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The Abyss on Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD finally (!?!), plus Criterion FLASH sale & announcement news
All right, let’s get right down to it. I’ve been reluctant to talk about the prospects of James Cameron’s The Abyss and True Lies arriving on Blu-ray (and dare we hope 4K) in 2019 because we’ve had SO many solid reports that these films were finally coming only to see them evaporate. And when I’ve tried to find out why, Fox always pointed at Cameron and Cameron always pointed back at Fox. What I finally figured out is that Cameron has just been too distracted with other projects to approve new transfers of these films, first with diving to the bottom of the ocean and more recently with his Avatar prequels.
As longtime Bits readers will be well aware, both films were expected for their last major anniversaries in 2014. We know for a fact that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment had even prepared new Blu-ray releases (most recently rumored for release in 2017), but Cameron never got around to approving the new transfers, so the Blu-ray releases never happened. The transfers were quietly released to the pay cable movie channels only.
Well, now it’s five years later. 2019 officially marks the 30th anniversary of The Abyss and the 25th of True Lies. Naturally, that means Bits readers have been asking me for weeks about the prospects of finally seeing these films released on Blu-ray (and, again, dare we hope 4K). I’ve even spoken to studio sources about this recently. And again, what I learned was that the ball was still in James Cameron’s court. [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- The Abyss in 4K at last
- The Abyss on Bluray at last
- Criterion 50% off flash sale
- True Lies
- James Cameron
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Skip Kimball
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- The Criterion Collection
- The Monolith Monsters
- This Island Earth BD
- Monster on the Campus
- The Entity
- The Kid Who Would Be King 4K
- Man on a Ledge 4K
- Bumblebee 4K
- Aquaman 4K
- Hellboy Animated Double Feature 4K