New 4K Ultra HD • Blu-ray • DVD Additions For The Period Ending August 21, 2020

 

New DVD Additions

 

4 Digital Media

07/21/20 — Released Killer Next Door

08/18/20 — Open 24 Hours

09/01/20 — Sets Haunting of Margam Castle

09/15/20 — Sets Killer Therapy

Bayview Entertainment

10/27/20 — Sets Adventures of Power, Citizen (Golden Reel Collection), Impossible to Imagine (Japanese), Sophie and the Rising Sun (Golden Reel Collection), Teacher Shortage and Victims (French)

Breaking Glass Pictures

08/18/20 — Released Sometimes, Always, Never

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Why Women Kill: Season One (3 disc set)

 

Championship Productions

08/18/20 — Released 4 Competitive Strokes and Key Skills, Maximizing Practice: Optimal Learning & Periodizing Skill Training - The Look & Feel of a 'Skill Program', Overview of Swimming & Motor Learning: Creating the Conditions for Learning and Developing a Feel for the Water, Principles of Motor Learning & Swim Applications: Volume 1 and Principles of Motor Learning & Swim Applications: Volume 2

 

Cheng Cheng Films (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Who Killed Cock Robin (Mandarin)

 

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

08/11/20 — Released Gutterbug

 

Cinema Libre

10/06/20 — Sets Boobs: The War on Women's Breasts

 

Distribution Solutions – Coach House (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Battle of Britian: Empty Skies

08/25/20 — Sets VE Day: Forever in Their Debt

 

EWTN

08/11/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Ryan & Mary Rose Verret / Caring for your marriage by virtual date nights, @ 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: Monsignor James T. Murphy / discussion of the Cristero War in Mexico, Life on the Rock: John & Holly Carney / discussion of the impact of Fatima and of the Fatima Film and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Mary Fiorito / Dr. Walid Phares / Steven Mosher / Dr. Ray Guarendi

08/18/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Charley & Diane Monaghan / Emmaus Ministry for Grieving Parents, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion and EWTN Live: Gerard Verschuuren Ph.D. / Science and Faith

08/25/20 — Sets EWTN Live: Michael Lichens / Work of Fr. Gabriel Amorth and what the devil fears

 

First Run Features

07/28/20 — Released City Dreamers

08/18/20 — Released Creating a Character: Moni Yakim Legacy

 

Full Moon Entertainment

11/10/20 — Sets Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death: Remastered Edition, Creepozoids: Remastered Edition, Robot Wars: Remastered Edition, Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity: Remastered Edition, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama: Remastered Edition, Dark Angel: The Ascent: Remastered Edition, Day Time Ended: Remastered Edition, Laserblast: Remastered Edition and Meridian: Remastered Edition

 

GVN Releasing

08/18/20 — Released Selfie Dad

 

Gatorblade Films, LLC (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Bikini Monsters and Carnage Collection

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Trip

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Beyond Weight Loss, Care to Laugh, DC Noir, Looks That Kill, Mongolian Connection and Promised

 

HBO Home Entertainment

07/28/20 — Released Outsider: Season One (3 disc set)

08/04/20 — Released His Dark Materials: The Complete First Season (2 disc set)

 

Hallmark Channel

08/11/20 — Released All Summer Long

08/18/20 — Released Matching Hearts

 

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

08/11/20 — Released Bridal Wave

 

I-Cine

08/18/20 — Released Khu Vuon Hoang Kim (16 disc set), Tam Thien Nha Sat (12 disc set) and Thong Thien Dich Nhan Kiet (17 disc set)

 

Icarus Films

09/29/20 — Sets Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own

10/06/20 — Sets Someone, Somewhere (French)

 

Image Entertainment

08/18/20 — Released Barge People, Cursed Films and Prevenge

 

Indican Pictures

07/28/20 — Released Lurker

08/11/20 — Released Sex and the Future (ARR of 67 days; box office: $3,502)

08/18/20 — Released Circles (ARR of 88 days; box office: $10,086) and Transcendents (ARR of 53 days; box office: $1,090)

08/25/20 — Sets King’s Gambit (ARR of 172 days; box office: $3,816)

09/01/20 — Sets Spindrift’s Haunted West

09/15/20 — Sets Train to Zakopane

 

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Notzilla

 

IndiePix

07/14/20 — Released Target: Philadelphia

07/28/20 — Released Amor Amor (Portuguese)

 

Kill the Lion Films (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Mute Date

 

Kino Lorber

08/18/20 — Released Guest of Honour, Old Boyfriends and Those Who Deserve to Die

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/28/20 — Released Orange is the New Black: Season Seven (4 disc set)

08/18/20 — Released Biography: Kenny Rogers and Terror: The Complete Second Season - Infamy (3 disc set)

 

MPI Home Media

08/18/20 — Released Collini Case (German)

 

Magnolia Home Entertainment

08/18/20 — Released Cannibal Corpse Killers

 

National Geographic (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released National Geographic: Heroes of the Sky - The Mighty Eighth Airforce and National Geographic: World War II in Europe - Voices from the Front

08/04/20 — Released National Geographic: Jungle Animal Rescue - Season One (2 disc set) and National Geographic: Wicked Tuna - Season Nine (3 disc set)

 

Naxos

08/18/20 — Released Bernard Haitink: Beethoven - Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 4/Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 and Der Messias

 

Newt’s Classic Movie Store (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Mr. Boggs Steps Out

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Pennsylvania Country Roads: National Civil War Museum

 

PDSD, Inc. – Shami Productions

07/28/20 — Released Live Hard

08/11/20 — Released Alliance, Crimson Sands, Critical Mass, Holey Matrimoney and Wanderlust: Female Bodies in Transit

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Die Sunderin (German), Konigliche Hoheit (German), Le Mura di Malapaga (French), Liebele (German)/Christine (French) (2 disc set), Poil de Carotte (French), Solange Du Lebst (German) and Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida (German)

 

Reality Entertainment

08/18/20 — Released Alien Origins: Being of Light, Death Valley Aliens and Elusive: Bigfoot Abroad

 

Remember When Classic Movies (MOD)

08/11/20 — Released Carnival Story, Cold Spring - Morning Sun, Cyrano de Bergerac,  Double Feature: Jack and the Beanstalk/Africa Screams, Double Feature: The Big Trees/My Dear Secretary, Dressed to Kill, Late Night Double Feature (2 film set: Horror Express, The Beast in the Cellar), Star is Born, Sundown, We Heard the Bells: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and Woman in Green

 

Screen Media

08/18/20 — Released Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time and Outpost

 

Showtime Networks (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Disgraced

 

Summer Hill Films

08/11/20 — Released IRL and Strange Coffee

 

T-Series

08/11/20 — Released Medium (Hindi)

 

TLA Releasing

08/18/20 — Released The Lawyer

 

TPR Music (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Great Kat: Beethoven's Moonlight Mosh

 

Trinity Creative

08/18/20 — Released Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk and Infestation

 

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Escape: Puzzle of Fear

 

VIZ Media

08/18/20 — Released Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles (7 disc set)

 

Vertical Entertainment

08/18/20 — Released Ghosts of War

 

Viking Dog Films

08/18/20 — Released Truth

 

WWE

08/18/20 — Released WWE: Extreme Rules 2020 (2 disc set)

 

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Clownface

 

YRF Home Entertainment

08/11/20 — Released Mardaani 2 (Hindi)

 

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions 

 

4 Digital Media

08/18/20 — Open 24 Hours

 

Criterion Collection

11/10/20 — Sets Girlfriends

11/17/20 — Sets Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Moonstruck

11/24/20 — Sets Essential Fellini (14 film set: Variety Lights, The White Sheik,  I Vitelloni, La Strada, Il Bidone, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini Satyricon, Roma, Amarcord, And the Ship Sails On … ) (Italian) (15 disc set) and Irishman (2 disc set)

 

Dynamic

08/18/20 — Released Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

 

Florenzano Films (MOD)

08/11/20 — Released Evil Rises

 

FUNimation

08/18/20 — Released Ensemble Stars, Part One (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Island: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Beyond Weight Loss, Care to Laugh, DC Noir, Looks That Kill, Mongolian Connection and Promised

 

Image Entertainment

08/18/20 — Released Barge People, Cursed Films and Prevenge

 

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Notzilla

 

Kino Lorber

08/18/20 — Released Backlash, Eagle and the Hawk, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Volume 6 (2 film set: She Shoulda Said No (aka: Wild Weed), The Devil's Sleep), Guest of Honour, Old Boyfriends, Raid on Rommel, Red Ball Express, Wake Island and Those Who Deserve to Die

 

LilaSound Productions

08/18/20 — Released Scarlet Stone

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

08/18/20 — Released I Am Vengeance: Retailiation (with Digital Copy) and Terror: The Complete Second Season  - Infamy (3 disc set)

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

11/17/20 — Sets Hammer Films: The Ultimate Collection (20 film set: The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Snorkle, The Camp on Blood Island, Yesterday's Enemy, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, Never Take Candy from a Stranger, The Stranglers of Bombay, Scream of Fear, Stop Me Before I Kill, The Terror of the Tongs, These are the Damned, The Pirates of Blood River, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Old Dark House, Maniac, The Gorgon, The Devil-Ship Pirates, Die! Die! My Darling, Creatures the World Forgot) (10 disc set)

 

Naxos

08/18/20 — Released Bernard Haitink: Beethoven - Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 4/Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 and Der Messias

 

Paramount Home Media

09/22/20 — Sets Adventureland (with Digital Copy), Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (with Digital Copy), Bad Santa: Unrated Version/Director's Cut (with Digital Copy), Bridget Jones's Diary (with Digital Copy), Brothers Grimm (with Digital Copy), Chicago (with Digital Copy), Children of the Corn 4-Movie Collection (4 film set: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return), Cop Land (with Digital Copy), Crow (with Digital Copy), Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (with Digital Copy), Dracula Double Feature (2 film set: Dracula 2000, Dracula II: Ascension) (with Digital Copy), Ella Enchanted (with Digital Copy), Extract (with Digital Copy), Faculty (with Digital Copy), Finding Neverland (with Digital Copy), From Dusk Till Dawn (with Digital Copy), Good Will Hunting (with Digital Copy), Halloween 3-Movie Collection (3 film set: Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween: H2O, Halloween: Resurrection) (with Digital Copy), Hellraiser 4-Movie Collection (4 film set: Hellraiser: Bloodline, Hellraiser: Inferno, Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Hellraiser: Hellworld), Hero (Mandarin) (with Digital Copy), Jackie Brown (with Digital Copy), Kevin Smith Triple Feature (3 film set: Chasing Amy, Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) (with Digital Copy), Kill Bill, Volume 1 (with Digital Copy), Kill Bill, Volume 2 (with Digital Copy), Mimic Movie Collection (3 film set: Mimic, Mimic 2, Mimic 3) (2 disc set), No Country for Old Men (with Digital Copy), Others (with Digital Copy), Prophecy: The Complete Collection (5 film set: The Prophecy, The Prophecy 2, The Prophecy 3, The Prophecy: Uprising, The Prophecy: Forsaken) (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Pulp Fiction (with Digital Copy), Scream 3-Movie Collection (3 film set: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3; plus two bonus documentaries: Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective, Scream: The Inside Story) (with Digital Copy) (4 disc set), Serendipity (with Digital Copy), She's All That (with Digital Copy), Sin City: Theatrical & Extended Edition (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Spy Kids: Triple Feature (3 film set: Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3: Game Over) (with Digital Copy), Swingers and Switch (with Digital Copy)

10/20/20 — Sets Haunting (with Digital Copy)

 

Scorpion Releasing

08/18/20 — Released Cold Heaven and Death Before Dishonor

 

Screen Media

08/18/20 — Released Outpost

 

Sentai FilmWorks

08/18/20 — Released Beyond the Boundary: Series + Movies (4 disc set) and Fragtime

 

Shout! Factory

08/18/20 — Released Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

08/18/20 — Released Ice Castles and Rubin & Ed

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/18/20 — Released 6 Spooky Stories Collection (6 short animated films: Scared Shrekless, Shrek's Thrilling Tales, Shrek: The Pig Who Cried Wolf, Shrek: The Ghost of Lord Farquaad, Monsters vs Aliens: Night of the Living Carrots, Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space), American Pie Presents: Beta House, Curve,  Ed, Out on a Limb and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

09/29/20 — Sets Bad Moms, Boss,  Death Race 2,  Mummy and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

 

Viking Dog Films

08/18/20 — Released Truth

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

08/18/20 — Released Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

09/15/20 — Sets Superman: Man of Tomorrow (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Well Go U.S.A.

08/18/20 — Released A Dog’s Courage (Korean)

 

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

Paramount Home Media

11/03/20 — Sets It's a Wonderful Life - Steelbook Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

09/15/20 — Sets Superman: Man of Tomorrow (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

Paramount Home Media Title Blitz • It's A Wonderful Life 4K Steelbook On Nov. 3 • The Haunting On Blu-ray On Oct. 20 • Miramax/Dimension Explosion On Sept. 22

It is nothing short of an avalanche of new home entertainment packaged media product announcements from Paramount Home Media this past week.   So without further delay, let’s get to it and see what the studio has planned for the fall.

 

We begin with a new 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack (Steelbook) edition of director Frank Capra’s timeless Christmas-season classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, which will be available on Nov. 3.

 

It started out as a Christmas card insertion to writer Philip Van Doren Stern’s friends in 1943, during the dark days of World War II.   It was a short story that he titled “The Greatest Gift,” and apparently, Cary Grant was on his Christmas card list.   

 

The Hollywood trades at the time reported that Grant persuaded RKO to buy the screen rights with himself to be cast in the lead.   At some point in 1945, RKO transferred the rights to Frank Capra’s Liberty Films and James Stewart, who had been in active military service for the previous four years, now was to play the lead role. 

 

Once this was settled, history records that there was flurry of press reports on who might be in the Capra/Stewart film.   Ann Dvorak, who had co-starred with John Wayne in the 1945 film release of Flame of Barbary Coast, was rumored as Mary.   Martha Scott, who had been nominated for Best Actress in director Sam Wood’s Our Town, was rumored as well … so too, the late Olivia de Havilland.   

 

Capra’s personal choice was Jean Arthur, who had co-starred with James Stewart in Capra’s 1939 classic, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but her schedule didn’t permit her participation in the film.   Donna Reed, who had scored well with audiences in two 1945 films, director John Ford’s They Were Expendable (opposite John Wayne) and The Picture of Dorian Gray, was cast in the role of Mary … and, as they say, the rest is history.

 

Bonus goodies include a colorized presentation of the film (on the Blu-ray disc) and a trio of featurettes — “Restoring a Beloved Classic,” “Secrets from the Vault” and “It’s A Wonderful Wrap Party.” 

 

Next up is the latest edition to the very popular “Paramount Presents” line of remastered Blu-ray releases.   The tenth entry in the series arrives on Oct. 20 and it will be none other than a 4K film restoration of director Jan de Bont’s 1999 horror hit, The Haunting, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern and Lili Taylor.

 

This update interpretation of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 gothic horror novel, “The Haunting of Hill House,” is even more intense that the earlier film version (director Robert Wise’s 1963 version of The Haunting) and the Hill House is far more deadly!

 

Bonus features include a Behind-the-Scenes featurette and the newly-prepared “Filmmaker Focus: Director Jan de Bont on The Haunting.”

 

Next comes news about something that been developing for quite some time over at Paramount.   In April of this year, the studio concluded the purchase of the Miramax/Dimension Films library and has targeted Sept. 22 for the reintroduction of 36 Blu-ray releases (actually more films than 36 as there are promotional packages included in the mix).

 

Key among these are six films from auteur filmmaker Quentin Tarantino — Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2 and Sin City (where he was a “guest director” for one segment in Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s anthology of stories).   For fans looking to fill holes in their respective Tarantino libraries, Paramount Home Media has a deal for you … the SRP for each film is just $14.99 each.  

 

You read that right, these films are out of print, and in some cases hard to find, but on Sept. 22 you can snatch up newly minted editions at just $14.99 each.  And each of these includes Digital Copy with your purchase!! 

 

So, what else is here … how about Best Picture winners, Chicago (2002) and No Country for Old Men (2007)!!   Again, just $14.99 each and Paramount is including Digital Copy with your purchase.

 

Other single-film releases on Blu-ray on Sept. 22 include: Adventureland, Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Bad Santa: Unrated Version/Director's Cut, Bridget Jones's Diary, Brothers Grimm, Cop Land, The Crow, Don't Be a

 Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood,  Ella Enchanted, Extract, The Faculty, Finding Neverland, Good Will Hunting, The Others, Serendipity, She's All That, Swingers and Switch.

 

Not done yet!!   Also included in the Sept. 22 Blu-ray mix are film collections … these are: Children of the Corn 4-Movie Collection (included in this set are:  Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror and Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return), Dracula Double Feature (featuring both Dracula 2000 and Dracula II: Ascension), Halloween 3-Movie Collection (in this collection you will find Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween: H2O and Halloween: Resurrection), Hellraiser 4-Movie Collection (here you will get Hellraiser: Bloodline, Hellraiser: Inferno, Hellraiser: Hellseeker and Hellraiser: Hellworld), Kevin Smith Triple Feature (featuring Chasing Amy, Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), Mimic Movie Collection (the trilogy of subway horrors includes Mimic, Mimic 2 and Mimic 3), Prophecy: The Complete Collection (all five films in the series are included here: The Prophecy, The Prophecy 2, The Prophecy 3, The Prophecy: Uprising and The Prophecy: Forsaken), Scream 3-Movie Collection (you will find: Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 3, plus two bonus documentaries: Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective and Scream: The Inside Story) and Spy Kids: Triple Feature (the series includes Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3: Game Over).

 

There is just one word to describe this Blu-ray blitz from Paramount Home Media on Sept. 22 … WOW!!