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SE7EN Celebrates its 30th Anniversary with a 4K Remaster and a Re-release in IMAX

Warner Bros.
November 19, 2024

FROM ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR DAVID FINCHER, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 4K RESOLUTION WITH HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR).

AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL AND 4K UHD DISC ON JANUARY 7, 2025.

EXPERIENCE THE FILM IN IMAX® FOR THE FIRST TIME, STARTING JANUARY 3, 2025 FOR A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT.

The film stars Academy Award Winners Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Burbank, Calif., November 19, 2024 – Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the psychological thriller SE7EN from New Line Cinema and acclaimed director David Fincher, the 1995 film will be available for purchase Digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on January 7, 2025.

SE7EN will be available to purchase on Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online and in-store at major retailers and available for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more.

Additionally, to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, the newly re-mastered version of SE7EN will be offered theatrically worldwide with exclusive IMAX engagements in the U.S. and Canada beginning on January 3, and international theatrical engagements on select dates. To purchase tickets, or for further information, please visit www.imax.com/seven.

Directed by three-time Academy Award nominee David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, Mank) from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, the film stars Academy Award winner Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood), Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love), along with John C. McGinley (Platoon), Golden Globe nominee R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket), and Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects, American Beauty) as John Doe. The film is produced by Arnold Kopelson and Phyllis Carlyle.

SE7EN received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing (Richard Francis-Bruce) at the 68th Academy Awards. The film was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Andrew Kevin Walker) at the 49th British Academy Film Awards.

The 4K restoration of Se7en was completed at Warner Bros. Discovery’s Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) and was sourced from the original camera negative. The restoration was overseen by director David Fincher.

About the Film

Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) guides the action – physical, mental, and spiritual – with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.

SE7EN 4K UHD Blu-ray. DigiPack Case

SE7EN 4K UHD Blu-ray. SteelBook Case (Limited Edition)

Specifications

Video: 4K UHD (2160p). 2.39:1 (OAR). HEVC/H.265 Codec. HDR 10.
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Languages: English, Spanish, Parisian French
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French

Run Time: 127 minutes
Rating: R for grisly afterviews of horrific and bizarre killings, and for strong language

Special Features

SE7EN Digital release and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc contain the following previously released special features:

  • Commentaries:

– The Stars: David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman
– The Story: Richard Dyer, Andrew Kevin Walker, Richard Francis-Bruce, Michael De Luca, David Fincher
– The Picture: Darius Khondji, Arthur Max, Richard Francis-Bruce, Richard Dyer, David Fincher
– The Sound: Ren Klyce, Howard Shore, Richard Dyer, David Fincher

  • Deleted Scenes:

– Car Ride in from Gluttony
– My Future
– Raid on Victor’s
– Spare Some Change?
– Tracy Wakes from Light Sleep
– Pride

  • Alternate endings:

– Animated storyboards of un-shot ending
– Original “Test” ending

  • Still Photographs (featurettes):

– John Doe’s Photographs
– Victor’s Decomposition
– Police Crime Scene Photographs
– Production Photographs
– The Notebooks

  • Production Design (featurette)
  • Mastering for the Home Theater (featurette)
  • Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Early Storyboards (featurette)
  • Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Rough Version (featurette)
  • Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Final Edit (featurette)
  • Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Stereo Audio Commentary One – The Concept – Designer Kyle Cooper (featurette)
  • Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Stereo Audio Commentary Two – The Sound – Brant Biles & Robert Margouleff (featurette)
  • Theatrical EPK

“Fight Club” Celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a 4K Remaster and an Art Book

“WELL, MAYBE IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT… 👊”

Or so says the mysterious account that discreetly appeared on Instagram on October 15, the 25th Anniversary of Fight Club.

Now, New Regency and 20th Century Studios have officially announced that the subversive film, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s satirical novel, has been “meticulously remastered” in 4K under the supervision of David Fincher, “offering audiences the chance to experience the film with sharper detail than ever before.”

We will be able to experience the new remaster in 2025, in a theatrical re-release and 4K UHD HDR Streaming and Blu-ray releases.

Insight Editions, in partnership with New Regency, is releasing a companion art book (announced on THE FINCHER ANALYST last year), “a collector’s piece, that includes new interviews, unearthed visuals, original artwork, and rare behind-the-scenes material, offering fans the deepest look yet into the making of the film and its enduring legacy.”

“Fight Club is an enduring symbol of cinematic innovation, with its exploration of identity, masculinity, and consumerism continuing to resonate with audiences.”

“Zodiac” 4K UHD Blu-ray 3-disc Set

Paramount is releasing the 4K UHD Blu-ray + Blu-Ray + Digital Copy of David Fincher‘s Zodiac (2007) on October 29.

Based on the true story of the notorious serial killer and the intense manhunt he inspired, Zodiac is a superbly crafted thriller from the director of Se7en, Fight Club, and The Social Network. Featuring an outstanding ensemble cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chloë Sevigny, Anthony Edwards, and Brian Cox, Zodiac is a searing and singularly haunting examination of twin obsessions: one man’s desire to kill and another’s quest for the truth.

The 4K UHD Blu-ray + Blu-Ray + Digital Copy of Zodiac is available for preorder at Amazon.

It’s not yet confirmed if the Director’s Cut will be included in 4K UHD. The recent 4K UHD HDR release for streaming is the Theatrical Cut.

The Theatrical Cut of “Zodiac” is Now Available in 4K UHD HDR for Streaming

Bill Hunt
June 4, 2024
The Digital Bits

Paramount has just made David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007) available in 4K Digital on Apple TV, Vudu, Kaleidescape, and more. Given the amount of effort Fincher puts into his remasters, we believe it’s safe to assume that Zodiac will be coming to physical 4K Ultra HD from Paramount sooner than later as well.

Zodiac, it should be remembered, was shot mostly in 10-bit RAW in 1080p HD (4:4:4) using the Thomson Viper FilmStream camera, along with some footage in 35 mm photochemical film (Super 35 format). But anyone who doubts that it could look great upscaled and remastered in 4K would do well to take a look at HBO’s Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season in 4K UHD. The advantages of high data rate and low compression, combined with an HDR grade, really make a difference. Zodiac in particular was very well lit and photographed.

And it looks good! The color grade in particular is excellent. HDR is subtle, but it makes a difference. There’s obviously not as much detail as you’d see in native 4K, but the image is very dimensional. Color is really lovely. Should make a good UHD disc. Definitely an improvement over the Blu-ray. The best this film has ever looked.

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For ‘Seven’ Restoration, David Fincher Went Back and ‘Kissed in Some of the City’

On the eve of its Chinese IMAX premiere, Fincher told IndieWire about excavating and remastering his breakout 1995 serial killer neo-noir.

Bill Desowitz
April 19, 2024
IndieWire

David Fincher is a philosopher as well as a perfectionist. When asked about the significance of his 8K remastering of Seven (premiering April 19 at the Chinese IMAX in 4K as part of the TCM Classic Film Festival), he told IndieWire, “If you think of it in string theory, it’s like a volumetric capture of where all these careers were at, and what these people wanted and needed and infused the thing with.”

Fincher was referring, of course, to Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, and the rest of the cast and crew who made his breakout 1995 serial killer neo-noir. The film was a brilliant analog product of the era (with only seven weeks of prep) but also ahead of its time in conveying a dark, creepy, nihilistic police procedural that got under our skin like no other film (select release prints even underwent a bleach bypass, silver retention process that provided greater color density and black levels).

“It is what it is, warts and all,” Fincher said. “And some of it is spectacular and some of it is stuff that I would change or fix today, but I didn’t want to mess with that. There’s a lot of imperfections, there’s a lot of things that you just don’t see on film. When people say they love the look of film, what they’re talking about is chaos, entropy, and softness. Now, of course, we live in an HDR world where you get those kinds of very deep, rich, velvety blacks for free.

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David Fincher to Premiere Restoration of ‘Se7en’ in Imax at TCM Classic Film Festival

Steven Spielberg will also introduce and discuss his director’s cut of ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’

Kristen Lopez
March 21, 2024
The Wrap

Turner Classic Movies has revealed more guest presenters and films that will take place during their upcoming TCM Classic Film Festival (April 18-21, 2024), including the world premiere of David Fincher’s restored 1995 feature “Se7en” in Imax.

Fincher will be on-hand to introduce his thriller, which stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as two detectives on the hunt for a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as inspiration for his crimes.

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Mark Ruffalo Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony

Michael Tran/AFP (Getty Images) via ABC News

February 8, 2024
Hollywood Walk of Fame

Mark Ruffalo receives the 2,772nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

MC: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Steve Nissen

Guest Speakers: Actor Tim McNeil, Director David Fincher (min. 22:29), and Actress Jennifer Garner.

Mark Ruffalo Rewatches 13 Going on 30, Poor Things, The Avengers, Zodiac & Spotlight

January 8, 2024
Vanity Fair (YouTube)

THE KILLER: Official Trailer

October 27, 2023
Netflix

After a fateful near miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.

Netflix Presents: Michael Fassbender “THE KILLER”

Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O’Malley, Sala Baker

With Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton

Casting: Laray Mayfield
Sound Design: Ren Klyce
Music: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Costume Designer: Cate Adams
Editor: Kirk Baxter ACE
Production Design: Donald Graham Burt
Director of Photography: Erik Messerschmidt ASC
Executive Producer: Alexandra Milchan
Producers: William Doyle, Peter Mavromates
Produced By: Ceán Chaffin p.g.a.

Based on the graphic novel series “The Killer”
Written by Alexis “Matz” Nolent
Illustrated by Luc Jacamon
Originally published in the French language by Editions Casterman

Screenplay By: Andrew Kevin Walker

Directed By: David Fincher

Release Date: In Select Theaters October 27  / On Netflix November 10