Shout Factory acquires Golden Princess library

[CSchmidlapp]

Just to add to the discussion earlier about Shout just being US rights holders and releasing 'fortune star' created masters.

Hard Boiled appears to have already been restored and is being shown at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June.
https://inf.news/en/entertainment/608729...9da13.html
Although the article might have been mistranslated or have errors in the reporting, and they are in fact talking about a restoration of The Killer!
Check out some of the details (Hard Boiled is also referenced as A Better Tomorrow at one point) and posters in the article.

I doubt Shout have anything to do with this (or any upcoming Golden Princess title), and the restoration work on this would almost certainly be about finished when they picked up the rights to the library in the US. I imagine it was a contributing factor in the decision that major work on new masters was well underway.

EDIT: Here is an article on Volcano Engine, the restoration team.
https://inf.news/en/entertainment/00b1d5...5e05d.html
The first picture has a screenshot of The Killer in the top left.

[Serums]

That's a good point. It's a massive undertaking. That article is talking about partial AI restoration. I've heard that certain titles on that list (non-Shout) aren't using those restorations when getting released in the West.