Official Simpsons Game Box Arts
Official box arts for the latest Simpsons video game, creatively titled The Simpsons Game, have been revealed by Electronic Arts. The game will be released on six different platforms this fall, and each system’s box art has its own unique cover art. The official website for the game can be found here.
SOURCE: Electronic Arts
Simpsons Movie DVD Details Leaked
TVShowsOnDVD.com have been given some exclusive details about the upcoming Simpsons Movie DVD. The 87-minute big-screen feature will be available in both Widescreen and Fullscreen versions on December 18th, just in time for Christmas. Extras including an Animators and Producers commentary, plus deleted scenes and promos will be available on the disc which should retail for about $29.98. Further details can be found at TvShowsOnDVD.
SOURCE: TVShowsOnDVD
Promo Image: He Loves To Fly And He D’oh’s
The new season is now just around the corner, with Fox releasing the first promotional image for the year. The episode featured is the premiere, He Loves To Fly And He D’oh’s, in which Homer makes it his mission to find a job that offers the luxury of flying on a corporate jet and enlists a life coach, guest star Stephen Colbert, to help fulfill his dream. The episode airs September 23. Click the image for a full, larger view.
Simpsons Comics #133 Out Now
Simpsons Comics #133: (Out Now!)
When we last saw Mr. Burns, he was desperate and destitute in a foreign land while an imposter squandered his fortune at home. In the conclusion to the epic two-part tale, “A Brand New Burns,” the results are senses-shattering, the story will affect the Bongo universe for years to come, and things will never be the same again for the Simpsons – but just like every episode you’ve ever seen, things pretty much return to normal at the end. However, getting there is half the fun!
Bart Simpson Comics #37: (Out Wednesday)
Bartman goes mano y loco with Dr. Colossus when Springfield’s resident supervillain uses a special ray to turn everyone in town into a ten-year-old! But the colossal crackpot has met his match when Bart gathers the largest super team of ten-year-olds ever assembled for an assault on Death Mountain! Can Bartman and the ten-year-old townspeople save Springfield… before their bedtime?
Bluegrass Tribute To The Simpsons
CMH Records has put together this barn-burner of a tribute to The Simpsons as a way of saying thanks for over two decades of the best and the brightest show on television. It’s their little spin on the Springfield soundtrack. Hit & Run Bluegrass mix razor-sharp humor and blistering pickin’ to create a one-of-a-kind album that has to be heard to be believed. It’ll put a spring in your step and a smile on your face!
CMH Records has a long and established history of their “Tribute” albums that cover rock to blues and country to, well, bluegrass. The tribute albums are mostly instrumental and contain instrumental pickin’ by some of bluegrass music’s best artists. The albums are generally interesting and entertaining while offering a breath of fresh air to the bluegrass scene. The album is now available digitally via iTunes, eMusic, etc on physically on the CMH website. To hear samples of the album click here.
SOURCE: CMH Records
Simpsons Movie Pirated In Australia
Sydney has the dubious distinction of being the first market in the world where “The Simpsons Movie” was pirated, with distributor 20th Century Fox tracking an illegal Internet copy of the film to a Down Under locale within 72 hours of its Australian release. But in an indication that the industry’s enforcement initiatives are working, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft said Friday that a 21-year-old Sydney man was arrested the day before in relation to the unauthorized recording and uploading and charged with copyright theft. He faces up to five years jail.
The “Simpsons” copy was found before the film’s U.S. release July 27 and tracked back to a computer in western Sydney. AFACT alleges that the man arrested used his cell phone to film the movie at a cinema in western Sydney before uploading it on the Internet. Close international cooperation between the Australian Federal Police, AFACT and 20th Century Fox resulted in the removal of the unauthorized recording within 72 hours of its posting. But during that window the movie was uploaded to a U.S.-based global streaming site where it was viewed or downloaded more than 3,000 times.
AFACT additionally tracked it to other streaming sites and P2P systems where it had been illegally downloaded in excess of 110,000 times. Investigators even found a version of the film dubbed in French. Copies of “The Simpsons Movie” already are widely available on the street in China, though it is unclear if the Chinese copies came from the Australian upload.
SOURCE: Hollywood Reporter
Complete Tenth Season In Stores Tuesday
The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season arrives in North American stores this Tuesday August 7. Available to buy as a limited edition Bart head or standard cardboard box, the set includes every episode from Season 10 with commentaries, as well as deleted scenes, commercials, audio outtakes, and animation showcases. The DVD box set is retailing for $49.95 US. Make sure you get in quick.
Those in United Kingdom (R1) can purchase their copy on September 10, while those in Australia (R4) will have to wait until September 26.
Nancy Cartwright Interviewed On Rove
Australian host Rove McManus spoke with Nancy Cartwright on his show live from Los Angeles last night. The clip featured below includes this interview as well as a chat with Harry Shearer, Dan Castellaneta, and guest David Hasselhoff on the yellow carpet for the opening of The Simpsons Movie in LA. Enjoy!
Simpsons Movie Earns Big D’oh!
“The Simpsons Movie” turned doughnuts into dollars over the weekend, raking in $71.9 million to debut as the top movie this week. The big screen tale of the lovable, if dysfunctional, family rolled over the competition, sending last week’s top movie, Universal Studio’s “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,” into second place with $19 million, a 44 percent drop. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” from Warner Bros., fell to third place with $17.1 million, a 48 percent drop from last week. The film has grossed $242 million domestically after three weeks in theaters.
“Homer’s odyssey paid off,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. The film, which featured the antics of yellow-hued Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and a host of motley characters, grossed an average of $18,320 on 3,922 screens across the country and also opened strongly in 70 foreign markets.
“We are ecstatic,” said Chris Aronson, senior vice president for distribution at 20th Century Fox. “It far exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations.” The hand-drawn movie had the fifth best opening weekend of the year, beating such notable contenders as “Transformers,” from Paramount, “Ghost Rider,” from Sony Pictures and the computer-animated “Ratatouille,” from The Walt Disney Co. and Pixar Animation Studios.
SOURCE: Forbes
The Simpsons Movie: Now In Theaters
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The Simpsons Movie has hit movie screens around the world, and audiences have already started to lap up their piece of Simpsons history. The movie is screening in United Kingdom, Australia, and much of Europe as of today, while audiences in North America and the rest of the world will have to wait until Friday.
Simpsons Channel has been lucky enough to have seen the movie and can confirm that if you’ve been excited by what you’ve seen from the previews, the movie will not disappoint! And a tip to viewers: don’t leave that theater until the Gracie Films logo appears! Please use this discussion board to post your reviews and comments about the movie, and readers, be wary of potential spoilers from the reviewers.
SOURCE: Post Your Reviews Here!