BREAKING: Lionsgate is about to announce Kill Bill 1 & 2 and Jackie Brown for 4K Ultra HD! [UPDATED with A/V specs & extras]

Monday, 16 December 2024 12:00

BREAKING: Lionsgate is about to announce Kill Bill 1 & 2 and Jackie Brown for 4K Ultra HD! [UPDATED with A/V specs & extras]

by Bill Hunt

[Editor’s Update – 12/17/24 12:01 AM: This original post has been updated to include full disc A/V specs and extras details.]

Heads up, Digital Bits readers…

We’ve learned that Lionsgate is about to announce the 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2 (2003/2004) along with Jackie Brown (1997).

All three titles should appear for pre-order on their new Lionsgate Limited direct-to-consumer website sometime early tomorrow.

Jackie Brown stars Pam Grier as a flight attendant who smuggles money into the US from Mexico for a small-time crime boss, and who is then used as bait by the police to catch him. The film is based on Elmore Leonard’s 1992 novel Rum Punch.

Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2 are Tarantino’s martial arts actioners and an homage to the Shaw Brothers, Toshiya Fujita’s Lady Snowblood (1972), and exploitation cinema. It stars Uma Thurman as a woman who vows to get revenge upon the assassins who tried to kill her and her unborn child. [Read on here...]

All three titles have been in the works since last May, when Lionsgate struck a deal to distribute the films on home video (see our report at the time here).

The confirmed street date for all three is January 21st. There will be Lionsgate Limited 4K + Blu-ray Steelbooks, and wide-release 4K + Blu-ray SKUs in regular Amaray packaging.

Jackie Brown (1997) (154 mins) will include Dolby Vision HDR and audio in English 5.1 DTS-HD MA, with English, English SDH, and Spanish subtitles. Extras in the package will include an enhanced trivia track, deleted and alternate scenes, the 10-part Jackie Brown: How It Went Down documentary, 6 additional featurettes (including Breaking Down Jackie Brown, A Look Back at Jackie Brown, Chicks with Guns Video, the Siskel & Ebert Review, Jackie Brown Promotional Contest, and MTV Live Jackie Brown), 3 trailers, 8 TV spots, a poster gallery, and stills galleries.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) (111 mins) will include Dolby Vision HDR and audio in English 5.1 DTS-HD MA and French 5.1 Dolby Digital, with English SDH and Spanish subtitles. Extras in the package will include The Making of Kill Bill: Volume 1, The 5.6.7.8’s bonus musical performances, the theatrical trailer, the bootleg trailer, and the Volume 2 teaser trailer, plus trailers for Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown.

Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) (137 mins) will include Dolby Vision HDR and audio in English 5.1 DTS-HD MA and French 5.1 Dolby Digital, with English SDH and Spanish subtitles. Extras in the package will include The Making of Kill Bill: Volume 2, the “Damoe” deleted scene, and the “Chingon” musical performance.

All three 4Ks will feature 100 GB discs. All features and A/V details were approved by Tarantino.

Here’s a look at the official Lionsgate Limited Steelbook cover art for all three...

Kill Bill 1 & 2 and Jackie Brown in 4K

We’ll post the wide-release 4K cover art when it’s available tomorrow (and pre-order links as they go live).

Stay tuned!

- Bill Hunt

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