The IMAX version of Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in theaters this past weekend, grossing about $1.73 million over the three days. Playing in 267 IMAX theaters nationwide, the first Indiana Jones film will continue to run until this Thursday as part of the hype for the upcoming release of the entire Indy film series in a Blu-ray box set on September 18. Can’t make it to an IMAX screening? AMC theaters will be hosting marathon screenings of all four films on Saturday, September 15.
Also helping to herald the Blu-ray release:
- Entertainment Weekly got an exclusive clip of the deleted scene of Indiana Jones fighting the Arab swordsman in Cairo – rough cuts of Indy using his whip to fend off the attack, rather than the iconic scene of simply shooting the swordsman with his pistol.
- Raiders star Karen Allen spoke with USA Today last week about her lack of fear of snakes on the set of the Well of Souls scenes, and mentions that she’s up for another Indy outing.
With the Blu-ray box set, Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures, coming out next week, you might wonder if there’s a special collector’s edition of the set? And there is…. not in the US. Amazon UK has a Limited Collector’s Edition, which comes with the five disc Blu-ray box set and a huge pile of goodies, including a 144-page replica of the Grail Diary from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a film cell, other replica prop items. Meanwhile, versions of the set in steelbook collector cases will be available in Germany and France, with the German version also having an optional Zippo lighter.
The UK box set is region-free, however.
I don’t NEED to order the collector’s set from the UK.
I don’t NEED to order the collector’s set from the UK.
Shada: true, but still we’d have to order it from the UK. i want to have nice things too!
Paula: right with you.
It’s right up their with the Harry Potter big ol’ box of things-I-don’t-need. Really awesome doo-dads, but I don’t need it. Nope. Not at all.
Only Star Wars can make me do that!