To be released in North America on January 25th, 2005, this 2-DVD set is jam packed with 7 hours of bonus features! They include:

• 40 Additional Scenes
• Exclusive Intimate Interviews with Metallica about the film
• Highlights from Festivals and Premieres
• 2 Audio Commentaries by the Band and Directors
• 2 Trailers and a Music Video

North America (region 1 DVD's) set to be released on January 25th, 2005. Most other regions to be released shortly after the North American release. More info as we receive it. Stay tuned!

International release dates:
(All dates subject to change)

• Belgium - Jan 26, 2005
• Netherlands - Jan 27, 2005
• France - Jan 27, 2005
• Germany - Feb 3, 2005
• Italy - Jan 26, 2005
• Sweden - Jan 26, 2005
• Norway - Jan 26, 2005
• Denmark - Jan 26, 2005
• Spain - Mar 9, 2005
• UK - Jan 31, 2005
• Australia - Feb 10, 2005
• Korea - Mar 10, 2005
• Japan - Dec 16, 2005
• Brazil - Apr 19, 2005
• Mexico - March 11, 2005
• India - Apr 15, 2005 (VCD Only)
• Malaysia - Feb 1, 2005
• Poland - Feb 3, 2005
• Portugal - Feb 16, 2005
• Romania - Feb 16, 2005
• Singapore - Feb 1, 2005
• Taiwan - Mar 29, 2005
• Chile - Mar 16, 2005
• Czech - Jul 2, 2005
• Hong Kong - Feb 24, 2005
• Greece - Feb 7, 2005
• Iceland - Feb 28, 2005
• Peru - April, 2005
• Philippines - Feb 16, 2005
• Croatia - Feb 15, 2005
• Finland - Feb 25, 2005
• Argentina - March 17, 2005
• Colombia - Apr 1, 2005
• New Zealand - Feb 10, 2005
• South Africa - May 5, 2005
• Baltic Republic - Feb 25, 2005
• Bulgaria - Feb 23, 2005
• China - Oct 17, 2005 (VCD only)
• Gulf States - Jan 31, 2005
• Hungary - Mar 8, 2005
• Kuwait - Jan 31, 2005
• Lebanon - Jan 31, 2005
• Thailand - Apr 28, 2005
• Turkey - Jan 26, 2005
  (All dates subject to change)

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS:

Full Screen Format
Dolby Digital
English 5.1 Surround
English 2.0 Stereo
Metallica Commentary featuring James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo
Filmmaker Commentary featuring Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky
Theatrical Trailer
Concert Trailer

Feature Run Time 2 Hrs., 20 Min.
Color/B&W: Color
Rating: US - Not Rated
CAN - 14A

BONUS FEATURES on Disc Two
28 Additional Scenes:
Photo Shoot with Kirk
Lars with his Newborn Son
Metallica, Swizz Beatz & Ja Rule
Lars and Kirk Webchat
Management Discusses Metallica's Future
Should the Filming Continue?
James Talks about Growing Up
Surprise Gig at Kimo's
Metallica Honors Aerosmith at MTV's Icon
Take the Metal heads Bowling
Bass Lines for "My World"
More Work on "My World"
Kirk's Birthday
Tough Riff
"All Within My Hands" Vocals
Castor Doesn't Want Headphones
Bob is Bitter
Lars Stews in his Anger
Lars and James Have Made Progress
Kirk Goes to Traffic School
James' New Artwork
Album Packaging
Hammering It Out
Sounds Good
Rob Goes Snowboarding
Kirk's Father-in-Law Plays with Rob
A Lot of Work to Be Done
"Frantic" at the Fillmore

Festivals & Premieres
Sundance Q&A
Sundance Press Conference
San Francisco International Film Festival
New York Premiere
Metallica Club Screening

Additional Scenes II: This Monster Lives
Predictions about the album
Being Original
Lars and Dave Mustaine, alternate cut
*"F$%@! Meeting" extension
Raiders tailgate show
Raiders Fallout
The New Face of Metal?
Touring Confusion
Dee Dee's Legacy
Talking about bass players with Pepper
Rob's First Interview
Lars visits his childhood home
The Oslo Interviews

Music Video

Filmmaker Bios: Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky

Official Press Release:

METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, the highly acclaimed portrait of the epic band, is heading to DVD on January 25, from Paramount Home Entertainment. This 2-disc set offers an all-access pass to the tumultuous inner world of Metallica and includes over seven hours of special features, such as 40 "unreleased" scenes, two audio commentaries (by the band and by the filmmakers), highlights from film festivals and premieres (Sundance press conference with the band and Q & A with the filmmakers, Metallica's hometown premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival, New York premiere), intimate interviews with Metallica about the film, a music video and trailers.

Paramount Home Entertainment is supporting the DVD release of METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER with consumer advertising on MTV, VH1, E! Comedy Central, Spike, CBS and UPN, as well as print ads in Rolling Stone, Blender, Alternative Press Magazine and Metal Edge.

The film that The New York Times describes as "Entertaining, moving and historically significant" is an intensely intimate look at one of the biggest rock bands of all time. METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER takes you inside the studio and into the psyches of Metallica, as they record their Grammy-winning album St. Anger. Over the course of two and a half years, the band - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo - battle their way through communication breakdowns, addictions, a band member's defection, fatherhood, domestic chaos and near-total disintegration during the most turbulent period of their 20-year history.

"Trying to whittle down over 1600 hours of footage into a feature-length movie was an often heartbreaking task," said filmmakers Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky. "We are thrilled that as part of the extensive special features on this 2-disc set, we were able to resurrect some of our favorite scenes that were so difficult to leave on the cutting room floor."

The DVD set of METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER is presented in full screen format (its original theatrical aspect ration of 4:3), it features Dolby Digital English 5.1 and Dolby English 2.0, English and Spanish sub-titles and it is closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.

METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER is priced around $20 in the U.S. and C$36.99 (S.R.P.) in Canada. The set is Not Rated in the U.S. by the Motion Picture Association of America and is rated 14A in Canada. It has a running time of approximately 140 minutes and is encoded with the Macrovision™ Anti-Copy process.