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Warner sets Christopher Nolan’s TENET for BD & 4K on 12/15, plus Bill talks Lord of the Rings 4K today on The One Ring
All right, it’s FINALLY official.
As we’ve been expecting for weeks now, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has just issued their press release announcing the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet on December 15th (SRP $44.95, $35.99, and $28.98 respectively).
You can see the 4K Ultra HD cover artwork at left and also below, along with the Blu-ray and DVD cover art.
In terms of special features, the 4K and Blu-ray versions will include an hour-long documentary on the production called Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of Tenet. [Read on here...]
Sony is prepping Elysium, Looper, and GATTACA for 4K, plus Giant from the Unknown (1958) & more
All right, first things first today: I’m pleased to report that we did not have to evacuate from these wildfires here in SoCal after all. But it was a long night while we waited to find that out. Thankfully, when I stepped out this morning, it appeared that the fires had moved farther away from us, not closer. And this afternoon the evacuation orders all around us were lifted. So... whew!
It’s going to take a couple days to get back to normal around here, but I count that as a good problem to have, considering the alternative.
Now then... the big news today is that our industry and retail sources are telling us that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is quietly preparing to release Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, Rian Johnson’s Looper, and Andrew Niccol’s GATTACA in 4K Ultra HD early in 2021. Elysium and Looper are already available digitally in 4K, and a few European retailers have listed GATTACA for physical 4K release in March. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Elysium 4K
- Looper 4K
- GATTACA 4K
- Giant from the Unknown BD
- The Film Detective
- TENET 4K
- Christopher Nolan
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Mandabi
- StudioCanal
- Ousmane Sembène
- The Rental
- We're No Angels BD
- Wonder Boys BD
- Richard E Cunha
- Scream Factory
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- IFC Midnight
- Neill Blomkamp
- Rian Johnson
- Andrew Niccol
The UHD Alliance unveils the Filmmaker Mode initiative to ensure 4K TVs display movies properly at home
So I spent a couple hours up in Hollywood yesterday afternoon to cover something pretty interesting…
At a press event at the Screen Actors Guild, members of the UHD Alliance, three major consumer electronics manufacturers, and leading Hollywood filmmakers officially announced a new partnership effort to implement Filmmaker Mode as an extension of the 4K Ultra HD spec.
The idea is to ensure that when you watch a movie at home in 4K on your new Ultra HD display, whether from a disc, stream, or cable/satellite broadcast, it will look exactly as it should. UHD Alliance research suggests that as many as 80% of people who buy 4K TVs never change the settings out of the box. This means irritating features like motion smoothing and unnecessary processing are being applied to the image by default – processing that actually takes the picture away from the filmmakers’ intent.
What the Filmmaker Mode will do is to allow the user – either with one push of a button on the remote, or with a very easy and obvious menu setting – to set the TV’s display parameters to most accurately display the 4K content. This would be a baseline setting for the image – any added adjustments signaled by HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision metadata would happen on top of that setting. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Filmmaker Mode
- UHD Alliance
- Rian Johnson
- Mike Fiedler
- Michael Zink
- Annie Chang
- LG
- Panasonic
- James Cameron
- Vizio
- Ron Martin
- Carlos Angulo
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Ryan Coogler
- Patty Jenkins
- Martin Scorsese
- Christopher Nolan
- Ang Lee
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Ava DuVernay
- M Night Shyamalan
- The Duffer Brothers
- Damien Chazelle
- JJ Abrams
- Reed Morano
- Warner Bros
- Amazon Prime
- Universal Studios
2001 returns to theaters in 70mm in May (4K now due this fall), plus Escape Plan 4K, a new Talking Blu & more
We’re starting today with four new disc reviews, including looks at Lionsgate and Summit’s Knowing and Sony’s Across the Universe in 4K Ultra HD by me (with our late great friend and Bits family member Barrie Maxwell), as well as Tim’s take on MVD’s Black Eagle: Special Edition and AGFA and Something Weird’s The Violent Years on Blu-ray. Enjoy!
Also today, we have an update on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Warner Bros. has now officially announced (see this link) that the film is returning to theaters for a limited run in 70mm starting on 5/18 in honor of its 50th anniversary. The 4K Ultra HD pre-order page was recently pulled down from Amazon and now we know why: The street date had been listed as 5/8, but the title is now slated to arrive this fall, after the theatrical run. Both the 70mm return to theaters and the 4K release are being presented by director Christopher Nolan. [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD Bluray
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K
- 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm
- Escape Plan 4K
- Early Man 4K
- Talking Blu with The Digital Bits
- Midnight's Edge
- Ready Player One 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi gag reel
- Stanley Kubrick's 2001: The Ultimate Trip in Print
- Tomb Raider (2018) 4K
- Knowing 4K review
- Barrie Maxwell
- Tim Salmons
- Across the Universe 4K review
- The Violent Years BD review
- Black Eagle BD review
- Christopher Nolan
- George A Romero
- Night of the Living Dead
Gladiator, Harry Potter 1-4 & Dark Knight in our BIG 4K Release Update, plus South Park: S1-5 BDs up on Amazon
All right, we’ve got a couple more pieces of announcement news for you today, along with a TON of new cover artwork...
The news is that Shout! Factory has officially set the Matinee: Collector’s Edition as their next Shout Select Blu-ray release on 12/12, along with the comedy The Trip to Spain, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Interestingly, Shout! has also announced a new 4K Ultra HD title for release that same day: IMAX: Mysteries of China. They also have Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom coming on 12/5.
Meanwhile, Scream Factory has set American Gothic (1988) for Blu-ray release on 12/19, and has the Hell Night: Collector’s Edition coming on BD on 12/12, as well as the Silent Night, Deadly Night: Collector’s Edition on 12/5, as we mentioned yesterday. [Read on here…]
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Coming Soon to a 4K Ultra HD Home Theater Near You
- 2017 4K UHD Release Update
- Gladiator 4K
- Inception 4K
- The Dark Knight 4K
- Batman Begins 4K
- Dunkirk 4K
- Interstellar 4K
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 4K
- The Dark Knight Rises 4K
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 4K
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 4K
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 4K
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 4K
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4K
- Transformers 4K
- Christopher Nolan
- Michael Bay
- South Park: Seasons 1 to 4 BD
- South Park remastered in HD
- Matinee: Collector's Edition
- IMAX: Mysteries of China 4K
- The Trip to Spain
- American Gothic
- Silent Night Deadly Night: Collector's Edition
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Harry Potter 8Film Collection 4K
- Hell Night: Collector's Edition
Keeping Showmanship Alive: Interstellar
“Go Further”
The Digital Bits is pleased to present this handy, quick-reference guide to the theaters in the United States and Canada that are screening large-format film prints of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar beginning November 5th.
(The movie is also being released in 35mm on November 5th, and on November 7th in 2K DCP, 4K DCP and IMAX Digital.) [Read more here...]
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