Paramount sets Airplane! & Top Secret! for 4K, plus Orca, Robot Dreams, Kinds of Kindness, Fear the Walking Dead & Young Sheldon: Complete Series on Blu-ray & more!

More discs are on the way this week as well, so be sure to watch for them.

It’s a slow morning for release news, but we do have a couple things for you.

First, Paramount has set ZAZ: The Collection! for release on 4K Ultra HD on 11/19. That’s Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker to you! The collection will include Airplane! (1980), Top Secret! (1984), and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988). The first two are new to the format.

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Here’s something exciting: Decal and Neon are going to be releasing Pablo Berger’s animated Robot Dreams (2023) on Blu-ray on 10/8! I haven’t seen this yet, but a few friends have and they have great things to say about it.

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And in other news, Synapse Films will release Mike Mendez’s The Convent (2000) in 4K on 10/8.

A24 and Lionsgate will release Ty West’s MaXXXine on Blu-ray and 4K UHD on 10/8.

And Well Go USA will release Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (2024) on 4K and Blu-ray on 10/8 as well.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Having rewatched Airplane! recently, I firmly believe that it is an auteur piece of filmmaking, a true lightning-in-a-bottle artistic vision that could not sustain itself after this without turning formulaic and losing freshness. You cannot go any higher than this, only sideways.

  • SmoodleDoodle@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I am just excited about airplane. I have been waiting out in so many comedy for 4k release. But maybe I will just do the bluray depending on cost. CAD prices ain’t cheap.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    That ZAZ Collection looks great but a I am wondering about holding out for separate Airplane and Naked Gun boxsets with a solo Top Secret. This comes so quickly on the heels of the Top Secret Blu-ray that I wonder if Paramount are milking their back catalogue and those sets won’t be far off.

    • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Gotta’ machine gun them out before people realize they can make their own 4K version at home now ;-)

        • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          I just meant someone could uprez an old 1080p transfer themselves ;-) Hopefully there’s a bit more going on with these releases, extra pixels aren’t everything… but I’m one of the folks that believes it should be a new scan, not just some fancy uprezing algorithm.

          My parents always warned me that sitting to close to the TV would rot my brain :-)