Phantasm (4K Remastered) - Potentially 2016?

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At the yearly Ain't It Cool News Butt-Numb-a-Thon, a new 4K remastered version of Don Coscarelli's Phantasm was screened. The new master was done off the original camera negative by, of all companies, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot -- the character of Captain Phasma in the new Star Wars movie is named in tribute to Phantasm.

Corroborating Tweets:

https://twitter.com/devincf/status/675927931403694081

https://twitter.com/moiseschiu/statu...54358001999873

https://twitter.com/NordlingAICN/sta...28150103089152

AICN article about the remaster:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/73978

Given Phantasm: Ravager should be coming in 2016, and Anchor Bay has seemingly lost the rights to the rest (it's rumored they reverted to Coscarelli himself), it seems pretty reasonable to guess that Phantasm will get the Blu-ray treatment at the same time as the new movie.