Just saw a video from the 1995 movie Heat (a movie I've watched three times in the decade or so) and was reminded how much I hate Disney. Another of the hundreds of Fox-owned titles that will never come to Ultra HD, now that the mouse owns all of Fox and is just sitting on the entire catalog, having harvested the company mainly for Marvel, The Simpsons and a few other properties. If only Heat's distribution rights had stayed under Warner Brothers instead of going to Fox before Disney's acquisition. The Last of the Mohicans is another Fox-owned Michael Mann movie I would have bought on the format. It's such a good looking movie already.
I keep thinking again and again how nice something might look in grainy 4K and wide color gamut and then being reminded that it's a Fox title. A ton of Fox Blu-rays were mastered in the early years of the format and therefore don't even have very good 1080p transfers, such as Speed and particularly Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Speed was bound to be remastered, being such a popular movie. Black Swan's 16 mm grain already looks so fine in 1080p, but I enjoy the movie enough that I would have upgraded for it too. I believe the high contrast colors would have looked pretty attractive no longer stuck in the YCbCr color space. Even black and white classics like All About Eve would look great with the added color depth, as evidenced by Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Schindler's List, Dr. Strangelove and It's a Wonderful Life. There are hundreds of others I can't think of, like eighty years of movies.
How fortunate that Alien, Predator and Die Hard all got their 4K releases before the acquisition. Alien was released in April 2019, I believe the last Fox 4K catalog release other than the Star Wars saga, which was always going to come out anyway. I can see Aliens eventually getting a UHD, but that's only because James Cameron has more power than most directors.
I keep thinking again and again how nice something might look in grainy 4K and wide color gamut and then being reminded that it's a Fox title. A ton of Fox Blu-rays were mastered in the early years of the format and therefore don't even have very good 1080p transfers, such as Speed and particularly Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Speed was bound to be remastered, being such a popular movie. Black Swan's 16 mm grain already looks so fine in 1080p, but I enjoy the movie enough that I would have upgraded for it too. I believe the high contrast colors would have looked pretty attractive no longer stuck in the YCbCr color space. Even black and white classics like All About Eve would look great with the added color depth, as evidenced by Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Schindler's List, Dr. Strangelove and It's a Wonderful Life. There are hundreds of others I can't think of, like eighty years of movies.
How fortunate that Alien, Predator and Die Hard all got their 4K releases before the acquisition. Alien was released in April 2019, I believe the last Fox 4K catalog release other than the Star Wars saga, which was always going to come out anyway. I can see Aliens eventually getting a UHD, but that's only because James Cameron has more power than most directors.