Monday, June 15, 2020

For the period ending June 12, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

For the period ending June 12, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 


 

DVD New Additions

 

Ace of Diamonds Productions (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released No Turning Back

Adult Source Media
06/09/20 — Released Summer School Sex Teachers 2

Baker Publishing Group
06/02/20 — Released Neil T. Anderson: Victory Over the Darkness

Bayview Entertainment
08/25/20 — Released 70 80 90 - A Shenzhen Love Story (Mandarin), Beauty (Mandarin), Bio-Raiders (Cantonese), Brawl in the Bronx, Bridge at Midnight Trembles, Bring The Sun Home, Devil's Water, How Farmers Became Bankers (German), Last Yoik In Saami Forests? (Finnish), Man Who Invented The Vespa (Italian), Our Time Will Come (Cantonese) (ARR of 1,145 days; box office: $114,560), Raul The Terrible (Spanish), Supers and Wineline

Belt Professional Services
06/02/20 — Released DJ Jelly: Bedroom Boomin 2, DJ Jelly: Black Friday, DJ Jelly: Candy Crush 2 and DJ Jelly: Twerk-a-Holics

Bridgestone Media Group
06/02/20 — Released Our Father's Keeper

Bridgestone Media Group (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Wyatt's Fort Series

Burning Films, Ltd. (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Adrift in Soho

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Work in Progress: Season 1 (2 disc set)
06/09/20 — How to be a Gentleman: The Complete Series, No Activity: Season One and Superior Donuts: Season Two (3 disc set)

Championship Productions
06/02/20 — Released Switching Man-to-Man Defense and Defending Ball Screens
06/09/20 — Released Defense Drills: Individual & Team Concepts, Movable Gap System, Offense Drills: Execution & Decision-Making, QB Play In The Multiple, No-Huddle Offense, RPO - Lay-ups, Play-Action & The Vertical Pass Game and Structuring A Championship Offense

Coaches Choice/Healthy Learning
06/02/20 — Released 10 Steps to Fundamental Infield Play, Art of a Strike: Modern Pitch Framing Tactics for Strike Zone Optimization, Coaching Perspective, Husky Baseball/Improving Our Culture Through The Recruiting Process, Improving the Skill Level of Your Players, Incorporating Launch Angle & Analytics Into Player Development and Offensive Game Plans, Leadership, Ethics, Process, Process of Building a Winning Culture and That’s Routine for Us: Washington Husky Infield Play

Disappear Records
06/09/20 — Released Sonia: Who Am I

EWTN
06/02/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Margaret Walsh / Secret Garden Educational Pathways, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Fr. Sebastian Walshe O. Praem / Sharing what he has found in the Gospel parables that provides understamding of Heaven and Journey Home: Zubair Simonson / Former Muslim / Hosted By Jonmarc Grodi
06/09/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Fr. Sebastian White, OP / How the Magnificat enhances prayer life and links our prayer with the universal Catholic Church, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Tim Moriarty / Heresies and Gnosticism and Journey Home: Deacon Peter Grodi / Life Long Catholic

Echo Bridge Home Ent.
06/02/20 — Released Underdog

FUNimation
06/09/20 — Released One Piece: Season Ten, Part 1 (2 disc set)

Ghoulish Grin Films (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released At the Gates of Death

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Blush, Felony, Food Cure, Public Enemy Number One, Return to Harwick and Turner Risk

Gunpower & Sky (MOD)
06/16/20 — Sets Leto (Russian)

Hallmark
06/02/20 — Released Summer Romance

Hallmark (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Just My Type

ITN Distribution (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Parasites

Icarus Films
07/07/20 — Sets Balloon (German) (ARR of 305 days; box office: $34,222)
07/14/20 — Sets Sacred Water (Kinyarwanda )

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Loon Lake and Vampire Burt's Serenade

Kaczmarek Digital Media Group (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Finder's Keepers

Leomark Studios (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Hillbilly Horror Show: Horror Shorts, Vol. 1 & 2, Hillbilly Horror Show: Horror Shorts, Vol. 3 & 4, Operation Repo and Riders on the Storm

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
06/09/20 — Released Power: The Complete Sixth Season (5 disc set), Think Like a Dog and We Summon the Darkness (ARR of 18 days; box office: $60,794)

Martial Arts History Museum (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Biography: Cynthia Rothrock

Mill Creek Entertainment
09/22/20 — Sets Royal Pains: The Complete Series (15 disc set)

Moore Street Studios (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Rainy City: How to Paint Figures and Reflections

National Geographic (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released National Geographic: Critter Fixers - Country Vets (2 disc set)

Naxos
06/09/20 — Released Stefano Landi: La Morte D'Orfeo

Nostalgia Family/Reel Vault (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Who Killed Teddy Bear

PBS Direct
06/02/20 — Released Expedition with Steve Backshall: Season One (3 disc set)
06/09/20 — Released Nature: Cuba's Wild Revolution and Nature: Remarkable Rabbits

Paramount Home Media
08/04/20 — Sets Shimmer and Shine: Glitter Magic!
08/11/20 — Sets Are You Afraid of the Dark?
08/18/20 — Sets Are Blue Bloods: The Tenth Season (4 disc set)

Passion River
06/02/20 — Released Working Man
06/09/20 — Released Becoming Leslie

Pentrex
06/09/20 — Released Rare Steam Combo: C&O 614T and The Hassayampa Special

Screamtime Films (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Remy's Demons
06/23/20 — Sets Pros & Cons

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Chinese Ghost Story (Cantonese), Chinese Ghost Story II (Cantonese), Chinese Ghost Story III (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China II (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China III (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China IV (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China V (Cantonese) and Once Upon a Time in China and America (Cantonese)

Steam Train Videos (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Snowstorm in the San Juans, Volume 2: Rotary Run on the Cumbres and Toltec

The Video Beat (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Beat Club: 1965-1970 (55 complete episodes) (22 disc set), Saint Misbehavin' - The Wavy Gravy Story, Soul!: Volume 2, 1970-1973 (31 complete episodes) (16 disc set), Un, Dos, Tres … Al Escondite Ingles, 1969 (Spanish) and When Albums Ruled the World

20th Century-Fox Home Ent.
06/09/20 — Released Modern Family: The Complete Eleventh Season (3 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Clear Shot

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
06/09/20 — Released Curious George: 30 Adventures (2 disc set), Letterkenny: Seasons 3 & 4 (2 disc set) and Never Rarely Sometimes Always (ARR of 88 days; box office: $16,565)

Virgil Films & Entertainment
06/09/20 — Released Code Blue

Vision Films (MOD)
06/02/20 — Released Tell Me I Love You

Warner Bros. Home Ent.
06/09/20 — Released Action of the Tiger

Wild Eye Releasing
06/16/20 — Sets Bundy Reborn and Wrestle Massacre
06/30/20 — Sets Last Five Days, Sadistic Eroticism and Whispering Man
07/14/20 — Sets Black Cat, Head Case, Jurassic Shark and Killing Brooke
07/28/20 — Sets Streets Run Red

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)
06/30/20 — Sets Baby Frankenstein

WOWnow Entertainment
06/09/20 — Released 4th of July Dance



Blu-ray New Additions

 

AGFA
07/28/20 — Sets Scare Film Archives Volume 1: Drug Stories!

Altered Innocence (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Home (Dutch)

BBC Home Entertainment
06/09/20 — Released Doctor Who: The Complete Twelfth Series (3 disc set)

Belt Line Productions (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Rio Grande Rotary OY Snow Fighting on Cumbres Pass

Cleopatra Entertainment
08/21/20 — Sets Delta Rae: Coming Home to Carolina (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with bonus CD)

Film Movement
06/09/20 — Released Corpus Christi (Polish)

Frontiers Records
06/09/20 — Released Blue Oyster Cult: iHeart Radio Theatre N.Y.C. 2012

FUNimation
06/09/20 — Released Bungo Stray Dogs: Season Three (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Heroic Age: The Complete Collection (4 disc set), Michiko and Hatchin: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Mob Psycho 100 II (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Re: ZERO - Starting Life in Another World, Season One (4 disc set)
06/16/20 — Sets Tales of Zestiria the X: The Complete Collection (4 disc set), YU-NO a Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World, Part 1 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and YU-NO a Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World, Part 2 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Kino Lorber
06/09/20 — Released Deanna Durbin Collection (3 film set: 100 Men and a Girl, Three Smart Girls Grow Up, It Started with Eve) (3 disc set), Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III (3 film set: Abandoned, The Lady Gambles, The Sleeping City) (3 disc set), My 20th Century (Hungarian), Red Cow (Hebrew), Victor and Victoria (German) and Western Classics, Volume 1 (3 film set: When the Daltons Rode, The Virginian, Whispering Smith) (3 disc set)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
06/09/20 — Released Think Like a Dog (with Digital Copy) and We Summon the Darkness (with Digital Copy)

Lone Wolf Media (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Kids We Lose

Metroshia Productions (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast

Mill Creek Entertainment
09/15/20 — Sets Battlefield Earth (with Digital Copy)

Naxos
06/09/20 — Released Stefano Landi: La Morte D'Orfeo

PCN Productions (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released PA Books: Ghost River and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Chestnut Farms & Tory Forester

Pentrex
06/09/20 — Released Rare Steam Combo: C&O 614T and The Hassayampa Special

Scream Team Releasing
06/09/20 — Released Straight Edge Kegger

Sentai FilmWorks
06/09/20 — Released Non Non Biyori Vacation: The Movie
06/16/20 — Sets Domestic Girlfriend: Complete Collection (2 disc set)
06/23/20 — Sets Stage - Dream Days, Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory
06/09/20 — Released Princess Caraboo

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
06/09/20 — Released Anne Frank Remembered and Brian's Song

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Chinese Ghost Story (Cantonese), Chinese Ghost Story II (Cantonese), Chinese Ghost Story III (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China II (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China III (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China IV (Cantonese), Once Upon a Time in China V (Cantonese) and Once Upon a Time in China and America (Cantonese)

Steam Train Videos (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Snowstorm in the San Juans, Volume 2: Rotary Run on the Cumbres and Toltec

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)
06/09/20 — Released Dinner Party







 

Paramount Home Media Preps DVD Release Of Are You Afraid Of The Dark? Mini-Series On Aug. 11


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Paramount Home Media will be teaming up with Nickelodeon for the DVD debut on Aug. 11 of director Dean Israelite’s three-part mini-series marking the return of “The Midnight Society” and their ghostly tales in Are You Afraid of the Dark?

All new members of “The Midnight Society” — Rachel (Lyliana Wray), Gavin (Sam Ashe Arnold), Akiko (Miya Cech), Graham (Jeremy Taylor) and Louise (Tamara Smart — decide to tell a tale of ghostly fun about the mysterious Carnival of Doom and the sinister Mr. Tophat who runs the show.   It is all just for fun, except the story takes on a life of its own the members of “The Midnight Society” find themselves living in the story itself!!!

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyFor the younger ones — those who might get nightmares from this Are You Afraid of the Dark? — no problem, Paramount Home Media and Nickelodeon have the next installment in the adventures of Shimmer and Shine ready for fans on Aug. 4 with the DVD release of Shimmer and Shine: Glitter Magic!

Seven fun-filled adventures featuring twin sisters Shimmer and Shine, who meet the Glitter Genie, learn some Glitter Magic and have fun with the Glitter Pets … and more!

Also added to the DVD release calendar this past week is the Aug. 18 arrival of Blue Bloods: The Tenth Season, featuring all 19 episodes (the final three in the production hopper had to be scrubbed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic) in a four-disc set.

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Mill Creek Entertainment Readies Royal Pains: The Complete Series For Release On DVD On Sept. 28 • Battlefield Earth Blu-ray Debut On Sept. 15


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Mill Creek Entertainment has done it again.   Mark Sept. 22 on your viewing calendar for the priced-to-collection DVD presentation of Royal Pains: The Complete Series — first time available as a complete collection.

All 104 episodes starring Mark Feuerstein (What Women Want, In Your Eyes, etc.) as Dr. Hank Lawson, a disgraced emergency room doctor (who tried to do the right thing) who has been blackballed as the result of a tragic death in the OR.   

On a routine get-a-way weekend to The Hamptons with his brother, Evan (Paulo Costanzo — Designated Survivor, Joey), Dr. Lawson discovers a whole new world of medicine.   And there beings eight full seasons of him dealing with oddball patients — the rich and famous (and not so famous) as a “concierge doctor.”   He even gets an assistant — out of the blue — by the name of Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty — Pure Genius), who helps him navigate the world of The Hamptons.

This is the first time that Royal Pains has been available on DVD as a complete collection … and it comes complete with Digital Copy!!

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyAlso making a debut in September from Mill Creek Entertainment is director Roger Christian’s 2000 film adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard’s 1982 sci-fi novel Battlefield Earth.    Sept. 15 marks its Blu-ray debut.

It is the year 3000 and Earth has been laid waste by The Psychlos, a super-sized race of alien invaders.   One human, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper — Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, etc.) decides to fight back, but he is very quickly captured by The Psychlos and becomes a prisoner of the outcast Terl (John Travolta).   

It’s not all bad as Terl finds the puny human to be useful … and in that, 1,000 years of rule by The Psychlos comes tumbling down as Jonnie quickly learns the weaknesses of his captors.   

Battlefield Earth is not only making its Blu-ray debut on Sept. 15, but it comes complete with Digital Copy as a bonus.

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DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey




The American Genre Film Archive Sets July 28 For The Blu-ray Release Of The Scare Film Archives, Volume 1: Drug Stories


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
AGFA (the American Genre Film Archive) has a Blu-ray collection of “educational” films — that seem to be from another world — ready for film fans to enjoy on July 28.

If you’ve ever been trapped in a high school driver’s education classroom and forced to watch films on car safety, then you have a pretty good idea where the collection titled The Scare Film Archives, Volume 1: Drug Stories is coming from.   Certainly, if you can teach youngsters to drive, you can also teach them, with films, that DRUGS ARE BAD!!! 

11 glorious short films have been dusted off and given 2K restorations from their original 16mm prints … you will learn that the evils of drugs, bad trips and costly decisions are just a puff away.

Included in the mix are director Paul Burnford’s 1967 short documentary, Beyond LSD and Max Miller’s film from the same year, LSD: Insight or Insanity?  Continuing in that vein we also have documentary filmmaker David Parker’s surreal LSD-25 (also from 1967 … must have been a very trippy year), which has the culprit itself, a tab of LSD narrating its own story (if that doesn’t wig you out, then nothing will).

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Other gems in the mix are director Herk Harvey’s little story about three friends out driving under the influence, None for the Road (1957), filmmaker Dave Dixon’s 1968 “Alice in Wonderland” trip, Curious Alice, and the ultra weird, The Trip Back With Florrie Fisher as directed by Ralph Weisinger in 1970.

There is also a full-length mixtape from AGFA titled Drug Stories! Narcotic Nightmares and Hallucinogenic Hellrides included here as a bonus.

And, as public service, all of the films included in The Scare Film Archives, Volume 1: Drug Stories comes with subtitles.   Oh my!!

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Icarus Films Looks To July 7 For The Domestic DVD Release Of Director Michael Bully Herbig's Balloon


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Icarus Films announced this past week that the Distrib Films release of German filmmaker Michael Bully Herbig’s Balloon, will be making its way to the DVD marketplace on July 7.

Based on the true story of two East German families — the Strelzyks and the Wetzels — who escaped to West Germany in a homemade balloon in 1979, which had been done before in 1982 (as an almost step-by-step documentary) by director Delbert Mann as Night Crossing.   Herbig’s version just jumps right in with Peter Strelzyk (Friedrich Mücke), his wife, Doris (Karoline Schuch) and their two kids failing miserably in their first attempt to escape.

The East German secret police — the dreaded Stasi — have gotten wind of the failed escape (the wreckage is a big clue) and now it is a race against time to build a second balloon, learn from the mistakes of the first attempt, and have another go at it.   Who do you trust in a police state?   One wrong move and prison, or worse, awaits.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyHerbig’s Balloon opened theatrically in Germany in September of 2018, worked the film festival circuit for the better part of 2019 (with foreign market theatrical distribution worked into the mix) and then arrived here for a theatrical release on Feb. 21 of this year.   We all know what happened in the weeks that followed (Covid-19 shut all of the theatres in the country down in mid-March).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyNow domestic audience can catch this bit of history — a suspense thriller that literally keeps you on the edge of your seat.   Balloon is presented in German with English subtitles and is certainly worth a look-see come July 7.

Also getting a domestic DVD street date is documentary filmmaker Olivier Jourdain’s very “different” look at a slice of African subculture, Sacred Water.

Rwanda, which has been the subject of some pretty intense films, including Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, is also home to the sexual gratification practice of Rwandan women known as Kunyaza.   

The vivacious Rwandan talk show host, Vestine Dusabe, becomes our guide to this unique bit of her country’s culture.

Sacred Water is presented in Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey