c/movies · by TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 184d

‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Joining Criterion Collection (EXCLUSIVE)

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-frankenstein-criterion-collection-1236670172/

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TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 21 pts · 184d (11 replies)

~~This means there may be a chance KPop Demon Hunters will be released on Blu-ray...fingers crossed.~~

KPop Demon Hunters is definitely getting released on 4K Blu-ray. Thanks to Criterion for saving it from the Netflix catalogue!

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 184d (8 replies)

Did they re-render it in 4k? The album cover for the songs is literally a 1080p screencap from the movie upsized with text.

TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 4 pts · 184d (5 replies)

It's not necessary to re-render the animation in 4K - in fact, the majority of both live action and animated 4K Blu-rays are just 2K upscales. The real benefits come from HDR.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d

You’re telling me the majority of movies are mastered in 2k right now? I don’t think that’s correct.

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d

Animation, especially certain styles, upscales quite nicely.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 184d (2 replies)

Film is inherently 4k. Digital tries to reach that 4k resolution the best it can.

Cort@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d (1 reply)

No. 4k is about 8 megapixels, and 35mm film is 16-24 megapixels depending on iso and other factors, 70mm film is 4 times that.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 184d

Thank you

Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d (1 reply)

I would have thought they would render it at something high like 4K in the first place, since it's easy to downsample to 1080p? Unless, I suppose rendering is expensive and if you know you only need 1080p then maybe you wouldn't?

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 184d

Oh no it's rendered and released in 1080p. It's so stupid.

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 184d

Wish someone had saved Bandersnatch before it was too late... that one hurt to hear about.

doug@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 184d

fingers 👆 going by the thumbnail…

…fingernail?

sorry

feel free to remove me as mod.

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Does the Critereon version of Frankenstein have a third act?

socsa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 184d