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Posted February 24, 2021 11:11 AM Darkness24 Comments
It appears the remaining three Alien films may be coming to 4K Blu-Ray after all. There were rumours last year that Disney was going to stop releasing 4K Blu-Rays for most films although they later insisted they’re still committed to the format. A new report on TheDigitalFix says that Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are currently being remastered for 4K for release on their streaming service and 4K Blu-Ray.
Aliens in 4K?
Disney recently released ‘Star’ on their Disney+ streaming service which is a section for all their adult movies. The Alien films appear to be absent in the US and UK regions although the normal HD versions appear in some regions such as Australia. Ridley Scott’s Alien was released on 4K Blu-Ray in April 2019 and after that, we heard very little about the remaining Alien films.
The report says that the latter three Alien films will be released in 4K on Disney+ this year and an Alien Film 4K Blu-Ray Collection will be released in 2022. The Alien Quadrilogy in 2003 and Alien Anthology in 2010 were both amazing releases packed with hours of features. I’m hoping Disney will raid the archives even further and put some brand new material on there. I guess the other question is whether they are doing 4K remasters of the Special Editions or the Theatrical versions of the films and whether they’ll include both versions via seamless branching.
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ScaryMinds Posted Aug 24, 2022, 01:04:30 AM
Quote from: SiL on Feb 23, 2021, 10:30:11 PMAll the films are available in Australia airway, but wouldn't say no to getting the 4k for all of them. Alien looks great streaming.
Aliens, Alien 3, Resurrection not yet available on 4k Downunder, though there was mention somewhere (forgot where) that they were coming in 2022 ... we be running out of days there.Strangely all the Predator movies are available on 4K
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AVP-CAPCOM I'd always wished the Alien Trilogy (don't count the 4th as canon - sorry!) would get The Star Wars - Special Edition or Blade Runner Final Cut treatment with cleaned up or added special effects.Posted Feb 25, 2021, 09:12:23 AM
The issue with 4K remasters is the picture is "too clear" in revealing out-dated effects, unconvincing scaled models that are Thunderbirds are go! tier, weird green screen outlines, stuntmen extra bloopers.
Aliens and Alien 3 would really benefit from this. Some want lists
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- Fix the dropship sequence slightly or CGI the ship itself in some shots. The unwinged combat mode with headlights and APC dust-off landing was fine though.
- Add (practical) alien death effects to the sentry gun sequence rather than stock footage of prior scenes
- The alien queen minatures with the exception of her getting blown out the airlockAlien 3
- While the suitmation stuff is fine sort out that damn rod puppet and overlays. Especially in the "flare throwing" tunnel running scene. Otherwise the work Charles de Lauzirika did on the Assembly Cut was amazing.Reply
Huggs Posted Feb 25, 2021, 03:43:02 AM
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Quote from: Huggs on Mar 16, 2018, 11:17:06 PMThe only reason I'm hanging on to my Alien quadrilogy and original predator dvd's is due to the grain removal the blu-rays of Predator and Aliens went through.
I don't think Aliens had any serious grain-removal for the Blu-ray. At least, not so far as I remember reading in reviews.Also the first Predator Blu had plenty of grain, but on the flipside, no special features. The later one that had the big DNR controversy had a bunch of bonus stuff.
Didn't Cameron say they went through and really cleared up the picture in aliens for the Blu-ray? I seem to remember him making a big deal about it. I know it wasn't bad originally, but I think he was really proud of what they did for the Blu-ray. It does looks rather good.EDIT
Yep, he did. Just skimmed through an article over at bluray.com.
Quote: "It's spectacular. We went in and completely de-noised it, de-grained it, up-rezzed, color-corrected every frame, and it looks amazing. It looks better that it looked in the theaters originally. Because it was shot on a high-speed negative that was a new negative that didn't pan out too well and got replaced the following year. So it's pretty grainy. We got rid of all the grain. It's sharper and clearer and more beautiful than it's ever looked. And we did that to the long version, to the 'director's cut' or the extended play."
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BlueMarsalis79 Posted Feb 25, 2021, 03:40:38 AM
Quote from: SiL on Feb 25, 2021, 03:10:32 AM
There is no such thing.
I agree in all but this one case.Reply
Huggs Posted Feb 25, 2021, 03:37:33 AM
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Feb 25, 2021, 02:29:55 AM
Yeah baby yeah!Ok but seriously, Aliens is soooo grainy. What are they going to do to correct that?
Its already been done.Reply
SiL There is no such thing.Posted Feb 25, 2021, 03:10:32 AM
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BlueMarsalis79 Yes and the Blu-ray already got a tasteful DNR application.Posted Feb 25, 2021, 02:56:25 AM
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SiL I don't think they should. Film grain in 4K looks nice.Posted Feb 25, 2021, 02:48:10 AM
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Perfect-Organism Yeah baby yeah!Posted Feb 25, 2021, 02:29:55 AM
Ok but seriously, Aliens is soooo grainy. What are they going to do to correct that?
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Hunter-Killer This is cool, I'm completely ignorant when it comes to 4K and didn't really pay attention to the alien release until I found out that it had the short films with it. I DJ metal and punk rock records while playing sci-fi and horror movies on a projector, I try to stick to blu-rays, I'm curious if 4K is really going to be twice as good as Blu-ray. I tend to stick to the first two alien and predator movies, sometimes I'll throw on predators or covenant, but in this case I might actually decide to play alien three and resurrection hahaPosted Feb 24, 2021, 05:06:17 PM
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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 Posted Feb 24, 2021, 04:45:11 PM
Quote from: SiL on Feb 24, 2021, 06:01:21 AM
It'll be interesting to see if he was working on it, or if he just did some 4K upscales for personal experimentation and the announcement coincided. The comments on his "This was quick!" Tweet seem to imply he wasn't working on it officially.But let's see!
If he was working on it in an official capacity for Disney then I don't think he would have been dropping hints of it's existence - NDA and all that.Interesting though to see that CdL follows him...
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Adam802 Yes! Cant wait!Posted Feb 24, 2021, 03:20:18 PM
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BlueMarsalis79 Considering a lot of the compositing can be "patched up" by simply getting rid of the green tint, I hope that's the bare minimum we get, anything more extensive gets more expensive- much as the Alien itself ought to be excised from most of the first act entirely.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 06:22:50 AM
The Special Edition's changed with each release I expect it will change again with this one.
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Predalien39 Posted Feb 24, 2021, 06:12:29 AM
This is great news. Here are my hopes:
1) they take this opportunity to fix the compositing issues in Alien 3.
2) as much as I dislike AVP the proper extended cut needs a better release. A lot of fans don't even realize it exists, only the extended opening version. And if they release the extended cut, I hope they redo the cgi blood they had added. It's dated and cheap looking.Reply
SiL It'll be interesting to see if he was working on it, or if he just did some 4K upscales for personal experimentation and the announcement coincided. The comments on his "This was quick!" Tweet seem to imply he wasn't working on it officially.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 06:01:21 AM
But let's see!
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Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/vashikoo/status/1363807202843107331Posted Feb 24, 2021, 05:58:16 AM
So this guy is apparently where the website got their exclusive? Not sure if its official work or not?
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SiL Posted Feb 24, 2021, 05:41:47 AM
Quote from: Trash Queen on Feb 24, 2021, 04:55:40 AM
The original Quadrilogy release of the A3 SE was done with branching in some regions, and the only problem it caused was Murphy saying "Spike?" before the acid spit.
It gets complicated when you have alternate versions of scenes. Even the Alien 4K HDR "DC" accidentally omitted the starfields from the actual DC on the 2010 Blu-ray for instance. I just honestly don't know if that will work for the Aliens and Alien³ Special Editions.Considering branching is intended to save space and memory, it makes sense they'd just use the TE star field shots of the Nostromo flybys rather than branch an otherwise identical shot. It's no big loss.
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Voodoo Magic Posted Feb 24, 2021, 05:02:57 AM
Quote from: Trash Queen on Feb 24, 2021, 04:55:40 AM
It gets complicated when you have alternate versions of scenes. Even the Alien 4K HDR "DC" accidentally omitted the starfields from the actual DC on the 2010 Blu-ray for instance. I just honestly don't know if that will work for the Aliens and Alien³ Special Editions.
Ah, true, all good points.Reply
BlueMarsalis79 It gets complicated when you have alternate versions of scenes. Even the Alien 4K HDR "DC" accidentally omitted the starfields from the actual DC on the 2010 Blu-ray for instance. I just honestly don't know if that will work for the Aliens and Alien³ Special Editions.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 04:55:40 AM
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Nukiemorph Hope so.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 04:13:16 AM
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Voodoo Magic If I am recollecting correctly, they only upscaled the Alien 1979 DC content to 4K, and then used seemless branching to insert where necessary within the new 4k transfer theatrical cut. So I don't see why they wouldn't do the same with the AC for Alien3.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 04:06:07 AM
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BlueMarsalis79 Best of both worlds please and thank you.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 12:32:04 AM
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Nukiemorph Wouldn't be too surprised if this was true... but I'll be very surprised if they give the 4K effort to the assembly cut.Posted Feb 24, 2021, 12:26:00 AM
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BlueMarsalis79 I'd actually kill thoughPosted Feb 23, 2021, 11:26:40 PM
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Nightmare Asylum PLEASEPosted Feb 23, 2021, 11:11:57 PM
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