There's another issue I totally forgot that will most likely prevent a US UHD. The US got a completely separate cut of the film.
Aside from the word "c*nt" being uncensored in the US, the US also got an entirely different epilogue sequence.
In the International cut, the film ends with faux-documentary footage of everyone being interviewed a few months later, intercut with the credits.
The US version omits that footage entirely, and ends, instead, with faux-home movie footage of Bridget and Mark in the wading pool in the yard, the memory they talk about much earlier in the film.
The US and UK cuts also have different songs over the end credits, as with Notting Hill and Love Actually.
The 4K scan will certainly be of the overseas cut, so it won't be of any use to Miramax/Paramount to release here.
Unless they just release the wrong cut, which has happened before. Universal released the UK cut of Love Actually on their first US BD, by mistake. They corrected it for their 10th Anniversary Edition.
And the British cut of Sliding Doors was released on BD in the US by Shout without anyone noticing, it restores all the curse words that were deleted to get a PG-13 in the US.
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