Iron Maiden: Flight 666 The Movie

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MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666 - THE MOVIE
Published: January 20, 2009

British heavy rock legends, Iron Maiden, in association with Banger Productions, EMI Records, Universal (USA) and Arts Alliance Media, announce that they will be releasing a feature length documentary film into cinemas worldwide on April 21st 2009.

As you may know from Rod's tour diaries, Iron Maiden have been working on a feature length documentary. Entitled 'IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666', the movie follows the band on the first leg of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour in February and March of 2008 as they experienced the most ambitious and adventurous tour in rock history, and will be released in April 2009 in association with EMI Records and Universal in the USA.

The Maiden tour plan was something that had never been attempted before on such a grand scale. Circumnavigating the globe, the band flew in a specially customised Boeing 757 airliner with their crew and 12 tons of music and stage equipment on board, playing 23 sold out stadium and arena shows in 13 countries in just 45 days, travelling 70,000km and performing to almost half a million fans.



The band were accompanied everywhere by award-winning documentary makers Banger Productions from Toronto in Canada, who have received international critical acclaim for their previous movies "Metal, A Headbangers Journey" and recently "Global Metal". Filmmakers Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn and their team bring an intimate behind the scenes view of this remarkable journey, with a close look at the logistics involved and following Team Maiden in the cockpit, on the plane and on and offstage, getting to the heart of this global adventure of a band that has very rarely even let cameras backstage before.



Shot in High Definition and with superb 5.1 surround sound, mixed by the bands producer Kevin 'Caveman' Shirley, FLIGHT 666 brings to the screen all the drama, excitement and hysteria that followed the band around the world every time 'Ed Force One' touched down in a new country. The film documents the intensity of the punishing show schedules, the struggle with the time zones, the pressures of ensuring that every performance matched the energy of the many thousands of ecstatic and expectant fans from many cultural backgrounds, unusual angles from the spectacular shows... and of course the fun had on the way!.

Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is an honest and revealing portrait of one of the worlds most successful rock bands and a must-see for all Maiden fans.

A special international 'Iron Maiden' day is being planned for 21st April with simultaneous showings of IRON MAIDEN:FLIGHT 666 in selected Digital cinemas around the world - we will of course bring you more information on this nearer the time.

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si amazingly (or not) cineva care a filmat speechul lui Bruce D. pe Bruce air flight 666 !

up the irons indeed, aces high !!!!

cine poate, go Belgrad 10 februarie ! i wished but Berlin was already set !

Green Planet Blues

Sinaia ianuarie, iata textul pe care l-am scris pt Sapte Seri:

“Progresul înseamnă distrugere”, spune un pescar amerindian, în documentarul lui Olivier Weber, La fievre d’or, despre noua ferbă a aurului de pe Amazon, care distruge pădurea şi otraveşte băştinaşii, cel mai ambiţios film pe care l-am văzut la Green Planet Blues, primul festival (şi singurul !) cinematografic din Estul Europei dedicat mediului.
Am stat trei zile la Sinaia, deşi iniţial plecasem pentru una singură, pentru a vedea o suită din cele mai triste filme posibile, nici unul cu happy end. M-au impresionat cei veniţi aici pentru a dezbate cel mai important lucru pe care toată lumea îl ignoră, mediul în care trăim, pe care îl distrugem temeinic şi impasibil, pas cu pas, zilnic. Aristoteles Workshop, organizatorul, a invitat mulţi din realizatori, care şi-au explicat proiectele, care prezintă un spectacol coşmaresc, o planetă bolnavă, ecosisteme ameninţate, specii pe cale de dispariţie, vechi civilizaţii distruse, corporaţii lacome şi guverne inconştiente. De la hollywoodianul A 11-a oră, produs şi narat de Leonardo DiCaprio, o didactică, repetitivă dar şi efectivă pledoarie pentru salvarea planetei în cea ce noi numim, ceasul al doisprezecelea (!), la Cimitirul digital, un film grecesc despre deşeurile electronice, Ultimul Yoik din pădurea Saami (în Finlanda defrişarea vechilor păduri ameninţă dispariţia renilor, care sunt crescuţi şi protejaţi de tradiţionalii saami), până la Strawberry Fields, un documentar despre un cîmp pe fîşia Gaza, unde oamenii cultivă căpşuni printre obuze, astăzi cu atât mai emoţionant în lumina evenimentelor recente din zonă, deşi nu a cîntat nimeni blues, am simţit tristeţea lăsată după fiecare film, dar şi o emoţie pozitivă, pentru că cineva trage semnalul de alarmă sau pune un semn de întrebare. Pot aceste filme influenţa salvarea planetei? Absolut, şi mă alătur total acestei iniţiative admirabile !

silent snow, de fapt un promo de 14 min la filmul lui Jan Van Der Berg care-l va face anul acesta, despre innuitul care-i cauta pe cei ce-i otravesc mediul !

quote on Slumdog Millionaire

"Slumdog Millionaire is poverty porn"
Alice Miles in The Times.

The bitter truth is, Slumdog Millionaire could only have been made by westerners. The talent exists in India for such movies: much of it, like the brilliant actor Irrfan Khan, contributed to this film. But Bollywood producers, fixated with making flimsy films about the lives of the middle class, will never throw their weight behind such projects. Like Bachchan, they are too blind to what India really is to deal with it. Poor Indians, like those in Slumdog, do not constitute India's "murky underbelly" as Bachchan moronically describes them. They, in fact, are the nation. Over 80% of Indians live on less than $2.50 (£1.70) a day; 40% on less than $1.25. A third of the world's poorest people are Indian, as are 40% of all malnourished children. In Mumbai alone, 2.6 million children live on the street or in slums, and 400,000 work in prostitution. But these people are absent from mainstream Bollywood cinema.
more here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jan/15/danny-boyle-shows

RIP Ricardo Montalban

din Fanatsy Island, sau Naked Gun, sau Spy Kids.
88 de ani, unul din primii actori hispanici (mexican) who made it in Hollywood
bad guy in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24003