UFOria 4K UHD (1984)

[brainofj72]

Kino is definitely the weirdest UHD label.

[notops]

Originally Posted by brainofj72

Kino is definitely the weirdest UHD label.

I doubt they were champing at the bit to release UFOria. Kino buys packages of titles from studios and have to put out all of them to get their hands on the ones they truly want. Expect to see more baffling titles from Universal coming soon.

[brainofj72]

Originally Posted by notops

I doubt they were champing at the bit to release UFOria. Kino buys packages of titles from studios and have to put out all of them to get their hands on the ones they truly want. Expect to see more baffling titles from Universal coming soon.

I know, but surely the studios aren't dictating which titles of those packages get BDs and which ones get UHDs. A label obtaining BD & UHD rights wouldn't mean they have to release that title on UHD. Those freaky weirdos at Kino are still making that call.

[jt839]

This has to be one of Kino's most "meh" weekends in a while and that's saying something.

[DMRI2006]

Originally Posted by notops

I doubt they were champing at the bit to release UFOria.

UForia being released on Blu-Ray isn't a surprise at all -- but on UHD? Yeah, it certainly doesn't seem to make a lot of sense by most any metric.

So many of these baffling decisions are personal ones coming from a KL employee, Tarzi I'm guessing, being a champion of a certain film. That this is coming in UHD while FLETCH didn't makes zero sense, but is probably evidence someone there is a big fan of one movie and not much of a fan of the other. Same thing happened with Nick Redman at Twilight Time, in some/most instances it was about getting out what he liked and wanted to see released.

I still think it's great for fans. Where I have a problem is when these boutique labels talk about the financial struggle to make UHDs feasible and yet they release stuff like this and THE LAST CASTLE.

[surfinhank]

Originally Posted by DMRI2006

UForia being released on Blu-Ray isn't a surprise at all -- but on UHD? Yeah, it certainly doesn't seem to make a lot of sense by most any metric.

So many of these baffling decisions are personal ones coming from a KL employee, Tarzi I'm guessing, being a champion of a certain film. That this is coming in UHD while FLETCH didn't makes zero sense, but is probably evidence someone there is a big fan of one movie and not much of a fan of the other. Same thing happened with Nick Redman at Twilight Time, in some/most instances it was about getting out what he liked and wanted to see released.

I still think it's great for fans. Where I have a problem is when these boutique labels talk about the financial struggle to make UHDs feasible and yet they release stuff like this and THE LAST CASTLE.

Are you taking into account what's been said multiple times: a lot of it depends on what the studio has already remastered and ready to go for UHD. Otherwise the boutique label would have to take on the expense of doing the remaster (if the studio would even allow it).

[DMRI2006]

Originally Posted by surfinhank

Are you taking into account what's been said multiple times: a lot of it depends on what the studio has already remastered and ready to go for UHD. Otherwise the boutique label would have to take on the expense of doing the remaster (if the studio would even allow it).

I fully get that, and apparently FLETCH was one of those where there wasn't a 4K remaster in existence. Still there have been ample titles that got a 4K scan KL only put out on Blu-Ray. Why they'd chose for UHD a bomb like THE LAST CASTLE and this movie, which is (the movie's quality excepted) highly obscure and unlikely to sell a lot of units in this format, is very curious given how we're told that the labels have to be much more selective about UHD than Blu-Ray.