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I imagine if any 4k release of King Kong (1933) happens, WB will do it themselves. Many studios are no longer handing out 4k content licensing to third party vendors, or being that much more stingy compared to standard HD.

If it's done right, even an early B&W film can look better on 4k disc. Universal is releasing vol 1 of their classic monster films in 4k and if the digital 4k version out now is anything to go by, they will definitely be improvements over the prior 8 bit Blu-ray's. Then you have 4k Blu-ray's...

Nope. Not on disc and there is only a teeny tiny amount of native 8k or 8k equivalent large format film content anyway. Higher quality 4k is what we need. 8k for the home is marketing B.S. I've seen the demos.

My worry, besides price, is whether Criterion can get their act together and provide us with high quality and high bitrate encodes, and not Studio Canal levels of crap. Criterion's Blu-ray's can be pretty spotty.

You're heading into REALLY unpopular territory with that. If they have an "ignored" title, they should jump right to a 4k release. Maybe do a "combo" pack.

Apple Records has been working on Atmos remixes for the Beatles albums and if it had multi-track stems like most of their albums (thank goodness their engineer was forward thinking!) then I would bet they would try Atmos on this release. The ones with Atmos that have made it to the public so...