IRON MAIDEN's Flight 666 - Limited Theatrical 4/21, Then DVD/BluRay June 9

     MUSIC NEWS - 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!   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 to dvd/cd release. (see MNN's previously report on the film and video clip)

FLIGHT 666 will be released on extended Blu-ray and DVD formats (order BD & DVD below), along with a double-CD soundtrack album and limited edition double-vinyl picture disc which will be available Tuesday, June 9, 2009 from Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in the USA.

Filmed digitally in Hi Def, 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 Iron 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 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!

 FLIGHT 666 cd -  dvd Release Specs - 

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 MIDNIGHTRod Laver Arena/Melbourne, Australia February 7, 2008 

REVELATIONSAcer 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/E Rutherford, New Jersey, USA March 14, 2008 

(CD 2) 

POWERSLAVE

prissa 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 I

RON 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