The film has been scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by Warner MPI, with the restoration and grading supervised by the director. Extras will include a new retrospective featurette with Lawrence and star Keanu Reeves—Two Decades of Damnation—along with all of the previously released special features. Among these are audio commentaries and 11 behind-the-scenes featurettes (Channeling Constantine, Conjuring Constantine, Holy Relics, Shotgun Shootout, Hellscape, Warrior Wings, Unholy Abduction, Demon Face, Foresight: The Power of Pre-Visualization, A Writer’s Vision, and Director’s Confessional).
The 4K disc will include HDR10 high dynamic range and English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. You can see the cover artwork above left, and also here (the Amazon links are also included and are starting to go live)...
In other news today, Kino Lorber Studio Classics is releasing Rob Cohen’s Daylight (1996) on 4K Ultra HD on 3/11, with Simon West’s The General’s Daughter (1999) set to follow in 4K UHD on 3/18. And we’ve learned that the studio’s previously announced Body Parts (1991) 4K has been rescheduled for 2/25 (delayed from 1/21).
Arrow Video is releasing a standard edition 4K version of John Hughes’ Weird Science (1985) on 3/11.
Crunchyroll is bringing Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark anime Akira (1988) back into print as a 4K Steelbook on 3/4.
Here’s something fun: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just made Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (2002) available for HD Digital purchase for the first time. The film has basically been unavailable for years and the 2007 Blu-ray is not only out of print, it’s commanding high prices on the secondary market. With the Boyle’s 28 Years Later sequel expected to arrive in theaters in June 2025, you can bet that both 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later (2007) will be re-issued on Blu-ray—and also released for the first time on 4K UHD—sometime in the new year.
Finally today, Paramount is reportedly going to be fixing remastering issues with its classic I Love Lucy: The Complete Series Blu-ray box set (which streeted on 11/5) and issuing corrected discs for the episodes in question. The overall restoration is reportedly excellent (though we haven’t seen it personally here at The Bits), but there are apparently a couple of episodes where the restoration was a little aggressive with somewhat disturbing results. You can read more here at Indiewire.
That’s all for now! Stay tuned...
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