Cinemas world-wide will be screening IRON MAIDEN's new movie - Flight 666 - in glorious Hi Definition, on specially-selected digital screens to celebrate Maiden Day on Tuesday 21st April - for one day only. Details of how to book your tickets will be announced on March 1st.

Maiden have announced that the World Premiere of their movie Flight 666 will take place at the Cine Odeon Petrobras cinema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday, March 14.

Says manager Rod Smallwood: "As the band are away from the UK touring throughout February and March we elected to have the World Premiere in Rio during the tour so the band can all be there. Since the legendary first Rock in Rio Festival in 1985, Brazil has always been a very special place for us and we have since visited a number of times. The premiere will be in the early afternoon prior to our concert in Rio that evening. During this Somewhere Back In Time tour we will have toured in Brazil more than ever before, visiting eight different cities and playing in Sao Paulo twice. Having sold out the Palmeiras Football Stadium a year ago we are going back again to play in the Interlagos Grand Prix circuit where last year Lewis Hamilton won the Formula One Championship. With over 40,000 tickets sold already over a month up front, other than motor racing this is expected to be the second biggest event there ever -- after His Holiness the Pope! With the movie coming out in cinemas worldwide as a special Maiden Day on Tuesday April 21st and once again touring round the World on Ed Force One it's a very exciting time for us!!"

The North American premiere of Iron Maiden's feature length documentary filmFlight 666, will be part of the prestigious SXSW film festival that runs March 13th - 22nd in Austin, Texas.

Iron Maiden: Flight 666, follows the band on the first leg of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour in February and March of 2008 as they experienced the most ambitious and adventurous tour in rock history.

The Maiden tour plan was something that had never been attempted before on such a grand scale. Circumnavigating the globe, the band flew in a specially customized Boeing 757 airliner with their crew and 12 tons of music and stage equipment on board, playing 23 sold out stadium and arena shows in Asia, Australia and North, Central and South America in just 45 days. They played in 13 countries, also landing in Azerbaijan and Papua New Guinea en route for fuel stops, traveling 70,000km and performing to almost half a million fans – a schedule that was only made possible by having their own “magic carpet” enabling them to go where they wanted with all the key elements of band, crew and equipment on board one plane, which was christened Ed Force One. Even more remarkable was that lead singer and Airline Captain Bruce Dickinson was not only to perform 23 shows, but he was also the pilot flying the plane for much of the way.

The band were accompanied everywhere by award winning documentary makers Banger Productions from Toronto, Canada, who have received international critical acclaim for their previous movies Metal, A Headbangers Journey and recently Global Metal. Filmmakers Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn and their team bring an intimate behind the scenes view of this remarkable journey, with a close look at the logistics involved and following Team Maiden in the cockpit, on the plane and on and offstage, getting to the heart of this innovative global adventure of a band that has very rarely even let cameras backstage before.

Shot in High Definition, the movie will be screened in 2K digital cinema, with superb 5.1 surround sound, mixed by the bands producer Kevin 'Caveman' Shirley. Iron Maiden: Flight 666 brings to the screen all the drama, excitement and hysteria that followed the band around the world every time their Boeing 757 'Ed Force One' touched down in a new country. The film documents the intensity of the punishing show schedules, the struggle with the time zones, the pressures of ensuring that every performance matched the energy of the many thousands of ecstatic and expectant fans from many cultural backgrounds, unusual angles from the spectacular shows......and of course the fun had on the way!.

Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is an honest and revealing portrait of one of the worlds most successful rock bands, a must see for their millions of fans around the world and anyone else with an interest in Rock Music and World Tours, giving an inspirational account of the chaotic and often humorous world of a band touring the four corners of the world in the most extraordinary way.

Participating cinemas will be announced shortly.

A teaser clip has now been posted online, and can be viewed below: