Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the 1993 animated film that bought a theatrical launch (and is a longtime favourite of this writer), has been remastered for 4K Blu-ray. It’s obtainable for pre-order proper now at a number of retailers, together with Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart, and it’ll launch on Sept. 12. The pre-order prices $33.99 (aside from Target, the place it’s $26.99), and it comes with the 4K UHD Blu-ray disc in addition to a digital code to observe the movie on different gadgets. This sort of disc is viewable with the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and with different 4K Blu-ray gamers.
Mask of the Phantasm ranks extremely on Polygon’s record of the finest Batman movies, sandwiched between Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. In case you haven’t had an opportunity to observe it but, it’s a surprising film that builds off the look and voice forged of the ’90s animated sequence (Batman: The Animated Series), however with a a lot darker tone.
If you need to know the nitty-gritty particulars on how Mask of the Phantasm was remastered, right here’s some of that great things from the Warner Bros. press launch:
The 4K HDR/SDR remaster of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm was sourced from the 1993 Original Cut Camera Negative and was scanned at 4K decision. Digital restoration was utilized to the 4K scans to take away grime, scratches and extra anomalies, however particular care was given to not contact the movie grain or the animation cel grime that was half of the unique art work. This is the first time since its theatrical launch that it’s introduced in its 1.85 side ratio. The unique 2.0 combine and the 5.1 tracks had been remastered to take away or enhance defects reminiscent of pops, ticks, dropouts and distortion.
Warner Bros. shared that there might be different methods to observe the remastered model of this movie, together with the digital model. It might be obtainable to buy digitally on Sept. 12 from Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu, and extra for $14.99.
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