Bayview Entertainment Celebrates New Year's Eve With The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Jason Shirley's Innocent Kiss Starring Burt Reynolds

Bayview Entertainment has scored a major DVD release to ring in the New Year.  Yes, it is confirmed that Dec. 31 will be the street date for writer/director Jason Shirley’s Innocent Kiss, which features one of the final on-screen performances of Burt Reynolds.

Reynolds was in preparation for the role of George Spahn in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood when he died suddenly of a heart attack.   Sad.  

Filmmaker Jason Shirley got to work with Reynolds in 2016 on his film titled Elbow Grease, which opened at the Sarasota Film Festival in April of that year.   It was perhaps rushed into completion and even though audiences responded well, Shirley felt that some work was needed and the film was withdrawn from further circulation to be re-cut and re-worked.  

Time passed, and as sometimes happens with independent films, they just disappear.   Not so with Jason Shirley’s comedy, true to his word he re-worked it, tightened it up and brought it to the Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival in February of this year.   Retitled as Innocent Kiss, it received rave reviews … audiences loved it!!   

Bayview Entertainment got wind of Innocent Kiss and now this down-home comedy will finally be available for the public to enjoy … a nice, fun-filled way to ring in the New Year!!!

Paramount Home Media Prep Two Full Seasons Of Gunsmoke For DVD Release On Feb. 11

Paramount Home Media will be pleasing fans of the legendary Western series, Gunsmoke, on Feb. 11 with the releases on not one, but two full seasons on DVD … Gunsmoke: The Complete 18th Season and Gunsmoke: The Complete 19th Season.

In other release news this week that writer/director Malik Bader’s Killerman, starring Liam Hemsworth as a New York City hustler — with a major problem — has been added to the Dec. 3 DVD release calendar.

The ARR is 95 days and the film’s box office take from its limited showcase theatrical run came in at $291,477.

Documentary Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne’s Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father - 10th Anniversary Special Edition From Oscilloscope Laboratories On Dec. 17

Oscilloscope Laboratories announced this past week that documentary filmmaker Kurt Kuenne’s 2008 documentary, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father - 10th Anniversary Special Edition, will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray this coming Dec. 17.

The true story begins with the murder of Andrew Bagby in November of 2001.   Kurt Kuenne was his friend, since childhood, and when he learned that Andrew had a newborn son, which he fathered with a woman named Shirley Turner, before his death, he decided — as a loving tribute — to assemble old 8mm and 16mm films of Andrew growing up so that his son, Zachary would know who his father was.   He interviewed family and friends … it would be a nice collection of memories for Andrew’s son.

Meanwhile, Shirley became the prime suspect and fled to Canada with Zachary.   Andrew’s parents followed and began court proceedings to gain custody of the boy.   The wheels of justice ground slowly … and Kuenne’s “family album” tribute mutated into an investigation into the death of his friend.

We will not give away the twist here, but it is sufficient to say that Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father plays more like a film noir thriller than a loving memory book for a son to view as he grows from child to adult.

Bonus features include updates to the story by filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, extended scenes and additional footage of both Andrew and Zachary.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Sets Jan. 7 As The Street Date For DVD And Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Editions Of Writer/Director Justin Dec's Countdown

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has elected to open the New Year with a Jan. 7 home entertainment package media launch of writer/director Justin Dec’s Countdown, a demonic thriller … or is it just a scary tale about a cursed cell phone app?   

 In any case, the clock is ticking down to a death-day zero for nurse Quinn Harris (Elizabeth Lail), who downloaded a quirky app to her cell phone, and now has just 72 hours to figure out a way to stop it!!!

The ARR is a very quick 74 days and box office receipts currently stand at $24.5 million.

Planned for release are a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and a stand-alone DVD.

There don’t appear to be any bonus features, but with that quick-to-market flip from theatrical venues to home entertainment it could be that there are things in the works that didn’t make the press announcement (stay tuned).

For the period ending November 15, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

1091 Media (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Leonard Soloway's Broadway

AMC Networks, Inc. - Shutter (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Small Town Killers (Danish)

Alfra (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Bikini Body Bible with Emma Louise Burrows, Danielle Collins: 10 Minute Natural Facelift, Leg Training Series with Jamie Alderton,  Ryan Terry: How to be a Cover Model and Train Through The Pain with James Alexander Ellis

Alpha Video (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Clutch Cargo, Volume 10, Golem: The Legend of Prague (French), Grandma's Boy (silent-1922), Joyless Street (silent-1925), Mambo, Mondo Collecto, Movie Man's Matinee, Volume 4 (7 silent short films: Ye Olden Grafter (1915), A Lucky Leap (1915), A Human Hound's Triumph (1915), A Millionaire for a Minute (1915), Eats for Two (1927), Nifty Numbers (1928), Sappy Service (1929)), Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: The Wasp Woman, Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Raven (silent-1915)/Avenging Conscience (silent-1914), Sparrows (silent-1926) and WWII Documentary Double Feature (2 film set: The Battle of Midway, Tunisian Victory)

BBC Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Doctor Who: The Mecra Terror (2 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

12/24/19 — Sets Book of Life (Italian), Cripta (Italian) and Lord Doesn't Hate You (Italian)

Blue Forge Films (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Epic Washington (2 disc set) and My Wyvern Heart

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Story of Santa Claus

CM Films (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Flintown Kids and Where's the Soul?

CMI Education/PESI Publishing

11/05/19 — Released Kids in the Crossfire of Divorced and Blended Families: Interventions for Anxious, Depressed and Oppositional Children, Legal Risks For Nurses: Protect Yourself from the Courtroom!, Play & Language: The Roots of Literacy, Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes and Suicide: Identification, Intervention and Prevention Skills Every Clinician Needs

Championship Productions

11/12/19 — Released Best of Club Swimming: Technical Progressions for Successful Backstroke, Five Man Puck Recovery, Front Row/Back Row Defense and Teaching Serve Receive Techniques and Patterns

Cinedigm

11/12/19 — Released D-Day: Battle of Omaha Beach

Cinedigm – Sonar (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Double Feature: Adventures in Dinotopia, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Double Feature: Flood, Flood: A River's Rampage and Double Feature: Meteor, Pandemic

ClassicFlix

11/12/19 — Released Complete PRC Michael Shayne Mystery Collection (5 film set: Murder is My Business, Larcery in Her Heart, Blonde for a Day, Three on a Ticket, Too Many Winners) (2 disc set)

Criterion Collection

02/11/20 — Sets Roma (Spanish) (2 disc set)

02/18/20 — Sets Antonio Gaudi (Japanese) (2 disc set) and Teorema (Italian)

02/25/20 — Sets Paris is Burning (2 disc set) and Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (3 film set: Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen) (Czech)

DreamScape Media, LLC

11/12/19 — Released Highlights: Manners, Please!

Dynamic

11/12/19 — Released Offenbach: Un Mari a la Porte

EWTN

11/12/19 — Released EWTN Live: Jim Akin - Author and Apologist, Journey Home: Arthur Lohsen - Former Lutheran, Author of "Rebuild My House," Life on the Rock: Father Matt Lowery - 2019 Seek Conference, Sunday Best: Can We Pray With Those of Other Faiths?, Women of Grace: Living Life in the Holy Spirit and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner / Most Rev. Joseph Strickland

11/19/19 — Sets EWTN Live: Irini de Sernin - Bollandist Society, Journey Home: Father Daniel Bowen - Former Jehovah's Witness and Life on the Rock: Sam Guzman - The Case for Courtesy, Courage Valor and Living in Authentic Manhood

11/26/19 — Sets Life on the Rock: Father Boniface Hicks - Spirituality of Silence

Eagle Rock Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert (DVD/CD Combo Pack) and Toto: 40 Tours Around the Sun

Film Movement

12/10/19 — Sets Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives

Get Digital World (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Google Adsense Made Easy, Instant Cash Magnet, Niche Business Jumpstart, Optimize Your Website For Mobile Devices, Sure-Fire Tips for Successful Adsense Campaigns, With These YouTube Ad Techniques, You'll See Results In Just Hours and YouTube Live Cash Crasher

Giant Interactive (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Love, Antosha (ARR of 102 days; box office: $50,168)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released 5th Dementia, Bit x Bit: In Bitcoin We Trust, Bygone, Philophobia: Or the Fear of Falling in Love, Saving Atlantis and Shooting in Vain

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

11/05/19 — Released Blood Myth, Devil’s Acid, Ellipse and Maria

I-Cine

11/12/19 — Released Phu Khai Phong (18 disc set) and Tieng Set Trong Mua (18 disc set)

Indiepix

11/12/19 — Released Yesterday was a Lie

Josh Way (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Fun With Shorts, Volume 27

Kaczmarek Digital Media Group, Inc. (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released How to Boil a Frog, Karate Christmas Miracle, Moving Stories and Sensei

Kino Lorber

11/12/19 — Released Buffet Froid (French), Charley Varrick, Gone Fishin', Gun Runners, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (French), Return to Macon County, Street People and Winter Kills

01/14/20 — Released Price of Everything (ARR of 452 days; box office: $85,277)

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

11/05/19 — Released American Super Woman (2 disc set)

11/12/19 — Released Crowd-Funding: A New Deathstar, Fauxcumentary: Archeaology of Comedy, Flatulence Pants and Safety Geeks: SVI

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Weekend

MPI Home Video

11/12/19 — Released Bliss

Martial Arts History Museum (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Your First Book: Everything You Need to Know Before You Begin

Monarch Video

11/12/19 — Released Snow White Christmas

Nandar Home Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Red Resurrection

Naturally Supernatural Media House (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Naturally Supernatural: Biblical Foundations for a Supernatural Lifestyle (4 disc set)

Naxos

11/12/19 — Released Kurt Weill: Street Scene, Mahler: Symphony No 1 & No. 4, Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Teatro a la Scala (2 disc set), Verdi: La Traviata - Royal Opera House and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Teatro Opera of Rome (3 disc set)

PBS Direct

11/05/19 — Released Odyssey: The Chamber Music Society in Greece

11/12/19 — Released Poldark: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released 2019 PIAA Boys 1A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Boys 2A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Boys 3A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Boys 4A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Girls 1A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Girls 2A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Girls 3A Soccer Championship and 2019 PIAA Girls 4A Soccer Championship

Saina Video Vision

11/12/19 — Released Sachin (Malayalam)

Seventh Art Productions

11/12/19 — Released Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh & Japan

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Game Changer Wrestling Pro: 2 Cups Stuff - Hoffman Estates, IL, Intergender Bonanza: The Stan Styles Intergender Bonanza 4 - Williamstown, NJ and IWA Mid-South: The Show Must Go On - Jeffersonville, IN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

11/12/19 — Released Cross: Rise of the Villains

Splash Entertainment (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Chloe's Closet: Season 2, Volume 1 (3 disc set) and Chloe's Closet: Season 2, Volume 2 (3 disc set)

Summer Hill Films

11/12/19 — Released Silent and Forgotten

TWM Media Group (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Art of Common Sense and Critical Thinking - Employee Training & Awareness, Bullying Epidemic, Career Opportunities for Young People: Jobs in the Media, Chance of Being Positive, Coping with Loss: The Process of Mourning, How to Find Contentment, Inspiration to Exercise, Lee Harvey Oswald: Conspiracy, Lee Harvey Oswald: Proof, Life is Like a Journey on a Train: How to Find Connection & Purpose, So Much to Live For Today: How to Cope with Depression and Wonders of a Positive Self Image

Vertical Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Polaroid

The Video Beat (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Sounds of the Seventies, Volume 1, Sounds of the Seventies, Volume 2 and Sounds of the Seventies, Volume 3

Thuy NGA, Inc.

11/05/19 — Released Paris by Night 129: Dynasty (3 disc set)

Tucson, Pearl of Sonora (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Tucson, Pearl of Sonora, Volume 127: Ruth's Utah

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/05/19 — Released Holiday Hell

11/12/19 — Released Once Upon a Time in Deadwood

Uni Music - Deutsche

11/12/19 — Released André Rieu: Christmas Down Under

Vision Films (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Christmas Cupcakes and Teslafy Me

WWE

11/12/19 — Released WWE: Hell in a Cell, 2019 (2 disc set)

World Wide Multi Media

11/12/19 — Released Conspiracy Theories: Big Brother's Sinister Plot to Dominate Mankind and King Arthur: The Legend of the Holy Grail

Blu-ray New Additions

AGFA

11/12/19 — Released Wicked World

Cohen Media Group

11/12/19 — Released Tel Aviv on Fire (Arabic)

Cri-One (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released De Junglist

Criterion Collection

02/11/20 — Sets Roma (Spanish)

02/18/20 — Sets Antonio Gaudi (Japanese) and Teorema (Italian)

02/25/20 — Sets Paris is Burning and Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (3 film set: Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen) (Czech)

Dark Entity Music, LLC

11/12/19 — Released Listing

Dynamic

11/12/19 — Released Offenbach: Un Mari a la Porte

Eagle Rock Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert (Blu-ray/CD Combo Pack) and Toto: 40 Tours Around the Sun

FUNimation

11/12/19 — Released Bungo Stray Dogs: Seasons One & Two (4 disc set), Izetta: The Last Witch (2 disc set), Radiant, Season 1, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Shomin Sample (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released 5th Dementia, Bit x Bit: In Bitcoin We Trust, Bygone, Philophobia: Or the Fear of Falling in Love, Saving Atlantis and Shooting in Vain

Indiepix (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Yesterday was a Lie

Kaczmarek Digital Media Group, Inc. (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Karate Christmas Miracle, Moving Stories and Sensei

Kino Lorber

11/12/19 — Released Buffet Froid (French), Charley Varrick, Gone Fishin', Gun Runners, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (French), Madigan, Return to Macon County, Street People, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Winter Kills

MPI Home Video

11/12/19 — Released Bliss

Maiden Japan

11/12/19 — Released Natsu No Arashi (2 disc set)

Mondo Macabro

11/12/19 — Released Emanuelle in America (Italian)

Naxos

11/12/19 — Released Kurt Weill: Street Scene, Mahler: Symphony No 1 & No. 4, Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Teatro a la Scala and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Teatro Opera of Rome

PBS Direct

11/12/19 — Released Poldark: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)

Shady Dawn Pictures, LLC (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released One Winter Night

Shout! Factory

11/12/19 — Released Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Spanish) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Nutty Professor Collection (2 film set: The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps) (2 disc set), Road Games: Collector's Edition and Spirited Away: Collector's Edition (Japanese) (with bonus CD)

Sterling Pictures (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Lava

Synergetic (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Bait

Troma

11/12/19 — Released Return to Return to Nuke'em High Aka Volume 2 (2 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/12/19 — Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made

VCI Entertainment

12/17/19 — Sets La Barraca (Spanish) and Una Familia De Tantas (Spanish)

01/21/20 — Sets Gordon of Ghost City (12 chapter serial)