It looks like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies will be hitting 4K UHD later this year

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The artwork above looks like the German artwork.

Extended, theatrical, or both?

For those German covers, it looks like it's just the theatrical versions in UHD. The German Blu-rays stated "Extended Edition" on the Extended Edition covers, which these covers don't have. It'd make sense they'd release the theatrical versions first, then the extended a while later.

If that is the case, I will be waiting then. The extended versions is the only way to watch the first trilogy. I didn't care that much for The Hobbit trilogy so the extended versions of it didn't mean as much.

Bill Hunt debunked the above tweet I posted. He said the 4K masters are being worked on, but it's premature to say it's coming out right now.

I can see it now, 4K masters of the films and the same SD special features for the first three movies that were on the Blu-ray releases.

Anyway, the big question is if we'll get 4K versions for the original movies, the extended editions, or both.

I watched this the other day. It's equal parts amazing and horrifying. Gemini Man delivers that "looking out a window" quality more than anything else I've ever experienced in my home theater, yet it also looks like a home movie. Even the color timing makes it look more like a basic cable travelogue than a cinematic blockbuster. And the inexorably video-like frame rate exaggerates how artificial the dialogue and performances are as well. I don't regret getting it, especially since the streaming/download versions appear to be limited to 24fps, but now I know for sure that HFR is not for me. The movie's pretty dire in its own right, but I kinda knew that going in.

A heads-up: I was seeing some sporadic glitches in the colors. Even if I paused on a moment where the colors looked great, the still image would glitch after a few seconds. I tried a whole bunch of testing (HDMI ports, changing HDMI cables, bypassing my AVR, etc.), and it turns out the HDMI cables I tried were choking on the bandwidth. 4K/60fps/HDR10/Atmos worked flawlessly. 4K/60fps/Dolby Vision/Atmos had the glitchy colors. I bought a cable that spelled out that it could handle 18Gbps, and I'm not having any issues now. So if you're running into glitchy colors too, that's probably your fix.

That sounds like Gemini Man's Dolby Vision has FEL metadata, which significantly requires more bandwidth.

Yeah. Early speculation was that it’d be MEL to keep things from choking at that framerate, but as it turns out...!

Hardly a reliable source DJ. You know that.

StudioCanal's UHD release of The Elephant Man is up for pre-order on .

Also, if this French site is accurate, we're looking sometime around June for a 45th anniversary edition of Jaws.

UHD of Jaws would be sweet.

Are all 4k's region free?

Yes. An accompanying Blu-ray may not be though.

I have a region free blu ray player.

discshop.se also lists a June 1st date for Jaws, with Inglorious Basterds and Spartacus following a week later (!).

A Jaws 4K would be a day-one purchase for me.

Blu-Ray.com has the full announcement

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=26298

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM, with sound and picture approved by director David Lynch
• NEW Interview with Frank Connor, Stills Photography
• NEW BFI Q&A With Jonathan Sanger
• Interview With David Lynch
• Interview With John Hurt
• Mike Figgis Interviews David Lynch
• The Air Is On Fire: Interview With David Lynch at Cartier Foundation
• Joseph Merrick: The Real Elephant Man
• The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
• Exclusive packaging

Eagerly looking forward to The Elephant Man in 4K.

I wish Mel Brooks would have contributed to that set. A lot of people forget he produced that film.

That might be a scary sight to see that face in pristine 4K

Will the 4K disc lack chapters like the prior releases did?

It should be fine. Lynch has seemed to have caved on his "no chapter stops" policy. He's still big on his "little, if any, use of surrounds," so the audio will probably be very much front-loaded.

Shout Factory is releasing their first non-documentary title on Ultra HD Blu-ray. May 26th!

HD Movie Source lists The Goonies with a tentative release date of June 9th.