‘IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666′ Available in the USA June 9 on Blu-ray, 2-DVD Set and Live Soundtrack Album

Can you handle 45 days on the road on the most adventurous rock tour ever?

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 15 /PRNewswire/ — On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 the award winning Film FLIGHT 666 will be screened in more than 450 special digital movie theatres in 42 Countries!

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Advance reviews and phenomenal media and fan reaction from private screenings of the first ever full length feature film from Brit award winners IRON MAIDEN have prompted Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) to rush release the film and soundtrack for home-viewing enjoyment.

FLIGHT 666 will be released on extended Blu-ray and DVD formats, alongside a double-CD soundtrack album and limited edition double-vinyl picture disc which will be available Tuesday, June 9, via Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in the USA.

Filmed digitally in Hi Def to provide pristine picture quality, FLIGHT 666 was directed by Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen with the award-winning Banger Productions team (“Metal; A Headbanger’s Story” and “Global Metal”) who take you right inside the Maiden family with almost total access to the band, something which Maiden has never allowed before. The stunning 5.1 soundtrack was specially mixed by Maiden producer Kevin Shirley to complement the picture quality as an ultimate attack on your senses.

FLIGHT 666 documents the first leg of Maiden’s legendary SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR which took them 50,000 miles round the planet playing 23 concerts on five continents in just 45 days. One of the stars of the movie is the band’s customized Boeing 757, Ed Force One, which carried the band, all their crew and 12 tons of stage equipment and was piloted by Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, a fully qualified and active Airline Captain with Astraeus Airlines.

Taking you on a visual global tour from Mumbai to Sydney, Tokyo to L.A., Mexico City to Costa Rica, Bogota to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago to New York and Toronto and places in-between, you travel with the band and crew on the plane, to and from shows, in the bar and during leisure time, while experiencing the exhaustion and fan pandemonium that comes with such a mission.

FLIGHT 666 (named after the official airways flight call) reveals how the idea for this unique tour actually came about and how complex planning turned it into a reality. The documentary also contains some of the most spectacular live footage yet seen of the band, filmed in all of those locations and beyond. If you have ever wanted to see the inside story of a truly unique and worldwide tour, taking you to places you never imagined, Maiden fan or not, this is your opportunity.

As a very special bonus for the fans, Maiden has included a second disc of the entire set from the 2008 segment of this tour with the DVD (and long-play Blu-ray). Sixteen songs from sixteen different cities in eleven countries around the world, for the first time ever encompassing such varied places and cultures in one concert. (See full track listing below). UMe will release a special souvenir Limited Edition Deluxe DVD with 26-page booklet, after which it will be available as a standard double DVD version. The soundtrack audio version of the live show will be available on a double CD, as a limited edition vinyl set with two picture discs, and a digital download especially for those fans who do not have DVD access or just want to enjoy the show as a great live album. All are lavishly packaged as an ultimate memento of a tour to remember!

To recognize the global phenomenon of Maiden, the Blu-ray/DVD are also subtitled in Hindi, Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish.

Comments band manager Rod Smallwood; “It’s been a mammoth undertaking. From the first twinkle in Bruce’s eye it’s taken about three years to put band, crew and equipment in a giant flying ‘splitter bus’, to go through all the long and tiresome prep and safety regulations and planning, to the actual filming and of the tour itself, through to post production and right up to putting together all these items in the very best quality possible for our fans.”

“It’s great that with MAIDEN DAY on Tuesday, April 21, we can give our fans the opportunity of seeing this digitally on big screen in Hi Def with full-on 5.1 sound experience with other fans around them. It was also very rewarding that it has won the prestigious SXSW Film Festival Award for Best Music Documentary.”

“The ‘Somewhere Back in Time Tour’ reached almost 2 million fans in 39 countries and, if there is one thing I know from managing Maiden all these years, it’s that our fans are not happy to wait too long, so we are delighted that UMe is rush-releasing the DVD. This closes the chapter on an absolutely brilliant experience delving into the past for the band, myself and my team, the crew and hopefully all of you fans out there. After the summer and some deserved time off, we will concentrate on the ‘new’ with the band starting to put together material for a brand new studio album due sometime later in 2010. And, of course, after that we will look forward to seeing all our fans again!!”

The film FLIGHT 666 is being released in the following manner:

    Deluxe Double DVD:  Disc One: FLIGHT 666: THE FILM (112 minutes)
                        Disc Two: FLIGHT 666: The Concert (104 minutes)*
                        Limited Edition with special packaging and 26-page
                        booklet

    Standard Double DVD: Disc One: FLIGHT 666: THE FILM (112 minutes)
                         Disc Two: FLIGHT 666: The Concert (104 minutes)*

Long-play Blu-ray with FLIGHT 666: THE FILM and FLIGHT 666: The Concert (215 minutes)*

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album – Double CD (102 minutes)*

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album – Limited Edition Double Vinyl Picture Disc

    FULL TRACK LISTING
    for the bonus *concert footage on DVD and Blu-ray,  plus the double Live
    Soundtrack CD

    (CD 1)
    CHURCHILL SPEECH
    Bandra Kurla Complex/Mumbai, India
    February 1, 2008

    ACES HIGH
    Bandra Kurla Complex/Mumbai, India
    February 1, 2008

    2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
    Rod Laver Arena/Melbourne, Australia
    February 7, 2008

    REVELATIONS
    Acer Arena/Sydney, Australia
    February 9, 2008

    THE TROOPER
    Makuhari Messe/Tokyo, Japan
    February 16, 2008

    WASTED YEARS
    Arena Monterrey/Monterrey, Mexico
    February 22, 2008

    THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
    The Forum/Los Angeles, USA
    February 19, 2008

    CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS
    Foro Sol/Mexico City, Mexico
    February 24, 2008

    RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
    Izod Center/New Jersey, USA
    March 14, 2008

    (CD 2)
    POWERSLAVE
    Saprissa Stadium/San Jose, Costa Rica
    February 26, 2008

    HEAVEN CAN WAIT
    Palmeiras Stadium/Sao Paulo, Brazil
    March 2, 2008

    RUN TO THE HILLS
    Simon Bolivar Park/Bogota, Colombia
    February 28, 2008

    FEAR OF THE DARK
    Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium/Buenos Aires, Argentina
    March 7, 2008

    IRON MAIDEN
    Pista Atletica/Santiago, Chile
    March 9, 2008

    MOONCHILD
    Coliseo de Puerto Rico/San Juan, Puerto Rico
    March 12, 2008

    THE CLAIRVOYANT
    Pedreira Paulo Leminski/Curitiba, Brazil
    March 4, 2008

    HALLOWED BE THY NAME
    Air Canada Centre/Toronto, Canada
    March 16, 2008

For full up to date information please go to www.ironmaiden.com

SOURCE Universal Music Enterprises