Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
05-22-24, 10:51 AM
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Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
Im spinning off this post from the announcement thread as I hope there's the interest for it.
from Warner Bros.
Based on the colors from the trailer I dig it as the skies look how it does when tornados are about to hit. I already preordered the standard edition from amazon.
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TWISTER COMES TO 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAYTM AND DIGITAL THE 1996 DISASTER THRILLER FILM
STARRING HELEN HUNT AND BILL PAXTON WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 4K RESOLUTION WITH HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)
Burbank, Calif., May 21, 2024 – Twister, action-packed iconic disaster film directed by Jan de Bont (Speed) will be available for purchase on 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital for the first time on July 9.
Twister will be available to purchase on July 9 on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc from online and in-store at major retailers and available for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more.
Twister stars Academy AwardÒ winner (As Good as It Gets) and four-time Emmy AwardÒ winner (“Mad About You”) Helen Hunt and Screen Actors Guild Award Winner Bill Paxton (Apollo 13). The film also stars Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Jami Gertz (The Lost Boys), Lois Smith (Minority Report), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Boogie Nights), Alan Ruck (television’s “Succession”), Todd Field (Eyes Wide Shut), and Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan).
Twister was directed by Jan de Bont (Speed) from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. The film was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, and Ian Bryce. Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen served as executive producers.
On March 25, 1997, Twister was the first theatrical feature film to be released on the DVD format.
Twister was nominated for two Academy AwardsÒ – Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
Twister will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc for $33.99 ERP and includes an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc with the theatrical version of the feature film in 4K with HDR and a Digital download of the film. Fans can also own Twister in 4K Ultra HD via purchase from select digital retailers beginning on July 9.
The 4K remastering process was overseen by director Jan de Bont.
About the Film
Don’t breathe! Don’t look back! Just run for your life when a destructive force of nature comes howling straight toward you, destroying everything in its path – when you’re running from a Twister. Academy AwardÒ winner Helen Hunt stars as Dr. Jo Thornton-Harding, who as a small girl watched her father sucked to his death from her family’s storm cellar by a massive tornado. Now a storm chaser, a scientist who risks her life to study the dark side of nature by taking her data-transmitting instruments directly into the path of a deadly storm, Jo chases the largest tornado ever to strike Oklahoma as her marriage implodes and rival scientists will stop at nothing to steal her breakthrough.
The Twister 4K UHD Disc includes the following new and previously released special features:
BASICS
PRODUCT ERP
Twister 4K Ultra HD $33.99
Twister
Ultra HD Blu-ray Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ultra HD Blu-ray Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
Run Time: 113 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Street Date: July 9, 2024
Digital Street Date: July 9, 2024
STARRING HELEN HUNT AND BILL PAXTON WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 4K RESOLUTION WITH HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)
Burbank, Calif., May 21, 2024 – Twister, action-packed iconic disaster film directed by Jan de Bont (Speed) will be available for purchase on 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital for the first time on July 9.
Twister will be available to purchase on July 9 on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc from online and in-store at major retailers and available for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more.
Twister stars Academy AwardÒ winner (As Good as It Gets) and four-time Emmy AwardÒ winner (“Mad About You”) Helen Hunt and Screen Actors Guild Award Winner Bill Paxton (Apollo 13). The film also stars Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Jami Gertz (The Lost Boys), Lois Smith (Minority Report), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Boogie Nights), Alan Ruck (television’s “Succession”), Todd Field (Eyes Wide Shut), and Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan).
Twister was directed by Jan de Bont (Speed) from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. The film was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, and Ian Bryce. Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen served as executive producers.
On March 25, 1997, Twister was the first theatrical feature film to be released on the DVD format.
Twister was nominated for two Academy AwardsÒ – Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
Twister will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc for $33.99 ERP and includes an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc with the theatrical version of the feature film in 4K with HDR and a Digital download of the film. Fans can also own Twister in 4K Ultra HD via purchase from select digital retailers beginning on July 9.
The 4K remastering process was overseen by director Jan de Bont.
About the Film
Don’t breathe! Don’t look back! Just run for your life when a destructive force of nature comes howling straight toward you, destroying everything in its path – when you’re running from a Twister. Academy AwardÒ winner Helen Hunt stars as Dr. Jo Thornton-Harding, who as a small girl watched her father sucked to his death from her family’s storm cellar by a massive tornado. Now a storm chaser, a scientist who risks her life to study the dark side of nature by taking her data-transmitting instruments directly into the path of a deadly storm, Jo chases the largest tornado ever to strike Oklahoma as her marriage implodes and rival scientists will stop at nothing to steal her breakthrough.
The Twister 4K UHD Disc includes the following new and previously released special features:
- The Legacy of Twister – Taken by the Wind (NEW)
- Chasing the Storm: Twister Revisited
- Anatomy of a Twister
- The Making of Twister
- Van Halen Music Video – Humans Being
- Commentary by director Jan de Bont and visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier
BASICS
PRODUCT ERP
Twister 4K Ultra HD $33.99
Twister
Ultra HD Blu-ray Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ultra HD Blu-ray Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
Run Time: 113 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Street Date: July 9, 2024
Digital Street Date: July 9, 2024
Based on the colors from the trailer I dig it as the skies look how it does when tornados are about to hit. I already preordered the standard edition from amazon.
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05-22-24, 02:02 PM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
I don't know about that. All I can say is that I saw this movie in the theater in 1996 and it didn't look like that at the time.
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miller_time22 (05-22-24)
05-22-24, 02:13 PM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
Well at the beginning of the trailer when Bill Paxton is looking at the sky as its "going green" and the colors felt stronger to me. The press release does say Jan De Bont supervised the Remaster. If you've watched the current blu ray recently its horribly outdated and I'm glad this new remaster is finally happening.
Last edited by Bluelitespecial; 05-22-24 at 02:19 PM.
05-22-24, 09:40 PM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
Well at the beginning of the trailer when Bill Paxton is looking at the sky as its "going green" and the colors felt stronger to me. The press release does say Jan De Bont supervised the Remaster. If you've watched the current blu ray recently its horribly outdated and I'm glad this new remaster is finally happening.
This would be far from the first time a filmmaker has taken a heavy hand of revisionism toward his older work.
05-23-24, 11:50 AM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
Yeah, that green is a bit much. Other parts of the movie look good in that clip but the green is a LOT.
I’m going to have to wait for reviews of this one.
I’m going to have to wait for reviews of this one.
05-23-24, 02:35 PM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
This movie had more equipment reflections in it than any other movie I’ve ever seen, wondering if they will digitally paint them out on this?
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Bluelitespecial (05-23-24)
05-23-24, 09:24 PM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
No I don’t, but especially with the color regrading and such I wonder if they’ll try to hide all the mistakes. I watched this on 35mm the night before it opened and could not believe all the reflections in it, the director’s previous movie “Speed” had a couple also, most obvious being the boom mike reflected in the pay phone receiver after the first explosion.
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PhantomStranger (05-29-24)
05-30-24, 09:11 AM
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Can you give some scenes where you see the camera reflections? I've never really paid attention to notice this.
05-31-24, 04:38 PM
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I wouldn't have a problem if those kind of gaffes were fixed.
05-31-24, 05:35 PM
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I would, it’s part of the movie and they should have caught them before it was finished. There’s so many of these in this movie it’s impossible to list them all, but an obvious one is a shot of the truck driving and you can see the helicopter reflected in it.
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Bluelitespecial (06-02-24)
06-03-24, 02:49 PM
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Re: Twister (1996)- 4k UHD 7/9/24
The price of the standard 4k is now at 27.99 just slightly below MSRP.
