The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Thriller, Drama, Romance • 2h 21m
Overview
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Simon Callow, Victor McGuire, Jennifer Ellison, Murray Melvin, Kevin McNally, James Fleet, Imogen Bain, Miles Western, Judith Paris, Halcro Johnston, Paul Brooke, Oliver Chopping, Alison Skilbeck, Lee Sellers, Ramin Karimloo, Chris Overton, Jesika Cannon, Annabel Porter, Laura Hounsom, Lorraine Stewart, Lucy Casson, Jonathan D. Ellis, Jose Tirado, David Langham, Sebastien Torkia, Chris Jarvis, Liesl Dowsett, Greet Botterman, Kirsty Tapp, Amy Lawson, Tess Cunningham, Kathryn Dunn, Pia Driver, Sophia Hurdley, Elena Buda, Mark Carroll, Brian Wheeler, Terry Kelly, David Arneil, John Griffiths, Graham McDuff, Tricia Deighton, Mandy Holliday, Jackie Marks, Sophie-Louise Dann, Valerie Cutko, Julia Worsley, Margaret Preece, Annalene Beechey, Lucy Potter, Remy Martyn, Richard Bayliss, Andrew Charles Corbett, Ralph Broadbent, Damien Lee Stirk, Alexander Cameron, Pascal Langdale, Paul Costin, Carlos Otera, Matthew Draper, Annika Strandberg, Ben Gant, Beth Sheather, Jonathon Hill, Isabel Lesto, Sarah Frasca, Timothy Kipling, Sandra Eloani, Jonathon Kitchen, Ruben Halse, Tristan Keyte, Damian Jones, Michael Mansbridge, Jeff Moore, Vanessa Perroncel, Lea Jerova, Julian Poole, Rebekah Dobbins, James Pullman, Lee Chapman, Robert Purvis, Gavin Lee, Dave Tosh, Rod Buchanan, Chris Worsey, Ashley Wallen, Adam Pudney, Ben Garner, Blake Clayfield, Damien Delaney, Marcus Tesch, Michael Small, Milo Miles, Nathan Clark, Stephen B. White, Stephen Berkeley, Kasper Cornish, Philip Catchpole, Ryan Jenkins, Gavin Wilkinson, Alec Mann, Scott Wyer, Paul Micha, Clinton Goldsmith, Andrew Corbett, Luis Gallo Mudarra, Damien Jackson, Tom Tanscy, Luke Jackson, Aaron Sillis, Melanie Perks, Lorena Randi, Lisa Stevens, Rachael Crocker, Julia Florimo, Caroline Lynn, Joanna Woodliffe, Marilena Nicolaou, Joanna Ernest, Georgina Hagerty, Simone De La Rue, Claire Goodman, Gem Collingwood, Maddy G. Harris, Juliet Gough, Deborah Bundy, Pippa Raine, Leigh Daniels, Gabriel Noble, Maryam Pourian, Candice Evans, Janine Davis, Bethany Elliot, Dawn Collins
Director: Joel Schumacher
2019 Shout! Factory Blu-ray
2019 Shout! Factory Blu-ray
BD 1080p Comparison: https://slow.pics/c/6hg4Y5fB (USA-Shout! vs AUS-Imprint vs GER-NamelessMedia vs AUS-Shock)
Director: Joel Schumacher
2019 Shout! Factory Blu-ray
2019 Shout! Factory Blu-ray
BD 1080p Comparison: https://slow.pics/c/6hg4Y5fB (USA-Shout! vs AUS-Imprint vs GER-NamelessMedia vs AUS-Shock)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Dolby Stereo SR: WB LaserDisc (best audio mix of the film)
Dolby 5.1: WB LaserDisc AC3, WB DVD
2005 5.1 retransfer: WB DVD Dolby and DTS, WB Blu-ray TrueHD
4K Blu-ray has Atmos remixes with new effects and changes. The original matrix surround track is better mixed than the 5.1 discrete with more surround and low end engagement amazingly. It also hides the extensive ADR a bit due to the inherent quality dip comparing matrix to discrete formats.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Dolby Stereo SR: WB LaserDisc (best audio mix of the film)
Dolby 5.1: WB LaserDisc AC3, WB DVD
2005 5.1 retransfer: WB DVD Dolby and DTS, WB Blu-ray TrueHD
4K Blu-ray has Atmos remixes with new effects and changes. The original matrix surround track is better mixed than the 5.1 discrete with more surround and low end engagement amazingly. It also hides the extensive ADR a bit due to the inherent quality dip comparing matrix to discrete formats.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Theatrical Dolby Digital 5.1: WB LaserDisc AC3, 1997 WB DVD 5.1
2005 5.1 retransfer: 2005 WB DVD Dolby, DTS. WB Blu-ray TrueHD
4K Blu-ray has Atmos remixes with new effects and changes. The original matrix surround track is somewhat different in its mix than the 5.1 discrete but relatively the same.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Theatrical Dolby Digital 5.1: WB LaserDisc AC3, 1997 WB DVD 5.1
2005 5.1 retransfer: 2005 WB DVD Dolby, DTS. WB Blu-ray TrueHD
4K Blu-ray has Atmos remixes with new effects and changes. The original matrix surround track is somewhat different in its mix than the 5.1 discrete but relatively the same.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Sony 4K Blu-ray looks like a very nice upgrade and is maybe even more but people are debating the addition of a Kieślowski-like yellow color filter they put over a segment in the film at around 16 minutes, on the other hand, this cap of the Blu-ray looks terrible and clearly not right either, so leaning on Sony having reinstated the filter
Director: Joel Schumacher
Sony 4K Blu-ray looks like a very nice upgrade and is maybe even more but people are debating the addition of a Kieślowski-like yellow color filter they put over a segment in the film at around 16 minutes, on the other hand, this cap of the Blu-ray looks terrible and clearly not right either, so leaning on Sony having reinstated the filter
Director: Joel Schumacher
Director: Joel Schumacher
Director: Joel Schumacher
Director: Joel Schumacher
Director: Wes Craven
France M6 Video 4K Blu-ray
France M6 Video - Geoff D review.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray disappointing - Avoid. Terrible release. Another Kino-grade encode with a huge DV layer. The Lionsgate Limited Steelbook has a different disc with exclusive bonus discs and apparently another poor encode but they also messed up the DV metadata and made that disc unwatchable with DV enabled.
US releases for the original audio
Pay per view version audio is on the UK Entertainment in Video Blu-ray and the France M6 Video 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray has exclusive extras
Director: Wes Craven
France M6 Video 4K Blu-ray
France M6 Video - Geoff D review.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray disappointing - Avoid. Terrible release. Another Kino-grade encode with a huge DV layer. The Lionsgate Limited Steelbook has a different disc with exclusive bonus discs and apparently another poor encode but they also messed up the DV metadata and made that disc unwatchable with DV enabled.
US releases for the original audio
Pay per view version audio is on the UK Entertainment in Video Blu-ray and the France M6 Video 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray has exclusive extras
Director: Josh Safdie
The UK 4K Blu-ray and Canada 4K Blu-ray both do not have the low-pass that the US 4K Blu-ray has. The UK 4K Blu-ray has some general blockiness and chroma artifacting issues, but the Canada 4K Blu-ray has at least a handful of scenes where the encode completely falls apart and massive macroblocks are visible. The Canada 4K Blu-ray also does not have hardcoded forced subtitles for the newsreel scene like the US and UK 4K Blu-rays. The grade is the same between all three discs.
The Atmos mix is the same between the US 4K Blu-ray and the UK 4K Blu-ray save for the amount of dynamic objects: the UK 4K Blu-ray has 15 to the USA's 11.
The UK 4K Blu-ray also has a DD-EX compatibility track and a lossless version of the commentary track that is in Dolby Digital on the US and Canada 4K Blu-rays.
Director: Josh Safdie
The UK 4K Blu-ray and Canada 4K Blu-ray both do not have the low-pass that the US 4K Blu-ray has. The UK 4K Blu-ray has some general blockiness and chroma artifacting issues, but the Canada 4K Blu-ray has at least a handful of scenes where the encode completely falls apart and massive macroblocks are visible. The Canada 4K Blu-ray also does not have hardcoded forced subtitles for the newsreel scene like the US and UK 4K Blu-rays. The grade is the same between all three discs.
The Atmos mix is the same between the US 4K Blu-ray and the UK 4K Blu-ray save for the amount of dynamic objects: the UK 4K Blu-ray has 15 to the USA's 11.
The UK 4K Blu-ray also has a DD-EX compatibility track and a lossless version of the commentary track that is in Dolby Digital on the US and Canada 4K Blu-rays.
Director: Wayne Kramer
Director: Wayne Kramer
Director: Benny Safdie
Director: Benny Safdie
Director: Michael Gracey
Paramount US vs Entertainment in Video UK - comparison. From nicolas
I think this film is strikingly ugly and it ultimately doesn't matter much which one to take. Paramount's looks low-pass filtered (as usual) which Entertainment in Video doesn't have but it looks like they did some filtering of the chroma but compression-wise, both could be better.
Director: Michael Gracey
Paramount US vs Entertainment in Video UK - comparison. From nicolas
I think this film is strikingly ugly and it ultimately doesn't matter much which one to take. Paramount's looks low-pass filtered (as usual) which Entertainment in Video doesn't have but it looks like they did some filtering of the chroma but compression-wise, both could be better.
Director: Halina Reijn
Director: Halina Reijn
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Director: Tony Scott
Director: Tony Scott
Director: Ari Aster
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray or the newly released UK Entertainment in Video 4K Blu-ray?
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray or the newly released UK Entertainment in Video 4K Blu-ray?
Director: Ari Aster
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray or the newly released UK Entertainment in Video 4K Blu-ray?
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray or the newly released UK Entertainment in Video 4K Blu-ray?
More Thriller on Blu-ray
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John McTiernan
Director: Moritz Mohr
Italy Plaion has Dolby Vision, but the metadata is static: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=22742198&postcount=92
Director: Moritz Mohr
Italy Plaion has Dolby Vision, but the metadata is static: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=22742198&postcount=92
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
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