Mutant News Annex

Thursday, October 9, 2008

House of the Knitted Opera Marvel

The soundtrack for REPO! The Genetic Opera came out September 30.

As part of Fearfest, AMC's website has free streaming of The Haunted Palace (1963), House of Usher (1960), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977), and Pumpkinhead (1988).

Marvel Entertainment, Inc. has "announced that David Maisel, Executive Vice President, Office of the Chief Executive, and Chairman of Marvel Studios, will lead a 'Fireside Chat' regarding Marvel at the Natixis Bleichroeder Second Annual Hidden Gems Conference on Tuesday, October 14th. The Fireside Chat will start at 3:00 p.m. and will be webcast live for all interested investors. The Hidden Gems conference is being held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, NY. Live Webcast and Replay: http://www.wsw.com/webcast/nblr2/mvl or via www.marvel.com/company/index.htm?sub=webcasts_current.php. An archived version of the webcast will be available at these locations for 30 days."

Star Wars slippers!

For $45,000 you can own a fully restored Ecto-1.

An extraterrestrial teapot.

Iron Man concept art.

The 9 Transformers Toys Who Looked Nothing Like Their Cartoon Counterparts

A Loudly Lurid Universe of Sci-Fi Pulp Illustration

I've got two from You Knit What - 2: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope." Peter's first go at the Spider-Man suit.

Comics and Books

A video of tour of Neil Gaiman reading The Graveyard Book. Alternate link if the first gets overloaded.

The second chapter of Warner Premiere's Watchmen Motion Comic came out this week on iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Xbox Live and the Sony PlayStation Store. Motion Comics for Batman: Black & White and Superman: Red Son are both currently under developement.

Fred Van Lente on Marvel Zombies 3

Halo: The Cole Protocol's final cover.

An article by Terry Pratchett on his Alzheimer's.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Futurama: Bender's Game - November 4
Primeval: The Complete Series 1 and 2 - November 4
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - November 11
Night Gallery: Season 2 - November 11
Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald (Vol. 4 - 1951-1961) - November 11
The Third Man (Blu-ray) - November 18
24: Redemption - November 25
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - December 2
The X-Files: I Want to Believe - December 2
The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951]: Special Edition (Blu-ray) - December 2
The Shawshank Redemption (Blu-ray) - December 2
Lost: The Complete Fourth Season - December 9
Battlestar Galatica: Season 4.0 - January 6 (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray) – January 20, 2009
Moonlight: The Complete Series - January 20, 2009

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Films from the South

October 9-19, in Oslo, Norway is the Films from the South festival. Now the website is in Norwegian, so I can't tell you much, BUT I can tell you that these titles are included:

My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
The Cat Returns
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

The October 15 showing of Nausicaä will include a presentation and a panel led by Nausicaä.net and EX.org contributor Geir Friestad.

More info here. (Norwegian)

Bleach the Movie

October 20, Canada, Viz Media has announced that anime Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody will be screened at select Cineplex Entertainment and Empire Theatres locations throughout Canada.

The list of participating Cineplex locations.

The list of participating Empire Theatres.

Howl's Moving Castle

October 25-31, West Yorkshire, England, The National Media Museum will be screening Ghibli's anime adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' (completely excellent) book Howl's Moving Castle.

Show times here.

TV News...

Fox has ordered an additional nine episodes of Fringe, bringing the season total up to twenty two.

AMC is developing a series based on Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction novel Red Mars, about the first human colony on the Red Planet. Jonathan Hensleigh is writing and will exec produce with Jaffe Braunstein Entertainment and Created By.

Smallville's producers Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders:
"Dear Smallville fans,

As news and rumors swirl around the development of The Graysons for the CW, we have every intention of letting you, our fans, be the first to know the reality. Never have we been so committed to the continuing success of Smallville as we are to seasons 8 and 9. While we are extremely excited to be working hand-in-hand with Wonderland, Warner Bros. and the CW to create the origin story of Dick Grayson, it has never been intended as a replacement for Smallville, as is speculated in some media. The cast, crew, writers and producers are all working full-steam ahead on a story-line for Clark that allows for seasons of further trials and adventures for our favorite hero. As always, we all have you to thank for achieving eight years of this amazing show that Al and Miles created, and we're looking far beyond!"