Independent distributors Shout Factory have revealed that they will add a number of titles to their Blu-ray catalog in early 2015. Amongst them are Claude Berri's
Jean De Florette (1986) and
Manon of the Spring (1986), Mark Rydell's
On Golden Pond (1981), and Kenneth Branagh's
Henry V (1989).
Jean De Florette / Manon Of The Spring
Jean De Florette
In Provence in the 1930s, city-bred hunchback Jean (Gerard Depardieu) brings his family to his mother's old farm with plans for an idyllic life on the land. However, his scheming neighbours, Le Papet (Yves Montand) and Ugoli (Daniel Auteil), covet his farm's little-known water source, and the resulting feud escalates towards tragedy. The story was continued in a second film, 'Manon des Sources', released later the same year.
Manon Of The Spring
Claude Berri's sequel to 'Jean de Florette' begins ten years after Jean's death, with his beautiful daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Beart) still haunting the hills overlooking the land stolen from her father by Le Papet (Yves Montand) and the simple-minded Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil). When Manon learns the truth behind her father's death she sets out to wreak her revenge, depriving the entire community of their water supply just as they deprived Jean.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 27TH.
Henry V
Having recently been crowned King of England, Henry (Branagh) commands a massive invasion to assert what he believes is his legal right to the throne of France. But a mighty army stands in his way...and the young monarch must rely on untested reserves of courage and cunning as he personally leads his outnumbered forces into a desperate battle for the honor and glory of the British Empire.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 27TH.
On Golden Pond
For forty eight years, Professor Norman Thayer Jr (Henry Fonda, in his last film performance) and his wife Ethel (Katharine Hepburn) have holidayed at their New England cottage on Golden Pond. This time round they have an extra guest - Billy Ray (Doug McKeon), the son of their daughter Chelsea's (Jane Fonda) boyfriend, Bill. The generation gap is soon highlighted, with Norman and Billy clashing frequently and fiercely. However, as the summer progresses Norman begins to forge the kind of close relationship with the boy that he has always denied Chelsea, and comes to realize how much happiness he has missed out on with his own daughter. Fonda and Hepburn won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 20TH.
Capricorn One
Did The Greatest Moment Happen At All? What if one of the greatest space adventures was really a hoax? When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their "Mission" from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. All is going well until they learn that the only way for the hoax to be maintained is for them to die upon re-entry. Their only chance for survival is to make a desperate attempt to escape. Throughout this period, an investigate reporter gets wind of the fact that something is amiss and slowly puts together the pieces of the mystery.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 13TH.
The Phantom of the Opera
In this house of music, evil strikes the final chord. Horror legend Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) assumes the classic role of the Phantom in this shocking, nerve-jangling retelling of Gaston Leroux's timeless tale of music, madness and murder! An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victoria-era London - and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star. The silver-throated Christine (Jill Schoulen) enjoys success through the arrangements of her new lover (Englund)...until she realizes that he has been committing unspeakably grisly murders in her honor and won't stop until he's completed his masterpiece...in blood!
STREET DATE: JANUARY 13TH.
The Boys From Brazil
A battle of wits between Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman in which Mengele plans to harvest hundreds of young men in an attempt to replicate Hitler's genetic structure.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 8TH.
Fitzcarraldo
Peru. Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the century. On the outskirts, a few shacks are rotting in the mud. In the center are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. Sweeney Fitzgerald - Fitzcarraldo, as the natives call him - has his dream of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera. To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other.
With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by records featuring the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitos and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible....
STREET DATE: JANUARY 13TH.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
His myth has endured for generations. His legacy is eternal rage. And now he's back... with a vengeance! Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh continues the tale of the phantom-like figure who wreaks a terrible fate upon those who chant his name five times while looking into a mirror and come face to face with grisly death.
A victim of unspeakable evil while he lived, the "Candyman" (Tony Todd, The Crow) has become evil incarnate in his afterlife. This time, he haunts the city of New Orleans, where a young schoolteacher named Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan, 187) is struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father. The locals insist that he was slain by the Candyman, but Annie is not convinced... until she unwittingly summons the monster forth, learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects her to him. But can she stop him before he kills again?
STREET DATE: JANUARY 6TH.