.

In a prologue, we are introduced to a police trainee by the name Lu Xiaoxing (Mi Yang), who is involved in a deadly car accident that costs the life of her young brother and leaves her blind.

We rejoin her story three years later and she is still suffering from the effects of the accident (the mistakes she made that killed her brother haunt her).   As fate would have it, she is involved in yet another auto accident, only this time it is not her fault.   

Something happens as a result of this car crash.   She “feels” that the driver, who took off, was in fact out to abduct her … she plays a hunch and contacts a former colleague on the force, Lu Li (Jingchun Wang) and shares her experience.   

Bingo!   He is investigating a series of abductions and car accidents involving cab drivers and this fits the profile.   To make matters worse, she may have left her personal diary in the car and Lu Li begins to suspect that the driver might now be stalking her.   

There’s a serial killer on the loose and our blind heroine is now both a potential victim (bait) and a detective out to solve the case.   Does she?  Or doesn’t she?  

The Witness is a slick, well-made thriller that easily matches Hollywood technical aspects ... those who put the DVD on their viewing lists on Mar. 24 will not be disappointed.   The Witness is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles. 

Arrow Video's 4K Film Restoration Of Director James Signorelli's Elvira: Mistress of the Dark Arrives On Blu-ray On Apr. 28

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be having loads and loads of fun on Apr. 28 with the release of a new 4K film restoration of director James Signorelli’s 1988 horror comedy, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, as a Blu-ray special edition.

Cassandra Peterson had knocked around the edges of the entertainment business for years as a Las Vegas showgirl, a few small roles in films, a stint in an Italian rock band, a member of The Groundlings and she even found time to pose for Playboy, but it was a casting call in 1981 for the new female host of the proposed revival of “Fright Night” on TV that changed everything.  

She got the role and Elvira of the “Movie Macabre” show was born.   She used her showgirl attributes and blended them with her Groundlings comedy timing to create an instant horror cult figure … a marketing force that quickly grew and grew.

By 1988 it was time for Elvira to star in a movie of her own!!   In Elvira: Mistress of the Dark she plays herself as herself, no Cassandra Peterson in sight.   

It is a hoot as Elvira quits her show and soon discovers that she has been named in her great aunt’s will.    She has inherited a spooky old mansion and a book of spells, which eventually has the people of the town claiming that she is a witch who must be burned at the stake.

The plot is just an excuse for Elvira to deliver snappy one-liners, most of which are double entendre jokes about her well-endowed and very shapely body.   

Arrow Video’s Blu-ray presentation of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark comes loaded with extras.   There are three commentary options — a vintage commentary track featuring Cassandra Peterson, who is joined by Edie McClurg (who plays Chastity Pariah) and writer John Paragon (fellow Groundling … four time Emmy nominee for his work on Pee-wee’s Playhouse); a second with director James Signorelli, who is joined by Fangoria’s Tony Timpone, and the third commentary option features Elvira impersonator Patterson Lundquist.

Also included as bonus nuggets are the feature-length documentary Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, the featurette titled “Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster,” image galleries, a collection of trailers and the original storyboards.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Preps DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Director Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell For Release On Mar. 17

Clint Eastwood is arguably the greatest living filmmaker of the last 50 years.    He has won four Oscars, two for directing (Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven) and two for his role as a producer (the same two films).   

He has been nominated for seven additional Oscars … two for acting (Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby), two for his direction (Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima) and three for producing (his Best Picture nominees were: Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima and American Sniper).

He has a reputation in the film industry for making movies on time and under budget (a craft learned from his Dirty Harry filmmaking mentor Don Siegel).  

So it is a rare thing indeed when an Eastwood film fails to perform at the box office, despite a CinemaScore of “A” from audiences, a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination (Kathy Bates, her fourth Oscar nomination with a win for Best Actress in Misery) and generally favorable reviews, including a “Top Ten Films of the Year” acknowledgement from American Film Institute.

Of course we are talking about his latest directing and producing release, Richard Jewell, starring Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya, BlacKkKlansman, Late Night) as the title character.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced this past week that Mar. 17 will be the street date for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film.   

The ARR works out to 95 days and the domestic box office take, despite being an Eastwood film with solid audience support, currently stands at a less-than-expected $22.3 million.

Richard Jewell was a rent-a-cop at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, when he happened to be in the right place, at the right time, and discover a bomb that had been placed in Centennial Park.   He was initially heralded as a hero, but soon the FBI and media turned on him and made his life a living hell.

As to bonus features, both the DVD and Blu-ray release SKUs contain the featurette titled “The Real Story of Richard Jewell.”   Exclusive to the Blu-ray is the additional “The Making of Richard Jewell” featurette.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Selects Apr. 7 As The Street Date For Direector Tom Hooper's Cats

Lesson learned … just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should actually do it.   

Director Tom Hooper, who won the Oscar for his direction of The King’s Speech, and delivered a marvelous version of Les Misérables, decided that loads and loads of CGI cat fur would somehow be a good thing in doing a theatrical version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.   

It wasn’t … it was the stuff of nightmares, but it did give Ricky Gervais some great material for his Golden Globes opening monologue.   

With this said, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced this past week that Cats will be heading home as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack offerings on Apr. 7.   

The ARR comes in 109 days and box office receipts in the domestic market finally clawed their way to $27.1 million.

As to bonus materials, director Tom Hooper provides commentary (that should be very interesting) and there are ten featurettes — “9 Lives: The Cast of Cats,” “Singing Live,” “Cat School,” “A Director's Journey,” “Making Music,” “The Art of Dance,” “Scaling Up,” “A Little Magic,” “The Dancers” and “Making Macavity.”