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On top of no UHD, somehow Kino screwed up the audio on the re-release.

James White was interviewed by BR.com about the Wild Style release, and this is what he said when he was asked about Arrow's upcoming releases for 2026:

I'll just say that those fans of Hong Kong action will have something very special to look forward to later in the year. Our Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest box from a couple years ago set a very high benchmark, but I think we might just top it with what we have in store!

I recall Cliff Macmillan saying that they had signed more Fortune Star titles earlier this year, so I wonder if that's what he alluding to.



BTW, does anyone know what title JamesF was alluding to with this post:

yoloswegmaster wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 2:01 am Interesting tweet from James Flower:

In other Arrow-related news, I have begun writing the narration for the spiritual sequel to The Final Game of Death, including a day’s research at the BFI library today. It’s not Bruce Lee/HK cinema-related but in much the same vein otherwise… hopefully coming soon-ish!

yoloswegmaster wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 11:51 pm
BTW, does anyone know what title JamesF was alluding to with this post:

yoloswegmaster wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 2:01 am Interesting tweet from James Flower:

In other Arrow-related news, I have begun writing the narration for the spiritual sequel to The Final Game of Death, including a day’s research at the BFI library today. It’s not Bruce Lee/HK cinema-related but in much the same vein otherwise… hopefully coming soon-ish!

I can answer that one - the original plan was a feature-length version of what ultimately became the 36-minute outtakes extra on A Fistful of Dollars, titled Sergio Leone Directs The Magnificent Stranger, essentially recreating the film entirely with unused takes and with explanatory voiceover like The Final Game of Death. Sadly the longer version proved too arduous an undertaking with all the other Dollars Trilogy work going on, and I wasn’t willing to sacrifice all the months of evenings and weekends it took to make Final Game happen again. One of the many, many benefits of deleting Twitter a year ago is me not making stupid grand announcements on a public platform anymore!

My guess was The Final Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

The Visitor 4k is one more title not included in the leak. Absolutely packed month from Arrow. Relieved Peking Opera Blues made the cut for the month.

Huge month with 8 titles (11 releases).

I'm actually a bit overwhelmed this month. Excalibur a must have, Westworld and Peking Opera Blues pretty close behind, and Save the Green Planet! tempting too...not sure what I'll realistically end up getting due to big sets from MoC and Radiance the same month!

I wonder if the Hongkong project White teased in the Wild Style interview is a set of titles Warner licensed to Arrow which would mean The Blade, Drunken Master 2, Pedicab Driver etc. A Jackie Chan set with his 90s films might be more likely though.

We're still a few days away from the next announcement but I wanted to ask James Flower if they would look into licensing Best in Show from WB if they haven't already. This dog lover would be eternally grateful if they could restore this film. The WB BD is showing its age and Warner's catalogue isn't all Steven Seagull flicks and 90s comic adaptations. PS.: and I'll not give up on The Iron Giant either!

Finch wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 11:59 pm I wanted to ask James Flower if they would look into licensing Best in Show from WB if they haven't already.

Given their relationship with WB & success with This Is Spinal Tap, I'd like to think a Criterion Christopher Guest box (Waiting For Guffman/Best In Show/A Mighty Wind) might be a possibility.

Since it looks like Warner's catalog will be locked up permanently in the not-too-distant future, Arrow should really focus more on doing Blu-ray debuts than doing UHD upgrades of the kind of 1990s mainstream junk they've been putting out recently. There are dozens and dozens of WB titles that need to be brought to Blu-ray before the licensing door is closed and Criterion is not going to release all of them, even if Criterion remains the only label that can still license WB movies from Netflix. And Warner Archive mostly puts out films from the classic Hollywood era, though the decades I'm most interested in are the 1960s and '70s. Here are some Warner films that I wish Arrow would consider bringing to Blu:

The Couch (Owen Crump, 1962)
The Hill (Sidney Lumet, 1965)
Once a Thief (Ralph Nelson, 1965)
Hysteria (Freddie Francis, 1965)
Our Mother's House (Jack Clayton, 1967)
The Double Man (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1967)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
The Subject Was Roses (Ulu Grosbard, 1968)
Bye Bye Braverman (Sidney Lumet, 1968)
The Sea Gull (Sidney Lumet, 1968)
The Sergeant (John Flynn, 1968)
The Appointment (Sidney Lumet, 1969)
End of the Road (Aram Avakian, 1970)
Crescendo (Alan Gibson, 1970)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (Sidney Lumet, 1970)
The Moonshine War (Richard Quine, 1970)
Tick... Tick... Tick... (Ralph Nelson, 1970)
Skin Game (Paul Bogart, 1971)
The Candidate (Michael Ritchie, 1972)
Get to Know Your Rabbit (Brian De Palma, 1972)
Travels with My Aunt (George Cukor, 1972)
Skyjacked (John Guillermin, 1972)
The Mackintosh Man (John Huston, 1973)
The Outfit (John Flynn, 1973)
Slither (Howard Zieff, 1973)
The Mack (Michael Campus, 1973)
Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff, 1975)
The Ritz (Richard Lester, 1976)
The Late Show (Robert Benton, 1977)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (Ted Kotcheff, 1978)
Going in Style (Martin Brest, 1979)
Just Tell Me What You Want (Sidney Lumet, 1980)
Simon (Marshall Brickman, 1980)
Second-Hand Hearts (Hal Ashby, 1981)
Lovesick (Marshall Brickman, 1983)
Krush Groove (Michael Schultz, 1985)
Follow That Bird (Ken Kwapis, 1985)
Power (Sidney Lumet, 1986)
The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986)
Disorderlies (Michael Schultz, 1987)
Lucky Stiff (Anthony Perkins, 1988)
Impulse (Sondra Locke, 1990)
Final Analysis (Phil Joanou, 1992)
Class Act (Randall Miller, 1992)
Blink (Michael Apted, 1993)
Welcome to Collinwood (Anthony & Joe Russo, 2002)
The Jacket (John Maybury, 2005)
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006)
Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh, 2020)
No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh, 2021)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh, 2022)

I do hope that all of Sidney Lumet's films will come out before Netflix ends physical media. 4K UHD discs of Jim Carrey's and Steven Seagull's slop may make more money for Arrow, but I think there's more value in releasing Lumet's movies on the BD format for the first time.

I really want that Soderbergh No Sudden Move, I keep going back to it. The Don Cheadle character is a type that is strangely absent from a lot of film history. A bit like the 1940s and 1950s that Iceberg Slim describes in Pimp, if that world is in any movies from the time I've yet to come across it.
I also really want The Hill.

Some good choices, Boltzmann Brain. I’d throw in Enemies: a Love Story and Lolly Madonna XXX.

Unlike Paramount, WB seems to be amenable to releasing deleted scenes. I’d love to see Gary Oldman’s part that was cut from Final Analysis

They seem to be releasing the HK titles a few weeks after the UK theatrical tour. City of Fire was November followed by a December release. Hard Boiled is early March so could be a late March title. The Killer is in theaters in April so the pattern with a late April release is likely to repeat. I only wonder where that leaves A Chinese Ghost Story. If Hard Boiled is their March HK title, are they going to hold off on CGS? I've seen complaints about the restoration removing the nighttime filters for multiple scenes in the first film so maybe they're looking into this. There has also been a rumor that CGS 2 & 3 weren't restored in 4K because Shout were desperate to get them onto digital platforms this past summer/autumn. Maybe Arrow will follow the French and put CGS 1 out on a UHD.

The French Metropolitan box set does say 2K restoration for the second and third ACGS in the specs. Also explains why they only does the first one in the 4K format.

Finch wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 12:56 amHard Boiled is early March so could be a late March title.

Terracotta, in their latest newsletter wrote: AND…if you’re a fan of Hong Kong action cinema, be sure to checkout the Arrow Video preorder dropping tomorrow at 3pm UK time.

…so seems like a good possibility.

andyli wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:01 am The French Metropolitan box set does say 2K restoration for the second and third ACGS in the specs. Also explains why they only does the first one in the 4K format.

Ah, thanks for clarifying that, andyli. I didn't know 2 and 3 were only done at 2K.

Finch wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 12:56 am They seem to be releasing the HK titles a few weeks after the UK theatrical tour. City of Fire was November followed by a December release. Hard Boiled is early March so could be a late March title. The Killer is in theaters in April so the pattern with a late April release is likely to repeat. I only wonder where that leaves A Chinese Ghost Story. If Hard Boiled is their March HK title, are they going to hold off on CGS? I've seen complaints about the restoration removing the nighttime filters for multiple scenes in the first film so maybe they're looking into this. There has also been a rumor that CGS 2 & 3 weren't restored in 4K because Shout were desperate to get them onto digital platforms this past summer/autumn. Maybe Arrow will follow the French and put CGS 1 out on a UHD.

We're not releasing the Chinese Ghost Story trilogy for a while - late-summer at the earliest - but I think I can safely promise it'll be worth the wait.

beamish14 wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 11:44 pm Some good choices, Boltzmann Brain. I’d throw in Enemies: a Love Story and Lolly Madonna XXX.

Unlike Paramount, WB seems to be amenable to releasing deleted scenes. I’d love to see Gary Oldman’s part that was cut from Final Analysis

Now's as good an opportunity as any to burst this particular bubble: absolutely less than zero chance of this happening I'm afraid, and not just because we don't have Final Analysis under license. (Unless I've overlooked any, I think we've only licensed one title from BB's list, for Blu-ray only, but it's a good one!) Broadly speaking, with the odd random exception, major studios just do not allow access to deleted scenes or reconstructing previously "lost" cuts the way that they used to, at least when you're releasing in North America and dealing directly with their Hollywood offices. They're just too leery of potential lawsuits ("hey, where's my additional residuals for this previously unreleased footage?") and pissing people off ("hey, I didn't approve this!"), even if you offer to assume all liability. It doesn't matter what was possible not that long ago, and precedent and consistency count for absolutely nothing; things are changing so fast in Hollywood and in general, licensors are getting more conservative about how far they're willing to stick their necks out. A bummer since this is the type of extra that fans seem to want above all else - I saw a post recently from someone saying they weren't going to bother buying Arrow's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because we hadn't dug up a bunch of mythical deleted scenes that don't really exist, as if the best-ever home video presentation of the film itself wasn't enough!

JamesF, is Arrow able to license the Golden Harvest titles that WB owns?

yoloswegmaster wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:00 pm JamesF, is Arrow able to license the Golden Harvest titles that WB owns?

I can't talk about titles that haven't been announced or teased yet, sorry.

I'm like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, "so you're saying there's a chance".

What are the chances of getting the Deklog and TV Works reissued, perhaps in 4K?

denti alligator wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:12 pm What are the chances of getting the Deklog and TV Works reissued, perhaps in 4K?

Slim to none, I'm afraid.

Finch wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:11 pm I'm like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, "so you're saying there's a chance".

:-"