Is anyone aware of a 35mm preservation of Batman Returns (1992) being out there? I remember seeing a couple of screenshot years back that might have been leaked scans from WB's print, before clean-up and modernized color grade. Those screens still had that deep-blue / boardering purple-ish hues in the shadows.
So I take it there was something out there at some point - open matte or matted.

I'm not aware of one in the wild. As for the current grading, it's the closest to the print I saw, except they leaned towards the greener teal instead of the more accurate and bluer cyan in their green-blue dosage. It still is way better than the previous bland greyish transfer.

Nope, not seen one come up yet.
The crading is pretty damn close if a little too uniform, the audio remixes are the worst thing about those discs.

(2026-03-16, 05:25 PM)dvdmike Wrote: the audio remixes are the worst thing about those discs.

Yes, I didn't buy the 4ks due to this, so I stuck to the blu-rays.

(2026-03-16, 06:27 PM)titanic Wrote:

(2026-03-16, 05:25 PM)dvdmike Wrote: the audio remixes are the worst thing about those discs.

Yes, I didn't buy the 4ks due to this, so I stuck to the blu-rays.

I bought the digital versions as a few providers let you have the new 4k master with the original 5.1

Unless you absolutely want to play the actual discs, know that the UHDs and former Blu-rays have easily compatible masters sync-wise once you determine the initial delay. So you can rip the discs and swap audio tracks from one to the other to obtain the best of both worlds.