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It's The Phantom Menace 3D Release Day!

Posted By Eric on February 10, 2012

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.

General Links

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:

Special Report: LIVE from Skywalker Ranch (initial audio mini-podcast)
Special Report: The ForceCast at Skywalker Ranch (video podcast)
Photo/Video Galleries: #1, #2, #3
Weekly ForceCast: February 10, 2012

News, Views, and Interviews

George Lucas talked to Entertainment Weekly about digital Yoda and his motivation for going 3D.
Lucas also answered a few questions from The Hollywood Reporter.
Ray Park was a guest on G4's Attack of the Show.
The Clone Wars Padm? voice actress Catherine Taber shared her TPM thoughts with Yahoo! Movies.
Wired's GeekDad blog on some of TPM's highlights
The Sydney Morning Herald has ten reasons to love Jar Jar Binks.
CNN looks at the fan environment surrounding Episode I.
movieScope looks at the process of converting the movie to 3D.
MTV rounds up six underrated Episode I characters.
Just for fun: eight movies recast to star Jar Jar Binks.

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.

The Film Itself
And just in case you forgot...

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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Is Colonel Gascon Jar Jar?s Cousin?
Posted By Dustin on December 17, 2012:
Derived from an unused concept for the Gungans

Ahmed Best Talks TPM & More With EW.com
Posted By Mike on February 27, 2012:
A lengthy article with the Jar Jar actor

TPM 3D Opening Weekend: #4 With $23M
Posted By Eric on February 12, 2012:
Episode I re-release performs as expected

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