Wednesday, January 24, 2024

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending January 19, 2024


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport

New DVD Additions
  

Acorn Media
01/16/24 — Released Harry Wild: Series 2 (2 disc set)

Alchemy Werks (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Alien Outer Space: UFOs on the Moon and Beyond, Aliens at Loch Ness,  Demonic Aliens: UFOs From Inner Space,  Top 25 Alien Encounters: UFO Case Files Exposed and UFO Paranormal Overlords

Asian Cult Cinema (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Avenging Warrior 2 (Spanish), Calamo (Italian), Chrysalis (Cantonese), Perfect Crime (Italian) and Werewolf in Bangkok (Thai)

BBC Home Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Ghosts: Season Five

BCSN (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released 2024 - Boys' Basketball: Bowsher vs. Start, 2024 - Boys' Basketball: Norwalk vs. Bellevue and 2024 - Hockey: Dublin Jerome vs. Anthony Wayne
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Boys' Basketball: Bowsher vs. Scott, 2024 - Boys' Basketball: Emmanuel Christian vs. MVCD and 2024 - Hockey: Moeller vs. Northview

BEK Communications (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released 2024 - Boys Basketball: Linton-HMB vs. South Border, 2024 - Boys Basketball: Minot vs Bismarck Century, 2024 - Boys Hockey: Dickenson vs. Mandan, 2024 - Girls Basketball: Linton-HMB vs. Kidder County, 2024 - Girls Basketball: Minot vs Bismarck Century, 2024 - Girls Basketball: Napoleon GS vs. South Border and 2024 - Girls Basketball: Wells Fargo-Sheyenne vs. Fargo Davies
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Boys Basketball: Bismarck vs. Bismarck Century, 2024 - Boys Basketball: Fargo North vs. Fargo South, 2024 - Boys Basketball: Garrison vs. Wilton-Wing, 2024 - Boys Basketball: Mandan vs. Minot, 2024 - Boys Basketball: Napoleon GS vs. Strasburg-Zeeland, 2024 - Boys Hockey: Mandan vs. Bismarck Century, 2024 - Girls Basketball: Fargo North vs. Fargo South, 2024 - Girls Basketball: Kidder County vs. LaMoure-LM, 2024 - Girls Basketball: Mandan vs. Minot, 2024 - Men's College Basketball: Dakota College-Bottineau vs. Bismarck State College and 2024 - Women's College Basketball: Dakota College-Bottineau vs. Bismarck State College

Blue Water Content (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Cost of Free Water (French), Radicals and Wolf Or-7 Expedition

Brainstorm Media (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Dangerous Waters and Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier

Buck Cody (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released Hell Fire and Lost Planet Airmen
01/16/24 — Released Clutching Hand, Hollywood Thrill-Makers, Lightning Bolt Carson Movie Series (9 film set: Lightning Bill Carson, Lightning Carson Rides Again, Six Gun Trail, Code of the Cactus, Texas Wildcats, Outlaw's Paradise, The Fighting Renegade, Trigger Fingers) (9 disc set) and Sharad of Atlantis

Burning Bulb Publishing (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Crossing Paths, Drop the Beat, Losing to Win and Not For Sale

Capital Community Media (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting

Championship Productions
01/16/24 — Released Building a Successful Defense: How to Dominate Offenses with a Multiple Defense, Mark Pope: Executing Power Plays in Transition & Half-Court - Making Your Offense More Efficient!, Open Practice with Dusty May: Establishing Principles of Play with High Intensity Drills, Open Practice with Jennie Baranczyk: Player Development Drills & Situational Plays & Actions, Rugby Punt: Base Protection & Techniques on How to Utilize the Rugby Punt to Flip the Field and Using Jet/Fly Plays for Multiple Formations in the Spread Offense

Changing Your World (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Sunday Service, Wednesday Morning Service and Wednesday Night Service

Cheezy Flicks
01/16/24 — Released Mad Dog Killer (aka Beast with a Gun) and Mysteries From Beyond Earth

Cheol9260696 (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Grifters

Christian Worship Hour (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Christian Worship Hour: The Christ of Eternities - John 1:1-14

Cinephobia Releasing
01/16/24 — Released Fireworks (Italian)

City of Tacoma (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - Tacoma City Council Study Session

ClassicFlix
01/16/24 — Released Cause For Alarm!

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth High School: Poetry Out Loud, 2024 - Dartmouth Select Board Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth School Committee Meeting and 2024 - Girls Basketball: Dartmouth vs. Durfee
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth Conservation Commission Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Public Works Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 2024 - Demello School Concert, 2024 - Hockey: Dartmouth vs. Bishop Strang, 2024 - Potter School Concert and 2024 - Quinn School Concert

Dee Jay DB Blu (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released Among the Living, La Pretora (Italian), Marquis (French) and Temptation (French)
01/16/24 — Released Bewitched (Spanish), Boss' Wife, Cosi Come Sei (Italian), Day it Rained (German), Love Strange Love (English dubbed) and Malizia (Italian)

Dennis Massachusetts (MOD)
01/02/24 — Released 2024 - Conservation Commission and 2024 - South Dennis Historic District
01/09/24 — Released 2024 - Beach Committee, 2024 - Board of Health, 2024 - Dennis Affordable Housing Trust, 2024 - Old Kings Highway, 2024 - Planning Board, 2024 - Road Safety Task Force and 2024 - Waterwaste Implementation Committee
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Capital Outlay Committee, 2024 - Conservation Commission, 2024 - South Dennis Historic District and 2024 - Zoning Bylaw Study Committee

Dreamscape Media, LLC
01/16/24 — Released 12 Months, Animal DNA: Season One, Battle Of Britain 80: Allies at War, Discover London: Season One, Discover London: Season Two (2 disc set), Fumpy Facts, Funeral Director, Hardwiring Happiness Volume 1: Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness Volume 2: Rick Hanson, Mind Science in Action: Dan Siegel, Miracle of Sinners, Pins and Nettie: Volume One, Pins and Nettie: Volume Two, Stress Reduction With Jon Kabat, Vlad El Vampirito Fabuloso and Vlad The Fabulous Vampire

DVDRParty (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Camille 2000, Carmen Baby, Cyborg 2087, Dagmar's Hot Pants, Inc., Harry Novac Classic Sexploitation Trailers (3 disc set), Human Duplicators, It Came From Hollywood, Love Statue, Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Radley Metzger Double Feature (2 film set: The Rise of Little Mother, Naked Came the Stranger), Sci-Fi Double Feature (2 film set: Terrornauts, They Came from Beyond Space), Secrets of Sex and Touch of Genie

EBTV (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Girls' Basketball: East Brunswick vs. Old Bridge

ETV (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Boys' Baketball: Eagan vs. Burnsville, 2024 - Boys' Hockey: Eagan vs. Lakeville North, 2024 - Boys' Hockey: Eagan vs. Rosemont, 2024 - Boys' Swimming & Diving: Eagan vs. Burnsville, 2024 - City of Eagan: City Council Meeting, 2024 - Girls' Hockey: Eagan vs. Lakeville North and 2024 - Girls' Hockey: Eagan vs. Rosemont

EWTN
01/16/24 — Released EWTN Live: Paul Kengor, Journey Home: Michael Mason - Former Evangelical Protestant, Women of Grace: Dr. Monica Miller and World Over with Raymond Navarro

Film Classics (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released 5 Fingers, Action in the North Atlantic, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Little Big Horn
01/16/24 — Released 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, American Dream, Appointment with a Shadow, Catholics, Double Feature (2 film set: A Ticket to Tomahawk, Backtrack) (2 disc set), Double Feature (2 film set: The Falcon and the Co-eds, The Falcon Out West) (2 disc set), Double Feature (2 film set: The Falcon in Mexico, The Falcon in Hollywood) (2 disc set), Double Wedding, Hitler, Night Watch and Villain

Film Movement
01/16/24 — Released Millie Lies Low (ARR of 200 days; box office: $9,509)

Fun City Editions
01/16/24 — Released Radio On

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Spring Lakes

Grey Matter Movies (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Bricklayer, Color Purple, Echo: Season One, Killer, Lift, Maestro, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Season 1 (2 disc set) and Napoleon

I-Cine
01/09/24 — Released Liet Hoa Nhu Ca (18 disc set) and Phu Do Duyen (14 disc set)

IMD Films, Ltd.
01/16/24 — Released Super Vixens 6

Indican Pictures (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Eden Theory, Lucy and Whitney (ARR of 74 days; box office: $8,086), Unit 262 (ARR of 39 days; box office: $111,251) and You're All Gonna Die (ARR of 53 days; box office: $3,800)

Indiepix
01/16/24 — Released Ever, Reve, Helene Cixous (French) and Sisters (Latvian)

KLTV (MOD)
01/02/24 — Released 2024 - Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners Meeting, 2024 - Kalama City Council Meeting, 2024 - Kelso City Council Meeting and 2024 - Longview Planning Commission
01/09/24 — Released 2024 - Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners Meeting, 2024 - Cowlitz Transit Authority, 2024 - Kalama Planning Commission Meeting, 2024 - Longview City Council Meeting, 2024 - Port of Longview: Board of Commissioners and 2024 - Rainer City Council Meeting
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners Meeting and 2024 - Kalama City Council Meeting

Kino Lorber
01/16/24 — Released Desperately Seeking Susan.  Four Daughters (Arabic) and Witness for the Prosecution

LMC Media (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Rye Neck School Board Meeting and 2024 - Village of Mamaroneck Harbor Coastal Zoning Management Meeting

Las Vegas Video (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Charlie & Me, Holidate, How Not to Propose, Mr. Christmas (aka: The Perfect Christmas), One Starry Christmas, Something's Brewing, This Christmas Card and This Magic Moment

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Adventures of the Naked Umbrella

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Bad Moms Christmas, Den of Thieves, Foreigner and Mile 22

Lost Archives (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Home, Sweet Home (silent-1914), It Always Rains on Sunday, Jive Junction, Macomber Affair and Red Salute (aka: Her Uncle Sam)

MGM Home Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Addams Family 2

MGM Home Entertainment (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Asylum, Kingdom of the Spiders, Mademoiselle, Red Planet Mars and Strange Invaders

Magnolia Home Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Joan Baez: I am Noise (ARR of 102 days; box office: $647,557)
02/13/24 — Sets Stones and Brian Jones (ARR of 88 days; box office: $57,674)
03/05/24 — Sets Lord of Misrule (ARR of 88 days; box office: $3,717)
03/12/24 — Sets Immediate Family (ARR of 88 days; box office: $66,106)

Media Outlet (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Philip Sheridan and the American Indian Wars

Movie Buffs Forever (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Front of the Class, Smile as Big as the Moon and Winter in Veil

PCN Productions (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Pennsylvania Farm Show: Sheep Herding Finals

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Boys' Basketball: Central Catholic vs. Parkland, 2024 - Boys' Wrestling: South Lehigh vs. Bangor and 2024 - Men's Basketball: Navy vs. Lafayette

Showtime Networks, Inc. (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Supreme Team

Sugarbaby’s Sweet Deals (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult: Black & Blue, KISS: Download Festival 2022 (2 disc set), KISS: Irvine (KROQ Weenie Roast), KISS: Kruise VI, KISS: Live in Anaheim, 1976, KISS: Live in Dallas Reunion Arena 1996, KISS: Live Landover, MD – 1977, MUSE: iHeart Radio Alter Ego 2019, MUSE: Wercjter Festival 2023 and Van Halen: Live at the U.S. Festival 1983 (2 disc set)

Vermont Movie Store/Abbey Video/Giddy Up Video (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released Captain Carey U.S.A., Duel at Silver Creek, Gun Fight at Comanche Creek, No Name on the Bullet and Shadow Conspiracy
01/23/24 — Sets Time for Dying

VCI Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

Vision Films (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Under the Influencer

Zeus Video (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released Damnation Alley, Dark Delusion, Day of the Evil Gun, Day of the Outlaw, Demon Seed, Designing Women, Doctor Faustus, L'lra di Achille (Italian), Last Action Hero, Lyons in Paris, Sweet Revenge, That's Entertainment and Wind and the Lion
01/16/24 — Released El Greco, London has Fallen and Passenger

 


New Blu-ray Additions  

 

88 Films
01/16/24 — Released Beauty of Beauties (Mandarin) and Inspector Wears Skirts 2 (Cantonese)

Arrow Video
02/13/24 — Sets Shaolin Pit: Limited Edition (Mandarin)

Asuka the Disc Dog (Fred the Blu-ray Dog) (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Curse: Season 1, Ghost and Molly McGee: Season 2, Reacher: The Complete Second Season and Unsolved Mysteries: Season 3

Basement Video (MOD)
01/09/24 — Released Dangerous Minds
01/16/24 — Released Encino Man, Ernest Saves Christmas, Futurama: Season 11, No One Will Save You, Son in Law and Totally Killer

Blue Water Content (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Cost of Free Water (French), Radicals and Wolf Or-7 Expedition

Brainstorm Media (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Dangerous Waters and Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier

Capital Community Media (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting

Cinephobia Releasing
01/16/24 — Released Fireworks (Italian)

City of Tacoma (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - Tacoma City Council Study Session

ClassicFlix
01/16/24 — Released Cause For Alarm!

ClassicTVShop (MOD)
12/05/23 — Released One of the Boys: The Complete Series (2 disc set)
12/26/23 — Released Brady Bunch Hour: The Complete Series and Chico and the Man: The Complete Series (4 disc set)
01/02/24 — Released Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series (2 disc set)
01/16/24 — Released Flying Nun: The Complete Series (12 disc set)

Dark Force Entertainment, LLC
01/16/24 — Released White Rush

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth Conservation Commission Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Public Works Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 2024 - Demello School Concert, 2024 - Hockey: Dartmouth vs. Bishop Strang, 2024 - Potter School Concert and 2024 - Quinn School Concert

EBTV (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Girls' Basketball: East Brunswick vs. Old Bridge

ETV (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Boys' Baketball: Eagan vs. Burnsville, 2024 - Boys' Hockey: Eagan vs. Lakeville North, 2024 - Boys' Hockey: Eagan vs. Rosemont, 2024 - Boys' Swimming & Diving: Eagan vs. Burnsville, 2024 - City of Eagan: City Council Meeting, 2024 - Girls' Hockey: Eagan vs. Lakeville North and 2024 - Girls' Hockey: Eagan vs. Rosemont

Fun City Editions
01/16/24 — Released Radio On

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Spring Lakes

Grey Matter Movies (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Bricklayer, Color Purple, Echo, Lift, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Season 1 and Napoleon

Kino Lorber
01/16/24 — Released Coming Home, Devil's Brigade, Run Silent, Run Deep and Russians Are Coming, Russians Are Coming

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Bad Moms Christmas (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Den of Thieves (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Foreigner (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Mile 22

MGM Home Entertainment (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Addams Family 2, Asylum, Mademoiselle, Red Planet Mars and Strange Invaders

Movies R USA (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, Damages: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Enfield Poltergeist, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Little Match Girl, Mission Raniganj (Hindi), Monster in the Closet and Painkiller

PCN Productions (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Pennsylvania Farm Show: Sheep Herding Finals

PCSD (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Parma City School District Board of Education Meeting

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released 2024 - Boys' Basketball: Central Catholic vs. Parkland, 2024 - Boys' Wrestling: South Lehigh vs. Bangor and 2024 - Men's Basketball: Navy vs. Lafayette

Sentai Filmworks   
01/16/24 — Released Love Flops: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shout! Studios
01/16/24 — Released Chopper and Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (French)

Sloppy Second Sales (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Shin Godzilla (Japanese)

TSmithco (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Adventures of Kit Carson (53 episodes) (6 disc set), Lum & Abner Movie Series (7 film set: Dreaming Out Loud, The Bashful Bachelor, Two Weeks to Live, So This is Washington, Goin' to Town, Partners in Crime, Lum and Abner Abroad) (3 disc set) and Spectreman: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

Unearthed Films
01/16/24 — Released Mexico Barbaro II (Spanish)

Walai.limpa (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Nashville's Big Blast New Year's Eve Event 2023/2024

Well Go U.S.A.
01/16/24 — Released Childe (Korean)

Wood Dale Collective (MOD)
01/16/24 — Released Akuma-Kun: The Complete Series (2 disc set), AntiTrust, Apex, Baker, Big Beasts (2 disc set), Black Adder: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Bricklayer, CODA, Columbo: The Complete Series (16 disc set), Curse: Season One (2 disc set), Detective Front: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Eileen, Eragon, Fargo: Season 5 (2 disc set), Feud: Bette and Joan (2 disc set), Fool's Paradise, Fourth Proocol, Frozen Ground, Human Target: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle (Spanish), Las Vegas: The Complete Series (13 disc set), Love at First Sight, Marvels, Medici: Masters of Florence - The Complete Series (4 disc set), One More Shot, One Strange Rock: Season 1 (2 disc set), Painter, Passenger, Perception: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Polar , Portrait of a Lady on Fire (French), Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano, Rambo Collection (5 film set: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, Rambo, Rambo: Last Blood) (5 disc set), Screamers, Shrapnel, Siege of Jadotville, Skin, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonian), SpyxFamily: Season 2, Swordfish, Tell Me that You Love Me: The Complete Series (3 disc set), They Cloned Tyrone, This World, Then the Fireworks, U.S. Marshals, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season One (2 disc set), Walking Dead: The Complete Series (29 disc set), War Pony, Wild Isles (2 disc set) and Wingwomen (French)

New 4K Ultra HD Additions 
 

Blue Underground
04/23/24 — Sets Goodbye Uncle Tom (4K Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Bonus CD)

Criterion Collection
04/02/24 — Sets La Haine (French) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
04/09/24 — Sets Picnic at Hanging Rock (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
04/16/24 — Sets Werckmeister Harmonies (Hungarian) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo)
04/23/24 — Sets I Am Cuba (Spanish) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Kino Lorber
01/30/24 — Sets Scarlet Street (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
02/20/24 — Sets Last Castle (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Leviathan (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
01/16/24 — Released Raid: Redemption (Indonesian) (with Digital Copy)

Synapse Films
01/16/24 — Released Blood Feast

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.
03/12/24 — Sets Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (with Digital Copy)








Blue Underground Looks To Apr. 23 For The 4K Ultra HD Debut Of Goodbye Uncle Tom

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
Blue Underground, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K film restoration (from the original camera negatives) of the writing and directing team of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi’s 1971 film release of Goodbye Uncle Tom (aka: Farewell Uncle Tom).

The release date for this double-disc 4K Ultra HD releases (with Blu-ray and CD companion discs) will be Apr. 23

Following up their Mondo Cane success (among others), Jacopetti and Prosperi were quick to seize upon the cult success of Melvin Van Peebles’ spring of 1971 game-changer film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song with a gritty black narrative film of their own.   Note, both Sweetback and Goodbye Uncle Tom reached theatres before Junius Griffin coined the term Blaxploitation in the summer of 1972.

Released in Italy in 1971, Goodbye Uncle Tom didn’t reach domestic shores until a full year later in October of 1972.   By then it was a radically different film — cuts and changes were demanded before domestic theatrical exhibition.

What Blue Underground has done is to provide both the original Italian-language cut (136 minutes), with English subtitles, as well as the 123-minutes English-language theatrical cut.
These two different versions of the film are presented on separate 4K Ultra HD discs.   The bonus features are on a companion Blu-ray disc.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
Included as bonuses are two feature-length documentaries.   The first is Andrea Bettinetti’s 2009 film, The Importance of Shocking: Gualtiero Jacopetti, while the second is documentary filmmaker David Gregory’s 2003 release of The Godfathers of Mondo.

Additional bonus goodies include 50 minutes worth of 8mm “behind-the-scenes” footage and a pair of featurettes — “Mondo Mercenaries” and “Abjection Under Authoritarianism.”
There is also a CD soundtrack included with this 4K Ultra HD release from Blue Underground.

 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport

 



Mill Creek Entertainment Has The Perfect Response For Future Blu-ray SteelBook (As Well As 4K) Product Offerings In A Rapidly Changing Retail Environment

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
Mill Creek Entertainment is doing something that is very savvy and others, if not already doing so, should take note.

On Feb. 06, the company is doing an exclusive 30-day release window with Walmart for four new Blu-ray SteelBook releases.   On the surface that’s not new.  Companies have been doing “special editions” with major retailers for years.

But what struck us this time around is that Mill Creek is doing the smart thing in light of Best Buy’s recent exit from the physical media retail environment.   What drove Best Buy out — along with Ingram Distribution — was the rapid market shift from replicated product to manufacturing on demand for both DVD and Blu-ray. 

The “traditional” retail community (and for that matter, traditional distribution) cannot deal with a MOD environment — setting up computerized kiosks to manufacture thousands of movies and television series is simply not in the cards.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
What’s cool about these Mill Creek Entertainment exclusive Blu-ray SteelBook releases — Anaconda, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Hollow Man: Director’s Cut and I Know What You Did Last Summer — is that it dramatically lowers the risk of replicating these special editions.   The last thing that any home entertainment label wants are returns (of replicated product) piling up in a warehouse after a promotion is done.

By doing a 30-day exclusive with Walmart the company can see what is popular (what is selling) and make adjustments (lower risk) for a national rollout sometime in March.   Anything that Walmart returns can be recycled into the mix.

The alternative approach is to simply strike “limited” SKU counts (1,500 for example), which by its very nature limits sales.   It also sets up black market operations where enterprising eBay and Etsy store fronts will snap up ten or more copies and then wait until the “limited” run is gone and then cash in (at a premium).

For 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray SteelBook releases this two-step process is the perfect response to a changing retail environment.   Bravo Mill Creek Entertainment!

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport



DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport


Bayview Entertainment Has Selected Mar. 26 For The Blu-ray Debut Of Documentary Filmmaker Kovid Mittal's At 23000 Feet

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport

You have certainly heard of Mount Everest.  And probably seen the movie about K2 (literally titled K2)— or perhaps have heard of it, the second highest mountain in the world (about 800 foot shorter than Everest).   But few, outside of mountain climbing circles, have likely seen stories about Kalanag or “Black Peak.”

That’s what documentary filmmaker Kovid Mittal is facing in the Bayview Entertainment Blu-ray debut of At 23000 Feet on Mar. 26.   Black Peak at 20,960 feet — in the “death zone” — and every bit as dangerous as K2 and Everest is what his film is about.

But that’s the least of it.  Mittal was an engineering major in college, his father in the India Air Force, so a lot was expected of him, but everything in his life took an odd turn when he began modeling professionally.

He became good at it and picked up the acting bug as well.   A professional.  A star.  So why not “stretch” things a little and make a documentary about scaling Black Peak in record time … as both the filmmaker and the crazy, self-assured movie star that decided it was a grand idea!!    That would be like Tom Cruise doing his own stunts!

Six days, set the record, film it … or die trying, that’s the life or death tale of Mittal’s heart-stopping At 23000 Feet!   On Blu-ray (with all the breathtaking beauty of the Himalayan Mountains) from Bayview Entertainment on Mar. 26!! 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport




Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Four New 4K Entries From The Criterion Collection In April • Director Nancy Savoca's Dogfight Debut On Blu-ray On Apr. 30

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
The Criterion Collection revealed its April release calendar this past week, which includes a four-strong selection of new 4K Ultra HD debuts.  These are: Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (Apr. 2); the timeless Picnic at Hanging Rock from Australian filmmaker Peter Weir (Apr. 9); director Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Werckmeister Harmonies (Apr. 16) and director Mikhail Kalatozov’s 1964 film release of I Am Cuba (Apr. 23).

Impressive to be sure, not only the films themselves, but the fact that Criterion has four new 4K Ultra HD releases lined up for distribution during the month of April.

The real treasure, arriving on Blu-ray on Apr. 30, might just be a 1991 indie film from director Nancy Savoca.   This would be the new 2K digital restoration of Dogfight, teaming Lili Taylor with River Phoenix.  

It took five years to get Dogfight from page to screen, beginning with producer Peter Newman (The Squid and the Whale) reading Bob Comfort’s script and wanting to do it.   That took place sometime in 1986, but nothing happened.  

After spending two years trying to cast the key role of Rose, Newman was no closer to getting the film into production then he was when he first read Comfort’s story.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
It wasn’t until the spring of 1990 that cameras began to role — we won’t even list all of the changes, the ins and outs, etc., that took place during the two years since they gave up trying to find Rose.   John Cusack was in, then he was out, so too for director Michael Dinner, who was replaced by Savoca (True Love, The 24 Hour Woman, Dirt) … and Rose was finally found, Lily Taylor, who had some minor parts in Mystic Pizza and Born on the Fourth of July leading up to her performance here.

It took about three and half months to shoot the film (on location in Seattle and San Francisco), but post work seemed to go on forever (rumors about conflicts between filmmaker Nancy Savoca and the studio over the R-rating).   Finally, this indie film opens in the fall of 1991.   A limited run … buried.   That’s what happens when an independent filmmaker has a fight with a Hollywood studio and wins (take that).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
But something happened over the years.  A great story, wonderfully told, and blessed with a brilliant performance by Lili Taylor as Rose made Dogfight a must-see film.

It was originally released on DVD by Warner Home Video on Jan. 7, 2003 and then reissued (MOD) ten years later (2013) when the replicated inventory ran dry … now it will be available for the first time on Blu-ray.

Bonus goodies include commentary from filmmaker Nancy Savoca, who is joined by producer Richard Guay, plus there are newly minted video sessions with Savoca, Taylor, cinematographer Bobby Bukowski, production designer Lester Cohen and more, including editor John Tintori.


Director Tibor Takacs' Sabotage Makes Its Blu-ray Debut As A "Rewind Collection" Entry From MVD Entertainment Group On May 7

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
MVD Entertainment Group has given film fans a long lead with a May 7 street date for its next Blu-ray “Rewind Collection” release.   That will be plenty of time to beat the promotional drums for director Tibor Takacs’ 1996 film release of Sabotage, starring Mark Dacascos and Tony Todd.

Direct to video at just the moment that the world was being turned upside down.  VHS was the king in 1996 and then came DVD in March of 1997, how does a direct to video release survive that transition?

In short it didn’t.   The DVD & Blu-ray Release Report has been monitoring DVD release activity since the inception of the format and can report that out of 315,574 unique entries recorded (latest title count), it wasn’t until August of 2019 that the first pirated DVD of Sabotage surfaced domestically. 

MVD Entertainment Group stepped in December of last year with the official DVD debut (a no-frills entry), but now we get the real deal, the real homage to Takacs’ Sabotage with a “Rewind Collection” Blu-ray release! 


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
To celebrate, MVD has two newly-prepared video sessions that are included here.  The first features the legenary Mark Dacascos (as Lo-Mai in The Island of Dr. Moreau, as Mani in Brotherhood of the Wolf, plus such action gems China Strike Force, Cradle 2 the Grave, Maximum Impact and as Zero in John Wick: Chapter 3).

The second video session is with his co-star in the film Tony Todd (Candyman).

When MVD launched the “Rewind Collection” series it would only be a matter of time before Sabotage would be in the queue … mark it down, Blu-ray, May 7.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport