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New announcements from Arrow Video and Kino Lorber, plus a look at the new Africa Screams restoration & more
We’re kicking things off today with a new Blu-ray review from Dennis...
He’s taken a look at Jon Avnet’s Three Christs (2017) now on disc from IFC Films and Shout! Factory. The film stars Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, and Walton Goggins. Do give it a look.
Meanwhile today, Arrow Video US has announced its June 2020 Blu-ray slate, which is set to include François Reichenbach’s American as Seen by a Frenchman on 6/2, Harley Cokeliss’ Dream Demon and Tomu Uchida’s The Mad Fox on 6/23, and a new Limited Edition of Sergio Corbucci’s Django on 6/30.
From Arrow’s announcement: “The film is presented here in an exclusive new restoration with a wealth of extras including the newly restored bonus feature Texas Adios, which also stars Franco Nero, and was released as Django 2 in several territories.” [Read on here...]
The Goonies 4K is up for pre-order on Amazon, plus new Blu-ray reviews and word of more 4K catalog titles
Well... what a fu@%ing year the last week has been here in the States. Here’s hoping the new week fares a little better.
We begin it with a little bit of 4K Ultra HD release news, and some new reviews too.
Let’s get to the reviews first...
Our very own Tim Salmons has checked out Michael Curtiz’s King Creole (1958), a classic Elvis title now on Blu-ray from Paramount. Sounds like this one is a little better than To Catch a Thief was, but it does seem that the Paramount Presents line is off to a bit of a rough start. Here’s hoping the studio gets it together on these.
Tim has also posted reviews of John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles (1984) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video and Norman Z. McLeod’s Alice in Wonderland (1933) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Do give them a look. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Tim Salmons
- The Goonies 4K preorders
- King Creole BD review
- Alice in Wonderland (1933) BD review
- Sixteen Candles (Arrow) BD review
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Blue Underground
- The House by the Cemetery 4K
- The New York Ripper 4K
- Spartacus 4K
- Full Metal Jacket 4K
- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 4K
- Westworld Season Three: The New World 4K
- Stanley Kubrick
BREAKING: Parasite confirmed for 4K on 6/2 (and we have the cover art), plus Curse of the Werewolf
All right, I’m currently working on a review of Universal’s 1917 in 4K Ultra HD, which I hope to have up here on the site later today.
In the meantime, I’ve officially confirmed with the studio that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is indeed coming to the 4K Ultra HD format here in the States on 6/2.
However, some of the cover artwork that you may have seen floating around the Internet is incorrect. The official final cover artwork for the title is visible on the left there.
Audio should be the usual DTS:X, and the extras will be the same as those found on the previously released Blu-ray version (reviewed here on The Bits). More details should follow soon. [Read on here...]
Blues Brothers 4K will have BOTH cuts, plus The Mask of Zorro 4K, Parasite 4K in the States & more
I’ve spent (and continue to spend) most of the afternoon today chasing down interesting leads regarding upcoming Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD releases. As a result, we’ve got a couple of good items for you today...
First though, we’ve got another new BD review from Tim, who checks in with his thoughts on Fred Wolf’s animated The Point (1971), now on Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection. Be sure to give it a look.
Also today, we’ve updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List (with some new UHD titles I’m about to mention) and also our Release Dates & Artwork section with all of the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K cover art and Amazon.com pre-order links. By the way, if you find that the section is missing some titles, it’s due to issues on Amazon’s side, not our end. They’re just making it very difficult for some titles to be found in their database for whatever reason. But we do appreciate your support when you order titles from them though our links—it matters, and we’re grateful for it. [Read on here...]
- The Blues Brothers 4K
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Parasite 4K
- The Mask of Zorro 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Point BD review
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Blues Brothers lost songs
- Quando Quando Quando
- Sink the Bismarck
- Just the Way You Are
- Bob's Country Bunker
- The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection BD box set
- 47 Ronin 4K
Criterion’s January slate includes Godard, Lumet, Cukor & Almodóvar, plus new BD/4K street dates
We’ve got a quick update for you today, to report that Criterion has just announced their January 2020 Blu-ray and DVD titles.
They include: George Cukor’s Holiday (Spine #1009 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/7, Sidney Lumet’s The Fugitive Kind (Spine #515 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/14, Jean-Luc Godard’s Le petit soldat (Spine #1010 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/21, and Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (Spine #1111 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother (Spine #1012 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/28.
We’ve updated our Criterion Spines Project page here at The Bits to include them, and you can read more about each title on the Criterion website. You can also see the cover artwork below. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4K
- The Joker
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- The Criterion Collection
- Holiday
- The Fugitive Kind
- Le petit soldat
- Fail Safe
- All About My Mother
- George Cukor
- Pedro Almodovar
- Sidney Lumet
- JeanLuc Godard
- The Criterion Spines Project
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime? DVD review
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XII DVD review
- Robin Williams: Comic Genius DVD review
- Time Life
- VCI Entertainment
An LOTR/Hobbit 4K update, new 4K catalog, Shout, Scream & KL Studio Classics titles, Monty Python & more
All right, thanks for your patience while I was away at the end of last week. My father-in-law passed away, so my wife and I flew across the country to attend his memorial and see family.
But there’s a good deal to catch up on today news-wise, so let’s get right to it. First things first...
Yes, we are aware of the rumors that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is planning to bring The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films to 4K Ultra HD. They originated on the excellent 4K Filme.de website, which (I’m told) found the titles briefly listed on a Warner B2B website for German retailers. All six films were indicated for release on UHD (with the Extended Editions included) and with a tentative street date given of June 25, 2020. All right, now let’s put this in context...
First of all, there’s no doubt that Warner Bros. is going to release these films on physical 4K Ultra HD. These are literally their most demanded catalog titles on the format. Also, 2021 is the 20th anniversary of Fellowship of the Ring. And Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings prequel series, which reportedly begins production next month and will apparently be in production for two years, is likely to debut on Amazon Prime in late 2022. So the studio is certainly going to want to get those films ready for 4K release by then. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Lionsgate
- The Lord of the Rings 4K
- The Hobbit 4K
- Extended Editions
- 4K Filme
- Ready or Not
- Ad Astra
- The Joker
- Ford v Ferrari
- Angel Has Fallen 4K
- Rollerball (1975) 4K
- The Cotton Club 4K
- Rambo: Last Blood 4K
- Gemini Man 4K
- Terminator: Dark Fate 4K
- Top Gun 4K
- Zombieland: Double Tap 4K
- Hustlers 4K
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4K
- A Bug's Life 4K
- Up 4K
- Pixar
- WALLE 4K
- Monsters Inc 4K
- Monsters University 4K
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) 4K
- Scarface 4K
- Universal Studios
- Monty Python's Flying Circus Norwegian Bluray Edition
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Warner Archive Collection
- Robert Foster RIP
- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters documentary
- Universal Soldier 4K
Marvel’s Infinity Saga 4K/BD box set is Best Buy exclusive, Far From Home reviewed, plus Disney animated 4K, Cotton Club & more
All right, we’ve got some big news for you MCU fans today.
But first...
And I’ve turned in a review of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War in 4K (which slipped through the cracks when it first came out), this hot on the heels of last week’s catalog MCU 4K reviews.
With those reviews, we have now reviewed nearly the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in 4K Ultra HD here at The Digital Bits. [Read on here...]
- Lionsgate
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- SpiderMan: Far from Home 4K review
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Avengers: Infinity War 4K review
- Marvel Infinity Saga BD/4K box set Best Buy exclusive
- The Cotton Club 4K
- Universal Solider 4K
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Moana 4K
- Big Hero 6 4K
- The Princess and the Frog 4K
- Tangled 4K
- Zootopia 4K
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- The Joker 4K
- The Angry Birds Movie 2 4K
A new Twin Peaks box set, plus Wizard of Oz 4K on the way & new disc BD & 4K reviews
Okay, we’ve got some big news for you today...
First though, we’ve posted a few new disc reviews in the last couple of days, including my own takes on Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 4K from Warner Bros, Air Force One in 4K from Sony Pictures, and Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series on regular Blu-ray from Warner. Tim has also posted his thoughts on Shout! Factory’s new The Harder They Come: Collector’s Edition. All are work a look, so do check them out at the links provided.
Now then, let’s get to that news. First, this is not yet officially announced (even though we revealed it on social media a couple days ago), but retail links from various online sources confirm what we’ve been saying for a while now here at The Bits, namely that Warner will release The Wizard of Oz on 4K Ultra HD in October in honor of the film’s 80th anniversary. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters 4K review
- Air Force One 4K review
- Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series BD review
- The Harder They Come: Collector's Edition BD review
- Tim Salmons
- The Wizard of Oz: 80th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Best Buy exclusive Steelbook
- Skatetown USA BD
- CBS Home Entertainment
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- David Lynch
- Twin Peaks: The Television Collection BD
- Twin Peaks: The Television Collection DVD
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Twin Peaks: From Z to A BD set
Sony officially announces Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD
All right, a quick update with some big breaking news...
It should surprise no one, as we’ve been talking about it (and we’ve had it in our 4K Ultra HD Release List) for a couple months now. But Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just officially set Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 3/19, with the Digital release expected on 2/26.
It does not appear that at Blu-ray 3D release is planned. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below.
Both the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release will include Dolby Atmos audio. HDR10 is likely for the 4K (the press release makes no mention of Dolby Vision). [Read on here...]
Criterion’s May slate, Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace restored, and thoughts on the future of physical media
There’s some new release news to report today, and then we’re going to return to the topic of physical media in the wake of the news about Samsung on Friday.
But first, late on Friday afternoon, Criterion announced their May Blu-ray release slate, which is set to include William Wyler’s The Heiress (Cat #974 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 5/7, an updating of David Mamet’s House of Games (Cat #399 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (Cat #975 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 5/14, Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In (Cat #976 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 5/21, and Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Cat #978 – Blu-ray and DVD) and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (Cat #977 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 5/28. We’ve updated our Criterion Spines Project page here at The Bits to include these titles and you can read more about them here.
Speaking of Criterion, we also learned on Friday that the Russian film studio Mosfilm has completed a new 2K restoration of Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic 1966-67 film adaptation of War and Peace. The 7-hour/4-part series is legendary in cinema history as the biggest production ever mounted, besting even David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia by having an essentially unlimited budget, a bottomless supply of props and costumes from the country’s state museums, and a cast of thousands. The film was shot on Russian Sovscope 70mm film stock, but unfortunately it’s suffered from preservation issues over the years. That’s meant the only good options available for viewing in recent years have been DVD versions of modest quality. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- The Criterion Spines Project
- Criterion May 2019 slate
- The Heiress
- House of Games
- Funny Games
- Let the Sunshine Games
- One Sings the Other Doesn't
- Blue Velvet
- Sergei Bondarchuck's War and Peace restoration
- The Criterion Collection
- Cujo
- Backdraft 4K
- Field of Dreams 4K
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 4K
- A Star Is Born BD review
- Next of Kin BD review
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- The Future of Physical Media
- Media Play News
- Bluray Disc Association
- 4K Ultra HD
- digital streaming
- Samsung stops making BD players
- NPO Videoscan
- Neilsen
- Futuresource
- Alien 4K
- Mosfilm