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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. 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?

  4. 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.