Indiana Jones coming to DVD!

E! Online ^ | 5/6/03 | Josh Grossberg

[BaghdadBarney]

The man in the hat is back - and on DVD for the first time.

Looking to tide folks over until the eventual release of the fourth Indiana Jones feature, Paramount Home Entertainment announced Tuesday that it finally plans on releasing the first three Indy films on November 4, 2003 as part of a four-disc DVD set.

Dubbed The Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Complete DVD Movie Collection, the set will not only feature all three Indy flicks -1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - but will also include a disc devoted to bonus material, including brand new interviews with director Steven Spielberg, producer-writer George Lucas and star Harrison Ford.

"When we began, we kind of went on our own Indiana Jones archaeological dig in the Lucasfilm archives to see what we had and kind of hit a treasure trove of materials," says Jim Ward, vice president of marketing for Lucasfilm (which is producing the set with Paramount) and an executive producer of the DVD. "What we're trying to do right now is figure out what will go on that final disc...we have a lot of great never-before-seen things."

In the name of fortune and glory, the filmmakers didn't hesitate to raid the vaults. Among the goodies unearthed for the bonus disc: interviews with cast and crew members, new behind-the-scenes documentaries, featurettes on visual effects and music and hithtero unreleased footage cut from the original films.

One highlight is a deleted fight between Indy and a Cairo swordsman that Spielberg spent days choreographing only to have Ford--under the weather because of a stomach virus--improvise and just shoot the baddie, which wound up in the finished Raiders and was one of the best-remembered moments. The full scene has been resurrected for the DVD.

The Indy DVD set is expected to retail for approximately $50.

[cgk]

The DVD's may be overdue, but sorry - the comments here are correct. This isn't Breaking News. Front Page, maybe, more likely Extended or the Smokey Backroom. But not Breaking.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Whoo-hoo:

From Indiana Jones Information Center

Young Indiana Jones DVD's!

Found the following article on 'The Raider.net'

DVDFILE.COM reported that we may be looking forward to not only the Indy trilogy on DVD but also an extensive set episodes from The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (aka The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) that Lucasfilm is planning to bring to DVD with extensive making-of material and more.

In a recent Video Business article Star Wars producer Rick McCallum talked about Lucas' DVD plans for the acclaimed series, which will be a multi-year project involving "leading industry producers" and extensive historical and other behind-the-scenes documentaries. Full specs and any possible release date information are likely a long way off.

"We are so committed to those... what we're going to try to do is produce historical documentaries about each of the historical characters. It's a way of giving it to a school and saying, 'Look, we know how hard it is to teach children. Try and use this as a tool. Let them see something that is fun for them and easy for them to watch.' It will probably take three or four years to get it done. We're hiring some really great documentary filmmakers."

[LasVegasMac]

God, I hated the Indiana Jones movies.

So how do feel about them now?

LVM

[discostu]

The first one was one of the best ever produced in the history of American film. 2 and 3 were OK at best and compared to the brilliance of the first rather weak and unworthy. I'm hoping the forth will allow the series to end on a high note but I doubt it, if it's good and makes money they'll make more and they'll suck. The only way the series ends on a high note is if the 4th movie is good but unpopular, then they won't make more.

[TD911]

Uh, because they're bootlegs, from the LaserDisc releases.

[discostu]

The second and third Back to the Future movies were shot together. Major play for cash, totally repellent.

[js1138]

They're making a fourth because Harrison Ford wants to.

[ffusco]

Devils Advocate?

[absinthe]

Uh, because they're bootlegs, from the LaserDisc releases.

No, the compression artifacts are a byproduct of bad DVD mastering, whatever the video might have been bootlegged from. Laserdiscs don't have compression artifacts, because they never involved compression.

[discostu]

Let me fix that for you:
They're making a fourth because Harrison Ford hasn't had a smash hit in years and needs the cash, meanwhile both Spielberg and Lucas have been looking rather mortal lately and they're hoping for the trifecta.

Don't get me wrong, I'll see it, I'm a sucker that way. But I'm fully convinced it'll bite, and if it doesn't they'll keep cranking on the mimeograph until the series gets to end with a lousy movie. That's how these things work, Hollywood views series as a license to print money and they keep going back until it stops printing.

[BaghdadBarney]

"So this is something which needs our urgent attention, is it?"

Lighten up, Stay Puft! It might well be "chat" to you but the last time I checked most newspapers out there do include a society/culture/entertainment section. And this little story will most likely be front-and-center on most of those pages tomorrow. If you don't care for it don't read it...

[js1138]

Visible artifacts are the result of cheap or incompetent DVD mastering, probably a real-time conversion from a tape or laserdisk. I'm pretty sensitive to artifacts since I do a lot of digital photography. There are differences in the quality of various compression algorithms.

[Lockbar]

How could I have lived one more day without this information?

[BaghdadBarney]

"This isn't Breaking News. Front Page, maybe, more likely Extended or the Smokey Backroom. But not Breaking."

I'm so sorry you had to view the "headline" in Breaking News... it must have hurt... can I get you some eye-drops?

[BaghdadBarney]

"How could I have lived one more day without this information?"

Is that the standard by which your pretty littl' eyes can view such things in the "Breaking News" section? I'm soooooo sorry!

[Question_Assumptions]

Laser disk! Man I almost forgot about the DVD's gigantic cousin.

I've got two shelves on a book case full of them including the first three Star Wars movies, untampered with and in letterbox.

[Question_Assumptions]

I still have them. I know its the home entertainment equivalent of a coaster now. Pioneer stopped supporting the format in 2000.

Hmmm. Perhaps I should get a spare player. I've got a lot of LDs that I'd like to be able to play in the future.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[ewing]

[Question_Assumptions]

Uh, because they're bootlegs, from the LaserDisc releases.

Hmmm. I think I have the LDs for both movies (that middle one didn't really exist).