551, 666, 838 Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro

[dwk]

While he didn't say who is releasing it, del Toro posted on the app formerly known as Twitter that Cronos 4K is coming next year.

[captveg]

4K UHD upgrade of Cronos in February

[tenia]

I had a look at the 4K restoration through the upcoming French BD, and it is a weird beast in terms of grading, but also, something I don't recall having read, in terms of framing.

While I can't speak about how both matters are supposed to look in the end, the grading is bathed in teal in a way that, unlike a certain blu-ray.com reviewer wrote, isn't at all on-brand for Ritrovata. It's clearly something of its own, which infused both a bit of pale jaundice, but also more often pretty much, well, teal. The previous grading was bonkers pink-magenta-red and definitely shouldn't be taken as gospel (plus, it's clipping highlights like hell), but this new grading seems very modernist, even if it's not a blanket tint/shift, since several shots aren't graded in a very different way than on the previous HD master.

The framing however looks more like something we more directly know of : it's dezoomed and showing a lot more info mostly on the left side of the frame. It too isn't the case 99% of the case, but I've taken 16 random caps of the movie for my review, and only 3 of them aren't showing such a framing difference. It's hard not thinking that the new framing is just plain showing the soundtrack area.

[yoloswegmaster]

Pan’s Labyrinth has been acquired by Cineverse (best known for distributing Terrifier 3 and The Toxic Avenger)

Surprised that he didn't license this to Criterion/Janus given how they seem to be his preferred label to release his films, but even more surprised that WB lost the rights to it.

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

Pan’s Labyrinth has been acquired by Cineverse (best known for distributing Terrifier 3 and The Toxic Avenger)

Surprised that he didn't license this to Criterion/Janus given how they seem to be his preferred label to release his films, but even more surprised that WB lost the rights to it.

Is it expected that this could go OOP or come back in to the Collection in 4K now?

[hearthesilence]

Given the re-release plans detailed in that link, if there was a time to attempt a true 4K upgrade (new scan of the elements, redoing the FX), now would be the time. May still be too expensive, but if they ever did it, I can't imagine a better time.

[yoloswegmaster]

Supposedly GDT himself confirmed that he is planning a 4K UHD re-release through Criterion. Which I'm mixed about since it already has a 4K release, though it looks like it is OOP now. I wonder if they will be released alongside a 4K upgrade of The Devil's Backbone.

[omegadirective]

Does anyone have good images of the DVD trilogy unboxed?
All I can seem to find is the blu ray set unboxed.

[omegadirective]

And does anyone know why they make different packaging for the two sets?

[Matt]

As far as the different packaging goes, the BD set only has three discs, where the DVD set has five. And as is usually the case, a BD set would be less tall than a DVD set and require some sort of different packaging anyway.

It's not a full unboxing, but it looks like on the Criterion site, the BD package is a three-leaved fold-out paper thing with slots to hold the discs. The DVD set is three separate cases inside a slipcase. The DVD set does not include the 100-page book either. The DVD set is probably designed for libraries, the BD set for collectors.

[tenia]

Yeah, clearly, the BD boxset was considered premium while the DVD set was standard. The BDs thus got the special set, when the DVDs were pretty the standard individual releases bundled in a slipcover (like the Wallace Shawn boxset, which simply was the 3 standard releases bundled in a slipcover).

[Calvin]

A new restoration of Pan's Labyrinth is screening at Cannes:

After The Mother and the Whore, L’Amour fou, Napoléon by Abel Gance, and The Gold Rush, Pan’s Labyrinth will be presented as a pre-opening screening of the Festival de Cannes on Tuesday, May 12 at 2:30 PM in the Debussy Theater, in the presence of Guillermo del Toro.

PAN’S LABYRINTH
Guillermo del Toro
2006, 1h58, Mexico

A Cineverse and Necropia Presentation

Writer-Director Guillermo del Toro’s beloved fantasy feature Pan’s Labyrinth returns to the Cannes International Film Festival twenty years after its historic 22-minute standing ovation – the longest in the festival’s history. Now, for the first time, the film arrives in 4K, meticulously restored from its original 35mm negative, for which Guillermo Navarro, ASC, received the Best Cinematography Award at the 2007 Oscars. In addition to Academy Awards for Art Direction and Makeup Effects, the film also garnered over 100 awards worldwide. Every detail of the restoration was personally overseen by del Toro.

Guillermo del Toro will be in attendance for this special screening – celebrating the 20th anniversary of the film’s World Premiere.