• The Eric Stoltz legal issues have been cleared up.
• None of the Stoltz footage will be included on the DVD supplement.
• The DVD will include new interviews, music from the film, storyboards, and simple photos of Stoltz as McFly.
• The BTTF DVD should be out by Christmas 1999.
• The BTTF2 and BTTF3 DVDs will be released in 2002.

• The Back to the Future: Collector's Edition will be released on November 16th.
• Universal's ad campaign will be called "The Future is Back!", and will appear on their video slate in late 1999 along with Notting Hill and The Mummy.
• Specific features will include:
  • Random Scene Access
  • Widescreen / Pan & Scan
  • Newly Restored Digital Soundtrack
  • Commentaries by Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, and Thomas F. Wilson
  • Three Deleted Scenes
  • Original Storyboards
  • Conceptual Artwork
  • And a few surprises...
• The DVD will be packaged with a watch that runs backwards.
• The DVDs for BTTF2 and BTTF3 will follow a few weeks later.

• The main menu will consist of the Clock Tower.  Storm clouds will be moving digitally overhead with thunder & lightning effects.  The menu options will contain the options PLAY MOVIE, SCENE SELECTIONS, PRODUCTION, and CAST & CREW.  Each time you select one of the menu options, lightning will hit the clock tower and the clock hands will spin.
• The Eric Stoltz footage may yet still be included on the collection.
• The full-length music video to "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & The News is strongly being considered as an option on the disc.  The long-form video, which is rarely seen anymore, contains Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and the DeLorean time machine in a funny intro to the song.
• Among the deleted scenes to be included will be the scene with Doc from 1955 going through the 1985 Doc's suitcase (as seen on The Secrets of the Back to the Future™ Trilogy), and Marty peeking into a classroom and seeing Lorraine cheating on a test.
• There may indeed be audio commentary added, primarily from the film's producers, Bob Gale and Neil Canton.

• Back to the Future: Special Edition is penciled in for the last week of June 2000.
• It will retail for $26.95 on DVD, $16.95 on VHS (Widescreen/Pan-Scan versions for both).
• In addition to features previously mentioned, it will feature:
  • A new 1:85:1 transfer and THX sound remastering.
  • Screen-specific audio commentary from Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
  • An interactive DVD-ROM section including still photos, the screenplay, and a tour of Back to the Future...The Ride.
• Two weeks later, Back to the Future Part II: Special Edition and Back to the Future Part III: Special Edition will hit the market for the same prices.
• BTTF2: SE will have a few deleted scenes, audio commentary, new transfers and remasterings, trailers, and TV ad campaigns!
• BTTF3: SE is slightly thinner in the bonus dept., featuring essentially the same things, if not less.
• The three movies have DVD menus as follows:
  1. Clock Tower - 1985
  2. Clock Tower - 2015
  3. Clock Tower - 1885 (half-built)

'Many fans have surely waited for this... the " back into the future 1-3" movies will bereleased on DVD in Germany. Universal announced [to us] to count on a release in June/July 2001. While the US DVD's will already appear in December, we will have to be patient a little longer. Specifications of the features are not known yet, however one will be able to orientate oneself with the US DVD's.'

GREAT SCOTT!

As the true home-video classics are beginning to slowly appear on DVD lists all over the world, at last it seems as if our favorite time-travelling twosome Doc Brown and Marty McFly could be winging our way in the flying DeLorion some time soon.

Region 1 will get there first, with a no doubt lavish Back to the Future trilogy box set, although it is too early to theorize about extra content (we're thinking commentary, interviews, behind the scenes et al). Region 2 will then catch up on the 15th of January 2001.   [Thanks to Simon Daw for the tip!]

'We're not sure what to make of this, but some very reliable sources are now telling us that Universal's Back to the Future Trilogy is no longer on the DVD release list for 2001. Does this mean the DVDs have been delayed, either temporarily or indefinitely? Does it mean that they might still be released yet THIS year? We just don't know at this point, but we're working to find out more as soon as we can. Stay tuned...'

'A quick follow-up today on Universal's Back to the Future Trilogy. We're now hearing that the title has been pulled off the slates because it's still deep in production, and the fact that it's off the release lists means nothing. Ridley Scott's Legend was in production for nearly a year before the studio even acknowledged that it was coming. So our best information says that BTTF will still be out in 2001, in a time frame that's still TBD. Stay tuned...'

"The statements posted are not true."

"Back to the Future is still on our release schedule, but without a confirmed release date at this time. Because this is a VERY IMPORTANT title to consumers and Universal, we are currently still making evaluations to make certain the DVD release delivers the same high standards that are the studio's trademark. An announcement will be forthcoming when all of these issues are settled."

Back To The Future and more Columbia anouncements
DVD-Home got many questions regarding the release date for the Back to the Future movies. Well we have got some good news for you! All 3 movies will be released on the 10th of July 2001. According to Columbia, there were some productions problems. Columbia also announced these titles:
17 April 2001 The Nutty Professor 2
22 May 2001 Charlie's Angels
24 July 2001 Ghandi.

The Back To The Future trilogy is still not listed, despite confirmations late last year that there was a chance the titles would be out by Q4 2000; on Thursday we had the opportunity to meet with an engineer involved in the mastering of the title, and can report that at the moment all work involving the titles has been "archived," due to an extended -- an unexpected -- delay. Two reasons were given for the delay: an extended rights issue about which the lawyers have not yet come to an agreement, and a disagreement about the presentation of the set (i.e., to make it three 2-DVD Special Editions, to have only the first title appear in a 2-DVD S.E. and leave the other two as single-DVD S.E.s, or to have each title a single-DVD S.E. and box-set the collection with a fourth supplementary DVD). Of the two reasons, we tend to put more weight on the first; while the second issue is almost certainly in discussion, it's unlikely to have engendered a months-long delay. In any case, although he couldn't confirm a July 10^th release, he said that the paperwork that's crossed his desk shows that management would love to have the discs as a summer release, pending the conclusion of the remaining legal issues. He's aware of at least two different animated menus that have already been prepared for BTTF in preparation for different configurations of the title.

"For Back to the Future, I did a half-hour documentary with Michael J. Fox, director Robert Zemeckis and co-writer Bob Gale — a kind of retrospective look back at the trilogy. I know at the time there were a lot of good behind-the-scenes documentaries made, so there was no point in doing the same thing."

"Another masterpiece: the 3 parts of Back to the Future, which DVD editions - for the second half of the year - will have serious advantages."