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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
Cap America: Winter Soldier & Civil War 4K in April, Apocalypse Now 4K, BumbleBee & Samsung quits 4K player market
All right, today’s Bits update offers 4K Ultra HD news, some of it good and some of it bad, as well as some good standard Blu-ray news...
The good news first: We’ve learned from our studio and industry sources that Disney is bringing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War to physical 4K Ultra HD in April. Our retail sources suggest the street date is likely to be 4/23. This makes sense as it’s the same week that Avengers: Endgame hits theaters. Keep in mind, Captain America: The First Avenger hits the format next Tuesday, 2/26. It appears that Best Buy will have exclusive Steelbook packaging and Zavvi is already taking pre-orders on a Captain America Trilogy 4K set.
We’ve also learned from our sources that essentially all of the other Marvel Cinematic Universe titles not yet released on physical 4K are coming over the next year or so. This includes Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), and Doctor Strange (2016). We would expect the next batch to arrive with the home release of Captain Marvel, somewhere around Q2 2019. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Marvel Cinematic Universe in 4K
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4K
- Captain America: Civil War 4K
- Apocalypse Now: 40th Anniversary 4K
- Samsung quits the 4K player market
- Bumblebee 4K
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- ffolkes BD
- North Sea Hijack BD
- Studio Ghibli
- GKids
- Ghibli Fest 2019
Warner sets Aquaman for BD/4K on 3/26, plus Alien 4K street date, and new Kino, Shout! & Scream titles
All right, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially set director James Wan’s Aquaman for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 3/26, with the Digital release expected on 3/5. Amazon and a couple of other retailers (including Zavvi and Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, etc) are currently listing a Blu-ray 3D SKU, but one wasn’t not mentioned in the studio’s official press release. So we’ll have to wait and see if it actually appears. US Retail exclusives including book packaging at Target, Steelbook packaging at Best Buy. Note that the 4K will feature Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio (the Blu-ray will also include Atmos).
Extras will include 12 featurettes (Going Deep Into the World of Aquaman, Becoming Aquaman, James Wan: World Builder, Aqua Tech, Atlantis Warfare, The Dark Depths of Black Manta, Heroines of Atlantis, Villainous Training, Kingdoms of the Seven Seas, Creating Undersea Creatures, A Match Made in Atlantis, and Scene Study Breakdowns) and an Exclusive Sneak Peek of Shazam!
Now then... before we get into more release news, we have some new Blu-ray reviews for you here at The Bits today. Tim has checked in with his thoughts on Severin Film’s All the Colors of Giallo and Dread Central Presents’ Dry Blood. Enjoy! [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Tim Salmons
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- SpiderMan: Into the SpiderVerse 4K
- Hannibal 4K
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Alien 4K
- Aquaman 4K
- All the Colors of Giallo BD review
- Dry Blood BD review
- Bumblebee 4K
- Glass 4K
- Justice League vs the Fatal Five 4K
- Fast & Furious 4K
- Fast Five 4K
- Godzilla (1989) 4K
- Hobbs & Shaw 4K
- George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 4K
- Zombie 4K
- The Wizard of Oz: 80th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Night of the Creeps with NECA figure
- The Alligator People
- When a Stranger Calls Back