Dirty Harry, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, A Knight’s Tale, Flight Risk, The Florida Project & more in 4K, plus a new Andor: S2 trailer & the Home Media Awards!

Wednesday, 05 March 2025 18:58

Dirty Harry, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, A Knight’s Tale, Flight Risk, The Florida Project & more in 4K, plus a new Andor: S2 trailer & the Home Media Awards!

by Bill Hunt

We’ve got a new disc review for you all to enjoy today, as well as a much of good announcement news. First the review...

Stephen has taken a look at William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) in 4K Ultra HD from Arrow Video.

And we’ve posted our weekly update of the Release Dates & Artwork section here at The Bits with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon pre-order links. As always, whenever you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking to them through one of our links (like this one), you’re helping to support our work here at the site and we really appreciate it!

Now then, the big news today is that Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has officially set the Clint Eastwood films Dirty Harry (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), and Pale Rider (1985) for 4K Ultra HD, 4K Steelbook, and Digital release on 4/29 (a slight change from the 4/15 date listed previously on retail sites). Not as if everyone didn’t already know, but the studio’s press release has just confirmed it. As expected, all three will feature Dolby Atmos audio mixes and HDR10 high dynamic range.

In terms of special features, Dirty Harry (1971) will include two new featurettes (Generations and Dirty Harry and Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry) as well as the following legacy features: Audio Commentary by Richard Schickel, five featurettes (American Masters Career Retrospective: Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows, Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso, Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Fighting for Justice, Dirty Harry’s Way, and Dirty Harry: The Original), and an Interview Gallery (featuring Patricia Clarkson, Joel Cox, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Evan Kim, John Milius, Ted Post, Andy Robinson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Robert Urich).

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) will include two new featurettes as well (An Outlaw and an Antihero and The Cinematography of an Outlaw: Crafting Josie Wales) plus the following legacy features: Audio Commentary by Richard Schickel and four featurettes (Clint Eastwood’s West, Eastwood in Action, Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josie Wales, and Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing the West).

And finally, Pale Rider (1985) will include two new featurettes (The Diary of Sydney Penny: Lessons from the Set and Painting the Preacher: Bruce Surtees and Pale Rider) plus three legacy ones (Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing Westerns, Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story, and The Eastwood Factor). You can see the cover artwork above left and also below the break. [Read on here...]

Also today, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just announced Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale (2001) for release on 4K Ultra HD Steelbook on 5/20! The package will include both the Theatrical and Extended Versions of the film restored from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR and both Dolby Atmos and English 5.1 mixes for both versions. All of this has been approved by the director. The package will also include a Blu-ray featuring the theatrical version of the film only sourced from the new 4K master. Newly-produced extras will include 5 deleted and extended scenes, a gag reel, and Quill and Quarterhorse: 2nd Unit Photography. Legacy features will include audio commentary with Brian Helgeland and actor Paul Bettany, 11 behind-the-scenes featurettes, 6 original deleted scenes with filmmaker intros, the HBO “making of” special, a music video, and domestic and international trailers and TV spots. Here’s the cover art for that as well...

A Knight's Tale (4K Ultra HD Steelbook)

Meanwhile, Lionsgate has made Mel Gibson’ Flight Risk (2025) official for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD Steelbook (Amazon exclusive) on 4/1. The Blu-ray and 4K will both include Dolby Atmos audio. Extras will include Risk Management: Making Flight Risk and the film’s trailer.

Second Sight in the UK has revealed on social media that they’re preparing a new 4K Ultra HD edition of Sean Baker’s The Florida Project (2017). Details on that will follow in the weeks ahead.

Also in the UK, Eureka! has announced a new 4-disc Blu-ray collection entitled Terror in the Fog: The Wallace Krimi at CCC, including five crime thrillers produced by Artur Brauner adapted from the works of British crime writer Bryan Edgar Wallace and his father Edgar Wallace: The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963), The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963), The Mad Executioners (1963), The Monster of London City (1964), and The Racetrack Murders (1964, aka The Seventh Victim). This title will be available in North America as well on 5/27.

And Radiance Films in UK has announced a nice batch of titles for release in June, including their first 4K Ultra HD title: Todd Solncz’s Palindromes (2004). Also coming on Blu-ray are Tai Kato’s The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost (1961), Luchino Visconti’s La Terra Trema (1948), and the World Noir: Volume 2 box set which includes Not Guilty (1947), The Lost One (1951), and Girl with Hyacinths (1950). The street date for all is June 23/24 (UK/US).

In other news today, Paramount Home Entertainment has launched a sale on Amazon.com, featuring tons of 4K Ultra HD titles for as little as $14.95 each. You can start browsing here.

Our friends at Media Play News have just launched the online voting for their annual Home Entertainment Awards. I’ll be a judge again this year, and you get the chance to weigh in as well by visiting this ballot page on the website. You have until 3/31 to get your votes in!

Finally today, Disney and Lucasfilm have just dropped a new Special Look trailer at Andor: Season Two. And it looks absolutely fantastic. You’ll find that here...

That’s all for now. Stay tuned...

- Bill Hunt

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