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KLSC bows Sabrina & Timecop in 4K, plus Law Abiding Citizen, the Connery 007 4Ks are new scans, and a great article on 4K remastering!

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Sabrina (4K Ultra HD)

We have two more new disc reviews for you to enjoy today, including...

Stephen’s take on Peter Hyams’ Timecop (1994) in 4K Ultra HD from Shout! Factory.

And Dennis’ look at Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man (2025) on Blu-ray from Blumhouse via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

In announcement news this afternoon, our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics have revealed a pair of new 4K Ultra HD catalog titles for release on 6/17, including Billy Wilder’s Sabrina (1954)—a Paramount title—and Sean S. Cunningham’s DeepStar Six (1989)—a Carolco Pictures/Tri-Star Pictures film. Both will include Dolby Vision HDR.

Also today, Imprint Films has announced their fiftieth wave of catalog titles for Blu-ray release in June, including Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980) and New York, New York (1977), John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (1975), John Milius’ The Wind and the Lion (1975), Gordon Parks’ Leadbelly (1976), Cliff Robertson’s J.W. Coop (1971), and Harold Becker’s The Onion Field (1979). The street date is 6/25, and each is limited to 1500 copies. [Read on here...]

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Here’s what the cover art for all of them looks like. Click here or on the image below to visit Imprint’s online shop...

Imprint Films' June 2025 Blu-ray slate

Also today, Decal has set a 4K Steelbook edition of Oz Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) for release on 6/24.

Disney’s animated Lilo & Stitch (2002) is now available for 4K Ultra HD pre-order on Amazon on 5/6—click here for that.

Lionsgate will release a 4K Steelbook of F. Gary Gray’s Law Abiding Citizen (2009) on 5/20. It’ll include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio.

And here’s an excellent bit of news: We’re hearing through the grapevine that the individual titles in the forthcoming 007: James Bond – Sean Connery 6-Film 4K Ultra HD Collection due on 6/10 (from Warner, Amazon & MGM) have all been remastered from new 4K scans of the original camera negatives! They’ll each have Dolby Vision HDR and also new Dolby Atmos mixes. The titles in question are Terence Young’s Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965), Guy Hamilton’s Goldfinger (1964) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Lewis Gilbert’s You Only Live Twice (1967) in 4K UHD. (Watch for official confirmation on all this information from WBDHE soon.) Here’s the cover art and you can click on the images to visit the Amazon pre-order pages...

007: James Bond – Sean Connery 6-Film 4K Ultra HD Collection Limited Edition Steelbook

007: James Bond – Sean Connery 6-Film 4K Ultra HD Collection

Finally today, Kino Lorber home video producer R. Emmet Sweeney has written a great piece over on Filmmaker Magazine called Arriving at a Resolution: Remastering Movies for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. In it, he talks about the challenges of producing 4K catalog titles from the boutique label perspective, and I think should be mandatory reading for all enthusiasts of the format. It’s well worth your time, so do give it a look here.

That’s all for now! FYI, I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything live video stream for subscribers over on our Digital Bits’ Patreon page this weekend, so if that’s of interest to you, you can subscribe here to participate.

Have a great weekend and we’ll see you back here on Monday!

- Bill Hunt

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