LOTR DVD Release Info

DVD.IGN.COM ^ | 3/26/02 | ?

[TD911]

Fresh off the grill after tonight's announcement.....

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Full specs and box art for the most eagerly awaited DVD of the summer!

March 26, 2002 - New Line Cinema just announced the full specs and release date for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on DVD. The Disc will street on August 6 for a MSRP of $29.99 and will hold the following features in a two-disc set:

• 3 in-depth programs that reveal the secrets behind the production of this epic adventure, including:
  -"Welcome to Middle-earth" in-store special as shown by Houghton Mifflin
  -"The Quest for the Ring" as debuted on the FBC Network
  -"A Passage to Middle-earth" as premiered on the SCI-FI Channel
  
• 15 featurettes originally created for lordoftherings.net, which explore the locales and cultures of Middle-earth and include interviews with cast members Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler and others.
  
• Exclusive 10-minute behind-the-scenes preview of the next The Lord of the Rings theatrical release, The Two Towers.
  
• Enya "May It Be" music video.
  
• An inside look at the Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  
• Preview of Electronic Arts' video game, The Two Towers.
  
• 3D Animated Menus
  
• DVD ROM Features: Exclusive online content
  
  This is only for the regular edition. The "Special Extended DVD Edition" mentioned above will be released on November 12, but no MSRP has been set for that yet.
  
  Here is the box art for both editions (click for larger versions):
  
  

[TD911]

Tough Call, may have to buy both.

Meaning the August Widescreen and the November one.

[PianoMan]

I take it the Nov one has the 4 hour directors cut?

[TD911]

Take this as rumor

The November edition will include an extended cut of the movie with approximately a half-hour of additional scenes (which would earn the film an R rating), and about six hours of supplemental features on two of the supplemental discs.

[Ciexyz]

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

LOTR should have gotten the Oscar for best pic. They wuz robbed. (However, I also admire A Beautiful Mind and congratulate Ron Howard for making this fine movie. But I still think LOTR should've won.)

[DSHambone]

My wife says that DVD will be ours...so now I will have to get both the DVD and the DVD player. Thanks for the timeline info.

[Texaggie79]

Next time please post in GI

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Here is the big news, I am sure that the Ring list will want to be Pinged!

[nunya bidness]

Stop telling the hobbits what to do.

[socal_parrot]

C'mon, lighten up! I'm surprised this isn't in Breaking News!

Live long and prosper and trust the Force, Luke

[Texaggie79]

lighten up? What if there are hobbits who only come to FR for LOTR discussions and they can't find this because it is in the wrong place?

[socal_parrot]

To the hobbits, this is News/Activism.

Nanu Nanu

[nunya bidness]

Tim isn't here now.

[TD911]

My bad.

But this damn ring keeps making my hand disappear while I type.

It's very hard to concentrate, but I did in fact check/select many of the GI Topics.
The choices seem to have disappeared like my hand.

[Texaggie79]

You catch my drift. The quicker we start following the new format, the quicker people will learn it.

[Texaggie79]

Good, maybe the MEAN mod will start moving all these threads over to where they belong.

[nunya bidness]

Dave. We're all mods now. Didn't you get the memo?

[Darth Sidious]

Nice, very nice.

There's only one thing missing from the list of features: the movie itself :-)

[jimkress]

How does one obtain an "R" rating for the LOTR? I've read ALL of Tolkien's books and have yet to see anything in them that was of "R" characteristic.

[Texaggie79]

I'm going to have to shut you off.

[nunya bidness]

Why would you want to do that Dave?