Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[captveg]

Revisions to the Paramount deal, per KL Insider:

"Dropped 8 titles: 50s / 4x70s / 80s / 90s / 2000s
Added 6: 70s / 80s (4KUHD) / 4x 2000s (2 4KUHD)

Also Added 4KUHD Rights to a title currently under license to us. We previously planned to release 16 titles on UHD, now 20."

6 specific titles announced so far of these 20

[Calvin]

Unfortunately the Kino Insider has said that Applause has some sort of legal issues and Mamoulian's following film, City Streets, also "either had legal issues or was with another label"

[Roscoe]

Two of the silent films will be part of a double feature release, so likely two films from the same director or starring the same lead actor. I wouldn't be surprised if the 1910s film is one of these double feature films, since films from that era would likely be an even tougher sale than films from the later silent era.

Or the silent film double feature could be a double release of von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS/FOOLISH WIVES -- both of which have gotten tasty restorations in recent years. FOOLISH WIVES ran a few months back at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

[Finch]

Night of the Hunter 4k likely happening early 2023 now according to KLI

[captveg]

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

Hell in the Pacific (1968) (BD) (DVD still available)

[FrauBlucher]

Coming November 29th!
Remastered in HD by Paramount Pictures – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Fine Grain!

Peking Express (1951) Starring Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn & Benson Fong – Shot by Charles Lang (Sudden Fear) – Directed by William Dieterle (Portrait of Jennie)

[domino harvey]

I haven't seen it, but I believe the film is actually, if you can believe it, a remake of Shanghai Express!

[beamish14]

Kino will be releasing Red Dragon on 4K.

First title revealed from their latest, brand new Universal deal.

Per KL Insider:

52 movies - 3 TV movies - From 1910s to 2010s
2 TV shows
8 UHD (Red Dragon + 7 More)
38 - First Time on BD

I keep hoping one of their TV show acquisitions will be Amazing Stories

[bottlesofsmoke]

Even crazier, Peking Express is the second remake of Shanghai Express. Paramount kept going back to that well, updating the milieu for topicality. In Night Plane from Chungking it's the Second Sino-Japanese War, Peking Express communists.

[flyonthewall2983]

The Paper on UHD would be nice

[yoloswegmaster]

The Longest Yard is the next title to receive a 4K UHD release.

[dwk]

Wasn't that one of the titles they said they asked for but couldn't get?

[captveg]

No, it was one of the titles that they said they'd be foolish to pass on if it was available to them. People read that response as it not being available to them, but KL Insider never actually said that.

Marathon Man was also phrased that way.

[dwk]

Thanks, I must have confused it with another title that they said they couldn't get.

Edited to add: It was North Dallas Forty that Kino said they couldn't get.

[FrauBlucher]

Has there been any hint from the Insider regarding Once Upon a Time in the West for a UHD release?

[yoloswegmaster]

No hints but a 4K version is supposed to be coming out on Vudu (alongside Bringing Out the Dead), so at least we know that a 4K master exists.

[captveg]

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

The Devil's Disciple (1959) (BD) (DVD still available)
Made for Each Other (1939) (BD) (DVD still available)
The Soldier (1982) (BD)

[FrauBlucher]

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New 2022 HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Fine Grain!

Hell is for Heroes (1962) Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, Bob Newhart, Nick Adams, Mike Kellin & L.Q. Jones – Directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry).

[Finch]

Quite a cast. Anyone here like this film? I hadn't even heard of it until the KLI announcement.

[FrauBlucher]

A gritty war film. Kind of what you’d expect from Siegel. And typical of that era with the casting.

[yoloswegmaster]

A 4K UHD for Brick has been announced.

[Gregory]

Hell Is for Heroes: a movie that abruptly ends because the production ran out of film before all the scripted scenes were filmed

[therewillbeblus]

A 4K UHD for Brick has been announced.

Hopefully it's a substantial upgrade, and really interesting that a film that sat on the shelf for so long without a U.S. blu-ray release would get upgraded so fast. Must be a strong seller (and rightfully so)

[Ribs]

By the time the release transpires, it’ll have been three years since the Blu-ray! (And the original release was of course delayed once Rian Johnson found out it was happening which resulted in a new transfer being done, which this can now directly tap).

[therewillbeblus]

KLSC just started going hard on the UHD train though, so I’m mostly surprised it’s being included in the camp of their early Greatest Hit titles. Three years is nothing next to how long some of us were pining for a blu release in the states at all! Very heartening reminder about the transfer too