We now have a new snazzy cover artwork for the forthcoming Alien 40th Anniversary Ultra HD Blu-Ray set. This comes from UK retailer Zavvi who have also got the release date down as April 1st, 2019 with a retail price of £27.99. Some retailers may be getting exclusive steelbook versions of Alien too with different artwork. Everything is still subject to change, however.
There is still yet to be any formal announcement from 20th Century Fox about what new features there will be. I suspect there won’t be any new behind-the-scenes stuff as the Quadrilogy and Anthology were pretty comprehensive as it stands. The key focus of the set will be the new 4K transfer, the HDR and the new audio transfer. There is also still no word on 4K releases for the three Alien sequels.
As previously reported, you don’t have to wait until April to see Alien in 4K. You can see it next month at the Glasgow Film Festival before it is released across UK cinemas and in some international territories in mid March. This will come with a brand new 4K scan as well as a new audio restoration that was supervised by director Ridley Scott.
Thanks to The Old One for the news.
Much better.
Big Chap/Warrior figures are
horrendous, no big deal then.
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FilmArena Steelbook TBC
MantaLab N/A
Man, more so than the front-
which is alright, the back's
horrendous.
MantaLab/FilmArena save me!
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being smothered with K-Y Jelly.
Is the dripping goo meant to tie the film in with the goo in the new movies...? Am I thinking too hard?
Waiting for FilmArena's steelbook
on this one.
I'm pretty much the only person who kinda likes the cover art presented. Probably because I'm not very picky. Sometimes.
CHROME??!!
Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!
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Sets reminder for Feb 4th!
Agreed.
Ooo, that's the one I'm gettin'! I'd still prefer the original poster, but at least this art has style and class.
Hell, if they're gonna use a figure on the cover, use a good one, like the original, or City Hunter.
I read once about a market study where they learned that people are more likely to buy/see a movie if there's a big picture of the 'star' on the cover. As a result, the art of the movie poster is now lost to history...
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I thought you'd be more flustered at the fact that Predators is included.
Just take a gander at this Predator steelbook recently complained about in another thread. Forget the AVP Scar helmet, if you look closely you can notice the torso figure joint.
https://s1.thcdn.com/productimg/1600/1600/11790198-1274586648121567.jpg
Agreed with Fox should use it, and no idea why they don't.
Would you be shocked though if it is?
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Said as much earlier. Spot on! It's a perfect poster. Mysterious, beautiful and creepy ... and also doesn't reveal the Xenomorph.
They didn't do much better for the 20th:
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They just need to re-present the original poster art in a stylish way. So iconic, and a lot of the kids today have probably never even seen it!
That shows how much they appreciate that franchise.
but I reckon they won't invest the money to scan
the original negative, if it even still exists to scan.
.
Upscaled Blu-Ray, if anything.
If the format eventually becomes the standard versus a niche market, or if we ever get another AVP film or television series, I think there's definitely a 4K AVP release in our future.
& Hire someone to fix
the composites, though.
Something like Predators will be a bit screwed because they filmed in Full HD digital.
I read wrong. I thought it is all 4 movies as uhd. That would be impossible because all of the CGI was very likely done as the resolution that the movietheaters showed at that time. Usually it is cropped to full hd and bars added.
Therefore you cant have alien3 or 4 as 4k because all digital effects would have to be made from scratch with 4k models and so forth even if the original negatives of the movie would exist and could be scanned to digital version as 4k.
I didnt reat enough to see that it is only alien 1 that is now 4k so that actually is possible as 4k if they take the whole data that the negatives recorded back at the day.
Oh man, I'd buy a re-release purely on the basic of improving some of the editing around that stupid head.