Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Comedy • 1h 59m
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Dylan Baker, Meagan Good, Judah Nelson, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Josh Lawson, Kristen Wiig, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell, Harrison Ford, Bill Kurtis, June Diane Raphael, Tom Clark, Jennifer Felton, Drake, Daisy Pareja, Pearl McKay, Axel Ferrell, Magnus Ferrell, Mattias Ferrell, Eliza Coupe, Matt Rebenkoff, Paul Schneider, Brian F. Durkin, Zoe Myers, Clark Sarullo, Billy Woods, Anna Enger Ritch, George Faughnan, Paul Chappell, Fred Galle, Patrick J. Williams, Jamie Moore, Matthew Cornwell, Dane Davenport, Dan Triandiflou, James Smith, David Silverman, Dave Pileggi, Clay Stapleford, Jayson Warner Smith, David Dwyer, Courtney Patterson, Kelly Tippens, Jon Hayden, Ron Prather, Gary Weeks, Stephanie Ming, Kellen Marcus, L. Warren Young, Darlene French, E. Roger Mitchell, Michael D. Menapace, Patricia French, Paula Pell, Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau, Mia D. Braswell, Simuel Campbell, Micah Stampley, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Karen Beyer, Brian Steele, Sacha Baron Cohen, Marion Cotillard, Micheál Richardson, Will Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Joe Washington, Jim Carrey, Sarah Spencer Yerger, Steve Coulter, Tina Fey, Kimberly Dawn Guerrero, Liam Neeson, Amy Poehler, John C. Reilly, Richard Saxton, Lori Beth Sikes, Vince Vaughn, Ye, Nickolas Wolf, William Tokarsky, Jessica Brown, Margaret Moseley, Jessica Peralta, Evan D. Anderson, JoAnn Bernat, Larry A. Brewer, Augie Buttinelli, Lisa Catara, Jon Cioffi, Taber Cross, Ellie Decker, Lisa Finlayson, Josh Forshee, William Frasca, Victor Gage, Jeff Glover, Tony Guerrero, Dawn Hamil, Moe Hindi, CC Ice, David Itchkawitz, Lori Morkunas Jones, Victor Jones, King, Colin Lacativa, T. Alloy Langenfeld, Alberto David Mercado, Gary Miller, Gary Nguyen, Robert F. Nixon, Kate Nowlin, Phillip O’Riley, Carly Jordan Pancher, David Pascua, Christopher Payne, Martin Peña, Brittany Piacente, Beth Pilgreen, Brandi Quinn, Joel Rogers, Shade Rupe, Sebastian Shepherd, Dave Simmons, Randall Taylor, Rob Tunstall, Ken Venzke, Hannah Westerfield, Luke Westerfield, Tony Westerfield, Hal Whiteside
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About the film
With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
- Alternative Titles
- Anchorman 2, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: Super-Sized R-Rated Version, Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues
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Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray > Paramount US and Capelight DE, same black crush on all three but the Arrow is encoded by FiM and has very good new supplements, the Capelight looks slightly low-passed, but in motion it probably looks about the same as the Paramount, see caps comparison for all three.
Arrow and Paramount basically sound the same, the Arrow has a slightly higher bitrate. Capelight is probably the same too but for now it's TBA.
Paramount US 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision
Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray and Capelight DE 4K Blu-ray have MEL Dolby Vision
Paramount 4K Blu-ray Purist choice: Blu-ray
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray new improved master with color grading and slight issues. Blu-ray is old master with original color grading
Blu-ray 5.1
The Paramount 4K Blu-ray has a much better new scan that removes the original extremely dated color grading. This is an improvement on one hand but a definite revisionist change on the other. There is the expected grain management and slight HDR issues in addition to encoding quirks from Paramount. It is a giant improvement over the original Blu-ray but the color change and other issues means that the Blu-ray is one to keep for purists to have the as-is original iteration of the film's presentation. Audio wise the film has been remixed into Atmos but it merely seems like a slightly tweaked and frankly tamed version of the original 5.1. Of the two I prefer the Blu-ray 5.1. The original Blu-ray was Dolby TrueHD and the reissue Blu-ray in the four film Blu-ray collection boxset was DTS-HDMA.
DFIC extensive review: https://youtu.be/evsrJOTIjdA?si=wtdWGxZBfhPYTIeW
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Peter Faiman
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut
Australia Cut: Laserdisc
The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).
3D version: Paramount 3D Blu-ray
Paramount 4K Blu-ray on October 26 2026
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice
Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono
Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.
The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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