Posted on 10/07/2002 11:39:26 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
To kick things off today, we've got a more comprehensive spec list for New Line's 4-disc The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Special Extended DVD Edition (11/12 - SRP $39.99). Here goes...
Discs One and Two - The Extended Version of the Film
208 minutes (split over both discs), anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) and Dolby Digital 5.1 EX and DTS 6.1 ES, isolated 5.1 sound effects mix, isolated 5.1 music track, Commentary Track One with the director and writers (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens), Commentary Track Two with members of the design team (Grant Major, Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor, Alan Lee, John Howe, Dan Hennah, Chris Hennah and Tania Rodger), Commentary Track Three with members of the production and post-production team (Barrie Osborne, Mark Ordesky, Andrew Lesnie, John Gilbert, Rick Porras, Howard Shore, Jim Rygiel, Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins, Randy Cook, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hull, Alex Funke), Commentary Track Four with members of the cast (Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee and Sean Bean).
Note: Discs Two and Three can be viewed in "explore" mode with traditional menus or "tour" mode via a Play All feature.
Disc Three - The Appendices Part I: From Book to Vision
2 and 1/2 hours of documentary content, including J.R.R. Tolkien-Creator of Middle-earth featurette, From Book to Script featurette, Visualizing the Story section featuring Storyboards and Pre-viz featurette, Designing and Building Middle-earth section featuring Designing Middle-earth featurette, Costume Design featurette and Weta Workshop featurette, design galleries including The Enemy, The Last Alliance, Isengard, The Fellowship, Rivendell and Lothlorien, interactive Middle-earth Atlas with timeline, New Zealand as Middle-earth intertactive map with video, disc introduction with director Peter Jackson.
Disc Four - The Appendices Part II: From Vision to Reality
3 and 1/2 hours of documentary content, including Filming section featuring a production photo gallery and the The Fellowship of the Cast featurette, A Day in the Life of a Hobbit featurette, Cameras in Middle-earth featuette, Visual Effects section and featuette, Post-Production section featuring Editorial featuette and a multi-angle presentation, Digital Grading featuette, Sound and Music featuette and Sound Design Demo, The Soundscapes of Middle-earth featurette, Music for Middle-earth featurette, The Road Goes Ever On featuette, disc introduction with director Peter Jackson.
All told, the 4-disc set is expected to include over 30 hours of unique content created just for this release (including the film and the commentaries). The discs will also feature additional DVD-ROM content and over 2,000 photos and conceptual sketches. And let me tell you... we've seen a few of those featuettes. These aren't 5-minute EPK pieces. They're much more substantial - 20 to 30+ minutes in many cases. Good stuff.
Now then... in a feature in today's print issue of Video Store magazine, Warner reveals that they're gearing up to release an 18-title Charlie Chaplin Collection on DVD, starting in June 2003. Each title will be digitally remastered and cleaned, and will be released as a 2-disc set with numerous extras, including documentaries, outtakes, photo galleries, alternate versions re-edited by Chaplin himself and other material. They'll be available in 2-disc digipack (SRP $26.99) and collector's box ($34.99 - also containing a booklet and film frame) versions. All this is being done in association with MK2 and the Chaplin family. The first three films tentatively due next June are The Great Dictator, City Lights and The Circus. More information will be available at CharlieChaplin.com in the weeks ahead.
Stay tuned...
You're awfully quick to judge a group of people you know nothing about...
I do not. I speak as one who is a member of a group and who is coherent enough to read posts and know what we're talking about.
I don't do all the things on that list myself. And no, we're not perfect.
But even if we ARE obsessed, how are YOU fighting evil by railing against US? YOU haven't been on another thread since MONDAY.
Do you REALLY think we're a drag in the War on Terror?
I rest my case...
I agree wholeheartedly.
Actually, that seems like a very good idea to me... I haven't had much time lately.
I think the trouble is that to Destructor, all we are is a bunch of letters on a computer screen. Faceless people with made-up names...
In Destructor's world we are pretend people who are here as fair game for Destructor to take out the aggressions of the day on.... Not possibly real people with real lives that they try to live out best they can.
See Destructor, if you stop to talk to people, the names become real people. Real people who deserve real respect. And those real people become friends who you care about. What you got yourself into here Destructor, was a situation where you decided to pick on little hobbits because they are small. What you found was a tight group of real friends. I know each of the people here very well... I know what they are doing with their families, with their jobs, their successes, and their trials, their hobbies, their gardens, their pets, and I know what happened at church last weekend. They are friends. And any one of us would go to bat for a friend.
Some of us try to give our names a face through our profiles here. Snapshots and words that show a little about who we are and what we bring to the conversation. To Destructor, profiles are places to throw in a final jab at some nobody who finally got pissed and clicked the name Destructor.
You have no interest in anyone here, and your don't have the common decency to treat people with respect until they prove they don't deserve it. Destructor, you and I are not the same. Your assumptions have not been, and never will be correct.
You have no interest in anyone here, and you don't have the common decency to treat people with respect until they prove they don't deserve it. Destructor, you and I are not the same. Your assumptions have not been, and never will be correct.
Once again, you come up with a list of your so-called achievements. Now, you have come to save us poor lost souls from ourselves. How noble! It is amazing that with all your noble work, what with saving the universe and all, that you have the time to sit here and post reply after reply after reply after reply, harassing us.
You must care what a lot of people on this thread think, since you have been on here, harassing us since the day it was posted.
That's ok, I was just making up the seating arrangement for our Entmoot RoTK viewing next year. Let's see, oh yeah! Hair gets to sit behind the tallest guy with the bushiest hair and then.......
;^)
Hhmm, you're right. All I do is go to work everyday and do my best to love my wife and raise my children to be God-fearing, patriotic American citizens. We go to church, pray for our nation, tell people about Christ, not much fighting evil going on there.
When fantasy overshadows reality- that is not a good thing.
I guess. You're DM must have been real mean to your characters when you were(are?) a teenager.
No one would have minded THAT brief interruption!
Probably wouldn't have had to slap her too hard for that. ;^)
Destructor needs a hug...
< /Hobbit Hole inside joke >
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