Warner Catalog Titles in 2022

[DutchSchaefer]

User SB0780, who seems to have some knowledge of the industry, has confirmed that Warner will release 13 catalogue titles in 2022.

Sure are probably:

Poltergeist
Lost Boys
The Green Mile


he has excluded:

Bullitt
Dirty Harry Box
Deliverance
The Exorcist
Papillon
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Superman II
Creepshow
Lethal Weapon Box Set
The Fugitive
Twister
Neverending Story
Amadeus
Training Day
The Last Samurai

Which films do you think it could be? There would still be 10 titles left

I could imagine:


North by Northwest
Rebel without a Cause
Gone with the Wind
Doctor Zhivago
Ben Hur
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
Eyes Wide Shut

are also all listed so far with 4K DCP at Park Circus

other desired titles would be:


Barry Lyndon
The Departed
Casablanca
Falling Down
Christmas Vacation
One flow over the C.
Last Boy Scout
Demolition Man
Under Siege
Gremlins 2
Nightmare on Elm Street
Once Upon a Time in America

[dallywhitty]

Must resist... temptation to bring up... the Director's Cut of Blade Runner...

That aside, a UHD of Gone with the Wind would be lovely. It still baffles me that WB snubbed it for its 80th anniversary.

[JG7]

Casablanca or we riot

[DutchSchaefer]

Originally Posted by JG7

Casablanca or we riot

I think the chances are good that it will have its 80th anniversary next year.

[JG7]

I better be! It's the studio-defining movie.

[dallywhitty]

Singin in the Rain turns seventy next year, so here's hoping. I've said it before: WB seem strangely adverse to releasing their golden oldies on UHD (aside from The Wizard of Oz), but given the amount of big modern titles SB has shot down, it doesn't leave a lot of leg room.

I do think Eyes Wide Shut is a given. Another year, another WB Kubrick title getting the upgrade.

[Pieter V]

Band of Brothers (2001) is welcome when Apple TV Series: Masters of the Air premiers next year.

[Himmel]

Poltergeist
The Exorcist -(rumoured to be releasing next year)
Superman II
Creepshow
Lethal Weapon Box Set
The Fugitive
Twister
Neverending Story
The Color Purple
Christmas Vacation
Under Siege
Gremlins 2
Nightmare on Elm Street

[DutchSchaefer]

Originally Posted by Himmel

Poltergeist
The Exorcist -(rumoured to be releasing next year)
Superman II
Creepshow
Lethal Weapon Box Set
The Fugitive
Twister
Neverending Story
The Color Purple
Christmas Vacation
Under Siege
Gremlins 2
Nightmare on Elm Street

unfortunately, these titles were excluded by the user in question, as is also stated above.

I cannot understand "Lethal Weapon" in particular.

With "Exorcist", the anniversary in 2023 will probably be taken into account.

[Prisonbmichael]

My guess for some of the other 10 are.

The departed
Ben Hur
The color purple
Eyes wide shut

These next ones are just hopefull ones haha.

Gran torino
The assassination of Jesse James
Mystic river

I know some of these aren't anniversaries. But maybe covid delayed them. They don't always come out on an anniversary as well

[ShellOilJunior]

Million Dollar Baby

[Socko]

Gremlins 2 would be nice
That one is still missing in my collection.

I doubt Under Siege would get a 4k treatment. It never got lossless audio either.

[MovieMan5021]

Forever Young...2022 is it's 30th anniversary. I'd like to retire my flipper disc/snapper case.

[backwater]

The Searchers
Rio Bravo

[Nori]

Ben Hur and North By Northwest make a lot of sense so I expect to see those.

The Departed, Demolition Man, and Nightmare on Elm Street would be awesome too.

[Quint van der Vaart]

Gravity will probably be amongst the other 10 titles.

[StopSnitchinStopLyin]

Originally Posted by Quint van der Vaart

Gravity will probably be amongst the other 10 titles.

It won’t

[El Sleezo]

Originally Posted by Quint van der Vaart

Gravity will probably be amongst the other 10 titles.

In the Lost Boys thread SB0780 said that they spent too much on HDR grades the director wasn't happy with, so it might be canceled. Would still love to see.

[Rizor]

I'm hopeful we get some deeper catalog titles. I've been bemoaning how weak WB's pre-1980 4K game has been. George Feltenstein has hinted at some more pre-80s WB titles for 4K so here's hoping for some of their bigger classics.

[captainsolo]

Casablanca is the most likely as it was already brought to 4K in the last master (which looked superb) and I hope (but am pretty sure it wouldn't happen) it would have a restored mono that sounds better than the overscrubbed one currently available.

Of the supposed excluded titles: Bullitt, Dirty Harry, Superman II, Lethal Weapon Box Set, The Fugitive
Oh, you tease me. All of these are due for improvements. Bullitt most of all as the master is old, trims frames from the car chase and most infuriatingly the film's original mono was only ever on the very, VERY first video release and quickly replaced by a fake stereo mix. Dirty Harry suffered the same fate.
A spiffy SII would be great with perhaps possible tech upgrades to the Donner cut. The Fugitive remastered disc was a step up as was the Lethal Weapon box but that really rubbed me the wrong way with some of the color timing which had a bit of the same issue that plagued the new masters of the Superman Anthology BD set.
A UHD properly color timed of Lethal Weapon would probably make mouths water.


North by Northwest
Rebel without a Cause
Gone with the Wind
Doctor Zhivago
Ben Hur
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
Eyes Wide Shut
are also all listed so far with 4K DCP at Park Circus

These are WB heavy hitters that have all had big SE reissues and restorations so I can see them happening. N by NW and GWTW will definitely happen , probably Ben Hur and Rebel too. The Spielberg titles perhaps someday as they get treated more like award winners for special markets.
Zhivago and EWS are two of my most desired for new transfers. Zhivago could look incredible and really show off it's unique "35mm dressed up to look like 70mm but it isn't and so it's beautifully one of a kind".
And EWS on disc currently still looks NOTHING like the release prints. NOTHING. Being a grain lover and finally getting to see one of these mythical prints was absolute heaven. Grain and bold primary colors as far as the eye could see.

other desired titles would be:
Barry Lyndon-mouth waters
Last Boy Scout-Geez yes.
Once Upon a Time in America-A must to get rid of the awful new color timing applied to the not accurate director's cut in name only with that degraded footage put in. They should have proper color timing, both versions included and the original mono which has been missing since LD and VHS. (and blows away the 5.1 remix)