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Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release 474

Posted by michael from the calling-in-sick dept.
sdirector writes "'Warner Bros. has announced that in a whoa-worthy bit of synchronicity The Matrix Revolutions, the concluding chapter in the Wachowski brothers' hit sci-fi trilogy, will be released simultaneously in nearly 70 countries.'"
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  • oh what they'll do to get a press release! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by linuxbaby ( 124641 ) * on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:04PM (#7124598)
    It's fun to see the little things you can do to get a press release, isn't it? It's kinda like finding a technicality to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

    5th paragraph of the article says, "Such a release strategy has never before been attempted by Tinseltown. The closest a studio has come to doing such simultaneous, synchronized release was in May, when Fox opened X2 on the same day in 80 countries, but not at the same hour."

    So, I guess another movie some day will top this in press release land by saying, "Yes the Matrix did something similar last year, but not with the same color carpet!"

    • well... (Score:4, Interesting)

      by ed.han ( 444783 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:09PM (#7124665) Journal
      i dunno: i think it's actually pretty fair. scheduling the release time while working with time zone differences globally is actually pretty difficult to accomplish, i should think.

      what i found most interesting in the article:

      "revolutions will also screen at selected imax venues, the first time a major hollywood release has ever premiered concurrently on both 35mm and the large-screen format.

      OK, you just know people are gonna be going from imax to stadium-seating theatres to compare film experiences. heck, i might do it myself.

      ed
      • Supposing the release time at US is at 20:00 Eastern time, the Japanese will have to wake up at 4 am to get to the line, lots of Californians will sleep during the movie, some Germans will have to skip work to catch it. Pretty stupid marketing crap.
    • It's clearly a PR stunt, but let's face it: it's a massive one. Coordinating ANYTHING in 70 countries is damn hard, and doing so in such a way that, regardless of time zone, 70 countries are all doing it on the same hour is quite stunning.

      Hell, just getting 70 theaters in the US to do anything on the same hour is like hearding cats!

  • And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)

    by arashiakari ( 633150 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:04PM (#7124605) Homepage
    "The Matrix 3 will be released simultaneously in 70 sectors of the matri.. I mean... the world. CRAP!"

    First post?...

  • When will it be released on Kazaa, eDonkey, et.al? (Score:4, Funny)

    by tbmaddux ( 145207 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124607) Homepage Journal
    * plonk *

  • Call in sick (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Brahmastra ( 685988 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124609)
    It will be interesting to see how many people call in sick on the release day, especially in places where it is being released during the day. Anyone do such a study for Star Wars?

  • Final Matrix? (Score:5, Funny)

    by tonyMontana69 ( 712472 ) * on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124620)
    christ, the final Matrix? I'll bet all my Star Wars action figures that its gonna seriously suck...wait, except Boba Fett, no matter how sure I am, I never bet the Fett Man

  • Except... (Score:5, Funny)

    by toren ( 202921 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124621)
    ...except for Internet-land, where it'll be "released" several weeks early.

  • cool (Score:3, Funny)

    by Paradise Pete ( 33184 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124622) Journal
    Since where I live movies are much cheaper than in the US, now I can not see it for $2.50 instead of not seeing it for $8.50. Woo hoo!

  • Synchronized Release DVD (Score:5, Funny)

    by uberdave ( 526529 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124624) Homepage
    Does that mean that the DVD will not be region coded?
    • Yeah, get real.

      This isn't the first movie to come out simultaneously all over the world. Notably, the first two (and one assumes/hopes the last) Lord of the Rings movies, I'm sure their DVDs are as region-coded as everybody else's.

      Region-coding is all about market control, not some silly thing about keeping people from importing the DVD before the movie is in theaters. They don't want you importing the DVD because they can get away with charging you more money that way.

      • Region-coding is all about market control, not some silly thing about keeping people from importing the DVD before the movie is in theaters. They don't want you importing the DVD because they can get away with charging you more money that way.

        In the spirit of "The only dumb question it the one not asked," I'm going to do just that. How, exactly, doesthe DVD region encoding "control the market"?? This is something I've never understood. I had assumed that it was to prevent imports from coming into a g

        • Re:Synchronized Release DVD (Score:4, Insightful)

          by K8Fan ( 37875 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @01:22PM (#7125494) Journal

          It's because DVD prices vary to suit local economic conditions. Look at a map of the DVD regions [pioneeraus.com.au], and you'll see that it's gerrymandered. Europe and South Africa are one price, while the poor parts of Africa, India and the former Soviet Union are another, Australia and South America are another, Southeast Asia is one, China is it's own region. It's all about money. DVDs intended for the Indian market are considerably cheaper than those coded Region 3 for Australia, even though they are both PAL.

          This of course begs the question: if they can sell DVDs profitably in India for the equivilant for $6 US, why are we paying $29 for the same thing.

          P.S. Yes, I know all that crap about Adam Smith and his invisible hands. Bite me.

          • This of course begs the question: if they can sell DVDs profitably in India for the equivilant for $6 US, why are we paying $29 for the same thing.

            They could sell it profitably here for $6 as well. But, they could sell it *more profitably* at $29. ("The best deal is the one that brings the most profit." - Rule of acquisition #2).

            Having said that, why do we pay $29 for a $6 item? Ignorance, Apathy, and Laziness. People either don't know, don't care, or could be bothered to get the thing for less.

  • warez (Score:3, Insightful)

    by apachetoolbox ( 456499 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:05PM (#7124626) Homepage
    doing this to help curb warez maybe?
    • I've got a crappy dial-up connection, so it's taken me 7 months just to get to the_matrix_176.iso. I should be done by 2006, I think.
    • day or two doesn't mean jack..

      there's not too many of people who are willing to watch a shitty rushed cammed version just to get to see the movie few days early.

      however, when they stall some movies for so long that the dvd is out in other countries.. though they usually do this only with not so hot movies or with independent sleeper hits..

  • Of course! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by NetNinja ( 469346 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:06PM (#7124630)
    So that they can capitalize on a big crappy ending.
    I just hope they don't waste 15 mins of time showing us a stupid dancing wild orgy scene.

    • Re:Of course! (Score:5, Funny)

      by kin_korn_karn ( 466864 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:10PM (#7124669) Homepage
      only on slashdot would an orgy scene be described as a waste.

      • Re:Of course! (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward
        and only on /. will you find people that can't tell a normal rave scene from an orgy scene from a beastiality scene.

        i was looking so forward to the orgy and all i saw was an avarage rave with clips of 2 people having sex (2 doesn't make an orgy)
        • Boy. Wouldn't it have been great if they were doing that trance-music grinding slow-mo, panning through the crowds, and panned to a whole bunch of sweaty people on the ground bear ass naked and screwing? That would have been so hot.

          They could title the scene, "Last night in Gomorrah."

          I want the Wachowskis to make another porn movie. Bound [imdb.com] was rad.
      • only on slashdot would an orgy scene be described as a waste

        Cost/Benefit ratio, my good man. If I want to see an orgy, I'll break out my copies of "Girls Gone Wild", aquired on DVD for about the same price as my ticket to see "The Matrix". Much more entertaining, and I don't have to see Keanu's pasty white ass.

      • Bigger turn on? (Score:5, Funny)

        by FatalTourist ( 633757 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @01:16PM (#7125431) Homepage
        Trinity having sex...

        or Trinity using nmap?

        Oh man. I have to go to the bathroom now. (For an unrelated reason)
    • Why the orgy scene? It was pretty repulsive. Didn't make me feel any real sympathy for humanity.

      I'd have to watch the thing again to be certain, but my first and last impression was that, unlike the first film, the second was a garbled mess with no message to speak of.


      -FL

  • Wow, that is really amazing but.. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Harald Paulsen ( 621759 ) * on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:06PM (#7124631) Homepage
    ..is the MOVIE any good?

    (You KNOW you have to see it, right? :-)

  • It'll be interesting to see (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Afrosheen ( 42464 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:06PM (#7124640)
    ...how one group will rip and distribute this one first. If everyone gets it at the same time (presumably from the theater), there should be guaranteed diversity.

    Then again, an insider always hands some group a dvd screener and you know the rest.

  • This strategy didn't stop X-Men bootlegs (Score:3, Funny)

    by r_glen ( 679664 ) * on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:07PM (#7124645)
    Cool! On November 5, people around the world will simultaneously get to watch Revolutions again on the big screen.

  • In related news... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by jafuser ( 112236 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:07PM (#7124649)
    2003-10-03 07:28:56 Metacortex Launches Website (articles,movies) (rejected)

    Metacortex [metacortechs.com] has recently launched a website to promote their products [metacortechs.com] and services [metadex.net], while announcing their involvment with some rather large projects [theaquapolis.com]. If the name of this company doesn't sound entirely familiar, maybe you will remember the name of one of their former employees, Thomas Anderson [imdb.com].

    If anyone remembers the web-based game/puzzle for the movie A.I., this looks like it may be something similar for Matrix: Revolutions.
    • If you go to their 'products' page, they offer to allow you to download screensavers and desktop wallpapers that are both remeniscient of the 'Matrix' screen-savers and yet only contain 1s and 0s. I bet there's a cute message if you convert the binary to ascii.

      • Re:In related news... (Score:5, Funny)

        by cK-Gunslinger ( 443452 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:52PM (#7125111) Journal

        I bet there's a cute message if you convert the binary to ascii.

        Yep, it reads: "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!" =)

        (nobody is gonna get that...)
      • It says:

        The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning -- for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

        Note that this is a loosy binary-to-ascii translations because I translated the token 10010110 as ' -

    • Re:In related news... (Score:2, Interesting)

      by A1miras ( 595087 )
      From the "products" page:

      MetaGamex Console

      Are you ready to enter another world? Are you ready for an experience unlike any you've ever encountered before? Well get ready for the MetaGamex gaming system.


      Please tell me the end of revolutions won't be some metacortechs engineer pulling a virtual reality helmet off of Thomas Anderson's head.
    • If the name of this company doesn't sound entirely familiar, maybe you will remember the name of one of their former employees, Thomas Anderson.

      You mean the old bald guy that Beavis & Butt-head used to antagonize?

  • More & more common (Score:5, Insightful)

    by makapuf ( 412290 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:07PM (#7124650)
    I think that with the globalization of P2P networks, and the fact that volunteer subtitiles are quite simple to produce, more and more movies (and especially those with high 'geek-appeal') will need to be out simultaneously.

    If I can see a divx a few month before a movie on divx I would have been able to see in a theatre, I'll only go to see only good movies which are worth the 8 euros I'll have to pay to see it on big screen, which might be less than "every movie".
    • i think its not P2P that is the main reason, but the quicker word of mouth that they are afraid of. thanks to IM and email the message that movie xy sucks gets out way faster ... as some other poster did point out allready, #3 has to suck quite hard ..
  • We may have a big surprise then... well, either that or they think it'll help twart piracy issue...:)

  • Wow... it must really suck hard! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by cryptochrome ( 303529 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:08PM (#7124653) Journal
    They definitely aren't taking any chances on losing money with this one. I predict the strongest opening weekend ever and the biggest drop for the second weekend... gotta get people in the theaters before the word gets out you know...
  • ...in order to stop bootleg copies production. Here in my country (Ecuador, Southamerica), Reloaded was released two weeks after the American Release. But you could find at streets bootleg copies of it as soon as May, 16!!

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:08PM (#7124662)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • This might mean it sucks (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    This might be a money grab for a big opening weekend without contaminating the foreign markets with news that it is not that great...

  • Hmmmm (Score:3, Insightful)

    by kavi_3 ( 5872 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:09PM (#7124667)
    I wonder if this was done to prevent word of "Internet" from spreading faster then the release of the movie to different times zone saying that it sucked. With the movie lauching at the same time everywhere you will kill that effect for the first day at least.

    I'll still see it though. Hell, our company is having an outing when the moview releases here in Chicago (8 am I beleive).
  • After I watched the matrix and found out they were making reloaded, I had something to look forward to in life. Even now, I have something to look forward to in form of "Revolutions". But, what next? There will be nothing to look forward to after that and our lives will be filled with void. Maybe I should not watch revolutions till for many years just so that there will be something worth doing left in life.

  • One word (Score:2, Funny)

    by Ikeya ( 7401 )
    "Whoa"
  • But I bet it will be on the Internet first.

  • Cool! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by MImeKillEr ( 445828 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:11PM (#7124683) Homepage Journal
    Now, when can we expect:

    1. The boxed set ?
    2. Each title in letterbox/wide-screen ?
    3. The letterbox/wide-screen boxed set ?
    4. Each title as a 'limited editition' with a bunch of extra crap ?
    5. The limited-edition boxed set ?
    6. Each title released individually as 'Director's Cut' ?
    7. The director's cut of the boxed set ?

    'Cause you know they're going to take a page from George Lucas and whore the titles like he did with Star Wars.

    • 'Cause you know they're going to take a page from George Lucas and whore the titles like he did with Star Wars.

      Where did you get your DVD box set of Star Wars IV -> VI?

      • Re:Cool! (Score:3, Informative)

        by MImeKillEr ( 445828 )
        They don't have Episodes IV, V and VI on DVD.

        I have the boxed set [amazon.com] of VHS tapes from the original three, and only because they were a gift. They're the digitally-remastered (gold box) set.

        I have a couple of friends who pounced on the 1st box set that came out. I tried to warn them, knowing they'd release another set that had been digitially-remastered.
    • So, immediately after Lucas put out the "Definitive Collection" laserdiscs, they reopened in theaters with new mastering, new scenes, new effects.

      Immediately after Lucas said he could legally make a 3 DVD Indiana Jones box set, he also announced plans for Indiana Four.

      I whole-heartedly expect to see a Peter Jackson "The Hobbit" hit theaters after they box the ultimate LotR trilogy DVD set.

      I also whole-heartedly expect to see a "Matrix 4" after they box the ultimate trilogy DVD set.

  • Region Codes (Score:5, Interesting)

    by McGruff ( 37593 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:12PM (#7124687)
    So, when the DVD ships it will be region free since the studio released it world wide on the same day, right? Isn't that the only justification the DVDCCA uses for region codes?
    • > So, when the DVD ships it will be region free since the studio released it world
      > wide on the same day, right? Isn't that the only justification the DVDCCA uses
      > for region codes?

      Of course it wont be region free.
      This system has already been justified, they dont need to obide by those rules now that its in place and illegal to get around using technical (or common sense) means.

  • Don't look at the scrolls! It will snow crash your brain!
    • I've actually just gotten around to read that book. Still reading it actually. It's sitting right next to me at page 309.

      It is one of the best books I've ever read, period.

      The sad thing is that it takes a good book to do sci-fi right....at least for most people. Myself, I see the little touches in a movie like The Matrix or the later Star Wars movies that overshines the negatives. Where a book describes those things for you, a movie challenges you to think about them and pick them out for yourself. At lea
    • Call now for your monthly subscription to Mods on Crack! These desperate Mods will do anything for money!

      (Hint: His joke is funny because Matrix:Revolutions will have many of the world's computer programmers in one place at one time. This would be the ideal deployment for the Snow Crash virus, from the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.)

      P.S. teamhasnoi, I'm sorry for destroying your joke.
  • "It was a thought that came up a long time ago about almost a year ago, and it did not come from the Wachowskis, it actually came from inside the studio," says Veronica Kwan-Rubinek, president of international distribution at the studio.

    People working for a major studio actually generated a creative thought.

    Whoa.
  • Didn't I see this article already posted on slashdot?
  • Normally Americans had to go to cinema, screen the movie and other countries could have it... Now finally it will leak a week before release through some 3rd world country and FINALLY americans will be able to see it before it's released and it will be the others who contribute :)

  • Whoaa!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Trolling4Dollars ( 627073 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:20PM (#7124767) Journal
    I misread the post and thought it said that The Matrix Revolutions is going to be simultaneously released in the 70s. THAT WOULD be an accomplishment. I wonder what that would do to Star Wars and the LOTR trilogy in retrospect? ;P

  • One way of avoiding the text (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Archfeld ( 6757 ) * <treboreel@live.com> on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:23PM (#7124801) Journal
    messaging let down, if it sucks as bad as the 2nd one did....If everyone is seeing it the same day they will get their peice of the pie even if it does suck really bad...good strategy...Here's to hoping IT ROCKS......
  • Any idea which countries these actually are? Is Israel in the lucky 70 or do we have to wait 2-3 weeks as usual?
    • The official press release [warnerbros.com], from the start of the week, didn't specify the country list :(

      I think people in every country not specifically named in the announcement (well, they listed cities in usa, england, rusia and japan) will be in doubt for some time more, at least I have the same question but for Uruguay.

  • A different take on the Matrix... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by vudufixit ( 581911 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:25PM (#7124820)
    I never liked the "machines are using humans as energy cells" aspect of the plot. There are far better sources of energy the machines could have used, such as nuclear, geothermal, etc. I always thought wouldn't it have been cooler if the machines were imprisoning humans and using their brains in a sort of massive computing grid? That the machines needed our collective brainpower for some task, and the purpose of the Matrix is to keep all of those human brains humming along and doing their machine-appointed task in the backround.

    • Yeah, like it was all some big mistake caused by some computer taking Douglas Adams too seriously.

      The power idea is too stupid... the machines would have less trouble harvesting plants.

      IMHO the "Zion destroyed 6 times before" line, Neo gaining power over the squid-things, and that matrix-virus travelling to a human host in Zion all reek of a plot based on Zion being part of the matrix used to deal with weird people like Neo.

      It beats the Rambo plot of defeating the machines through brute force, or the

    • Heck, the Matrix is just a simulation of earth being run as a replacement since the Vogons destroyed the original one.
  • C'mon...I want to see the movies digitally projected in the theatres. Just about every Regal Theatre (part of Regal Entertainment Group) is equipped with a digital projector for each screen (they show the ads that way before switching over to the film project for the feature) now. I guess they used their bankruptcy as a way to fund the acquisition of the projectors. Anyway, I want to start seeing films projected in that manner. I'm tired of the "cigarette burns" and everything else that happens to the p

  • And, that will be the hour that... (Score:5, Funny)

    by BigGar' ( 411008 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:30PM (#7124882) Homepage
    Skynet will become self aware.
    • Wow. I think you've hit the peak of unintentional geek-flick referencing here. You've got a reply to an article about a Matrix movie, referencing the Terminator series, with a sig from the Evil Dead. It would only be more complete if your name was Frodo or somesuch.

      Hamster
  • "The Matrix Reloaded" can be jumbled to spell "Hexameter Dildo Art".
    This was a public service announcement. If it had contained any real content, you would know by now.
    • Interestingly, though it's not a particularly creative example, "MARXIST REVOLUTION" is an anagram for "MATRIX REVOLUTIONS", as well as "MARX REVOLUTIONIST".

      • Other fun ones:
      • REALTORS VOMIT UNIX
      • SURREAL VOMIT TOXIN
      • TUX IS A MINOR REVOLT
      • I'M LOST IN A VORTEX. R U? (stretching it, I know)

  • judging from reloaded, when the reviews start to hit for revolutions - the wind will be completely out of the franchise's sails.

    the international demand at release would have totally fizzled with a traditional release scheme.

    looking at the numbers, the US gross for the first matrix was about 30% of the worldwide grosses (US:$171m, world:$450) and the US gross for reloaded was still about 30% of the worldwide(US:$281m, world:$738m).

    Then consider that the first film made the bulk of its money fairly evenly

  • I'm on the west coast (CA), and was expecting to be able to see it at 12:01 on 2003-11-05, but according to the release I'll have to wait 6 more hours, _and_ get my ass up in the morning. I know I'd much rather stay up until 3:00, juiced up after seeing a good movie, rather than get up at 6:00 and have to drag my ass into work after instead of riding my motorcycle the wrong way down the freeway!

  • Of course they are. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by EvilNight ( 11001 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @01:19PM (#7125464)
    They'd be fools not to.

    1) Guarantees the largest box office take.
    2) Minimizes the effect piracy has on opening weekend numbers.
    3) Avoid the worst effects of bad word-of-mouth by showing it to folks before they are warned away from it.

    Studios never used to bother with this, as coordinating such a large release was an impressive logistical problem to tackle. Due to those three factors, however, they really have no choice anymore. The studios like to play it like they are doing this to please the fans, but it's really just to buff their bottom line.

    They long for the days when there was no "buzz" on a movie except for the one they created with their marketing campaigns. Websites like AICN and Rotten Tomatoes have destroyed their business model of using an ad campaign to boost the box office for a bad film. News travels at the speed of suck from those websites and viewers are now warned away from crappy films months before the film is even released. Conversely, good movies get tons of free exposure and do much better in the box office, making it harder for studios to bury a picture. Be glad for those kinds of websites and pay them a visit, even if you don't read the reviews. They make it harder for hollywood to push crap product and get away with it.

    Word of mouth is much faster these days as well. Thank your pagers, mailing lists, and cell phones for that. When you see a good movie, you tell your friends. Same goes for warning them about a bad one.

    Piracy makes it dangerous to stagger a film release. Release it in the USA and tomorrow it's on the streets in Yugoslavia and Hong Kong, and floating around Kazaa or Usenet for anyone with a phat | to download. It's best to get the biggest bang out of opening weekend because piracy will damage the ticket sales more and more over time. Movies don't really have legs these days... Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding are the only ones I remember recently that had any real long term box office take. These days it's just a flash in the pan on opening weekend.

    The studios like to moan about how all this technology is wrecking their business. Frankly, it's all bullshit. All the technology and piracy does is let us avoid wasting our money on crappy pictures. If it's a good movie, you'll see it in the theater or buy the DVD (still reasonably priced, as opposed to music) and they'll get their money. They are just pissed off because they can't sell us a crappy product anymore.

    Hey, hollywood. Improve your product. Stop wasting time and money fighting a war that you'll never win. Take some of those annoying commercials out of the theater and perhaps I'll go to the movies more often. I don't like paying to watch a bunch of ads for products I don't give a damn about in the first place. The ads aren't even superbowl quality! That's pretty insulting.

    Remember, every time you pirate a movie, they fire a producer (and baby Jesus kills a kitten). Pirate at least one a week so they fire all the crappy ones and they either go out of business or make some good films for a change. Keep the pressure on, and remind them who they really work for. You.

  • Thank you (Score:3, Interesting)

    by friend ( 33664 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @01:54PM (#7125864) Homepage
    Some studios are finally getting it -- there's no reason to keep the non-USA world waiting for popular movies. Especially with the ease of downloading movies off the internet. Fox has wisened up considerably in the past years ("Star Wars Episode 1" took three months to travel across the atlantic, while "Episode II" premiered almost simultaneously). The story also mentions X2 premiering simultaneously in 80 countries. Nice.

    At the opposite end of the spectrum, the infamous Lone Gunmen episode [slashdot.org] of the X-files aired this week in Sweden (18 months after the US network premiere), but in this case I hold the swedish network responsible (wankers).

  • It's a ploy! (Score:3, Funny)

    by WoTG ( 610710 ) on Friday October 03, 2003 @05:01PM (#7127827) Homepage Journal
    While all the geeks of the world are watching the movie (with their cell phones and pagers politely turned off, of course), Warner and the Wachowski brothers will launch a multifaceted attack on the Internet and all things connected to it!

    Don't fall for it! Don't let them root the net and build the real Matrix!

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