
Alongside A MOMENT OF ROMANCE and MESSIAH OF EVIL, I'm officially predicting MIAMI BLUES as the third of the remaining three planned 4K upgrades this year
Despite still having the US license, MVD have shown zero interest in upgrading it to 4K, and as shown by the 4K releases of AT CLOSE RANGE (Cinématographe; coincidentally also an MGM title) and DRIVE (1997) (88 Films US), other labels have had success in licensing the 4K rights for MVD BDs still in print. Therefore, it could easily fit into the whole UK/US dual territory description.
Seemingly sold quite well for Radiance despite it being sourced from the same ancient MGM studio master as the MVD and Shout BDs.
Bruno is almost always quite responsive in a reasonably quick fashion to my emails—which says a lot given how often I've emailed over title suggestions generally—so in our recent back and forth when he reached out to me yesterday to confirm THE HOT SPOT 4K will include a remastered BD after all, the last email he sent me was saying he "can tease that our currently planned UHD Upgrades also include titles that will utilise new 4K masters not previously on their Blu-ray releases" but can't promise all of them will have remastered BDs like THE HOT SPOT will in the end due to "a variety of factors." And despite personally not being all too fond of MIAMI BLUES having just watched it last week, I decided to put in the good word for those fond of the film given how clearly aged the current MGM studio master is, while obviously mentioning I know he cannot confirm nor deny whether or not a 4K upgrade is in the cards to begin with. Sure enough, nearly 24 hours later, Bruno still has yet to respond to my most recent reply at all. Make of that whatever you will! ;)