Three Classic Ray Harryhausen Films Now Available as the…
RAY HARRYHAUSEN IN COLOR GIFT SET
It Came From Beneath the Sea ~ Earth vs. The Flying Saucer
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition
Also Available 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition
On Blu-ray™ High-Def
Original Black & White and Newly Colorized Versions on One Disc
SIX-DISC BOXED SET DEBUTS DECEMBER 4
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (September 24, 2007) – Three of the earliest film classics from stop-motion animation genius Ray Harryhausen will be available for the first time in vibrant color when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment debuts the Ray Harryhausen In Color Gift Set December 4, just in time for holiday gift giving. The six-disc boxed set features two-disc special editions of -- It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (each making their two-disc DVD debuts), and 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition. In addition to the pristine, digitally-restored black & white original version, each film will now be available in a brilliant newly colorized version, and viewers will be able to toggle between the two as they please. Also included in the gift set is a collectible Ymir figurine based on Ray Harryhausen’s original 1957 hand-crafted design.
Releasing day and date, 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition will be available in high-definition, only on Blu-ray™ High-Def for $28.95 SRP. The boxed set will sell for $59.95 SRP.
With the cutting-edge high-definition colorization technology, developed and patented by industry leaders Legend Films, Harryhausen has been able to visually recreate his films. Harryhausen said, “I am thrilled these films are finally being seen in color. I had wanted to do them in color in the 1950s, but the budgets were not large enough to accommodate that luxury. Now, thanks to the marvelous advances made in the colorization process by San Diego’s Legend Films and others, audiences will be able to see the movies as I originally intended.”
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition
The 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition contains extensive new bonus features including audio commentaries by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett; featurettes such as Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth, with Harryhausen and others discussing the film’s production and influence; The Colorization Process, a look at Legend Films work; Interview with Joan Taylor; Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen; David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero; plus a video montage of the film’s marketing and advertising materials by producer Arnold Kunert; and video photo galleries.
Though special effects techniques today have been dramatically transformed by CGI, Ray Harryhausen’s highly imaginative and incredibly detailed work continues to hold audiences spellbound today. A disciple of stop-motion pioneer Willis O’Brien (King Kong), Harryhausen adapted O’Brien’s techniques. O’Brien developed and created his own genre of film from the 1950s to the 1980s utilizing his stop-motion process (eventually identified as “Dynamation”). His memorable films include The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years, B.C. (1966), The Valley of Gwangi (1969), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), and Clash of the Titans (1981). His amazing body of work continues to inspire many of today’s special effects wizards.
SYNOPSIS
Upon its return from a mission to Venus, an American spaceship crash lands in the sea near Sicily. The rescue party discovers that the astronauts have brought back a curious gelatinous mass that soon hatches and evolves into a strange bi-ped creature which rapidly increases in size. While being subjected to laboratory experimentation, the creature, now 20-feet tall, escapes its confines, goes on a destructive rampage through Rome, battles a zoo elephant and swims in the Tiber. It eventually takes refuge in the Colosseum, where the film’s pyrotechnic finale occurs during a climactic showdown with the military.
DVD Special Features Include:
Featurette: Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth
Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Other Visual Effects Specialists
Featurette: The Colorization Process
Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero
Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
Featurette: Interview with Joan Taylor
Advertising Artwork video montage of film’s ad materials by Producer Arnold Kunert
Video Photo Galleries
Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book 20 Million Miles More
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
It Came From Beneath The Sea
Directed by Robert Gordon (Tarzan and The Jungle Boy), the newly colorized film, depicting a giant octopus attacking San Francisco stars Kenneth Tobey (The King From Another World), Faith Demergue (Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers), Donald Curtis (Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers) and Ian Keith (The Ten Commandments). The two-disc DVD contains all new video and audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett; video photo galleries; original artwork video montage by Arnold Kunert; a sneak peek at the digital comic book, plus the film music (Film Music’s Unsung Hero) and Tim Burton featurettes (Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen) also included on the two other titles in the collection.
SYNOPSIS
A giant stop-motion-animated octopus attacks San Francisco. A pair of scientists and a nuclear sub captain try to stop the monster before it tears down the Golden Gate Bridge.
DVD Special Features Include:
Featurette: Ray Harryhausen on It Came From Beneath The Sea
Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Visual Effects Specialists
A Video Discussion of It Came From Beneath the Sea’s 1955 marketing and advertising campaign by producer Arnold Kunert
Featurette: A Present Day Look at Stop Motion
Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero
Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
Still and Production Art Gallery
Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book It Came from Beneath the Sea…Again!
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, with its ground breaking visual effects techniques, was the first of several collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. The film about the invasion of earth and destruction of Washington D.C. was masterfully directed by Fred F. Sears (Crash of Silence) and stars Joan Taylor (20 Million Miles to Earth), Hugh Marlowe (Another World), Donald Curtis (The Ten Commandments) and Morris Ankrum (Invaders from Mars). The two-disc DVD features new commentary by Harryhausen, the featurette A Present Day Look at Stop Motion, video photo galleries, original artwork video montage, a sneak peek at the digital comic book; plus the Interview with Joan Taylor, Music and Tim Burton featurettes included on the other films in the collection.
SYNOPSIS
Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. While investigating this strange occurrence, Russell and his new assistant/wife Carol Marvin are abducted by a flying saucer. The aliens claim to be from Mars and demand to meet with certain people in order to negotiate. But it was a trick; the Martians only wanted to kill them. The invasion has begun and if Russell and Carol can't find a way to get past their defenses and stop these creatures, it may be the end of the human race.
DVD Special Features Include:
Featurette: Harryhausen on Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Other Visual Effects Specialists
Featurette: A Present Day Look at Stop Motion
Video Photo Galleries
Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
Featurette: Interview with Joan Taylor
Advertising Artwork video montage of film’s ad materials by Producer Arnold Kunert
Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero
Featurette: The Hollywood Blacklist and Bernard Gordon
Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book Flying Saucers vs. the Earth
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition has a run time of 82 minutes and is not rated.
It Came From Beneath the Sea has a run time of 79 minutes and is not rated.
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers has a run time of 83 minutes and is not rated.
Artwork is available at www.SPHEPUBLICITY.COM. Visit Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on the Web at www.SonyPictures.com.
DVD Catalog # 22617
UPC Code: 043396226173
Order Date: 11/01/07
SRP: $59.95
RAY HARRYHAUSEN IN COLOR GIFT SET
It Came From Beneath the Sea ~ Earth vs. The Flying Saucer
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition
Also Available 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition
On Blu-ray™ High-Def
Original Black & White and Newly Colorized Versions on One Disc
SIX-DISC BOXED SET DEBUTS DECEMBER 4
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (September 24, 2007) – Three of the earliest film classics from stop-motion animation genius Ray Harryhausen will be available for the first time in vibrant color when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment debuts the Ray Harryhausen In Color Gift Set December 4, just in time for holiday gift giving. The six-disc boxed set features two-disc special editions of -- It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (each making their two-disc DVD debuts), and 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition. In addition to the pristine, digitally-restored black & white original version, each film will now be available in a brilliant newly colorized version, and viewers will be able to toggle between the two as they please. Also included in the gift set is a collectible Ymir figurine based on Ray Harryhausen’s original 1957 hand-crafted design.
Releasing day and date, 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition will be available in high-definition, only on Blu-ray™ High-Def for $28.95 SRP. The boxed set will sell for $59.95 SRP.
With the cutting-edge high-definition colorization technology, developed and patented by industry leaders Legend Films, Harryhausen has been able to visually recreate his films. Harryhausen said, “I am thrilled these films are finally being seen in color. I had wanted to do them in color in the 1950s, but the budgets were not large enough to accommodate that luxury. Now, thanks to the marvelous advances made in the colorization process by San Diego’s Legend Films and others, audiences will be able to see the movies as I originally intended.”
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition
The 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition contains extensive new bonus features including audio commentaries by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett; featurettes such as Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth, with Harryhausen and others discussing the film’s production and influence; The Colorization Process, a look at Legend Films work; Interview with Joan Taylor; Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen; David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero; plus a video montage of the film’s marketing and advertising materials by producer Arnold Kunert; and video photo galleries.
Though special effects techniques today have been dramatically transformed by CGI, Ray Harryhausen’s highly imaginative and incredibly detailed work continues to hold audiences spellbound today. A disciple of stop-motion pioneer Willis O’Brien (King Kong), Harryhausen adapted O’Brien’s techniques. O’Brien developed and created his own genre of film from the 1950s to the 1980s utilizing his stop-motion process (eventually identified as “Dynamation”). His memorable films include The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years, B.C. (1966), The Valley of Gwangi (1969), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), and Clash of the Titans (1981). His amazing body of work continues to inspire many of today’s special effects wizards.
SYNOPSIS
Upon its return from a mission to Venus, an American spaceship crash lands in the sea near Sicily. The rescue party discovers that the astronauts have brought back a curious gelatinous mass that soon hatches and evolves into a strange bi-ped creature which rapidly increases in size. While being subjected to laboratory experimentation, the creature, now 20-feet tall, escapes its confines, goes on a destructive rampage through Rome, battles a zoo elephant and swims in the Tiber. It eventually takes refuge in the Colosseum, where the film’s pyrotechnic finale occurs during a climactic showdown with the military.
DVD Special Features Include:
Featurette: Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth
Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Other Visual Effects Specialists
Featurette: The Colorization Process
Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero
Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
Featurette: Interview with Joan Taylor
Advertising Artwork video montage of film’s ad materials by Producer Arnold Kunert
Video Photo Galleries
Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book 20 Million Miles More
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
It Came From Beneath The Sea
Directed by Robert Gordon (Tarzan and The Jungle Boy), the newly colorized film, depicting a giant octopus attacking San Francisco stars Kenneth Tobey (The King From Another World), Faith Demergue (Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers), Donald Curtis (Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers) and Ian Keith (The Ten Commandments). The two-disc DVD contains all new video and audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett; video photo galleries; original artwork video montage by Arnold Kunert; a sneak peek at the digital comic book, plus the film music (Film Music’s Unsung Hero) and Tim Burton featurettes (Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen) also included on the two other titles in the collection.
SYNOPSIS
A giant stop-motion-animated octopus attacks San Francisco. A pair of scientists and a nuclear sub captain try to stop the monster before it tears down the Golden Gate Bridge.
DVD Special Features Include:
Featurette: Ray Harryhausen on It Came From Beneath The Sea
Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Visual Effects Specialists
A Video Discussion of It Came From Beneath the Sea’s 1955 marketing and advertising campaign by producer Arnold Kunert
Featurette: A Present Day Look at Stop Motion
Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero
Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
Still and Production Art Gallery
Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book It Came from Beneath the Sea…Again!
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, with its ground breaking visual effects techniques, was the first of several collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. The film about the invasion of earth and destruction of Washington D.C. was masterfully directed by Fred F. Sears (Crash of Silence) and stars Joan Taylor (20 Million Miles to Earth), Hugh Marlowe (Another World), Donald Curtis (The Ten Commandments) and Morris Ankrum (Invaders from Mars). The two-disc DVD features new commentary by Harryhausen, the featurette A Present Day Look at Stop Motion, video photo galleries, original artwork video montage, a sneak peek at the digital comic book; plus the Interview with Joan Taylor, Music and Tim Burton featurettes included on the other films in the collection.
SYNOPSIS
Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. While investigating this strange occurrence, Russell and his new assistant/wife Carol Marvin are abducted by a flying saucer. The aliens claim to be from Mars and demand to meet with certain people in order to negotiate. But it was a trick; the Martians only wanted to kill them. The invasion has begun and if Russell and Carol can't find a way to get past their defenses and stop these creatures, it may be the end of the human race.
DVD Special Features Include:
Featurette: Harryhausen on Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Other Visual Effects Specialists
Featurette: A Present Day Look at Stop Motion
Video Photo Galleries
Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
Featurette: Interview with Joan Taylor
Advertising Artwork video montage of film’s ad materials by Producer Arnold Kunert
Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music’s Unsung Hero
Featurette: The Hollywood Blacklist and Bernard Gordon
Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book Flying Saucers vs. the Earth
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition has a run time of 82 minutes and is not rated.
It Came From Beneath the Sea has a run time of 79 minutes and is not rated.
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers has a run time of 83 minutes and is not rated.
Artwork is available at www.SPHEPUBLICITY.COM. Visit Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on the Web at www.SonyPictures.com.
DVD Catalog # 22617
UPC Code: 043396226173
Order Date: 11/01/07
SRP: $59.95
