Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun 4K UHD (1978-1982) Kino Lorber

[Dailyan]

Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/DV Masters – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negatives!

Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot
Death on the Nile (1978) – Directed by John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno)
Evil Under the Sun (1992) – Directed by Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger)

https://x.com/KLStudioClassic/status...26944388038895

[Adam_ME]

Excellent. More Poirot on UHD is always a good thing.

[Hammerlover]

Nice but I'm kinda tired of double dipping.

[Markgway]

Great as long as they don't **** up the mono audio.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Hammerlover

Nice but I'm kinda tired of double dipping.

truer words have never been said....

[MifuneFan]

Kino Insider confirmed these will be two separate releases for anyone wondering.

[Losey]

Can’t wait. Both elegant and gloriously camp (it’s a compliment). Any approximative release date? Early 2025, late 2025…? Thanks.

[reanimator]

The Kino MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 4K disc is freakin' terrific. I'll be in for both of these.

[Paulc01]

Originally Posted by Losey

Can’t wait. Both elegant and gloriously camp (it’s a compliment). Any approximative release date? Early 2025, late 2025…? Thanks.

Well, Murder was originally announced on 30th April 2023, but not realised until 15 months later in September 2024.

So hopefully not as long as that.

These are two of my favourite films, so I really hope they come out quickly.

[Chaz05]

Bette Davis makes her UHD debut.

[Nocheduro]

Originally Posted by Hammerlover

Nice but I'm kinda tired of double dipping.

Especially for Kino discs. When it’s Arrow or Eureka at least we know we’ll get a definitive release. A Kino release is like a placeholder until someone does it better since they want to use that cheap authoring house. Not to mention their so called original audio tends to be a downmix.

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by Nocheduro

Especially for Kino discs. When it’s Arrow or Eureka at least we know we’ll get a definitive release. A Kino release is like a placeholder until someone does it better since they want to use that cheap authoring house. Not to mention their so called original audio tends to be a downmix.

Agreed. It also seems like an excuse to put out a slip for all those slipcover collectors out there.

[jremy7]

LOVE it. Thanks Kino.

[SanCarolina59]

Posted this on the main KL thread too, but via the FB comments for the announcements of the Death On The Nile and Evil Under The Sun 4Ks, both will apparently also include remastered Blu-rays derived from the new masters used on the 4Ks. These remastered Blu-rays will eventually replace the older ones currently in print at some point and be available by themselves.

The 2-disc set will include the new transfer on Blu-ray. We will eventually replace the current Blu-rays with the new ones.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by SanCarolina59

Posted this on the main KL thread too, but via the FB comments for the announcements of the Death On The Nile and Evil Under The Sun 4Ks, both will apparently also include remastered Blu-rays derived from the new masters used on the 4Ks. These remastered Blu-rays will eventually replace the older ones currently in print at some point and be available by themselves.

I can understand "Evil Under the Sun" because the original Kino BD used an older master instead of StudioCanal's newer remaster:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...155549&i=5&l=1

I'm surprised that they feel the need to redo Nile's BD. The current Kino BD is more than fine:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...168610&i=7&l=1

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

I can understand "Evil Under the Sun" because the original Kino BD used an older master instead of StudioCanal's newer remaster:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...155549&i=5&l=1

I'm surprised that they feel the need to redo Nile's BD. The current Kino BD is more than fine:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...168610&i=7&l=1

Probably because Nile was a 2K master and this will be a brand new restoration.

[sheri1983]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Great as long as they don't **** up the mono audio.

[Mushi Minion]

Originally Posted by reanimator

The Kino MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 4K disc is freakin' terrific. I'll be in for both of these.

Is it? The thread dedicated to that release refers to it as a typical blocky encoding botch job by KL.

[VanHiscers]

I know I’ve bought these movies like five times, but these are still Day One. Since, Kino is announcing these two films in 4K ahead of other labels, I wonder if they will add new 5.1 mix as well…

My only concern is when they say “soon,” how soon? Because there was a one year plus gap between the announcement of Murder on the Orient Express and release.

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by VanHiscers

My only concern is when they say “soon,” how soon?

It's Kino, so likely this time next year at the earliest.