I highly doubt it. He is correct though, Elephant films also wrote to me too and said they were going to fix this, and said they were well aware of the issue. The best thing to do I think is to wait and see what Elephant Films puts out, according to them, the problem will probably be fixed and...
I have some great news to share, thanks to Martin Brousseau (posting on another site) has written to Elephant Films which plans to release Thoroughly Modern Millie, and he wrote them about the problem with the U.S. release. I then also wrote them and here is the response I got.
And I quote "Hi...
I have been working on this issue all day Haineshisway, I will post on the Kino thread here tomorrow. Imagine, people over "there" took me on and bad mouthed me because I was disgusted at Millie having mono overture, intermission and exit music when it's stereo everywhere else (Turner Classic...
I have watched this film on Turner Classic Movies when Julie presented it a few months ago, streamed it, watched the laserdisc, the current DVD from Universal, downloaded the film, everywhere else the overture, intermission and exit music are in stereo, beautiful full stereo. So there is no...
Attention: The overture, intermission AND exit music are all in MONO! I can't believe it. The laserdisc and the DVD they are all in full beautiful stereo sound. This is a huge error that demands a recall. We've got to stick together on this MIllie fans! This is a shameful mistake!
I couldn't agree with you more. It is what Fox should have done with The Sound of Music, also given us the 40th anniversary dvd mix in lossless because the 6 track master had lost it's high end. With Millie it should have been 3.0 or nothing...I am as dismayed as you are.
I am very unhappy that this is in Dolby surround. Proper would have been 3.0 mag stereo. The idiocy to make a 4k restoration without restoring the soundtrack to discrete channels just pisses me off. That said i am sure this will still be a treasure on my best bluray shelf, but i will watch the...