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And that’s basically why that whole thing fizzled out very quickly. But hey, if some new company wants to throw money into designing a thing and see if it works for them, whatever. Probably not for me but maybe there’s an audience.

It looks like it is a limited time offer to purchase a digital copy of the movie with additional special features meant to be viewed simultaneously with the movie on the same or separate device, with the “limited time offer” portion creating a scarcity that makes it akin a physical media limited...

Donner’s commentary noted where he was reading his lines from, if memory serves.

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I’m not sure that’s accurate. I believe the Salkins produced I-III and Supergirl, and only after those did Cannon wind up with the rights to do IV.

If you think of Superman IV less as an “A” picture and more as the Cannon fodder (which it is), it’s a perfectly acceptable aiming low kiddie picture. My childhood was littered with WPIX airings of that and Masters of the Universe and I ate it up each time. The tragedy was that it was the right...

Yes, absolutely, that’s exactly the point I’m making.

MGM doesn’t have its own physical media distribution arm, so when MGM wishes to release a title on their own (rather than licensing out to a third party like Kino or Criterion), they have a distribution deal with Warner. This replaces a similar distribution deal they previously had with Fox...

1080 and 2K are virtually the same thing. 1080 is simply the home video container while 2K is a theatrical container, but the resolution is almost identical. 1080p = 1920 horizontal x 1080 vertical 2K = 2048 horizontal x 1080 vertical

It wouldn’t be an upscale in the sense of being a standard definition master, but the Donner Cut for II was finished digitally in 2006 when the standard for post-production was 2K. It would not surprise me if the studio did not create a 4K master at the time and they’re almost certainly not...

I suppose that is entirely possible but I would just assume they’re providing finished assets, which I think was the case with their prior Fox distribution deal. But even if it was Warner’s MPI that did the transfers - someone’s gotta give them the right materials to transfer, and that’s MGM’s...

In the case of Rocky, Warner is just the distributor, it’s MGM that’s responsible for what’s on the release. MGM doesn’t exactly have a reputation for perfect home video releases. But if Warner was given the wrong audio tracks, there’s a good chance it’ll get fixed. I doubt it’ll be a full-on...

Probably too soon to say for sure but that does seem likely.

There are two different extended cuts that somewhat confusingly have been billed under the same description at different times but one actually is a Donner-sanctioned edit. When the first DVD of Superman: The Movie came out in 2000, Richard Donner was asked to create a director’s cut utilizing...