I lately saw a 4K restoration of the Coen Brother’s movie Blood Simple at an indie artwork house theater. I had seen the film as soon as before, but it was a number of years ago as a DVD-ripped Xvid played by way of an Xbox 360. To say the least, it wasn’t the same expertise.

Like a lot of the different main studios, Universal is grappling with the difficult economics of making more of this hoard accessible to the public on DVD, video on demand or streaming video. Studios have come to understand that there is not solely marketable worth within the films, but publicity value in performing as responsible stewards of cultural assets.

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 was an epic futuristic novel written by L Ron Hubbard, the founding father of Scientology. The film stars John Travolta, Forest Whitaker and Barry Pepper and was …