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Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release

Posted by michael on from the calling-in-sick dept.

sdirector writes "'Warner Bros. has announced that in a whoa-worthy bit of synchronicity The Matrix Revolutions, the concluding chapter in the Wachowski brothers' hit sci-fi trilogy, will be released simultaneously in nearly 70 countries.'"

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  1. Call in sick by Brahmastra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It will be interesting to see how many people call in sick on the release day, especially in places where it is being released during the day. Anyone do such a study for Star Wars?

    1. Re:Call in sick by decaf_dude · · Score: 5, Interesting

      My boss is not only giving me the afternoon off to see the movie, he's buying the tickets. All geek movies (LoTR, Matrix, et al) are treated as such: company pays for the premiere tickets and we get the afternoon off.

  2. In related news... by jafuser · · Score: 5, Interesting

    2003-10-03 07:28:56 Metacortex Launches Website (articles,movies) (rejected)

    Metacortex has recently launched a website to promote their products and services, while announcing their involvment with some rather large projects. If the name of this company doesn't sound entirely familiar, maybe you will remember the name of one of their former employees, Thomas Anderson.

    If anyone remembers the web-based game/puzzle for the movie A.I., this looks like it may be something similar for Matrix: Revolutions.

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  3. Wow... it must really suck hard! by cryptochrome · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They definitely aren't taking any chances on losing money with this one. I predict the strongest opening weekend ever and the biggest drop for the second weekend... gotta get people in the theaters before the word gets out you know...

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    1. Re:Wow... it must really suck hard! by foo+fighter · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm betting there are some huge plot twists, and they don't want the ending spoiled for anyone because they had to wait three months to see the film.

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  4. well... by ed.han · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i dunno: i think it's actually pretty fair. scheduling the release time while working with time zone differences globally is actually pretty difficult to accomplish, i should think.

    what i found most interesting in the article:

    "revolutions will also screen at selected imax venues, the first time a major hollywood release has ever premiered concurrently on both 35mm and the large-screen format.

    OK, you just know people are gonna be going from imax to stadium-seating theatres to compare film experiences. heck, i might do it myself.

    ed

  5. Cool! by MImeKillEr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now, when can we expect:

    1. The boxed set ?
    2. Each title in letterbox/wide-screen ?
    3. The letterbox/wide-screen boxed set ?
    4. Each title as a 'limited editition' with a bunch of extra crap ?
    5. The limited-edition boxed set ?
    6. Each title released individually as 'Director's Cut' ?
    7. The director's cut of the boxed set ?

    'Cause you know they're going to take a page from George Lucas and whore the titles like he did with Star Wars.

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  6. Region Codes by McGruff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, when the DVD ships it will be region free since the studio released it world wide on the same day, right? Isn't that the only justification the DVDCCA uses for region codes?

  7. A different take on the Matrix... by vudufixit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I never liked the "machines are using humans as energy cells" aspect of the plot. There are far better sources of energy the machines could have used, such as nuclear, geothermal, etc. I always thought wouldn't it have been cooler if the machines were imprisoning humans and using their brains in a sort of massive computing grid? That the machines needed our collective brainpower for some task, and the purpose of the Matrix is to keep all of those human brains humming along and doing their machine-appointed task in the backround.

  8. Thank you by friend · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Some studios are finally getting it -- there's no reason to keep the non-USA world waiting for popular movies. Especially with the ease of downloading movies off the internet. Fox has wisened up considerably in the past years ("Star Wars Episode 1" took three months to travel across the atlantic, while "Episode II" premiered almost simultaneously). The story also mentions X2 premiering simultaneously in 80 countries. Nice.

    At the opposite end of the spectrum, the infamous Lone Gunmen episode of the X-files aired this week in Sweden (18 months after the US network premiere), but in this case I hold the swedish network responsible (wankers).