For the period ending May 08, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

 

 

 

DVD New Additions

 

Bridgestone Multimedia (MOD)

04/07/20 — Released 8 Slices and Romance in the Outfield: Double Play

04/28/20 — Released For the Love of Jessee

05/05/20 — Released Home Sweet Home

Acorn Media

06/30/20 — Sets Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (ARR of 109 days; box office: $51,032)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

04/14/20 — Released Insatiable: Season 1 (3 disc set), Reckless: Season 1 (3 disc set) and Wolf Lake: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

05/05/20 — Released Kidding: Season 2 (2 disc set)

Championship Productions

05/05/20 — Released Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills for Softball, High-Level Hitting Pattern, Techniques & Drills, More Outs, Fewer Errors: Infielder Drills & Techniques, Primary and Secondary Breaks + Lift Offense, Seamlessly Shifting Between 4-Out & 5-Out Motion Offense, Techniques and Drills to Build Elite Catchers, Training Pitchers: Mechanics & Approach and Universal Zone Offense: Take Down Any Zone Defense!

Cleopatra Entertainment

08/11/20 — Sets Skin Walker

Conscious Films (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Dr. Llaila O. Africa: Healing the Nation

DocTV

05/05/20 — Released Quick Wisdom With Bliss: Meditation In 30 Minutes

EWTN

05/05/20 — Released Journey Home: Marcus Grodi on Covid-19, Life on the Rock: Justin Fatica From Hard As Nails Ministry Shares How To Be Physically And Spiritually Strong In the Catholic Faith in the Time of Coronavirus, Women of Grace: Healing for Life's Sorrow and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Harmeet Dhillon, Dr. Thomas Mcgovern, Luke Goodrich, Jeff Kinney

05/12/20 — Sets Life on the Rock: The Mfva Friars Discuss The Gifts of Mothers and Motherhood With Their on Mothers

Frolic Pictures (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid), Double Feature (2 film set: Alien Beach Party Massacre, Goblin), Double Feature (2 film set: The Baby, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls), Double Feature (2 film set: Bay of Blood, Vault of Horror), Double Feature (2 film set: Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, Horror Rises from the Tomb), Double Feature (2 film set: Dark Bar, Mind Over Murder), Double Feature (2 film set: Dead of Night, Another Nice Mess), Double Feature (2 film set: Devil's Express, Street Law), Double Feature (2 film set: Diving In, The Smile of a Fox), Double Feature (2 film set: End Play, Symptoms), Double Feature (2 film set: Fast Cars and Beautiful Women, Bazooka Babes), Double Feature (2 film set: Felicity, The Student Body), Double Feature (2 film set: Graveyard Disturbance, Blood Tide), Double Feature (2 film set: Great Escape From Women's Prison (Mandarin), Amazons and Supermen (Italian)), Double Feature (2 film set: Hands of Steel, Blood Hands), Double Feature (2 film set: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Russian), The Viking Queen), Double Feature (2 film set: Kingdom of the Spiders, Beyond the Door), Double Feature (2 film set: Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, The Glove), Double Feature (2 film set: Lost in the Bush, Feast of Flesh), Double Feature (2 film set: Madhouse, Touch of Death), Double Feature (2 film set: Outrageous, Alligator), Double Feature (2 film set: Perviella, Fun), Double Feature (2 film set: Princess Warrior, The Beat), Double Feature (2 film set: Pulgasari (Korean), Cruel Ghost Legend (Japanese)), Double Feature (2 film set: Purple People Eater, Lucky Seven), Double Feature (2 film set: Score, The Cherry Picker), Double Feature (2 film set: Screamtime, The Swiss Conspiracy), Double Feature (2 film set: Severed Arm, Shark Operation), Double Feature (2 film set: Shocking Dark, Scarab), Double Feature (2 film set: Specters, Ritual of Death), Double Feature (2 film set: Think Big, Twin Sitters), Double Feature (2 film set: Three for the Road, Battletruck), Double Feature (2 film set: Tower, The Coming), Double Feature (2 film set: Treasure, Fallen Angel), Double Feature (2 film set: The Van, Darktown Strutters) and Double Feature (2 film set: Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, War Goddess)

Get Digital World (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Intermittent Fasting for Dummies, Sell Digital Videos on Amazon: Advanced Training Course, Social Messaging Apps and How They are Replacing Social Media, Turn Your Digital YouTube Videos Into Amazon Cash and WordPress Automation Secrets

Giant Interactive (MOD)

04/28/20 — Released Speed of Life

05/05/20 — Released Pot Luck and Spaceship Earth

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Becoming, House in Between, Mothers Little Helpers and Raising Buchanan

Greenwich Entertainment

06/09/20 — Sets Booksellers (ARR of 95 days; box office: $25,249)

Hallmark Channel

05/05/20 — Released Home by Spring

Image Entertainment

05/05/20 — Released Tigers are Not Afraid (ARR of 256 days; box office: $175,559)

Kino Lorber

05/05/20 — Released Brighton Rock, Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (ARR of 508 days; box office: $207,533), Inspector Calls, Me, Natalie, Pool of London, Road to Mother (Kazakh) and Thousand Clowns

Liberation Hall

05/05/20 — Released Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rockin'

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/05/20 — Released Arkansas and Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On

MVD Entertainment Group

08/11/20 — Sets Split Second

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released MRG Collective: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Volume 4 (6 short films: Knight Watch, Mr. Sumbody, Sky Fighter, Subject 16, The Kid, These Few Hours)

Midnight Releasing (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Cry Havoc

Movie Detective (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Advance Patrol (Japanese),  Rickshaw Man (Japanese), Stationmaster Meets His Match (Hungarian) and Ten Thousand Days (Hungarian)

Once Upon a Tme

05/05/20 — Released Mother Goose World: Sleeping Beauty

05/26/20 — Sets Mother Goose World: Jack and the Beanstalk

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/16/20 — Sets Saint Frances (ARR of 109 days; box office: $44,330)

PBS Direct

05/05/20 — Released Baptiste: Season One (2 disc set) and NOVA: Polar Extremes

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Pennsylvania Country Roads: Malposs Brothers

Paramount Home Media (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Adventurers, Adventures of Sebastian Cole, First Monday in October, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Lady in a Cage and Matchmaker

Ruthless Films, LLC (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Monster Killers

Screen Media

05/05/20 — Released Jesus Rolls (ARR of 67 days; box office: $18,169)

07/07/20 — Released Hope Gap (ARR of 123 days; box office: $95,842)

Shout! Factory

05/05/20 — Released Lancaster Skies

Sony Music

05/05/20 — Released Jonathan Antoine: Going the Distance

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Greed (ARR of 67 days; box office: $353,019)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Cry for the Bad Man

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/05/20 — Released Ordinary Love (ARR of 81 days; box office: $321,421)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/19/20 — Adds Impractical Jokers (ARR of 88 days; box office: $10,691,091)

World Impact, Inc. (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Master the Bible: How to Get and Keep the Big Picture of the Bible's Story

Blu-ray New Additions

 

Acorn Media

06/30/20 — Sets Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Cohen Media Group

05/05/20 — Released Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (3 disc set)

Doty Island Media (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Painting with Vanilla Bizcotti, Season 1

FUNimation

05/05/20 — Released Black Clover Season 2, Part 4 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Kono Oto Tomare! - Sounds of Life, Season 1 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Overlord II (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Becoming, House in Between, Mothers Little Helpers and Raising Buchanan

Image Entertainment

05/05/20 — Released Tigers are Not Afraid (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Kino Lorber

05/05/20 — Released Brighton Rock, Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel, Inspector Calls, Marihuana/Narcotic, Me, Natalie, Pool of London, Road to Mother (Kazakh), Thousand Clowns and Tomorrow's Children/Child Bride

Kitty Media

05/05/20 — Released Sizzling Siblings

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Insecticidal

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/05/20 — Released Arkansas (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group

08/11/20 — Sets Split Second

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

04/28/20 — Released Bits of Yesterday

05/05/20 — Released MRG Collective: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Volume 4 (6 short films: Knight Watch, Mr. Sumbody, Sky Fighter, Subject 16, The Kid, These Few Hours)

Mill Creek Entertainment

08/11/20 — Sets Neo Ultra Q: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

New Blood Entertainment

05/05/20 — Released Expedition

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/16/20 — Sets Saint Frances

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Pennsylvania Country Roads: Malposs Brothers

Paramount Home Media

07/21/20 — Sets Clueless: 25th Anniversary Edition

Screen Media

05/05/20 — Released Jesus Rolls (ARR of 67 days; box office: $18,169)

Shout! Factory

05/05/20 — Released Exorcism at 60,000 Feet and Lancaster Skies

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Game Changer Wrestling: Invisible Man Presents W.O.M.B.A.T. 2 and Game Changer Wrestling: Long. Live. GCW.

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Greed

05/12/20 — Adds Traitor (Italian)

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released Godzilla vs. Megalon, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Sunrise, Inc.

05/05/20 — Released After War Gundam X: Collection 2 (3 disc set)

Uni Music – Deutsche Grammophone

05/05/20 — Released Beethoven: Triple Concerto and Symphony No. 7

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/05/20 — Released Red vs. Blue: Sigularity

05/19/20 — Sets Impractical Jokers

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Shout! Factory

05/05/20 — Released D-Day: Normandy 1944 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Oscilloscope Laboratories Picks June 16 For The DVD And Blu-ray Debut Of Director Alex Thompson's Saint Frances

Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired the SXSW Film Festival sensation, Saint Frances, last August.   It was a major score, so many awards, so much promise.   An indie film that was going to make some very big waves … it may still, but the path is going to be very different.   

So what’s the big deal?   The film itself, or course, but there is also the writing, the direction, the acting and the technical aspects of the production … the whole package, so to speak.   And, of course the big deal of Covid-19 and how the worldwide pandemic has impacted the film business.

Word arrived this week that since theatrical venues are shuttered, Saint Frances will be passing on any future play dates in favor of a DVD and Blu-ray launch on June 16.   That is very good news for anyone who may have missed the film’s limited theatrical run or the numerous festival screenings.

Saint Frances is written by Kelly O’Sullivan, who also stars as Bridget, a thirty-something, who is adrift and questioning where she stands in the world … more on that in a moment.   It is O’Sullivan’s first script, will she write more, who knows, but this first stab at it shows plenty of talent.   

Her main calling is that of an actor, having been featured as Valentina “Voodoo” Dunacci in the two-season run of Sirens (2014/2015), plus a series of roles in indie films — Sleep With Me, Olympia and Not Welcome.   So, unless you were a fan of Sirens, it is unlikely that Kelly O’Sullivan is familiar to you.   Saint Frances could be your introduction … you will not be disappointed.

Parallel to O’Sullivan’s acting and screenwriting is the direction of Alex Thompson, who had made a series short films (Calumet, Irene & Marie, Big Bad Wolf, etc.), but nothing feature-length.  

This debut effort pick up both the Audience Award (Narrative Feature Competition) and the Special Jury Award at South by Southwest in March of last year, and then Saint Frances marched out to the festival circuit and claimed wins at the Chicago Critics Film Festival, Champs-Élysées Film Festival, and the American Film Festival … plus O’Sullivan picked up writing awards at the Traverse City Film Festival and the Tallgrass International Film Festival.   

By August Oscilloscope had locked up the distribution rights for theatrical and home entertainment.   That theatrical release, well, it happened and then we all know what followed.   The buzz was great, the audience reception was solid and the strong reviews just kept pouring in … and there you have it (you get your chance on June 16 to find out what the big deal is with the arrival of DVD and Blu-ray viewing options).

As to the story itself, which was filmed in the Chicago area by DePaul film school alumni Alex Thompson, we are introduced to Bridget (O’Sullivan), who has sort of coasted through life and suddenly finds herself in her early 30s, waiting tables and wondering what’s next.   Family, nope.  Career, nope.  The clock is ticking.

It is at this point that she catches a break and lands a solid job as a nanny to a precocious (meaning: pain-in-the-butt) six-year old by the name of Frances (Ramona Edith Williams in her film debut).   Take care of the kid, get on your feet financially and things will start to look up … that’s the plan.

Of course, life doesn’t work that way.   Saint Frances takes some life-changing turns — call them ups and downs — as Bridget has to deal with some pretty tough issues and she ultimately finds grounding from unexpected sources, including from the “sweet” little monster that she is charged with caring for.

Tech aspects are solid, with some nice cinematography work by Nate Hurtsellers, plus there are some terrific supporting acting turns by newcomer Max Lipchitz as Jace, Bridget more-than-understanding “boyfriend,” and Charin Alvarez (Signature Move) as Maya, one of Bridget’s mothers.

As to bonus goodies, there is a commentary option from director Alex Thompson and writer/star Kelly O’Sullivan, who are joined by the aforementioned Nate Hurtsellers, plus there is a blooper reel and both deleted and extended scenes. 

MVD Entertainment Group Sets Rewind Collection Status For DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Director Tony Maylam's Split Second On Aug. 11

Word arrived this past week from MVD Entertainment Group that Aug. 11 has a new entry in the company’s popular “Rewind Collection” series of films.  Available on DVD, and Blu-ray for the first time, will be director Tony Maylam’s 1992 sci-fi-themed detective/serial killer thriller, Split Second.

This indie film was released theatrically in 1992 and takes a look at a bleak future — in London — of what lies ahead in the year 2008!!    As a result of seemingly non-stop rainstorms (global warming) the city is more or less waterlogged (foggy London no more, replaced by wet and soggy London).   

If that future prospect isn’t dreary enough, there is also a serial killer on the loose, no, that’s not quite right … make that a monster-sized serial killer who enjoys ripping the hearts (literally) out of its victims.

Tasked with tracking down this brutal killer is detective Harley Stone (played by none other than Rutger Hauer) and his nerdish partner, detective Dick Durkin (Alastair Duncan).   Stone is burnt out, and has absolutely no time for “proper” police procedures … he’s got a monster to catch.

His girlfriend, Michelle — a lady of the night — is played by none other than Kim Cattrall (Big Trouble in Little China, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country … and as Samantha in the Sex in the City television series) … and soon it becomes clear that the monster is stalking her.   A climatic, no-holds barred battle ensues in the London subway (“The Tube”) … save the girl, kill the beast or die trying.   Cool!

Mill Creek Entertainment Targets Aug. 11 For The Double-Disc Blu-ray Debut Of Neo Ultra Q

Ultra Q returns on Aug. 11!   

Mill Creek Entertainment has been systematically releasing programming from Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd Ultraman library since October of last year … 50 years of action drawn from 1,100 broadcast episodes plus 20 feature films.

The first series to street on Oct. 15 was Ultra Q: Complete Series 01, which originally aired on Japanese TV back in 1966, launching the “Kaiju” tales of fantastic monsters and super heroes.   On Aug. 11 the double-disc Blu-ray collection (complete with Digital Copy) of Neo Ultra Q, featuring all 12 episodes, will be available for fans to enjoy.

This is a “sequel” to the original Ultra Q, albeit 45 years later (broadcast in 2013 in Japan … did not reach these shores until 2017) … it is the 24th episodic adventure in the series overall.

In Neo Ultra Q, Jin Haibara (Seiichi Tanabe — Vampire in Love), Emiko Watarase (Rin Takanashi) and Shohei Shirayama (Hiroyuki Onoue) are three friends who join forces to investigate strange monsters (Kaiju) and other weird atmospheric anomalies.

Neo Ultra Q, available for the first time, is presented with its original Japanese language track with English subtitles.

Cleopatra Entertainment Readies Writer/Director Christian Neuman's Skin Walker For Release On DVD This Coming Aug. 11

Cleopatra Entertainment, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, looks to Aug. 11 for the DVD debut of writer/director Christian Neuman’s gothic horror tale, Skin Walker.

The film, stars Udo Kier as the astranged father of Regine (Amber Anderson — Emma., White Lie, In Darkness), an attractive young woman who lives in constant of fear, made all the worse by an abusive relationship that she currently finds herself in.   

The tipping point is reached when her grandmother dies a violent death and Regine returns home to investigate.   She returns home to a creepy old mansion, which genre fans will immediately recognize as the trappings for a good old fashion “haunted house” chiller.

Through a series of flashbacks, which are designed to give us the backstory of why the family, and especially Regine, seem to be so dysfunctional, we learn that she had a pretty mess-up childhood, complete with a born-at-home brother by the name Isaac.   

He may or may not be dead (don’t count on him being dead, but we won’t spoil the McGuffin) … and if still alive, is her brother responsible for the death of dear old granny?