I found the italian DVD of "The Arrival": I discovered an interesting fact...

Top, movie clips from youtube, bottom italian PAL DVD: as you can see, the italian DVD is open matte! Following: 1.66:1 crop

Note the "white socks" of the alien; probably the feet weren't mean to be seen, but at least ankles could be "used" for the image, hence *maybe* the open matte could be cropped at 1.66:1, "earning" a good portion of top and bottom image, and loosing some lines at the sides... what do you think? Or the open matte version could be released as "extra", along the other laserdisc boxset ones...

During my researches about the DVD and BD of the movie, I found that BD has also a spanish soundtrack, and the DVD has a french soundtrack; as I like to release multi-language projects, if someone could provide the spanish and french soundtracks, I will use them along the italian one, and the laserdisc PCM and AC3 english soundtracks.