Displaying items by tag: Ad Astra
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
In Review: James Gray’s profoundly nonsensical Ad Astra
All right. So first things first: Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday and on Friday. My wife and I have both been dealing with different types of family crises over the past week, so those have been demanding my attention.
But… in order to get a little bit of a break from the stress of it all, I went to see Ad Astra yesterday in Dolby Cinema.
WOW, do I wish I had my $20 back.
Now, I love the realistic spaceflight/science fiction genre. It’s kind of my whole milieu.
And I was really looking forward to Ad Astra, encouraged by all the rave reviews and the promising trailers.
But having now seen it, I really have to get my thoughts about it out before I have a brain aneurysm. [Read on here...]