Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow 4K UHD (2004) (Shout! Factory)

[MifuneFan]

Shout! Factory will be releasing Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow on 4K in May! Extras are currently in progress.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 4K Blu-ray

Bonus Features for UHD/Blu-ray

DISC ONE (4K UHD):

• NEW 4K Transfer From The 35mm Digital Negative
• NEW Presented In Dolby Vision (HDR-10 Compatible)
• Audio Commentary With Director Kerry Conran, Production Designer Kevin Conran, Animation Director Steve Yamamoto, And Visual Effects Supervisor Darin Hollings
• Audio Commentary With Producer Jon Avnet

DISC TWO (BLU-RAY):

• NEW 4K Transfer From The 35mm Digital Negative
• Audio Commentary With Director Kerry Conran, Production Designer Kevin Conran, Animation Director Steve Yamamoto, And Visual Effects Supervisor Darin Hollings
• Audio Commentary With Producer Jon Avnet
• “Brave New World” – A Two-Part Look At The Making Of Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
• “The Art Of Tomorrow” Featurette
• “Anatomy Of A Virtual Scene”
• The Original Six-Minute Short
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Theatrical Trailers

In this science fiction adventure set in the 1930s, New York City reporter Polly Perkins starts to investigate why so many famous scientists are being reported missing. Soon, she gets clues, as strange flying machines and giant robots threaten the city. Luckily, her old flame, aviator Captain Joseph Sullivan aka Sky Captain, is there to battle the bad guys with the Flying Legion, in his Warhawk P-40. Now Polly must fly away with Sky Captain to Nepal to find a crazy scientist, Dr. Totenkopf, who apparently wants to destroy the world!

[PonyoBellanote]

Excuse my language but F*CK YES!

I do wish this was from Paramount themselves for more international chances and save some importing money but either way I am so happy about this, I do like this movie and I had been wanting a AVC alternative with all the extras.

We know this movie was made digitally and with limitations, so it won't shine on the format; but we will get the HDR improvement at least and better encoding.

[Robbie The Robot]

Oh wow! YES! One of my fav guilty pleasures. Even with wooden AF Gwenith. The story of how this movie got made is as good as the movie itself. It tick so many steam punk boxes. Shame it wasn’t a success. I would have loved to see many more Sky Captain adventures.

Day one for me on this. It’s a visual and aural treat from beginning to end and it isn’t afraid to go big at the end. Totally Choose Your Own Adventure adolescent adventure fun.

[drush9999]

Never got the BD, so will get this.

[niner4lfe]

Hell yeah

[Hedrox]

Early 2000s digital movie with post processing up the wazoo. Can't wait for people to trash it when it doesn't "pop".

[Jumpman]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Shout! Factory will be releasing Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow on 4K in May!

https://www.amazon.com/Sky-Captain-W...%2C122&sr=1-73

Mother of God…what?! 😲

[PonyoBellanote]

Originally Posted by Robbie The Robot

Oh wow! YES! One of my fav guilty pleasures. Even with wooden AF Gwenith. The story of how this movie got made is as good as the movie itself. It tick so many steam punk boxes. Shame it wasn’t a success. I would have loved to see many more Sky Captain adventures.

Day one for me on this. It’s a visual and aural treat from beginning to end and it isn’t afraid to go big at the end. Totally Choose Your Own Adventure adolescent adventure fun.

Same for me. The BD had good special features as it is, I'm assuming this being a Shout Select title if it'll have new extras.

Originally Posted by drush9999

Never got the BD, so will get this.

Same here. Was waiting for a properly encoded disc with all the extras. This is even better. I really did want a 4K of this.

Originally Posted by Hedrox

Early 2000s digital movie with post processing up the wazoo. Can't wait for people to trash it when it doesn't "pop".

It's gonna happen. I would like to live in a world where people were informed about this stuff. Because even for so called super pure film fetishists, there are films who look ''soft'' or grainless or don't have much detail. Because of the film stock they used or a look that the director wanted to achieve.

I would also love to live in a world where people didn't ''scoff'' at the idea of an uspcale or didn't only get stuck in ''Native 4K'' and realized filmouts or upscales in the format are not bad, that the format is not just for REAL 4K, that there are improvements in compression, colour, and much more. You get closer to the original master than with the standard Blu-ray..

[Torgon]

This has been on my wishlist for a long time. So glad it's coming to 4K. I'm in the mindset that it won't be 'glorious,' but it will be better than the blu-ray. My expectations are in check. Can't wait! Though I wish SHOUT! had slipcovers on these .

[jess1581]

Yes! Always got the good news, man.

[Quint van der Vaart]

YESSSSSS this will be mine !!

[Jlouisbarrett]

If we’re doing these late 90s/early 2000s early CGI-soaked effects films, then I’d much rather have had “Speed Racer” or even “A.I. — Artificial Intelligence” before this, but I’ll still take it!

(No but seriously though… where on earth is “A.I.”!? Such a perfect candidate for this format).

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

If we’re doing these late 90s/early 2000s early CGI-soaked effects films, then I’d much rather have had “Speed Racer” or even “A.I. — Artificial Intelligence” before this, but I’ll still take it!

No but seriously though… where on earth is “A.I.”!? Such a perfect opportunity for the format. ‘Sky Captain’ is fun too though.

I think it being a Spielberg film is probably holding it up, as he usually supervises and/or approves 4K releases of his films from what I've noticed.

[tylergfoster]

I was just about to re-watch this because there was a viral Tweet trying to make fun of the idea that Roger Ebert was ever considered an authority on movies because he liked Sky Captain, but now I'll wait until this comes out.

Wonder if they'll even be able to dig up Kerry Conran for this for a new interview or something.

[The Sovereign]

This was a terrific movie that deserved a bigger following. Maybe this will help it get some new fans.

[PonyoBellanote]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

I was just about to re-watch this because there was a viral Tweet trying to make fun of the idea that Roger Ebert was ever considered an authority on movies because he liked Sky Captain, but now I'll wait until this comes out.

Wonder if they'll even be able to dig up Kerry Conran for this for a new interview or something.

That would be lovely, but I don't think that's gonna happen. The story with these two guys, the director and his brother, is almost depressing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150718...what-happened/

[mclellandj]

Originally Posted by Hedrox

Early 2000s digital movie with post processing up the wazoo. Can't wait for people to trash it when it doesn't "pop".

I wonder how many of Kill Bill's loudest detractors ever saw the movie in theaters and have any point of comparison.

[MifuneFan]

Pre-order now up at SF. Extras are in progress. Got scared for a moment thinking this was another barebones release like Timecop

https://shoutfactory.com/collections...ld-of-tomorrow

[punisher]

long time coming.....

a steelbook would be great!!

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Bolty

Likely to have Atmos?
Does Shout do Atmos?

Once in a while though I don't know if they've done it with any of their Paramount licensed titles.