Warner Bros A-List Survey

[IndyMLVC]

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/m...ts/020524-1600

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has been polling members of their A-List email newsletter for their interest in which catalog films people might like to see remastered for release in 4K Ultra HD.

Among the titles polled are:

• Blade II and III (2002-04)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• the Conjuring films (2012-2021)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Friday (1995)
• the Lethal Weapon films (1987-98)
• the Nightmare on Elm Street films (1984-2010)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• the Terminator films (1984-2009)
• Outlaw Josie Wales
• Pale Rider
• Bridges of Madison County
• Interview with a Vampire
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Constantine
  

I'd be all over Lethal Weapon, Nightmare's and....Terminator? Since when does WB own the first?

[CreasyBear]

Dirty Harry and Cuckoo's Nest are long overdue for new transfers. Those would be my picks.

[dallywhitty]

We need an 'Other' option so people can vote for The Devils, lololololololol.

[starmike]

Gravity
And why isn't there a 4K of Twister with that German Atmos mix?

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by starmike

Gravity
And why isn't there a 4K of Twister with that German Atmos mix?

That German (standard) Blu-ray looks awesome! But the DTS-HD/Auro 13.1 sound and bitrate are totally b****in!.....the Atmos sound and bitrate are actually pretty anemic in comparison.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Terminator? Since when does WB own the first?

They distribute MGM titles.

[maverick22]

I don’t know how bad the BDs are for any of these as I don’t own any.

I would love to have on 4k:

Caddyshack
Friday
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

I wouldn’t mind Terminator and Lethal Weapon films in 4k either!

Hell, just give us all of them haha!

[7Mile]

Friday
Dances with Wolves
Terminator

In that order.

[DR Herbert West]

I'd buy most of them.

[teddyballgame]

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Dances with Wolves
Friday
Terminator
Dog Day Afternoon

[bebbsie23]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/m...ts/020524-1600



I'd be all over Lethal Weapon, Nightmare's and....Terminator? Since when does WB own the first?

All of them please! STAT! I'm happy to buy them as part of "Columbia Classics" style collection as long as there are no previously released titles included in the set, because that would be playin' dirty!

What else is on the list?

[captveg]

Originally Posted by bebbsie23

What else is on the list?

From another post on this forum:

Dirty Harry
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
The Bridges of Madison County
Interview with a Vampire
Friday
Caddyshack
Eyes Wide Shut
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Conjuring Universe series
Lethal Weapon series
Dances with Wolves
Terminator series
Dog Day Afternoon
Constantine

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by captveg

From another post on this forum:

I did a search but didn't find anything. Where's the post?

[captveg]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

I did a search but didn't find anything. Where's the post?

In the Warner Archive thread.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...0#post21852760

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by captveg

In the Warner Archive thread.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...0#post21852760

Thank you so much! I'll add the other titles to the first post.

[captveg]

Very likely these are all being planned for eventual release, with the survey being more about prioritizing. IIRC all titles on the survey from a few years ago eventually got released.

Interesting to see the MGM titles on there now, and that Dances with Wolves and The Terminator are now basically confirmed as titles that MGM won't license to 3rd party labels for 4K UHD. (WB is MGM's distributor, so not a 3rd party label in the same sense). The Terminator makes sense, like Rocky, but DWW is a bit of a surprise since they licensed it to Shout on BD. Probably helps that Warner has international rights.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by captveg

Very likely these are all being planned for eventual release, with the survey being more about prioritizing. IIRC all titles on the survey from a few years ago eventually got released.

I heard about a survey that took place in 2020. Many titles on that survey have since been released, but some titles have not:

• Blade II
• Blade: Trinity
• The Conjuring 2
• Gone With The Wind
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Magic Mike
• The Mask
• Neverending Story
• The Notebook
• Ocean's Trilogy
• The Perfect Storm
• Terminator 3: The Rise Of The Machines
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

"Contagion" that was on it has just recently been announced.

Originally Posted by captveg

Interesting to see the MGM titles on there now, and that Dances with Wolves and The Terminator are now basically confirmed as titles that MGM won't license to 3rd party labels for 4K UHD. (WB is MGM's distributor, so not a 3rd party label in the same sense). The Terminator makes sense, like Rocky, but DWW is a bit of a surprise since they licensed it to Shout on BD. Probably helps that Warner has international rights.

WB had MGM titles listed on the 2020 survey as well. With the exception of "Rocky", every MGM title listed that has been released (here's looking at you GWTW) was released by a boutique:

• Mad Max
• Platoon
• Point Break (1991) (Not MGM to my knowledge, but included it in the list since it was released by a boutique, though it might be an exception since Shout Factory now owns the digital rights to the title as well.)
• The Princess Bride
• Robocop
• Space Balls

[random123]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

I heard about a survey that took place in 2020. Many titles on that survey have since been released, but some titles have not:

• Blade II
• Blade: Trinity
• The Conjuring 2
• Gone With The Wind
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Magic Mike
• The Mask
• Neverending Story
• The Notebook
• Ocean's Trilogy
• The Perfect Storm
• Terminator 3: The Rise Of The Machines
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

"Contagion" that was on it has just recently been announced.



WB had MGM titles listed on the 2020 survey as well. With the exception of "Rocky", every MGM title listed that has been released (here's looking at you GWTW) was released by a boutique:

• Mad Max
• Platoon
• Point Break (1991) (Not MGM to my knowledge, but included it in the list since it was released by a boutique, though it might be an exception since Shout Factory now owns the digital rights to the title as well.)
• The Princess Bride
• Robocop
• Space Balls

It is confirmed that the 4K restoration of Little Shop of Horrors has been finished, so it will likely get an UHD. Amadeus has also finished its 4K restoration, though that is expected to be Criterion. And I believe Gone With The Wind will get an UHD this year. According to George Feltenstein, the biggest obstacle for why it hasn’t come out is the truly massive restoration that the film will require, due to very poor state of the OCN, three different strips of filn to scan and align (3-strip Technicolor), and it's almost 4 hours long.

I believe Corpse Bride will get an UHD for the special anniversary next year. Or it will go to Criterion eventually.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by random123

It is confirmed that the 4K restoration of Little Shop of Horrors has been finished, so it will likely get an UHD.

My point was that quite a few of the titles that were "supposedly" mentioned in a 2020 survey have yet to be released or even announced. There's more than a few titles on the list I posted that it's only a matter of time before they're released. Should they go un-released, I'll eat my cap.

For instance, I'd be shocked if there's not a box set of the "Blade" trilogy to come out either before or with the reboot next year.

[Darth Marcus]

I'd be interested in every single one, except for Blade Trinity...

But if getting Blade II on 4K means I have to take Blade Trinity as well in a combo pack, then I'll do my part and soldier up.