"It Might Be Loud" to be released on Blu-ray and DVD

One of the most dynamic gatherings in music history takes place in the new film IT MIGHT GET LOUD, arriving on Blu-ray High Def and DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Dececmber 22nd, when legends Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White come together to play, compare notes and talk about music and their mutual love of the electric guitar. Directed by Davis Guggenheim and conceived by producer Thomas Tull, the film, through the words and music of three generations of musicians, celebrates the love affair these men and countless others have with the electric guitar, perhaps the most innovative and challenging instrument ever created.

IT MIGHT GET LOUD isn’t like any other rock’n roll documentary. Filmed through the eyes of three virtuosos from three different generations, audiences get up close and personal, discovering how a furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a studio musician and a painter from London and a seventeen-year-old Dublin schoolboy, each used the electric guitar to develop their unique sound and rise to the pantheon of superstar. Rare discussions are provoked as we travel with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White to influential locations of their pasts. Born from the experience is intimate access to the creative genesis of each legend, such as Link Wray’s “Rumble’s” searing impression upon Jimmy Page, who surprises audiences with an impromptu air guitar performance. But that’s only the beginning.

IT MIGHT GET LOUD might not affect how you play guitar, but it will change how you listen. The film is directed and produced by “An Inconvenient Truth’s” Davis Guggenheim, and produced by Thomas Tull, Lesley Chilcott and Peter Afterman.

It Might Get Loud’s bonus features include Deleted Scenes, the Toronto Film Festival Press Conference and a Commentary with Director Davis Guggenheim, Producer Lesley Chilcott and Producer Thomas Tull.

The Blu-ray Disc™ includes movieIQ featuring the "Loud" Playlist which allows viewers to immediately access real-time information on the cast, music, trivia and more while watching the movie through BD Live! Also includes an interactive playlist where you can bookmark your favorite songs featured in the film and email yourself a customized playlist! The Sony Pictures Classics film will be available on DVD for $27.96 SRP, while the Blu-ray High-Def version will sell for $37.95 SRP.

Synopsis:
While each guitarist describes his own musical rebellion, a rock’n roll summit is being arranged. Set on an empty soundstage, the musicians come together, crank up the amps and play. They also share their influences, swap stories, and teach each other songs. During the summit, Page’s double-neck guitar, The Edge’s array of effects pedals and White’s new mic, custom built into his guitar, go live. The musical journey is joined by visual grandeur, too. We see the stone halls of Headley Grange where “Stairway to Heaven” was composed, visit a haunting Tennessee farmhouse where Jack White writes a song on-camera, and eavesdrop inside the dimly lit Dublin studio where The Edge lays down initial guitar tracks for U2’s forthcoming single. The images, like the stories, will linger in the mind long after the reverb fades.

DVD/ Blu-ray High-Def Special Features Include:
Deleted Scenes
Commentary with Director Davis Guggenheim, Producer Lesley Chilcott and Producer Thomas Tull
· Toronto Film Festival Press Conference with Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, Davis Guggenheim, Lesley Chilcott and Thomas Tull

Blu-ray™ Exclusive Special Features Include:
movieIQ: featuring the "Loud" Playlist" - Bookmark your favorite songs featured in the film and email yourself a customized playlist!

The Blu-ray Disc™ version of It Might Get Loud is BD-Live™ enabled, allowing users to get connected and go beyond the disc via an Internet-connected Blu-ray player. Download content, give feedback through an exclusive survey, and register for rewards.

Get rewarded for registering your Sony Blu-ray discs! The Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club rewards consumers in the U.S. for purchasing and registering BD-Live enabled Sony Blu-ray movies. By accumulating points, members are then able to redeem those points for cool Sony products. Visit www.sonyrewards.com/bluray for more details.

It Might Get Loud has a run time of approximately 98 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and brief strong language. Visit Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on the Web at www.SonyPictures.com.

DVD Single-Disc
DVD Catalog #: 31512
UPC Code: 0 43396 31512 9
Order Date: 11/19/09
SRP: $27.96

Blu-ray™ High-Def Disc
DVD Catalog #: 32400
UPC Code: 0 43396 32400 8
Order Date: 11/19/09
SRP: $37.95

For more information about Sony Pictures Classics films and DVDs, please visit www.sonyclassics.com. The website features trailers of upcoming SPC films, high-resolution images, a DVD archive and a special "Press Only" section where press members can access materials for SPC's expansive library of films and DVDs.