For the period ending May 15, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

 

DVD New Additions

 

Aeia Badiana Producitions (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Bellydance Performances to The Music of Afrit Temple

Aflick TV (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Attorney, Colours, Glamorous, Guilt, May, My ManMy Wife Cheated, Open, Outcast 1, Outcast 2, Outcast 3, Removed, SNS 1, SNS 2, Sons 1, Ungrateful and Wrongs

Breaking Glass Pictures

06/09/20 — Sets Simple Wedding (ARR of 116 days; box office: $54,415)

Bruder Releasing

05/12/20 — Released Ballad of Don Lewis and I Am That Man

Championship Productions

05/12/20 — Released 2-3 and 1-3-1 Zone Defenses + Zone Offense Sets, Developing Mentally Tough Athletes, Training the Lost Art: Competitive Team Drills that Create Culture, Transition Offense and Late-Game Inbound Plays and Unstoppable, Easy-to-Learn 4-Out 1-In Motion Offense

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released All for Nikki

Conscious Films (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Dr. Llaila O. Africa: Wholistic Health, Part 1 and Dr. Llaila O. Africa: Wholistic Health, Part 2

Eagle Rock Entertainment

05/12/20 — Released Waylon Jennings: The Outlaw Performance

Film Movement

05/19/20 — Sets Zombi Child (French) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $25,878)

06/09/20 — Sets Advocate (Hebrew/Arabic) (ARR of 158 days; box office: $16,634) and Corpus Christi (Polish) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $127,240)

First Run Features

05/12/20 — Released Graves Without a Name (French)

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Elsewhere

Full Moon

05/12/20 — Released Diamond Dolls

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released All About Who You Know, IED: Improve Every Day, Killbird, S.S. Swenson, To Hell and Gone and Trouble With Wolves

Greenwich Entertainment

05/12/20 — Released Times of Bill Cunningham (ARR of 88 days; box office: $134,099)

05/19/20 — Sets Incitement (Hebrew) (ARR of 109 days; box office: $140,264)

I-Cine

05/12/20 — Released Cong Ly (10 disc set), Dac Canh San Bay (10 disc set), Quyen Luc Vuong Trieu, Part 1 (11 disc set), Quyen Luc Vuong Trieu, Part 2 (11 disc set) and Thuc Son Chien Ky II (16 disc set)

Kino Lorber

06/02/20 — Sets Beanpole (Russian) (ARR of 123 days; box office: $196,258)

06/16/20 — Sets Young Ahmed (French/Arabic) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $21,291)

Liberation Hall

05/12/20 — Released Dupont Show of the Month: Wuthering Heights

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/12/20 — Released Narcos: Season 1 (4 disc set) and Rev

MPI Home Media

05/12/20 — Released You Die (Italian)

05/19/20 — Sets Olympic Dreams (ARR of 95 days; box office: $27,739)

05/26/20 — Sets Premature (ARR of 95 days; box office: $22,932)

MVD Entertainment Group

07/14/20 — Sets Nothing Stays the Same

Magnolia Home Entertainment

05/19/20 — Sets Buffaloed (ARR of 95 days; box office: $28,976)

05/26/20 — Sets Once Were Brothers: Robby Robertson and the Band (ARR of 95 days; box office: $448,566)

07/21/20 — Sets Whistlers (ARR of 144 days; box office: $55,129)

Mill Creek Entertainment

08/11/20 — Sets Becoming Evil: The Mafia (6 part mini series: Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob, plus Moonshine and the Dixie Mafia, Vegas: The City the Mob Made) (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Music Box Films

06/23/20 — Sets And Then We Danced (Georgian) (ARR of 137 days; box office: $177,149)

National Geographic (MOD)

05/05/20 — Released National Geographic: Brain Games - Season 8 (2 disc set)

05/12/20 — Released National Geographic: The Incredible Dr. Pol - Season 16 (3 disc set)

Naxos

05/12/20 — Released Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (2 disc set)

Oscilloscope Laboratories

07/14/20 — Sets VHYes (ARR of 179 days; box office: $47,037)

PBS Direct

05/12/20 — Released H2O: The Molecule that Made Us, NOVA: Cat and Dog Tales and PBS Kids: 15 Pet-Tastic Tails!

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released PA Books: Emotional Gettsburg

Paramount Home Media

06/02/20 — Sets PAW Patrol: Might Pups Charged Up

07/14/20 — Sets Body Cam

Paramount Home Media (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Bloody Sunday, Carpetbaggers, Joseph Andrews, King David and Last Tycoon

Reality Entertainment

05/12/20 — Released Jumping Off and Kingdom of Brunel

Revelation Video, Inc. (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Competition in Germany: RDC Deutschland and Railroad Video Quarterly Issue #111: Spring 2020

Ruthless Films (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Strange Events 3

SRS Cinema

05/12/20 — Released Church of the Damned

Samuel Goldwyn Films

05/12/20 — Released Stray Doll

Shout! Factory

08/04/20 — Released Ride Your Wave (ARR of 165 days; box office: $330,572)

Soundview Media Partners, LLC

05/12/20 — Released Hope Village and You are Not Alone

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Armour of God (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Armour of God 2: Golden Condor (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Battle in Outer Space, Chinese Zodiac (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Drunken Master (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Godzilla 1985, Godzilla's Revenge (aka: All Monsters Attack), Jackie Chan's Project A (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Legend of the Drunken Master (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, Shin Godzilla, Son of Godzilla and War in Space

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Nun's Curse

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/23/20 — Sets Burden (ARR of 116 days; box office: $134,098)

Virgil Films & Ent.

05/12/20 — Released Jesus

Vision Films (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Color of Medicine: The Story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital and Finding Grace (with Digital Copy)

WWE

05/12/20 — Released WWE: WrestleMania 36 (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

05/12/20 — Released Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season (3 disc set)

06/02/20 — Sets Harley Quinn: The Complete First Season (2 disc set)

07/14/20 — Sets LEGO DC: Shazam - Magic and Monsters

08/18/20 — Sets Batwoman: The Complete First Season (5 disc set)

Well Go U.S.A.

07/14/20 — Sets Enter the Fat Dragon (Cantonese) (ARR of 151 days; box office: $46,855)

Wild Eye Releasing

05/12/20 — Released Weird Fiction

WOWnow Entertainment

05/12/20 — Released Comet That Destroyed the World

Zondervan

05/12/20 — Released Jesus Over Everything (with bonus study guide)

05/19/20 — Sets New Testament in Antiquity (3 disc set)

Blu-ray New Additions

 

Altered Innocence

05/12/20 — Released Equation to an Unknown (French)

Bourbon Sasquatch Productions (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Blending is Trending and Kindred Spirits: The Story of Kentucky Craft Bourbon (with bonus CD)

Busch Media Group

05/12/20 — Released Whatever May Come

Cri-One (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Sincerely (with bonus CD-ROM)

Dark Force Entertainment, LLC

05/26/20 — Sets Breeders and Drive-In Double Feature #6 (2 film set: The Gates of Hell (aka: City of the Living Dead), Psycho From Texas)

06/16/20 — Sets Chaos

08/25/20 — Sets The Last Victim

Dynamic

05/12/20 — Released Verdi: I Due Forcari

FUNimation

05/12/20 — Released Code Breaker: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released All About Who You Know, IED: Improve Every Day, Killbird, S.S. Swenson, To Hell and Gone and Trouble With Wolves

Kino Lorber

05/12/20 — Released Barbara Stanwyck Collection (3 film set: Internes Can't Make Money, The Great Lady, The Bride Wore Boots) (3 disc set) and Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II (3 film set: Thunder on the Hill, The Price of Fear, The Female Animal) (3 disc set)

06/02/20 — Sets Beanpole (Russian)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/12/20 — Released Vivarium

Magnolia Home Entertainment

05/19/20 — Sets Buffaloed

05/26/20 — Sets Once Were Brothers: Robby Robertson and the Band

Mondo Macabro

05/12/20 — Released Satanico Pandemonium (Spanish)

Music Box Films

06/23/20 — Sets And Then We Danced (Georgian)

Naxos

05/12/20 — Released Fantasymphony and Trumpet Concerto

Oscilloscope Laboratories

07/14/20 — Sets VHYes

PCN Productions (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released PA Books: Emotional Gettsburg

Passion River

05/12/20 — Released Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records

Scorpion Releasing

05/12/20 — Released Shadow Play

Sentai Filmworks

05/12/20 — Released Maid Sama: Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Shout! Factory

05/12/20 — Released Idle Hands: Collector's Edition, Howl's Moving Castle (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Japanese), Lazy Susan (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Ponyo (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Japanese)

08/04/20 — Released Ride Your Wave (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released H2O Wrestling: Career Restrospective Inverview Series - Lowlife Louie Ramos in H2O, RISE Wrestling: Bite the Apple - The Complete Paradise Lost Anthology, RISE Wrestling: Elite Women on the RISE and RISE Wrestling: Flight of the Phoenix - Best of Championship Matches

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Armour of God (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Armour of God 2: Golden Condor (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Battle in Outer Space, Chinese Zodiac (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Drunken Master (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Godzilla 1985, Godzilla's Revenge (aka: All Monsters Attack), Jackie Chan's Project A (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Legend of the Drunken Master (Cantonese) (2 disc set), Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, Shin Godzilla, Son of Godzilla and War in Space

WWE

05/12/20 — Released WWE: Wrestlemania 36 (2 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

07/21/20 — Released Castle Rock: The Complete Second Season (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

05/12/20 — Released Lucifer: The Complete Fourth Season (3 disc set)

Well Go U.S.A.

07/14/20 — Sets Enter the Fat Dragon (Cantonese)

Mill Creek Entertainment's Becoming Evil: The Mafia Arrives On DVD On Aug. 11

Mill Creek Entertainment has a four-disc DVD collection targeted for home entertainment consumers with an interest in The Godfather, The Boardwalk Empire, The Untouchables and all-things dealing with organized crime.  

Titled Becoming Evil: The Mafia, consumers on Aug. 11 will get an in-depth look at the history of organized crime in the United States dating back to the 1800s.   Kicking off the collection is documentary filmmaker Kevin R. Hershberger’s six-part mini-series titled Gangster Empire - Rise of the Mob.

Hershberger takes the viewer through the history of “the Mob” with a focus on Prohibition, Atlantic City, Al Capone and the Roaring 20s, The St. Valentine’s Massacre, The Depression, J. Edgar Hoover and his “Public Enemies” list and a special focus on the Italian Mob and the real “Godfathers” of New York and finally out to Las Vegas for the new mobster “playground.”

Next up is the three-part series, Moonshine and the Dixie Mafia, which breaks down the rise of the so-called “Dixie Mafia” into a look at the world of Bourbon, the arrival of Prohibition and backwoods stills and the rise of stock car racing and back road smuggling at hectic speeds … and finally a look at the real-life Buford Pusser of Walking Tall fame, with insights provided by none other than his daughter, Dwana.

Rounding out the collection is the ten-part series, Vegas: The City the Mob Made.   Here we learn about Las Vegas before the arrival of organized crime, the “Golden Age” of Las Vegas, Las Vegas becoming a modern city, the decline of Mob Rule and more.

Wait!  Wait!  Wait, not done yet.   Mill Creek Entertainment’s Aug. 11 DVD release of Becoming Evil: The Mafia also includes a Digital download bonus, the nine-part mini-series titled Hollywood vs The Mob.

Each episode focuses on events in the real world and how Hollywood made movies to reflect those events.  Films like Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, Loan Shark, Marked Woman and The Black Godfather are discussed in this very different look at the rise of “The Mob.”

Oscilloscope Laboratories Tabs July 14 For The Release Of DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Director Jack Henry Robbins' VHYes

Oscilloscope Laboratories has some good times lined up for July 14 with the DVD and Blu-ray debut of director Jack Henry Robbins’ VHYes.

This quirky comedy got a limited theatrical (yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know by now what that means … with the Covid-19 and all) and, for the record, arrives in the home entertainment packaged media marketplace with an ARR of 179 days.

In VHYes, we are introduced to Ralph (Mason McNulty — Assimilate, 12 Pups of Christmas), a twelve-year-old kid in the time of VHS.   Yes, it’s 1987 and Ralph has just celebrated Christmas with the gift of a video camera and is eager to use it.

He needs a tape for his project and that’s where things go south.   Ralph finds his parent’s wedding tape and begins haphazardly recording over it … and that’s the “movie” that we are tuned into.   His “must-see” cinema verite, stream-of-conscious video playlist … recorded from hither and yon.   

A while back, Oscilloscope put out (May of 2018 to be exact) a DVD and Blu-ray release that was simply titled Road Movie.   It is a simply hilarious collection of Russian dash-cam videos … assembled together featuring wrecks and other things that happen randomly on the highways and back roads of Russia.  It is deceptively simple entertainment and yet totally mesmerizing in its viewing.

Robbins’ VHYes is the 1987-era equivalent.   Ralph quickly learns that he can record anything from late night TV and that’s when it gets truly weird (ignore that his father is beginning to ask questions about the source of his tape).   

The entire movie is actually recorded on the same technology from the period and that makes it even stranger, if that is possible.   There is also a subtext that you begin to pick up on as the “movie” progresses … this technology will eventually become an addiction.

Bonus features include — are you ready for this — extended scenes with “Sexy Swedish Aliens” (we told you VHYes was weird) and two Sundance Film Festival short films from Jack Henry Robbins, Hot Winter and Painting with Joan (both equally weird and film festival winners as well).

MVD Entertainment Group Picks July 14 For Director Jeff Sandmann's Nothing Stays The Same: The Story Of The Saxon Pub

The Saxon Pub in Austin, Texas is closed at the moment.   There is a notice on their website that reads, in part, “The Saxon Pub is working with our artists to reschedule shows canceled, due to COVID-19 … Please continue to check back here …”

For 30 years, beginning in 1990, the Saxon Pub was THE place to be in Austin for on-the-rise musicians.   During that period of time they have hosted over 22,000 musical performances … the main venue is simply called, “the listening room.”

MVD Entertainment Group has selected July 14 as the street date for documentary filmmaker Jeff Sandmann’s award-winning look at the history of this iconic venue, Nothing Stays The Same: The Story of The Saxon Pub.   For fans in need of Saxon Pub fix, this is it.

Founded by Joe Ables, the Saxon Pub has grown, over the years, to be the destination point for music, especially for locals with talent to get a start before a live audience.   Included among the blend of local and Texas talent are the likes of Joe Ely, Bob Schneider, Patrice Pike, Guy Forsyth, Hector Ward, Carolyn Wonderland, The Resentments, Johnny Nicholas, W.C. Clark, Robynn Shayne and more.

Until the Saxon Pub re-opens, MVD’s Nothing Stays The Same: The Story of The Saxon Pub on DVD this coming July 14 is the next best thing!!

Director Malik Vitthal's Body Cam Heads Home On DVD From Paramount Home Media On July 14

Paramount Home Media has captured the domestic distribution rights to the Ace Entertainment/BET Films production of director Malik Vitthal’s supernatural thriller, Body Cam.   With theatres currently shutdown, this Mary J. Blige chiller will be heading to DVD on July 14.

Patrol cop Renee Lomito (Mary J. Blige — Mudbound, Rock of Ages, Prison Song) is on a seemingly routine patrol when her partner is killed in a bizarre way; gruesome.  No problem, her body cam recorded the entire incident.

She watches it and it appears that something out of the ordinary, perhaps without explanation occurred.   Here’s the catch, when she tries to share the footage with her superiors, nothing.   Nada.   She’s the only one that can see the ghostly image.   

You guessed, she’s turned over to Dr. Lee (Han Soto) for a psych analysis … clearly she’s crazy or perhaps suffering from PDSD as a result of losing her partner.   There’s just one problem more cops start dying from the unexplained.

Without giving away the twist, let’s just say that a murder took place, some cops were involved … and this is payback.   

Body Cam plays out like a haunted house thriller, except it takes place on the streets, dark alleys and businesses where Lomito patrols.   Death, sudden death, comes out of the blue … and when you least expect it.

Dark Force Entertainment's Film Restoration Of The Last Victim Arrives On Blu-ray On Aug. 25

Dark Force Entertainment, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Aug. 25 for the Blu-ray debut of director Jim Sotos’ The Last Victim.

Tanya Roberts was an unknown in 1975, long before her role as Julie Rogers on Charlie’s Angels, or as “Bond” girl Stacey Sutton in A View to a Kill … or even before The Beastmaster and Tourist Trap.

Her debut film was the PG-rated remake of writer/director Shaun Costello’s 1973 X-Rated adult film, Forced Entry (starring Harry Reems … which was kind of an adult homage to The Last House on the Left, which was released the previous year).  Titled The Last Victim, it got a quick in-and-out theatrical release through indie distributor Howard Mahler Films in October of 1975 and was then gone … forgotten. 

After that, Roberts career grew and grew and so some enterprising indie picked it up, added some extra footage and re-released to take advantage of Tanya Roberts new-found stardom (Century International was the company, which was so far below the radar that it didn’t even make Box Office Magazine’s 1984 annual “Buyer’s Guide” of film distributors).   

The new title was Forced Entry and suddenly Tanya Roberts has a co-star, Nancy Allen, who had a small part as one of the victims, but she too had moved from no-name to star with such films as Carrie, Blow Out and Dressed to Kill … so hype it!!

The story focuses on an auto mechanic by the name of Carl (Ron Max), who is as nice as nice can be to the customers and his little old lady neighbor, but if he spots an attractive young woman … rape and murder follow (Nancy Allen played a hitchhiker that Carl picks up).

For most of the film we follow Carl’s crime spree, with time out taken here and there to check in on Nancy Ullman (Tanya Roberts) and her home life.   As luck would have it, her car needs some work and Carl is the guy.   He can’t help himself and the big climax is his assault on poor Mrs. Ullman …  

Dark Force Entertainment has lined up a new 2K scan from the original film negative … plus the extra scenes from a remaining 35mm print and gives the viewer both viewing options — The Last Victim or Forced Entry.   Enjoy!!