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...
Say what you will about me. At least I'm in the real world doing what I can to make it a little bit better.
I don't want to be in league with you fantasy weirdos!
There are plenty of people in my church that take up space on the pew, but only a few that actually work.
I am glad to hear you belong to a church made up of human beings. That has always been the case.
Family time is important, but so is service to the Community.
God gave Humanity family long before He gave them community. A man’s (and woman’s) greatest responsibility is to his family. Community has gone downhill because families have gone downhill, not the other way around.
Umm...let me guess...you don't have small children?
FYI, there are many ways of serving the community...raising the next generation to be good, upright human beings is a big part of it.
Not all of us have the free time you apparently have. More power to ya. I do what I can, and I think it's very presumptuous (not to mention unChristian) of you to decide for us what is enough and what isn't. That's between me and my Lord.
Glad to hear it... And I will not demand that you prove it to me. I don't think we started out assuming otherwise, the way you did about us.
If you notice, we have not been talking about a fantasy movie much at all, we have been talking about you, and your weird obsession with us as the harbingers of great evil.
None of us are doing that. We WERE discussing how certain virtues are portrayed in the book before you decided to go berserk. (Believe it or not, stories and fictional characters CAN be used to teach moral lessons! Some guy called Jesus Christ did that a lot...)
How cool! - We could look into that for Entmoot!
It's all written down in the Bible. Plus I have a man of God who periodically tells me in his sermons that "God calls us to action." I'll take the Reverend's word over yours any day!
I'm not qualified to preach to anybody. I just see this movie being exalted as some great thing that it isn't! It's just entertainment. You probably spent your youth looking for great relevations from your Beatles albums.
Noted....
That doesn't seem to have stopped you.....
Works for me!
But for someone who doesn't like us, you sure have spent a lot of time playing in our sandbox...
Don't alienate your own brothers and sisters, if in fact that is who they are. Have you ever heard of this expression: "Live, and let live"?
"That doesn't seem to have stopped you....."
Since you're too stupid to figure this out on your own- I'm responding to an accusation that I'm preaching!
If you were paying attention, you'd find us all there...
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