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Amazon prices on the Disney+ 4K Steelbooks drop, plus updates on The Searchers, Alien: Romulus & a new Star Wars trilogy in the works
Heads up Bits readers…
I just wanted to check in here today to let you all know that we’re working on new disc reviews, the first of which should start going live here on the website over the weekend.
There’s not a ton of release news to report today, however I am happy to say that the SRPs for the new Star Wars Disney+ 4K Ultra HD Steelbooks (due on 12/3) have finally come down to rational levels Amazon. So here are the pre-order links:
The Mandalorian: The Complete Third Season (4K)
Ahsoka: The Complete First Season (4K)
Hawkeye: The Complete First Season (4K)
Loki: The Complete Second Season (4K)
Also today, it appears that the Warner Archive Collection’s new 4K and Blu-ray release of John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) have now been listed on Amazon, but the pre-orders are not yet live. But here are those links... [Read on here...]
- Ward Bond
- Vera Miles
- Jeffrey Hunter
- Natalie Wood
- The Searchers (1956) 4K
- John Ford
- John Wayne
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Bluray Disc
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Alien: Romulus 4K
- Star Wars
- Disney+ 4K Steelbooks
- The Mandalorian: The Complete Third Season 4K
- Ahsoka: The Complete First Season 4K
- Hawkeye: The Complete First Season 4K
- Loki: The Complete Second Season 4K
- Warner Archive Collection
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Fade In BD
- Alan Smithee
- Jud Taylor
- Hulu
- Never Let Go
- Lionsgate
- Lucasfilm
- New Star Wars trilogy
- Simon Kinberg
BREAKING: The Warner Archive Collection to release its first 4K Ultra HD title… John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS!
Heads up, Bits readers! We’ve got big breaking news to report this afternoon!
Our friends at the Warner Archive Collection are about to announce their first-ever 4K Ultra HD catalog release, and it’s none other than John Ford’s legendary Western classic The Searchers (1956)!
The film stars John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, and Ward Bond.
The title will be available on 12/17 as both a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo (SRP $29.99) and a separate Blu-ray Disc release (SRP $21.99), each meticulously restored and remastered from the film’s original VistaVision negative!
Better still, the 4K disc has been compressed and authored by the fine team at Fidelity in Motion (FIM), with encoding specifically designed to fit UHD100 and BD50 discs, thus allowing for maximum data rates.
The 4K disc itself will include only the film and the audio commentary, so the image will have plenty of room to breathe. And the 4K disc will also be compatible with both Dolby Vision and HDR10 high dynamic range.
Both the 4K and Blu-ray will include the film’s original mono audio track, “restored from the best available source materials to provide a clean and dynamic audio presentation.” [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray Disc
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- John Wayne
- John Ford
- The Searchers (1956) 4K
- Natalie Wood
- Jeffrey Hunter
- Vera Miles
- Ward Bond
- Fidelity in Motion
- David Mackenzie
- UHD100
- Warner Bros Motion Picture Imaging
- Warner Bros Archival Mastering
- The Film Foundation
- TCM Classic Film Festival
Romeo and Juliet in New York: Remembering “West Side Story” on its 60th Anniversary
“West Side Story stands as a prime example of successfully rendering a stage musical in cinematic terms.” – Matthew Kennedy, author of Roadshow!
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 60th anniversary of the release of West Side Story, Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, Star!) and Jerome Robbins’ (The King and I, Gypsy) screen adaptation of the popular musical stage production inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and starring Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause, Brainstorm) as Maria and Richard Beymer (The Diary of Anne Frank, Twin Peaks) as Tony.
The winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture, the most popular movie of 1961 and one of the most popular musicals ever also featured Russ Tamblyn (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) as Riff, Rita Moreno (The King and I) as Anita, and George Chakiris (The Young Girls of Rochefort) as Bernardo. [Read on here...]