Wednesday, November 6, 2024

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending October 11, 2024

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


 

AMC Networks
10/08/2024 — Released Baghead and Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 (2 disc set)

Access Tuolumne (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Love Alive and 2024 - Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Meeting
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Love Alive, 2024 - Sonora City Council Meeting and 2024 - Tuolumne County Transporation Council Meeting

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Glitch Ditch 7

Asian Cult Cinema (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Girls' High School Terror, Haunted Universities) (2 disc set) (Japanese) and Gang War in Milan (Italian)
10/08/2024 — Released Linda Linda Linda (Japanese), Urge to Kill and Wilde Girls

BCSN (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Findlay vs. Anthony Wayne, 2024 - Football: Lake vs. Rossford, 2024 - Football: Maunee vs. Genoa, 2024 - Football: Northview vs. Springfield, 2024 - Football: Southview vs. Bowling Green, 2024 - Football: St. John's vs Central Catholic, 2024 - Football: Whitmer vs. Perrysburg, 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: Clay vs. Fremont Ross and 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: St. Mary's Central Catholic vs. Bedford
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Bowsher vs. Start, 2024 - Football: Clay vs. Napoleon, 2024 - Football: Fremont Ross vs. Southview, 2024 - Football: Maunee vs. Rossford, 2024 - Football: Perrysburg vs. Findlay, 2024 - Football: Saint Francis vs. Siena Heights, 2024 - Football: Scott vs. Rogers, 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: Anthony Wayne vs. Perrysburg and 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: Start vs. Emmanuel Christian

BCTV (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Reading City Council Committee of the Whole Meeting
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Berks County Board of Commissioners Meeting, 2024 - City of Reading City Council Committee - Budget Review, 2024 - City of Reading City Council Committee of the Whole Meeting and 2024 - City of Reading Zoning Hearing Board Meeting

Belmont Media Center (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Belmont Planning Board Meeting, 2024 - Belmont Select Board Meeting, 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Belmont vs. Wilmington and 2024 - Girls' Field Hockey: Belmont vs. Westford
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Belmont vs. Newton, 2024 - Football: Belmont vs. Winchester and 2024 - Girls' Field Hockey: Belmont vs. Stoneham

Breaking Glass Pictures
10/01/2024 — Released School Of Magical Animals 2
10/08/2024 — Released Last County

Bridgestone Multimedia Group (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Chicken Coop, Finding Christmas and Grace Wins
10/08/2024 — Released Joy of Horses and My Private Line to God

Capital Community Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - College Football: Williamette vs. Simpson
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - College Football: Williamette vs. Linfield, 2024 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting and 2024 - Salem-Keizer School Board Meeting

CCX Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Wayzata vs. Hopkins, 2024 - City of Crystal: City Council Meeting, 2024 - City of Robbinsdale Council Meeting, 2024 - Football: Champlin Park vs. St. Michael Albertville, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: Wayzata vs. Hopkins, 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: Park Center vs. Armstrong, 2024 - Golden Valley City Council Meeting and 2024 - Osseo: City Council Meeting - Work Session
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Brooklyn Park: Planning Commission, 2024 - City of Maple Grove: City Council Meeting, 2024 - City of Plymouth: City Council Meeting, 2024 - City of Robbinsdale: Economic Development Authority, 2024 - Football: Mahtomedi vs. Armstrong, 2024 - Football: Orono vs. Providence, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: St. Cloud Cathedral vs. Providence and 2024 - Osseo: Public Safety Advisory Committee

Championship Productions
10/08/2024 — Released Billy Donion: Ball Screen Defense that Indentifies Pick & Roll Situations, David Arseneault, Jr.: The Grinnell Fast Break Offense, Mark Byington: Leaning Into Offensive Trends and Zack Spiker: Winning OSU & SOB Formations

Changing Your World (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Finding Purpose in the Midst of Discomfort (5 disc set),
Leveling the Playing Field (5 disc set), Sunday Service, Wednesday Evening Service and Wednesday Morning Service
10/08/2024 — Released Sunday Service, Wednesday Evening Service and Wednesday Morning Service

Cheol9260696 (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Agi Murad: Il Diavolo Bianco (French), Bedtime Story, Color of Lies (French), In Cold Blood and Indian Tomb (German)

Christian Worship Hour (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Christian Worship Hour: When Jesus Comes Again - 1 Thessalonian 4: 13-18
10/08/2024 — Released Christian Worship Hour: Money Matters  - Luke 12: 16-21

Cinedigm Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead

Dark Star Pictures
10/08/2024 — Released Art Dealers

Dartmouth Community Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Dartmouth vs. New Bedford, 2024 - Dartmouth Select Board Meeting and 2024 - Girls' Soccer: Dartmouth vs. Bishop Stang
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Dartmouth vs. Apponequet, 2024 - Dartmouth Select Board Meeting, 2024 - Football: Dartmouth vs. Old Rochester Regional and 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: Dartmouth vs. Old Rochester Regional

Decal Releasing, LLC
10/01/2024 — Released National Anthem
10/08/2024 — Released Robot Dreams and Subservience

Deskpop Entertainment (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2 Lives In Pittsburgh and Window
10/08/2024 — Released Remnant

Dreamscape Media, LLC
10/08/2024 — Released Amazonia Undercover (Portuguese), La Maleta De Tesoros, Love Destination Courses: Soothing Forestscapes for Deep Sleep, Love Destination Courses: Soothing Oceanscapes for Deep Sleep, Maleta Full of Treasures, Riot Island and Summer Snow

Drive-in Film (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released All the Way Boys, Best of Andy Williams: Christmas Show, Dick Tracy,Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, Dick Tracy's Dilemma and Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
10/08/2024 — Released Dick Tracy's G Men (15 chapter serial) and Hillbillys in a Haunted House

DVDLady (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Insect Woman (Korean), Key-Professor's Pleasure (Japanese), Villain and Widow (Korean) and Woman of Fire '82 (Korean)

DVDRParty (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Curse of the Doll People, Double Feature (2 film set: Brides of Dracula, The Leech Woman),  Dracula 3D, DVDRParty Presents Intermission Time, Films of Damon Packard (2 film set: Apple, Tales of the Valley of the Wind), Sex Pistols: Winterland and She Gods of Shark Reef

EBTV (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - East Brunswick Board of Education Meeting

E.I. Independent Cinema (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Swingin' Models and Swingin' Pussycats

EWTN
10/01/2024 — Released EWTN Live: Jeremy Itz, Women of Grace: Sue M. Bears, PhD and World Over with Raymond Arroyo: Father Gerald Murray
10/08/2024 — Released EWTN Live: David DiNapoli, Journey Home: Father Jerry Byrd - Former Baptist, Women of Grace: Dr. Ray Guarendi and World Over with Raymond Arroyo

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Alice Adams, Anna Karenina, Arsene Lupin Returns, Brute Man, Christmas in Connecticut, Cult of the Cobra, Curse of the Undead, Fire Over England, Here Comes the Navy, Land Unknown, Lone Wolf Returns, Mr. Sardonicus, Please Turn Over, That Hamilton Woman and Watch Your Stern
10/08/2024 — Released $1000 a Minute, Big Hangover, Conspirator, Cottage to Let, Dark Journey, Devil's Doorway, Great Lie, Juarez, Little Minister, Love is Better than Ever, Mind Reader, Model and the Mirrage Broker, Strike Me Pink and Trouble for Two

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Heightened
10/08/2024 — Released Beneath The Fold and Million Days

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Another Happy Day, Down Below, Hauntology, In Tenebras: Into The Darkness and Little Brother
10/08/2024 — Released Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, My Home Unknown and Studio One Forever

Greenwich Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Close To You and Coup!

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Gilded Age: Complete Second Season (3 disc set)
10/08/2024 — Released Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Twelfth Season (2 disc set)

Hallmark Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas 9-Movie Collection (9 film set: You, Me and the Christmas Tree, The Christmas Contest, Next Stop, Christmas, Christmas on Cherry Lane, The Santa Summit, Magic in Mistletoe, Everything Christmas, A World Record Christmas, Mystic Christmas) (3 disc set) and Hallmark Festival of Lights 6-Movie Collection (6 film set: Hitched for the Holidays, Double Holiday, Eight Gifts of Hanukkah, Love, Lights, Hanukkah, Hanukkan on Rye, Round and Round) (2 disc set)

IndiePix
10/08/2024 — Released Family (Hebrew)

KimStim
10/08/2024 — Released Terrestrial Verses (Farsi)

Kino Lorber
10/01/2024 — Released First Love and Sebastian

Leomark Studios (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Inbred, Path to Pain (Spanish) and Syndrome (Russian)
10/08/2024 — Released Cora

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Cottontail

Lex Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Lexington Affordable Housing Trust, 2024 - Lexington Conservation Commission Meeting and 2024 - Lexington School Building Committee Meeting
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Lexington vs. Belmont, 2024 - Lexington Conservation Commission Meeting, 2024 - Lexington Historic Districts Commission Meeting, 2024 - Lexington Planning Board Meeting, 2024 - Lexington School Committee Meeting and 2024 - Lexington Select Board

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
10/01/2024 — Released Forsaken

Lost Movie Finder (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Cabaret Desire (German), Christine (French), Craving Desire (Italian), Fort Saganne (French), L'Amour Fou (French), La Coccolona (German), Le Voyou (French), Lovin' Molly, Man from Deep River (Italian), My Little Princess (French), Ne Te Retourne Pas (French), Notre Histoire (French), Tears at Dawn (aka: The Final Victim), Turning Point and Water Lillies (French)

Magnolia Home Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Convert and Thelma

Mark Bookman Foundation
10/08/2024 — Released Mark: A Call To Action

Maverick Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Murder Company

Onesmedia (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Cell 2455, Death Row, Comradship (German), Dracula, Earth vs. the Spider, F.B.I. Girl, Galileo, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Man Afraid and Sapphire

PBS Direct
10/08/2024 — Released Mary Berry's Highland Christmas, Odysseus Returns and Ridley: Season Two (2 disc set)

PCTV (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Amhearst vs. Wahconah, 2024 - Pittsfield Homelessness Advisory Committee, 2024 - Pittsfield Public Works & Utilities Committee and 2024 - Zion Lutheran Church Service
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Monument Mountain vs. Pathfinder, 2024 - Pittsfield City Council Meeting and 2024 - Zion Lutheran Church Service

PEG TV (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Fair Haven vs. West Rutland, 2024 - Fair Haven Select Board, 2024 - Football: Fair Haven vs. Bellows Falls, 2024 - Football: Poultney vs. Springfield, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: Fair Haven vs. Stratton Mountain, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: West Rutland vs. Mill River, 2024 - Mill River Unified Union School Board Meeting, 2024 - Otter Valley Unified Union School Board, 2024 - Pawlet Select Board, 2024 - Pittsford Select Board, 2024 - Rutland County Solid Waste District Board of Supervisors Meeting and 2024 - Rutland Town Planning Commission
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Mill River vs. Hartford, 2024 - Danby Select Board, 2024 - Football: Mill River vs. Woodstock, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: Mill River vs. Poultney, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: Mill River vs. Sharon Academy, 2024 - Girls' Soccer: Otter Valley vs. Fair Haven, 2024 - Quarry Valley Unified School Board Meeting, 2024 - Rutland Board of Aldermen, 2024 - Rutland City School Board and 2024 - Wallingford Select Board

Paramount Home Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released NCIS: Hawai'i: The Final Season (3 disc set), Quiet Place: Day One and Rugrats: Season Two (3 disc set)

Pre-Code Classics (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Criminals of the Air, Grace McDonald Double Feature (2 film set: Behind the Eight Ball, Gals Incorporated), Grace McDonald Double Feature (2 film set: Hat Check Honey, My Gal Loves Music) and Rita Hayworth Double Feature (2 film set: Human Cargo, Criminals of the Air)

Progressive Left Press
10/08/2024 — Released CIA Drugs R Us! A Drugs as Weapons ... Sequel

QC-TV (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Andover City Council Meeting, 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Coon Rapids @ Champlin Park, 2024 - Football: Blaine @ Champlin Park, 2024 - Football: St Francis @ Andover and 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: Maple Grove @ Anoka
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Andover City Planning Commission Meeting, 2024 - Anoka City Council Meeting, 2024 - Football: Osseo @ Anoka, 2024 - Ramsey City Council Meeting, 2024 - Ramsey City Economic Development Authority and 2024 - Ramsey City Parks and Recreation Meeting

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Bethlehem Catholic @ Freedom, 2024 - Football: Nazareth @ Liberty and 2024 - Football: Whitehall @ Emmaus
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Easton @ Liberty, 2024 - Football: Freedom @ Northampton and 2024 - Football: Notre Dame @ Pen Argyl

Rainbow Media Group (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Out of Spite

Ralston, Inc. (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story, American Playhouse: I Never Sang for My Father, Being the Ricardos, Dead Man Walking, Doctor's Private Lives, Ferry Cross the Mersey, Obsession, Rage, Scopone Game (Italian), Shadow Box, Slapstick of Another Kind, Sleeping with the Devil, Terror in the Wax Museum, Three Wishes for Jamie, Vanished and View of Terror
10/08/2024 — Released Along Came a Spider, Alpha Caper, Applause, Between Love and Hate, Cay, Collison Course: Truman vs. MacArthur, Dead Don't Die, Death Cruise, Don't Go to Sleep, Dream Makers,Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You, Encounter with Danger, Face to Face, Fall From Grace, Fear No Evil, Five Desperate Women, Flight to Tangier, Foreign Exchange, Hacksaw, Hanged Man, Happily Ever After, Hauser's Memory, Hider in the House, Hot Rod, Hotline, Hound of the Baskervilles, House is Not a Home, How I Spend My Summer Vacation, Irish Wish, Isn't It Shocking, Joker is Wild, Killer Bees, Killing Affair, Last Exit, Letters, Letters from Three Lovers, Lost Flight, Magical World of Disney: Little Spies, Magical World of Disney: Sunday Drive, Man Inside, Maroc 7, Money to Burn, Movie Murderer, Murder by Contract, Murder Can Hurt You, Murder in Music City, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, Omar Khayyam, Paperback Hero, Perilous Voyage, Playmates, Rag and Bone, Ritual of Evil, Scalplock, Silent Cries, Some of My Best Friends Are …, Sophie's Place (aka: Crooks and Coronets, Stripper, Terror in the Sky and Young Joe: The Forgotten Kennedy

Rewatch Classic TV (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Addams Family: The Complete Series (18 disc set), Jimmy Stewart Show: The Complete Series (5 disc set) and Munsters: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

Rising Sun Media (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Dead Name, Fearway, Future Soldier, How To Be Lucky, I Tripped on Acid from Outer Space (Italian), Krays: Code of Silence, Tortured 4 and Untitled Horror Movie

Ruthless
10/08/2024 — Released From Power to Prison: The Trump Story Part 2

SRS Cinema
10/08/2024 — Released Great Yokai War: Guardians (Japanese)

Shoreline Entertainment (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released ChristMess

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
10/08/2024 — Released Kneecap and Night Agent: Season 1 (4 disc set)

The DVD HQ (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Champ for a Day, Cowboys from Texas, Grand Exit, Mercy Island, Stranger from Texas, Texas Stagecoach, Trouble at Midnight and Unexpected Father
10/08/2024 — Released Mickey the Kid, Mister Universe, Our Leading Citizen, Our Wife, Outside These Walls, Over the Hill, She Married Her Boss, Tight Shoes, Top of the World, Untamed Frontier, Wild and Woolly and Yellow Ticket

The Old Movie Shop (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 20,000 Years In Sing Sing, All Mine to Give, Arrow in the Dust, Back from the Dead, Bad Sister, Bengal Brigade, Blast of Silence, Blood of Dracula, Body and Soul, Call of the Wild, Captain Calamity, Case of the Black Parrot, Cat Girl, Cease Fire, Cheyenne Wildcat, Dark of the Sun, Dark Past, Desert Song, Eight Iron Men, Female on the Beach, Fiend Who Walked West, Flaming Feather, Flood!, Four Desperate Men (aka: Siege at Pinchgut), Green Hell, Hitler's Children, How to Frame a Figg, Iroquois Trail, Jump Into Hell, Lady For a Day, Last Of The Mohicans, Liquidator, Long, Long Trailer, Mary of Scotland, Miracle on Main Street, Money Trap, Murder in the Blue Room, Mysterians, Naked Edge, Northwest Passage, Orders to Kill, Outrage, Pawnee, Prince of Foxes, Project X, Reluctant Saint, Rider on a Dead Horse, Sea Devils, Seven Hills of Rome, Song for Miss Julie, Tall Stranger, Tanganyika, Tap Roots, Three Daring Daughters and Yellowneck
10/08/2024 — Released Beat Girl, Boots Malone, Cast a Long Shadow, Cole Younger, Gunfighter, Creatures the World Forgot, Deadline at Dawn, Deep Valley, Ice Station Zebra, Last of Shiela, Leopard Man, Lonely Lady, Man from God's Country, Mudlark, Outriders, Roberta, Sergeant Rutledge, Skin Game, Sparrows (silent-1926), Those Redheads from Seattle, Untamed and Warm December

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
10/08/2024 — Released Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Series (9 disc set) and Las Vegas: The Complete Series (25 disc set)

Utopia
10/08/2024 — Released Chestnut, Good Half and Trilogy: New Wave

Vermont Collective (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Beyond Glory and Unearthly Stranger
10/08/2024 — Released From Here to Eternity (2 disc set) and Gun Runners

Vertical Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Chief of Station

Via Vision Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Bend It Like Beckham and Tracker

WDAY (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Hawley @ Pelican Rapids, 2024 - Football: Sartell @ Moorhead, 2024 - Football: West Fargo @ Shanley and 2024 - Girls' Volleyball: DGF @ Moorhead

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.
10/08/2024 — Released Kinds of Kindness

Well Go U.S.A.
10/01/2024 — Released End of the Rope
10/08/2024 — Released Exhuma (Korean)

Wild Eye Releasing
10/08/2024 — Released Mummy Shark

Woodbridge TV (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Colonia vs. Plainfield and 2024 - Woodbridge Township Council Meeting
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: JFK vs. North Plainfield

Wrestletopia (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released GCW: NGI 2015, Sareee ISM Chapter IV, Wrestling Revolver Teles from the Ring 2024 and WWF Wild in the U.K,
10/08/2024 — Released WCW SuperBrawl – 1999 and WWE Raw - Oct. 7, 2024

Zeus DVDs (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Kill or Cure, Stalking Moon and Tarzan Triumphs
10/08/2024 — Released How the West was Won, Invasion Quartet, Silver Whip, So This is Love, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Tarzan's Magic Fountain, Tarzan's New York Adventure and Thunder of Drums


New Blu-ray Additions

 

AMC Networks
10/08/2024 — Released Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 (3 disc set)

Access Tuolumne (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Love Alive and 2024 - Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Meeting
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Love Alive, 2024 - Sonora City Council Meeting and 2024 - Tuolumne County Transporation Council Meeting

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Glitch Ditch 7

Altered Innocence
10/08/2024 — Released Suicide Room (Polish)

Animeigo
10/08/2024 — Released Otaku No Video (Japanese)

Belmont Media Center (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Belmont Planning Board Meeting, 2024 - Belmont Select Board Meeting, 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Belmont vs. Wilmington and 2024 - Girls' Field Hockey: Belmont vs. Westford
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Boys' Soccer: Belmont vs. Newton, 2024 - Football: Belmont vs. Winchester and 2024 - Girls' Field Hockey: Belmont vs. Stoneham

Burning Bulb Publishing (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Miss Fashion Global

Capital Community Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - College Football: Williamette vs. Simpson
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - College Football: Williamette vs. Linfield, 2024 - Marion County Commissioners Meeting and 2024 - Salem-Keizer School Board Meeting

City of Tacoma (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Meeting and 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Study Session
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Meeting, 2024 - City of Tacoma City Council Study Session and 2024 - Tacoma Public Utility Board Meeting

D & D Productions (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Billy Bevan: Silent Comedian (15 silent short films: The Quack Doctor (1920), She Sighed by the Seaside (1921), Love and Doughnuts (1921), On Patrol (1922), When Summer Comes (1922), Nip and Tuck (1923), Wall Street Blues (1924), Lizzies of the Field (1924), Wandering Waitline (1924), The Lion's Whiskers (1924), From Rags to Britches (1925), Musclebound Music (1926), Hubby's Quiet Little Game (1926), Calling Hubby's Bluff (1929). Pink Pajamas (1929)) (2 disc set)

Dark Star Pictures
10/08/2024 — Released Art Dealers

Decal Releasing, LLC
10/01/2024 — Released National Anthem
10/08/2024 — Released Robot Dreams and Subservience

Deepedia (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Blink Twice, Crow, Emily in Paris: The Complete Series (4 disc set), His Three Daughters, It Ends with Us, Killer Heat, Midnight at the Pera Palace: Season 2 (2 disc set), Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menedez Story (2 disc set), Nautilus: Season 1 (2 disc set), Rebus: Season 1 (2 disc set), Snowpiercer: Season 4 (2 disc set), Tarot, Thicket, Twilight of the Gods: Season 1 (2 disc set) and Uglies

EBTV (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - East Brunswick Board of Education Meeting

Fun City Editions    
10/08/2024 — Released Paradise

FUNimation
10/08/2024 — Released Classroom For Heroes: The Complete Season (2 disc set) and Ouran High School Host Club: Complete Series (3 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Another Happy Day, Down Below, Hauntology, In Tenebras: Into The Darkness and Little Brother
10/08/2024 — Released Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, My Home Unknown and Studio One Forever

IFC Films IndiePix
10/08/2024 — Released
10/08/2024 — Released Late Night with the Devil

Indican Pictures (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Pariah (French) and Victim of Love (Danish)

Kino Lorber
10/01/2024 — Released Body and Soul: 4K Restoration, Burn, Witch, Burn (aka Night of the Eagle) 4K Restoration, First Love and Sebastian
10/08/2024 — Released Monsieur Vincent (French)

Leomark Studios (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Inbred and Syndrome (Russian)
10/08/2024 — Released Cora

Lex Media (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Lexington Affordable Housing Trust, 2024 - Lexington Conservation Commission Meeting and 2024 - Lexington School Building Committee Meeting
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Lexington vs. Belmont, 2024 - Lexington Conservation Commission Meeting, 2024 - Lexington Historic Districts Commission Meeting, 2024 - Lexington Planning Board Meeting, 2024 - Lexington School Committee Meeting and 2024 - Lexington Select Board

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
10/01/2024 — Released Brimstone, Diablo, Forsaken, Goon: Last of the Enforcers, Hell on Wheels: The Complete Series (17 disc set), Mom and Dad (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Night in Old Mexico
10/08/2024 — Released MaXXXine (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Magnolia Home Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released Convert and Thelma

Monsterland Media (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Complete Series (10 disc set), Christmas That Almost Wasn't, Doctor Snuggles: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Double Feature (2 film set: Monster of Frankenstein, Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned) (Englished dubbed), Drew Carey Show: The Complete Series (24 disc set), Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends: The Complete Series (10 disc set), Great Bear Scare, Hulk and the Agensts of Smash: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Ice Age Giants: The Complete Series, KaBlam!: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Little Show: The Complete Series (2 disc set), NASCAR Racers (25 episodes) (3 disc set), Scream Team, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Transformers: Headmasters - the Complete Series (4 disc set), Transformers: Wars for Cybertron (2 disc set) and You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown/It was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown

Movie TV Shop (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Seal Team: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

Movies R USA (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Killer's Game, Rebel Ridge, Salem's Lot and Ugly Betty: The Complete Series (4 disc set)
10/08/2024 — Released 4:30 Movie, Alien: Romulus, Bad Fish, Blink Twice, Forge, Heiress and the Handyman, Hellboy: The Crooked Man, Lady in the Lake, Longing, Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menedez Story (2 disc set), Nightwatch: Demons are Forever (Danish), Reagan, Remains, Sherwood: Seasons 1 & 2 (4 disc set), Snowpiercer: Season 4 (2 disc set), That 90's Show: Season 2 (2 disc set), Transformers One and Uglies

Online Movie Shop (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Platform 2 (Spanish) and Salem's Lot

Paramount Home Entertainment (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Prince & Me

Raro Video USA, Ltd.    
10/08/2024 — Released Riot in a Women's Prison (Italian)

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - ATVN (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Bethlehem Catholic @ Freedom, 2024 - Football: Nazareth @ Liberty and 2024 - Football: Whitehall @ Emmaus
10/08/2024 — Released 2024 - Football: Easton @ Liberty, 2024 - Football: Freedom @ Northampton and 2024 - Football: Notre Dame @ Pen Argyl

Rising Sun Media (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Dead Name, Fearway, Future Soldier, How To Be Lucky, I Scream on the Beach, I Tripped on Acid from Outer Space (Italian), Krays: Code of Silence, Terrorize, Tortured 4 and Untitled Horror Movie

Ronin Flix
10/08/2024 — Released Spiral

Scoot Master Flash (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Terminator Zero: Season 1

Sentai Filmworks
10/08/2024 — Released Outbreak Company: Season 1 (2 disc set)

Shoreline Entertainment (MOD)
10/08/2024 — Released Boiling Point, Boudica: Queen of War, Bull, ChristMess, Control, Hunted, In The Fire, Island, Night Train, Shadow Master and Shrapnel

Sterling Entertainment (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Axegrinder 2 and Camp Blood 3: First Slaughter

Synapse Films
10/08/2024 — Released Convent and Killers

Terror Vision
10/08/2024 — Released Dawning (Korean), Family Dinner (German), In the Woods: Director's Cut Remastered and Psycho Sisters

VIZ Media
10/08/2024 — Released Castlevania: Nocturne: The Complete First Season (2 disc set) and Zom 100: Bucket List Of The Dead: The Complete First Season (2 disc set)

Via Vision Entertainment
10/01/2024 — Released Brother, Cliff Walkers (Mandarin), Hammer Horror: Four Gothic Horror Films (4 film set: Countess Dracula, Hands of the Ripper, Twins of Evil, Vampire Circus) (4 disc set), Ride On (Mandarin) and Voyage of the Damned (2 disc set)
10/08/2024 — Released Beverly Hills Ninja

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.
10/08/2024 — Released Kinds of Kindness (with Digital Copy)

Warner - Archive (MOD)
10/01/2024 — Released Bathing Beauty, Conflict, Double Feature (2 film set: Jonny's Golden Quest, Jonny Quest Vs. the Golden Insects), I Remember Mama and Journey Into Fear

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.
10/08/2024 — Released Red Vs. Blue: Restoration

Well Go U.S.A.
10/01/2024 — Released End of the Rope
10/08/2024 — Released Exhuma (Korean)


New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

Arrow Video
01/21/2025 — Sets Cell: Limited Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Criterion Collection
01/07/2025 — Sets Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa (2 film set: Yojimbo, Sanjuro) (Japanese) (2 4K Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack)
01/14/2025 — Sets Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Mother and the Whore (French) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack)
01/21/2025 — Sets Grifters (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
01/28/2025 — Sets Winchester '73 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
10/08/2024 — Released MaXXXine (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Shout! Studios
10/01/2024 — Released Blob (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)
10/08/2024 — Released Arcane: League of Legends: Season One (3 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Devil (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
10/08/2024 — Released Friday Night Lights: 20th Anniversary Edition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Ent.
12/17/2024 — Sets Joker: Folie a Diex  - Limited Edition SteelBook (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Joker: Folie a Diex (with Digital Copy)

Well Go U.S.A.
10/08/2024 — Released Exhuma (Korean)

Film Masters Restores Sissy Spacek's Early Career Starring Role • Ginger In The Morning For Release On Blu-ray On Dec. 17

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The Film Masters announced this past week that a new 4K scan — from the original camera negative — of director Gordon Wiles’ 1974 off-beat drama, Ginger in the Morning, will be available on Dec. 17 as a “Limited Edition” Blu-ray release.

Sissy Spacek made her film debut in director Michael Ritchie’s Prime Cut in 1972, followed by filmmaker Terrence Malick’s Badlands in 1973 (a couple of television movies and series roles tossed in between) and then landed the titled role of Ginger in writer, producer and actor Mark Miller’s “road trip” romantic drama.   

Ginger in the Morning had all the trappings of a made-for-TV (MOW) film, even down to having Monte Markham (who was doing non-stop series work at the time) and Susan Oliver (another series player) as co-stars.   However, the finished film was given a territory-by-territory theatrical break (limited budget, limited “bicycled” prints from market to market) beginning in March of 1974 and moving a little wider during the summer of that year.

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Sissy Spacek was still something of an unknown quantity at the point, but that would all change two years later with the November of 1976 film release of director Brian DePalma’s Carrie (nominated Best Actress for her performance).

The late Mark Miller wrote the screenplay and was the producer as well one of the leads.   One of his greatest triumphs during his some thirty-year career was the 1982 family hit film, Savannah Smiles, which he also wrote, produced and starred in.

His performance is a little odd — perhaps deliberately so — and takes up much of an extended second act (Miller was by trade more of a stage actor, having been in thirty such productions during the course of his acting/producing and writing career).   It actually makes sense when viewed in that light.

The story revolves around Joe (Monte Markham), recently divorced, who picks up a hitchhiker named Ginger (Spacek) and becomes enamored with her.   A series of little white lies follow and it turns out that he just happens to be going to where she is bound (which isn’t true).   It gets even more complicated when he takes her home (telling her it is his buddy’s house) and then has his goofy friend, Charlie (Miller), shows up and lets the cat out of the bag.   

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Ginger, with no place to go in the middle of the night (New Year’s Eve at that), agrees to stay until morning.   Joe, upset over Charlie’s big mouth, decides to deliver a little “payback” and calls up Sugar (Susan Oliver), Charlie’s ex-wife, to come over … the craziness goes off the charts (a night out that goes way south).

There are two twists (not revealed here) that cap the film … the final moments actually make the entire film work (in an odd sort of way).   This is a delightful “treasure” unearthed by Film Masters for Blu-ray on Dec. 17.

Bonus goodies include commentary by C. Courtney Joyner and Amanda Reyes and the newly-prepared video session with Monte Markham titled “Remembering Ginger in the Morning.”

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Historical Documents Reveal Paramount's Galaxy Quest 4K Ultra HD Edition Will Land On Dec. 3 • Transformers One Follows On Dec. 17

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Paramount Home Entertainment will be saving the universe — on Dec. 3 with the 4K Ultra HD launch of director Dean Parisot’s sci-fi comedy gem, Galaxy Quest.

Not only is the 4K Ultra HD debut, but it is also the 25th anniversary of the film’s theatrical launch.

Relying on the “historical documents,” a race of space aliens known as the Thermians, turn to the crew (television actors played by Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub and Sigourney Weaver, along with secondary characters Sam Rockwell and Daryl Mitchell) of the Protector to help them battle Sarris over control of the Omega 13 device.   It’s all real … and so much fun!!

Bonus features include deleted scenes, the newly prepared “Filmmaker Focus with Director Dean Parisot” and six vintage featurettes — “Historical Documents: The Story of Galaxy Quest,” “Never Give Up, Never Surrender: The Intrepid Crew of the NSEA Protector,” “By Grabthar's Hammer, What Amazing Effects,” “Alien School: Creating the Thermian Race,” “Actors in Space” and “Sigourney Weaver Raps.” 

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In other release news from Paramount Home Entertainment, a full physical media spread of director Josh Cooley’s Transformers One will be ready for fans to enjoy on Dec. 17.

The ARR works out to 88 days and the domestic box office take currently stands at $53.7 million.
There will be four purchasing options.  These will be stand-alone, DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD editions, plus a limited edition 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray SteelBook Combo Pack.

A premium VOD window arrived on Oct. 22, which gives the “Helper” community eight weeks to work the streets with Blu-ray (and DVD) editions of their own making.

Bonus features include five production featurettes — “In The Beginning,” “World Building on Cybertron,” “Together as One,” “The Iacon 5000” and “The Battle for Cybertron.”


Oscillscope Laboratories Looks To Nov. 12 For The DVD And Blu-ray Debut Of Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's Latest Visual Feast: Once Within A Time

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Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio became something of a sensation with his “experimental” “non-linear” and “non-plot” trilogy of films known as “The Qatsi Trilogy” — Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2022).

From time to time, if you love film, it is nice to have something different than blockbuster “franchise” (tent pole) and Hollywood cookie cutter rom-coms to enjoy.   

One such opportunity comes around again on Nov. 12 with the DVD and Blu-ray debut of Reggio latest creative film experience, Once Within a Time, courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories.

If are looking for three acts and a linear narrative, you are in the wrong place.   Once With a Time is vintage Reggio, complete with all the visual power of the famed Qatsi Trilogy.

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Reggio latest cinematic feast, complete with the Adam, Eve, the Garden of Eden, nuclear explosions and unnamed child actors (which doesn’t even begin, or come close to giving one a hint about the film) was completed sometime in 2022, worked the festival circuit and got a very limited arthouse theatrical run beginning in October of 2023 (opening the same weekend as Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which grossed $181 million and still hasn’t been released on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD as of yet).

Once Within a Time then returned to the festival circuit … until now with the DVD and Blu-ray debut on Nov. 12 from Oscilloscope Laboratories.

Bonus goodies include commentary and a making-of featurette.

 

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Monday, November 4, 2024

Mill Creek Entertainment Sets Nov. 12 As The DVD Debut Date For Director Marco Deufemia's Dove Award-winning A Bluegrass Christmas

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Mill Creek Entertainment is getting into the Christmas spirit with the early-in-the-season Nov. 12 DVD debut of director Marco Deufemia’s A Bluegrass Christmas

If you have music-lover on your Christmas list, or a romantic … or someone who enjoy wholesome family entertainment, then this Dove Approved winner will be the perfect stocking-stuffer!!

Singer, songwriter and actor, Amanda Jordan (Rush for Your Life, Holly Hobbie, Christmas in Maple Hills), stars as Katie Pendleton, a young woman who has devoted her life to caring for abandoned and injured horses at her “Fields of Blue” sanctuary.   It’s a touch-and-go operation that gets by with the help of horse racing enthusiast Jim Breckenridge (Mike Shara), who has placed one of his prized horses in her care.

He wants to race the horse and she says it is not ready.   That becomes a bone of contention and since Breckenridge doesn’t like to be told what not to do, he not only ignores her advice, but he also pulls his funding.

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His son, Grant (David Pinard — Country Hearts Christmas, The Heiress of Christmas, May the Best Wedding Win), tries to intercede on Amanda’s behalf, but his father refuses to change his mind.   That puts Grant and Amanda on the same side … a mutual attraction begins to grow.

Meanwhile, Amanda turns to her famous grandfather, Ben (Shaun Johnston — best known as Jack Bartlett in the Heartland television series, plus such film as: In Plainview, Christmas in Big Sky Country, A Frosty Affair, etc.), a legendary Bluegrass recording artist for help.   He too says no … too painful, after losing his wife he turned his back and walked away from the music scene.   

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His old band member step up and offer to help Amanda put together a Christmas-season benefit concert, but without a lead singer things look bleak.   It looks like “Fields of Blue” will be shutting down unless there’s a Christmas miracle!

We won’t give away the third act here, but we can say this much, A Bluegrass Christmas is a wonderful feel-good movie (a Dove Award-winner to boot) … and it comes loaded with a strong soundtrack featuring the likes of “Poor Wayfaring Stranger,” “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” “O Come All Ye Faithful” and more.

Be sure to check out Marco Deufemia’s A Bluegrass Christmas when it makes its DVD debut on Nov. 12 from Mill Creek Entertainment … the perfect stocking stuffer!!

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



Sunday, November 3, 2024

Arrow Video's 4K Ultra HD Edition Of Director Tarsem Singh's The Cell Debuts In The New Year (Jan. 21)

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Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has new a 4K restoration — no wait, two new 4K restorations — of director Tarsem Singh’s 2000 serial-killer thriller, The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D’Onofrio as the infamous Carl Rudolph Stargher.

We say two new restorations because Arrow has both the original theatrical cut and Singh’s “director’s cut” of the film ready for a 4K Ultra HD rollout in the New Year (Jan. 21 to be exact).

The original theatrical cut clocked in at 107 minutes, while the “director’s cut” has a running time of 109 minutes.

The 4K Ultra HD disc includes both cuts plus four separate commentary options — two newly-prepared featuring film scholars Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and film critic Kay Lynch teams with screenwriter Mark Protosevich … plus two archived commentaries with director Tarsem Singh and a tag-team option featuring director of photography Paul Laufer, production designer Tom Foden, makeup supervisor Michèle Burke, costume designer April Napier, visual effects supervisor Kevin Tod Haug and composer Howard Shore.

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There are also two new featurettes included on the 4K Ultra HD disc — “Projection of the Mind’s Eye” and “Between Two Worlds.”'

The companion Blu-ray features an “unseen” theatrical cut prepared by the director of photography Paul Laufer.   Also included are three new featurettes — “Paul Laufer Illuminates,” “Art is Where You Find It” and “The Costuming Auteur” — plus eight deleted or extended scenes and the archival featurette titled “Style as Substance: Reflections on Tarsem.”

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





Severin Films To Release A Blu-ray Edition Of Director Ray Dennis Steckler’s The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Crazy Mixed-Up Zombies On Dec. 3

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Severin Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K scan of producer, director and actor Ray Dennis Steckler’s micro-budget 1964 horror classic, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Crazy Mixed-Up Zombies, which be delivered to genre fans on Dec. 3 as a bonus-packed Blu-ray release.

Los Angeles in 1963 (including shots of the famed Angels Flight) is the backdrop for Steckler’s lurid tale about Madam Estrella (Brett O’Hara) — a fortune-teller — her hunchbacked dwarf assistant by the name of Ortega (Jack Brady) and her sister, Carmelita (Erina Enyo — also in Steckler’s The Thrill Killers), who have a carnival sideshow populated by deformed freaks.  It is the “source” of Estrella’s freaks that is the heart of Steckler’s incredible tale.

With a mirco-budget, Steckler’s film had limited prints and was “bicycled” around the country beginning in March of 1964 on a market-by-market basis.   To get some extra mileage out of his film, it was renamed and released as Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary!   And get this, the film even had its own soundtrack release and was billed as “The First Monster Musical!”   

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So enjoy the chills or a rock out to the likes of “Mixed-Up Zombie Stomp” and “It’s Incredible” on Blu-ray on Dec. 3 from Severin Films.

Bonus goodies include an introduction by Joe Bob Briggs, two commentary options — one featuring Briggs and the other with Steckler — deleted scenes and archival video sessions with filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler and actor Carolyn Brandt (as Marge Neilson … also as Cee Bee Beaumont in Stecker’s 1966 comedy, Rat Pfink a Boo Boo).

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




Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Tabs Dec. 17 For The Full-Spread Physical Media Launch Of Writer/Director Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie À Deux

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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has selected Dec. 17 as the street date for a full-spread physical media launch of writer/director Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie À Deux (literal translation: “Joker: Madness for Two”).

The ARR comes in at 74 days and the domestic box office take currently stands at $58 million.
Planned for distribution are stand-alone editions for the DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD formats, plus a limited edition 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack SteelBook purchasing option.

A premium VOD window opened up 25 days into the theatrical run (Oct. 29), which affords the “Helper” community seven full weeks to move their own Blu-ray editions (check out eBay if you doubt that … which begs the question, is eBay in business with China to steal copyrighted product?).

As to bonus features, which are limited to the 4K and Blu-ray SKUs, there’s a four-part making-of documentary titled Everything Must Go and four additional featurettes — “The Character of Music,” “Live! With the Joker,” “Colors of Madness” and “Crafted with Class.”


The Criterion Collection Opens The New Year With Five New 4K Ultra HD Releases Toplined By Director Stephen Frear's The Grifters (Jan. 21)

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The Criterion Collection will ring in the New Year with five new 4K film restorations.   These will be delivered during each of the four street-date Tuesdays during the month of January.

It is, of course, always a subjective call when reporting on the lead title for the month.   There is much to be admired in Criterion’s January release slate, so selecting director Stephen Frear’s 1990 film adaptation of the Jim Thomson’s 1963 novel, The Grifters, was a difficult choice.

This is a new 4K film restoration approved by the director of photography, Oliver Stapleton, and it will be available on Jan. 21 as both 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack and stand-alone Blu-ray product offerings.

The rights to Thomson’s novel were originally shopped to Martin Scorsese as project for him to direct, but he ended up being the producer instead of directing.   Frears had just scored with Dangerous Liaisons and was approached by Scorsese to take on the directing chores.

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There were a number of actors mentioned in the trades during the period as potential cast members, including Cher, Geena Davis and Melanie Griffith, but for various reasons they all dropped out.   Angelica Huston and Annette Bening landed the female leads as Lilly and Myra respectively … and were rewarded for their efforts with Oscar acting nominations.    John Cusack, as Lilly’s son Roy Dillon was always the first choice.

As to bonus features, commentary is provided by Frears and screenwriter Donald E. Westlake, who are joined by actors Cusack and Huston, plus there is a new video session with Bening, a making-of documentary and two featurettes — “Seduction, Betrayal, Murder: The Making of The Grifters” and “The Jim Thompson Story.”

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Also on the January release calendar from the Criterion Collection are: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa (featuring Yojimbo and Sanjuro … Jan. 7); The Mother and the Whore (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack, plus double-disc DVD and stand-alone Blu-ray selections … Jan. 14); Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack, also Blu-ray … Jan. 14) and Winchester '73 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack, also Blu-ray … Jan. 28).