It's been exactly 500 days -- one year, four months, and thirteen days -- since we first learned that Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace was returning to theaters in 3D. Now, after all that waiting, it's finally here. To help you get into the Episode I spirit, TFN presents our roundup of TPM 3D re-release coverage and related resources.
ForceCast Press Junket Coverage The ForceCast's Jimmy Mac covered Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox's TPM 3D media event in California last month. Here are those reports:
Marketing Tie-Ins The advertising machine is not quite as intense as it was in 1999, but a number of retailers are jumping on the Star Wars re-release bandwagon with specially-branded products and offers.
Official Star Wars YouTube Videos Lucas Online kicked its YouTube channel into high gear to promote this release. Embedded below are the channel's TPM-related videos.
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.
Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo.
While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict....
If you're going to see The Phantom Menace 3D this weekend or at some point in the future, have fun and May The Force Be With You!
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