From The Digital Bits some Paramount 4K titles in 2021! (1 Viewer)

[JimMiller]

In case this hasn't been posted here, "Paramount is preparing to release Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956) on the (4K) format on 3/30, followed by George Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964) on 5/4, and JJ Abrams’ Super 8 (2011) on 5/25. Please note that these dates are to be considered tentative and subject to change."

 

[PMF]

May 4th.

Calendar marked.
YES to My Fair Lady in 4K/UHD !!!

 

[murrayThompson]

Thank God, we need these!

 

[TonyD]

This seems to be covered in a couple other topics and the topic header is super vague.

 

[Trancas]

Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady is being released by Paramount?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady is being released by Paramount?

Warner no longer has video rights to MFL.

 

[lark144]

The rights to "My Fair Lady" are owned by CBS, and since CBS is owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount, Paramount is now distributing it.

 

[Bill Fisher]

now if Paramount would just release GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH in Blu. RAGTIME, too--and would love the cut portions that deLaurentis cut for time...Emma Goldman, Houdini, etc.

 

[trajan007]

RAGTIME blu ray in France is region free.

 

[cda1143]

RAGTIME blu ray in France is region free.

Anyone seen it?

 

[trajan007]

Its a very fine presentation.

 

[trajan007]

I would like to see BLACK RAIN in 4K.

 

[Mark Booth]

I own 'Super 8' on Blu and I believe the digital copy was redeemed directly in iTunes. So, that one should earn a free upgrade to 4K HDR streaming in May. I'm not so sure I'll upgrade the other two.

FYI, 'My Fair Lady' is already available in 4K via iTunes. 'The Ten Commandments' HD is currently priced at $4.99 (purchase) in iTunes, so buying it now on the cheap might earn a free upgrade to 4K later.

Mark

 

[TonyD]

I haven’t seen Super 8 since it came out on Blu-ray and can’t remember if I liked it enough to buy it.

 

[darkrock17]

Would Clue look good in 4K?

 

[SeanSKA]

The rights to "My Fair Lady" are owned by CBS, and since CBS is owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount, Paramount is now distributing it.

"My Fair Lady" was released on LaserDisc by Fox, on DVD first by Warners, and then later Paramount, the Blu-ray by Paramount, and now the 4K

 

[lark144]

"My Fair Lady" was released on LaserDisc by Fox, on DVD first by Warners, and then later Paramount, the Blu-ray by Paramount, and now the 4K

From what I've read, CBS owned the rights to "MY Fair Lady" the Broadway musical, and when Jack Warner produced the film, a deal was made with CBS that WB would release the film for a certain number of years, like 40 or 50. When those rights elapsed in the beginning of the DVD era, they went back to CBS. (I believe Fox had a deal to distribute some WB product on Laserdisc.) Since CBS & Paramount were by then part of the same company, Paramount re-released "My Fair Lady" on DVD, then Blu, and now 4K.

 

[Mark Booth]

I haven’t seen Super 8 since it came out on Blu-ray and can’t remember if I liked it enough to buy it.

'Super 8' cost me a speaker component in my Paradigm center channel. We were showing the film in the Booth Bijou Garage Theater. Earlier in the day I had used the microphone supplied with my Pioneer Elite A/V receiver to calibrate the surround sound. I was in a bit of a hurry and forgot to switch the speaker size to small, instead of the default (large). That meant the full frequency range was being sent to each speaker. Then, watching 'Super 8', I had the audio cranked up a bit too high and right after the very loud train wreck scene it became obvious that my center channel wasn't reproducing voices. Sending bass frequencies below 80hz to the center channel speaker (plus the too-high volume) blew out the speaker.

Fortunately, I was able to purchase a replacement component from Paradigm and I swapped them myself.

Mark

 

[David Weicker]

'Super 8' cost me a speaker component in my Paradigm center channel. We were showing the film in the Booth Bijou Garage Theater. Earlier in the day I had used the microphone supplied with my Pioneer Elite A/V receiver to calibrate the surround sound. I was in a bit of a hurry and forgot to switch the speaker size to small, instead of the default (large). That meant the full frequency range was being sent to each speaker. Then, watching 'Super 8', I had the audio cranked up a bit too high and right after the very loud train wreck scene it became obvious that my center channel wasn't reproducing voices. Sending bass frequencies below 80hz to the center channel speaker (plus the too-high volume) blew out the speaker.

Fortunately, I was able to purchase a replacement component from Paradigm and I swapped them myself.

Mark

sounds like It Blowed Up Good

 

[Patrick McCart]

From what I've read, CBS owned the rights to "MY Fair Lady" the Broadway musical, and when Jack Warner produced the film, a deal was made with CBS that WB would release the film for a certain number of years, like 40 or 50. When those rights elapsed in the beginning of the DVD era, they went back to CBS. (I believe Fox had a deal to distribute some WB product on Laserdisc.) Since CBS & Paramount were by then part of the same company, Paramount re-released "My Fair Lady" on DVD, then Blu, and now 4K.

CBS has always had home video rights, but they were licensed to Warner Home Video for what seemed to be a ten year deal specifically for DVD starting with the single disc release from 1998 and then the 2004 2-Disc Special Edition. CBS didn’t release it on their own on DVD until 2009. The laserdiscs were through CBS-FOX and later Fox Video (restored)