Michael (2026)
Music, Drama • 2h 8m
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long, Juliano Krue Valdi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Miles Teller, Larenz Tate, Laura Harrier, Mike Myers, Kendrick Sampson, Trey Horton, Rhyan Hill, Joseph David-Jones, Jessica Sula, Deon Cole, Judah Edwards, Jayden Harville, Jaylen Hunter, Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, Liv Symone, Jamal Henderson, Michael Andrew Baker, Zach Kenney, Tiago Martinez, Amaya Mendoza, Angela Elayne Gibbs, Albie Selznick, Paul Hipp, Anna Carini, Misha Suvorov, John Rabe, Sophia Villegas, Kale Hills, Christine Fekete, Lincoln Bodin, Jasper Irvin, August Dantus, Jack McSherry, Michael Berry Jr., Mark Bloom, Kameron Brummer, Anika Brooks, Mikal Berry, Alan Leal, Jon Boogz, DeRon Cash, Brandon Turner, Kalan.FrFr, Brandon McKinnie, Brandon Brown, L.J. Pricetag, Jerrel O'Neal, Suga Pop, Asia Fuqua, Tony von Halle, Jono Petrie, Monique Lindsey, Zylan Brooks, Rob Brownstein, Ryan Everett Hailey, Emily Zapotocny, Cedric Stephens, Dennis Boyd, Darrell 'Silver' Hughes, Frescia Belmar, Prince Jackson, Daniel Korenfeld, Bill Corso
US Lionsgate or International Universal 4K Blu-ray
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US Lionsgate or International Universal 4K Blu-ray (similar encoding) - caps
Overview
The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music. His journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world, highlighting both his life off-stage and some of the most iconic performances from his early solo career.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Paramount Blu-ray has the commentary removed on the 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical: Mill Creek Blu-ray
Target exclusive Blu-ray has a bonus disc
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Big improvement over old Blu-ray but controversial revised color grading
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: John Carpenter
Sources: blog.sporv.com (opens in a new tab)
1997? Signature Collection LD
Good: 2017 Arrow and 2016 Shout! Factory Blu-ray have the original audio options.
the only track on Universal 4K, which is in DTS:X, has a mixing error of around 6dB too low on side channels, otherwise very similar to other 5.1 mixes.
Director: James Whale
Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026
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Director: James Whale
Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026
1993 CIC Video LaserDisc
More Music on Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
Director: Sian Heder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Has full and forced English subtitles
Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos
(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Criterion 4K Blu-ray replacement disc for fixed audio (there were some dialogues missing)
While the video on the replacement disc is exactly the same as the original release, the Atmos with missing lines has been corrected as it was also corrected on the Criterion commentary. Criterion also included the 6-track which is almost identical to the PAL track; It’s 4.0 in a 5.1 container. This 6-track is slightly better than the PAL DVD track as the PAL has some flutter on some parts that Criterion doesn’t have.
The Atmos on the replacement is identical to the Imprint AUS Blu-ray track which also has all the lines. The compatibility track is also the same,
It is worth mentioning the Imprint only has the Atmos and no 6-track. The 5.1 surround is with LFE and split surrounds and it’s just a downmix of the Atmos. Ditto for the LPCM 2.0 on said Blu-ray.
Director: George Cukor
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