Paramount Home Media Distribution will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Adam McKay's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) with a brand new 4K Blu-ray release, which is scheduled to arrive on the market this June.
Description: Hotshot television anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) welcomes upstart reporter Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) into the male-dominated world of 1970s broadcast news -- that is, until the talented female journalist begins to outshine Burgundy on air. Soon he grows jealous, begins a bitter feud with Veronica and eventually makes a vulgar slip on live TV that ruins his career. However, when an outrageous story breaks at the San Diego Zoo, Ron may get a chance to redeem himself.
Keep that physical medium train rolling! Great choice for a 4K, although I'll be honest, I'd LOVE to see Ferrell's "Stranger than Fiction" get a 4K somewhere down the line.
From the way this usually goes with movies with multiple versions I would not be surprised if the Unrated cut is on Blu-ray with maybe some special features. Which makes there no reason to buy it.
Happy to see Paramount putting out more of the DreamWorks catalog on 4K. Hopefully they can go into some of the deeper cuts, and of course, the Spielbergs they haven't done yet.
Sadly, I doubt it will come with the extended cut on 4k, which is the only version I would be interested in watching even if it has to be in 1080P on my old boy Blu, so like Tropic Thunder, this release is likely useless to me. Cool to see comedies get their time in the sun though.
I already have the Theatrical Cut on the Rich Mahogany Edition Blu. But for all of you UHD people, I truly hope this has the theatrical cut. Because the theatrical cut is superior, AND THAT IS A SCIENTIFIC FACT!
Why can’t Paramount just give us complete collections? Always releasing them separately. That being said this is huge news, hope it includes Wake Up Ron Burgundy as well.
@MattGuyOR The theatrical version is the original experience, and the dialogue is iconic: Champ: "I woke up this morning in some Japanese family's rec room, and they would not stop screaming." Brick: "Oh yeah, I ate a big red candle." This dialogue is deleted in the Unrated Version and replaced by an unfunny and disgusting joke about eating excrement. Later in the Unrated cut, there is actually a depiction of a character eating excrement. So apparently, Unrated means "with people talking about eating poop and actually doing it." I don't find that to be entertaining or funny. Unrated should mean "with tits," which we don't get. I'm sticking with the theatrical, but to each their own
Love the film, but I'm not sure I need to devote my finite resources to this release. The blu-ray already looks and sounds exceptional, so I'm unsure if it'd be a transformative upgrade.
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