Arrow Video's 4K Restoration Of The Apartment Heads to Blu-ray On Dec. 12

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K restoration (from the original camera negative) of director Billy Wilder’s 1960 Best Picture winner, The Apartment, ready for a Limited Deluxe Edition Blu-ray release on Dec. 12.

Bonus goodies include a 150 page hard cover book, commentary by film producer and historian Bruce Block (“The Visual Story”), selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp (“Cinema: The Whole Story”) and a newly prepared video session with actress Hope Holiday.   

There are also four featurettes —  “The Flawed Couple,” “Inside the Apartment,” “Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon” and “Billy Wilder ABC.”

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces November Film Catalog Selections • Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne Blu-ray Nov. 21

First it was amazon.com and it’s all too familiar habit of jumping the gun on official announcements to collect as many pre-book orders as possible.   It was touting Dec. 5 as the street date for writer/director Christopher Nolan’s sure-to-be Best Picture nominee, Dunkirk.

Amazon subsequently pulled the offer and a whole week went by without Warner Bros. Home Entertainment making an official announcement.  Nothing.   Crickets.   

Then on Friday, Oct. 13, Best Buy jumped into the battle for its fair share of the sales action by offering up Dunkirk on Dec. 19.   The entire week slipped by and come Friday, Oct. 20, still nothing official from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

But that doesn’t mean that it was quiet over in Burbank as there was plenty of catalog action, so let’s get that … the turf war over Dunkirk between Warner and Amazon can wait for now.

On the Blu-ray front there are three new releases heading home in November.  Chief among these is the Nov. 21 Blu-ray launch of director Taylor Hackford’s 1995 film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, Dolores Claiborne, teaming Kathy Bates (who also shined in another King adaptation, Misery, five years earlier) with Jennifer Jason Leigh as mother/daughter involved in what may or may not be a murder.

The other two new-to-Blu-ray releases from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in November are Summer of ’42 (Nov. 7) and Doc Hollywood (Nov. 28).

More “un-bundling” of previously released films as part of collections continues in November with stand-alone DVD releases on Nov. 14 of Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern and Robert Young starring in the 1941 film release of Lady be Good (part of a double-feature release in 2008), Jane Powell and Ann Sothern lead an all-star cast in the 1950 musical comedy, Nancy Goes to Rio and Jane Powell stars in the 1950 romantic comedy, Two Weeks With Love (these two films were part of a double-bill released in 2008).

The following week, Nov. 21, we have two unique double feature collections … Kind Lady Double Feature, which includes the original 1935 version (with Aline MacMahon and Basil Rathbone) and the 1951 remake (featuring Ethel Barrymore and Maurice Evans), and Strictly Dishonorable Double Feature, which showcase the 1931 original adaptation of the Preston Sturges stage play (with Sidney Fox and Paul Lukas) and the 1951 remake starring Janet Leigh. 

And finally, Nov. 28 brings us three Doris Day films from the 2009 box set titled TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection  — April in Paris, The Tunnel of Love and Starlift — and Old Maid (originally released as part of the Bette Davis Collection, Volume 3 in 2008) Renegades of the West (1932, starring Tom Keene) and Kid from Texas (1939, starring Dennis O’Keefe and Florence Rice).

Now back to waiting for an official announcement for Dunkirk.

MVD Entertainment Group Tabs Dec. 12 For The DVD Debut Of 6 Bullets to Hell

MVD Entertainment Group will be guiding the directing team of Tanner Beard and Russell Quinn Cummings’ homage to the Spaghetti Western genre, 6 Bullets to Hell, to the DVD marketplace on Dec. 12.

Not only did Cummings and Beard deliver a genuine throwback to Spaghetti Western classics — films that spawned the likes of Django, Death Rides a Horse, For a Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in West — but they filmed this new production in the same style and have tossed in two “Grindhouse” trailers before the flick unspools.

The plot has cowhand Billy Rogers (Crispian Belfrage) setting out to avenge the rape and murder of his wife by a gang led by the notorious Bobby Durango (played by filmmaker Tanner Beard).    He hunts them down, in true Spaghetti Western tradition, one … by one … by one … until justice is finally served!!!

Bonus features include a behind-the-scenes featurette, a mini-documentary on the making of the film, character profiles, a stills gallery and the featurette titled “On Set with the Cast of 6 Bullets to Hell.”

   

Paramount Home Media To Release Girlfriends: The Complete Series On DvD On Jan. 16

Paramount Home Media will open its 2018 home entertainment product campaign with the release of the 25-disc collection of Girlfriends: The Complete Series, on Jan. 16.

All 172 episodes from the show’s eight-season run — starring Tracee Ellis Ross, Golden Brooks, Persia White and Jill Marie Jones — will be available on DVD.

Bonus features include featurettes exclusive to each of the eight seasons.

The Criterion Collection Kicks Of 2018 On Jan. 2 With A 4K Restoration Of Director John Hughes' The Breakfast Club

The Criterion Collection begins the New Year on Jan. 2 with a new 4K restoration of director John Hughes’ 1985 “Brat Pack” gem, The Breakfast Club, which will be available as both a double-disc DVD release as well as a Blu-ray edition.

Bonus features include a vintage commentary track (2008) featuring Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and John (Judd Nelson), newly-minted video sessions with Claire (Molly Ringwald) and Allison (Ally Sheedy), the 2008 feature-length making-of documentary titled Sincerely Yours, a featurette with Judd Nelson reading John Hughes’ production notes, 50 minutes worth of “never-before-seen” deleted and extended scenes and more.

The following week, Jan. 9, The Criterion Collection is back with both DVD (double-disc) and Blu-ray editions of auteur filmmaker John Ford’s 1939 film release of Young Mr. Lincoln, starring Henry Fonda as future president Abraham Lincoln, with Marjorie Weaver as Mary Todd.

This new 4K restoration sports a new commentary option featuring author and film scholar Joseph McBride, who has written two books on the film career of John Ford — “Searching for John Ford: A Life” and “John Ford” — vintage audio interviews with both Henry Fonda and John Ford conduced by Henry Fonda’ grandson, Dan Ford, a radio dramatization and more.

On Jan. 16 look for the double-disc DVD and Blu-ray debut of director Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, starring stand-up comedian Dave Johns in his award-winning feature film debut as the title character, who finds himself in a no-win battle again the British health care bureaucracy.   

The ARR works out 228 days and domestic box office receipts for this British import’s arthouse run were $258,168.

Bonus goodies include commentary from screenwriter Paul Laverty, deleted scenes and two feature-length documentaries — How to Make a Ken Loach Film and Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach.

Rounding out the January of 2018 release calendar from The Criterion Collection are DVD and Blu-ray editions of German filmmaker G.W. Pabst’s early 1930s film releases, Kameradschaft and Westfront 1918 (both are in German with English subtitles and will be available on Jan. 30) and a four-film collection on DVD being released under the Eclipse Series titled Claude Autant-Lara: Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France (these are: Le Mariage de Chiffon, Lettres D'Amour, Douce and Sylvie et le Fantome) … they are presented in French with English subtitles.

For the period ending October 13, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending October 13, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

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3 Fish Productions (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Graves of Arthur Kill: Director's Cut

10 Spot Music

11/17/17 — Sets Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (ARR of 217 days; box office: $406,284)

A&E Networks

10/10/17 — Released Britney Ever After

Acorn Media

10/10/17 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Once Upon a Christmas

10/17/17 — Sets Marcella: Season One (2 disc set)

Ariztical Entertainment

11/10/17 — Sets When Edith's Bells Toll (German)

Arrow Video

12/05/17 — Sets Premonition

BBC Home Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Hey Duggee and Sharpe: Season 2 (2 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Bacchanalia and Quest for God

Breaking Glass Pictures

10/10/17 — Released Heartstone (Icelandic)

10/17/17 — Sets B & B

10/24/17 — Sets Assholes

Breakthrough Chinuch (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released How to Teach Gemara

Café and Beyond Films

10/10/17 — Released Arg Stairs

Championship Videos

10/10/17 — Released All Access Basketball Practice with Larry Krystkowiak (2 disc set), All Access Wrestling Practice: 3 Phase Training System with Steve Costanzo (4 disc set) and Unstoppable Underhook and Front Headlock Series

Cinedigm Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released IP Man: Season One (3 disc set)

Cinedigm - Scholastic

10/10/17 — Released Scholastic Video: Stick and Stone … and More Anti-Bullying Stories

Classicflix

10/10/17 — Released T-Men: Special Edition

Cutlass Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Alice and Friends

Dark Entity Music, LLC

10/10/17 — Released Killer 4 Pack, Volume 2 (4 film set: Hellbilly, Hellinger, Carnage, Holy Terror)

DreamScape Media, LLC

10/10/17 — Released Beat the Devil, Big Lift, Bigamist, Cyrano de Bergerac, Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México, Fast and the Furious, Fighting Caravans, Get Christie Love, Hollow Triumph, I'm From Arkansas, Inspector General, Jive Turkey (aka: Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes), Kansas City Confidential, Last Time I Saw Paris, Little Princess, Love Affair, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy, My Dear Secretary, Phantom Ranger, They Made Me a Criminal and Three Came Home

E/B Productions (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Japanese Shotokan Karate: Essential Basics, Volume 1, Japanese Shotokan Karate: Essential Basics, Volume 2, Japanese Shotokan Karate: Essential Basics, Volume 3 and Japanese Shotokan Karate: Shotokan Kata Applications, Volume One

Eagle Rock Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Tommy Live at The Royal Albert Hall

11/10/17 — Sets Sting: Live at The Olympia Paris

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released Ghost Goggles

FilmRise (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Manifesto, Finding Oscar (ARR of 179 days; box office: $21,246), It's Not Dark Yet (ARR of 67 days; box office: $1,227), Marjorie Prime: Special Edition (ARR of 53 days; box office: $174,051), Newman and Vault (ARR of 39 days; box office: $5,728)

10/17/17 — Sets Bad Company, Steve McQueen: Desert Racer and Vengeance: A Love Story (ARR of 32 days; box office: $4,526)

Freestyle Digital

10/10/17 — Released Last Man Club

Frontiers Records

10/10/17 — Released Tyketto: Live from Milan - 2017 (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

10/10/17 — Released D. Gray-Man: Season Three, Part One (2 disc set) and One Piece: Season Nine, Voyage Three (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Abundant Acreage Available, Brave New Jersey (ARR of 67 days; box office: $14,105), Drib, Free in Deed and Very Solid Wedding

Gunpower & Sky (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Lost in Florence

Hallmark Channel

10/10/17 — Released Good Witch: Season Three (3 disc set)

Hoa Sen Productions

10/10/17 — Released Chi La Ao Anh, Part 1 (6 disc set), Chi La Ao Anh, Part 2 (6 disc set), Lam Re Lan 2, Part 1 (6 disc set), Lam Re Lan 2, Part 2 (6 disc set) and Lam Re Lan 2, Part 3 (6 disc set)

Image Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Pilgrimage

In the Studio with Dianne Mize (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Exploring the Lost Edge: Merging Light Values

Kino Lorber

10/10/17 — Released Deadly Hero, Flamingo Kid, Kill, Baby … Kill (Italian), Le Gai Savoir (French), Maniac! (aka: The Ransom), Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (Italian), Take the Money and Run and Wiggles: Go Santa Go!

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Armed Response, Chuggington Collection (2 disc set), Deep,  Demonic, Female Fight Squad, Highlander: 5-Film Collection (5 film set: Highlander, Highlander II: The Quickening, Highlander III: The Sorcerer, Highlander: Endgame, Highlander: The Source) (2 disc set), Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland, Open Water 3: Cage Dive, Women of Brewster Place and Talon Falls

Lost Empire Films

10/10/17 — Released Women's Balcony (Hebrew)

MPI Home Video

10/10/17 — Released Summer of Fear

MediaStorm, LLC (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released African Air, Intended Consequences, Last Move, Life After Water, Marlboro Marine, Mr. Blues, Nine Digits, Ninth Floor by Jessica Dimmock, Running with Scissors, Swan Song and Take Care

Menemsha Films

10/10/17 — Released Meat

Monkey Kung Fu/Michael Matsuda (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Monkey Kung Fu, Volume 18

Music Box Films

10/10/17 — Released Summer of Fear

National Geographic Video (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released National Geographic: Diana - In Her Own Words

10/17/17 — Sets National Geographic: The Incredible Dr. Pol - Season 11 (3 disc set)

10/24/17 — Sets National Geographic: Snake City - Season Four

On-Demand Publishing, LLC (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Against All Hope, Black Raven, Devil's Hand, Fighting Trooper, Inspector General, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter, Moon Over Harlem, Mystery of Mr. Wong, Night Time in Nevada, Panamint's Bad Man and Vampire Bat

Paul Harris

10/10/17 — Released Haunted 2.0

PBS Direct

10/10/17 — Released Farewell Ferris Wheel, PBS Kids: Happy Birthday, Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Meaning and Wild Kratts: Wild Winter Creatures!

10/17/17 — Sets Collection (3 disc set), SAS: Rogue Warriors and Smithsonian The Real Story: Saving Private Ryan

Pirate Shade Productions (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Zoolife Spies

Provident Films

11/28/17 — Sets Chonda Pierce: Enough

Psychopathic

10/10/17 — Released Insane Clown Posse: Bloodymania 10

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Das Hochzeitshotel (German), Das Siegel Gottes (German), Heimat (German), Mein Legen Fur Irland (German), Musik fur Dich (German), Romanz in Moll (German), Schwarze Rosen (German), So Endete Eine Liebe (German), Sonnenstrahl (German), Stadt Anatol (German), Unter der Brucken (German), Was Frauen Traumen (German), Zigeunerbaron (German) and Zu Neuen Ufern (German)

Reality Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Alien Contact: Outer Space

Reliance

10/10/17 — Released Jab Harry Met Sejal (Hindi)

Screen Media

10/10/17 — Released Temple

Serpent Films (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Classic War Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Go For Broke, Invasion U.S.A.), Classic War Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Parachute Battalion, Power Dive), Classic War Movie Double Bill (2 film set: The Adventures of Tartu, Aerial Gunner), Nudity is Beauty: A Film by Erotic Artist Mary Bassett, Nudity is Beauty 2: A Film by Erotic Artist Mary Bassett, Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: A Shriek in the Night, Algiers), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Anatomy of a Psycho, Babyface Morgan), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Blood on the Sun, Border Patrolman), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Convict's Code, Young and Innocent), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Crime, Inc., The Crime Patrol), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Danger Ahead, The Dark Tower), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Dishonored Lady, Escort Girl), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Heroes in Blue, House of Secrets), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: House of Mystery (aka: Night Monster), Identity Unknown), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: One Body Too Many, The Outer Gate), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Rogues' Tavern, Scarlet Street), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Star Reporter, Strange Illusion), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: The Amazing Mr. X, The Bigamist), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: The Hoodlum, The Man on the Eiffel Tower), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: The Limping Man, The Mandarin Mystery), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: The Phantom of 42nd Street, Phantom of Chinatown), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: The Sadist, The Scarlet Clue), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: They Never Come Back, They Made Me a Killer), Two Classic Crime Movies (2 film set: Waterfront Lady, Windjammer), Two Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: Phantom Ship, Revolt of the Zombies), Two Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: The Corpse Vanishes, Invisible Ghost), Two Classic Horror Movies (2 film set: The Mad Monster, Messiah of Evil), Two Classic Sci-Fi Movies (2 film set: End of the World, In the Year 2889), Two Classic Sci-Fi Movies (The Amazing Transparent Man, The Wasp Woman), Two Classic Sci-Fi Movies (2 film set: The Beach Girls and the Monster, The Incredible Petrified World), Two Classic Sci-Fi Movies (2 film set: The Phantom Planet, The Snow Creature) and Two Great Classic Movies (2 film set: Melody for Three, Miss London, Ltd.)

Seven Art Productions

10/10/17 — Released Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo - Love and Death

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Love's Crucible (silent-1922)

Sonerito

10/10/17 — Released La Rumba Me Llama: Rumba Calling

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Swallow-Een Falls Spooktacular! and Fallen

Sony Pictures – Choice Collection (MOD)

10/24/17 — Sets Indian Uprising

Stark Raving Black Productions

10/10/17 — Released Lewis Black: Black to the Future

The Teaching Company, LLC

10/10/17 — Released Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life and Culture (4 disc set)

The Video Beat (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Capitol Tower (4 short films: The Capitol Tower 1958, Wanna Buy a Record?, The Story of Sound, RCA Stereo)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released Miracle on 34th Street: 70th Anniversary Edition

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released Death Race Trilogy (3 film set: Death Race, Death Race 2, Death Race 3: Inferno) (2 disc set), Last Kingdom: Season One (3 disc set) and Scorpion King: 4 Movie Collection (4 film set: The Scorpion King, The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior, The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power) (2 disc set)

UTV Motion Pictures

10/10/17 — Released Jagga Jasoos (Hindi)

Vina Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Tam Sinh Tam The Thap Ly Dao Hoa, Part 1 (6 disc set)

Viva Pictures, LLC

10/10/17 — Released Top Cat Begins

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released Impractical Jokers: Season Five (4 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Dink the Little Dinosaur: The Complete Series (3 disc set) and Leftovers: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)

Wolfe

11/28/17 — Sets Eastsiders: Season 3

Blu-ray SKUs:

Acorn Media

10/10/17 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Once Upon a Christmas

Arrow Video

12/05/17 — Sets Premonition

Cinedigm Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released IP Man: Season One (3 disc set)

Classicflix

10/10/17 — Released T-Men: Special Edition

Cleopatra Music & Film

12/12/17 — Sets England is Mine

Eagle Rock Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Tommy Live at The Royal Albert Hall

11/10/17 — Sets Sting: Live at The Olympia Paris

FilmRise (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released It's Not Dark Yet, Marjorie Prime: Special Edition and Newman

Frontiers Records

10/10/17 — Released Tyketto: Live from Milan - 2017

FUNimation

10/10/17 — Released ReLIFE (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Space Patrol Luluco (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released Abundant Acreage Available, Brave New Jersey, Drib and Free in Deed

Image Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Pilgrimage (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Kino Lorber

10/10/17 — Released Avanti!, Flamingo Kid, Kill, Baby … Kill (Italian), Le Gai Savoir (French), Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (Italian) and Take the Money and Run

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

10/10/17 — Released Amores Perros (Spanish) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Armed Response (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Open Water 3: Cage Dive (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MPI Home Video

10/10/17 — Released Meat

MVD Entertainment Group

12/08/17 — Sets D.O.A.: A Right of Passage (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Shout! Factory

10/10/17 — Released Dudes (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Halo: Nightfall and Poughkeepsie Tapes (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Softcel Pictures

10/10/17 — Released Slave Princess Olivia

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

10/10/17 — Released 13 Minutes (German)

Twilight Time

10/17/17 — Sets Captain from Castile, Pirates of Blood River, Play Dirty and Wild Bill

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released Miracle on 34th Street: 70th Anniversary Edition (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

10/10/17 — Released BASEketball, Bowfinger, EDtv, Last Kingdom: Season One (3 disc set) and Problem Child