DVD & Blu-Ray Release Report: 2021-04-25

Monday, April 26, 2021

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending April 23, 2021

New DVD Additions:

4 Digital Media

04/20/21 — Released Death Ranch

7idea Productions

04/20/21 — Released Winter on Marias Pass

Buck Cody (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Zombies of the Stratosphere (12-chapter serial) (2 disc set)

CMI Education/PESI Publishing

04/20/21 — Released Boosting Resiliency in Adolescent Girls: A Strengths-Based Approach, Cardiopulmonary Therapy for the Rehab Professional: Therapeutic Interventions for All Aspects ofCardiac Care - From ICU to Outpatient (2 disc set), Ethical Principles in the Practice of North Carolina Mental Health Professionals (2 disc set), Evidence-Based Examination and Treatment of Congenital Muscular Torticollis: Looking Beyond the Neck for Better Results (2 disc set) and Tapping into Energy Psychology: Approaches for Trauma & Anxiety (2 disc set)

Championship Productions

04/13/21 — Released Anson Dorrance: Establishing a Character-Building Team Culture with Core Values & Grit, Anson Dorrance: Game-Based Fitness Program, Anson Dorrance: Player Development, Tactical Flexibility + 1-3-4-3 & 1-4-2-3-1 Systems Overview and Anson Dorrance: The Competitive Cauldron

EWTN

04/20/21 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O. Praem keeping our children Catholic, @ 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: Paul Zucarelli discuss the importance of growing in understanding of the faith, Women of Grace: Fr. Chris Alar - "Hope After Suicide" and Women of Grace: The L.O.V.E. Approach, A New Dynamic for Relationship Building

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Baroness and the Butler, Earth vs the Flying Saucer, How to Succeed with Sex, Mark of Zorro, Pimp Primer, Prisoner of Paradise, White Slave (aka: Amazonia) (Italian) and Zachariah

Five Caret Films (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Wild Card

Full Moon Features

07/06/21 — Sets Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade and Emanuelle: Black Velvet

Grapevine Video (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Blood and Sand (silent-1922): New 2K Restoration, Monsieur Beaucaire (silent-1924): New 2K Restoration and Rosita (silent-1923): New 2K Restoration

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released 86 Melrose Avenue, At Night Comes Wolves, Caffeine & Gasoline: Evolution of the American Rocker, Sideshow and Violent Heart (ARR of 424 days; box office: $24,246)

Hallmark Channel

04/20/21 — Released Love in Store

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Royal Matchmaker

High Fliers Films

04/20/21 — Released Werewolf in England

High Octane Films, LLC (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Stealing Chaplin and Warpath

I-Cine

04/13/21 — Released Dong Yi - Hoang Cung Day Song, Part 1 (16 disc set), Dong Yi - Hoang Cung Day Song, Part 2 (16 disc set), Ho So Ca Sau (13 disc set), Lau Dai Tham Vong (12 disc set), Sai Buoc Tien Len (10 disc set) and Sui Gia Khac Khau (16 disc set)

ITN Distribution

04/20/21 — Released Once Upon a Time in Tombstone and Summoning

Image Entertainment

04/20/21 — Released Mortuary Collection

Indican Pictures

04/20/21 — Released Average Joe (ARR of 102 days; box office: $9,176)

Kino Lorber

04/20/21 — Released Test Pattern and We're All Fruit Salad: The Wiggles Greatest Hits

Kit Parker Films

08/10/21 — Sets Charley Chase: At Hal Roach: The Talkies Volume 3 (21 theatrical short films: The Cracked Iceman, Four Parts, I'll Take Vanilla, Another Wild Idea, It Happened One Day, Something Simple, You Said a Hatful!, Fate's Fathead, The Chases of Pimple Street, Okay Toots!, Poker at Eight, Southern Exposure, The Four-Star Boarder, Nurse to You!, Manhattan Monkey Business, Public Ghost #1,: Life Hesitates at 40, The Count Takes the Count, Vamp Till Ready, Neighborhood House, on the Wrong Trek) (3 disc set)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/20/21 — Released Pororo: Treasure Island Adventure

MHz Home Entertainment

04/20/21 — Released Spiral: Seasons 7 & 8 (8 disc set) and War is Over (3 disc set)

MVD Entertainment Group

06/01/21 — Sets When We Last Spoke

06/08/21 — Sets Hot House and Settlers

Once Upon a Tale

04/20/21 — Released Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/22/21 — Sets What Happened Was …

PBS Direct

04/20/21 — Released Nature: Big Bend - The Wild Frontier of Texas

PCN Productions (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released 2016 Gettysburg Battlewalks Key Moments: 2nd Massachusetts in Spangler Meadow & Steuart’s Brigade, 2016 Gettysburg Battlewalks Key Moments: Hood’s Division & Little Round Top, 2016 Gettysburg Battlewalks Key Moments: The First Shots & 6th Wisconsin at the Railroad Cut, 2017 Gettysburg Battlewalks Key Moments: Battle for Little Round Top & Company K, First Pennsylvania Reserves, 2017 Gettysburg Battlewalks Key Moments: East Cavalry Field & The Cannonade, 2017 Gettysburg Battlewalks Key Moments: Gordon’s Brigade Attacks Barlow’s Knoll & Civilians Caught in the Crossfire, 2017 Gettysburg Battlewalks Real-Time Programs, 2018 Gettysburg Battlewalks Real-Time Programs and 2019 Gettysburg Battlewalks Real-Time Programs

Paramount Home Entertainment

06/22/21 — Sets Night of the Sicario (with Digital Copy)

Paramount Home Entertainment (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Cheech & Chong Still Smokin, Hard Rain, In Dreams, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Naked Gun 2 & 1/ 2: The Smell of Fear, Naked Gun 33 1/ 3: The Final Insult, Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! and Paris When It Sizzles

Passion River Films

04/20/21 — Released Last Man Fishing

Quiver Films

04/20/21 — Released Crisis (ARR of 53 days; box office: $404,738)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

04/13/21 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Murder on the Blackboard, Emmanuel)

04/20/21 — Released Das Madchen Johanna (German) - Revised Edition, Michel Strogoff (silent-1926), Mieheke (Finnish), Nachts, Wenn Der Teufel Kam (German) and Rocket from Calabuch (Spanish)

ReFuel Productions (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Game Changers

Rubber Chicken Films (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Andy Due Show: Series 5

Samuel Goldwyn Films

04/20/21 — Released Eye of the Beholder

Savir Productions, LLC (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Pizza Joint

TLA Releasing

04/20/21 — Released Stone Fruit

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

04/13/21 — Released 2021 UIL 4A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 UIL 5A Girls Soccer Championship and 2021 UIL 6A Girls Soccer Championship

04/20/21 — Released 2021 UIL 4A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 UIL 5A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 UIL 6A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 WIAA Boys Alternate Volleyball Championship, 2021 WIAA Div 1 Girls Alternate Volleyball Championship and 2021 WIAA Div 2 Girls Alternate Volleyball Championship

Vermont Movie Store (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Man on a Tightrope

Vertical Entertainment

04/20/21 — Released Body Brokers

Vision Video (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Belly of the Whale, Dream, Fanny Crosby: The Musical, Fire on the Ridge, First Lady (ARR of 431 days; box office: $93,016), For This Reason, Lost Legacy Reclaimed, Miracle Matt, One: Following Jesus' Call For Unity and Science Fiction Make

WOWNow Entertainment

04/20/21 — Released Animal Dance Party

Zeus DVDs (MOD)

04/13/21 — Released Lawrence Welk Show- Sights and Sounds of L.A.

04/20/21 — Released 1 April 2000 (German), Boy and His Dog and Wizard of Oz

New Blu-ray Additions:

Epic Pictures Group, Inc.

04/20/21 — Released Space Dogs: Tropical Adventure

Film Fun Editions

05/25/21 — Sets Smile

Fred the Blu-ray Dog (MOD)

04/13/21 — Released Bakugan: Armored Alliance - The Complete Series (2 disc set), Carol Burnett Show: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Defenders of the Earth: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Double Dragon: The Complete Series, Dragon Booster: The Complete Series, Fighting Foodons: The Complete Series, Supermarket Sweep - 2020 Season, UltraForce: The Complete Series, World's Craziest Fools: The Complete Series and Yin Yang Yo!: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

04/20/21 — Released As Told by Ginger: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Austin & Alley: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Cramp Twins: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Cubix: Robots for Every, Cyborg 009: Call of Justice, The Complete Series, Dirt, Drake & Josh: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Eagle Riders: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Fast & Furious: Spy Racers: Seasons 1-4, Fish Hooks: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Gary and His Demons; The Complete Series, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil - The Complete Series (2 disc set), Kidd Video: The Complete Series, Lightning Point: The Complete Series, Love, Death + Robots, Mighty B: The Complete Series (2 disc set), My Life as a Teenage Robot: The Complete Series, Rescue Heroes: The Completed Series, Ripping Friends: The Complete Series, Schoolhouse Rock: The Complete Series, See: Season One, Serpent: The Complete Series, Slacker Cates: The Complete Series, Stoked: The Completed Series (2 disc set), Suite Life of Zack and Cody: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Two More Eggs: The Complete Series, Voltron: The Third Dimension - The Complete Series, Wander Over Yonder: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Who Killed Sara: Season One and Zombie Hotel: The Complete Series

Full Moon Features

07/06/21 — Sets Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade and Emanuelle: Black Velvet

Grapevine Video (MOD)

04/20/21 — Blood and Sand (silent-1922): New 2K Restoration, Monsieur Beaucaire (silent-1924): New 2K Restoration and Rosita (silent-1923): New 2K Restoration

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released 86 Melrose Avenue, At Night Comes Wolves, Caffeine & Gasoline: Evolution of the American Rocker, Sideshow and Violent Heart

Image Entertainment

04/20/21 — Released Mortuary Collection

Kino Lorber

04/20/21 — Released Test Pattern

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/22/21 — Sets What Happened Was …

PCN Productions (MOD)

Paramount Home Entertainment

06/01/21 — Sets In & Out, Rat Race and Stepford Wives

06/08/21 — Sets Pretty in Pink (with Digital Copy) and Some Kind of Wonderful (with Digital Copy)

06/29/21 — Sets In Harm's Way, General's Daughter, Flight of the Intruder and Le Mans (with Digital Copy)

Paramount Home Entertainment (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Naked Gun 2 & 1/ 2: The Smell of Fear and Naked Gun 33 1/ 3: The Final Insult

ReFuel Productions (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Game Changers

Savir Productions, LLC (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Pizza Joint

Sentai Filmworks

04/20/21 — Released Kaiji: The Complete Collection (6 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

04/20/21 — Released Chariots of Fire and Mutiny on the Bounty

05/11/21 — Sets Bachelor in Paradise, They Won't Believe Me and Yearling

05/18/21 — Sets Escape from Fort Bravo, Drunken Master II (Cantonese), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse and Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex

05/25/21 — Sets Athena and Tender Trap

Oscilloscope Laboratories Finds And Restores Tom Noonan's 1994 Film Release Of What Happened Was ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories announced this past week that a newly-restored presentation of actor-turned-director Tom Noonan’s What Happened Was … will be available on June 22 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

What Happened Was … made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 1994 and then had an ever-so-brief arthouse run in the fall of the same year. Since it was 1994, an indie production … and before the arrival of DVD, it got a VHS release two years later and has been out of print for over 25 years.

This is a new 4K film restoration from the original 35mm negative. For most this will be the film’s debut!!

Tom Noonan, had been an actor and appeared in such films as Heaven’s Gate, Wolfen, F/X, Monster Squad and was Francis Dollarhyde in director Michael Mann’s 1986 release of Manhunter. After being the Ripper in Last Action Hero in 1993, he took time off from being scary and sat down and wrote a play, which he adapted for the screen and got financial backing to direct … it was his debut as both a screenwriter and film director.

Painful. That’s the sad story of two lonely people on a “first date” in Noonan’s What Happened Was …, which teams him with Karen Sillas (Trust, Simple Men, Flirt, Ned Rifle). They are co-workers at a law firm. Underlings.

If you’ve seen Noonan in any films, you understand that gaunt, creepy characters are what he is known for. He looks the part. Getting a date would always be a challenge, despite the fact that he is well-educated.

Before the evening gets too far along — he has arrived at her place — she actually brings his “looks” up and mentions that their co-workers have dubbed him “Mister Strange.”

While attractive, she knows that life is passing her by. Men have stopped calling, she works as an “executive assistant,” which means she answers the phone and gets coffee. Maybe that is why she is willing to have “Mister Strange” over.

Painful. Sad. Insightful. Beautifully presented … a lost film, resurrected by Oscilloscope and on June 22 it will be available once again for arthouse film lovers to enjoy and savor.

Bonus features include two newly-prepared video sessions. The first features a discussion of the film with writer/director/actor Tom Noonan and producer Scott Macaulay (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Idlewild, Raising Victor Vargas, The Assistant), and the second is a video session with actress Karen Sillas.

Music Box Films Picks May 25 For The Domestic Blu-ray Debut Of Heavy Trip

Music Box Films, in association with its Doppleganger Releasing label, has locked into May 25 for the domestic Blu-ray debut of Finnish filmmakers Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s send-up of the “Nordic Heavy Metal” scene, Heavy Trip.

Maybe it is those long winters, the endless summer nights, the Viking legends … the cold. Name it, but the Nordic countries have this thing for head-banging heavy metal; black metal, and it lends itself to all sorts of filmmaking fun.

Heavy Trip started working the festival circuit in early 2018 with its South by Southwest Film Festival debut and then just continued on and on … and on. They were having so much fun with this offbeat comedy that it got booked in virtually every film festival around — around the world at that — during the entirety of 2018 and then continued its merry film festival adventure during 2019 … Heavy Trip even had its Japanese theatrical rollout in December of 2019. We all know what happened during the first quarter of 2020, so now, after all of these months, Heavy Trip will be available, finally, on Blu-ray.

It’s a road trip, an unexpected road trip at that. Turo Moilanen (Johannes Holopainen — Force of Habit, All the Sins, etc.) is the lead vocalist of Impaled Rektum, an amateur metal band that pretty much makes noise in the basement and passes the time just hanging out. Slackers, heavy-metal slackers; Finnish heavy-metal slackers … it’s a good life, as far as dreaming goes!

In any case, they hit upon a sound and one thing leads to another and they get a surprise invitation to perform at a festival in Norway. Suddenly, Impaled Rektum (say that three times with a straight face) is the talk of the town … they haven’t really done anything yet, but fame is at their doorstep.

Let the road trip begin … destination Norway! But, as we all know, it is not about the destination, but the getting there and Turo and Impaled Rektum have their own, unique, way of “getting there.” That’s the fun.

Bonus goodies include deleted scenes, a blooper reel, the featurette titled “Real Heavy Metal Bands React to Impaled Rektum,” the road trip to Austin, Texas (seven webisodes), the music video, “Flooding Secretions” and the “karaoke version” titled “Jump Into My Net.”

Heavy Trip is in Finnish with English subtitles.

Paramount Home Entertainment Selects June 29 For The DVD Debut Of Director Joth Riggs' Night Of The Sicario

Paramount Home Entertainment made it official this past week, director Joth Riggs’ Night of the Sicario will be making its DVD debut on June 29.

Taylor Ward (Natasha Henstridge — Species, Ghosts of Mars, The Whole Nine Yards) is a former fashion model who has given it all up to run a nursing home, or what some might call an “assisted living” facility. She’s got a good heart, and as things unfold that will be put to the test.

As with any good wrong place at the right time storyline, Taylor’s facility becomes the focal point for the action by chance as DEA Agent Cole Bennet (Costas Mandylor) becomes the target of assassins while transporting the Fuentes family, who are in a witness protection program. The mother, Teresa (Amanda Diaz), knows the ins and outs of the operation and has cut a deal to be a witness in a high-profile drug cartel prosecution.

The problem is, their hiding place has been comprised and Bennet has been ambushed. Thinking that Taylor’s facility might be medical in nature, he takes Teresa’s wounded husband and their daughter to Taylor’s little corner of the world, only to discover that it is an “old folks” home … and now they are trapped!! To make matters worse — if they can get much worse — there is a hurricane headed their way!!

Members of the hit squad — the Sicario assassins — have Taylor’s facility cutoff and it is only a matter of time before a massacre will take place. What they don’t count on is Taylor’s courage and the fact that her “patients” are not quite ready to die just yet!!

Also added to the release calendar this week from Paramount Home Entertainment are new-to-Blu-ray releases that will be heading home during the month of June.

Already in place are the “Paramount Presents” edition of Mommie Dearest (June 1), SteelBook editions for Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful (June 8), and on June 15 there will be the “Paramount Presents” Blu-ray edition of Last Train from Gun Hill and the release of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - 20th Anniversary Edition.

Joining the fun on June 1 are Blu-ray selections for director Frank Oz’s 1997 comedy, In & Out, starring Kevil Kline, Joan Cusack and Tom Selleck, director Jerry Zucker’s 2001 hit comedy, Rat Race and the 2004 remake of Stepford Wives, also directed by Frank Oz and starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick.

Shifting to July 29, Paramount has four new-to-Blu-ray releases. First up is director Otto Preminger’s 1965 World War II film, In Harm’s Way, starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Patricia Neal.

Also heading home on this last street-date Tuesday in June are director John Milius’ Vietnam War story, Flight of the Intruder, starring Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe and Brad Johnson; director Simon West’s 1999 murder mystery, The General’s Daughter, teaming John Travolta with Madeleine Stowe and rounding out the action is Steven McQueen starring in the 1971 racing drama, Le Mans.