"Armageddon": Box Office Smash Hit Makes Its Highly Anticipated Debut Onto Home Video on Friday, Nov. 13, With Earth- Shattering Promotions.BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1998-- Home Video Winners Will Have Their 1998 Taxes Paid The countdown begins for the release of "Armageddon," this year's No. 1 film to date, exploding onto home video on Friday, Nov. 13, for the ownable price of $22.99 (SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. ). In conjunction with the much-anticipated arrival of "Armageddon," Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE BVHE Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc ) is playing off a line in the big-budget disaster flick by offering a power-packed promotional sweepstakes that will pay winners' taxes, parking tickets and award them real, certified asteroids This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of them asteroids, in sequential order. As of late September 2007 there are 164,612 numbered minor planets, and many more not yet numbered. Most asteroids are ordinary and not particularly noteworthy. . The "End-of-the-World" national sweepstakes features five "Armageddon" videocassettes that will contain a grand-prize "ticket" to pay the winners' 1998 taxes. Ten additional "Armageddon" videocassettes will include a "ticket" that will serve as a coupon to pay for the winners' 1998 parking tickets. Runner-up prizes include 15 real, certified-authentic asteroids, 25 official "Armageddon" jackets and 150 "Armageddon" sound tracks. An exhilarating thrill ride with supercharged su·per·charge tr.v. su·per·charged, su·per·charg·ing, su·per·charg·es 1. To increase the power of (an engine, for example), as by fitting with a supercharger. 2. action, ground- breaking special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. and moments of hilarious tongue-in-cheek comedy, "Armageddon" features an outstanding ensemble cast An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows for flexibility for writers to focus on different including Bruce Willis ("Die Hard," "12 Monkeys"), Billy Bob Thornton ("Sling Blade," "Primary Colors"), Liv Tyler ("Stealing Beauty," "That Thing You Do"), Ben Affleck ("Good Will Hunting," "Chasing Amy") and Steve Buscemi ("Con Air," "Fargo"). When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed on a collision course with Earth at 22,000 mph, NASA's executive director, Dan Truman (Thornton), has only one option -- to send up a crew to destroy the asteroid. He enlists the help of Harry S. Stamper (Willis) -- the world's foremost deep-core oil driller -- and Stamper's roughneck team of drillers to land on the asteroid, drill into its surface and drop a nuclear device into the core. On this heroic journey, they face life-threatening physical and emotional challenges to save the world and prevent Armageddon. "Armageddon" is close captioned for the hearing impaired, has a running time of approximately 150 minutes and is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America ). Buena Vista Home Entertainment has been the recognized industry leader for 10 consecutive years. |
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