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A Digital Bits Exclusive: Peter Weir’s MASTER AND COMMANDER is coming soon to 4K disc from 20th Century via Sony!

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Master and Commander (2003) is coming soon to 4K Disc!

Now here’s a title I’ve known about for a while, and that I’m very excited to finally share with all of you!

Longtime Bits readers will know that this film is another huge favorite of mine. And back in January of last year… not long before we first broke the exclusive news of the new Sony/Disney distribution deal here at The Digital Bits… I was invited by Disney reps to submit a list of films that I thought the studio should consider for release on physical 4K UHD.

I compiled a list of fifty titles, an A-list of twenty-five, and a B-list of twenty-five more.

Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, and George P. Cosmatos’ Tombstone (1993) was at the very top of that A-list.

The third film on that A-list was Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut (2005).

Both titles have now obviously been released on physical 4K Ultra HD from Disney/Touchstone and 20th Century Studios via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment—Tombstone on 4/22, and Kingdom of Heaven on 5/27. (Initial supplies of both titles are hard to come by, but I’m told that Sony is working hard to replicate more copies.)

Well… now I can confirm that the second title on the list I submitted is finally coming to 4K Ultra HD as well, and I couldn’t possibly be more excited. That title is none other than… [Read on here...]

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Yes, indeed… director Peter Weir’s magnificent historical drama Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is finally coming to physical 4K Ultra HD later this summer—huzzah!

Based on the acclaimed historical novels by Patrick O’Brian, the film tracks the exploits of Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe), his friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), and the crew of the HMS Surprise as they follow their orders around the globe to pursue and capture or sink the wily French privateer Acheron during the Napoleonic Wars in 1805.

Per the pattern established with those two previous releases, Master and Commander will likely come in 2-disc Steelbook packaging with the film in 4K, as well as a Blu-ray Disc, and a Digital code. I would imagine it’ll probably include Dolby Vision HDR and English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.

To be clear, that’s just an educated guess though—I don’t have any other details except that the street date will likely be sometime in August or September.

My knowledge that this title is coming is based on The Bits’ longtime industry sources. And retail sites in Europe have begun to list it as well, so I can indeed confirm that it’s for real.

As soon as I have additional details to share, I’ll be sure to let you all know. Watch for official word from the studio sometime in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, suffice it to say that Surprise is most definitely on our side! Stay tuned...

Master and Commander

- Bill Hunt

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