Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4K UHD (1977) (40th Anniversary Edition)

[Trekkie313]

Originally Posted by Ray_Rogers

AND all three versions of the film on the UHD via seamless branching to boot!

(Right?)

Shouldn't be too hard, the changes are not major like Blade Runner or T2. Spielberg probably wants all the cuts available anyways.

[HeavyHitter]

I've got the original theatrical poster hanging on my wall in my home office, so I don't care what they do to the UHD BD cover.

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[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

I've got the original theatrical poster hanging on my wall in my home office, so I don't care what they do to the UHD BD cover.

Verr naice. It's almost a pity they didn't pull a Ghostbusters and produce some hideous photoshop monstrosity for the cover, you'd be able to hear mar3o's cry of anguish echo around the world, Superman style.

[Brad1963]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSf...ature=youtu.be

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40th Anniversary trailer.

[Geoff D]

Ooooooh this is gonna be so ****ing awesome on UHD.

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Verr naice. It's almost a pity they didn't pull a Ghostbusters and produce some hideous photoshop monstrosity for the cover, you'd be able to hear mar3o's cry of anguish echo around the world, Superman style.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Here's the theatrical one sheet I remember (the mothership's really a spoiler), pretty darn blue:

I'm very familiar with the iconic poster art. The difference is the original poster art is not even a scene from the film. It's an imaginary marketing image. As awesome as it is, it's not representative of an actual image from the film. We never see that image of the road (except in the teaser/trailer). So it can look like whatever it wants. The giant spaceship, however, is directly from the film. It looks exactly like the image, except in the film it's bursting with color, and in the cover, it's blue.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

The blue colour was a motif of the BD covers too. Did you moan so vehemently about those? Dude, relax. We're getting CE3K in 4K and that's all I need to know.

Moan so vehemently? What's with all the aggressiveness these days on this site?

Who says I'm not relaxed? I just gave my opinion, That's what these threads are for. As people are quick to point out, everyone has different tastes. I'm very happy that we're getting a great release of this on UHD, with all 3 versions, as I've previously said. I just don't like the artwork they chose. Just my opinion. We don't all like the same art, and that's fine.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Verr naice. It's almost a pity they didn't pull a Ghostbusters and produce some hideous photoshop monstrosity for the cover, you'd be able to hear mar3o's cry of anguish echo around the world, Superman style.

Cute. Another personal dig. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. What did I say to you to rub you the wrong way?

[Geoff D]

You just seem so quick to go full whinge lately. If you're really not that bothered about it then that's fine, but your posts seem rather, ah, stressed, along with strange leaps like equating the colourfulness of the cover art with the message of the enhanced colour gamut of the actual content. Not that this film is a Technicolour riot anyways.

Me, I love a good grumble as you well know but it takes more than a piece of cover art to send me over the edge.

[Aliendejoe]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

[Show spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSf...ature=youtu.be.

40th Anniversary trailer.

OMG can't believe it has been 10 years since I bought the BD digipack!

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Aliendejoe

OMG can't believe it has been 10 years since I bought the BD digipack!

I still remember buying the DVD back in 2001 if I recall.

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[Pieter V]

Also up in Germany:

http://www.mediamarkt.de/de/product/...y-2303154.html

[Viking61]

Originally Posted by Viking61

Fnac.com has the 40th Anniversary Collector Edition available for pre-order with the French release date as September 20. I suppose the US release will be around that date too.

One 4K UHD disc and two BD bonus discs.

http://video.fnac.com/a10793149/Renc...uss-Blu-ray-4K

French boxset cover.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

I wonder if current Sony Home Video brass consider this classic (and others) to be worthy of Dolby Vision?

If anything else, it would bump things to 12 bit, 4:2:2. even if they don't use a heavy HDR grade.

[Geoff D]

TBH the use of a BD100 will make far more difference to how the movie looks than any number of bit depth/chroma subsampling/HDR related shenanigans. All that grain shot on 5247 (with 65mm VFX) needs to be treated with the respect it deserves.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

TBH the use of a BD100 will make far more difference to how the movie looks than any number of bit depth/chroma subsampling/HDR related shenanigans. All that grain shot on 5247 (with 65mm VFX) needs to be treated with the respect it deserves.

That 'grain' in the 65mm vfx shots were not intended; that occurred late in the post production 35mm reduction encoding onto film process much to the dismay of the VFX artists and Trumball

[Snicket]

I hope the US gets a nice box like that. It will make me feel way better about replaceing my super nice blu ray box.

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by Snicket

I hope the US gets a nice box like that. It will make me feel way better about replaceing my super nice blu ray box.

Ehhh - Im not sure if the "upgrade" will be worth it. Isnt it just another "rescan" thats not really 4K?

Great film but Ill stick with my excellent standard blu-ray edition.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

That 'grain' in the 65mm vfx shots were not intended; that occurred late in the post production 35mm reduction encoding onto film process much to the dismay of the VFX artists and Trumball

That's why I put the 65mm part in brackets, although from my last watch of the BD I don't remember the opticals looking as conspicuously grainy as the rest of the show. (Ghostbusters is very noticeable for the VFX looking FAR cleaner than the rest of it.) Spielberg was NOT a fan of 5247, he much preferred the 5254 he shot on Jaws.

Trumbull was indeed a big fan of fully finishing 65mm VFX in 65mm but the fact is that a 35mm reduction (with anamorphic squeeze) would HAVE to be carried out regardless in order to slug those shots into the true 35mm negative, something that Trumbull wouldn't usually carry out in his own facility. When Dick Edlund took over EEG/Boss he pursued 65mm to 35mm optical printing in-house instead of carrying the 65mm all the way through to finished negative as Trumbull did. (Without that we wouldn't have had the VFX for Blade Runner Final Cut restored from the 65mm originals, however.)