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There are 27 yet to be announced titles in the current deal.

7 of them have been previously released on Blu-ray, 6 of these will be released on UHD, two from UHD SDR masters and 4 from brand new HDR Dolby Vision masters.

The remaining 20 titles will be released for the first time on Blu-ray. At least 1 and potentially more will be released on 4K.

6 of these will be Kino Classics releases, 5 of these are French films, 1 British.

The 14 others are all KLSC titles, mostly US and UK films, one French one. 4 are British comedies, we have HD masters for 3, need to remaster 1.

40s x 2
50s x 3
60s x 7
70s x 1
80s x 10
90s x 3
2000s x 1

Besides the previously announced Alphaville, we're also planning to release 20 previously released Blu-rays on 4K, some UHD SDR, others HDR Dolby Vision. And tentatively another 12. For a titles of 32 or maybe even more.

Some of the 4Ks will be released under the Kino Cult brand.

And, some may be part of collections or double features.

jazzo wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:57 pm Yeah, I’d like those, as well. Or his feature m, Our Time.

Gotta live that Hyams! A journeyman who just happens to also be a pretty good accidental auteur!

dwk wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:22 pm Today's announcement is Narrow Margin UHD

domino harvey wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:31 pm

dwk wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:22 pm Today's announcement is Narrow Margin UHD

This is the worst of the 80s/early 90s noir remakes, and that’s saying something! So of course they are

domino harvey wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:20 pm I have to imagine Warner Archives will get to it eventually

• 2022 HD Masters by Paramount Pictures – From 4K Scans
• Includes Both the 1948 119-Minutes Roadshow Edition and the 1950 Pared-Down 85-Minute Re-Release
• NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas
• Audio Commentary by Orson Welles Biographer Joseph McBride
• Welles and Shakespeare: 2016 Interview with Michael Anderegg (11:56)
• That Was Orson Welles: 2016 Interview with Legendary Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (9:49)
• Restoring Macbeth: 2016 Interview with Robert Gitt (8:22)
• Free Republic: Herbert J. Yates and the Story of Republic Pictures: 2016 interview with archivist Marc Wanamaker (6:32)
• Limited Edition Reversible Art and O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles

Something wicked this way comes in Orson Welles’s cinematic retelling of William Shakespeare’s immortal classic. The larger-than-life Welles (Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai, Othello, Touch of Evil) adapts, produces, directs and stars as the titular Scottish lord who is tragically undone by his own vaulting ambition. Welles’s noir-tinged interpretation bubbles over with supernatural prophecy and murderous intrigue, effectively mixing the use of shadow and oblique camera angles (courtesy of cinematographer John L. Russell, Psycho) to achieve an ominous sense of a land in peril. Co-starring Dan O’Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe), Roddy McDowall (Planet of the Apes), Alan Napier (TV’s Batman) and Jeanette Nolan (The Big Heat) in her stunning film debut as Lady Macbeth, this iconic Mercury Production of The Scottish Play is an altogether stark and singular vision. This 2-disc Special Edition includes both the original 1948 119-minute cut, replete with overture/exit music and affected Highland burrs, and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release which excised most of the accented dialogue.

dwk wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:15 pm Macbeth (1948) June 11th.

...This 2-disc Special Edition includes both the original 1948 119-minute cut, replete with overture/exit music and affected Highland burrs, and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release which excised most of the accented dialogue.

Roger Ryan wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:25 pm

dwk wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:15 pm Macbeth (1948) June 11th.

...This 2-disc Special Edition includes both the original 1948 119-minute cut, replete with overture/exit music and affected Highland burrs, and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release which excised most of the accented dialogue.

The overture/exit music is unique to this release as far as I can tell, but if the 119-minute running time is accurate then the additional music runs for 12 minutes... which seems unlikely. Fortunately, unlike some of the music forced on Welles' films of the period (I'm looking at you, Lady From Shanghai), Jacques Ibert's score for Macbeth is excellent.

The 1948 Integral Version, which adds overture (8 min) and exit (4 min) music (119 min)

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New 2K Master!
Repossessed (1990) Starring Leslie Nielsen, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Anthony Starke & Willie Garson – Shot by Michael D. Margulies (Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Police Academy) – Music by Charles Fox (Foul Play, 9 to 5) – Produced by Mario Kassar (First Blood, Total Recall) – Written and Directed by Bob Logan (How to Get… Revenge, Meatballs 4).

JamesF wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:56 am The DVD Compare listing (https://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/ ... ?fid=30676) for the French Blu-ray, which also has the overture and exit music, confirms the 119-min runtime:

The 1948 Integral Version, which adds overture (8 min) and exit (4 min) music (119 min)

This is well-timed for me given I only ordered the Olive edition a few months ago, and it arrived with what looks like a holepunch scar on Disc 2, rendering most of the extras unplayable. Shame to lose the We Work Again excerpt but it’s easily found elsewhere.

Rights outside the US are held by Ignite Films, not Paramount.

dwk wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:28 pm De Palma's Snake Eyes UHD is today's a announcement