MUMBAI: Paramount‘s Insurge Pictures will release an updated director‘s fan cut of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never for a one-week exclusive run beginning 25 February.
However, the film will play only in 3D screens in the US and Canada replacing the original version. Along with, there will be 40 minutes of new footage.
The updated version runs 115 minutes, instead of the original running time of 105 minutes.
Some of the new footage includes more of Bieber‘s friends and hometown life, as well as new songs and special footage shot of the film‘s premiere at theaters across the country.
The original Never Say Never will continue playing in 2D runs. The cost of a 35mm print makes sending the director‘s cut to those theaters financially unworkable. Digital prints, however, are a fraction of the cost.
Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said the studio is "trying to take advantage of options from digital technology that didn‘t exist before and give fans even more of what they loved from the first version."
