For Immediate Release

Winner of Four Academy Awards
Including BEST  PICTURE

A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Debuts on DVD and VHS June 25, 2002

--Groundbreaking DVD Bonus Features
Hosted by Academy Award Winners
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard--

Universal City, California, April 15, 2002 -- Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Imagine  Entertainment's A Beautiful Mind, winner of four 2001 Academy Awards including Best Picture (Brian Grazer and Ron Howard), Best Director  (Ron Howard), Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly) and Best Screenplay based on material previously produced or published (Akiva Goldsman), comes to DVD and home video on June 25, 2002.

The critically-acclaimed $175 million box-office smash will be released as a two-disc DVD Awards Edition, available in both widescreen and pan & scan versions, priced at $22.95 M.A.P. Order close for the DVD is May 7, 2002. An Awards Edition VHS will be priced at $14.95 M.A.P. with an order close of May  21, 2002.

Must-Have Collectible Academy Award-Winning DVD and Video

A Beautiful Mind, with its high consumer awareness and recognition as Oscar's Best Picture and the winner of four Golden Globe Awards, has created a highly anticipated sell-through demand. Priced to own, A Beautiful Mind has built-in consumer appeal as the ultimate collectible title to add to a home entertainment library. In addition, an extensive menu takes you inside the creation of this award-winning movie on the special two-disc DVD Awards Edition that includes a 22-minute featurette, "Inside A Beautiful Mind," offering unique, behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and crew, and the remarkable individual whose life inspired the film. The Awards Edition VHS contains a shorter version of "Inside A Beautiful Mind.

Beautiful Mind, the powerful story inspired by events in the life of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. , is an inspirational testimony of the courage of the human spirit. The triumphant 2001 Best Picture garnered Ron Howard his first Oscar for directing and features Academy Award winners Russell Crowe (Gladiator, The Insider) and Jennifer Connelly in her Oscar-winning role as Best Supporting Actress.

Awards Edition DVD

Producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind, host the DVD Awards Edition. "The DVD is useful to support this feeling that you're experiencing this with Nash and begin to understand Nash's journey," comments director Ron Howard.

DVD viewers will gain unprecedented insight into the vision of producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard with the definitive two-disc Awards Edition DVD set, which includes more than six hours of captivating entertainment. Some notable highlights include A Beautiful Partnership with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard in a unique behind-the-scenes look into the filmmaking process from storyboards to final feature (see sampler).

Deleted Scenes provides an optional commentary by Ron Howard (see sampler). Development of the Screenplay hosted by Brian Grazer in a conversation with Academy Award-winning screenplay writer Akiva Goldsman on the process of transforming Sylvia Nasar's best-selling book to the screen (see sampler).  

Meet John Nash is hosted by Ron Howard and includes a demonstration of Nash's Nobel Prize-winning equilibrium theory (see sampler). Casting provides an insightful look as Brian Grazer and Ron Howard share their thoughts on the casting of actors Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly (see sampler). Scoring the Film hosted by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard is a behind-the-scenes look at scoring the film with composer James Horner and British singing sensation Charlotte Church (see sampler).

Other DVD exclusives include The Process of Age Progression, Special Effects Features, and much more.

Additionally, the disc includes the special groundbreaking Universal Studios Total Axess, a unique DVD-ROM destination providing viewers with the ultimate movie experience (see sampler). Together with an internet-connected computer, users will have exclusive entrée to additional never-before-seen video, behind-the-scenes footage and other special clips and features that are updated weekly.

Multi-Million Dollar Marketing Support

Universal Studios Home Video will support A Beautiful Mind with a multi-million dollar television and online advertising campaign. Network, cable and spot TV will air on CBS, NBC, ABC, and such programs as, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Ally McBeal, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, The West Wing, ER, Friends, The Early Show and Good Morning America, among others. Point-of-purchase materials  will include theatrical sized posters,  and 24-, 48- and 96- piece A Beautiful Mind DVD and VHS merchandisers. :30 and :60 radio scripts also are available at www.universalhomevideo.com.

Synopsis

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time partner Academy Award winner Brian Grazer. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe in an astonishing performance as brilliant mathematician John Nash, on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. Now only his devoted wife (Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly) can help him in this powerful story of courage, passion and triumph.

CAST & FILMMAKERS

Director: Ron Howard
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Executive Producers: Todd Hallowell, Karen Kehela
Director of Photography: Roger Deakins
Production Designer: Wynn Thomas
Editor: Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
Composer: James Horner
Costume Designer: Rita Ryack
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Josh Lucas, Vivien Cardone

AWARDS EDITION 2-DISC DVD

Street Date:  June 25, 2002
Order Close: May 7, 2002
Copyright: 2001 Universal Studios and Dreamworks LLC
Rating: PG-13 (intense thematic material, sexual content and a scene of violence).
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98 S.R.P. , $22.95 M.A.P. Selection Number: Widescreen  21450; Pan & Scan 22350
Feature Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
Number of Layers: Disc 1 dual layer; Disc 2 single layer
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - Disc 1:  Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1; Disc 2: Various
Pan & Scan - Disc 1:  Pan & Scan 1.33:1; Disc 2: Various
Bonus Material: Disc 1: Feature film; Feature audio commentary with Director Ron Howard, Feature audio commentary with screenplay writer Akiva Goldsman, Deleted scenes with optional director commentary. Disc 2: A Beautiful Partnership; Development of the Screenplay; Meet John Nash; Casting; The Process of Age Progression; Storyboards; Special Effects Features; Scoring the Film; Inside A Beautiful Mind; Theatrical Trailer

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