MVD Entertainment Group Looks To Mar. 22 For The Blu-ray Debut Of Director Seth Landau's Bryan Loves You

MVD Entertainment Group has selected Mar. 22 for the Blu-ray debut of Seth Landau’s 2008 chiller, Bryan Loves You, which was a micro-budget production that attracted genre star-power way beyond its financial constraints.

Included in the cast are scream queens Tiffany Shepis (Dorm of the Dead, Chainsaw Cheerleaders, Night of the Demons) and Brinke Stevens (Ebola Rex Versus Murder Hornets, It Wants Blood!, Blood Siblings) plus The Candyman himself, Tony Todd as the narrator and Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman in a cameo performance.

This tale of cults and the influence they have on the unsuspecting is, in many ways, prophetic … who would have thought in 2008 that so many frightened people would don masks and trudge like zombies through their local Wal-Mart convinced — or programmed — into thinking that the masks they are wearing will ward-off evil (an unseen virus).   Of course, no one, but here we are.

A cult that calls itself “The Bryans” deals with anyone who does not comply to their beliefs (that means, murder) … you either join in and become a zombie-like member or you are made to suffer the consequences … creepy, and, as mentioned, prophetic.

Bonus features include two commentary options … a newly-prepared commentary with filmmaker Seth Landau and a vintage 2008 commentary with Landau, cast members and more. 

Plus, there are four new video sessions with scream queens Tiffany Shepis and Brinke Stevens, plus cast members George Wendt (Mr. Flynn) and Daniel Roebuck (Professor Spine).

 

 

 

 

 

Ronin Flix Tabs Mar. 22 For The Blu-ray Release Of Director Richard Elfman's Modern Vampires

Ronin Flix, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K scan (from the director’s personal print, no less) of director Richard Elfman’s 1998 mixed-genre gem, Modern Vampires, ready for Blu-ray on Mar. 22.

Romantic comedy.   Horror tale.  Arthouse entry?  Take your pick, or mix them together.   Modern Vampires opened on the film festival circuit in 1997, but never found a theatrical distributor despite positive feedback and a solid cast.   Perhaps it was the black comedy nature of the film or the horror elements … or some other thing, but it ended up as a direct-to-video DVD release in October of 1999 through Trimark (aka: Lionsgate) … a special “director’s cut” edition followed in 2004.   Now it arrives on Blu-ray on Mar. 22, retire the DVDs and savor this one.

Dallas, an odd name for a vampire (played by Casper Van Dien — Starship Troopers, Dracula 3000, The Omega Code), has a good heart, loves to party, makes odd decisions and is on the outs with “The Count” (Robert Pastorelli — Dances with Wolves, Eraser, etc. … as Eldin on the Murphy Brown sitcom).  

Not only is he on unfriendly terms with “The Count,” but he’s also managed to tick off legendary vampire hunter Dr. Frederick Van Helsing (Rod Steiger — nominated for acting Oscars three times, winning for In the Heat of the Night), who would like nothing better than to hunt Dallas down and kill him.

As we said, Dallas loves to party and after a long absence from the Los Angeles nightclub scene he has returned.   He hooks up with his friends, Ulrike (Kim Cattrall … as Samantha in Sex in the City), Vincent (Udo Kier — The Story of O, Mark of the Devil, My Own Private Idaho, etc.), Panthia (Natalya Andreychenko — Little Odessa) and her husband, Richard (Craig Ferguson) … and later with serial killer Nico (Natasha Gregson Wagner — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost Highway), who Dallas took a liking to and transformed her into one of the children of the night.    

Oh yes, and there is Nico’s friend, Rachel (Natasha Lyonne … as Nicky in Orange Is the New Black) … quite the little gathering.

With Dallas back in town and the combined forces of Van Helsing and “The Count,” it isn’t long before the streets of Los Angeles run red with blood.  Such are the things of love, lust and blood-letting when vampires have a falling out and vampire hunters seek their revenge.           

Bonus goodies for this little horror gem from filmmaker Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone) include commentary, where he is joined by Casper Van Dien, a newly-prepared video session with Elfman and a behind-the-scenes featurette.

 

 

 

Director Craig Brewer's Coming 2 America On DVD And Blu-ray From Paramount Home Entertainment On Mar. 08

Paramount Home Entertainment announced this past week that director Craig Brewer’s 2020 … oops, 2021 … sequel to Coming to America — Coming 2 America — will be coming full-circle back to the studio on Mar. 8 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

Filmed in 2019, with much of the original cast, and scheduled for release during the summer of 2020, it was pushed back to the Thanksgiving holiday window and then subsequently to Christmas of 2020 … and then Paramount turned the film’s $60 million production into $125 million in cold hard cash when Amazon stepped in and bought the streaming rights.  

If you can understand the math in that, god bless you, but more power to Paramount.   Of note, the original John Landis film (1988) was budgeted at $38 million and scored $128 million in domestic ticket sales.   In other words, a huge hit!

Bonus goodies include commentary from director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, 2011 Footloose remake, etc.) and the featurette titled “From Queens to Zamunda.”

 

Heavy Metal Gets A 4K Ultra HD Push From Sony Pictures Home Entertainment On Apr. 19

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced this past week that the directing ensemble of Gerald Potterton, John Bruno and John Halas’ 1981 animated sci-fi fantasy, Heavy Metal, will be arriving on Apr. 19 as a newly-minted 4K Ultra-HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.

Bonus goodies included with this limited SteelBook presentation include the newly-prepared featurette titled “Heavy Metal: A Look Back,” plus the companion Blu-ray disc includes documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz’s 1999 film, Imagining Heavy Metal, the original “rough cut” of the film with commentary by Heavy Metal 2000 screenwriter Carl Macek, a deleted scene and an alternate framing story (with commentary).

As an extra “bonus,” the directing team of Michael Coldewey and Michel Lemire’s 2000 animated film, Heavy Metal 2000, is included in the package as Blu-ray presentation.

 

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment's Nightmare Alley Arrives Home On Mar. 22

Director Guillermo del Toro’s dark horse Best Picture contender, Nightmare Alley, has been green-lighted for the home entertainment packaged media marketplace by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for delivery as a three-SKU product offering on Mar. 22.

The ARR comes in at 95 days and theatrical ticket sales have been hard to come by with just $10.8 million registered thus far.  

The great irony is that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has managed to nominate ten films in the Best Picture category, some of which are rather sketchy (mediocre, unwatchable, etc.), so Nightmare Alley, despite its box office performance, could actually win … although nothing is beyond the insipid fatuity of the Academy to bestow Best Picture laurels on Drive My Car.

This dark neo-noir film adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1947 novel, Nightmare Alley, was originally adapted for the screen in 1947 by director Edmund Goulding and starred Tyrone Power (Bradley Cooper in the new version), Helen Walker (Cate Blanchett),
Joan Blondell (Toni Collette), Coleen Gray (Rooney Mara), Taylor Holmes (Richard Jenkins) and Ian Keith (David Strathairn).

Planned for release are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.

Bonus features include a trio of featurettes — “Del Toro’s Neo Noir,” “Beneath the Tarp” and “What Exists in the Fringe.”

 

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending February 04, 2022

 

New DVD Additions

 

Acorn Media

02/01/22 — Released Midsomer Murders: Series Twenty-Two (3 disc set)

 

BBC Home Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Doctor Who: The Web of Fear (2 disc set)

 

Creature Feature Videos (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released A.K.A.: Serial Killer (Japanese), Black Bart, Gal Who Took the West, Happening, Hurricane Smith, In (aka: High) and Slave Girl

 

Decal Releasing

02/01/22 — Released Ailey (ARR of 193 days; box office: $196,929)

03/08/22 — Sets India Sweets and Spices (ARR of 109 days; box office: $288,641)

 

EWTN

02/01/22 — Released EWTN Live: Deacon Richard Eason and Women of Grace: Fr. Ed Looney - 10 Days with Mary - A Personal Retreat

 

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Banging in Bangkok (German), Joysticks, Nun and the Devil (Italian), Oriental Vixen (German) and Ready, Willing and Able

 

Film Collector (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Cross My Heart, Daughter of Shanghai, Destination Unknown, Easy Come, Easy Go, Freshman Year, Gang Buster, Halfway to Heaven, Hawaiian Nights, Her First Romance, Her Man, Hollywood Boulevard, King Steps Out, Lady Tubbs, Nightmare, None Shall Escape, Nothing but the Truth, Paris Calling, Paris in Spring, Shamrock Hill, Strange Fascination, There's That Woman Again, This Thing Called Love and Toy Tiger

 

Greenwich Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Charli XCX: Alone Together and Cops and Robbers Story

 

Hallmark Channel

02/01/22 — Released 27-Hour Day and Baker's Son

 

Hope of the World (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Heteros Basileus

 

ITN Distribution

02/01/22 — Released Legend of Jack and Jill

 

Image Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Mainstream (ARR of 270 days; box office: $35,481), Spine of Night and Superhost

 

Knights of Columbus (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Armed With the Faith: The Knights of Columbus and the Military, Century of Hope: The Knights of Columbus in Rome, El Rostro De La Misericordia, Enduring Faith: The Story of Native American Catholics, Everyday Heroes, Face of Mercy, For Greater Glory: La Verdadera Historia de los Cristeros, For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristeros, Francis: The Pope from the New World, Guadalupe: The Miracle and the Message, John Paul II in America: A Plea for Peace, John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea for Peace, Liberating A Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism and World Youth Day Krakow: A Pilgrimage of Mercy

 

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Marvelous Mrs Shenkman, Por Mi Hija (Spanish) and Surrogate

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Power Book III: Raising Kanan: The Complete First Season (3 disc set)

02/08/22 — Sets Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop

02/22/22 — Sets American Underdog (ARR of 60 days; box office: $24,718,829)

03/15/22 — Sets Red Rocket (ARR of 95 days; box office: $1,023,086)

03/22/22 — Sets For the Love of Money (ARR of 116 days; box office: $478,887)

 

Lost Archives (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Almost Married, Always in Trouble, Anne of Green Gables, Bride for Sale, Chip Off the Old Block, Christmas Eve, Devil's Holiday, Diamond Jim, Disgraced!, Empty Hearts (silent-1924), Fighting O'Flynn, Flame, Folies Bergere de Paris, Hands of Orlac, Hello, Everyone, Hole in the Wall, Island of Doomed Men, It Nearly Wasn't Christmas, Looters, Milkman, Pardon My Past , Passport to Hell, Patrick the Great, Rumba, Runaround, Sainted Sisters, Service de Luxe , Take One False Step, This is the Life, Voice in the Mirror, Way of All Flesh, Westland Case, What's Buzzin', Cousin?, When You're in Love, Winged Victory, Yes Sir, That's My Baby and Young Wives' Tale

 

Magnolia Home Entertainment

02/15/22 — Sets Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Romanian) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $67,033)

03/08/22 — Sets Agnes (ARR of 88 days; box office: $1,914)

 

Music Box Films

02/01/22 — Released Little Girl (French) (ARR of 137 days; box office: $9,949)

 

National Geographic (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released National Geographic: Hot Zone: Season 2 (2 disc set)

 

Oldey's Classic Film Shoppe (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Adorable, Airmail, Argentine Nights, Around the World In 80 Minutes, Battle of Paris, Because of You, Between Us Girls, Blaze of Noon, Border Flight, Christmas Eve, Conflict, Cruise of the Jasper B (silent-1926), Dark Streets of Cairo, Delicious, Destiny, Devil (silent-1921), Diamond Jim, East of Piccadilly (aka: The Strangler), Exile, Farmer's Daughter, Fazil, Flight, Forever England (aka: Born for Glory), Gentlemen of the Press, Greene Murder Case, His Woman, Hole in the Wall, Honor Among Lovers, House of Errors, I Cover the War, I Want a Divorce, Johnny O'Clock, Junior Army, Laughter, Model Wife, Night World, Nobody Home (aka: Return of the Frog), Only Yesterday, Personal Maid, Poor Rich, Powers Girl, Rhodes of Africa, Rhythm Parade, Ride a Crooked Mile and Tempest

 

PBS Direct

02/01/22 — Released Vienna Blood: Season 2 (2 disc set)

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Baby Shark's Big Show! Super Shark, Blaze and the Monster Machines: Dino Derby and Deadlock

 

Random Media (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Kybalion

 

Reality Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Alien Chronicles: Inter Dimensional UFOs

 

Retro Moving Images (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released 13 Hours by Air, Black Market Rustlers, Block Busters, China Venture, Coast Guard, Girl on the Front Page, Imperfect Lady, Man Who Wouldn't Talk, Men in Her Life, Mine with the Iron Door, Parachute Nurse, Preview Murder Mystery, Queen High, Reported Missing, Sally and Saint Anne, Secrets of the Underground, Storm, Stormy, Time Out for Murder, Toy Tiger and What a Woman!

 

Sandpiper Pictures, LLC

02/01/22 — Released Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream and Under Fire

 

Severin Films

03/29/22 — Sets Ballad in Blood

 

Shout! Factory

02/01/22 — Released Sesame Street: Elmo's World: All Around the Neighborhood and Slumber Party Massacre

 

Showtime Networks, Inc. (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Detainee 001

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Guamatos Hardcore Crew: Principe del Death Match 2 - Jalisco, MX

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

02/15/22 — Sets Julia (ARR of 95 days; box office: $399,289)

 

The DVD HQ (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Big Gamble, Double Jeopardy, Laugh and Get Rich and Sundown Trail

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released 2022 ASAA DII Hockey Quarterfinal - Game 2 and 2022 WIAA Girls State Wrestling Championship

 

The Video Beat (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Hot Rods to Hell and Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar

 

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Handler

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/01/22 — Released Gabby's Dollhouse: Cat-tastic Dance Along

03/01/22 — Sets Belfast (ARR of 109 days; box office: $7,197,965)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/22/22 — Sets Wolf (ARR of 74 days; box office: $137,730)

 

 

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions

 

Acorn Media

02/01/22 — Released Midsomer Murders: Series Twenty-Two (3 disc set)

 

Asuka the Disc Dog (aka: Fred the Blu-ray Dog) (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released All of Us are Dead: Season One, Deal or No Deal: 2005 Season (8 disc set), Eye Candy: The Complete Series, Feria: The Darkest Light - Season One, Ghoul: The Complete Series, In from the Cold: Season One, Kenan: Seasons 1 & 2, Powerpuff Girls Z: The Complete Series, Raising Dion: Season 1 & 2, Teknoman: The Complete Series and Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window: Season One

 

Creature Features (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Gor, Outlaw of Gor), Ilsa, The Wicked Warden (German) and Zenabel (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Italian)

 

Full Moon Features

03/08/22 — Sets Island of the Fishmen (aka: Something Waits in the Dark)

 

FUNimation

02/01/22 — Released Adachi And Shimamura: The Complete Season (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Katana Maidens - Toji No Miko - The Complete Series (4 disc set), Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: The Complete Season (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Green Frog Productions

02/01/22 — Released Santa Fe Odyssey, Volume 5: The 1990s

 

Image Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Mainstream, Spine of Night and Superhost

 

Kino Lorber

02/01/22 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: F/X,  F/X 2) (2 disc set), Great Moment, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Monsieur Beaucaire and Where There's Life

 

Knights of Columbus (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Liberating A Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

02/22/22 — Sets American Underdog (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

04/05/22 — Sets Up All Night: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

 

Movies R U.S.A. (MOD)

01/25/22 — Released Dead Lands: Season One, Lizzie McGuire: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Wing Commander: The Complete Series

02/01/22 — Released Adam-12: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Love Hard, Ozark: Seasons 1-3 (3 disc set), Petticoat Junction: The Complete Series (5 disc set), Requin, Saved by the Bell - The New Class: The Complete Series (3 disc set) and Shake it Up: The Complete Series (3 disc set)

02/08/22 — Sets Book of Boba Fett: Season One (2 disc set)

 

Music Box Films

02/01/22 — Released Little Girl (French)

 

Paramount Home Entertainment          

02/01/22 — Released Wayne's World 30th Anniversary "Party On" Edition (with Digital Copy)

 

Sandpiper Pictures, LLC

02/01/22 — Released Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream and Under Fire

 

Sentai Filmworks

02/01/22 — Released Yuyushiki: The Complete Collection (2 disc set)

 

Severin Films

03/29/22 — Sets Ballad in Blood

 

Shout! Factory

02/01/22 — Released Slumber Party Massacre

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

03/01/22 — Sets Belfast (with Digital Copy)

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

02/15/22 — Sets Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

 

 

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions 

 

Arrow Video

04/26/22 — Sets 12 Monkeys

 

Image Entertainment

02/01/22 — Released Spine of Night (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

 

Movies R USA (MOD)

02/01/22 — Released Nobody and Spider-Man: Far from Home