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Yes, I just found/saw the tweet. Not exactly a credible source.

I doubt Disney/Pixar would allow Criterion to have anything to do with the A/V remastering. Disney still has an interest in preserving its catalog for streaming, and it maintains tight control over all of their assets. Criterion may be given leeway to produce more scholarly supplements, but...

Here is a link to an interview with Pixar's Director of Studio Mastering regarding the 4K remasters of the Pixar catalog: https://pixarpost.com/2019/10/remastering-pixar-films-in-4k-podcast-068.html Unfortunately, she uses the terms "uprez" and "re-render" interchangeably, and the interviewers...

Dolby Vision and a few new supplements.

That’s why it makes sense to license them for UHD.

I can easily see Criterion releasing older animated classics like Fantasia and Sleeping Beauty, certain older Fox titles (Poseidon Adventure was on Criterion Channel recently), and more recent auteurist films in Disney’s catalog like The Straight Story, The Insider, Fight Club, Moulin Rouge, and...

That's not what I am describing. I said physical releases of catalog titles will get licensed out, to the extent they are released on physical media at all. They will still maintain a home video department for new releases, but that's a drastically different operation than a catalog...

Yes, in March 2020. Disney recently released Heat on UHD due a contractual obligation, and before that, I believe their last UHD catalog release was Pirates of the Caribbean in January 2022. Their officers have made statements to shareholders that they are strategically shifting catalog titles...

I received an e-mail from Criterion describing this as "our first collaboration with Disney and Pixar." Hopefully this means Criterion has licensing rights to issue other Disney titles on UHD, given that Disney has effectively abandoned the UHD catalog market.