Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, based in Culver City, handles disc releases for Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics. Its asset management team, long led by Grover Crisp, restores the Columbia library in-house from 4K and 8K negative scans, and the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD box sets collect many of those restorations. Since 2024 it also manufactures and distributes Disney's discs in North America.
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259 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 176 in 4K64 in HD19 in SD5 more for audio only1 more announced
Best 4K release by tier:
- Excellent66
- Solid51
- Disappointing2
- Worse Than BD3
Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made
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Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: Ron Howard
Best English-Friendly:
2026 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Best Video:
2026 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook added Dolby Vision
Director: Joel Schumacher
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
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: Jonathan Hensleigh
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Theatrical: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Sony Germany Extended Cut Blu-ray
Director: Rob Reiner
Best English-Friendly:
US Sony 2023 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
US Sony 2023 Steelbook Edition 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
> Sony 2019 Standard Edition 4K Blu-ray
US Sony 2023 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray added Dolby Vision and more extras
Best Audio:
Original Mono mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray Sony Blu-ray
Additional Info:
The DVD has an isolated score track
In addition to the new Atmos track, both 4K Blu-ray releases have ported over the previous lossless 5.1 remix from the older 1080p Blu-ray in DTS-HD MA 5.1 and also include the original theatrical mono mix in lossless DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Only the US Steelbook has Dolby Vision
Director: Sam Raimi
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Theatrical: Sony 4K Blu-ray
2.1 Cut: Sony Blu-ray
Additional Info:
2.1 Cut received a 4K remaster for a cinema release. No announced home video release yet.
Director: Sam Raimi
Best English-Friendly:
Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook
Unaltered version: 2007 Ultimate Edition DVD? Or 35mm scan
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook, correct audio pitch and more bonus features
Confirmed to be a port of Sony's international 4K, encode different to Lionsgate's. Audio in the correct pitch and a cross-selection of archive extras where the Lionsgate had only one audio commentary. High Def reviewer thought the 2.0 was a mixdown of the 5.1 track.
Unaltered version: 2007 Ultimate Edition DVD? Or 35mm scan
Best Audio:
Audio Notes:
LaserDisc has the original Mono
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray audio is in the wrong pitch while the Sony release is in the right pitch
Additional Info:
All releases after 2010 have digital alterations to some scenes. https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=999332
Director: Martin Campbell
Best English-Friendly & Video:
2023 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Video Notes:
2023 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook edition added Dolby Vision, previous editions are HDR10 only.
Best English-Friendly:
Complete Cut: 2021 Sony 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
Complete Cut: 2021 Japan Square Enix 4K Blu-ray but not English friendly. Dolby Vision is also only available on Japan 4K Blu-ray
Original Cut: 2005 Japan Square Enix DVD but not English friendly.
Best Audio:
Complete Cut:
2021 Japan Square Enix 4K Blu-ray has a superior Dolby Atmos remix
2021 Japan Square Enix remastered Blu-ray has a superior original Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix
Original Cut:
Additional Info:
Japan 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray have an exclusive end credit song on the Complete cut that is not present on international releases by Sony.
All Japanese releases of the Complete cut have English dub options, but no English subtitles for the original Japanese audio or on-screen text. Original cut only has Japanese audio without subtitles on the Japanese DVD.
All international releases by Sony only have dubtitles for the Japanese audio, not a proper translation of the Japanese script.
Director: Martin Ritt
Best English-Friendly:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray see caps
Best Video:
Best Audio:
Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray for uncensored Japanese audio and original 6.1 mix
Additional Info:
Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray is an upscale of the original 2K DI but has no English subtitles, all past releases are flawed scans from filmout sources.
Director: Danny Boyle
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray see caps
Recovers quite a bit of highlight detail, looks less harsh and clipped in the video footage than the old BD.
Best Audio:
Dolby Atmos Remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 mix: old OOP Fox Blu-ray
Audio Notes:
5.1 on the 4K is a downmix of the Atmos remix.
Director: Will Gluck
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray see comparison
The 4K Blu-ray is low-passed, Sony Pictures Core Streaming is heavily DNR
Director: Ben Stiller
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Audio Notes:
Best English-Friendly & Video:
2026 Sony/Columbia 4K Blu-ray
Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Best English-Friendly:
English dub on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or older Sony/StudioCanal Blu-ray
Best Video:
Director: Rob Reiner
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
LaserDisc for the original stereo
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