Snowmaker

The Blu-ray on Amazon is listed as 7/7/09 for release though.


http://www.ironmaiden.com/index.php?...articleid=1125

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Flight 666 Blu-ray, 2-DVD set and live double soundtrack album
Published: April 14, 2009

"IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666" Available Monday 25th May on EMI Records (Tuesday June 9th in Canada) and June 9th in the USA via Universal Music Enterprises on Blu-ray, 2-DVD Set and Live Double Soundtrack Album

Can you handle 45 days on the road on the most adventurous rock tour ever?

On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 the award winning Film FLIGHT 666 will be screened in over 450 special digital movie theatres in 42 Countries!

Advance reviews and phenomenal media and fan reaction from private screenings of the first ever full length feature film from Brit award winners IRON MAIDEN have prompted EMI Records (Ume USA) to rush release the film and soundtrack for home-viewing enjoyment.

FLIGHT 666 will be released on extended Blu-ray and DVD formats, alongside a double-CD soundtrack album and limited edition double-vinyl picture disc which will be available Monday 25th May on EMI Records, and Tuesday 9th June on EMI Records Canada and UMe in the USA.

Filmed digitally in Hi Def to provide pristine picture quality, FLIGHT 666 was directed by Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen with the award-winning Banger Productions team ('Metal; A Headbanger's Story' and 'Global Metal') who take you right inside the Maiden family with almost total access to the band, something which Maiden have never allowed before. The stunning 5.1 soundtrack was specially mixed by Maiden producer Kevin Shirley to complement the picture quality as an ultimate attack on your senses.

'Flight 666' documents the first leg of Maiden's legendary SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR which took them 50,000 miles round the planet playing 23 concerts on five continents in just 45 days. One of the stars of the movie is the band's customised Boeing 757, Ed Force One, which carried the band, all their crew and 12 tons of stage equipment and was piloted by Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, a fully qualified and active Airline Captain with Astraeus Airlines.

Taking you on a visual global tour from Mumbai to Sydney, Tokyo to L.A., Mexico City to Costa Rica, Bogota to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago to New York and Toronto and places in-between, you travel with the band and crew on the plane, to and from shows, in the bar and during leisure time, while experiencing the exhaustion and fan pandemonium that comes with such as mission.


FLIGHT 666 (named after the official airways flight call) reveals how the idea for this unique tour actually came about and how complex planning turned it into a reality. The documentary also contains some of the most spectacular live footage yet seen of the band, filmed in all of those locations and beyond. If you have ever wanted to see the inside story of a truly unique and worldwide tour, taking you to places you never imagined, Maiden fan or not, this is your opportunity.

As a very special bonus for the fans, Maiden have included a second disc of the entire set from the 2008 segment of this tour with the DVD (and as a long-play Blu-ray). Sixteen songs from sixteen different cities in eleven countries around the world, for the first time ever encompassing such varied places and cultures in one concert. (See full track listing below). In addition to a standard double DVD, EMI will release a special souvenir Limited Edition Deluxe DVD with 30 page booklet. The soundtrack audio version of the live show will be available on two CDs, as a limited edition vinyl set with two picture discs, and a digital download especially for those fans who do not have DVD access or just want to enjoy the show as a great live album. All are lavishly packaged as an ultimate memento of a tour to remember!
To recognize the global phenomenon of Maiden, the Blu-ray/DVD are also subtitled in Hindi, Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, Brazilian, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish

Comments band manager Rod Smallwood; "It's been a mammoth undertaking. From the first twinkle in Bruce's eye it's taken about three years to put band, crew and equipment in a giant flying 'splitter bus', to go through all the long and tiresome prep and safety regulations and planning, to the actual filming and of the tour itself, through to post production and right up to putting together all these items in the very best quality possible for our fans."

"It's great that with MAIDEN DAY on Tuesday April 21, we can give our fans the opportunity of seeing this digitally on big screen in Hi Def with the full-on 5.1 sound experience with other fans around them. It was also very rewarding that it has won the prestigious SXSW Film Festival Award for Best Music Documentary."

The 'Somewhere Back in Time Tour' reached almost 2 million fans in 39 countries and, if there is one thing l know from managing Maiden all these years, it's that our fans are not happy to wait too long, so we are delighted that EMI (Ume USA) are rush-releasing the DVD. This closes the chapter on an absolutely brilliant experience delving into the past for the band, myself and my team, the crew and hopefully all of you fans out there. After the summer and some deserved time off, we will concentrate on the 'new' with the band starting to put together material for a brand new studio album due sometime later in 2010. And, of course, after that we will look forward to seeing all our fans again!!"

The film FLIGHT 666 is being released in the following manner:

Long-play Blu-ray with FLIGHT 666: THE FILM and FLIGHT 666: The Concert (215 minutes)*

Double DVD
Disc One: FLIGHT 666 : THE FILM (112 minutes)
Disc Two: FLIGHT 666 : The Concert (104 minutes)*

Plus Limited Edition Deluxe Double DVD of the above with special packaging and 30 page booklet

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album - Double CD*

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album - Limited Edition Double Vinyl Picture Disc


FULL TRACK LISTING
for the bonus *concert footage on DVD and Blu-ray, plus the double Live Soundtrack CD

(CD 1)
ACES HIGH
Bandra Kurla Complex/Mumbai, India
February 1, 2008

2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
Rod Laver Arena/Melbourne, Australia
February 7, 2008

REVELATIONS
Acer Arena/Sydney, Australia
February 9, 2008

THE TROOPER
Makuhari Messe/Tokyo, Japan
February 16, 2008

WASTED YEARS
Arena Monterrey/Monterrey, Mexico
February 22, 2008

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
The Forum/Los Angeles, USA
February 19, 2008

CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS
Foro Sol/Mexico City, Mexico
February 24, 2008

RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Izod Center/New Jersey, USA
March 14, 2008

(CD 2)
POWERSLAVE
Saprissa Stadium/San Jose, Costa Rica
February 26, 2008

HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Palmeiras Stadium/Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 2, 2008

RUN TO THE HILLS
Simon Bolivar Park/Bogota, Colombia
February 28, 2008

FEAR OF THE DARK
Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium/Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 7, 2008

IRON MAIDEN
Pista Atletica/Santiago, Chile
March 9, 2008

MOONCHILD
Coliseo de Puerto Rico/San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 12, 2008

THE CLAIRVOYANT
Pedreira Paulo Leminski/Curitiba, Brazil
March 4, 2008

HALLOWED BE THY NAME
Air Canada Centre/Toronto, Canada
March 16, 2008

WEEDEDOUT

awesome.

Hokeyboy

I saw the film on its "One Night Only" theatrical release, and it was indeed awesome. My wife, who's not the biggest Maiden fan in the world (although she went with me twice in the last year to see them live) loved it as well.

The Blu-Ray is a Day 0, must purchase Blu-Ray, as far as I'm concerned. Don't believe me?? Then I must break you with a SBD.

B5Erik

I'm so in for the Blu Ray. I wanted to see this in the theater, but I couldn't make it.

I'm really looking forward to this.

islandclaws

I'm all over this one. The doc alone looks killer, so the 2nd disc with a full concert is just icing on the proverbial cake. I'll bet this looks and sounds insane on BD.

woofman

Count me in too!

7Keys

I hope they don't do the hyper editing on the concert like the Rock In Rio dvd where it only stays on shot for about 2 seconds.

Hokeyboy

They had clips from the concert performances in the documentary. I don't recall anything that hyper-edited in there. If anything, watching Steve Harris put his foot on the monitor, mouth the words to Run To The Hills, and point his Fender P at the audience close-up and in High Definition is a positively transcendent experience.

Seriously, this is a fantastic documentary. Being able to see it digitally projected on a big screen with full surround was just an absolute pleasure. Any Maiden fan should drop everything to grab it when it's released. I could just plotz.

Rypro 525

anyone know what the deal is with the "Long Play" blu? they aren't seriously going to make the concert like a play all type feature for Blu Ray, and have the dvd have each track seperate

cdollaz

That was a great tour. I had front row. Only bad thing was that it was Janick side so I had him acting goofy right in front of my face the whole show. Although, I did catch a wrist band which I sold on eBay and which paid for my ticket.

DaveWadding

I assumed by "Long Play" they meant it was going to fit all on one disc.

dvduser6

Saw this tour last year and it was one of the best live performances I've ever seen. Wished I could've seen the doc when they did their brief theatrical run a few weeks back.

Mountain Biker

This looks awesome - I'm definitely shelling out the flow for the Limited Edition Deluxe Double DVD!

Hokeyboy

I'm hoping the Blu-Ray has the booklet from the LE Deluxe DVD set. Definitely grabbing those picture vinyls, though, and also hoping that the live tracks will be available for digital download.

Snowmaker

Amazon has the Blu-ray pre-order priced at $14.99 right now.

http://www.amazon.com/Flight-666-Blu...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

LickTheABCs

I'm soooooo there.

cactusoly

just preordered the blu and cd, that price cant be beat!

Rypro 525

noticed that Padalia (sp) the mtv owned hd music station will show the documentary (censored obviously) on june 6.

Snowmaker

Palladia. LOL

Yeah, I hate the fact that they censor concerts on that channel. The recent Motley Crue one they showed was unwatchable because of that.

I'm sure curiosity will get the best of me, but I will try to hold out for the Blu-ray.

Snowmaker

Best Buy also shows the Blu-ray for pre-order at $14.99 with FREE shipping and it also says "exclusive". Looks like they got to release the Blu-ray a month before Amazon and others (6/9/09 versus 7/7/09).

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....p=1&id=1986305

Sorry guys for making you jump the gun on Amazon.

emanon

Ordered - thanks for the heads up!

Giantrobo

Shit, I guess it's time to bite the bullet and get a Blu-ray player.

Dr Mabuse

It's so wild these guys are still around.

I still remember being on WAY too much acid, on the 'no seats' floor, in the shit, at the 'Powerslave' tour show. It was... weird wild stuff I'll tell you. I remember Bruce had on a bird feather mask lighting a fire on the stage during 'Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', and I wasn't sure what was real and what wasn't. Wild stuff. 'Twisted Sister' as the opener was like a surreal cartoon, I laughed and laughed.

They had set up everything and did the sound check after 'Twisted sister', and this roadie came up on stage and said 'we have 130,000 watts, want us to crank it up?' The crowd roared, they stacked more of those big blue(color theme) cabinets on the sides of the stage till they turned into walls.

Man that show was loud. Every time the bass drum hit it blasted you like a shock wave.

I think I'll check this out, but the 'Live After Death' thing documents the show I saw so it'll always be my favorite.

al_bundy

it will be even wilder when some of these bands will have AARP discounts for tickets

Hokeyboy

Although this is more video game related, I feel it bears mentioning in this thread that IRON MAIDEN downloadable tracks are coming to ROCK BAND on June 9th!



Here's the setlist, of which I will be purchasing every last one:

"Aces High" (Live)
"2 Minutes to Midnight"
"The Trooper"
"Wasted Years"
"The Number of the Beast"
"Run to the Hills"
"Can I Play With Madness"
"The Clairvoyant"
"Powerslave"
"Fear of the Dark" (Live)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" (Live)
"Iron Maiden" (Live)

My Swiss hiking shorts were RUINED upon hearing this news...