You have a better explanation for why this particular film, that probably only half a dozen people on Earth remember, would be released on disc right at this particular moment, other than that the current Mrs. James Cameron asked her husband to throw his weight around and make it happen while he...
Either James Cameron pulled some strings to get this movie yanked from obscurity, or someone at Kino Lorber is a clever opportunist timing it for release in proximity to the long-awaited discs for The Abyss, True Lies, etc.