Monday, October 16, 2017

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.

DVD SKUs:

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)

20th 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

20th 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


 

MVD Entertainment Group Preps A Blu-ray/Combo Pack Edition Of Lech Kowalski's D.O.A.: A Right of Passage For Release On Dec. 8


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Documentary filmmaker Lech Kowalski’s 1980 (1981 for the domestic market) look at The Sex Pistols and their ill-fated 1978 concert tour, D.O.A.: A Right of Passage, will be the kickoff selection in MVD Entertainment Group’s new “MVD Rewind Collection” line of Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack special editions.  It will be available on Friday, Dec. 8. 

Talk about being in the right place at the right time.  Somehow Kowalski got hooked up with The Sex Pistols — Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and the gang — and traveled with them on their short-lived U.S. tour that began on Jan. 5 in Atlanta and ended ten days later (Jan. 14) at the Winterland in San Francisco (stops along the way included Memphis, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, Dallas and Tulsa … Tulsa?!?).   What were they thinking?  No matter.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Kowalski, took the footage (hand-held and very visceral), which includes the famous (infamous) Sid and Nancy in bed session, and used it as the backbone for his documentary on the Punk Rock movement — it’s fiery rise and fall — which is now a time capsule of interviews and concert footage featuring not only the Sex Pistols, but The Dead Boys, Sham 69 and The Rich Kids (featuring former “Pistol,” Glen Matlock, who was replaced by Sid Vicious).   

Footage captured by Kowalski also shows the sad state of Sid Vicious at the time, who, along with Nancy Spungen, would both be dead within a year.

Interviews include Terry Chimes, Mick Jones and Topper Headon of The Clash, Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols … and of course, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Bonus nuggets include former MTV senior producer Richard Schenkman’s production of Dead On Arrival: The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was (a feature-length documentary), which includes newly prepared interview sessions with the likes of “PUNK” magazine founder, John Holmstrom, journalist Chris Salewicz (former feature writer at “New Musical Express” magazine and author of such books as “Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer,” “Bob Marley: The Untold Story” and “Rude Boy: Once Upon a Time in Jamaica”) and The Sex Pistols’ historian, Mick O’Shea (author of “The Early Days of The Sex Pistols: Only Anarchists are Pretty”).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey




Kit Williamson's EastSiders Returns On Nov. 28 With The DVD Release From Wolfe Of EastSiders: Season Three


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Wolfe announced this past week that actor, writer/director Kit Williamson’s twice-nominated Emmy web series, EastSiders, will return for fans to enjoy on Nov. 28 as a day/date launch  on both digital platforms and DVD.

Titled EastSiders: Season Three, it picks up Cal (Kit Williamson) and Thom (Van Hansis) on a coast-to-coast road trip covering 16 states from New York to California.    
So popular was the second season that Williamson, in true indie filmmaking fashion, funded the production through a Kickstarter campaign that raised $80,000 — the final product belies that limited production budget as Lincoln Lewis’ cinematography dazzles.

Series regulars, Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat), Wilson Cruz (Star Trek: Discovery), Stephen Guarino (I’m Dying Up Here), RuPaul’s Drag Race star William Belli and the lovely Traci Lords as Cal’s mother are all back for this eye-opening road trip.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey





Arrow Video Restores Writer/Director Robert Allen Schnitzer’s The Premonition For DVD And Blu-ray Release On Dec. 5


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Arrow Video, with domestic distribution and sales guidance provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Dec. 5 as the street date for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of the new 2K restoration of writer/director Robert Allen Schnitzer’s 1976 horror flick, The Premonition.

Can channeling the spirit of a murdered mental patient — or, should we say, ex-mental patient — result in a positive outcome?   Tough question.  

What’s clever about Schnitzer’s under-appreciated film is the subtle shift(s) in character focus as the story develops.   Brian De Palma’s 1980 film, Dressed to Kill, is probably the best example of a character-focus shift from this period … we start off with Angie Dickinson as center of the film and then we shift to Nancy Allen’s character.   

The same holds true here as we begin with Andrea (Ellen Barber — Blood Bride, Natural Enemies, etc.), fresh from a stint in the local nut house, who hooks up with a clown named Jude (an over the top performance by Richard Lynch) at the local carnival.   So right off we have a crazy woman and a clown … you just know that this is going to get creepy.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
It seems that while Andrea was getting “cured,” her daughter, Janie (Danielle Brisebois — as Stephanie on All in the Family and Archie Bunker’s Place spin-off), was being adopted by Dr. Miles Bennett (Edward Bell) and his wife Sheri (Sharon Farrell — Marlowe, The Reivers, Night of the Comet, It’s Alive, etc.) and Janie has recently been at the traveling carnival where the clown — that would be Jude — spotted her.

OK, so you can see how this is going to play out.   Crazy Andrea will stalk the little tyke and her family and horrible things will happen.   And sure enough she breaks into the home and all hell breaks loose, but she is able to escape and make it back to Jude’s place where he promptly kills her.   Wow, so much for that storyline.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyFilmmaker Robert Allen Schnitzer misdirects us and The Premonition transforms magically from a story about a crazy stalker to a tale about a murderous clown and a good old haunting — Andrea’s spirit begins to terrorize Sheri.   It is absolutely marvelous!!

As to bonus nuggets for this ‘70s horror gem, we have commentary from filmmaker Robert Allen Schnitzer, a newly prepared documentary titled Pictures from a Premonition, archived interview sessions both Schnitzer and Lynch and three short films from Schnitzer —Vernal Equinox (1968), Terminal Point (1969) and A Rumbling in the Land (also 1969).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


Morrissey Biopic England Is Mine On DVD And Blu-ray From Cleopatra Music And Films On Dec. 12


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
“I am human and I need to be loved …”   Fans of Morrissey and The Smiths will immediately recognize the line as being from the song “How Soon is Now?” 

Although a “b-side” recording, that single line seems to sum-up Morrissey’s early days in director Mark Gill’s England is Mind, a biopic about the singer, songwriter and former front man for The Smiths, which will be heading to the home entertainment marketplace on Dec. 12 courtesy of Cleopatra Music & Films — MVD Entertainment Group will be providing sales and distribution support.

Both DVD and Blu-ray edition will be available on that date … the timing seems spot-on as Warner Bros. will likely be serving up Dunkirk during this same December timeframe (either the 5th 12th or 19th).   Jack Lowden, who played Collins in Dunkirk, the Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot who ditches and is rescued by Dawson, stars as the young Morrissey during his formative years before The Smiths.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyGill’s film revolves around the pivotal hook-up with fellow future-Smith, Johnny Marr (played by Laurie Kynaston), which plays out like a classic British “Kitchen Sink” drama (think: Tony Richardson’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner or John Schlesinger’s A Kind of Loving).  

Morrissey has an incredible talent (and awareness of the music scene) covered up by shyness — his friend, Linder Sterling (Jessica Brown Findlay — Victor Frankenstein, Albatross), recognizes this and does her best to break him out of his own private cage.   It doesn’t always go as planned, but she sticks with it (they would become life long friends.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyAnd then there is the nightmare of forever being stuck in the endless cycle of the British working class experience (his songs would come to reflect that pain).   The home life sequences give you a sense of just how important it was for Morrissey to make something for himself … it was a lot to overcome.

England is Mind is a solid, well-produced biopic about the early, formative years of Morrissey … it is not, and this should be noted, a film about his years with The Smiths (that would be a sequel).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey