Coming Soon on 4KUHD & Blu-ray!
Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative

Curdled (1996) Starring William Holden, Angela Jones, Lois Chiles, Daisy Fuentes, Kelly Preston, Bruce Ramsay, Lupita Ferrer & Barry Corbin – Shot by Steven Bernstein – Produced by Quentin Tarantino – Written by Reb Braddock & John Maass – Directed by Reb Braddock.

Just a quick update to let you know how things are progressing.

The big news is that all of the HD and UHD color grading has been completed and is now going through final checks and approvals. This is the last major milestone before we begin authoring.

To give you an idea of the process, here are a few screenshots. We start with the raw 4K film transfer. Each frame is 4174x3152 pixels.
It looks faded because transfers are done using a logarithmic color space that maximizes dynamic range. This has to be scaled and cropped to UHD resolution (3840x2048, of which 2880x2048 represents the 4:3 framing of the original), and then color corrected. This gets us here.
For comparison, here's the same frame from the Japanese HD transfer.
The newer 4K transfer resulted in a slightly more vibrant result -- and this is the HD color grade -- the UHD grade (which jpeg's can't reproduce) is even nicer.

And while it's a totally unfair comparison, just to show you how far we've come (and how much your elders suffered back in the dark ages), here's the same frame from the DVD.
Finally, if you look very closely, you'll notice that our version is very slightly wider than the standard 4:3 framing. That's because when we were scaling the raw transfer, we realized we could include some extra area to the left and right without hitting the ragged edges of the raw film frames, so why not give you about 8% more Macross for your money?

We expect to finalize the subtitles in the new few weeks and proceed to authoring right after the new year.