``Three Kings:'' One of the Best of the Year; ''Three Kings'' Rules on VHS & Web-enabled DVD April 11.Entertainment Editors BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 8, 2000 Newsweek and Boston Film Critics Association Vote Movie Best Picture of the Year "Three Kings," the highly praised action adventure film starring George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER , Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube, will be available from Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. (WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy) WHV Warner Home Video WHV Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus WHV Working Holiday Visa WHV Westdeutscher Hockey-Verband (West German hockey association) ) on VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. rental and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. on April 11. "Three Kings" was voted best picture of the year by Newsweek's David Ansen and by the Boston Film Critics Association, who also gave a best director nod to David O. Russell. To date, the film has landed on more than 125 U.S. critics' top 10 lists. The Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern said "Three Kings" sets "a gold standard for all other movies this (past) year." The DVD (presented in 16:9 Widescreen) will be a specially enhanced, Web-enabled version with loads of extras priced at $24.98 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . The DVD will include these special features:
-- Behind-the-scenes documentary: "Under the Bunker: On the Set of
Three Kings"
-- Two feature-length audio commentaries with director David O.
Russell and producers Chuck Roven and Ed McDonnell
-- Tour of the Iraqi village set
-- Interview with director of photography Tom Sigel
-- David O. Russell's Video Journal
-- Deleted scenes with commentary from director Russell
-- Special photography from Spike Jonze, actor-director ("Being John
Malkovich")
-- An intimate look inside the acting process with Ice Cube
-- Bunkers: Three hidden features found on menu pages. (Two bunkers
reveal codes that will unlock special features on the Web and
one bunker will unlock a TV spot.)
-- Theatrical trailer
The enhanced features for DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. PCs will include:
-- Links to CNN's Gulf War archives
-- Special Web events: Online screenings and chats with
filmmakers/stars (details to be announced)
-- Original theatrical Web site and more
"Three Kings" centers around career soldier Archie Gates (Clooney), who has been marking time in his Gulf War base camp while high-tech U.S. specialists fight. But now, after the war's end, it's time for action as Gates and three other restless Americans decide to raid a bunker holding a stash stash Drug slang noun A place where illicit drugs are hidden of gold stolen by the Iraqi army. Get in, get out, get rich: the plan couldn't be easier. Or so they thought. "Three Kings" is rated "R" and has a running time of 114 minutes. |
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