Iron Man Flies Home On DVD/Blu-ray, Plus Alan Moore Doc And Dora Movie
IRON MAN makes his debut on home video (both on Blu-ray and DVD), plus an Alan Moore (WATCHMEN) documentary, a DORA THE EXPLORER movie and more, all on DVD/Blu-ray today.
IRON MAN On DVD And Blu-ray
Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures' IRON MAN soars onto DVD and Blu-ray on September 30, 2008. Paramount Home Ent. presents the Ultimate Edition two-disc sets on both DVD and Blu-ray, as well as in a single-disc DVD. IRON MAN thrilled both critics and audiences around the world with its captivating story and stunning visual effects. The film features an all-star cast including Academy Award nominees Robert Downey Jr. (ZODIAC, CHAPLIN), Jeff Bridges (THE CONTENDER) and Terrence Howard (HUSTLE & FLOW) and Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) and was directed by Jon Favreau (ELF).
The requirements on this movie were more demanding than the innovative on-set motion capture work ILM did for the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films known as Imocap. On PIRATES, ILM captured actor Bill Nighy's performance on set and used the MoCap data as reference, eventually completely replacing the actor with a digital character that could deviate as needed from the MoCap data.
But to make the visible parts of Downey match with the CG parts of Iron Man required extremely accurate tracking. "On this, where you have a shot where Robert is walking around and it's basically his real head and we're adding the suit all over his lower body, it really had to be spot on or his head would slide around and it would look weird," ILM Animation Director Hal Hickel said.
In animating Iron Man, Hickel says they tried to give the armor a sense of weight and power without making the armor seem clumsy or slow. "If you built a suit like this, the point of which is to be kind of a battle machine, if it's actually physically restricting or slows the person down then it's kind of really not doing its job," he explains. "It really came down to the performer having the correct attitude, striking the right kind of poses and having the right kind of cool bad-ass sort of thing going on."
Earning north of $315 million in the domestic box office to date, IRON MAN lifts off with high-speed, high-flying action when jet-setting industrialist Tony Stark survives an unexpected attack in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech robotic suit of armor. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Straight from the pages of the legendary comic book, IRON MAN is a hero who is built -- not born -- to be unlike any other.
The IRON MAN Ultimate Edition two-disc sets are super-charged with hours of explosive bonus features that take viewers inside the suit of self-made Super Hero Tony Stark and his invincible alter ego. The sets offer the ultimate IRON MAN experience with extensive explorations of the origins of the character in a six-part featurette, as well as a seven-part in-depth look at the making of the film, a revealing documentary on the stellar visual effects, Downey's original screen test, deleted and extended scenes, a photo gallery of concept art and behind-the-scenes images on the set and more.
DVD:
The IRON MAN Ultimate Edition two-DVD set is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround with English, French and Spanish subtitles. Total runtime is 125 minutes. Bonus features include:
Disc 1:
--Feature film
--Deleted/Extended Scenes
Disc 2:
--I Am Iron Man
*The Journey Begins
*The Suit that makes the Iron Man
*The Walk of Destruction
*Grounded In Reality
*Beneath the Armor
*It's All in the Details
*A Good Story, Well Told
--The Invincible Iron Man
*Origins
*Friends & Foes
*The Definitive Iron Man
*Demon in a Bottle
*Extremis and Beyond
*Ultimate Iron Man
--Wired: The Visual Effects of IRON MAN
--Robert Downey Jr. Screen Test
--The Actor's Process (scene rehearsal with cast)
IRON MAN On DVD And Blu-ray
Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures' IRON MAN soars onto DVD and Blu-ray on September 30, 2008. Paramount Home Ent. presents the Ultimate Edition two-disc sets on both DVD and Blu-ray, as well as in a single-disc DVD. IRON MAN thrilled both critics and audiences around the world with its captivating story and stunning visual effects. The film features an all-star cast including Academy Award nominees Robert Downey Jr. (ZODIAC, CHAPLIN), Jeff Bridges (THE CONTENDER) and Terrence Howard (HUSTLE & FLOW) and Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) and was directed by Jon Favreau (ELF).
The requirements on this movie were more demanding than the innovative on-set motion capture work ILM did for the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films known as Imocap. On PIRATES, ILM captured actor Bill Nighy's performance on set and used the MoCap data as reference, eventually completely replacing the actor with a digital character that could deviate as needed from the MoCap data.
But to make the visible parts of Downey match with the CG parts of Iron Man required extremely accurate tracking. "On this, where you have a shot where Robert is walking around and it's basically his real head and we're adding the suit all over his lower body, it really had to be spot on or his head would slide around and it would look weird," ILM Animation Director Hal Hickel said.
In animating Iron Man, Hickel says they tried to give the armor a sense of weight and power without making the armor seem clumsy or slow. "If you built a suit like this, the point of which is to be kind of a battle machine, if it's actually physically restricting or slows the person down then it's kind of really not doing its job," he explains. "It really came down to the performer having the correct attitude, striking the right kind of poses and having the right kind of cool bad-ass sort of thing going on."
Earning north of $315 million in the domestic box office to date, IRON MAN lifts off with high-speed, high-flying action when jet-setting industrialist Tony Stark survives an unexpected attack in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech robotic suit of armor. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Straight from the pages of the legendary comic book, IRON MAN is a hero who is built -- not born -- to be unlike any other.
The IRON MAN Ultimate Edition two-disc sets are super-charged with hours of explosive bonus features that take viewers inside the suit of self-made Super Hero Tony Stark and his invincible alter ego. The sets offer the ultimate IRON MAN experience with extensive explorations of the origins of the character in a six-part featurette, as well as a seven-part in-depth look at the making of the film, a revealing documentary on the stellar visual effects, Downey's original screen test, deleted and extended scenes, a photo gallery of concept art and behind-the-scenes images on the set and more.
DVD:
The IRON MAN Ultimate Edition two-DVD set is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround with English, French and Spanish subtitles. Total runtime is 125 minutes. Bonus features include:
Disc 1:
--Feature film
--Deleted/Extended Scenes
Disc 2:
--I Am Iron Man
*The Journey Begins
*The Suit that makes the Iron Man
*The Walk of Destruction
*Grounded In Reality
*Beneath the Armor
*It's All in the Details
*A Good Story, Well Told
--The Invincible Iron Man
*Origins
*Friends & Foes
*The Definitive Iron Man
*Demon in a Bottle
*Extremis and Beyond
*Ultimate Iron Man
--Wired: The Visual Effects of IRON MAN
--Robert Downey Jr. Screen Test
--The Actor's Process (scene rehearsal with cast)
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