Monday, June 24, 2024

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Has Director Joe Layton's Richard Pryor: Live On The Sunset Strip Ready For A 4K Ultra HD Edition Launch On Sept. 10

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey, @dvdblurayreport
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be delivery a 4K Ultra HD edition of director Joe Layton’s 1982 filmed-live comedy session, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, this coming Sept. 10.

This is a new 4K film restoration from the film’s original camera negative.

Filmed live at the Hollywood Palladium Theater (on Sunset between Vine and Gower) over two nights in early December of 1981 — with an eight-camera set up guided by two-time Oscar-winner cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound for Glory) — Pryor delivers a wide-ranging comedy set about life, sex, movie-making experiences, observations and drugs.

The film was a huge success when it was released theatrically in March of 1982, earning one and half times its reported production budget during the opening weekend alone!!

There are no bonus features included with this 4K Ultra HD presentation of the film.


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