| Iron Maiden: Flight 666 | |
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| Directed by | Scot McFadyen Sam Dunn |
| Produced by | Scot McFadyen Sam Dunn |
| Starring | Iron Maiden |
| Distributed by | EMI Universal Music Group (U.S.) |
| Release date(s) | 21 April 2009 |
| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Canada |
| Language | English |
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is a concert documentary film featuring the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The film follows the band on the first leg of their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour between February and March 2008.
Flight 666 is co-produced by Toronto-based Banger Films, Inc, known for their documentaries Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Global Metal and Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage. The film was shot in high-definition video with accompanying 5.1 surround sound produced by Kevin Shirley (who has worked with the band since their 2000 album Brave New World). It was distributed by EMI (except in the U.S., where it was distributed by Universal Music Group) in select digital theatres on 21 April 2009.[1]
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The film had its UK Première on Monday 20 April 2009 with members of the band and crew joining the special screened showings.
The following night, the movie was shown simultaneously to over 450 screens in 41 countries globally.
It was the largest simultaneous worldwide release of a documentary film, with digital-only prints instead of the more common 35mm prints usually shown in theatres.
The film made history with this unique digital DLP cinema showing.
The movie generated a word of mouth buzz, including additional radio marketing for the digital première. With this amount of publicity, Flight 666 had two nights of high profile coverage worldwide.
In India it was released in 7 cities by PVR Pictures on 8 May 2009, playing in over 20 theatres for a minimum of 2 weeks, making it the most widespread release for a documentary film in the country.
It was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on Monday 25 May (Tuesday June 9 in Canada and in the USA).
The soundtrack went on sale Friday 22 May digitally from their official online store.[2]
"Taking you on a visual global tour from Mumbai to Sydney, Tokyo to L.A., Mexico City to Costa Rica, Bogota to São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Puerto Rico, New Jersey 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 as 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."[3]
For more information on the soundtrack, go to Flight 666 – The Original Soundtrack
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recorded at | Length | |||||
| 1. | "Churchill's Speech" | Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India; 1 February 2008 | 0:43 | ||||||
| 2. | "Aces High" | Steve Harris | Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India; 1 February 2008 | 4:49 | |||||
| 3. | "2 Minutes to Midnight" | Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith | Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia; 7 February 2008 | 5:57 | |||||
| 4. | "Revelations" | Dickinson | Acer Arena, Sydney, Australia; 9 February 2008 | 6:28 | |||||
| 5. | "The Trooper" | Harris | Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan; 16 February 2008 | 4:01 | |||||
| 6. | "Wasted Years" | Smith | Arena Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; 22 February 2008 | 5:07 | |||||
| 7. | "The Number of the Beast" | Harris | The Forum, Los Angeles, USA; 19 February 2008 | 5:07 | |||||
| 8. | "Can I Play with Madness" | Dickinson, Harris, Smith | Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico; 24 February 2008 | 3:36 | |||||
| 9. | "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | Harris | Izod Center, East Rutherford, USA; 14 March 2008 | 13:41 | |||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recorded at | Length | |||||
| 1. | "Powerslave" | Dickinson | Saprissa Stadium, San Jose, Costa Rica; 26 February 2008 | 7:28 | |||||
| 2. | "Heaven Can Wait" | Harris | Palmeiras Stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2 March 2008 | 7:36 | |||||
| 3. | "Run to the Hills" | Harris | Simon Bolivar Park, Bogota, Colombia; 28 February 2008 | 3:59 | |||||
| 4. | "Fear of the Dark" | Harris | Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 7 March 2008 | 7:32 | |||||
| 5. | "Iron Maiden" | Harris | Pista Atletica, Santiago, Chile; 9 March 2008 | 5:26 | |||||
| 6. | "Moonchild" | Dickinson, Smith | Coliseo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 12 March 2008 | 7:29 | |||||
| 7. | "The Clairvoyant" | Harris | Pedreira Paulo Leminski, Curitiba, Brazil; 4 March 2008 | 4:38 | |||||
| 8. | "Hallowed Be Thy Name" | Harris | Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada; 16 March 2008 | 7:52 | |||||
Flight 666 was welcomed by overwhelmingly positive reviews from the music press and general media. Rock and metal magazines Kerrang! and Metal Hammer each gave the movie full marks, with Kerrang! referring to it as a "unique peek behind the Iron Curtain" that was "not to be missed" and Metal Hammer calling it a "continent-jumping, fire-breathing monster of a film". Outside the music media The Sun gave it 4.5 out of 5, calling it an "outstanding Access All Areas documentary" and going onto say that "if you're not a fan, you will be after this". Empire gave it 4 stars and felt that the behind the scenes antics were interesting, despite lacking in drama when compared to Metallica's rockumentary "Some Kind of Monster". Empire went on to comment on the "magnificent" concert footage.[4][5] Sky News also referred to it as "a music documentary that really delivers where so many others disappoint". Flight 666 also won the "24 Beats Per Second" award for best music documentary at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.[6]
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