IRON MAIDEN Manager Says 'Maiden Day' Was 'Tremendous Success'

A special international "Iron Maiden Day" was held this past Tuesday (April 21),with simultaneous showings of "Iron Maiden: Flight 666" — the feature-length documentary film which follows the IRON MAIDEN bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 — in selected digital cinemas around the world.

IRON MAIDEN manager Rod Smallwood has since issued the following update:

"Maiden Day and the cinema events last Tuesday was a tremendous success with glowing comments from round the world — you fans certainly appear to have enjoyed the experience and thanks for turning out on a Tuesday night in such numbers!!

There is a great deal of demand for more showings and we are currently working to arrange some more for you in selected cinemas. More shows have already been added in New York — at 2 minutes to midnight — tomorrow, Friday April 24 and Saturday, April 25 at the Clearview Chelsea. Also yet another show — the fifth — has been added at the famous Mann Chinese on Hollywood Blvd. in L.A. for Saturday.

"Cinemas continue to show over the weekend in Sweden, other parts of the Nordics, Russia and many parts of Latin America. We have yet to open in Hungary (April 28),Australia (April 30),India (May 8) and Turkey (May 9). We will try to keep you as up to date as possible but the latest additions will always be added immediately to ironmaiden.com/flight666 if you would like to check in from time to time."

ITN Music has released a two-and-a-half-minute video report on this past Monday night's (Monday, April 20) U.K. premiere of "Iron Maiden: Flight 666". The clip, which includes interview footage with members of the band and the film's directors, can be viewed below.

"Iron Maiden: Flight 666"'s U.K. premiere was held at the Odeon Kensington in London, with four members of the band (Adrian Smith, Nicko McBrain, Janick Gers and Bruce Dickinson) and crew in attendance.

"Iron Maiden: Flight 666" will be released on extended Blu-ray and DVD formats, alongside a double-CD soundtrack album and limited edition double-vinyl picture disc. It will be available Monday, May 25 on EMI Records in Europe, and Tuesday, June 9 on EMI Records Canada and UMe in the USA.

For "Iron Maiden: Flight 666", IRON MAIDEN was accompanied everywhere by award-winning documentary makers Banger Productions from Toronto in Canada, who have received international critical acclaim for their previous movies "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and recently "Global Metal". Producer/presenter Sam Dunn and his team bring an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of this remarkable journey, with a close look at the logistics involved and following Team Maiden in the cockpit, on the plane and on and offstage, getting to the heart of this global adventure of a band that has very rarely even let cameras backstage before.

Shot in high definition and with superb 5.1 surround sound, mixed by the band's producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley, "Flight 666" brings to the screen all the drama, excitement and hysteria that followed the band around the world every time Ed Force One (the band's plane) touched down in a new country. The film documents the intensity of the punishing show schedules, the struggle with the time zones, the pressures of ensuring that every performance matched the energy of the many thousands of ecstatic and expectant fans from many cultural backgrounds, unusual angles from the spectacular shows... and, of course, the fun had on the way!

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 as a 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. In addition to a standard double DVD, EMI will release a special souvenir limited-edition deluxe DVD with 30-page booklet. The soundtrack audio version of the live show will be available on two CDs, 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!

To recognize the global phenomenon of MAIDEN, the Blu-ray/DVD are also subtitled in Hindi, Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, Brazilian, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish.