Arrow Video Preps Warning From Space For Blu-ray Release On Oct. 13

Way, way back in the 1950s, Godzilla, King of the Monsters arrived from Japan and set off a cycle of “kaiju” monster movies, which included such creatures as Gamera, Rodan, Mothra and more.   English-dubbed theatrical runs took place, sometimes with American actors “cut into the action” (Raymond Burr, for example) to make the domestic market more responsive to these Japanese imports.

 

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new Hi-Def Blu-ray release planned for one of these kaiju creature features that, for whatever reason, didn’t get a domestic theatrical showcase run, but instead went the dubbed-to-TV route — released theatrically in Japan in 1956, but not seen here until 1963.

 

The film in question is director Koji Shima’s Warning From Space, which features “starfish creatures” that are able to assume human form.   Unlike, Rodan and Godzilla, these kaiju are actually trying to help mankind avoid the impending disaster of a rogue planet (Planet R) smashing into Earth. 

 

Arrow Video has targeted Oct. 13 as the street date for Warning From Space.  Included here are the Japanese (with newly translated English subtitles) version and the first-ever hi-def transfer of the American release of the film, which includes a newly-restored English-dub track.   There is also a newly-prepared commentary by Stuart Galbraith IV, author of “Monsters are Attacking Tokyo!”

 

Of note, Warner From Space was the first kaiju story to be filmed in color.

 

 

 

VCI Entertainment Restores Riders Of Death Valley For Both Blu-ray And DVD Release On Nov. 24

VCI Entertainment, given access to the Universal Pictures film vault, announced this past week that a new 2K film restoration, from the original 35mm camera negative, of the 1941 “Million Dollar” Western serial, The Riders of Death Valley, will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings on Nov. 24.

The directing team of Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, who also teamed for such classic cliffhangers as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, The Green Hornet, Winners of the West and Don Winslow of the Navy, delivered an epic Western serial, running 15 chapters and featuring an all-star cast that includes Dick Foran (The Petrified Forest, My Little Chickadee, The Mummy’s Hand, etc.), Buck Jones (Western legend who died tragically in the Cocoanut Grove in 1942), Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (Santa Fe Trail, Virginia City, Station West), Leo Carrillo (The Cisco Kid), Noah Beery Jr. and Jeanne Kelly (aka: Jean Brooks — The Falcon and Co-eds, The Leopard Man, The Seventh Victim, Youth Runs Wild) as the good guys.  

They are pitted against an equally impressive cast of villains, including Charles Bickford as Wolf Reade, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Roy Barcroft.  

Chuckawalla Charlie (Frank Austin) discovers the Lost Aztec gold mine, but does not live long to enjoy the riches contained therein.   His niece, Mary (Jeanne Kelly) get his map and everyone is out to take it from her.   Only “The Riders,” a vigilante group, stand in their way … 15 chapters of Wild West adventures, cliffhangers, shootouts, mine shaft terrors and brawls!!   

Join in on the action on Nov. 24 with this stunning new 2K film restoration from VCI Entertainment.

 

 

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Prepares 4K Ultra HD Edition Of 300 For Release On Oct. 6

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has selected Oct. 6 as the release date for a new 4K restoration of director Zack Synder’s 300, the stylish interpretation of King Leonidas, his 300 Spartans and the world-changing battle of Thermopylae.

 

This 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack presentation of 300 arrives with a commentary option featuring director/writer Zack Synder (Dawn of the Dead, Man of Steel, Justice League), who is joined by co-writer Kurt Johnstad (Act of Valor, Atomic Blonde) and director of photography, Larry Fong (Kong: Skull Island, Super 8, The Predator).

 

Other bonus goodies are archival from the Blu-ray release and include deleted scenes, the 12-part Webisode series and five production featurettes — “The 300: Fact or Fiction,” “Who Were the Partans? The Warriors of 300,” “Preparing for Battle: The Original Test Footage,” “The Frank Miller Tapes” and “Making of 300.”

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Selects Nov. 3 For The Delivery Of The 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack Collection Of The Resident Evil Series

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced this past week that their 4K Ultra HD library will expand on Nov. 3 by a factor of six (well, technically, four).   

 

What they have planned is the release of the complete collection of the six theatrically-release Resident Evil films, which will be presented as a six 4K Ultra HD/six Blu-ray Combo Pack set.   Six films are in the collection, four new to the 4K Ultra HD format, with Resident Evil: Afterlife and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter having been released as 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions back in 2017.

 

Of course, they come loaded with bonus goodies, including the extended cut (and theatrical-cut) of Resident Evil: Extinction, archival featurettes (from early DVD releases?) being made available for the first time, commentary on all six feature films and some newly-prepared bonuses.

For the period ending July 31, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD Releases

1091 Media (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Soundwave

 

Abingdon Press

07/21/20 — Released Proverbs

08/04/20 — Sets Names of God and Sermon on the Mount

 

Alpha Video (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released From Nine to Nine, Hidden Enemy, Lost Game Shows of the 50s, Movie Man's Matinee, Volume 5 (7 silent short films: Money to Burn (1920), Her Near-Sighted Father (1920), Paste and Paper (1923), Starvation Blues (1925), Too Much Dough (1926), Meet the Folks (1927), Players at Play (1929)), Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: A Hard Day's Nightmare, Orphans of the North, Secrets of a Model School, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Volume 2, Sword and Sandal Double Feature (2 film set: Goliath and the Sins of Babylon, The Rebel Gladiator) and WW2 Documentary Double Feature (2 film set: Normandy Invasion, The Stillwell Road)

 

BBC Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Brexit: The Uncivil War, Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen (Episode 138), Doctor Who: Black Orchid (episode 121), Doctor Who: Castrovalva (episode 117), Doctor Who: The Daemons (2 disc set), Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (2 disc set), Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl (episode 94), Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (2 disc set), Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora (episode 86), Doctor Who: Meglos (episode 111), Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden, Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (episode 149), Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks - Special Edition (2 disc set), Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen (episode 79), Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (episode 154), Doctor Who: Survival (episode 159) (2 disc set), Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons (episode 55), Doctor Who: The Aztecs - Special Edition (episode 6) (2 disc set), Doctor Who: The Face of Evil, Doctor Who: The Five Doctors, Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death (episode 48) (2 disc set), Doctor Who: Time and the Rani (episode 148), Doctor Who: The Web Planet (episode 13) and Moon Landing Live

 

Big Blind Media

07/21/20 — Released John Carey: No Cards, No Problems

 

Bayview Entertainment

10/06/20 — Sets 17 Goju Ryu Karate Kata, 27 Shotokan Karate Kata, Judo Advanced Techniques,Kyusho Jitsu: Tanto Jitsu Kinfe Defense, Physical Training Full Program, Self Defense For Women Volume 1: Krav Maga Method, Shotokan Karate Volume 10: Secrets of Karate and Summer Fitness Bodydream by Aleksandra Samson

 

Blue Forge Films (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Trees Have Names

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Jane the Virgin: Season Five (5 disc set)

 

Championship Productions

07/28/20 — Released Pistol Option Offense: 2-Man Game, Pistol Option Offense: 2-Man Game with Double Lead, Pistol Option Offense: 2-Man Game with Lead, Pistol Option Offense: 3-Man & 4-Man Game and Pistol Option Offense: Zone Read

 

EWTN

07/28/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Kari Curin / Discussion of Marriage Reality Movement and Catholics for Common Good, Called to Communion, EWTN Live:  Fr. Joe Laramie SJ / National Director of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network shares reflections on Saint Ignatius, Journey Home: Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB / Former Atheist, Life on the Rock: Kimberly Zemberly Pt.2 /Authentic Catholic faith in service and chastity, overcoming same sex attraction and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Candace Owens / Edward Pentin / Nina Shea / Charles Cole

08/04/20 — Sets @ Home with Jim & Joy: Dick & Martha Lyles / Discussion of Fatima film, opportunity to evangelize, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live:  Michael Pakaluk / provides a new look at the life of St. Peter as presented in the Gospel of St. Mark, Journey Home: Dr. John Bergsma / Former Christian Reformed Church and Life on the Rock: Eric & Ginny Dooley / Share their App-"Catholify" can support and assist in parish life

 

FlyingMonk Films (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Mustang: Demon's Lair, Mustang: Forbidden City and Mustang: Pilgrimage

 

Full Moon Features

10/13/20 — Sets Weedjies: Halloweed Night

 

Giant Interactive (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Pat Steir: Artist

 

Grasshopper Films

07/28/20 — Released Light From Light (ARR of 279 days; box office: $24,808)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released End of Sentence, Ice Cream in the Cupboard, InstaBAND, Reversal of Fortune: Turkey's Unraveling Democracy and When Icarus Fell

 

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Irresistible Blueberry Farm

 

Image Entertainment (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released 0.0 MHz and James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2 disc set)

 

Indie Rights (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Counter Intelligence

 

Labrecque Art and Film (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Depressing Prospects: The Psychoverse, Depressing Prospects: The Toriverse and Your Words are Like Swords and Tachyonic Anti-Telephone

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/28/20 — Released Legacy of Lies

 

Martial Arts History Museum (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Biography: Jeff Chan

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

10/06/20 — Sets Monsters and the Movies They Inspired (7-part Mini series: Monsters Among Us; plus 7 film set: Night of the Living Dead, Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (aka: The Satanic Rites of Dracula), Nightmare Castle, The Devil's Nightmare, The She-Beast, Snowbeast, Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman, plus Chasing Bigfoot) (5 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Monster Mashup Collection ( 7 film set: ø) (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Movie Detective (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Assassin in the Phonebook (French), Daredevil in the Castle (Japanese), Doomed Souls (Bulgarian), Max Havelaar (Dutch), Memorias de un Mexicano (Spanish) and Un Meurtre est un Meurtre (French)

 

Naxos

07/28/20 — Released Handel: Rodelinda

 

Opus Movie, LLC (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Opus of an Angel

 

PBS Direct

07/21/20 — Released Mr. Tornado

07/28/20 — Released Man Who Tried to Feed the World, Somewhere South (2 disc set) and Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Pennsylvania Country Roads: Calkins Creamery and Scranton Farmers Market

07/28/20 — Released 2020 PCN Profiles: Suzie McConnell-Serio and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Lock 31 & Safari Farm Petting Zoo

 

PDSD, Inc. – Shami Media

07/28/20 — Released Chances and Ultravokal (French)

 

Palau Project (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Palau

 

Paramount Home Media

08/25/20 — Sets Gunsmoke: Movie Collection (3 film set: Return to Dodge, The Last Apache, To the Last Man) (3 disc set)

09/08/20 — Sets Mighty Oak (with Digital Copy)

09/22/20 — Sets Good Fight: Season Four (2 disc set)

 

Quantum VFX, Ltd. (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Crazy Weapon 5: Back for the First Time

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Devil's Three Golden Hairs (German) and Geissel des Fleisches (German)

 

Retrosploitation Releasing (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Zombi 4: Bakterion

 

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Lloyd the Conqueror and White Night

 

Samuel Goldwyn Films

07/28/20 — Released Apocalypto and Fisherman’s Friends

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released IWA Mid-South: Who’s Your Firty Daddy - Indianapolis, IN and Insane Championship Wrestling: No Holds Barred - Jersey City, NJ

 

Starry Night Publishing (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Master (Cantonese), Promised One (Cantonese) Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (Cantonese), Swordsman (Cantonese), Swordsman II (Cantonese), Swordsman III: The East is Red (Cantonese) and Tai Chi Master (Cantonese)

 

Summer Hill Films

07/28/20 — Released Faye's Redemption and Stay

 

TPR Music Group (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Great Kat: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony For Guitar And Symphony Orchestra

07/28/20 — Released Great Kat: Beethoven Mosh 2

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released 2020 IHSAA Class 1A Baseball Substate 2 Finals: Newman Catholic vs. Madrid - Nevada, IA, 2020 IHSAA Class 1A Baseball Substate 8 Finals: Logan Magnolia vs. KPHS - Carroll, IA, 2020 IHSAA Class 2A Baseball Substate 7 Finals: Des Moines Center vs. Panorama - Alleman, IA, 2020 IHSAA Class 2A Baseball Substate 8 Finals: Treynor vs. Kuemper Catholic - Neola, IA, 2020 IHSAA Class 3A Baseball Substate 6 Finals: Centerville vs. Norwalk - Norwalk, IA, 2020 IHSAA Class 4A Baseball Substate 2 Finals: Mason City vs. Waukee - Waukee, IA, 2020 IHSAA Class 4A Baseball Substate 7 Finals: Roosevelt vs. Urbandale - Urbandale, IA and 2020 IHSAA Class 4A Baseball Substate 8 Finals: Abraham Lincoln vs. Ankeny - Ankeny, IA

 

Well Go U.S.A.

07/28/20 — Released Gundala (Indonesian)

 

 

 

 

Blu-ray Releases

Acorn Media

07/28/20 — Released Deadwater Fell

 

Arrow Video

10/13/20 — Sets Last Starfighter

 

Artsploitation Films

07/28/20 — Released Dead Dicks

 

Critical Mass

10/06/20 — Sets Maple Colors

 

Delphia Entertainment (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Bucks County Massacre: Director's Cut

 

Eastern Star

07/28/20 — Released Case Closed: Episode One, Demon City Shinjuku, Galaxy Express 999: Collection Two - Layover (6 disc set), Love Hina Again and Medabots: Season 2 (4 disc set)

 

En Queue Films (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Beneath the Painted Surface

 

FlyingMonk Films (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Mustang: Demon's Lair, Mustang: Forbidden City and Mustang: Pilgrimage

 

Full Moon Features

10/13/20 — Sets Weedjies: Halloweed Night

 

Grasshopper Films

07/28/20 — Released Light From Light

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released End of Sentence, Ice Cream in the Cupboard, InstaBAND and When Icarus Fell

 

Image Entertainment (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released 0.0 MHz, Accidental Studio and James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2 disc set)

 

Indie Rights (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Counter Intelligence

 

KDMG (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Re-Evolution (Spanish) and Riley Parra: Better Angels

 

Kino Lorber

07/28/20 — Released 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (silent-1916), Against All Flags, Bigger Splash, Hannibal Brooks, Lorenzo's Oil, Public Eye, Raggedy Man, River, Shakedown and System

 

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Autonomous (French)

 

Naxos

07/28/20 — Released Handel: Rodelinda

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/21/20 — Released Pennsylvania Country Roads: Calkins Creamery and Scranton Farmers Market

07/28/20 — Released 2020 PCN Profiles: Suzie McConnell-Serio and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Lock 31 & Safari Farm Petting Zoo

 

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Alien Trespass, Lloyd the Conqueror and White Night

 

Sentai FilmWorks

07/28/20 — Released How O Maidens in Your Savage Season: Complete Collection (2 disc set) and Revue Starlight: Premium Box Set (2 disc set)

 

Severin Films

07/28/20 — Released Mondo Balordo, Revenge of the Living Dead (French) and Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield

 

Shout! Factory

07/28/20 — Released Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, Tenant and Thirteen Ghosts: Collector's Edition

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Insane Championship Wrestling: No Holds Barred - Jersey City, NJ

 

Starry Night Publishing (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Master (Cantonese), Promised One (Cantonese), Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (Cantonese), Swordsman (Cantonese), Swordsman II (Cantonese), Swordsman III: The East is Red (Cantonese) and Tai Chi Master (Cantonese)

 

Stillman Films, LLC (MOD)

07/28/20 — Released Buckshot

 

Synapse – Impulse Pictures

07/28/20 — Released Love Hunter (Japanese)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

07/28/20 — Released Outsider: The Complete First Season (3 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

08/25/20 — Sets Big Parade (silent-1925)

 

Well Go U.S.A.

07/28/20 — Released Gundala (Indonesian)

 

 

 

 

4K Ultra HD Releases

 

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

09/08/20 — Sets Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection (4 film set: Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window) (4 4K Ultra HD/4 Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

10/30/20 — Sets Back to the Future Trilogy (3 film set: Back to the Future, Back to the Future II, Back to the Future III) (3 4K Ultra HD/3 Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)