This week has been dominated by talk of physical media dying out for good, after Sony announced it would stop manufacturing physical video game discs starting in 2028. The news shook up the entire entertainment industry. And it wasn’t just a gaming problem either, since Sony also happens to be one of the biggest manufacturers of Blu-rays on the market.
But it looks like there’s finally some good news for physical media, because one of the most underrated and slept-on rom-coms of recent years is about to get a major physical media upgrade. The film in question opened to a lackluster $6 million in the United States and Canada during its December 2023 debut, and critics weren’t exactly kind to it either. Still, a rom-com led by two of Hollywood’s most beautiful, charismatic new stars was always going to find its audience, and it did exactly that.
That film is Anyone But You, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, and it went on to gross $220 million worldwide on a modest $25 million budget. The movie already got a Blu-ray release back in March 2024, and has continued performing well on streaming and PVOD platforms ever since. Now, it looks like those original Blu-rays have been flying off shelves, because Sony has decided to give the film a proper 4K upgrade. A new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray is currently up for pre-order at $34.99, with a release date set for July 21.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
‘Anyone But You’ Remains One of the Most Divisive Rom-Coms in Recent Memory
Anyone But You holds a rotten 53% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, but general audiences clearly disagreed, handing it a stellar 87% score of their own. That gap is unusual, since critics tend to be more forgiving toward the rom-com genre as a whole. Jennifer Lawrence‘s No Hard Feelings, released that same year, managed to score a much better 71% critics’ score by comparison. Critics were tougher on Anyone But You largely because it leaned on familiar rom-com tropes instead of putting a fresh spin on them.
For general audiences, though, that familiarity was part of the charm. It delivered exactly the kind of wholesome yet raunchy rom-com experience people had been craving to see on the big screen, packed with flirty banter, ridiculous misunderstandings, and of course, plenty of butts and boobs. The cliffside spider scene, where Sweeney’s character has to reach into Powell’s shorts to remove a spider, is worth the price of admission alone. With a 4K release now locked in, fans finally get the chance to revisit the movie in the best quality yet.
