Now that the movie has been released for just over three months, fans of the movie are waiting in anticipation of the Tomorrow When The War Began DVD release. The good news is its set to be released in Australia on 30th December 2010. The bad news is that Australia is the only country it is being released in on that day.

The reason being is that other countries that have the distribution rights to show the movie in their country have yet to show the film in their cinemas. For example, the United Kingdom isn’t going to be showing it in cinemas over there until 15 April 2011. And it still hasn’t been picked up by a distributor in the United States.

The Tomorrow When The War Began – Limited Academic Edition DVD that is being released in Australia on 30 December also comes with some special features including a collector’s booklet; an extended interview with John Marsden, the author of the book the movie is based on; the making of the movie; the alternate movie ending; and some passage readings by John Marsden.

The region code on this Australian released DVD is Region 4 which means Tomorrow When The War Began DVD can only be played on DVD players encoded as Region 4 which includes the following countries: Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Central and South America, Caribbean and Mexico, (unless you have a DVD player that is region free and allows you to play all regions code DVDs on it.).

The Tomorrow When The War Began DVD is available to pre-order at http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/813725 and international shipping is available.

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There’s some great news that’s been released about the making of sequels for the Tomorrow movie. Fans who have enjoyed the movie adaption of Tomorrow When The War Began will be thrilled to hear that Stuart Beattie will be writing the screenplay for another two sequels to the movie. He will direct both of them.
  
The same cast are returning for the sequels as well as the same producers. Tomorrow When The War Began has exceeded expectations at the Australian box office where in its first week of release it grabbed first place at the box office just breaking the $5 million mark.

Adapting a popular novel to the big screen always has its risks. It’s hard to get every detail of a story to fit into 90 minutes of screen time. There are always parts that have to be left out and there’s no pleasing everyone as to which parts get omitted and which get changed around. Read more »

Here is a video of Stuart Beattie talking about the Tomorrow  Movie.

Stuart Beattie is an Australian screenwriter who originally comes from Sydney, and has resided in LA since the late 90′s. He has written screenplays for popular films like “Pirates of the Caribbean; the Curse of the Black Pearl”, “Collateral” and “Australia” to name a few.

Now he is directing his first film, one that he also wrote the screenplay for; the Tomorrow When The War Began movie, which is based on the novel of the same name and originally written by Australian author John Marsden. Beattie said he chose to write the script and then direct theTomorrow Movie because it has a great story, great characters and is a well known title.

In Australia of course it is a very well known book title because it is not only written by an Australian, but it is required reading in most high schools for the subject of English. The New South Wales Board of Studies recommends it as a text to be studied by students in Years 9 and 10. Read more »

Here is a video of John Marsden reading an excerpt from Chapter 8 of Tomorrow When The War Began

John Marsden is the author of Tomorrow When The War Began. This book, along with the 6 others in the Tomorrow series, has been described as one of the most popular for teenagers in Australia. The epic novel has now been turned into a movie that his teenage audience can’t wait to see if forums and fan sites are anything to go by.

Marsden, who is highly regarded in Australia as ‘the’ bestselling author of books for young adults, was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1950. He attended various primary schools when he was young and loved to read. Encouraged to write by his grade 4 and 6 teachers, John decided at the tender age of nine that he was going to become an author.

After finishing high school Marsden entered the University of Sydney to study law but dropped out because he thought a law career would be quite boring.

Marsden then spent 2 months in a psychiatric hospital because he was clinically depressed and this experience gave him plenty of time for introspection. This opportunity for self reflection and what he learned there about feelings, relationships and communication gave him a different perspective on life and enabled him to build a new life for himself. Read more »

Spoiler Alert! If you don’t wish to know the story before you see the movie, then don’t read the following article as it contains details from the Tomorrow Movie.

The Tomorrow Movie starts out with the main female character Elllie Linton, asking some of her friends to go on a camping trip to a remote area of bushland the locals call “Hell”. Six of her friends; Corrie McKenzie, Homer Yanos, Kevin Holmes, Fiona Maxwell, Lee Takkam and Robyn Mathers decide to join her for a few days of camping well away from the township of Wirrawee.

It just so happens that the town’s annual Commemorative Day show is being held at the time they are away, so none of the teens think it strange when they see a lot of planes flying overhead while they’re away camping, assuming they must be part of the show’s aeronautical events.

When they return home from their trip the group are dismayed to find that Ellie’s dog is dead from dehydration and the house is abandoned. The phone line is dead and there’s no power or radio reception. Read more »

Here is the trailer for the Tomorrow When The War Began Movie

The Tomorrow When The War Began movie was written by screenwriter Stuart Beattie, who is also the director of the movie; his debut as a director. This $20 million action thriller is set in the rural town of Wirrawee. It tells the story of a group of teenagers who go on a camping trip and return home to find the country has been invaded by an unknown enemy.

The movie is based on the popular Tomorrow When The War Began book by acclaimed Australian author John Marsden. The book sold over two million copies in Australia and New Zealand alone and was considered such a good book in Sweden; being named the book ‘reluctant readers would be most likely to enjoy’, that the government distributed hundreds of thousands of copies to Swedish teenagers.

This is a real adventure story showing the initiative of teenagers when pushed to their limits. It’s also a story of love, courage, leadership and ingenuity as the group tries to work together in order to not only survive their ordeal but come up with ways to overthrow the enemy forces, while looking out for each other. Here’s a review of  Tomorrow When The War Began.

Audiences are bound to love the Tomorrow When The war Began Movie as much as the book and it promises to be one of the more popular teen movies to be released this year.

Update: At the annual Inside Film awards held in Sydney on November 14^th 2010, Tomorrow When The War Began movie picked up several awards. It won Best Feature Film; Caitlin Stasey won Best Actress for her role as Ellie; and the movie also won Best Script and Best Music.