PARAMOUNT ANNOUNCES
TR:COL DVD
Copyright 2003 Paramount Pictures Press Release
[ September 10th 2003 ]
The powerhouse
summer movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle
Of Life, with Angelina Jolie reprising her role
as the enormously popular videogame heroine, arrives
on DVD and VHS on November 18, from Paramount
Home Entertainment. The Special Collector's Edition
DVD of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life
offers fans the opportunity to follow Lara as
she travels to exotic locales on her quest to
save Pandora's Box, plus hours of interactive
entertainment.
Commentary
by director Jan De Bont Six deleted scenes and
an alternate ending, all with commentary by Jan
De Bont Five featurettes on the film's training,
weapons and vehicles, visual effects, stunts and
scoring Music videos by Korn ("Did My Time") and
by The Davey Brothers ("Heart Go Faster") Gerard
Butler screen test The original theatrical website
archive accessed via DVD-ROM.
Paramount
Home Entertainment is supporting the DVD and VHS
release of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle
Of Life with an extensive consumer advertising
push on network and cable television in the U.S.
and Canada from November 12-30, as well as a heavy
Internet campaign targeting videogame and like
websites, and a radio promotion in the top 100
U.S. and top 9 Canadian markets.
Starring
Angelina Jolie (the upcoming Beyond Borders),
Djimon Hounsou (The Four Feathers), Noah Taylor
(Shine), Ciaran Hinds (Road To Perdition) and
Gerard Butler (the upcoming Timeline), Lara Croft
Tomb Raider: the Cradle Of Life finds the resilient,
sexy, adventurer on a new mission to carry on
her deceased father's work as an archaeologist
and antiquities hunter. When she uncovers an ancient
orb that is the map to finding Pandora's Box,
which contains the most unspeakable evil ever
known, the intrepid tomb raider travels the world
from Greece to Hong Kong and China to East Africa.
Demonstrating her physical prowess and her courage,
Lara proves that she will stop at nothing in her
search for the place known as "The Cradle of Life"
which hosts Pandora's Box. Now, Lara must find
the box before it falls into the hands of the
maniacal Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Jonathan
Reiss (Hinds).
The DVD
of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life
is presented in widescreen format enhanced for
16:9 televisions and in full screen format. Both
versions feature Dolby Digital English and French
5.1. The DVD is closed-captioned for the deaf
and hard of hearing and sub-titled in English.
Lara
Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life is priced
at $19.95 (M.A.P.) in the U.S. and is expected
to be priced around C$20 in Canada. The VHS is
priced at $14.95 (M.A.P.) in the U.S. and is expected
to be priced around C$15 in Canada. Lara Croft
Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life is rated PG-13
(for action violence and some sensuality) in the
U.S. by the Motion Picture Association of America
and is rated 14A in Canada. It has a running time
of approximately 117 minutes and is encoded with
the Macrovision Anti-Copy process.
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