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The Goonies, Beetlejuice & Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films are now official for 4K, plus Grant Imahara RIP
We’ve got still more release news to report today, though much if it we’ve already talked about here at The Bits. The point is, it’s all now official.
First up, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has just set four catalog titles for release on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital Copy) on 9/1...
These include Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985), Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988), and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). All four were shot on film, so appear to have been mastered from new 4K scans of the original camera negatives (the two Sherlock Holmes titles were shot on film but finished as 2K DIs, so it’s possible new 4K DIs were built from scans of the camera neg and VFX film outs).
All four titles will include the previous Blu-ray extras. In addition, Beetlejuice will offer a new English Dolby Atmos sound mix. There’s no indication of Dolby Vision HDR in Warner’s press release, so assume HDR10 for the time being. Both The Goonies and Beetlejuice will also be available in new Deluxe 4K Giftsets exclusive to Amazon.com. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Goonies: 35th Anniversary 4K
- Beetlejuice 4K
- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 4K
- Amazon exclusive 4K giftset
- Richard Donner
- Tim Burton
- Guy Ritchie
- Grant Imahara Rest in Peace
- MythBusters
- Jeff Kleist
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 4K
- Studio Canal
- Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection
- Abkco
- Arrow Video UK
Reviews of V, V: The Final Battle, and The Cold Blue on Blu-ray, plus Full Metal Jacket and Flash Gordon in 4K Ultra HD!
All right, we have a very quick post here at The Bits today, but it’s got a goodie bit of 4K news for you.
First though, I believe I promised some new disc reviews from...
I’ve now posted my thoughts on the Warner Archive Collection’s new Blu-ray edition of V: The Final Battle. And since we hadn’t covered the original yet, I went back to review their V: The Original Miniseries Blu-ray from last year as well.
Also, just this morning I posted a review of Erik Nelson’s tremendous WWII documentary The Cold Blue, new on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. The disc also includes director William Wyler’s fully restored original documentary Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944). Both of them are a treat, and I guarantee you’ve never seen 8th Air Force air combat footage looking so good before. Don’t miss it. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- V: The Original Miniseries BD review
- V: The Final Battle BD review
- The Warner Archive Collection
- The Cold Blue BD review
- Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress BD review
- Full Metal Jacket 4K
- Flash Gordon: 40th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Studio Canal
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- William Wyler
- Stanley Kubrick
Shout! licenses Studio Canal’s The Deer Hunter for 4K Ultra HD, plus Color Out of Space & Richard Jewell
So the big news this morning is that Shout! Factory has dropped an out-of-left-field 4K Ultra HD announcement: They’re gotten the US release rights to Michael Cimino’s 1978 Best Picture winner The Deer Hunter. As some of you will know, this was a Studio Canal release last year in the UK on 4K Ultra HD, but there was no U.S. distributor.
Shout! will be releasing it on 5/26 as a Shout Select 4K/Blu-ray Collector’s Edition. SRP is $34.93, but you can pre-order it direct from the Shout website for just $28.43 with an exclusive poster. There will apparently be some new extras, which will be announced at a later date. We have no details yet on HDR or audio specs, but the Studio Canal package included Dolby Vision and HDR10, with 2.0 and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. [Read on here...]
The Bits presents a 2020 Ultra HD Release Update: MAJOR catalog titles are coming to physical 4K this year!
All right, many of you have asked about (or otherwise understandably bemoaned) the lack of big or significant announcements relating to catalog films on 4K Ultra HD lately. So today’s update here at The Digital Bits is about addressing that concern.
And while we still have little in the way of official announcements at the moment, I can confidently report that at least some of titles you’re waiting for are on the way in 2020.
The information in today’s post should be considered unofficial until the studios in question make their actual announcements. But we believe it to be a reliable gauge of titles currently in the production pipeline or planning stages.
First, we know for sure that Disney is going to be releasing Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga on 4K coinciding with the Blu-ray and 4K release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, likely in March. [Read on here...]
- The Elephant Man 4K
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Walt Disney Home Entertainment
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Discotek Media
- FUNimation
- Studio Canal
- 4K Ultra HD
- 2020 4K catalog releases
- Back the Bits
- Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4K
- Jaws 4K
- War of the Worlds 4K
- Days of Thunder 4K
- Top Gun 4K
- A Bug's Life 4K
- Up 4K
- WALLE 4K
- Monsters Inc 4K
- Monsters University 4K
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) 4K
- Beauty and the Beast (2017) 4K
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4K
- Full Metal Jacket 4K
- A Clockwork Orange 4K
- Spartacus 4K
- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 4K
- 47 Ronin 4K
- The Back to the Future Trilogy 4K
- Flash Gordon 4K
- Basic Instinct 4K
- Breathless 4K
- Total Recall 4K
- Highlander 4K
- Serpico 4K
- Dune 4K
- Inglourious Basterds 4K
- Akira 4K
- Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro 4K
- The Hobbit 4K
- The Lord of the Rings 4K
The Star Wars Saga is almost certainly coming to 4K Ultra HD in 2020, plus Discovery: S2, DS9 doc in 4K & more
All right, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today, so bear with us.
First, very quickly, we’re currently working on those disc reviews we mentioned the other day, so watch for those starting tomorrow. But breaking news – and the need to dig into it – has keep us busy yesterday and today.
Let’s get some regular announcement news out of the way first...
CBS Home Entertainment has set Star Trek: Discovery – Season Two for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/12. The 4-disc Blu-ray release will include audio commentary on 4 episodes (with various combinations of Sonequa Martin-Green, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Alex Kurtzman, Jonathan Peck, and Olatunde Onsunanmi), promos, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and 8 featurettes (Star Trek: Discovery: The Voyage of Season Two, Enter the Enterprise, The Red Angel, Designing Discovery: Season Two, Prop Me Up: Season Two, Dress for Success: Season Two, Creature Comforts: Season Two, and Creating Space). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- The Star Wars Saga 4K
- Star Trek: Discovery Season Two BD
- What We Left Behind documentary
- Men in Black: International 4K
- Angel Heart 4K
- Studio Canal
- Red Heat 4K
- Universal Soldier 4K
- Lionsgate
- CBS Home Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie 4K
- Discotek Media
- Casino 4K
- Shaft (2019) 4K
- Aladdin (2019) 4K
- Aladdin (1992) 4K
- Scarface 4K
- American Gangster 4K
- Yesterday 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Jetsons: The Complete Original Series BD
- Pixar 4K
- Marvel Cinematic Universe 4K
- Disney
- Lucasfilm
- Star Wars 4K
- The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Return of the Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
Gremlins 4K, Tim Burton’s Dumbo, The Alienist, Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who, Shazam! in 3D, and TONS more new announcements
Sorry for our absence yesterday. We’ve been dealing with various and sundry server issues over the weekend and we’re just starting to get back to normal. Honestly, it’s a wonder the Internet still works at all these days. So anyway, thanks for your patience.
We have a bunch of title announcements to cover today, but first, today marks the 20th anniversary of our friends Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman’s film Free Enterprise. So we wanted to call your attention to Michael Coate’s retrospective on the film from its 15th anniversary back in 2014. You can read Still Loving Long & Partying: Remembering Free Enterprise on its 15th Anniversary right here. The film isn’t on Blu-ray yet and so it’s always surprising how many people haven’t see it. But if you’re a fan of classic Star Trek, pop culture, and actors William Shatner and Eric McCormack, we think you’ll really enjoy it.
Meanwhile, we’re starting to get back to reviews. I still have two more Batman 4Ks coming, plus Tim and Dennis have some Blu-rays they’ve reviewed for you too. I’ve also got a trio of science fiction Blu-ray releases I’m going to try to cover soon as well. So be sure to watch for those. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Michael Coate
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Gremlins 4K
- Joe Dante
- Tim Burton
- Dumbo (2019) 4K
- The Alienist
- Doctor Who: Season Four
- Shazam! 3D
- Free Enterprise: 20th Anniversary
- Robert Meyer Burnett
- Mark A Altman
- William Shatner
- Eric McCormack
- The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season
- DC Comics
- Titans: Season One
- Gotham: Season Five
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters 4K
- From the Earth to the Moon BD
- Deadwood: The Movie
- Kino Lober Studio Classics
- The Magicians: Season Four
- Don't Look Now 4K
- Nicholas Roeg
- Studio Canal
- Jon Pertwee
Twilight in 4K, plus Halloween 4K official, Maximum Overdrive details, Black Sails: Complete, Exorcist II & more
We’ve got three more Blu-rays for you today, including...
Tim’s look at Stewart Raffill’s Mac and Me: Collector’s Edition (1988) from Shout! Factory.
David Steigman’s take on Albert Pynn’s Blast (1997) from MVD.
I’m also working on several new 4K Ultra HD reviews, which should start appearing later this afternoon, so do check back for those.
In announcement news, we have details on Liongate’s next Vestron Video Collector’s Series Blu-ray title, Maximum Overdrive. [Read on here...]
- Studio Canal
- John Carpenter
- Shout! Factory
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- Maximum Overdrive BD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- David Steigman
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Halloween 4K
- Twilight 4K
- Black Sails: The Complete Series
- Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Blast BD review
- Mac and Me BD review
- Smashing Time BD review
- Bright Lights Big City BD
- The Bride BD
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K
- Air Force One 4K
M:I – Fallout details, plus Maximum Overdrive: Vestron, Eighth Grade, GKids’ Fireworks & much more
We’re kicking off the week with a pair of new Blu-ray reviews...
Both are worth a look, so check out the reviews and give them a shot.
Now then... in announcement news, we have a couple interesting things for you... [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- David Steigman
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Talking Blu with The Digital Bits YouTube webcast
- The Tingler BD review
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez BD review
- Mission: Impossible Fallout 4K
- Die Hard 30th Anniversary BD
- Maximum Overdrive BD
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- The Chamber
- Eighth Grade
- The Gingerbread Man
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- Fireworks anime
- GKids
- The REC Collection
- What Keeps You Alive
- Your Name
- Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich 4K
- Superman: The Movie 4K
- The Fog 4K
- Invasion Los Angeles 4K
- John Carpenter
- Studio Canal
- Mark A Altman
- So Say We All: Battlestar Galactica book
- Midnight's Edge
- They Live 4K
Lionsgate makes Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead official for 4K on 10/9, plus Halloween, new Kino & more
We mentioned it yesterday here on the website, but we now have final cover artwork from Lionsgate for their 4K Ultra HD release of Sam Raimi’s original The Evil Dead. You can see it at the left and also below.
Look for the disc to street on 10/9, and to include both a Blu-ray and a Digital Copy, for just $22.99.
As we reported yesterday, the 4K disc will include audio commentary with writer-director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert, and star Bruce Campbell. The film has apparently been scanned in 4K (presumably from the original 16mm, though the studio’s press release doesn’t indicated the source), and the disc will feature Dolby Vision HDR and English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio. [Read on here...]
Man Who Fell to Earth: 40th Blu-rays on the way, plus new Kino Lorber, a review of Batman v Superman 4K & more
Okay, there isn’t a ton of release news to report early this week, so we’re going to be focusing mostly on review work...
As such, I’ve just posted my thoughts on Warner’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Ultimate Edition on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format. It’s a complicated film to discuss, and one that’s neither as bad nor as good as the most ardent critics would have you believe. But at least it’s a better experience than the theatrical cut. Do check it out. I’ve taken a look at Shout! Factory’s new Humpback Whales on 4K as well. And yesterday, in case you missed them, we posted regular Blu-ray reviews of Bite from Shout! Factory via our own Tim Salmons, as well as Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) from Kino Lorber Studio Classics via Jim Hemphill. Enjoy. [Read on here…]
- 4K Ultra HD Bluray
- Jim Hemphill
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- BD
- Bluray
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Tim Salmons
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 4K
- Bite
- Diary of a Lost Girl
- The Man Who Fell to Earth: 40th Anniversary Edition
- Studio Canal
- HBO
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- NOVA
- The House on 92nd Street
- Tab Hunter Confidential