TL;DR: The Criterion Collection officially has the Wes Anderson Archive, which includes 4K masters of his first 10 films and more, up for preorder for $399.96. The box set will be released on Sept.

Acquiring the rights to “Citizen Kane” and “King Kong” from RKO Pictures cost Criterion around $10,000. Securing the best surviving print of a film often required assiduous detective work.

Criterion Pictures is one of the largest non-theatrical providers of feature films in North America licensing feature films for colleges, universities, correctional facilities, healthcare ...