Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Readies New 4K Ultra HD Releases • A League Of Their Own (Sept. 03) • Can't Hardly Wait (Aug. 20)

The news this past week is that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be going to the film vaults for its next two 4K Ultra HD releases.   So let’s get to it and find out what they are! 

Arriving Sept. 3 is the 4K film restoration (from the original camera negative) of director Penny Marshall’s 1992 homage to the “All-American Girls Professional Baseball League,” which was launched during World War II, A League of Their Own.

This will be a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack presentation.

The bonus features will be found on the companion Blu-ray disc.   These include commentary with director Penny Marshall, who is joined by actors Lori Petty (as Kit Keller), Tracy Reiner (as Betty Horn) and Megan Cavanagh (as Marla Hooch), deleted scenes, the documentary titled Nine Memorable Innings, the Madonna music video “This Used to Be My Playground,” a trio of episodes from the 1993 television series and the featurette, “The Enduring Legacy of A League of Their Own.”

Streeting on Aug. 20 is the new 4K Ultra HD release (scanned from the original camera negative”) of the writing and directing team of Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan’s 1998 high school comedy, Can’t Hardly Wait.

Riding high on her success of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer Love Hewitt leads an ensemble cast of high school seniors who gather for a final party.   She’s the prom queen and lowly Preston Meyers (played by Ethan Embry) has one last chance to reveal his love for her … one night, one party to win her heart.   Does he do it?   Or does he simply get on the train the next morning for his summer internship with no goodbyes?

Bonus features kick off with eleven newly uncovered alternate and deleted scenes.

Additional bonus goodies (vintage), include two commentary options (cast and crew … and cast and crew ten years later), the Smash Mouth music video titled “I Can’t Get Enough of You Baby,” six deleted scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Huntington Hills High Class of ’98 Reunion,” “The Life of the Party” and “Can’t Hardly Wait: The Making of a Teen Classic.”