Warner Home Video's Grace Kelly Collection Heads Home On July 29

Warner Home Video announced this past week that July 29 will be the release date for the six-film Grace Kelly Collection on DVD.

Included in the collection are: Director John Ford’s 1953 film release of Mogambo, starring Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner and Clark Gable; Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller teaming Grace Kelly with Ray Milland and Robert Cummings, Dial M for Murder; Bing Crosby and William Holden join her in The Country Girl (1954); William Holden, Mickey Rooney and Grace Kelly star in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); Grace Kelly worked with filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock once again in the 1955 romantic crime thriller, To Catch a Thief (Cary Grant) and rounding out this six-disc collection is the 1956 musical, High Society, which found her opposite Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

Also added to the DVD release calendar this week are the Apr. 15 debut of Fay Wray’s 1940 crime thriller, Wildcat Bus; the Apr. 22 double-feature starring Ann Sothern, She's Got Everything (1937) and The Smartest Girl in Town (1936); Raquel Welch’s 1968 film comedy, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, makes its DVD debut on May 6 and the six-disc collection of How the West Was Won: The Complete Second Season will street on July 15.

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Gidget: The Complete Series On DVD From Mill Creek Entertainment On May 20

Mill Creek Entertainment has added two additional TV-on-DVD collections to its May 20 release calendar.   

A three-disc collection of Gidget: The Complete Series, featuring all 32 episodes of the 1965/66 TV spinoff, starring Sally Field, is being made available for just $9.98.

Also on May 20 is the double-disc presentation of Facts of Life: Season Two (also priced at just $9.98).

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Breaking Glass Pictures Tabs June 10 As The DVD Debut Date For Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!

Breaking Glass Pictures announced this past week that writer/director Evgeny Afineevsky’s award-winning comedy, Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!, will be making its DVD debut on June 10.

The film worked the festival circuit during 2009 and 2010 and piled up win after win (Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, New York International Independent Film & Video Festival and more).    

A limited arthouse run followed — the ARR works out to 1,264 days and ticket sales were $89,507 — and then the film dropped, inexplicably, out of sight.

Now, with Breaking Glass Pictures snapping it up (for well-timed reasons), fans can enjoy the film once again on DVD.

Oy Vey (woe), Shirley (Lainie Kazan) and Martin Hirsch (Saul Rubinek) have a problem, their son Nelson is gay!   

 

Of note, John Lloyd Young plays Nelson, he was the Tony Award-winner for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys in 2006.  Auteur filmmaker Clint Eastwood’s film version of this stage musical, celebrating the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, will open theatrically on June 20. 

Thus, Breaking Glass Pictures is taking full advantage of the buzz surrounding the casting by Eastwood of Nelson as Valli in the film version ... the June 10 street date is perfect!

OK, back to this comedy-of-errors … Rubinek and Kazan get to go full tilt as Jewish parents desperate to keep their son in the closet, but when that doesn’t work, they decide to invite his boyfriend (oy vey, not Jewish), Angelo (Jai Rodriguez) and his parents (Vincent Pastore and Shelly Burch) to dinner!!!  

Bonus features include outtakes and additional scenes, footage from the film’s Montreal premier, audience responses and opening animation.

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Ride Report On DVD From Cinema Libre On June 10

Cinema Libre announced this past week that documentary filmmakers Matt Kendall and Tiernan Turner’s Ride Report, a personal account of their 10,000-mile Central and South American adventure, will be available on DVD this coming June 10.

The hardest part of their journey was getting out of Las Vegas, Nevada!  Learning how to ride (and repair) their bikes was a new experience … one that was more “error than trial” at the beginning of their journey.

The essence of their proposed road trip odyssey hinged on social media postings and couch surfing contacts.  Could they journey from point to point to point with the help of total strangers … hosts that they would contact through the couchsurfing.org web site?   

The result?   Ride Report details just how much the world is connected — even in seemingly remote and outwardly hostile places.  The couch surfer universe passed the two adventurers from one point to the next and offered help, at times, that went well beyond their simple social contract.    

Countless hosts — helpful and full of experiences — were there to share their little corner of the world … all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada to Rio De Janeiro.   Come join their journey on June 10 ... it's a great ride.

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20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment has Picked May 20 as the DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Release Date For 3 Days to Kill

20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment has picked May 20 as the DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (with UltraViolet) release date for director McG’s 3 Days to Kill, starring Kevin Costner as an aging CIA operative given one last assignment … one that is literally a life or death job (in more ways than just the hunt and kill).

The ARR is a very quick 88 days and domestic ticket sales currently stand at $30.2 million. 

No word just yet on bonus goodies included with 3 Days to Kill.

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's The Monuments Men Arrives On May 20

Despite a delay that took it out of the Christmas season (never a good sign), writer, director, producer and star George Clooney’s The Monuments Men — based on Robert M. Edsel’s book — ended up being a pretty decent theatrical hit.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced this past week that DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (with UltraViolet) editions will be available at retail on May 20.

This based on actual events from WWII story pulled in $76.6 million at the box office at arrives in the home entertainment market place with an ARR of 102 days.

Bonus features include two featurettes and deleted scenes.

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Eagle Rock Entertainment Picks Apr. 22 for the DVD/CD Combo Pack debut of Little Feat: Live in Holland 1976

Eagle Rock Entertainment has tabbed Apr. 22 as the street for the DVD/CD Combo Pack release of Little Feat: Live in Holland 1976.

Not previously released, this live concert was filmed during the Pinkpop Festival in Holland during the June session of 1976 (going strong since 1970 with a couple million fans attending — of note, the 2014 version this June features the likes of The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys and Metallica).

The group on stage that day was at THE height of their early “Lowell George” rendition of the band (he would die of a massive heart attack exactly three years later at age 34) and included founding members Lowell George and Bill Payne, plus the late Richie Hayward (died 2010), and Paul Barrere, Sam Clayton and Kenny Gradney (who all joined the band 1972 and continue to rock on with Little Feat).

The nine-song set includes “Skin it Back,” “Fat Man in a Bathtub,” “Rock and Roll Doctor,” “All That You Dream,” “Cold, Cold, Cold,” “Dixie Chicken,” “Tripe Face Boogie,” “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now” and “Teenage Nervous Breakdown.”

The accompanying CD includes two bonus cuts, “One Love Stand” and “Oh Atlanta.”

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