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A Digital Bits Exclusive: Peter Weir’s MASTER AND COMMANDER is coming soon to 4K disc from 20th Century via Sony!
Now here’s a title I’ve known about for a while, and that I’m very excited to finally share with all of you!
Longtime Bits readers will know that this film is another huge favorite of mine. And back in January of last year… not long before we first broke the exclusive news of the new Sony/Disney distribution deal here at The Digital Bits… I was invited by Disney reps to submit a list of films that I thought the studio should consider for release on physical 4K UHD.
I compiled a list of fifty titles, an A-list of twenty-five, and a B-list of twenty-five more.
Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, and George P. Cosmatos’ Tombstone (1993) was at the very top of that A-list.
The third film on that A-list was Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut (2005).
Both titles have now obviously been released on physical 4K Ultra HD from Disney/Touchstone and 20th Century Studios via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment—Tombstone on 4/22, and Kingdom of Heaven on 5/27. (Initial supplies of both titles are hard to come by, but I’m told that Sony is working hard to replicate more copies.)
Well… now I can confirm that the second title on the list I submitted is finally coming to 4K Ultra HD as well, and I couldn’t possibly be more excited. That title is none other than… [Read on here...]
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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- Peter Weir
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- Paul Bettany
- Patrick O'Brian
- HMS Surprise
- Captain Jack Aubrey
- Dr Stephen Maturin
- naval drama
- Napoleonic Wars