Columbia Classics 4K UHD Collection Volume 4 Coming Early 2024

Columbia Pictures’ 100th anniversary is in 2024, and no doubt there will be celebratory shenanigans of some sort during the year. One small part of that we do know will be the Columbia Classics 4K UHD Collection Volume 4 that has shifted from its previous February release date, but not by too much.

In this latest six-film collection to compile classics from a century of Columbia are His Girl Friday, Kramer vs. Kramer, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Starman, Sleepless in Seattle, and Punch Drunk Love. Each comes with a host of extras, and the set features a hardbound book that details the making of each film. Starman also comes with the high definition debut of the television series adaptation from 1986.

The Columbia Classics 4K UHD Collection Volume 4 is available to pre-order now with a revised release date of March 4, 2024.

Columbia Classics 4K UHD Collection Volume 4 Extras

HIS GIRL FRIDAY

A classic screwball comedy in which Rosalind Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, played by Cary Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his hanging is planned as a vote-getting measure.

Special Features:

Audio Commentary Featuring Film Critic and Author Todd McCarthy
NEW: Screwball Style: The Iconic Costumes of Robert Kalloch Featurette
NEW: Breaking the Speed Barrier: The Dialogue of His Girl Friday Featurette
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson Featurette
Ben Hecht Featurette
On Assignment: His Girl Friday Featurette
Cary Grant: Making Headlines Featurette
Rosalind Russell: The Inside Scoop Featurette
Howard Hawks: Reporter’s Notebook Featurette
The Funny Pages Featurette
Vintage Advertising
Theatrical Trailers

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancé John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished Black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter’s decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor’s parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other’s level of intolerance. In GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society’s prejudices. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Introductions
Karen Kramer
Steven Spielberg
Tom Brokaw
Quincy Jones
A Love Story for Today Featurette
A Special Kind of Love Featurette
Stanley Kramer: A Man’s Search for Truth Featurette
Stanley Kramer Accepts the Irving Thalberg Award
2007 Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award Presentation to An Inconvenient Truth
Photo Gallery
Theatrical Trailer

KRAMER VS. KRAMER

Winner of 5 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, KRAMER VS. KRAMER is a groundbreaking drama about the heartbreak of divorce and the struggle between work and family. Young husband and father Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) loves his family – and his job, which is where he spends most of his time. When he returns home late one evening from work, his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) confronts him and then leaves him, forcing Ted to become the sole caregiver to their six-year-old son. Now, Ted must learn to be a father while balancing the demands of his high-pressure career. But just as Ted adapts to his new role and begins to feel like a fulfilled parent, Joanna returns. And now she wants her son back. Celebrating its 45th anniversary.

NEW: Audio Commentary with Film Professor Jennine Lanouette
NEW: 5 Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
4 Featurettes
Robert Benton on Directing
Justin Henry on Acting
Mothers and Daughters
Points of Pride
Theatrical Trailer

STARMAN

Director John Carpenter presents a romantic science fiction odyssey starring Jeff Bridges in his Oscar®-nominated role as an innocent alien from a distant planet who learns what it means to be a man in love. When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman (Bridges) arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), and clones the form of her dead husband. The alien convinces Jenny to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he isn’t picked up by his mothership in three days, he’ll die. Hot on their trail are government agents, intent on capturing the alien, dead or alive. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion. Celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Audio Commentary with Director John Carpenter and Actor Jeff Bridges
NEW: Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
NEW: Behind-the-Scenes Time Lapses
They Came from Hollywood: Revisiting Starman Featurette
Making-Of Featurette
Music Video
Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailer

EXCLUSIVE BONUS DISCS INCLUDE:

STARMAN – the complete 1986-1987 22-episode follow-up series, based on the feature film—exclusively presented in high definition! HD episodes included on 4K Blu-ray discs for maximum space

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron’s wonderfully romantic comedy about two people drawn together by destiny. Hanks stars as Sam Baldwin, a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He’s an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile, inspired in equal parts by Sam’s story and by classic Hollywood romance, writer Annie Reed (Ryan) becomes convinced that it’s her destiny to meet Sam. There are just two problems: Annie’s engaged to someone else and Sam doesn’t know yet that they’re made for each other. Co-starring Rosie O’Donnell, Rita Wilson and Rob Reiner.

NEW: 30th Anniversary Critic Commentary with Karen Han & David Sims
NEW: A Conversation on Sleepless in Seattle with Gary Foster and Meg Ryan
Audio Commentary Featuring Nora and Delia Ephron
4 Deleted Scenes
Love in the Movies Featurette
“When I Fall in Love” Music Video
Theatrical Trailer

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE

Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, this misfit love story of disconnected people trying to find one another in an antagonistic world is a comedy of discomfort and rage that turns unexpectedly sweet and pure. Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt. From the writer/director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE is a dark, lovely and unique film experience.