“Hard Boiled” Theatrical Poster
Hard Boiled, John Woo’s 1992 Hong Kong action masterpiece, will screen at the 2025 Festival de Cannes. The film will be presented with a New Restoration from the original 35mm camera negative.
Following its Cannes premiere, the newly restored Hard Boiled 4K will be released digitally (and physically) in North America through Shout! Studios’ new entertainment label, Hong Kong Cinema Classics™.
The seminal Hong Kong classic involves tough-as-nails cop (Chow Yun-fat), who teams up with an undercover agent (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
More details about the restoration (via Cannes):
A Shout! Studios presentation. Restoration from the original 35mm camera negative. 4K digitization by Interface Video Production Ltd. Audio restoration of the original Cantonese theatrical mono track by Brandon Bentley. Restoration by Duplitech. Color correction by Dave Lewis, Christopher Moore and Blake David-Blasingame. Conformation by Dominic Marino and Stephen Hardy. DCP creation by Brian Bolt, Matt Hepworth and Michael Rainey. Restoration supervised by Henry Weintraub of Shout! Studios.
Watch the film’s classic Trailer below:
Great news! I would like to see it here in the UK as well, maybe 88 Films or Eureka Entertainment would pick this up for distribution, as I have only the DVD edition from Tartan Video. Time will tell…