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

 

New DVD Additions

Archstone

07/20/21 — Released Blackout Experiment

 

Big Kids Films (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Woodstock or Bust

 

Breaking Glass Pictures

07/20/21 — Released Hero Mode (ARR of 45 days; box office: $20,400)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released 1480 Radio Pirates, 7 Murders a Day, House of Quarantine, Stronger for Life and Who Am I Now?

 

H13 Media

07/20/21 — Released Behind the Sightings

 

ITN Distribution

07/20/21 — Released Alfred (aka: Alfred the Doll)

 

Image Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released 32 Malasaña Street (Spanish), Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 7 (3 disc set) and Gangs of London: Season One (3 disc set)

 

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Killer Concept and These Streets We Haunt

 

Kino Lorber

07/20/21 — Released Thunderbolt

 

Liberator Films

07/20/21 — Released American in Paris: The Musical and Red

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

07/20/21 — Released Room 9 and Spanish Princess, Part 2 (2 disc set)

 

Lionsgate Home Ent. (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition (3 disc set), Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story, America Unearthed: Season 1 (3 disc set), America's Book Of Secrets: Season 2 (3 disc set), America's Castles: Newport Mansions, America's Castles: The Biltmore Estate, American Hoggers: Season 1, American Justice: Why O.J. Simpson Won, American Pickers: Civil War Pickings, American Restoration, Vol. 3 (2 disc set), American Restoration, Vol. 4 (2 disc set) and Lady in Question

 

MPI Home Media

07/20/21 — Released Code 3: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

 

Menemsha Films

07/20/21 — Released Leona (Spanish)

 

PBS Direct

07/20/21 — Released Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, Inside the Met, NOVA: Fighting for Fertility, NOVA: Reef Rescue and Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released 2021 African American Experience: The 1969 Franklin & Marshall Student Uprising. 2021 Building Pennylvania: Lancaster Historic Architecture and 2021 It's History!: Conococheague Institute

 

PDSD, Inc. – Shami Productions

07/20/21 — Released Blood on My Hands, Christmas Tears, Cosmic, Curtino Bros (Spanish), Future King, Intimidation Game, Morality Play, Mulat (Tagalog), Reversal, Scream Returns (French), Stray Bullet, Thugs Mugs & Dogs, Trap and Uncommon

 

Paramount Home Ent. (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Jane Eyre

 

Passion River (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Antarctica

 

Reality Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released End Game: Technology

 

Samuel Goldwyn Films

07/20/21 — Released Boondock Saints: 20th Anniversary Edition

 

Severin Films

07/20/21 — Released Born for Hell

 

Shout! Factory

07/20/21 — Released Fire (Russian)

 

Undercrank Productions (MOD)

08/10/21 — Sets Edward Evertt Horton: 8 Silent Comedies (8 silent short films: No Publicity (1927), Find the King (1927), Dad's Choice (1928), Behind the Counter (1928), Horse Shy (1928), Scrambled Weddings (1928), Vacation Waves (1928), Call Again (1928)) (2 disc set)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

07/20/21 — Released Dream Horse (ARR of 60 days; box office: $2,853,673)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 22 (4 disc set)

 

Vertical Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released Feral State and Serpent

 

Vision Films

07/20/21 — Released Blood Pageant

 

Vision Films (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Before I Go, Monster Island, Nessie and Me, No Letting Go, Sam and Yellow Day

 

WWE

07/20/21 — Released WWE: Hell In A Cell 2021 (2 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

07/20/21 — Released Shameless: The Eleventh and Final Season (3 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Head of the Class: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)

 

Wedge Films, LLC (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Big Fur

 

Well Go U.S.A.

07/20/21 — Released Hydra (Japanese)

 

Wild Eye Releasing

07/20/21 — Released Broadcast Dead

 

WOWnow Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released Lil' Yogis: Yoga Class

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions

 

 

 

AGFA

08/31/21 — Sets She Freak

 

Arrow Video

09/28/21 — Sets Legend (2 disc set)

 

Big Kids Films (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Woodstock or Bust

 

Bill Zebub Productions

07/20/21 — Released Campy Horror Collection (4 film set: Assmonster: The Making of a Horror Movie, Antfarm Dickhole, Indie Director, Exploitation)

 

CBS Home Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (5 disc set) and Charmed: The Complete Sixth Season (5 disc set)

 

Code Red Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released J.C.

 

FUNimation

07/20/21 — Released Listeners (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Tenchi Muyo! War On Geminar: The Complete Series (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Uzaki-Chan Wants To Hang Out (2 disc set) (with Digitial Copy) and Uzaki-chan Wants To Hang Out (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released 1480 Radio Pirates, 7 Murders a Day, House of Quarantine, Stronger for Life and Who Am I Now?

 

Image Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released Gangs of London: Season One (3 disc set) and Jakob's Wife

 

Indie Rights, inc (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released These Streets We Haunt

 

Kino Lorber

07/20/21 — Released Bordertown: Season 3 (3 disc set) and Double Feature: 633 Squadron, Mosquito Squadron

 

Liberator Films

07/20/21 — Released American in Paris: The Musical

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/20/21 — Released Die in a Gunfight (with Digital Copy), Initiation, Walking Dead: Complete Tenth Season (6 disc set) and Wraith (with Digital Copy)

 

Mbur Indie Film Distribution (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Vex

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

09/21/21 — Sets Frost/Nixon

 

Monsterland Media (MOD)

07/13/21 — Released Defenders of Dynatron City (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Kong the Animated Series (3 disc set), Littles: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Monster by Mistake: The Complete Series (4 disc set) and Scooby-Doo!: Mystery Incorporated - The Complete Series (6 disc set)

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released 2021 African American Experience: The 1969 Franklin & Marshall Student Uprising. 2021 Building Pennylvania: Lancaster Historic Architecture and 2021 It's History!: Conococheague Institute

 

Paramount Home Ent.

10/05/21 — Sets Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection (7 film set: Paris When It Sizzles, My Fair Lady, Funny Face, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, War and Peace, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) (8 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Stand (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Stand: The Definitive 2 Series Collection (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

10/12/21 — Sets Haunting of Bly Manor (3 disc set)

 

Passion River (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Antarctica

 

Samuel Goldwyn Films

07/20/21 — Released Boondock Saints: 20th Anniversary Edition

 

Scorpion Releasing

07/20/21 — Released Time Guardian

 

Sentai FilmWorks

07/20/21 — Released Rahxephon (5 disc set)

 

Severin Films

07/20/21 — Released Boondock Saints: 20th Anniversary Edition

09/21/21 — Sets Dungeon of Andy Milligan Collection (14 film set: The Ghastly Ones, Torture Dungeon: Director’s Cut, Bloodthirsty Butchers: Director’s Cut, The Body Beneath, Guru, the Mad Monk, Nightbirds, The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here!/The Curse of the Full Moon, The Man with Two Heads: Director’s Cut, Fleshpot on 42nd Street/Seeds, Blood, Legacy of Blood: Theatrical Cut/Legacy of Horror: TV Cut, Carnage, Toga Party) (8 disc set, with bonus CD)

 

Shout! Factory

07/20/21 — Released Eight Legged Freaks, Fire (Russian), Little Big League and Stranger Is Watching

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

08/24/21 — Sets Peter Rabbit 2 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Bye Bye Birdie, Pal Joey and Sniper

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/10/21 — Sets Profile (with Digital Copy_

 

VCI Entertainment

10/05/21 — Sets Angel on My Shoulder (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

08/10/21 — Sets One Crazy Summer

08/17/21 — Sets In the Good Old Summertime and Shadow of the Thin Man

08/24/21 — Sets Prince of the City

 

Wedge Films, LLC (MOD)

07/20/21 — Released Big Fur

 

Well Go U.S.A.

07/20/21 — Released Hydra (Japanese)

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

 

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

08/24/21 — Sets Peter Rabbit 2 (4K/BD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

10/05/21 — Sets Underworld: Limited Edition 5-Movie Collection (5 film set: Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Underworld: Awakening, Underworld: Blood Wars) (5 4K Ultra HD/5 Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces Its August Film Vault Blu-ray Release Calendar

This past week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced its slate of new-to-Blu-ray film vault releases that will be making their way home during the month of August.

Leading the way (and that is always a subjective opinion) is director Sidney Lumet’s 1981 film adaptation of former Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Daley’s 1978 tell-all book, Prince of the City.   The Blu-ray release date will be Aug. 24.

As is often the case in Hollywood, what starts out as one thing can end up being something completely different.   Before Daley’s book was even published, the rights were snapped up as a starring vehicle for John Travolta, who had achieved stardom with back-to-back hits, Saturday Night Fever and Grease, but during the pre-production period he bowed out and elected to do James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy instead.

Meanwhile, the director, according industry trade reports at the time, attached to the film was none other than Brian De Palma (De Palma and Travolta had teamed for Carrie, so the combo all made sense).   All hell broke loose as the initial screen adaption was rejected, neither Robert De Niro or Al Pacino could be enticed to take the role of Detective Daniel Ciello and then suddenly De Palma was no longer involved in the project ... he would do a De Palma/Travolta film, which ironically opened three weeks before Prince of the City, and that would be Blow Out.

Enter Sidney Lumet, who has been on top of the world with Dog Day Afternoon and Network, but then for some reason he made The Wiz in 1978 and needed a bit of redemption.  

Treat Williams was eventually cast as the detective from the Special Investigative Unit who agrees to work with the Justice Department to root out corruption in the department.

Bonus features include the "The Real Story."

Also added to the August Blu-ray release calendar from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are One Crazy Summer (Aug. 10), In the Good Old Summertime (Aug. 17) and Shadow of the Thin Man (also on Aug. 17).

 

 

Severin Films Locks Into Sept. 21 For The Blu-ray Luanch Of The Dungeon Of Andy Milligan Collection

Severin Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has another genre fan-pleasing collection ready for the Blu-ray marketplace on Sept. 21.

This would be the eight-disc/fourteen-film collection from cult filmmaker Andy Milligan.   Titled The Dungeon of Andy Milligan Collection, Severin has pulled together 14 surviving films from “depraved” filmmaker Andy Milligan … a genre-fan’s dream collection.

So what’s in this cinema jewel box?  It is a little sketchy in that Milligan tended to work off the grid, with a number of his films thought to be lost and some of those that survived were re-cut into different versions … or in the case of Pelvis, parts were lifted for Toga Party, which, by the way, is included in this collection.

In sort of a chronological order (that’s just a suggestion), we have the 1967 release of The Ghastly Ones, which is more or less a bloody haunted house thriller, where three couples, who are the survivors to a fortune, must spend the weekend at their dead father’s mansion to inherit the fortune.  

Living there are Hattie (Maggie Rogers — a Milligan regular who appeared in Torture Dungeon, The Filthy Five and The Naked Witch), who appears to be in charge, a maid by the name of Martha (Veronica Radburn) and a mentally-challenged hunchback by the name of Colin (played by Hal Borske, another Milligan regular — The Naked Witch, Torture Dungeon, Monstrosity, etc.).

Genre fans will recognize the classic horror structure of isolated location and victim pool, but in the world of Andy Milligan that’s just a jumping off place for carnage.   Soon the three husbands and one of the sisters are slaughtered by a mysterious figure, which gives us three suspects, plus, maybe one of the sisters as the killer.   Motive is revealed in the finale and it all makes sense.

Bonus features here include three separate commentary options … once with actor Hal Borske, who is joined by Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter; the second features CineFear.com’s Keith Crocker and the third is a partial commentary with filmmaker Fred Olen Ray.

Next in the series is Torture Dungeon: Director’s Cut, which is a period piece featuring the demented Duke of Norwich (Gerald Jacuzzo — yes, another one of Milligan’s regular group of actors — Guru, the Mad Monk, The Man with Two Heads and more), who decides that the best way to become the undisputed ruler of Norwich is to simply kill everyone.  

The body count mounts until just the lovely Heather (Susan Cassidy — Bloodthirsty Butchers, Gutter Trash) is the only one left and the Duke has her cornered in the dungeon, so it is just a matter of time before she joins the pile of bloody corpses … or, maybe not.

We have two commentary tracks with Torture Dungeon — the first is with film scholars Vic Pratt and Will Fowler, and the second teams actor Berwick Kaler (another Milligan stalwart — Bloodthirsty Butchers, The Body Beneath, The Man with Two Heads) with film scholar Stephen Thrower.

Just from these two movies in the series you get the idea that Severin Films has spared no expense in putting homage to filmmaker Andy Milligan together … film buffs and genre fans will not be disappointed.

Also included in the collection are Bloodthirsty Butchers: Director’s Cut, The Body Beneath, Guru, the Mad Monk, Nightbirds, The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here!, and the alternative version, The Curse of the Full Moon, The Man with Two Heads: Director’s Cut, Fleshpot on 42nd Street, and the alternate cut, Seeds, Blood, Legacy of Blood: Theatrical Cut and Legacy of Horror: TV Cut, Carnage and the aforementioned Toga Party.

As to added bonuses, there is a newly prepared 128-page book titled “Andy Milligan’s Venom” by Stephen Thrower, a collection of Hal Borske’s music compositions on the CD titled “The Bearded Lady’s Wake,” the 1965 short film, Vapors and more, much more!!