Displaying items by tag: George Pal
It’s official: Paramount will release War of the Worlds (1953) in 4K Ultra HD on 9/27!
We’re thrilled to report this afternoon that we’ve got an update on a major Paramount catalog title that we mentioned here at The Bits earlier today as well as in one of our My Two Cents news posts last week.
The studio will indeed release A George Pal Double Feature of War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951) on 9/27 as a Paramount Presents title!
Director Byron Haskin’s original alien invasion classic War of the Worlds will be released in the 2-disc set in physical 4K Ultra HD, while Rudolph Maté’s earlier When Worlds Collide will be included in the package as bonus disc via remastered Blu-ray.
You can see the full cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
Sony sets Fright Night for 4K, plus Paramount’s War of the Worlds & When Worlds Collide on Ultra HD, Night of the Living Dead & more!
We’ve got some major catalog release news for you today to start the new week off right…
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just set Tom Holland’s Fright Night (1985) for release on 4K Ultra HD on 10/4. The release will feature a new 4K scan from the original camera negative, with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos mix along with the previous 5.1 mix and the original stereo as well.
The title will come a Blu-ray version of the film mastered from the new 4K scan that will feature all-new Deleted Scene Storyboards and the never-before-seen alternate Holland/Beyda Spec Trailer, along with legacy extras that include audio commentary by Holland, actors Chris Sarandon and Jonathan Stark, and filmmaker Tim Sullivan, a second commentary with Holland, actors William Ragsdale and Stephen Geoffreys, FX artist Randall Cook, journalist Jeremy Smith and Tim Sullivan, and 3 featurettes (You’re So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night, What is Fright Night, and Tom Holland: Writing). [Read on here...]
- When Worlds Collide (1951) 4K
- War of the Worlds (1953) 4K
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- George Pal
- Paramount Presents
- Fright Night 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Tom Holland
- George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead 4K
- Criterion Collection
- Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 3
- As Good As It Gets 4K
- From Here to Eternity 4K
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 4K Steelbook
- Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Quiet Days in Clichy 4K
- Blue Underground
- RLJ Entertainment
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Shout! & Scream Factory bow The Fog, Platoon & Army of Darkness in 4K, plus Trek 4K follow-up, Warner Q4 Ultra HDs & more, plus James Caan RIP
All right, yesterday was a little crazy here at The Bits, what with Paramount finally dropping their long-awaited Star Trek 4K announcement. That deluxe Complete Adventure 4K package for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition was unexpected and frankly a fantastic surprise. But it’s worth a quick follow up today just to clarify everything...
The Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition: The Complete Adventure Limited Edition is a 3-disc set here in the States that includes the DE in 4K, a newly-authored 4K of the previously-released Theatrical Cut as well as the Special Longer Version (included via seamless branching), and a Blu-ray full of bonus content that I’m told includes basically everything ever created and released for the film on home video. (I’m awaiting confirmation of the exact contents from the studio.) But it does NOT include a Blu-ray of the DE itself, nor are Blu-rays of the Theatrical and SLV versions included. The DE is available separately on Blu-ray, and obviously the Theatrical Cut Blu-ray was included in the original 4-Movie Collection from last year.
To be 100% clear, the Special Longer Version is ONLY going to be available in The Complete Adventure package, and producer David C. Fein has said that it’s a genuine limited edition. Much like Sony’s recent Ghostbusters: Ultimate Collection, it’s very likely to sell out in pre-orders, and it’s NOT going to be re-released. So if you were planning to wait for Black Friday to pick it up at a discount, or you’re expecting some future “ultimate” 4K box that includes the TNG films as well all The Complete Adventure content, you’re likely to be disappointed. The new 4K disc with both the Theatrical Cut and the Special Longer Version on it is exclusive to this set and when they’re gone, they’re gone. Be sure to plan accordingly.
[Editor’s Note: It appears that the UK version of this set MAY be a 5-disc set, which includes the Blu-rays of The Director’s Edition and the Theatrical Cut. And its discs should be all-region.] [Read on here...]
- Theatrical Cut
- Special Longer Version
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director’s Edition The Complete Adventure 4K box set
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director's Edition 4K
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Fog 4K
- John Carpenter
- Sam Raimi
- Army of Darkness 4K
- Evil Dead (2013) 4K
- James Caan RIP
- Elf 4K
- Casablanca 4K
- The Lost Boys 4K
- Poltergeist 4K
- The Funhouse 4K
- Old Henry 4K
- Warrior 4K Steelbook
- War of the Worlds (1953) 4K
- When Worlds Collide (1951) 4K
- George Pal
- Crawl 4K
- Batman: The Long Halloween Deluxe Edition 4K
- The Duke BD
- I Know What You Did Last Summer 4K
- Platoon 4K
- Cool World BD
Warner Archive reveals Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, plus more BD announcements including Rick and Morty & Dream a Little Dream
We have a couple more new disc reviews this afternoon and more release news for you as well. As always, reviews first...
Stephen has checked out a pair of Blu-ray titles today, including Craig Lahiff’s Black and White (2002) from Umbrella Entertainment—another Sunburnt Screens label title—and also Allan Arkush’s Get Crazy (1983) from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Both are well worth a look, and it sounds like Get Crazy in particular includes a bunch of great bonus content. So enjoy Stephen’s reviews.
Now then, our friends over at The Warner Archive Collection have begun to reveal some great new catalog Blu-ray titles that they’re working on for release in 2022 (they’re listed as “coming soon” at the moment) and the three they’ve mentioned so far are real gems.
First up is Michael Curtiz’s Captains of the Clouds (1942) starring James Cagney. This is mastered from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate Technicolor camera negatives. Extras will include a 1942 Newsreel, the vintage 1942 color WB short Rocky Mountain Big Game, the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons What’s Cookin’, Doc? and Hold the Lion, Please (in HD), and the original theatrical trailer. [Read on here...]
- Stephen Bjork
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- A Hard Day's Night 4K
- The Warner Archive Collection
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm BD
- Smilebox
- Cinerama
- Technicolor
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- Lionsgate
- Dream a Little Dream BD
- Rick and Morty: 1 to 5 BD
- A Star Is Born (1937) BD
- Captains of the Clouds (1942)
- George Pal
- Michael Curtiz
- Henry Levin
- William A Wellman
- Criterion
- Masters of Color podcast
- David Fincher
- Yvette Mimieux RIP
- Panic Room 4K
- Eric Weidt
- Cullen Kelly
- The Black Hole
Arrow’s March includes American Werewolf & RoboCop in 4K, plus Imprint’s March slate has Osterman Weekend, and The Digital Bits 3.0 in 2022!
A funny thing happened on the way to yesterday’s My Two Cents post! For some reason, I lost track of a day this week, so I thought yesterday was Friday. Then I wake up and here’s Friday again, much to my surprise. LOL. So anyway, while a bit of yesterday’s post still applies this afternoon, we’ve got some great breaking release news to share with you all today...
First up, the fine Imprint Films (down in Australia) has just announced their March 2022 Blu-ray slate, which is due to street on 3/30/22. It will include Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend (1983 – mastered from new 2K scans of the director’s cut negative and the theatrical cut, so it will include both versions), Buzz Kulik’s The Hunter (1980 – starring Steve McQueen), Samuel Fuller’s China Gate (1957), Byron Haskin’s Conquest of Space (1955 – produced by George Pal), John Sturges’ Marooned (1969), Robert Wise’s Audrey Rose (1977), and Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (1971). Not bad at all!
As usual, all of these Blu-rays should be region free. You’ll find them available here on the Imprint website.
But here’s the whopper today... Arrow Video has just announced its March 2022 slate as well, which includes no less than three new 4K UHD catalog titles! [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Tim Salmons
- Denis Villeneuve
- James Cameron
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Arrow Video March 2022 slate
- Imprint Films March 2022 slate
- RoboCop 4K
- An American Werewolf in London 4K
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 4K
- Come Drink with Me BD
- To Sleep So As to Dream BD
- Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf
- Daniel Griffith
- Sam Peckinpah
- The Osterman Weekend BD
- China Gate BD
- The Hunter BD
- Conquest of Space BD
- George Pal
- Marooned BD
- Robert Wise
- Audrey Rose BD
- Johnny Got His Gun BD
- Dalton Trumbo
- Samuel Fuller
- Steve McQueen
- John Sturges
- The Digital Bits site upgrade
- Back the Bits via PayPal
- The Digital Bits 25th Anniversary in 2022
- Paul Verhoeven
- Kenneth Branagh
- John Landis
Puppetoon Movie: Volume 3 crowdfunder, Psycho & Akira replacement discs, remastered Batman V Superman 4K coming to the UK in April & more
We’ve got just a quick update for you today...
First up, we’re starting with another new Blu-ray review. Tim has taken a look at John Sturges’ Joe Kidd (1972), as recently released on Blu-ray by our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Sounds like it’s a pretty solid release, so do give it a look.
Also today, our friend Arnold Leibovit has just kicked off a new crowdfunding effort to make possible the release of The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 3, a new Blu-ray collection of 18-20 more original George Pal Puppetoon short films scanned from the original 35 mm nitrate Technicolor prints (or successive exposure negatives) restored in 2K HD. You can learn more about the effort here, and if you’re a fan of these great shorts—or of film preservation in general—we strongly encourage you to participate. You can see the planned cover artwork for Volume 3 at left. [Read on here...]
- The Birds 4K
- Psycho 4K
- National Lampoon's Animal House 4K
- The Sting 4K
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Joe Kidd BD review
- The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 3 BD
- Akira 4K replacement disc
- Psycho 4K & BD replacement disc
- Zack Snyder's remastered Batman V Superman 4K in the UK
- George Pal