Monday, March 1, 2021

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending February 26, 2021

 



New DVD Additions:

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Acorn Media

02/23/21 — Released Bang: Series 2 (2 disc set)

 

Bayview Entertainment

05/04/21 — Sets Grand Unified Theory, Great Kings of England: Alfred The Great and Zombie King

 

Capital Motion Picture Group (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Punch and Judy, Taste of Jupiter and Unleashed!

 

Championship Productions

02/16/21 — Released Using Love as a Foundation for a Championship Culture

 

CMI Education/PESI Publishing

02/23/21 — Released Demystifying Personality Disorders: Clinical Skills for Working with Drama and Manipulation (2 disc set), Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (2 disc set), POST-COVID-19 'Long Haulers' Acute and Chronic Effects: Evaluation and Treatment and Re-Defining Chronic Pain Management: Evidence-based Treatments to Achieve Better Patient Outcomes (2 disc set)

 

DVD Treasures (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Sparkler (ARR of 8,012 days; box office: $7,326)

 

Dark Entity Music, LLC

02/23/21 — Released Blood Demon Rising

 

EWTN

02/23/21 — 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: Sarah Christmyer / learning from women of the Old Testament to say Yes to GodCalled to Communion, EWTN Live: George Cardinal Pell / living faith, growing closer to God in times of extreme difficulty,  Women of Grace: Damian Stayne - 'Spiritual Gifts: What They Are and Why We Need Them, Women of Grace: Teresa Tomeo - 'How to Discover What God is Saying to You' and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Robert Royal, Father Gerald Murray, Ryan T. Anderson

 

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Agony of Love, Amazing Transparent Man, Arabian Adventure, Black Oak Conspiracy, Black Venus (French), Celebrity Nude Review: The Saucy 70's, Volume 1, Celebrity Nude Review: The Saucy 70's, Volume 2, Cyborg 2087, Foxy Lady 11 (German), Invasion of the Bee Girls, Mandingo, Playboy Celebrities, Playgirls and the Vampire (Italian) and Slavers

 

Film Classics (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released 1984, 6 Bridges to Cross, Adios, Sabata, Against All Flags, All About Eve, All the Way Home, All Through the Night, Anzio, Australian Story (aka: Kangaroo), Batman: The Movie, Billion Dollar Brain, Body and Soul, Bourne Identity,  Bullitt, Club, Column South, Crackers, Dan and Dave on Our Selection, Doctor, You've Got to be Kidding, Driving Miss Daisy, Educating Rita, Escape from Absolom (aka: No Escape), Fuller Brush Girl, Fury, Get Carter, Ghost and the Darkness, Goodbye Charlie, Goodbye Paradise, Great Imposter, Great Race, Heaven's Burning, Heiress, Hostage (aka: Savage Attraction), Incredible Shrinking Man, Invisible Man Returns, Krull, Love with the Proper Stranger, Loves of Carmen, Man from the Diners' Club, Me and the Colonel, Midnight Story, Mister Cory, Morocco, North by Northwest, North West Mounted Police, Old Gringo, Pajama Game, Pittsburgh, Rat Race, Red Ball Express, Robe, Sarah Plain & Tall: The Complete Collection (3 film set: Sarah Plain & Tall, Skylark, Winter's End) (3 disc set), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Shine, Sidecar Racers, Sleuth, Song to Remember, Tender Mercies, Truth About Spring, White Nights and Without a Clue

 

Film Trauma

02/23/21 — Released Legion of the Night and Only the Good Parts

 

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Dead Air, Love You Right: An R&B Musical and Three Worlds, One Stage

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Honors

 

Glasshouse Distribution (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Demon Inside, Kecksburg, Lord of Tears, Phoenix Project and Running for Freedom

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released As Long as We Both Shall Live (aka: Falling), Donna: Stronger Than Pretty, Mallory and Rage

 

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Chesapeake Shores: Season Four (2 disc set)

 

Icarus Films

04/20/21 — Released Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

 

Just for the Hell of It (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Collector's Item (Italian), Double Feature (2 film set: Invasion of the Saucer Men, It Conquered the World), Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns, Psycho Girls, Salvation! and Shadey

 

Kino Lorber

02/23/21 — Released You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

 

Kitty Media

02/23/21 — Released Pure Hearted Girl Etc

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/23/21 — Released Silk Road and Wrong Turn: The Foundation

 

MPI Home Media

02/23/21 — Released Betty White's Pet Set: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

 

Media Blasters

02/23/21 — Released Haikader: Hyper Destroyer Edition (Japanese), Late Fee, Puppet Princess and Shriek Pack (2 film set: Flesh for the Beast, Dead Riot) (2 disc set)

 

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Horror Anthology

 

Movie Detective (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Il Moralista (Italian), Master and His Servants (Norwegian), Maxime (French), Pane, Amore E … (Italian), Story of a Beloved Wife (Japanese) and Tender Moment (French)

 

Nostalgia Family (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Lost TV: Collection 6 (3 episodes: Inside Danny Baker, Picture Window, Blanding’s Way)

 

Once Upon a Tale

02/23/21 — Released Three Little Pigs Storytime

 

PBS Direct

02/23/20 — Released Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths and Secrets, Vol. 1

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

02/23/21 — Released 40 Days and 40 Nights, Accidental Spy, Beautiful Girls, Becoming Jane, Boys and Girls, Buffalo Soldiers, Cider House Rules, Cold Mountain, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Duplex, Flirting With Disaster, From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy (3 film set: From Dusk Till Dawn, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, plus Full Tilt Boogie) (4 disc set), Gordy, Grifters, Highlander: Endgame, I Got the Hook Up, Jersey Girl, Kate & Leopold, Madonna: Truth or Dare, Mansfield Park, My Boss's Daughter, Nightwatch, Reindeer Games, Strictly Ballroom, Texas Rangers, Venom and View from the Top

 

Passion River Films

02/23/21 — Released Draupadi Unleashed (ARR of 151 days; box office: $11,225) and My Name Is Pedro

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Age of Indiscretion, Caltiki: The Immortal Monster (English dubbed), Closely Watched Trains (Czech), Emigrant (Arabic), Farewells (Polish), Mother Never Dies (Japanese) and Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

 

Remember When Classic Movies, Ltd. (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Angel on My Shoulder, Corpse Vanishes, Kansas City Confidential, Man in the Attic and Second Woman

 

Shout! Factory

02/23/21 — Released Centigrade (ARR of 179 days; box office: $13,333)

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

02/23/21 — Released Get on the Bus and Last Vermeer (ARR of 95 days; box office; $682,274)

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released 2021 AHSAA 1A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Decatur Heritage vs Jacksonville Christian Academy - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Decatur Heritage Christian Academy vs Skyline - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Pickens County vs Belgreen - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Northwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Meek vs Marion - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Winterboro vs Notasulga - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Samson vs Georgiana - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Autaugaville vs Keith - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 1A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Linden vs Johnson - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Midfield vs. Sand Rock - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Pisgah vs Spring Garden - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals; Sheffield vs Hatton - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Sheffield vs Hatton - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Geneva County vs Lanett - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals:  Lanett vs LaFayette - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Thorsby vs Calhoun - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 2A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Saint Luke's vs Luverne - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Plainview vs Fyffe - Jacksonville,, 2021 AHSAA 3A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Plainview vs Sylvania - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Winfield vs Danville - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Northwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Lauderdale vs Susan Moore - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Dadeville vs Montgomery Catholic Preparatory - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Prattville Christian Academy vs Montgomery Academy - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Cottage Hill Christian Academy vs Southside-Selma - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 3A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Hillcrest-Evergreen vs T.R. Miller - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Boys Basketball Semifinals #1: B. T. Washington vs Brooks - Birmingham, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Boys Basketball Semifinals #2; Anniston vs Vigor - Birmingham, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1; Rogers vs Geenva - Birmingham, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Anniston vs Jackson - Birmingham, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: White Plains vs Anniston - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Anniston vs Handley - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Deshler vs Brooks - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Northwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Good Hope vs Rogers - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Geneva vs Booker T. Washington - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Geneva vs Saint James - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Holt vs Vigor - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 4A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Vigor vs Jackson - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Ramsay vs Alexandria - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Carver-Birmingham vs. Ramsay - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Lee vs Mae Jemison - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Northwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Mae Jemison vs East Limestone - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Sylacauga vs Greenville - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Carroll vs Charles Henderson - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: John Leflore vs Sipsey Valley - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 5A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: UMS-Wright Preparatory School vs Marbury - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Mountain Brook vs Huffman - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Chelsea vs Huffman - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Clay-Chalkville vs Scottsboro - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Northwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Hazel Green vs Hartselle - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Calera vs Spanish Fort - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: McGill-Toolen Catholic vs Gulf Shores - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Carver-Montgomery vs. Eufaula - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 6A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Carver-Montgomery vs. Eufaula - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Northeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Spain Park vs Huntsville - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Northeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Vestavia Hills vs Hewitt-Trussville - Jacksonville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Northwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Hoover vs. Oak Mountain - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Northwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Hoover vs. Austin - Hanceville, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Southeast Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Fairhope vs Auburn - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Southeast Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Central-Phenix City vs Auburn - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Southwest Boys Basketball Regional Finals: Montgomery vs Enterprise - Montgomery, AL, 2021 AHSAA 7A Southwest Girls Basketball Regional Finals: Baker vs Theodore - Montgomery, AL, 2021 FHSAA 1A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: Ponce de Leon vs Port St. Joe - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 1A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Trenton vs Hawthorne Lakeland, FL , 2021 FHSAA 2A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: Florida A&M University School vs First Baptist Academy -  Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 2A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: City of Life Christian Academy vs Miami Christian School - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 3A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: The Master's Academy vs Cardinal Mooney - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 3A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate vs Miami Country Day - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 4A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1:  Bishop Kenny vs Lake Highland - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 4A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Lincoln Park vs American Heritage - Lakeland , FL, 2021 FHSAA 5A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: St. Augustine vs. Palm Bay - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 5A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Clearwater vs American Heritage - Lakeland , FL, 2021 FHSAA 6A Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: Wekiva vs Winter Haven - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 6A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Charlotte vs Aquinas - Lakeland, FL, 2021 FHSAA 7A Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: PBL High School vs Miami Senior - Lakeland, FL, 2021 LHSAA Div II Boys Soccer Championship: Benton vs Holy Cross - Hammond, LA, 2021 LHSAA Div II Girls Soccer Championship: Lakeshore vs St, Thomas More - Hammond, LA, 2021 LHSAA Div III Boys Soccer Championship: E.D. White vs Lusher - Hammond, LA, 2021 LHSAA Div III Girls Soccer Championship: University Lab vs Loyola College - Hammond, LA, 2021 LHSAA Div IV Boys Soccer Championship: Episcopal vs Pope John Paul II - Hammond, LA, 2021 LHSAA Div IV Girls Soccer Championship: Academy of the Sacred Heart vs Isidore Newman - Hammond, LA, 2021 RIIL Boys Hockey Division 1 Quarterfinal G#2: Smithfield vs La Salle Academy - Smithfield, RI, 2021 RIIL Boys Hockey Division 1 Quarterfinal G#4: East Greenwich vs Bishop Hendricken - Warwick, RI, 2021 RIIL Boys Ice Hockey Quarterfinal Division 1 Game 1: Cumberland vs Mount Saint Charles Academy - Woonsocket, RI, 2021 VHSL 1A Boys Basketball Championship: Altavista vs Parry McCluer - Buena Vista, VA, 2021 VHSL 3A Girls Basketball Championship: George Mason vs Spotswood - Penn Laird, VA, 2021 VHSL 4A Boys Basketball Championship: Smithfield vs John Handley - Winchester, VA, 2021 VHSL 5A Boys Basketball Championship: Green Run vs Stone Bridge - Winchester, VA, 2021 VHSL 6A Boys Basketball Championship: Potomac vs Centreville - Clifton, VA, 2021 VHSL Class 4 Girls Basketball Championship: Louisa County vs Pulaski County - Dublin,, 2021 VHSL Class 5 Girls Basketball Championship: Princess Anne vs Patrick Henry - Roanoke, VA, 2021 VHSL Class 6 Girls Basketball Championship: Osbourn Park vs Madison - Vienna, VA, 2021 WIAA Div 1 Boys Ice Hockey Championship: Verona Area High School vs Hudson - Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 2 Boys Ice Hockey Championship: Saint Mary's Springs vs Superior - Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 3 Girls Basketball Championship; Aquinas vs Lake Mills - Menominee, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 3 Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: Westfield vs Aquinas - Menominee, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 3 Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Howards Grove vs Lake Mills - Menominee, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 4 Girls Basketball Championship: Mineral Point vs Mishicot - La Crosse, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 4 Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: Fall Creek vs Mishicot - La Crosse, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 4 Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Mineral Point vs Bangor - La Crosse, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 5 Girls Basketball Championship: Three Lakes vs Assumption - La Crosse, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 5 Girls Basketball Semifinals #1: Three Lakes vs Black Hawk - La Crosse, WI, 2021 WIAA Div 5 Girls Basketball Semifinals #2: Assumption vs McDonell Central - La Crosse, WI and

2021 WIAA Girls Ice Hockey Championship: Marquette Univ High School vs Chippewa Falls - Wisconsin Rapids, WI

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/23/21 — Released Casper: A Spirited Beginning

 

VIZ Media

02/23/21 — Released Pokemon The Series: Diamond and Pearl Sinnoh League Victors - The Complete Series (4 disc set)

 

Virgil Films & Entertainment

02/23/21 — Released 7 Yards: Chris Norton Story

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

02/23/21 — Released Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob

 

Wild Eye Releasing

02/23/21 — Released College Pranks and Demon Mother

 

WOWNow Entertainment

02/23/21 — Released Amy Coney Barrett The Hearings Part 1 (2 disc set) and Body Positive Easy Yoga

 

Zeus Video

02/23/21 — Released 8 1/2 (Italian)

 

 

 

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Arrow Video

05/04/21 — Sets Ghost Waits

 

Capitol Motion Picture Group (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Unleashed!

 

ClassicTVShop (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Lost Saucer: The Complete Series

 

Duke Video USA

02/23/21 — Released 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship (2 disc set)

 

Eastern Star

02/23/21 — Released Acrobunch, Bananya: and the Curious Bunch, Brave Ten: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Konosuba Season 2 + OVA (2 disc set), Lupin III: The Columbus Films and Miss Machiko

 

Family Theatre Productions

02/23/21 — Released House That Rob Built

 

Fred the Blu-ray Dog (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Muppet Show: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Octonauts: Seasons 1-4, Stalked by My Doctor Movie Collection (4 film set: Stalked by My Doctor, Stalked by My Doctor: Patient's Revenge, Stalked by My Doctor: The Return, Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare) and Teacher's Pet: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

 

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Red Woods

 

FUNimation

02/23/21 — Released Fairy Tail: Final Season - Part 26 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released As Long as We Both Shall Live (aka: Falling), Donna: Stronger Than Pretty, Mallory and Rage

 

Kino Lorber

02/23/21 — Released Allnighter, Double Feature (2 film set: The Other Side of the Mountain, The Other Side of the Mountain 2), Hard to Hold and Port of Freedom (German)

 

Kitty Media

02/23/21 — Released Pure Hearted Girl Etc

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/23/21 — Released Silk Road and Wrong Turn: The Foundation

 

Mbur Indie Film Distribution (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Our Quinceanera

 

Media Blasters

02/23/21 — Released Haikader: Hyper Destroyer Edition (Japanese), Late Fee and Puppet Princess

 

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Horror Anthology

 

Monsterland Media (MOD)

02/16/21 — Released Bravestarr: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Complete Series,  Metabots: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Thundercats: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Winds of War/War and Remembrance (7 disc set)

 

Nozomi

05/04/21 — Sets Emma: A Victorian Romance, Season One (2 disc set)

 

Naxos

02/23/21 — Released Beggar's Opera, Romantic Take and Royal Ballet: The Cellist, Dances at a Gathering

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

02/23/21 — Released Shakespeare in Love (with Digital Copy)

 

Sentai Filmworks

02/23/21 — Released Food Wars: Season 4 (2 disc set) and Venus Wars (Japanese)

 

Severin Films, LLC

02/23/21 — Released Attic Expeditions (with bonus CD), Castle of the Creeping Flesh (German) and Plague Town

05/25/21 — Sets Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection (5 film set: Crypt of the Vampire, Castle of the Living Dead, Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, The Torture Garden of Dr. Sadism, Challenge the Devil, plus 24 episodes: Theatre Macabre) (8 disc set, with bonus CD)

 

Shout! Factory

02/23/21 — Released Centigrade

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

02/23/21 — Released Insane Championship Wrestling: Pit Fighter X5 - Millville, NJ

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

02/23/21 — Released Last Vermeer and New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

 

Troma

02/23/21 — Released Nightbeast

 

Universal Music Enterprises

02/23/21 — Released Go-Go's (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

03/16/21 — Adds Driving Miss Daisy and What's Up Doc

 

 

 

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Paramount Home Entertainment

05/25/21 — Sets My Fair Lady (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

05/04/21 — Sets Wonder Woman 1984 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paramount Home Entertainment Sets May 25 As The Street Date For A 4K Ultra HD Edition Of My Fair Lady

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Paramount Home Entertainment announced this past week that a new 4K Ultra HD presentation of director George Cukor’s 1964 Best Picture-winner, My Fair Lady, will be available on May 25 as a double-disc set.

Back in 1913, just prior to The Great War (later to be known as World War I), George Bernard Shaw delivered the stage play, Pygmalion, drawn from Greek myth about the thus-named sculptor who falls in love with his creation.   The great irony in Shaw’s initial production was that it did not have a “happy ending” … which was taken care of during the 1914 London run, when the producer “tinkered” with Shaw’s play to achieved the audience-pleasing “happy ending,” which, of course, did not please the playwright.

Five film productions and numerous revivals of the play followed and in March of 1956 it returned to Broadway, this time as a Lerner and Loewe musical adaptation of Shaw’s play and titled My Fair Lady, with Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and a newcomer by the name of Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle.

Despite winning the Tony Award for Best Musical, it wasn’t until 1961 that the trade press became alerted to the news about a possible film production.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Julie Andrews did not have a track record in film, indeed it wasn’t until her starring performance in Mary Poppins in 1964 that she even appeared in a theatrical release — strictly a 20-something stage performer with a marvelous singing voice.  In what would prove to be cinema-irony, she would win the Best Actress Oscar in her film debut.

By the time the film went into production, the Broadway musical version had run for six years and over 2,700 performances, with Julie Andrews becoming a star during the period … and was acclaimed for her Eliza Doolittle portrayal.   She would not be among those considered for the film role.   Instead, the first cast member named to the production — which wouldn’t actually begin for a full year (and more) — was Audrey Hepburn, an established screen star with four Oscar nominations for Best Actress, winning for Roman Holiday (1954).   Her other Oscar nominations were for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1962), The Nun Story (1960) and Sabrina (1954).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

In short, Hepburn was “bankable” … Andrews was not.

Casting, oh my, when you have a bid-budget Hollywood film production in the works, the trade press becomes filled with rumors.   Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton and Cary Grant were among those mentioned, but when it came down to finally making the decision of who would play Henry Higgins, Rex Harrison won easily … so did Stanley Holloway (a London stage actor with a long film career as a character actor) as Eliza’s father, Alfred.

Despite being very “English” in its nature, My Fair Lady, was filmed on sound stages in Burbank, California — second unit “establishing” shots were filmed in and around London.   Two months of rehearsals — much like a stage play — took place before the filming actually began … and once the filming did commence, it went from the summer of 1963 well into the fall of that year.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Another trick of “Hollywood,” or should we say “magic” of studio productions, is that Audrey Hepburn’s singing voice was rejected in favor of Marni Nixon, who had previously doubled for Natalie Wood in West Side Story and earlier for Deborah Kerr in The King and I.  

The result was a smash theatrical hit, which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director (Cukor’s only win after being previously nominated for Born Yesterday, A Double Life, The Philadelphia Story and Little Women) and swept most of the technical awards as well. 

As to bonus goodies for the 4K Ultra HD double-disc release from Paramount Home Entertainment on May 25, it comes absolutely loaded with materials that were previously gathered together for the Blu-ray presentation celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the film’s release back in 2014.

 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey