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6.19.01
The Phantom Menace DVD is
Official!
The Official Star Wars Site has
posted the following information about the upcoming release of The Phantom Menace on DVD.
On October 16, Lucasfilm Ltd. and
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will begin the worldwide release of Star Wars:
Episode I The Phantom Menace on DVD. The highly anticipated arrival of Episode I
marks the first film of the Star Wars saga to debut on DVD.
Enthusiastic fans of the film will be
rewarded for their patience. Clocking in at about 480 minutes in length, it features over six
hours of additional bonus material, including brand new visual effects sequences
executed just for the DVD release.
Here's what the two-disc set will
feature:
- The Phantom Menace, mastered by THX for
superior sound and picture quality, presented in Anamorphic Widescreen and Dolby 5.1
Surround EX (English), Dolby 2.0 Surround (English and Spanish), and Dolby 2.0 Surround
(French, for Canadian release)
- Audio commentary by Writer-Director George Lucas;
Producer Rick McCallum; Co-Editor and Sound Designer Ben Burtt; Visual Effects Supervisors
Scott Squires, John Knoll and Dennis Muren; and Animation Supervisor Rob Coleman, offering
personal insights into the making of the film
- Seven never-before-seen deleted scenes with full
visual effects completed just for the DVD release
- "The Beginning" -- an all-new hour-long
documentary culled from over 600 hours of footage offering unprecedented access inside
Lucasfilm and ILM during the making of Episode I
- Multi-angle storyboard to animatic to finished film
feature, that lets you flip through the various phases of development of key action
sequences
- Five behind-the-scenes featurettes exploring The
Phantom Menace's storyline, designs, costumes, visual effects and fight scenes
- The popular "Duel of the Fates" music video
that debuted in 1999
- All 12 parts of the Lynne's Diaries, the web
documentaries that first appeared here at starwars.com
- Galleries of theatrical posters, print campaign, and
never-before-scene production photos
- Downloaded by millions from starwars.com, the
original theatrical teaser and launch trailers, plus seven TV spots including the
"tone poems"
The two-disc set is priced at $29.98 in
the U.S. and $41.98 in Canada.
I am ready to order mine and I don't
even have a DVD player! I guess this will force me to get one.
Jedi Power
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