For the period ending July 24, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD Releases

Acorn Media

08/04/20 — Sets Dispatches from Everywhere (3 disc set)

 

Bayview Entertainment

08/04/20 — Sets Champs (Spanish), Delegation (Albanian), Fetching Cody, Martin and Margot, Mummy Dearest, Seven, Soren (Spanish), Spring 1941 and We'll Rise at Dawn (Italian)

 

Bridgestone Multimedia (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Escape 2120

07/21/20 — Released Accidental Witness and Teen Musical

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Unicorn: Season One (3 disc set)

 

Championship Productions

07/21/20 — Released Hybrid Mover-Blocker Offense: Spacing, Screens & Cuts and Hybrid Pack Line Defense: Stance, Position & Movement

 

EWTN

07/14/20 — 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: Noelle Mering and Carrie Gress / Share Ideas to maintain a Catholic Home, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Colin Donovan / Life and Miracles of St. Padre Pio, Journey Home: Philosophy Roundtable Dr. Rachel Lu and Dr. Jonathan Fugua. Former Mormon and Former Pentecostal, Life on the Rock: Brian Holdsworth / evangelization through video and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Lou Holtz / Gordon Chang / Dion DiMucci

07/21/20 — 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: Kathryn Rombs / Sharing the Gospel through the lens of motherhood, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Fr. Brian Mullady, OP / Theological consideration of Jesus Christ, Journey Home: Brian Besong - Former Presbyterian and Life on the Rock: Kimberly Zember Pt.1 / Authentic Catholic faith in service and chastity, overcoming same sex attraction

 

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Finding Eden, This Ain't Normal and Through a Dark Mirror

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released 600: The Soldiers' Story (Kinyarwanda), Blaxploitalian, Circle, Our Bodies Our Doctors, Radical Obsession: The Unholy Truth About Iran and Terrorism and Recording in Progress

 

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Gentleman Jack: The Complete First Season (2 disc set) and King in the Wilderness

 

Icarus Films

09/22/20 — Sets Girl with a Braclet (French)

 

Image Entertainment

07/21/20 — Released The Room and You Don't Nomi

 

Image Entertainment (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Re: Born (Japanese)

 

Kaczmarek Digital Media Group (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Re-Evolution

 

MPI Home Media

08/11/20 — Sets How to Build a Girl (ARR of 95 days; box office: $70,479)

 

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Doll Master, Haunting of Her and MRG Collective: Horror, Volume 6 (8 short films: Bewere, Dystopia St, Off Fleek, Scuttle, Selfie, Spiral, Still, Wiped)

07/21/20 — Autonomous (French)

 

Naxos

07/21/20 — Released Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers, Placido Domingo Opera Gala - 50 Years at the Arena di Verona, Shakespeare: Measure for Measure and Shostakovich: Concerto; Elgar: Enigma Variations; Glazunov Raymonda Act III

 

PBS Direct

07/21/20 — Released George W. Bush (2 disc set) and Grantchester Season 5 (2 disc set)

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Der Bettler Vom Kolner Dom (Silent-1927), Der Weisse Traum (German), El Monstruo Resucitado (Spanish), Feinde (German), Kriminalkommissar Eyck (German), Lucrezia Borgia (French) and Thunderstorm (Russian)

 

Rogue Video (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Warriors of the Wasteland

 

Showtime Networks (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released The Kingmaker (ARR of 256 days; box office: $122,587)

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released H2O Wrestling: Career Restrospective Interview Series: Jeff Cannonball in H2O

 

Starry Night Publishing (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Fearless (Cantonese), Fist of Legend (Cantonese), Last Hero in China (Cantonese) and Shaolin Temple (Cantonese)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/29/20 — Sets Stargirl: The Complete First Season (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

07/21/20 — Rachel and the Stranger

08/18/20 — Sets Pat & Mike and Saddle the Wind

 

Well Go U.S.A.

07/21/20 — Released Samurai Marathon (Japanese)

 

Wild Eye Releasing

10/13/20 — Sets It's Just a Game

 

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Creature Cabin (aka: Tarnation)

 

 

Blu-ray Releases

 

 

AGFA

09/01/20 — Sets Limbo

 

AMC Networks, LLC (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Ride with Norman Reedus, Season One (2 disc set)

 

Acorn Media

08/04/20 — Sets Dispatches from Everywhere (3 disc set)

 

FUNimation

07/21/20 — Released Million Arthur: Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

10/27/20 — Sets My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gatorblade Films

07/21/20 — Released Die Die Delta PI

 

Grapevine Videos (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Chronicle of the Grey House (silent-1925), On Dangerous Ground (silent-1917) and This is Your Life (4 episodes: Mack Sennett, Victor McLagen, Boris Karloff, Joe E. Brown)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released 600: The Soldiers' Story (Kinyarwanda), Blaxploitalian, Circle, Our Bodies Our Doctors, Radical Obsession: The Unholy Truth About Iran and Terrorism and Recording in Progress

 

HBO Home Ent. (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Jett: Season One (2 disc set)

 

Image Entertainment

07/21/20 — Released The Room and You Don't Nomi

 

Image Entertainment (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Re: Born (Japanese)

 

Kino Lorber

07/21/20 — Released Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Arabian Nights, Buccaneer's Girl, Colonel Redl (German), Confidence (Hungarian), Mephisto (Hungarian), Son of Ali Baba and World in His Arms

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/21/20 — Released Capone and Survive the Night (with Digital Copy)

09/08/20 — Sets First Cow (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

MPI Home Media

08/11/20 — Sets How to Build a Girl

 

Maiden Japan

07/21/20 — Released Patlabor: Special Edition (15 disc set)

 

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Doll Master

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

10/13/20 — Sets Diabolique/Incognito/The In-Crowd (with Digital Copy), Imaginary Crimes/Silent Fall (with Digital Copy)

 

Naxos

07/21/20 — Released Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers, Placido Domingo Opera Gala - 50 Years at the Arena di Verona and Shostakovich: Concerto; Elgar: Enigma Variations; Glazunov Raymonda Act III

 

Paramount Home Media

09/15/20 — Sets Barefoot in the Park, Phantom, Private Parts, Sons of Katie Elder, Timeline, Two Jakes, Uncommon Valor and Vampire in Brooklyn

10/06/20 — Sets Star Trek: Picard - Season One (3 disc set)

 

Scorpion Releasing

07/21/20 — Torment

 

Sentai FilmWorks

07/21/20 — How Clumsy You Are Miss Ueno

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Saturday Night Nitro - Roseville, MN

 

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Fearless (Cantonese), Fist of Legend (Cantonese), Last Hero in China (Cantonese) and Shaolin Temple (Cantonese)

 

Vinegar Syndrome

09/01/20 — Sets Caller, Indecent Exposure (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Pandemonium

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/29/20 — Sets Stargirl: The Complete First Season (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

08/25/20 — Sets Pat and Mike

 

Well Go U.S.A.

07/21/20 — Released Samurai Marathon (Japanese)

 

 

 

 4K Ultra HD Releases

 

 

 

 

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

09/15/20 — Sets Home Alone: 30^th Anniversary Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

Paramount Home Media Beams In DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Star Trek: Picard - Season One On Oct. 06

Make it so!!   Have you been waiting for news about Star Trek: Picard?   Well, the wait is over.

Paramount Home Media announced this past week that Star Trek: Picard – Season One will be available on Oct. 6 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings (three-disc configurations).   All ten episodes are included for the first season, plus a ton of bonus goodies, which we will get to in a moment.

The action takes place roughly 20 years as Star Trek: Nemesis, with a retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard suddenly embarking on a new mission with a renegade crew that takes him across the galaxy to visit old friends for help …  including Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), William Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) and the “ghost” of Data (Brent Spiner).

We won’t give away the ending, although any Star Trek fan worth their salt already knows how this first season ends … which, frankly, seemed a little odd, but not too worry, a second season has been ordered, so maybe we will get answers as things progress in the next round of adventures.

As to bonus goodies, each of the ten episodes has a “Behind the Scenes” Story Log featurette, commentary on the debut episode featuring director Hanelle M. Culpepper and members of the producing team, the Star Trek: Short Treks – Children of Mars, deleted scenes, a gag reel and four production featurettes — “The Motely Crew,” “Aliens Alive: the xBs,” “Picard Props” and “Set Me Up.”

In other news from Paramount Home Media this week, they’ve lined up a Blu-ray product blitz for Sept. 15 (in addition to the previously announced “Paramount Presents” restoration of Roman Holiday that will be heading home on that date).

This eight-strong Blu-ray promotion for Sept. 15 is an eclectic mix that features something for everyone.   Included here are director Henry Hathaway’s 1965 Western, The Sons of Katie Elder, starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper and Martha Hyer; actor/director Jack Nicholson’s 1990 sequel to Chinatown, The Two Jakes, and director Richard Donner’s 2003 film adaptation of the Michael Crichton sci-fi time-tripping thriller, Timeline, starring Gerard Butler, Paul Walker, Frances O’Connor and Anna Friel.

If none of those stir your interest, then Paramount also has director Ted Kotcheff’s POW rescue thriller, Uncommon Valor, starring Gene Hackman and Patrick Swayze; auteur filmmaker Wes Craven’s 1995 horror comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Vampire in Brooklyn; director Gene Saks’ 1967 film adaptation of the Neil Simon play, Barefoot in the Park, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda … and rounding out the group of new Blu-ray releases are The Phantom (starring Billy Zane) and the Howard Stern bio-comedy, Private Parts.

 

 

American Genre Film Archive Sets The Blu-ray Debut Of Tina Krause's Limbo For Sept. 1

If you are a genre fan, then the name Tina Krause is not unknown to you.  You could call her a Scream Queen, some even call her the “Indie Horror Queen,” but by any calling, if you are worth your salt, you know her by her work.   The Vampire's Seduction, Shriek of the Lycanthrope, Curse of the Swamp Creature 2, Psycho Sisters, Witchouse 3: Demon Fire, Zombiegeddon, Penny Dreadful and more … my gosh it is an impressive list; a gold mine of genre delights.

But even the most diehard of Tina Krause fans may not know that some 20 years ago she directed and wrote a film, and if it were not for the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), her film, Limbo, would remain forever lost.  

Way, way, way back then, the story goes, she wrote and directed Limbo, it was produced on a shoestring and it took something like five years to find a home entertainment company willing to release it.   30 VHS copies and that was it.

So, unless you were one of the lucky ones to track down a VHS copy, or were fortunate enough to catch the AGFA screening last year at the Billy Wilder Theatre in Los Angeles, then Limbo will be brand new to you.  For Krause fans Limbo will be a must.

AGFA has tabbed Sept. 1 as the Blu-ray debut date for Limbo.

Those who have seen the film, describe it as creepy, experimental and even “Lynchian,” perhaps influenced by David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Eraserhead.   In any case, a three-day haze follows a chance encounter at a restaurant (Krause plays the waitress) as the “one-night stand” takes a turn from sex and pleasure to violence, murder and insanity.

Bonus goodies including commentary by writer/director Tina Krause, a behind-the-scenes documentary, two short films Answering Machine (by Krause) and Eaten Alive (featuring Krause) and the 2019 Fantastic Quest Q&A session.

 

Mill Creek Entertainment Preps New Blu-ray Collectible Promotion For Oct. 13

Mill Creek Entertainment has a deal all lined up on Oct. 13 for those who love to collect affordable Blu-ray releases of their favorite films that is as easy as One, Two, Three!

Available for the first time on Blu-ray on Oct. 13 from Mill Creek Entertainment will be actor-turned-director Sean Penn’s 2001 film adaptation of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1958 short novel, “The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel,” which was shortened for its theatrical release to simply, The Pledge.

Jack Nicholson stars as detective Jack Black, who we meet on the day of his retirement party.   The festivities are interrupted with news that the body of a young girl has been found … brutally murdered.

Out of instinct, habit, and technically he is still on the job, Black tags along to the crime scene and later meets with the girl’s mother, Margaret Larsen (Patricia Clarkson), and makes her a “pledge” that he will find her daughter’s killer.

It could have been a very short movie and the pledge honored in no time.   A suspect by the name of Toby (played by Benicio Del Toro) is tracked down and while being grilled, snatches a gun from one of the deputies and kills himself.   Case closed!!

But Black is not so sure.   Toby doesn’t fit the description of the “giant” that the little Larsen’s daughter gave to her grandmother … the details do not fit.   Thus begins a quest for the real killer, which brings the loner Jack Black love and family for the first time in his life.   Ironically, this miracle is snatched from him when his obsession to fill the “pledge” clouds his judgment. 

The Pledge, that’s one.   We told you that this Mill Creek Entertainment Blu-ray promotion on Oct. 13 would be as easy as One, Two, Three.    Here’s the “Two,” the double-feature Blu-ray presentation of director Anthony Drazen’s 1994 film adaptation of Sheila Ballantyne’s 1982 coming-of-age novel, Imaginary Crimes, teaming Harvey Keitel with Fairuza Balk as father and daughter at odds with each other, and director Bruce Beresford’s 1994 mystery/thriller, Silent Fall, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Hamilton and Liv Tyler, with Dreyfuss a therapist working with an autistic child who witnessed the murder of his parents.

This double-bill of Imaginary Crimes and Silent Fall is the first time that either film has been on Blu-ray.  That’s two!

So, you’ve probably figured out by now that the “Three” in this Oct. 13 Blu-ray promotion from Mill Creek Entertainment is a triple-feature!!   And, you’ve probably already surmised that all three films in the collection are available for the first time on Blu-ray.

The triple-feature is comprised of director Jeremiah S. Chechik’s 1996 interpretation of Diabolique, teaming Sharon Stone with Isabelle Adjani, filmmaker John Badham’s 1997 art forgery thriller, Incognito, starring Jason Patrick and Irène Jacob, and director Mary Lambert’s 2000 film release of The In Crowd, featuring Lori Heuring (Prom Night, Wicked Little Things, Mulholland Drive) and Susan Ward (as Meg Cummings in the Sunset Beach soap opera).

Filmmaker Stephane Demoustier's The Girl With A Bracelet Makes It Domestic DVD Debut On Sept. 22 From Icarus Films

France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, will teaming up with Icarus Films on Sept. 22 for the domestic DVD debut of writer/director Stéphane Demoustier’s film remake of the Argentinian crime drama from writers Ulises Porra and Gonzalo Tobal, Acusada, which was retitled The Girl with a Bracelet.

This is an A-list thriller out of France.   If you like your courtroom dramas, Anatomy of a Murder, To Kill a Mockingbird, even A Few Good Men, then The Girl with a Bracelet is going to be on your must-see list.

In the opening prologue, we see the Bataille family enjoying a vacation at the seashore, which is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of the police.   The teenage daughter, Lise (Melissa Guers in her film debut), is questioned and then taken into custody.

The mystery begins.   It is now sometime later and Lise is about to stand trial for the murder of her friend.   The how and the “why” of it will unfold in the courtroom.   Lise is not a good defendant, she doesn’t project a lot of warmth, but does that mean that she’s a psychopath capable of cold-blooded murder?

As the trial unfolds, details about Lise are introduced, none of which point to her innocence, but rather paint a dubious picture about her behavior, especially relating to her sexual proclivities.   Even her parents, Bruno (Roschdy Zem — Days of Glory, The Cold Light of Day, Bad Faith, etc.) and Céline (Chiara Mastroianni — Ready to Wear, Beloved, etc.), seem to have their doubts as the trail progresses … have they raised a monster?

As we mentioned, this is an A-list French thriller that opened at the Locarno Film Festival in August of last year, worked the festival circuit throughout the rest of 2019 and then opened theatrically in France in February of this year.   Icarus Films had it poised for theatrical launch this year, but the Covid-19 pandemic scrubbed those plans.  

Domestic audiences will have their first chance to catch The Girl with a Bracelet on DVD this coming Sept. 22.   It is presented in French with English subtitles.