France 4K Blu-ray

France 4K Blu-ray > Italy Eagle Pictures > US Lionsgate - caps

credits are in French though

2023 Eagle Pictures Italy 4K Blu-ray: color is fine

2023 Eagle Pictures Italy 4K Blu-ray: color is fine

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray has better compression than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray, green-ish SC master that restores some blown-out highlights compared to the Sony master, but bad HDR10 compression (details). The 2023 Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook has different grading and Dolby Vision that some may prefer, good encoding, but heavy DNR for about 15% of the runtime.

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray has better compression than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray, green-ish SC master that restores some blown-out highlights compared to the Sony master, but bad HDR10 compression (details). The 2023 Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook has different grading and Dolby Vision that some may prefer, good encoding, but heavy DNR for about 15% of the runtime.

Pick your poison between Eagle Pictures or Sony.

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray 

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray 

2010 Kinowelt Blu-ray

UK release is cut.

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts

229 min cut (theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

• 251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray

• 229 min cut: WB Blu-ray

• 139 min cut: VHS?

Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray

Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.

Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.

I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.

Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)
229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.
US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.

StudioCanal/Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray >StudioCanal UK (slightly better encoding on Eagle?)

Japan 4K Restoration Blu-ray has original 4.0

The US Criterion DVD has some unique supplements with 2.0 surround audio - this release contains Japan end titles.

The Japan 4K Restoration Blu-ray has some exclusive features with 4.0 audio (though the release is not English-friendly)- this release contains Japan end titles.

The StudioCanal releases contain France end titles - while their 4K Blu-ray releases contain identical features.

A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal but no forced subs on non-English dialogue

A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal

Italy Eagle Pictures has DV, better encode, and no brightness shifts compared to Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray for the original Dolby Atmos mix

Hong Kong Panorama 4K Blu-ray has two interviews available in HD that are SD everywhere else