Panic Room

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From: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Tense, terrific, sweaty-palmed fun!" - Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

"A classy, intelligent thriller for grown-ups!" - Paul Clinton, CNN

Panic Room - Taut Thriller Starring Two-Time Oscar® Winner Jodie Foster, Premieres on DVD and Videocassette Sept. 17

David Fincher's Box-Office Smash is First Title Ever to Debut in Superbit™ DVD

Culver City, Calif. (July 8, 2002) - Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will release the $95-million-grossing thriller Panic Room on Superbit™ DVD as well as videocassette on Sept. 17 - marking the first use of the ultra-high-fidelity format for the DVD debut of a recent theatrical release. Richard Roeper of Ebert & Roeper called Panic Room "one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in a long time" and audiences agreed, leading director David Fincher's (Fight Club) intense, claustrophobic thriller to the top of the box-office charts.

Making the home-entertainment debut of Panic Room even more special is the use of the revolutionary Superbit technology for the DVD release. Superbit utilizes a special high-bit-rate digital-encoding process that optimizes video quality and offers a choice of DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. By reallocating space on a DVD that is normally used for added-value content, Superbit DVDs can be encoded at double the normal bit rate. The result: picture quality that provides outstanding detail that complements the performance of the latest progressive DVD video players.

In Panic Room , double Oscar®-winning actress Foster (The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused) stars as newly divorced Meg Altman, who moves into a multi-level New York brownstone with her young daughter, Sarah (film newcomer Kristin Stewart). One of the key selling points is a small, technologically sophisticated "safe" room the previous owner installed in case of a dire emergency. Neither Meg nor Sarah know that they'll need to use the Panic Room sooner than they imagine. During the first night in the house, a villainous gang of thugs -- played by Jared Leto (Requiem for a Dream), Forest Whitaker (The Crying Game) and Dwight Yoakam (Sling Blade) -- breaks into the house, searching for something they believe the previous owner left behind. Meg and Sarah endure an unforgettably suspenseful night of terror as they try to fend off the thieves from inside the confines of the Panic Room . Panic Room : A Columbia Pictures Presentation of a Hofflund/Polone Production. Produced by Gavin Polone, Judy Hofflund, David Koepp, Cean Chafin. Written by David Koepp. Directed by David Fincher.

Panic Room DVD Features
Revolutionary Superbit Encoding Process
Digitally Mastered Audio and Anamorphic Video
Remastered in High Definition
Widescreen Presentation
Audio: English 5.1 (DTS), English (Dolby Surround), French (Dolby Surround)
Subtitles: English, French
Filmographies
Theatrical Trailer
Scene Selections MPAA Rating: R (for violence and language)
Price: $27.96 Original Theatrical Release: 2002 Color
Closed Captioned
112 minutes

[garmtz]

Nu wordt alles STANDAARD in SuperBit uitgebracht!??! Kunnen ze net zo goed de titel droppen en gewoon goede transfers afleveren.

Ik heb het vage vermoeden dat Panic Room niet op hetzelfde niveau is als andere Fincher films zoals Fight Club en Seven.

[PM]

Inderdaad... lever gewoon alles in superbit kwaliteit en stop er een dvdtje voor de extra's bij.. iedereen blij...

[Bram]

Alles is toch marketing hype