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Posted by Charles Eggen on 11/17/05 04:22
Universal has scheduled a North American R1 NTSC double-sided, single
disc "Director's Cut" release on 29 Nov. 2005 for $20-25us; a 4-disc
R2 German release of 1 December (20-22eur); a 3-disc R4 Australian
release of 7 December ($35au) and a 3-disc R2 PAL UK
release of 26 December (17#). It will be 13min. longer than
currently available on DVD and audio will be dolby surround 5.1, dolby
surround 2.0 and DTS 5.1. It will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen format.
The confusion over what exactly will be contained has come from the
info going around about the package being one-disc, two-disc,
three-disc or four. It would seem that the R1 North American release
will be a single disc that has the feature, with a 2minute into by
Jackson, on one side, along with an optional audio commentary by
Jackson. The other side contains a 270+ minute "Making of"
documentary that contains: interviews with Michael J. Fox, Trini
Alvarado, Dee Wallace Stone, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, John Astin and
Jim Fyfe; a section (Ghost Stories) where Jackson and Fyfe share
their personal close encounters with ghosts; bloopers and "lost
footage" is included, as is a piece with Peter describing script
development; a cast rehearsal; an introduction to WETA; a
close-up look at miniature use; motion control and bluescreen effects;
details on how they constructed wallpaperman, portraitman, slimeface,
blobman, worm, the reaper; there is a 24 minute section on the music,
with Danny Elfman and more.
With the R2 and R4 versions, the 270+ minute documentary
is split between discs 2 and 3. The German R2 is the same as the other
R2s, except that there is a fourth disc in the package that contains
the original theatrical 105 min. version feature in anamorphic 2.35:1
with English or French 5.1 surround or German 2.0 surround options. It
also has subtitles for: English, French or German. The audio options
on the Director's Cut offering (Disc 2) in addition to being in
English, contains subtitle options of: German, English, French,
Spanish, Italian, Arab, Bugarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finish,
Hebrew, Islandic, Norweigen, Swedish, Rumanian, Slovac and Polish.
I won't be surprised if I am surprised some more, when these issuing
are released. Universal - I am not amused.
Charles
nzvideos.org
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