Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights Gets A 4K Ultra HD Launch From Warner Bros. Home Entertainment On Dec. 16

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has selected Dec. 16 as the 4K Ultra HD debut date for writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg as up and coming porn star Dirk Diggler and Burt Reynolds as filmmaker Jack Horner, who chooses art over commerce when it comes to making his targeted-for-adults productions.

Dirk (aka: Eddie Adams) has “talent, which Horner spots and cultivates into stardom.   At the time of the story (1977), adult films have become mainstream (think: Deep Throat, Devil in Miss Jones, etc.) and the forthcoming battle was over film versus video — Horner was having nothing to do with the “cheap” way to make adult films — and this would be a defining moment for the “genre.” Dirk, on the other hand, is too young and stupid to avoid the pitfalls of fame (drugs) … in the end they both have to find their way to the other side.

 
Ironically, Reynolds received his only Oscar nomination for his performance here as adult filmmaker Jack Horner.

 
Bonus features include two commentary options — one featuring Anderson and the second is a cast-mix that includes the likes of Mark Wahlberg (Dirk Diggler), Heather Graham (Rollergirl), Julianne Moore (Amber Waves), John C. Reilly (Reed), Don Cheadle Buck), Luis Guzman (Maurice), William H. Macy (“Little Bill”) and Melora Walters (Jessie St. Vincent).

 
Other goodies included here are additional scenes, the extended featurette titled “John C. Reilly Files: Outtakes and Extended Sequence” and two panel sessions at the 2023 American Cinematheque gathering.