Hallo

Ich nutze mal die Gelegenheit nach dem ihr schon ein Mediabook zu American Werwolf in Paris raus bringt zu fragen ob ihr vielleicht auch ein Mediabook zu American Werwolf in London rausbringen könnt.

Ich frage da ihr es ja schon mal geschafft habt in Zusammenarbeit mit Universal die Blues Brothers zu veröffentlichen.

Da müsste es doch auch da möglich sein.

Wäre wirklich klasse wenn wir beide Teile im Mediabook bekommen würden.

Hallo The Hidden,

sorry für die späte Antwort. Wir prüfen das gerade.

Viele Grüße
phil

Das währe klasse wenn das klappen könnte.
Vielleicht besteht hier die Chance an das neue Master zu kommen und das es vielleicht auch noch dieses ungefiltert gibt.
Das neue US Master wurde von Universal leider sehr mit der Bildfilterung bearbeitet.

Das neue 4K Master müsste auch ungefiltert vorliegen, da normalerweise solche Filter erst sehr spät zum Einsatz kommen und es sich hier um eine aufwändige Restauration mit 6K Scan des Originalnegatives handelt.

"When was the restoration done?

Just now, in the last eight months. Universal, who owns the movie, contacted me. And this was the first one of my titles they wanted to restore for some marketing reason. And I said, what does that mean restore it? It’s fine! But let me tell you about restoring a movie: what happens now is technology keeps advancing so quickly that one of the reasons all these special effects companies keep going out of business is because you can’t keep up with it and it’s too expensive. It’s kind of scary if you think about it: when you develop a film chemically, and make a print from the negative, you lose about 60 percent of (the) information and you only get about 40 percent, and this happens every time you make a movie. Do you remember when everybody went from albums to CDs and they had to re-master everything? Well, when they re-mastered the Beatles tracks, they were hearing conversations in the hallway at Abbey Road, stuff which was there and they never heard it. And it’s the same analogy with these advances. I think the Blu-Ray of Werewolf looks very good, I was happy with it and I supervised that. But now they did a 6K scan of the original negative and it was a remarkable thing, it was so weird because it was not like looking at a movie, it was like looking through a window. I didn’t like it actually because the clarity and depth of field is such that you can count the blades of grass. It’s unbelievably crisp and what the most remarkable thing is that black is black. On film black is never black. Here, black is black and that is cool, and it was so clear it was weird. I thought for instance that that kind of clarity would hurt some of Rick Baker’s makeup stuff and in fact it makes it look better, which is a testament to Rick. The scene with Jack in the hospital is unbelievable to look at the sculptural detail of his wound in the face!

And here in Venice is the first time this version is seen?

Yes, this is the world premiere of the restoration and then it will come out on Blu-Ray within the next few months. And I really think and hope that if you have never seen the movie you’ll love it and think that it looks great; and if you know the movie well, you might notice things. It is remarkable."


http://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/john-landis-american-werewolf-venice