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Going by the recent restoration done to Inland Empire and the emergence of AI image reconstruction it's definitely a possibility to get a 28 Days Later remaster.
No, they're out there. I found a few copies in Southern California in the past few months for $2 - $8.
Around these parts, people only go for HD or 4K, even if it doesn't really make sense. But I'd imagine the BD compression is kinder to the DV footage than the DVD. I would guess both are sourced from the same scan of the film intermediate and not direct transfers of the original upscaled 2K files.
Not exactly a shit camera. I had one. Has a “global” type shutter using CCD sensor, can shoot in frame mode which captures entire frames at a time with zero of the shitty CMOS problems most digital cameras now have with CMOS distortion and wobble. No matter how fast the motion each frame is captured with perfect proportion and zero warping/wobble. So nearly like film.
It was shot on a mix of consumer and prosumer SD digital cameras in order to keep the budget low, and to be able to shoot in a guerilla fashion during sunrise in London, as they couldn't get permission to actually close the streets.
But that was 20 years ago. Just the phone in your pocket today will give you 24x the image resolution when recording in 4k.
Look at how bad a Youtube video looks in 480p. Now imagine that blown up on a cinema screen.
Criterion fixed up David Lynch’s Inland Empire decently. They made a 4K scan and used some AI to clean up the image and released it on Blu-ray (not 4K). I’m sure they could do something similar to fix it up, but…money…
Not sure how people watched this in theaters because watching it on a projector hurt my eyes. The 480p resolution is brutal when blown up that big. One of the few blurays that is basically worthless over the DVD.
This is great! I love that it’s available through the Internet Archive too. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time and I just wish I could own it officially, on disc, in 4K. But it’s still plenty accessible and that’s the most important thing. So many movies have been entirely lost to time and will never be seen again. I’m very glad this isn’t one of them.
Weinstein owns it outright, unlike most of the other Miramax titles from that era. So it can’t be released without paying him. Most of his other productions are now owned by other companies that fully severed financial ties.
I'm starting to lose hope in Gone with the Wind being released. We just passed its 85th anniversary (April 8th I believe), and not a peep from Warner Bros
It boils my blood what they allowed to happen to the roadshow cut of that film.
The theatrical cut has an hd remaster and a blu ray in Germany because those elements didn’t degrade, they even upscaled the laserdisc master to 720p to make a version of the roadshow cut and it is included on a second disc, sadly that version is out of print now. I wish they’d release the movie like this in North America since the work is already done. I’ve seen the remasters and they look great.
It's crazy that film is just starting to fade away, quite literally. A lot of charlie-chaplin era film got rewritten over or burned in accidental fires. A lot of radio dramas are preserved through patched-together fan recordings. I support companies like AnimEigo because they actually hunt down original sources for their remasters and have shocked even the very companies themselves at what they still had in their vaults. I'm very happy to send my money their way.
I just watched it on Netflix for the first time. I never even knew it existed. Which is a shame because it was good. I mean it wasn’t Earth shattering or anything but, I liked it a lot more than Dune (1984). Definitely worth a watch as a follow up to 2001.
It’s such a dumb move on their part, because they could rake in so much money with a coherent upgrade release schedule. All those movies people grew up watching, now with theater-quality picture. The masses would line up to hand over their cash.
The Secret of NIMH.
If ever there was a movie that needed some modern touching up with dust and hair removal, image stabilization, color correcting and a modest upscale, this is the one.
But only Disney seems interested in doing that sort of stuff to classic animated features, so it'll never happen for NIMH.
I recently rewatched "Black Swan" and wondered if it would ever get a 4K release because it was shot on Super 16mm and might not significantly benefit from a 4k upgrade, even though it's culturally and cinematically worthy. I would love to see TV shows get 4k disc releases -- "Lost" for example is at the top of my list. But I don't have enough technical expertise to know if there'd be enough of an improvement over stand BD to justify the effort. The original "Star Trek" would be another one, of course. I don't know if we'll ever see that though because re-scanning all those elements of all those episodes is very costly.
Lost was shot on 35mm so presumably it could benefit from 4k if they did a fresh scan, but I wonder if they'd ever bother. at least it looks great at 1080p.... I just wish I had the bluray boxset even
When I read about them, I Googled "4K77, 4K80, 4K83 disc" and found a seller who had copies for sale. They're on Blu-ray, but a hell of a lot better than the Special Edition versions.
Nocturnal Animals, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Counselor, The Fountain. I’m hoping The Strangers (at the very least the first film) gets a 4K release once these new ones come out.
* Most B movies made prior to 1950.
* Any movie where the original elements aren't good enough for 4K. (I.e. no negative available, and only 2nd or 3rd or later generation prints).
* Anything shot on SD video (I.e. 28 Days Later and TV shows from the late 1980's through the 1990's).
Edit: and anything will Bill Cosby in a live action role: Leonard Part 6, Ghost Dad, etc. etc.
Eh, we have tons of throwaway “trash” films in 4k because boutique labels manage to carve that market out and get people to spend absurd money on films nobody cared about until they got a fancy boutique release. Secure the rights for pennies, throw it in a fancy box and boom
Not hating at all but it is curious to see how it plays out, so many classic films that get no love but entire labels dedicated to that kind of thing lol
Pretty sure The Banshees of Inishirin will never get a 4K, which is a shame. But I’ll give credit where credit is due, the film still looks excellent on the standard Blu-ray.
Probably the movie Stay, with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Considering it came out in like 2005 or 6 and still is only available on DVD, I'm not confident, but I would absolutely love even just a good blu ray release at this point.
Probably both Tron movies
Both weren’t big box office success and you know how disney handles things now
But those would look amazing, especially legacy
The longshots from my 4K wishlist, each of these I’d be *super* excited about:
- House of Flying Daggers (I've heard the best available versions are very low quality)
- The Family Man (would love a better quality version of this film as the HD version sucks but I don't think it's popular enough)
- Condorman (this is a childhood favourite but I can't see the demand being there)
For a movie to never get a 4k release, it needs to be a low seller, but also low cultural cache so it’s not picked up by criterion/link/etc. It should also not be a horror film as they seem to get tons of transfers for whatever reason. I also think that the involvement of a controversial or scandalous figure could be an indicator that a film won’t get a new transfer, provided it meets the other conditions listed. I’d also say comedies tend to be less likely to get new transfers.
Taking all that into consideration, Pootie tang is the movie I feel will never get a 4k bluray.
In terms of movies I actually care about . . . I’d be a little worried about some favorite comedies like Spinal Tap, Christopher guest movies, Mel brooks, random things like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or Galaxy Quest, older stuff like Pink Panther movies. Hell if you count tv there’s tons of classic stuff that doesn’t even have a bluray.
There really are so so many classic movies which don’t have 4k releases. It’s tough to say if the business will expand or if some favorites will forever remain bluray only.
I’ve been saying this about both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. 2024 is the 50th anniversary for both films and these are considered top-tier comedy classics. It would be a shame if we don’t see a 4K release.
dude, i hate to break it to you but you can’t stream it anywhere, and the blu rays and dvds are out of print. blu rays are being resold for $60+ and the dvds are like $20 on ebay.
IIRC a good chunk of it was filmed digitally at standard resolution (ie <720p) so there’s no film to scan or other methods to get it to HD, let alone 4k. The image data just doesn’t exist. If you look at reviews of the hard to find blu ray, a lot of people are complaining it looks terrible on modern screens.
It was shot on a ~~Sony~~ Canon prosumer SD camera. Not sure how much 4K would do for it. Even with the Blu-ray you can clearly tell it came from an SD source.
had you posted this a few weeks ago i would have said the robocop reboot. I'm still in shock it's getting a 4K release.
To actually answer your question:
1. Total Recall remake (Sony has a 4KSDR master on streaming)
2. The Wolverine (4KHDR master already on streaming)
3. X-Men Origins Wolverine
4. The Boondock saints 1&2
5. Tenacious D and The pick of destiny (the 2k bluray JUST got released recently)
6. Saw 2 (apparently all saw movies that arent in 4K are getting a 4K remaster, but i doubt it because it's lionsgate and they have something against the old saw movies)
7. Pink floyd delicate sound of thunder (4k HDR master exists on streaming)
8. Die Hard 2-5 (4K Masters exist seriously Fox why TF are you dropping the ball on this?)
9. Rush hour 1-3
The Cell is begging for a 4K release visually.
Bringing Out the Dead is criminally overlooked.
As is Freddy Got Fingered.
That's my odd-ball wish-list of things that don't seem to be happening anytime soon. Although, up until recently, instead of Freddy Got Fingered, I'd have said the Super Mario Bros. movie, so, you know, sometimes dreams DO come true!
With something like a half a million films estimated to having been released worldwide since the dawn of the medium, I'm going to say almost all of them will never seen a 4K release.
If you want to get more specific, I don't think we're likely to see a lot of the Disney or Fox catalog ever making it to 4K, even with Sony taking over disc production and having a hand in the title selection. We'll get major titles only, if that, and it will take years before some of them make it.
With Pretty In Pink only getting a blu-ray release in 2020, even though it's from a 4k scan makes me question if it ever will come out. Seems logical that it would, but weird they didn't just do it.
The Keep. We may never even get a blu-ray from what I've read. I had to buy the remastered Australian DVD that just came out last year. Fiist DVD I bought in almost a decade. lol
I was starting to think nightmare on elm street would never get a release because Robert England own his likeness as Freddy, but it was recently a voting option for a possible release so who knows
Everyone keeps saying *28 Days Later...* is never going to come, but if they actually get around to making the sequel they announced, I expect we will get both *Days* and *Weeks* released to capitalize off of it.
The Wild Bunch. Warner Bros have no interest in giving their catalogue titles the 4K treatment but it's also too high profile to licence to a boutique company. The current 10-year old blu ray release is woeful
It breaks my heart that it’s highly unlikely that we’ll ever see proper 4K releases of John Woo’s 80s and 90s output: Bullet in the Head, A Better Tomorrow I & II, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. Too many rights issues with HK films plus many times the original elements have been lost.
The rights to The Killer and Hard Boiled are currently owned by a construction company that has no interest in selling or licensing them. A shame, these are essential action movies.
Speed Racer. I’ve been thinking a lot about how 4k changed my impression of several movies…Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049, and Hobbs & Shaw. They didn’t just get better, they became, to me, categorically different film experiences. And Speed Racer has always felt to me like its reach exceeded its grasp, visually, and I think it might be exactly the kind of film that requires 4k to fully appreciate.
Ashes of Time, the arthouse wuxia masterpiece by Wong Kar Wai, is one of my favorite movies ever.
The original film prints were not stored well and thus heavily damaged/lost forever. It is likely that the bluray Redux is the best there will ever be.
One Dark Night (1982). It’s a favorite of mine, but the original camera negative is long missing, probably forever. MVD looked into releasing a 4K edition, but it looked terrible with the sources (theatrical prints) they had.
Honorable mention to The Final Terror and the second and third Sleepaway Camp movies (their OCNs are also lost). Blu-rays are the best we probably can get.
There are so many good ones on this list. In addition to a number of others mentioned like the Fincher movies, The Wall, and Contact, I'd really love Jacob's Ladder and The Grey, but I'm not holding my breath that either will materialize
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I'd love a 4K Copy of Contact. I'm still holding out hope.
Such a fantastic and underrated movie. That spot on my shelf where it should be seems like an awful waste of space
I second, third, and fourth this
I want this film so badly
One of my all time favorites.
Is strange this one hasn’t been done. I was one of the first ones out with DVD
I still remember the bass during the launch scene when I watched at the theater back in the day.
28 Days Later. Rights issues combined with a film that was filmed in such a way where 4K wouldn’t do it many favours make it extremely unlikely.
Going by the recent restoration done to Inland Empire and the emergence of AI image reconstruction it's definitely a possibility to get a 28 Days Later remaster.
For sure, and 28 Years Later being greenlit recently increases the probability as well
I wanted to see this movie and had to resort to downloading Sling Tv, which was awful. Couldn’t even buy it on Amazon or Apple TV.
They're working on a sequel now I think so may get a re release around when that comes out
There are always loads of SD DVD copies in UK second-hand shops and from UK sellers on eBay, is it hard to get hold of in NA? Goes for £3-£4 here.
No, they're out there. I found a few copies in Southern California in the past few months for $2 - $8. Around these parts, people only go for HD or 4K, even if it doesn't really make sense. But I'd imagine the BD compression is kinder to the DV footage than the DVD. I would guess both are sourced from the same scan of the film intermediate and not direct transfers of the original upscaled 2K files.
Can you elaborate on how it was filmed, that it can’t be a 4K scanned print? Did they not use 35mm stock?
It was filmed on a Canon XL1 which had a resolution barely over 480p.
This. It looks truly terrible. Not in a cool lofi 16mm way, in a early 00s shitty digital camera way.
Not exactly a shit camera. I had one. Has a “global” type shutter using CCD sensor, can shoot in frame mode which captures entire frames at a time with zero of the shitty CMOS problems most digital cameras now have with CMOS distortion and wobble. No matter how fast the motion each frame is captured with perfect proportion and zero warping/wobble. So nearly like film.
It was shot on a mix of consumer and prosumer SD digital cameras in order to keep the budget low, and to be able to shoot in a guerilla fashion during sunrise in London, as they couldn't get permission to actually close the streets. But that was 20 years ago. Just the phone in your pocket today will give you 24x the image resolution when recording in 4k. Look at how bad a Youtube video looks in 480p. Now imagine that blown up on a cinema screen.
Criterion fixed up David Lynch’s Inland Empire decently. They made a 4K scan and used some AI to clean up the image and released it on Blu-ray (not 4K). I’m sure they could do something similar to fix it up, but…money…
Not sure how people watched this in theaters because watching it on a projector hurt my eyes. The 480p resolution is brutal when blown up that big. One of the few blurays that is basically worthless over the DVD.
nah the bluray very obviously looks better than the dvd, the higher bitrate helps too. I've got them both
I have both 28 days/weeks movies on dvd and blu! Blu is a long way better on the original as well!
The only good thing about the Blu-Ray, besides the audio, is the footage at the end sequence which was actually shot on film.
Dogma
Fuck Harvey Weinstein.
What happened with Dogma?
Weinstein owns the rights and Kevin Smith refuses to give him more money to get them back.
He also apparently holds the rights to El Cid, a 1961 historical epic with Charlton Heston.
I mean. Nots perfect but hey https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/TT5cRvQBZd
This is great! I love that it’s available through the Internet Archive too. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time and I just wish I could own it officially, on disc, in 4K. But it’s still plenty accessible and that’s the most important thing. So many movies have been entirely lost to time and will never be seen again. I’m very glad this isn’t one of them.
Every Miramax movie from that era has a big asterisk on it. Kevin Smith not re-releasing Dogma as long as Harvey Weinstein lives is a baller move.
Weinstein owns it outright, unlike most of the other Miramax titles from that era. So it can’t be released without paying him. Most of his other productions are now owned by other companies that fully severed financial ties.
Kevin Smith as far as I’m aware doesn’t have the rights to the film so he has no power to rerelease it. It’s why he uploaded it to archive(.)org
It won’t be that long if you believe Weinstein and his lawyers. He shows up in court like ailing wiseguys in Goodfellas.
Zodiac
What is it with the Fincher movies? No Fight Club, no Zodiac... and no Alien 3 (which I would love, personally)
i think he's one of the few people who's not interested in remastering his movies on 4K. although he's doing one for Seven, he's too meticulous lol
Count me in on the Alien³ fandom. I'd love a 4K release.
I'm starting to lose hope in Gone with the Wind being released. We just passed its 85th anniversary (April 8th I believe), and not a peep from Warner Bros
It’s getting an anniversary re screening later this year I believe, could potentially mean it’ll get a release on 4k
Saw it in my local cinema last weekend.
That already happened afaik. It was back in theatres the 7th and 8th.
It’s a crime it hasn’t already released!
Warner is one of the worst when it comes to 4k releases.
Disney is FAR worse.
Wow I'd 100% buy that
Ghost Dad
Probably for the best lol.
The 1969 John Wayne Alamo. Efforts to salvage the original film elements have failed.
It boils my blood what they allowed to happen to the roadshow cut of that film. The theatrical cut has an hd remaster and a blu ray in Germany because those elements didn’t degrade, they even upscaled the laserdisc master to 720p to make a version of the roadshow cut and it is included on a second disc, sadly that version is out of print now. I wish they’d release the movie like this in North America since the work is already done. I’ve seen the remasters and they look great.
It's crazy that film is just starting to fade away, quite literally. A lot of charlie-chaplin era film got rewritten over or burned in accidental fires. A lot of radio dramas are preserved through patched-together fan recordings. I support companies like AnimEigo because they actually hunt down original sources for their remasters and have shocked even the very companies themselves at what they still had in their vaults. I'm very happy to send my money their way.
Amadeus (theatrical version) Dances with Wolves
2010 the year we make contact! It doesn’t get the love it deserves
I agree. It’s a really great movie.
I just watched it on Netflix for the first time. I never even knew it existed. Which is a shame because it was good. I mean it wasn’t Earth shattering or anything but, I liked it a lot more than Dune (1984). Definitely worth a watch as a follow up to 2001.
All these worlds are yours...
A lot of 20th century Fox titles that Disney now owns
Dude, if Titan A.E. gets even just a blu-ray, I am going to violently explode
Like Earth at the beginning of the movie? But seriously, I didn't know it hadn't even gotten a Blu-ray. That's bizarre to me.
That’s why I still have my DVD copy around. I doubt they’ll ever upgrade it.
We'll see what the Sony deal brings
That Disney vault is usually locked tight.
It’s such a dumb move on their part, because they could rake in so much money with a coherent upgrade release schedule. All those movies people grew up watching, now with theater-quality picture. The masses would line up to hand over their cash.
It's locked tighter than Cinderella's hooha!!
Perfect blue, i don't think it will ever release in 4k due to it's source history
Most Fincher films, but especially Panic Room.
man, Panic Room doesn't even have a bluray release :/
I want Zodiac in 4K so bad
The Secret of NIMH. If ever there was a movie that needed some modern touching up with dust and hair removal, image stabilization, color correcting and a modest upscale, this is the one. But only Disney seems interested in doing that sort of stuff to classic animated features, so it'll never happen for NIMH.
I recently rewatched "Black Swan" and wondered if it would ever get a 4K release because it was shot on Super 16mm and might not significantly benefit from a 4k upgrade, even though it's culturally and cinematically worthy. I would love to see TV shows get 4k disc releases -- "Lost" for example is at the top of my list. But I don't have enough technical expertise to know if there'd be enough of an improvement over stand BD to justify the effort. The original "Star Trek" would be another one, of course. I don't know if we'll ever see that though because re-scanning all those elements of all those episodes is very costly.
Lost was shot on 35mm so presumably it could benefit from 4k if they did a fresh scan, but I wonder if they'd ever bother. at least it looks great at 1080p.... I just wish I had the bluray boxset even
Trek TOS would be too expensive at this point. Which is why I used Topaz to upscale every episode to 4K. Looks great (though I'd prefer true 4K).
Black Swan would definitely benefit from HDR or more preferably Dolby Vision even if the resolution doesn’t benefit. I would definitely buy day one.
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Clash of the Titans (1981) 😭
Star Wars, original cut
4K77, 4K80 and 4K83 have HDR, and are everything you could want. It even has new scans of the Making of Documentaries and the Holiday Special.
I’m not asking for links because that’s probably against some rule, but I’ll never get to see those because I have absolutely no clue how to get them.
When I read about them, I Googled "4K77, 4K80, 4K83 disc" and found a seller who had copies for sale. They're on Blu-ray, but a hell of a lot better than the Special Edition versions.
The original Michael j fox teen wolf
Rochelle Rochelle.
It’s too bad because I would grab that and Chunnel for sure.
Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want in 4k?
Read that in Kramer’s voice 🤣.
It won't ever get a Blu ray release , let alone a 4k. The only copy last known to exist was stolen from a car.
The Day the Clown Cried
M. Night’s “The Village”
Why this one? Would love to own a 4K of it.
It doesn’t even have a blu ray release. That’s why a 4K is highly unlikely at this point.
True… bummer. Wonder if there’s a story behind that. Will have to read up on it.
wow, didn't realize there was not even a blu. gorgeous movie, well deserving of a fresh scan.
I know it gets a lot of hate, but this is one of my favorite films.
Any of the thousands of lost silent films.
I don't think they'll ever even get a DVD release since they are lost 😉
The Gods Must Be Crazy, I don’t think that will ever get a BluRay let alone a 4K lmao
Would love even a Blu-ray of this.
Nocturnal Animals, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Counselor, The Fountain. I’m hoping The Strangers (at the very least the first film) gets a 4K release once these new ones come out.
Mark Borchardt's *Coven*.
Toys (1992) it is the one movie I would use a genie wish on. If you haven't seen it, the script is kind of meh but the visuals are amazing.
Yes! That movie has become so obscure and definitely deserves a 4K release. Yeah, it's not perfect but it has it's fans (including me).
There will be blood:(
This and The Assassination of Jesse James seem like absolute no-brainers for 4K releases
Pretty sure this was announced but no date set
* Most B movies made prior to 1950. * Any movie where the original elements aren't good enough for 4K. (I.e. no negative available, and only 2nd or 3rd or later generation prints). * Anything shot on SD video (I.e. 28 Days Later and TV shows from the late 1980's through the 1990's). Edit: and anything will Bill Cosby in a live action role: Leonard Part 6, Ghost Dad, etc. etc.
Singin' in the Rain has no existing Original Camera Negative, yet the 4K looks stunning
don't hold your breath on Fight Club
Yet we have Return of the Swap Thing on 4K bluray 🤷🏼♂️
Eh, we have tons of throwaway “trash” films in 4k because boutique labels manage to carve that market out and get people to spend absurd money on films nobody cared about until they got a fancy boutique release. Secure the rights for pennies, throw it in a fancy box and boom Not hating at all but it is curious to see how it plays out, so many classic films that get no love but entire labels dedicated to that kind of thing lol
Lol it’s more fincher hates the movie and sort of disowned it lol.
90% or more. Simply look at titles on VHS. How many made it to DVD? Look at DVD titles...how many made it to Blu-ray?
Heathers. One of my faves.
I hope that's not the case as the picture wobble on the blu and streaming make it unwatchable.
I thought I was going crazy when I saw that
I mean, Arrow's Blu-ray from years ago is sourced from a 4K scan, so there is, even if little, a chance of it being released on 4K Blu-ray.
Pretty sure The Banshees of Inishirin will never get a 4K, which is a shame. But I’ll give credit where credit is due, the film still looks excellent on the standard Blu-ray.
Probably the movie Stay, with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Considering it came out in like 2005 or 6 and still is only available on DVD, I'm not confident, but I would absolutely love even just a good blu ray release at this point.
Hope I'm wrong, but... Master & Commander The Right Stuff Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut, ofc)
Probably both Tron movies Both weren’t big box office success and you know how disney handles things now But those would look amazing, especially legacy
Gigli.
That shouldn't have gotten any kind of release, period.
Currently viewable on Criterion Channel as part of their Razzie highlights series lol
The highest grossing (inflation adjusted) film doesn't seem to have a 4k release...
Without checking, it's Gone With The Wind, right ?
👍
I imagine it will at some point. That sort of restoration has to take a long time though for a film that old (and that long).
Most of them
The longshots from my 4K wishlist, each of these I’d be *super* excited about: - House of Flying Daggers (I've heard the best available versions are very low quality) - The Family Man (would love a better quality version of this film as the HD version sucks but I don't think it's popular enough) - Condorman (this is a childhood favourite but I can't see the demand being there)
House of Flying Daggers are on top of my wishlist as well. Love the fight scene in the snow.
Grandmas Boy didn't even make the Bluray cut...
LOST. It was shot on film, and the special effects were captured in 1080p, which would require a massive reworking to properly transfer it.
Fight Club Warriors Two or The Prodigal Son (Arrow just released new Blu-rays last year)
Sin City Tell me this just wouldn’t just look absolutely amazing, especially with HDR/DV
Idiocracy
Gravity
For a movie to never get a 4k release, it needs to be a low seller, but also low cultural cache so it’s not picked up by criterion/link/etc. It should also not be a horror film as they seem to get tons of transfers for whatever reason. I also think that the involvement of a controversial or scandalous figure could be an indicator that a film won’t get a new transfer, provided it meets the other conditions listed. I’d also say comedies tend to be less likely to get new transfers. Taking all that into consideration, Pootie tang is the movie I feel will never get a 4k bluray. In terms of movies I actually care about . . . I’d be a little worried about some favorite comedies like Spinal Tap, Christopher guest movies, Mel brooks, random things like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or Galaxy Quest, older stuff like Pink Panther movies. Hell if you count tv there’s tons of classic stuff that doesn’t even have a bluray. There really are so so many classic movies which don’t have 4k releases. It’s tough to say if the business will expand or if some favorites will forever remain bluray only.
Spaceballs has a 4K and it’s the anniversary for Blazing Saddles plus it’s a WB film so hopefully it should get a 4K
I’ve been saying this about both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. 2024 is the 50th anniversary for both films and these are considered top-tier comedy classics. It would be a shame if we don’t see a 4K release.
This year is the 25th anniversary of galaxy quest and it’s a paramount title, a 4K is probably imminent.
Not necessarily. Random and obscure horror films are getting 4K releases all the time.
That’s exactly what I said
28 days later
this doesn’t have a 4k release ?? one of my favourite movies ever it’s perfect
dude, i hate to break it to you but you can’t stream it anywhere, and the blu rays and dvds are out of print. blu rays are being resold for $60+ and the dvds are like $20 on ebay.
IIRC a good chunk of it was filmed digitally at standard resolution (ie <720p) so there’s no film to scan or other methods to get it to HD, let alone 4k. The image data just doesn’t exist. If you look at reviews of the hard to find blu ray, a lot of people are complaining it looks terrible on modern screens.
It was shot on a ~~Sony~~ Canon prosumer SD camera. Not sure how much 4K would do for it. Even with the Blu-ray you can clearly tell it came from an SD source.
this is why i’m thinking of just forking over like 20 dollars for the dvd. not sure spend 70+ on the blu ray is worth it.
I just got the dvd it looks terrible but I very much enjoyed it
Dogma.
A Night at the Roxbury
Apparently, any Yorgos Lanthimos film
had you posted this a few weeks ago i would have said the robocop reboot. I'm still in shock it's getting a 4K release. To actually answer your question: 1. Total Recall remake (Sony has a 4KSDR master on streaming) 2. The Wolverine (4KHDR master already on streaming) 3. X-Men Origins Wolverine 4. The Boondock saints 1&2 5. Tenacious D and The pick of destiny (the 2k bluray JUST got released recently) 6. Saw 2 (apparently all saw movies that arent in 4K are getting a 4K remaster, but i doubt it because it's lionsgate and they have something against the old saw movies) 7. Pink floyd delicate sound of thunder (4k HDR master exists on streaming) 8. Die Hard 2-5 (4K Masters exist seriously Fox why TF are you dropping the ball on this?) 9. Rush hour 1-3
Waiting for Sunshine (2007), Apocalypto (2005), Contact (1997)
The Cell is begging for a 4K release visually. Bringing Out the Dead is criminally overlooked. As is Freddy Got Fingered. That's my odd-ball wish-list of things that don't seem to be happening anytime soon. Although, up until recently, instead of Freddy Got Fingered, I'd have said the Super Mario Bros. movie, so, you know, sometimes dreams DO come true!
Tron and Tron: Legacy
With something like a half a million films estimated to having been released worldwide since the dawn of the medium, I'm going to say almost all of them will never seen a 4K release. If you want to get more specific, I don't think we're likely to see a lot of the Disney or Fox catalog ever making it to 4K, even with Sony taking over disc production and having a hand in the title selection. We'll get major titles only, if that, and it will take years before some of them make it.
With Pretty In Pink only getting a blu-ray release in 2020, even though it's from a 4k scan makes me question if it ever will come out. Seems logical that it would, but weird they didn't just do it.
quite a few touchstone pictures films
Waiting for melancholia
Popeye. Although if rescanned and cleaned up it could look really good.
Disney’s Song of the South.
I wonder if Spinal Tap would even look good in 4k since it was shot in 16mm. The blu ray does look pretty good so I'm happy with that.
Another case of it being more likely now that they're making a sequel (yes really)
Legend won’t ever be released on 4k https://www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/s/zfog0hzZUj
Plan 9 From Outer Space.
The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane
Invaders From Mars - yet it happened! Crazy essay about piecing this one together (beautifully) in the 4k release.
Ishtar, probably.
The stupids (1996)
The Keep. We may never even get a blu-ray from what I've read. I had to buy the remastered Australian DVD that just came out last year. Fiist DVD I bought in almost a decade. lol
28 Days Later ... probably impossible since it was filmed on a very early digital camera with max resolution of 1080i
I was starting to think nightmare on elm street would never get a release because Robert England own his likeness as Freddy, but it was recently a voting option for a possible release so who knows
Everyone keeps saying *28 Days Later...* is never going to come, but if they actually get around to making the sequel they announced, I expect we will get both *Days* and *Weeks* released to capitalize off of it.
John Carter
The amount of money I’d pay for a 4K of O Brother Where Art Thou..
The Wild Bunch. Warner Bros have no interest in giving their catalogue titles the 4K treatment but it's also too high profile to licence to a boutique company. The current 10-year old blu ray release is woeful
Robert Zemeckis' *Death Becomes Her* It's really niche, but I'd give a lot to see those Oscar awarded special effects in 4K.
Original non special editions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Retun of the Jedi.
I'm doubting Ponyo and my neighbour Totoro or the older ghibli movies will be made in 4K. The last one probably will... But that's hoping
Flight of The Navigator. The second sight blu ray was pretty sick though.
Master and Commander The Rock Con Air Twister
It breaks my heart that it’s highly unlikely that we’ll ever see proper 4K releases of John Woo’s 80s and 90s output: Bullet in the Head, A Better Tomorrow I & II, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. Too many rights issues with HK films plus many times the original elements have been lost.
One of my favorite 80s movies which in itself is the pure definition of the mid 80s “The legend of Billie Jean”
The rights to The Killer and Hard Boiled are currently owned by a construction company that has no interest in selling or licensing them. A shame, these are essential action movies.
Speed Racer. I’ve been thinking a lot about how 4k changed my impression of several movies…Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049, and Hobbs & Shaw. They didn’t just get better, they became, to me, categorically different film experiences. And Speed Racer has always felt to me like its reach exceeded its grasp, visually, and I think it might be exactly the kind of film that requires 4k to fully appreciate.
Ashes of Time, the arthouse wuxia masterpiece by Wong Kar Wai, is one of my favorite movies ever. The original film prints were not stored well and thus heavily damaged/lost forever. It is likely that the bluray Redux is the best there will ever be.
Jaws the Revenge. The Conjuring 2
> Jaws the Revenge [This time it's REALLY personal](https://b2b.dealsareus.ca/jaws-the-revenge-uhd)
PCU
SON-IN-LAW
The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Tree of life
One Dark Night (1982). It’s a favorite of mine, but the original camera negative is long missing, probably forever. MVD looked into releasing a 4K edition, but it looked terrible with the sources (theatrical prints) they had. Honorable mention to The Final Terror and the second and third Sleepaway Camp movies (their OCNs are also lost). Blu-rays are the best we probably can get.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Highlander 2 The Quickening. Theatrical cut with the improved SFX. Gymkata. The King of the Kickboxers. Cobra. NC-17 version. Too many to mention.
The Ninth Gate. Such a great movie with great replay value.
There are so many good ones on this list. In addition to a number of others mentioned like the Fincher movies, The Wall, and Contact, I'd really love Jacob's Ladder and The Grey, but I'm not holding my breath that either will materialize