Thursday, August 22, 2024

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending August 09, 2024

New DVD Additions

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


 

 

Access Tuolumne (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Church of the Harvest and 2024 - Love Alive
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Love Alive, 2024 - Sonora City Council Meeting and 2024 - Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Meeting

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Breast Friends Club 2, Catch of the Day Director's Cut, Sexy Time 9 and Sexy Time 10

Asian Cult Cinema (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released August in the Water (Japanese), Matter of Innocence, Night Angel and Torture (German)

BCSN (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Synchonized Swimming: The Little Mermaid @ Plum Brook and 2024 - Top Notch Baseball: Danny's vs. Filay

Belmont Media Center (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Belmont Planning Board Meeting and 2024 - Belmont Select Board Meeting
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Belmont Planning Board Meeting

Bounty Films (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Danny McGinlay: The First Complete Season, Frenchy: Ruthless, Jeff Green: Live! An Englishman in Australia, Nick Capper: Pork Palace and Rainbow Video
08/06/2024 — Released Wrong Crowd

Brainstorm Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Acidman and Barber

Breaking Glass Pictures
08/06/2024 — Released Hard Miles

Bridgestone Multimedia (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released This Train

Buck Cody (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Claw Monsters, Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island and Shadow of Chinatown
08/06/2024 — Released Charles Starrett/Russ Hayden Movie Series (6 film set: Riders of the Badlands, West of Tombstone, Lawless Plainsmen, Down Rio Grande Way, Riders of the Northland, Badmen of the Hills) (6 disc set), Quiet Gun, Rim of the Canyon, Shakedown and Wings of Adventure

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released So Help Me Todd: The Final Season (2 disc set)

Capital Community Media (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting and 2024 - Salem-Keizer School Board Meeting

CasablancaDVDs/truth3152 (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Barbary Coast Gent and Trade Winds
08/06/2024 — Released Cheyenne Kid

Championship Productions
07/30/2024 — Released Dana Ford: Elite Switching Defense, Establishing Energy & Focus Into Your Practices, John Kuhn: Blocker Mover Offense Entries & Sets, Penny Lucas White: Creating a Championship Culture, Rodney Terry: 2-Minute Practice Drills & Offense & Defense and
Todd Simon: Free-Flowing, Fast-Paced Transition & Half-Court Offense
08/06/2024 — Released Dave Smart: Build an Offensive System of Play Around Space & Pace, Jim Calhoun: Championship Nuggets on Coaching, Open Practice with Ted Boyle and Rob Senderoff: Building Aggressive Team Defense

Changing Your World (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Sunday Service, Wednesday Evening Service and Wednesday Morning Service
08/06/2024 — Released Sunday Service, Wednesday Evening Service and Wednesday Morning Service

Christian Worship Hour (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Christian Worship Hour: Seven Complaints of God - Malachi 3:7*12
08/06/2024 — Released Christian Worship Hour: Almost a Christian - Mark 12:28-34

City of Tacoma (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Study Session
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Study Session

Dark Star Pictures
07/30/2024 — Released Tiger Stripes (Malaysian)

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth Planning Board Meeting
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth Board of Health, 2024 - Dartmouth Broadband Committee Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Finance Committee Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Historical Commission Meeting and 2024 - Dartmouth Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting

Decal Releasing, Inc.
07/30/2024 — Released William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
08/06/2024 — Released Babes

Dennis, Massachusetts (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Conservation Commission and 2024 - Select Board
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Beach Committee, 2024 - Board of Health, 2024 - Planning Board, 2024 - Wixon School Building Committee and 2024 - Zoning Bylaw Study Committee

Deskpop Publishing (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Murder Motel

DVDLady (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Home is Where the Hart Is, Jaffa (Hebrew/Arabic), Mecanomagie, Medal for Benny, Medicine, Mistress America, On Golden Pond, Once Upon a Forest, One Woman's Courage, Or (My Treasure) (Hebrew), Outpost in Morocco, Palermo Connection, People vs. Larry Flynt, Permanent Midnight, Red Skelton's Funny Faces III, Replacing Dad, Seven Freckles (German), Stickmen and Whipping Boy
08/06/2024 — Released All Hallows Evil: Lord of the Harvest, Children Who Love Each Other (French), Conviction, Flickan (Swedish), Guns of August, Making of Jurassic Park, Mutiny, My Six Loves, New Beachcombers, No Place for Jennifer, Nothing too Good for a Cowboy, Of Human Hearts, Railway Dragon, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, Shadow of China, Shadows (Macedonian), Small Miracle, Timeless Tales from Hallmark: The Elves and the Shoemaker, Wanderers and Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

ETV (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Eagan: City Council Meeting

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Atom Age Vampire: Uncut (Italian), Baba Yaga (Italian), Creature with the Atom Brain, Creeping Terror, Curse of Belphegor (French), Death Carries a Cane (Italian), Death Walks at Midnight (Italian), Devil's Honey (Italian), Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype, Dragonfly For Each Corpse (Spanish), Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, Great Detective (2 disc set), Hunter's Moon, In the Folds of the Flesh (Italian), Last Blitzkrieg, Men of Boys Town, Naked You Die (Italian), Nate and Hayes, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Night of a Thousand Cats, Pitfall, Possessed, Red Headed Corpse (Italian), Red Menace, Rogue Cop, Rumble on the Docks, Schizo, Scorpion with Two Tails, Seventh Grave (Italian), Sex of Angels (Italian), Six of a Kind, Story of Prunella, Strange Invaders, Stranger in Town, Third Eye (Italian), Well, Wife, Husband and Friend and Young Girls in Ecstasy
08/06/2024 — Released 6000 Enemies, Adolescents (Spanish), Angels Leap (French), Calendar Girl, Captain Kidd, Captain Kidd, Days of Wine and Roses, Fair Wind to Java, House by the River, Intimate Lessons, Laurel & Hardy Comedy Collection (5 film set: Bonnie Scotland, A-Haunting We Will Go, The Dancing Masters, Jitterbugs, The Bullfighters) (5 disc set), Laurel & Hardy Murder Case, Music Box, Mustang: House of Pleasure (aka: Mustang: The House that Joe Built), Somebody Up There Likes Me, They Won't Forget, Weekend with Lulu, Welcome Stranger, You're Telling Me and Youth Runs Wild

Film Masters (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Abbott & Costello in Jack and the Beanstalk and It's Love Again

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released It's Love Again, Hyperlink and PROcess
08/06/2024 — Released 500 Days of Silence and Highest Brasil

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released War On Terror: KL Anarki (Malaysian)

Greenwich Entertainment
07/30/2024 — Released Queendom (Russian)
Swan Song

Hope of the World (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Book of Revelation II
08/06/2024 — Released Olympian Mystery

House Lights Media
07/23/2024 — Released Scream Therapy

Kino Lorber
07/30/2024 — Released Patrice Leconte Collection (4 film set: The Hairdresser's Husband, Yvonne's Perfume, Half a Chance, Girl on the Bridge) (2 disc set) (French)
08/06/2024 — Released Banel & Adama (Pular)

Leomark Studios (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Second Chance (Portuguese) and Ship of the Damned

Leonard Mowry
08/06/2024 — Released Skeleton Mansion Theatre (9 disc set)

Lex Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Lexington Affordable Housing Trust, 2024 - Lexington Historic Districts Commission Meeting and 2024 - Lexington Planning Board Meeting
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Lexington Conservation Commission Meeting, 2024 - Lexington School Committee Meeting and 2024 - Lexington Select Board

MHz Networks
07/30/2024 — Released Unit One: Complete Series (11 disc set)

Magnolia Home Entertainment
07/30/2024 — Released Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Martial Arts Xperience (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Killer Ex

McCorm-72 (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released From: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Rick and Morty: The Complete Series (12 disc set) and Witcher: The Complete Series (9 disc set)

Movie Buffs Forever (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Cast a Long Shadow, Flight Before Christmas, Happy Anniversary, Men in War, Queen Bees and Wall
08/06/2024 — Released And So It Goes, Fury at Showdown, Operation Mincemeat, Steel Bayonet and Warlords of Atlantis

NCircle Entertainment
08/06/2024 — Released Care Bears: Unlock the Magic - Share Your Care

PBS Direct
07/30/2024 — Released D.I. Ray: Season Two (2 disc set), Great Performances: Now Hear This, Season 5 (2 disc set) and NATURE: Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons
08/06/2024 — Released Nature: Saving The Animals Of Ukraine

PEG TV (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Rutland Town Planning Commission and 2024 - Rutland Town Select Board
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Clarendon Select Board, 2024 - Danby Select Board, 2024 - Fairhaven Select Board, 2024 - Greater Rutland County Supervisory Union Board Meeting, 2024 - Mill River Unified Union School Board Meeting, 2024 - Pawlet Select Board, 2024 - PEGTV Sports Rewind: Hockey - MSJ vs Rutland, January 15, 1995, 2024 - Pittsford Select Board, 2024 - Quarry Valley Unified School Board Meeting, 2024 - Rutland Board of Aldermen and 2024 - Wallingford Select Board

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Grandview Speedway: Grandview Features and 2024 - Grandview Speedway: Grandview Heats

Rainbow Media Group (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Garrett Morris and Michael Schultz

Random Media (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Part-Time Killer

Rising Sun Media (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Decrypted, End of Term, Father of Flies, Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio (Japanese), Heretic and Sinema

SP Releasing, LLC (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Adventures at the Chocolate Factory (German), Alterscape, Better Half, Better Off Zed, Brennan, Bullets for the Dead, Charismata, InControl and Scent of Rain and Lightning

Samuel Goldwyn Films
08/06/2024 — Released Something in the Water

Shout! Studios
07/30/2024 — Released Rendel: Cycle of Revenge

Strand Releasing
08/06/2024 — Released Songs of Earth (Norwegian)

SP Releasing, LLC (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Adventure in Baltimore, April in Paris, Atragon, Backtrack!, Banjo, Black Horse Canyon, Branded, Captain from Castile, Carpetbaggers, Case of the Lucky Legs, Cry Danger, Curly Sue, Danger Love At Work, Forbidden, Girl Who had Everything, Good Die Young, Great American Broadcast, Green Glove, Hoodlum Empire, I Married a Witch, Inn of the Sixth Happiness, It's a Great Life, Jokers, Kings Row, Lady From Texas, Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Li'l Abner, Man Behind the Gun, Men of Boys Town, Midnight, Mr. Moto's Gamble, Neptune's Daughter, Night Monster, Old Dark House, One Foot In Heaven, One in a Million, Phffft, Powder River, Punch and Judy Man, Quiet Gun, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Ruggles of Red Gap, Ruthless, San Diego I Love You, San Francisco, Secret of the Incas, Shockproof, Silent Partner, Snow Dog, Springtime in the Rockies, Strip, Sudden Fear, Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, That's Entertainment, That's Entertainment, Part 2, Thousand Plane Raid, Toomorrow, Walk Softly Stranger, Wayward Bus, Wings and the Woman and You'll Find Out
08/06/2024 — Released 20 Mule Team, All About Eve, Another Dawn, Brass Monkey, Cat People, China Seas, Comanche, Convicted, Dark Places, Darling, Deadlier Than the Male, Dear Brat, Decision At Midnight, Double Jeopardy, Drum Beat, Encounter with the Unknown, Four’s a Crowd, From Headquarters, George Washington Slept Here, Gun the Man Down, Hard Man, High Time, House on Telegraph Hill, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Impatient Maiden, It's a Wonderful Life, Kid from Texas, Lion Hunters, Little Nellie Kelly, Main Street To Broadway, Man Who Understood Women, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, My Man Godfrey, My Sister Eileen, Psychopath, Rise and Shine, Rockabye, Satan Met a Lady, Scene of the Crime, Shadow of the Thin Man, Skippy, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Song of the Thin Man, Star, Star Maker, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Take Care of My Little Girl, Ten Who Dared, Third Finger, Left Hand, Three Stooges In Orbit, Tonka, Torch Singer, Twelve Chairs, Two O'Clock Courage, Variety Girl, War Hunt, Wonder Bar and Yankee Doodle Dandy

The TV Movie (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Best Friend From Heaven, Discovering Love, Find Love in Saint Lucia, Imaginary (Japanese), Jazz Ramsey: A K-9 Mystery, June Bug, Mistletoe Mixup, Mr. Manhattan, My Mom's Letter From Heaven, Signed, Seal, Delievered: A Tale of Three Letters, Sweet Maple Romance, To England with Love and Very Vermont Christmas

Town of Farmington (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Town of Farmington Board of Selectmen Meeting and 2024 - Town of Raymond: Zoning Board
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Town of Farmington Board of Selectmen Meeting and 2024 - Town of Farmington Planning Board Meeting

Undercrank Productions (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Craving (silent-1918)

VAC-TV (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Bayport City Council Meeting, 2024 - Oak Park Heights Planning Commission, 2024 - Stillwater City Council Meeting and 2024 - Stillwater School Board Meeting

Vermont Collective (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Man on a String, Playmates and Rains of Ranchipur

Vision Video (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Born Again: George Whitefield, Deliverance of Amy Stronghold, Grief Share, Insanity of God, Journey of Jesus Christ with Kevin Sorbo, Letters to Stephanie, Preacher to Popes, Story of Twelve Apostles, T.C. Stallings: The Story Behind the Run and Torchlighters: The William Carey Story

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.
07/30/2024 — Released Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way (7 disc set)

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent. (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 15:17 to Paris, Batman: Soul of the Dragon, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One, City Beneath the Sea, Freedom Fighters: The Bay, Going the Distance, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Justice League Unlimited: The Complete First Season (3 disc set), LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, LEGO DC Super Heroes: Justice League - Gotham City Breakout, Looney Tunes Golden Collection #4 (4 disc set), Max 2: White House Hero, Reign: The Complete First Season (5 disc set), Samantha: An American Girl Holiday - 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Sorcerer, Teen Titans Go!: Back to School, Teen Titans Go!: Be My Valentine and Victor And Valentino: Folk Art Foes

Well Go U.S.A.
07/30/2024 — Released Alienoid: Return to the Future and Sting

Wonderscape Entertainment
07/30/2024 — Released History Kids: The Electoral College - How The U.S. Presidency is Won and Social Studies Kids: Freedom of Speech and the Right to Protest

Woodbridge TV (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Summer Concert Series - Beatlemania Again and 2024 - Woodbridge Township Council Meeting

WOWnow Entertainment
08/06/2024 — Released Johnny Puff: Secret Mission

Zeus DVDs (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Dime with a Halo, John Nesbitt's Passing Parade: Our Old Car, Petticoat Fever, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Saxon Charm, Seven Seas to Calais, Sex and the Single Girl, Skull and Tarzan's Three Challenges
08/06/2024 — Released Flipper, Life of the Party, Ponette (French), Private Parts, Rififi a Tokyo (French), Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (silent-1920) and Sully


 

New Blu-ray Additions

 

 

Access Tuolumne (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Church of the Harvest and 2024 - Love Alive
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Love Alive, 2024 - Sonora City Council Meeting and 2024 - Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Meeting

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Breast Friends Club 2, Catch of the Day Director's Cut, Sexy Time 9 and Sexy Time 10

Arrow Video
07/30/2024 — Released Nico Mastorakis Collection (6 film set: The Time Traveller (aka: The Next One), Sky High, Terminal Exposure, Glitch!, Ninja Academy, The Naked Truth) (3 disc set)

Belmont Media Center (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Belmont Planning Board Meeting and 2024 - Belmont Select Board Meeting
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Belmont Planning Board Meeting

Blue Light Boutique (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Descendants: The Rise of Red, Good Doctor: The Complete Series (18 disc set), Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Series (40 disc set), Legion: The Complete Series (5 disc set), Masters of the Air (2 disc set), Orville: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Star Wars: The Acolyte (2 disc set) and Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3
08/06/2024 — Released Adam Project, Belgravia: The Next Chapter - Season 1 (3 disc set), Bosch: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Breaking Bad: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Burn Notice: The Complete Series (14 disc set), Clarkson's Farm Season 3 (2 disc set), Clarkson's Farm: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Cold Case: The Complete Series (21 disc set), Criminal Minds: The Complete Series (38 disc set), Crown Season 6 (2 disc set), Crown: Season 1-5 (6 disc set), Fear Street: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Foundation: Season 1-2 (4 disc set), Jessica Jones: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Kardashians: Season 4-5 (4 disc set), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Practice: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, Scream Queens Season 1-2 (5 disc set), Shameless: The Complete Series (22 disc set), Smallville: The Complete Series (20 disc set), Snowpiercer: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Sorcerer, Those About to Die (2 disc set), Turn: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Vikings: Valhalla Season 1-2 (5 disc set), Warrior: The Complete Series (6 disc set) and Young Sheldon: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

Bounty Films (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Rainbow Video
08/06/2024 — Released Wrong Crowd

Broken Knuckle Video Productions (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Feeding Conrail: Exploring Northeast Shortlines and Regionals

Canadian International Pictures
07/30/2024 — Released Roadkill

Capital Community Media (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting and 2024 - Salem-Keizer School Board Meeting

Catalog the Past (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Who Killed WCW? and WWF: Royal Rumble – 1991

Circle Collective
07/30/2024 — Released With Love and a Major Organ

City of Tacoma (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Study Session
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Study Session

Command Video
07/30/2024 — Released Farewell Scarlet and Heavy Load/Lecher

Dark Star Pictures
07/30/2024 — Released Bottom Feeders

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth Planning Board Meeting
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Dartmouth Board of Health, 2024 - Dartmouth Broadband Committee Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Finance Committee Meeting, 2024 - Dartmouth Historical Commission Meeting and 2024 - Dartmouth Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting

Decal Releasing, Inc.
07/30/2024 — Released William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
08/06/2024 — Released Babes and Handling the Undead (Norwegian)

Degausser Video
07/30/2024 — Released Ripper

Dekanalog
07/30/2024 — Released Tramps

Diana Loa (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Batman: Caped Crusader, Season 1 (2 disc set), Bear: Seasons 1 & 2 (2 disc set), Firebrand, Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Season 1 (2 disc set), Hangman, No Time to Die, Red, White & Royal Blue, Sabrina: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Secrets of the Whales (2 disc set), Tragedy of Macbeth, Trigger Warning, Veil: Season 1 (2 disc set) and Watchers

Drafthouse Films (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (French)

ETR Media
07/30/2024 — Released Arrested Development Documentary Project

ETV (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Eagan: City Council Meeting

Film Masters (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Abbott & Costello in Jack and the Beanstalk and It's Love Again

Film Movement
07/30/2024 — Released Kamikaze '89 (German) and Shanghai Triad (Mandarin)

FUNimation
08/06/2024 — Released Sweet Reincarnation: The Complete Season (2 disc set)

IFC Films
07/30/2024 — Released Mister Lonely

Icarus Films
07/30/2024 — Released Six in Paris (French)

Indican Pictures (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Only The Brave

Kani
07/30/2024 — Released Beijing Watermelon (Japanese)

Kino Lorber
07/30/2024 — Released Bwana Devil, Can't Stop the Music, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Volume 16 (The Cocaine Fiends, The Pace That Kills), In & Out, No Way Out and Twisted
08/06/2024 — Released Banel & Adama (Pular)

Leomark Studios (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Amar Akbar Anthony (Hindi), Ankhon Dekhi (Hindi), Ishqiya (Hindi), Katha (Hindi), Khakee (Hindi), Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (Hindi), Phir Hera Pheri (Hindi), Ship of the Damned and Welcome (Hindi)

Lex Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Lexington Affordable Housing Trust, 2024 - Lexington Historic Districts Commission Meeting and 2024 - Lexington Planning Board Meeting
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Lexington Conservation Commission Meeting, 2024 - Lexington School Committee Meeting and 2024 - Lexington Select Board

Memory
07/30/2024 — Released Rat Film

Milestone Film & Video
07/30/2024 — Released Bless Their Little Hearts

Monsterland Media (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Beetlejuice: The Complete Series (10 disc set), G.I. Joe Renegades: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Max Steel 2000: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Max Steel 2013: The Complete Series (7 disc set), Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics: The Complete Series (3 disc set), She-ra and the Princess of Power: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Son of Zorn: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Ultraforce: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Zeta Project: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

Movie TV Shop (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Rookie: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

Movies R USA (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Valley of the Zombies, The Lady and the Monster), Horror of the Zombies (aka: Ghost Ship of the Blind Dead), Inspector Gadget: The Complete Series (2 disc set), John Williams Celebration, Life After Fighting, Magical World of Disney: Child of Glass, Midnight Madness, New Amsterdam: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Orochi: The Eight-Headed Dragon (Japanese), Problemista, Quiet Place: Day One, Ride a Wild Pony, Treasure of Matacumbe, Trying: The Complete Series (4 disc set) and Wonderful World of Disney - Flash: The Teen Age Otter
08/06/2024 — Released Boys - Season 4 (2 disc set), Descendants: The Rise of Red, Despicable Me 4, Vikings: Valhalla - Season 3 (2 disc set) and Young Woman and the Sea

Music Box Films
07/30/2024 — Released Ennio

NH 5299 (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 8 Man After: Complete OVA, 9-1-1: Seasons 1 & 2, Attack of the Mushroom People (Japanese), Bananaman: The Complete Series, Barefoot Executive, Best of Walt Disney's True-Live Adventures, By the Law (silent-1926), Condorman, Country Bears, Curse of the Devil (Spanish), Duck Tales: The Movie, Father Dowling Mysteries: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Frank and Ollie, Gary and His Demons: Seasons 1 & 2, Ghosts of Buxley Hall, Great Locomotive Chase, H.E. Double Hockey Sticks, Horror Classics 12.12: The Day (Korean), Alexander: The Making of a God (2 disc set), American Fiction, Atlas, Baby Reindeer (2 disc set), Bear: Season 3 (2 disc set), Beekeeper, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Big Cigar , Bionic (Portuguese), Blue Eye Samurai: Season 1 (2 disc set), Blue Lights: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Bodkin: Season 1 (2 disc set), Book of Clarence, Boy Kills World, Clarice: Season 1 (2 disc set), Cleaning Lady: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Clipped (2 disc set), Complete Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin: Season 1 (2 disc set), Couple Next Door: Season 1 (2 disc set), CSI: Vegas - Season 3 (2 disc set0, Dark Matter Season 1 (2 disc set), Das Signal (2 disc set), Dead Boy Detectives (2 disc set) , Death in Paradise: Season 1 (2 disc set), Descendants: The Rise of Red , Eric (2 disc set), Expats (2 disc set), Exploding Kittens Season 1 (2 disc set), Family Affair , Fellow Travelers: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Find Me Falling, Franklin Season 1 (2 disc set), Gaga Chromatica Ball , Geek Girl: Season 1 (2 disc set), Gentlemen: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Haunting of the Queen Mary, Hellhounds, Hit Monkey: Season 1 (2 disc set), Idea of You, IF , Imaginary, Immaculate, In a Violent Nature, Inside Out, Kleo: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Knuckles (2 disc set), Land of Bad, Latency , Lift, Living with Leopards, Man in Full: Season 1 (2 disc set), Masters of the Universe: Revolution - Season One (2 disc set), Maxton Hall: The World Between Us - Season 1 (2 disc set), Monsieur Spade (2 disc set), Monsters at Work: Season 1 (2 disc set), Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Season 1 (2 disc set), My Lady Jane (2 disc set), My Spy: The Eternal City, New Look: Season 1 (2 disc set), No Way Up, Oderbruch: Season 1 (2 disc set), Omnivore (2 disc set), One Day (2 disc set), Palm Royale: Season 1 (2 disc set), Presumed Innocent: Season 1 (2 disc set), Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver, Ripley (2 disc set), Road House, Robot Dreams (Spanish), Role Play, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Open/Last Days (Japanese) (2 disc set), Scoop, Sometimes I Think About Dying, Strangers: Chapter 1, Supacell (2 disc set), Sympathizer: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Tarot, Thelma the Unicorn, Under the Bridge: Season 1 (2 disc set), Unfrosted, Vermines (French), Watchers and Wild Eyed and Wicked
08/06/2024 — Released Divorce in the Black

Radiance Films
07/30/2024 — Released Eighteen Years in Prison (Japanese) and Tchao Pantin (French)

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released 2024 - Grandview Speedway: Grandview Features and 2024 - Grandview Speedway: Grandview Heats

Rising Sun Media (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Decrypted, End of Term, Father of Flies, Heretic, Herschell Gordon Lewis' Bloodmania (2 disc set), Sinema and Sister Tempest (2 disc set)

Saturn's Core Audio & Video
07/30/2024 — Released David The Rock Nelson Collection: Volume 1 (Conrad Brooks vs. the Werewolf, plus short films)

Sentai Filmworks
07/30/2024 — Released Dark Gathering: Complete Collection (3 disc set)
08/06/2024 — Released Is the Order A Rabbit?? Bloom! (2 disc set)

Shout! Studios
07/30/2024 — Released Ali G Indahouse: The Movie

Showtown Apparel (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Abyss: Open Matte, Version 1, Abyss: Open Matte, Version 2, Abyss: Open Matte, Version 3, Curdled, Kansas, No Way Up, Stepping Out, Titanic: Open Matte, Version 1, Titanic: Open Matte, Version 2, Titanic: Open Matte, Version 3, True Lines: Open Matte, Verson 1, True Lines: Open Matte, Verson 2, True Lines: Open Matte, Verson 3 and Year of Living Dangerously

Smart Mark Video (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Guanatos Hardcore Crew: Principe del Death Match 3

Sterling Entertainment (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Camp Blood 8: Revelations and Revolt of the Empire of the Apes

Terror Vision
08/06/2024 — Released America's Deadliest Home Video, Blood Car, Copperhead, Dante's Inferno (silent-1911), Dead Air, Door (Japanese), Door II (Japanese), Dream Stalker, Escape From Hellhole, Head, Hell's Highway, Hollow Gate, Jar, Killer!, Lost in the 80's: Joe Zaso Collection (4 film set: Screambook, Screambook II, Maligno, It's Only a Movie), Love & Saucers, Nail Gun Massacre, Newlydeads, Night of the Bastard, Old Kung Fu Master (Mandarin), Popatopolis, President's Day, River (Japanese), Satanik (English dubbed), Slashers and What Happens Next Will Scare You

The Film Desk
07/30/2024 — Released Plot Against Harry

Tot P - 62 (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released Pencils vs Pixels

Undercrank Productions (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Craving (silent-1918)

Utopia
07/30/2024 — Released Sweet East

VAC-TV (MOD)
08/06/2024 — Released 2024 - Bayport City Council Meeting, 2024 - Oak Park Heights Planning Commission, 2024 - Stillwater City Council Meeting and 2024 - Stillwater School Board Meeting

VIZ Media
07/30/2024 — Released To Your Eternity: The Complete First Season (3 disc set)

Via Vision Entertainment
08/06/2024 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Smoke, Blue in the Face), Film Focus: Harvey Keitel (6 film set: Bad Lieutenant, The Young Americans, Dangerous Game, Imaginary Crimes, Clockers, Holy Smoke) (6 disc set), Juror and Men of Respect

Vinegar Syndrome
07/30/2024 — Released Criminally Insane / Satan's Black Wedding and That Lucky Stiff / Bon Appetite

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.
07/30/2024 — Released Supernatural: The Complete Series (58 disc set), Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way (7 disc set) and War of the Buttons

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent. (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Idiot's Delight and Northwest Passage

Well Go U.S.A.
07/30/2024 — Released Alienoid: Return to the Future and Sting

Wood Dale Collective (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Kleo: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

XYZ Pictures
07/30/2024 — Released Feed Me

Yellow Veil Pictures
07/30/2024 — Released To the Moon



New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

AMC Networks - Shudder
07/30/2024 — Released Sadness (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (Mandarin)

Criterion Collection
11/05/2024 — Sets Godzilla (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (Japanese)
11/12/2024 — Sets Scar Face (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Seven Samurai (4K Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack)
11/19/2024 — Sets Funny Girl (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
11/26/2024 — Sets Paper Moon (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Shape of Water (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Kino Lorber
07/30/2024 — Released Can't Stop the Music (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack), In & Out (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and No Way Out (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Movies R USA (MOD)
07/30/2024 — Released Chinatown and Tale of Two Sisters (Korean)

Paramount Home Entertainment
07/30/2024 — Released Election (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Shout! Studios
07/30/2024 — Released House of Gucci (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
08/06/2024 — Released Bill & Ted Face the Music (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack), Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Trilogy (3 film set: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus ,Journey, Bill & Ted Face the Music) (3 4K Ultra HD/3 Blu-ray Combo Pack), Dragonheart (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Hackers (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Vinegar Syndrome
07/30/2024 — Released Invasion U.S.A. (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)


Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Film Master's Double Feature 4K Scans Of Klaus Kinski's Creature With The Blue Hand And Web Of The Spider Available On Blu-ray And DVD On Oct. 22

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The roar of hands clapping!   That’s the sound of both the delight and the whole-hearted approval of genre fans about the release news coming Film Masters this past week.

Mark it down, Oct. 22, the next double feature on Blu-ray (and DVD), both starring Klaus Kinski … both films had domestic theatrical releases and both of these genre entries are new 4K scans from their respective original 35mm film elements.

OK, so what’s heading home — as a double-feature — during this upcoming Halloween promotional season from Film Masters that will have film buffs and genre fans cheering?

Topping the double-bill is the 1967 film release of director Alfred Vohrer’s Creature with the Blue Hand, which was dubbed and reworked a bit by famed film distributor Samuel M. Sherman for a domestic double-feature rollout in 1971 with filmmaker Eddie Romero’s Beast of the Yellow Night.

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Creature with the Blue Hand, which based on writer Edgar Wallace’s 1925 novel, “The Blue Hand,” also had a second life — with extra footage — as The Bloody Dead.  Film Masters has included both films here.

The second feature in this marvelous Kinski collection is the super rare presentation of director Antonio Margheriti’s 1971 haunted house thriller, Web of the Spider, which was dubbed and released theatrically in the domestic market in 1975 by Cinema Shares International (dubbed versions of several of the “Godzilla vs.” movies … and notably the domestic release of director Richard Franklin’s Patrick and writer/director Jeff Lieberman’s Blue Sunshine).

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Bonus delights included with this twin bill begins with Stephen Jones and Kim Newman teaming for commentary on Creature with the Blue Hand and an archival commentary from Samuel M. Sherman on The Bloody Dead.

Both Jones and Newman team up for the commentary on Web of the Spider.   

And, as a special bonus, Ballyhoo Motion Pictures contributes to new documentaries — A Man of Mystery: Inside the World of Edgar Wallace and Kinski Krimis: Inside the Rialto Film Adaptations.

 

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Oscilloscope Laboratories Readies Two Critically-Acclaimed Theatrical Documentaries For Releases As Both DVD And Blu-ray Purchasing Options On Sept. 17 • God & Country • This Much We Know

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Not one, but two new theatrical documentaries are on their way to the physical media market place — as both Blu-ray and DVD product offerings — from Oscilloscope Laboratories with a street date of Sept. 17.

Up first is award-winning documentary filmmaker Dan Partland’s God & Country, a controversial look at “Christian Nationalism.” 

What a subject and what a powerhouse combination to take it on.   Partland is a two-time Emmy Awards winner (American High, Intervention) and his co-producer is none other than Rob Reiner … they certainly know the medium and can tell a powerful, if very political story.

Based on the work of Katherine Stewart’s 2019 book, “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism,” Partland conducts extensive interviews to make his points.

The film had private screenings initially before opening officially at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February of this year.  A brief theatrical run followed … for the record, the ARR is 214 days and domestic box office receipts were $108,385.

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The other theatrically-release documentary heading home as both DVD and Blu-ray purchasing options from Oscilloscope Laboratories on Sept. 17 is documentary filmmaker L. Frances Henderson’s This Much We Know, a provocative look at a possible connection between Las Vegas, Nevada’s exceptionally high suicide rate and its post-war history of nuclear testing.

Henderson was grieving over the loss of a friend to suicide and decided that a quick trip to Las Vegas would be good for some relief.   Once there, she was confronted by the horrific suicide of 16-year-old Levi Presley who had jumped to his death from the world-famous Stratosphere … that “dot” connected her to writer John D’Agata’s book, “About a Mountain,” a “dot” that looks at the area’s history of nuclear waste storage … which, as it turns out, was in the news during Henderson’s visit.   It seems that the United States government has just named Yucca Mountain as a site for nuclear storage (not without a great deal of controversy).

Whether there is a relationship, that’s hard to say, but This Much We Know does get one to thinking!!

 

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Severin Films' New 4K Scan Of Filmmaker Bert I. Gordon's The Mad Bomber Makes Its Blu-ray Debut on Oct. 29

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Severin Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K scan (from the film’s internegative) of legendary genre filmmaker Bert I. Gordon’s 1973 micro-budget psycho-bomber classic, The Mad Bomber, starring former baseball and basketball player, Chuck Connors, who made a name for himself as Lucas McCain on The Rifleman series (1958-1963). 

A newly-minted Blu-ray edition will be ready on Oct. 29.

When you have no money and you are a filmmaker, you improvise.   When you are a B-filmmaker (in a very good sense) of the caliber of Burt I. Gordon improvisation is just part of the process.   

He made some of the best sci-fi films of the 1950s on a shoestring — The Cyclops, The Amazing Colossal Man, Beginning of the End (it is a long and very impressive list) — and he knew how get it done in a hurry, often editing a scene in camera while he was shooting.   It wasn’t just sci-fi either, how about Picture Mommy Dead (1966 with Zsa Zsa Gabor), The Magic Sword and How to Succeed with Sex.

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So when you are shooting Confessions of a Dirty Cop, which became Detective Geronimo, which became The Police Connection and finally The Mad Bomber, you might expect a disaster.   By no means was this film a disaster, instead Gordon delivered a taut psycho-bomber/cop action thriller that also features the like of Vince Edwards and Neville Brand.

The film also has a wicked twist.   We know that Connors’ character, William Dorn, is planting bombs around the city, but during his deranged crime spree another — unrelated — crime takes place, which puts Detective Geronimo Minelli (Edwards) in a tough spot.   If he can solve that crime then he will have his witness and the identity of Dorn.

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Bonus goodies include two viewing options — the theatrical cut and the television cut — a vintage video session with filmmaker Bert I. Gordon conducted by David Del Valle and a commentary featuring author Kier-La Janisee (“House of Psychotic Women”) and retired bomb squad detective Mike Digby.

 Also counted among the bonuses are three featurettes — “Patricia Gordon Remembers Her Father,” “To Be in the Moment” and “On the Trail of the Mad Bomber.”

 

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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story • Starring Christopher Reeve • Makes Its Blu-ray Debut Courtesy Of Film Chest On Sept.17

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely seen director John Sturges’ 1963 film, The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough.   The film ends with fifty of the escapees being murdered in a field by the Gestapo and McQueen’s character being returned to the “cooler,” but there is no hint as to what happened to those responsible for the massacre.

On Sept. 17, the directing team of Paul Wendkos and Jud Taylor’s two-part mini-series, The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, will be making its Blu-ray debut from the Film Chest.

Starring Christopher Reeve as Major John Dodge (one of the survivors), we revisit the “great escape” from Stalag Luft III and the slaughter of fifty of the escapees in part one.   The outcome is pretty much the same, but told a little differently.

In the second part, we discover what happened after the war and the efforts on the part of Dodge and others to track down those responsible for the murder of the fifty allied prisoners of war.   It is not as clear-cut as you think as both British and the American officials (intel agencies for the most part) actually hindered the search for justice by using the Gestapo creeps for their own purposes (think: Russia and the coming of the Cold War).

Does Major Dodge ferret them out and bring justice to the dead?   On Sept. 17 be sure to check out The Great Escape II: The Untold Story on Blu-ray from the Film Chest to discover the answer to that question.

 

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Synapse Films Preps 4K Ultra HD Edition Of The McManus Brothers' Mixed Genre Chiller The Block Island Sound For Release On Dec. 10

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Synapse Films, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, delivered a long lead announcement this past week regarding the writing and directing team of Kevin and Matthew McManus eerie horror/mystery, The Block Island Sound.

Both Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD editions will be available on Dec. 10, which gives Synapse over 90 days to work the streets in the promotion of this gem. 

It is something of a puzzlement as to why this clever horror/mystery/sci-fi tale took so long to make its way to the physical media marketplace … but no matter the reason, it will be here soon enough for genre afficionados to enjoy.

The film made its debut at the Fantasia Film Festival in Canada on Aug. 28, 2020, but there was no apparent follow-up, until it surfaced as a Netflix release the following year (we all know how Netflix works when it comes to physical media product offerings … crickets … it is a place where films go to die).   Despite solid reviews it just disappeared … until Synapse Films made this good news announcement that Dec. 10 will be the physical media debut date.   Thank You, Synapse Films!!

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The ocean can always be something of a mystery … what lies beneath?   Filming in and around Block Island, Rhode Island, filmmaking brothers Kevin and Matthew McManus (who are from the area) make the ocean a major player in this creep-fest.   Call it atmosphere … chilling, cold and effective.

Tom Lynch (Neville Archambault) is a local fisherman who appears to be having something of a breakdown.   It doesn’t help his mental condition that all sorts of weird events are taking place — tons of dead fish have been washing up on the Block Island shoreline and sea birds are dropping unexpectedly out of the sky.   Thump, thump … that can be a little unnerving.   

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It gets even stranger as Tom just heads out in the middle of the night on his boat for no particular reason … the island is affecting him and his son, Harry (Chris Sheffield), has finally reached the point where this is a problem … and a mystery, especially when dear old dad doesn’t remember any of it.

So he turns to his sister, Audry (Michaela McManus — as Kaley in director David Hackl’s Into the Grizzly Maze), a marine biologist (EPA), who is very interested in what is taking place on the island and agrees to come take a look-see.

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Without giving too much away, let’s just say that with all the family members on the island the filmmaking brothers McManus have a field day in ratcheting up the tension.   Not only is The Block Island Sound a terrific horror tale, but the “mystery” elements (what the hell is going on) give the film something of a sci-fi vibe that works extremely well.   This is a must-see and Dec. 10 for the 4K Ultra HD (or Blu-ray) release can’t come soon enough.

Bonus goodies include commentary from filmmakers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, 8mm behind-the-scenes footage, family home movies and four featurettes — “A Practical Apocalypse,” “Finding the Cast,” “Filming on the Water” and “Special Effects on a Shoestring.”

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The Criterion Collection To Release Six New 4K Ultra HD Titles In November • Legacy Hollywood Studios Average Just 1.9 Per Month Per Studio (Seven Months Ending July 31)

Impressive.   In a word, impressive … that word is what best describes the Criterion Collection’s November release line-up.

While the six legacy “Hollywood” studios have combined for just 79 4K Ultra HD titles during the first seven months of the year — do the math, that’s 1.9 new 4K titles per month, per studio — the Criterion Collection has six ready for delivery in November.   Yes, six!!

It is always a subjective call, but we tend to lean towards auteur filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich’s glorious 1973 black and white film adaptation of the Joe David Brown novel, “Addie Pray” — which was retitled for the screen as Paper Moon — as the lead film making its way to 4K.  

A case can certainly be made for the original Godzilla, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, Scar Face, Funny Girl and The Shape of Water, but we like Bogdanovich’s collective body of films and so that’s gets the topline focus.

This new 4K Ultra HD release of Paper Moon arrives two days before Thanksgiving (street date Tuesday, Nov. 26, to be exact).

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It is always fascinating to think about what might have been.   This was originally a John Huston production with the father/daughter team of Paul Newman and Nell Potts (nee: Elenor Teresa Newman) in the lead.   

However, Paper Moon became The Directors Company’s first film production, which was the brainchild of Gulf & Western (Paramount) chairman Charles Bludhorn and filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin.   Different cast … different director.

The deal was these auteur filmmakers could make any film they wish as long as the production budget did not exceed three million dollars.

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Paper Moon was the first, followed by Coppola’s The Conversation (1974) and ending with Bogdanvich’s Daisy Miller (also ’74) … Friedkin never contributed to the project (money issues) and after these three films The Directors Company folded.

Paper Moon was a box office hit, easily recouping its film production budget, and a critical success … Tatum O’Neal would be the youngest actor to win an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress).

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As to bonus features, Criterion has the archived commentary with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, an introduction to the film by Bogdanovich and a new “video essay” by Peter Tonguette (Bogdanovich biographer — “Picturing Pete Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director”).

There’s also the three-part making-of documentary, a vintage video session with Polly Platt and excepts from “The Tonight Show” (1973) featuring Bogdanovich, Ryan O’Neal and Tatum O’Neal.

As to other — impressive — 4K Ultra HD releases from Criterion in November … Godzilla (featuring both the original Japanese version as well as the domestic theatrical cut) hits home on Nov. 5; Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Howard Hawks’ 1932 version of Scar Face (starring Paul Muni) both follow on Nov. 12; director William Wyler’s 1968 Best Picture nominee, Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand (who won the Oscar for Best Actress) arrives on Nov. 19 and The Shape of Water closes out the month on Nov. 26.



Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment's Halloween Promotional Season Entry On Oct. 15 Is 4K ULtra HD Debut Of Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street

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The Halloween promotional season is going to be especially busy this year … packed with lots and lots of very cool physical media genre selections for fans to choose from for their entertainment enjoyment or for scare factor, and of course, library building.

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is the latest to the party with a newly-minted 4K Ultra HD edition of writer/director Wes Craven’s 1984 horror gem, A Nightmare on Elm Street, on Oct. 15.

New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye produced, Craven provided the script and direction and they were able to pull together $1.7 million in financing to get the film produced.   However, it missed the Halloween theatrical window and opened, instead, on November 9, 1984.

A disaster?   Hell no, the film grossed its production budget on opening day and ended up taking in something like $26 million at the box office … spawning five sequels between 1985 and 1991 (six if you count the 1994 film release of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare).

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While the topline billing was for John Saxon, Ronee Blakley and relative newcomer Heather Langenkamp, this was the film that not only marked Johnny Depp’s film debut, but one that made Robert Englund a genre-film icon!!

So what bonus goodies does Warner have lined up for this 4K Ultra HD edition?
We start off with two viewing options.   The first is the original theatrical cut and the second option is an uncut presentation of the film.
 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreportThere are two archived commentary options.  On the first, Wes Craven anchors a tag-team affair featuring actors Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and Ronnie Blakely, plus New Line topper and producer Robert Shaye and co-producer Sara Risher.   The second has Craven and Langenkamp, plus John Saxon and the late Jacques Haitkin, who was the cinematographer on A Nightmare on Elm Street. 

Additional bonus nuggets include alternate endings and a quartet of featurettes — “Ready Freddy Focus Points,” “The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror,” “Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares.”