WALL-E is rolling his way into the Criterion Collection
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#63FQD)
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WALL-E, Pixar's 2008 masterpiece, is being added to the Criterion Collection, a curated list of movies that are deemed to be important classic and contemporary films." Its induction means that the movie is getting a special-edition 4K Blu-ray release, which comes with a bunch of extras.
It's not the first time the film's been available in 4K, but - and I'm sorry for being this person - the box art for the Criterion version is just so much better than the standard 4K Blu-ray's, in my opinion. It may also have a slightly better HDR master (it comes with Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10 Plus versions, vs standard HDR10 for the regular release), and its three-disc set includes things like a student film made by director Andrew Stanton, a d...