Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Selects Nov. 14 As The Street Date For A 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack Edition Of Director David Anspaugh's Rudy • Includes Director's Cut

Every now and then a film comes along that captures the imagination of the movie-going public.   It quickly become part of the national psyche; iconic.  

A good example, just say “Ruuuuu … deeeeee, Ruuuuu … deeeeee, Ruuuuu … deeeee” quickly three times and anyone within earshot will know immediately you are referring to Sean Astin’s performance in director David Anspaugh’s 1993 sports biopic Rudy.

 

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that Nov. 14 (college football season … the street-date Tuesday just before Notre Dame hosts Wake Forest on Nov. 18) will be the release date for a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition of Rudy, with two viewing options.

 

Fans can select the original theatrical cut, clocking in at 114 minutes, or the newly-prepared “Director’s Cut” of Rudy, which includes an addition 13-minutes worth of footage.

 

Bonus goodies include a newly-prepared commentary featuring David Anspaugh (two-time Emmy-winner for Hill Street Blues, plus such films as Hoosiers, Fresh Horses, Moonlight and Valentino), who is joined by screenwriter Angelo Pizzo (Hoosiers, My All-American) on the Director’s Cut commentary.

 

Additionally, there are five deleted scenes and a pair of featurettes — “Rudy: The Real Story” and “First Down with Sean Astin.”

 

 

 

 

 

Blu-ray On Record-Setting Pace Through The First 34 Weeks Of 2023 • Driven By Streaming, Consumer Demand And Unchecked Piracy Of Intellectual Properties

Let’s talk about Blu-ray release activity on a year-to-date basis this week.

 

The preliminary year-to-date results are on a record-shattering pace.   As of the week ending Aug. 25, 2023 there have been 5,030 new Blu-ray releases … last year at this time there were 3,717 Blu-rays released (2022 finished with 6,028, an all-time record).

 

When you make business decisions based on faulty data what do you get?

 

Well, we will go out on a limb here and say, bad decisions.  Sure, the data might be faulty, but it is close enough, so full steam ahead … or perhaps better put, stream ahead.

 

Let’s sell the paperback editions before the hard cover copies, because no one cares about physical media.  That is exactly what is happening … and all of this in the middle of two major labor actions.

 

Management at the various “Hollywood” studios (note, only Paramount is actually in Hollywood) either don’t care that everything is burning down, or don’t see that everything is burning down … ego versus, dare we say it, lack of insight. 

 

From the “Hollywood” studio point of view, physical media — DVD and Blu-ray — is dying, if not already dead.   They instead plunge ahead with the streaming wars that cost them billions of dollars every year and compound this fiscal insanity by delivering pristine masters of their film and series programming to “void fillers” and “helpers” with nary a thought as to the consequences.   Paperback editions before hard cover, that’s the religion.

 

A reality check is in order.   As of the week ending Aug. 25, 2023, we have consumed 34 of the street-date Tuesdays of the year.   That leaves 18 more product cycles left in 2023.   Keep that in mind.

 

Thus far the “Hollywood” studios, the very same “Hollywood” studios that are losing $600 million a month on streaming, have churned out 242 new Blu-ray product offerings.   

 

The boutique labels — independent labels — do the heavy lifting with 1,085 new Blu-ray product offerings.    If you are good at math, that adds up to 1,327 Blu-ray SKUs during the first 34 weeks of the year.   That is an average of 39 new Blu-ray product offerings each week.

 

The entire industry’s business analytics are based on what they see.   39 Blu-ray titles a week … Blu-ray is either dead, or dying, based on those numbers.

 

39 Blu-ray titles a week

Blu-ray is either dead, or dying, 

based on those numbers.

 

It’s called GIGO.   Garbage In, Garbage Out.   If you believe 120 million households are served by 39 new Blu-ray titles per week, then you are quite content to lose billions of dollars each year on streaming and sell paperback editions of your film and television assets before cashing in on the hard cover editions.

 

Here is where data is not so precise.   These 1,327 new Blu-ray titles — the action that business decisions are being made on — account for just 26.4 percent of the releases through the first 34 weeks of 2023 (4.8 percent for the studios and 21.6 percent for the boutique shops).

 

The rest?   The 73.6 percent that remains, where is that coming from?

 

Two sources account for the bulk of the Blu-ray titles being delivered to consumers.   One is legitimate and one not so much.    One source operates below the radar in local markets and the other source is quite visible, but ignored, willfully ignored.

 

First the legitimate source … this would be local broadband or public access suppliers who use the Blu-ray, not for its hi-def appeal, but for its capacity.   You can get more stuff on a Blu-ray disc than you can on a DVD … that’s the long and the short of it.

 

Micro broadcasters have churned out 608 new Blu-rays thus far this year, or 12.1 percent of the release pie.   Sure, the dollar volume is also micro, but when you are a local public access system, every dollar counts.   

 

They sell copies of the local sporting events, graduations, concerts in the park, public meetings (some by law) and other programs that the public might have an interest in.

 

Two points should be noted before dismissing this source as just peanuts.   

 

First, they sell Blu-ray titles week in and week out … they wouldn’t be doing it as a hobby, so consumers are buying from this below-the-radar source.   Not much in the way of dollar volume, we concede that, but every little bit helps when you are operating the equivalent of a roadside fruit stand.

 

Second, they are making use of the Blu-ray format for capacity.   Manufacturing it on demand … an order arrives, they burn a disc from their video files and out the door it goes.   It is not that complicated.

 

If they can do this, then why can’t the streaming giants with their programming?  

 

All three of these sources, studios, boutiques and micro broadcasters are legitimate.  They are selling copies of what they produce and own.   They account, so far this year, for 38.5 percent of all Blu-ray titles released.

 

What remains, the part of the ice berg below the water — 61.5 percent of the mass — are Blu-rays from “helper” and “void-filler” sites.    Last century we called these sources pirates or bootleggers.

 

Not included in the year-to-date numbers are those “honey pot” sources operating out of China, Sri-Lanka and other exotic places where you have to be out of your mind to serve up credit card information to get a $12.99 Blu-ray edition of your favorite movie or television show.   

 

Nope, we’re just tracking those in Tampa, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, across the border in Canada, some European sources that have been operating forever and the like.

 

This is where the paperback before hard cover analogy comes in handy to understand why 61.5 percent of all Blu-ray titles released thus far this year are from “helper” sources.

 

When a film first surfaces at your local multiplex, the distributor (studio or independent) shares in the revenue generated with the local exhibitor.   That’s the hard cover first edition.

When the same rights owner manufactures and sells physical media (DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD), the revenue generated, either through retail distribution or direct-to-consumer sales, is exclusive.   It is a one-off transaction with one consumer at a time — the rights owner controls it.   This too is a hard cover edition.

 

Everything else that follows is the paperback version.   The bulk of consumers who either don’t go out to the movies (couch potatoes) or don’t buy physical media are the down-market audience.   They might watch a version of a movie with a ton of commercials … they don’t care.   They might watch it on Netflix, or Amazon Prime or the Peacock; Disney+ and on and on.   They consume it and move on.

 

The first two transactions — theatrical and physical media — the rights owner controls.   But, when you slip the paperback version into the revenue stream before the hard cover sales have been tapped out, you invite “helpers” to share in the action.

 

The moment a film or series streams, a pristine master of the program is out there and if you haven’t satisfied consumer demand, someone else will.   Just look at the numbers — and we are just talking Blu-ray — and you can’t help but notice that 61.5 percent of the Blu-ray releases so far this year are stolen intellectual properties.

 

Week after week major motion pictures have a digital sales window (paperback version) before the hardcover edition is made available … “helpers” are literally served up a master of the film to fill consumer demand and that’s exactly what they do.  

 

This past week alone, we had “helper” Blu-ray editions of director Sammi Cohen’s You are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, starring Adam Sandler, filmmaker Carlos Alonso Ojea’s Killer Book Club, director Anthony Stacchi’s animated adventure, The Monkey King, plus Meg 2: The Trench, Past Lives and Evil Dead Rise.

 

That’s just the new film releases.  Series programming would take up even more space, but to keep it simple, if it is streamed, it is available on Blu-ray (or DVD) … on average 91 new “helper” Blu-rays arrived every week this year.   That’s what you get when you sell the paperback edition before fulfilling consumer demand in the channels you control … and do nothing about it.

 

Next week it will be a new horror story, you can count on it!

 

 

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending August 25, 2023

 

New DVD Additions

 

ABMI TV (MOD)

08/01/23 — Released 2023 - Mendon Select Board Meeting

08/08/23 — Released 2023 - Concerts on the Grass: Tobe Road

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Bellingham School Committee Meeting

 

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Slice 2

 

All Time Movie Classics (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Bullet Scars, Chase, Club Paradise, Dark Mountain, Detour, Gangs, Inc. (aka: Paper Bullets), Girls in Chains, Kansan, Lady in the Death House, Murder on Lenox Avenue, Nothing but the Truth, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Payoff, Prison Train, Star Reporter, Strange Illuision, Strange Love of Martha Ivers and Winterset

 

Another World Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released War Gods of the Deep and Wichita

 

BBC Home Entertainment (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Silent Witness: Season 26 (3 disc set)

 

BCAM TV (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Braintree Town Council Meeting

 

BCSN (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Auto Racing: Corrigan Race Fuels 100, 2023 - Boys' Soccer: Maumee vs Springfield, 2023 - Boys' Soccer: Ottawa Hills vs. Perrysburg, 2023 - Football: Dublin Coffman vs St. John's, 2023 - Football: Margaretta vs Vermilion, 2023 - Football: Northview vs Southview, 2023 - Football: Northwood vs Rossford and 2023 - Girls' Soccer: Southview vs Findlay

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Football: Lake vs. Northwood

 

BCTV (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Berks County Board of Commissioners Meeting, 2023 - City of Reading City Council Committee of the Whole Meeting, 2023 - City of Reading City Council Committee of the Whole Meeting, 2023 - City of Reading Conditional Use Hearing and 2023 - City of Reading Nominations and Appointments Committee Meeting

 

BEK-TV (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - High School Football: Bottineau vs Carrington and 2023 - High School Football: Ellendale-Edgeley-Kulm vs Oakes

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - American Association Baseball: Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks vs Gary SouthShore RailCats - 8/22/23, 2023 - American Association Baseball: Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks vs Gary SouthShore RailCats - 8/23/23, 2023 - American Association Baseball: Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks vs Kansas City Monarchs 8/19/23, 2023 - American Association Baseball: Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks vs Kansas City Monarchs 8/20/23, 2023 - American Association Baseball: Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks vs Kansas City Monarchs 8/21/23, 2023 - College Football: University of Jamestown vs Valley City State University, 2023 - High School Football: Enderlin vs LaMoure-Litchville-Marion, 2023 - High School Football: Mandan vs Fargo Davies and 2023 - High School Football: South Border vs Napoleon-Gackle-Streeter

 

Belle & Blade War Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released O: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

 

Buck Cody (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Secrets of Wu Sin

 

Burning Bulb Publishing (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Mexican Connection and Mexican Gangster 2: Venganza

 

By From E58 MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Batman: Black and White and Shazam!: The Complete 1974 Series (3 disc set)

 

CBS Home Entertainment MOD)

08/22/23 — Released CSI-Vegas: Season 2 (5 disc set) and So Help Me Todd: Season One (4 disc set)

 

CCX Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - City of Plymouth: City Council Meeting and 2023 - Osseo: Planning Commission Meeting

 

Capital Community Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Cherriots Board of Directors Meeting and 2023 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting

 

Catenary Video Productions

08/22/23 — Released Rails of the Golden City: 150 Years of Cable Cars Streetcars and Steam Trains in San Francisco

 

Championship Productions

08/22/23 — Released Best Practices For Ball Screen Reads & Player Development, Competitive Practice Drills & Quick Hitters Out of the Swing Offense, Dave Shondell: Creating a Team Defensive System to Contain Your Next Opponent, Dave Shondell: Designing a Productive Culture of Defense, Dave Shondell: Developing Individual Defensive Skills with Repetition & High Expectations, Encyclopedia of Modern Defense: Close Outs, Defending without Fouling, Rotations, Scramble Drills & More!, Mastery of the Dribble Drive Offense: Backdoor Cuts, Spacing, Footwork, Finishing & More! and Rob Senderoff: Coaching Special Situations & End-of-Game Plays - Details That Make a Difference!

 

Changing Your World (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Sunday Service, Wednesday Morning Service and Wednesday Night Service

 

Christian Worship Hour (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Christian Worship Hour: The Pearl of Great Price - Matthew 13:45-46

 

Cinephobia Releasing

08/22/23 — Released Brightwood

 

City of Escondido (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released City Council Meeting

 

City of Fargo (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Airport Authority, 2023 - Civil Service Commission: Appeal Hearing, 2023 - Diversion Finance Committee, 2023 - Economic Development Incentives Committee and 2023 - Fargo City Commission

 

City of Lawrence (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Lawrence City Council Meeting – Licensing

 

City of Leawood (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - City of Leawood Governing Body, 2023 - City of Leawood Planning Commission Meeting and 2023 - City of Leawood Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting

 

City of Tacoma (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2023 - Tacoma City Council Study Session

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2023 - Tacoma City Council Study Session

 

Dark Star Pictures

08/22/23 — Released Summoning the Spirit

 

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Dartmouth School Committee Meeting

 

EWTN

08/22/23 — Released EWTN Live: John Bursch, from the Alliance Defending Freedom, to talk about the human person and gender ideology and how Church teaching on Christian love, coupled with authentic compassion, Journey Home: Dr. Benjamin Lewis - Former United Methodist and World Over with Raymond Navarro: John McLaughlin

 

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Road to Morocco, Road to Utopia and Twilight Zone, Season 2, Part 5 (6 episodes)

 

Film Classics (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Beast of the City, Big Red One, Bride Comes Home, Cold Turkey, Dakota , Dance, Fools, Dance, Devil's Rain, Gamma People, Hanoi Hilton, Human Desire , Ice Follies of 1939, Iron Sheriff, Island at the Top of the World, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Jubilee Trail, Kangaroo, Kid from Texas, Killer Shrews, King of the Wild Stallions, Land Raiders, Littlest Horse Thieves, Love Me Tender , Magnetic Monster, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Midsummer Night's Dream, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North , Oklahoma Crude, Once Is Not Enough, One of Our Spies is Missing, Palm Beach Story, Shop Around the Corner, Stella, Thieves Like Us, Woman Rebels and Young Frankenstein

 

Film Classics 4U (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Crystal Ball

 

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Storage Locker

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Reflections: Samuel Eliot Morison

 

Giant Interactive (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Lionesses: How Football Came Home

 

Greenwich Entertainment

08/22/23 — Released Two Tickets to Greece (French)

 

Grey Matter Movies (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Meg 2: The Trench, Quasi, Secret Invasion and Werewolf by Night

 

HCAM (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Concerts on the Common Series: Jumpin Juba

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Concerts on the Common Series: Hot Acoustics, 2023 - Hopkinton Elementary School Building Committee, 2023 - Hopkinton Planning Board and 2023 - Hopkinton Select Board

 

HDPO827 (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

 

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 14 Love Letters, Eat, Play, Love, Love Unleashed and Sun, Sand & Romance

 

Hard to Find Stuff by Don (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Extraction, In the Shadow of the Moon, Pale Blue Eye, Red Sea Diving Resort and Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

 

Harford TV (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - City of Aberdeen: City Council Meeting, 2023 - City of Aberdeen: Planning Commission Meeting, 2023 - Havre de Grace City Council Meeting and 2023 - Havre de Grace Economic Development Advisory Board Meeting

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Havre de Grace City Council Meeting

 

I-Cine (MOD)

08/08/23 — Released Cuoc Doi Van Dep Sao (15 disc set) and Son Ha Nguyet Minh (15 disc set)

08/15/23 — Released Tram Vun Huong Phai (24 disc set)

 

Jarrett Enterprises - Loving the Classics (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Great Adventure (Swedish), La Terre (silent-1921), Legend of Loch Ness, Life of Juanita Castro, Lord, Let Me Die but Not Die Out, Madame Death (Spanish), Man from O.R.G.Y., Manhunter, Marauders of the Sahara (Italian), Marshall of Trail City, Mighty Jungle, Mira (Dutch), Morbo (Spanish), Movie Orgy, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Mysterious Island, Mysterious Rider (Italian), NBC Experiment in Television: Fellini: A Director's Notebook, Night of the Hunted (French), Night of the Serpent (Italian), O.S.S. 117 is not Dead (English dubbed), Operation Manhunt, Other Side of Paradise (French), Question of Suspense, RA Expeditions, Uncle Vanya, Voice of the Hurricane, Wings of Mystery and Ypotron - Final Countdown (Italian)

 

John Pechulis Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Conrail's Kaleidoscope Years, Vol 2: Upstate New York Lehigh Valley Horseshoe Curve, Railfanning with the Bednars, Volume 17: Conrail D&H 1987-1988, Railfanning with the Bednars, Volume 18: Conrail D&H 1988-1989 and Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, Volume 6

 

Just for the Hell of It (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released California Cowboys (aka: Escape from El Diablo), Cellat (Turkish), Firm Man, Hot Pants Holiday and Loving and Laughing

 

Kalmbach Publishing Company

08/22/23 — Released Trains: East Broad Top Reborn

 

Koo Visions (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Elemental, Monkey King and No Hard Feelings

 

LMC Media (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Town of Mamaroneck Town Council Meeting, 2023 - Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees Budget Work Session and 2023 - Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees Meeting

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Rye Neck School Board Meeting

 

Las Vegas Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released More Love Grows, Twas the Night Before Christmas and Welcome Home Christmas

 

Ligonier Ministries

08/15/23 — Released Fear of the Lord

 

Media Outlet (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released Battle of Fort Sumter and Julius Caesar: The Battle of Alesia, His Assassination

08/22/23 — Released Berlin: The Doomed City and Howard Carter: The Quest for King Tutankhamun's Tomb

 

Movie Time Video

08/22/23 — Released El Comienzo Del Tiempo (Spanish) and Nocturno (Spanish)

 

Movie Time Video - GCMT

08/22/23 — Released Level Up (4 disc set)

 

Netblock Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Freddy's Nightmares: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Heart of Stone and Hubie Halloween

 

PCTV (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Pittsfield City Council Meeting, 2023 - Pittsfield Public Works & Utilities Committee and 2023 - Pittsfield School Committee Meeting

 

PEG-TV (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - 88th East Poultney Day, 2023 - Castleton Select Board, 2023 - Mendon Select Board, 2023 - PEGTV Sports Rewind: High School Football:  MSJ vs RHS JV Football - November 1, 1993, 2023 - Pittsford Select Board, 2023 - Poultney Select Board, 2023 - Proctor Select Board, 2023 - Rutland Town School Board, 2023 - Rutland Town Select Board and 2023 - Rutland Town Select Board

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Fairhaven Select Board, 2023 - Killington Select Board, 2023 - Mill River Unified School Board, 2023 - Pawlet Select Board, 2023 - PEGTV Sports Rewind: High School Football:  Rutland High School at Brattleboro JV Football - September 7, 1993, 2023 - Rutland Board of Aldermen and 2023 - Wallingford Select Board

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

08/22/23 — Released NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service - The Twentieth Season (6 disc set)

 

Play Me Movies (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Behind the Mask, Manhattan Melodrama, Paid in Full and Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

 

Plets Express (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Steam, Smoke & Thunder, Vol 1: 23 Exciting Steam Locomotives

 

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Football: Liberty vs. Dieruff and 2023 - Football: Northern Lehigh vs. Catasauqua

 

Rare Movie Collector (MOD)

08/01/23 — Released Kill Squad

08/08/23 — Released Crawling Hand, Crazy Sex (Mandarin), Creature from the Haunted Sea, Creepozoids, Cremators, Crimson: The Color of Blood and Cross of the Seven Jewels

 

Real Video Store (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Extraction 2

 

Retro and Classic Flixs (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 1001 Arabian Nights

 

Retro Moving Images (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released They Call It Sin

 

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Apocalypse Love, Beyond Fury, Tortured 2 & 3, Viral and World is a Beautiful Place and I Am Not Afraid to Die

 

Scottsdale Video Network (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - City of Scottsdale City Council Meeting, 2023 - City of Scottsdale City Council Meeting and Work Study Session and 2023 - City of Scottsdale Planning Commission Meeting

 

Secret Records

10/06/23 — Sets The Members: Alive (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

 

Showtime Networks, Inc. (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Back to Life: Season 1 and Back to Life: Season 2

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Uptown VFW - Minneapolis, MN and Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2023 - Milwaukee, WI

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

09/26/23 — Sets Insidious: The Red Door (with Digital Copy) (ARR of 81 days; box office: $81,884,814)

 

Synergetic (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Gold

 

Throwback Media (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 1981 Spider-Man Complete Animated Series (2 disc set), 1994 Fantastic Four Complete Animated Series (4 disc set), Early Beatles Gold Unreleased, Elvis and the Beauty Queen, Incredible Hulk Complete 1966 Animated Series (2 disc set), Iron Man 1966 Complete Animated Series (2 disc set), Muppet Family Christmas, Spider-Woman Complete 1978 Animated Series (3 disc set) and Sub-Mariner Complete 1966 Animated Series (2 disc set)

08/22/23 — Released 1977 Spider-Man Complete Series (4 disc set), Adventures of Aquaman Complete Animated Series (2 disc set), Captain America 1966 Cartoon TV Series, Elvis and Me, Green Hornet 1966 Complete TV Series (2 disc set), Incredible Hulk Complete 1982 Animated Series (2 disc set), Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Nightmares The Complete Series (9 disc set), Spiderman and his Amazing Friends Complete Animated Series (4 disc set), Spiderman Complete 1994 Animated Series (5 disc set), Star Wars Holiday Special 1978,  Superman Max Fleischer's Complete 1940's Series (2 disc set), Tales from the Cryptkeeper Complete Animated Series (3 disc set) and Toei Japanese Spider-Man Complete 1978 Series (4 disc set)

 

Town Square Television (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Boys Soccer West Lutheran @ St. Croix Lutheran Academy

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/22/23 — Released Chicago Fire: Season Eleven (4 disc set)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Chicago Med: Season Eight (5 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.

08/22/23 — Released No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-affirming Care

10/24/23 — Sets Meg 2: The Trench (ARR of 81 days; box office: $66,593,550)

 

Xenon Pictures

08/22/23 — Released No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-affirming Care

 

Zeus Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Breach, Donnie Brasco 2.0, False Paradise, Hairspray, Hannie Caulder, Hardcore Henry, Harlow, Harper, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harum Scarum, Hatari!, He Knows You're Alone, Head-On (German/Turkish), Heaven Can Wait, Hell Town, Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour, Henry Aldrich Swings It, Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout, Henry Aldrich, Editor, Henry and Dizzy, Hey Let's Twist, Hidden Dimension, High Bright Sun, Hill, Hillsong: Let Hope Rise, Hitler: A Career (German), Home Stretch (silent-1921), Horse's Mouth, Horton Hears a Who, Hotel Paradiso, Hotel Transylvania, House of Horrors, Houston Story, Howling, Hullabaloo, Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent-1923), Hunted (aka: Stranger In Between), Huntsman: Winter's War, Hurry Sundown, In Old Colorado, Master Mystery (silent-1918), Mind Snatchers (aka: Happiness Cage), Riders of the Deadline, Riders of the Timberline, Showdown, Sinister Journey, Soft Drinks and Sweet Music, Stagecoach War, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Unexpected Guest, Wet Parade, When a Man Loves (silent-1927) and Wide Open Town

 

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Slice 2

 

Arrow Video

08/22/23 — Released Giallo Essentials (Red Edition) (3 film set: The Possessed, The Fifth Cord, The Pyjama Girl Case) (Italian) (3 disc set) and Unman, Wittering and Zigo

11/28/23 — Sets Barbarella (2 disc set)

 

Asuka the Disc Dog (Fred the Blu-ray Dog) (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Baki Hanma - Season 2, Big 4, Killer Book Club (Spanish), List, Nancy Drew - Season 4, Perception: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Ragnarok - Season 3, Sixth Commandment, Vacation Friends, Vacation Friends 2 and You are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

 

Burning Bulb Publishing (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Mexican Connection and Mexican Gangster 2: Venganza

 

Capital Community Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Cherriots Board of Directors Meeting and 2023 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting

 

City of Tacoma (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2023 - Tacoma City Council Study Session

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2023 - Tacoma City Council Study Session

 

Claugir-16/Grimpe-94/Dili6963/debor1245 (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Adipurush (Hindi), Arabella: Black Angel (Italian), Avalon, Bholaa (Hindi), Braveheart (2 disc set), Clean, Deadloch: Season 1 (2 disc set), Exodus, Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story, Harmonium (Japanese), Mech Cadets: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Okay Madam (Korean), Sense and Sensibility and Small Soldiers

 

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Dartmouth School Committee Meeting

 

EBTV (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Football: East Brunswick vs. Franklin

 

ETV (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Eagan Girls Swim & Dive: Wildcat Meet

 

FUNimation

08/22/23 — Released Ranking of Kings: Season 1 Part 2 (2 disc set)

 

Grey Matter Movies (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Meg 2: The Trench, Quasi, Secret Invasion and Werewolf by Night

 

Kino Lorber

08/22/23 — Released Hardcore, Pretty Baby and Three Into Two Won't Go

 

Majol - 7093 (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Love According to Dalva (French), Rio Bravo, Scarlet Hill (2 disc set), Siccita (Italian) and Tin Cup

 

Movies R USA (MOD

08/22/23 — Released Ash vs. Evil Dead: Seasons 1 - 3 (4 disc set), Bodyguard: Season 1 (2 disc set), Fall: Seasons 1 - 3 (3 disc set) and Poirot: Seasons 1 & 2 (4 disc set)

 

North Metro TV (MOD)

08/15/23 — Released 2023 - Lexington City Council Meeting and 2023 - Lino Lakes City Council Meeting

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Anoka County Board Meeting, 2023 - Blaine City Council Meeting, 2023 - Centerville City Council Meeting, 2023 - Circle Pines City Council Meeting, 2023 - Ham Lake City Council Meeting and 2023 - Spring Lake Park City Council Meeting

 

PCSD (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Parma City School District Board of Education Meeting and 2023 - Parma City School District Board of Education Special Meeting

 

Plets Express (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Steam, Smoke & Thunder, Vol 1: 23 Exciting Steam Locomotives

 

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 2023 - Football: Liberty vs. Dieruff and 2023 - Football: Northern Lehigh vs. Catasauqua

 

Radiance Films

08/22/23 — Released Moment of Romance (Cantonese)

 

Rewind Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released 976-Evil, Bear: Season 1, Evil Dead Rise, Hateful Eight Extended Edition, Mandalorian: Season 1 (4 disc set), Peter Pan and the Pirates (2 disc set), Star Wars: Ewoks: Caravan of Courage, Star Wars: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Super Mario Brothers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Series (4 disc set)

 

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released Apocalypse Love, Beyond Fury, Tortured 2 & 3, Viral and World is a Beautiful Place and I Am Not Afraid to Die

 

Shout! Factory

08/22/23 — Released Coma: Special Edition

 

Sloppy Second Sales (MOD

08/22/23 — Released 3 Iron (Korean), Blackest Heart (German) and Money Crazy (Cantonese)

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Uptown VFW - Minneapolis, MN and Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2023 - Milwaukee, WI

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

08/22/23 — Released American Pop

09/26/23 — Sets Insidious: The Red Door (with Digital Copy)

 

Strikeback Studios

08/22/23 — Released Spirit Halloween: The Movie

 

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.

08/22/23 — Released Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar (with Digital Copy)

10/24/23 — Sets Meg 2: The Trench (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions

Arrow Video

11/28/23 — Sets Barbarella (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

11/07/23 — Sets Scrooged (with Digital Copy)

 

Powerhouse Films

08/22/23 — Released Night of the Hunted (French) and Rape of the Vampire (French)

 

Shout! Studios

08/22/23 — Released Hackers: Collector's Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray)

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

08/22/23 — Released Legend of Zorro (with Digital Copy)

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

08/22/23 — Released Nightmare Before Christmas: Ultimate Collector's Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.

10/24/23 — Sets Meg 2: The Trench (with Digital Copy)