The Simpsons Movie

[Geekyfanboy]

Big Screen Simpsons Teaser

If you are a fan of The Simpsons, then this next bit of news will be a delight. On tonight’s episode of the long-running and popular animated series 20th Century Fox will premiere its new trailer for “The Simpsons Movie.” You can see it on on Fox at 8/7c.

In the episode (”GI (Annoyed Grunt”), after Bart gets out of a commitment to join the Army at 18, Homer falls prey to a couple of Army recruiters and lands himself in basic training. Homer, of course, treats this like summer camp and infuriates his hard-nosed colonel (voiced by 24’s Kiefer Sutherland). In typical Homer style he is unaffected by the DI and colonel’s constant hazing and humiliation.

“The Simpsons Movie” will debut in a theater near you on July 27, 2007.

[Rico]

Cool.  I used to watch the Simpsons a lot, but not as much in the last couple of seasons.  I'm sure I will see the movie.  Thanks for the heads up Kenny.

[PepperDude]

That's a must see movie.

[jedijeff]

It will be interesting to see the movie. Reading the description on IMDB, it does not sound all the different from an episode. I am like Rico, in that I used to watch regularily, but have not done so in the past few years.

[Rico]

Preview didn't show much - of course it was just a teaser.  I'm sure more previews will be coming in the next few months.

[Geekyfanboy]

Yeah I was a bit dissappointed. They have hyped this previews for the past few weeks and then all we get is one part of a scene. I know it's a teaser but I was expecting just a little more. I saw more at the comic con panel then what was shown in the teaser. On well like Rico said.. I"m sure will see more in the months to come.

[Trekkygeek]

I take it that its animated??

[Scott]

Nobody has gone to Apple.com and viewed the trailer yet?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/hd/

[Geekyfanboy]

It's the same teaser trailer they premiered last night on TV.. nothing really special.

[Trekkygeek]

For one horrible second, I thought it was going to be CGI. I suppose that was the trailers intentions  :blush

[Geekyfanboy]

LOL.. yeah I'm glad they kept it 2D like the TV series.

[Geekyfanboy]

Hey no one mentioned this but the new full trailer is online.. and WOW does it look good.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/trailer3_large.html

[JoSpiv]

I've been waiting 17 years for this movie.   

This is a big event, but the series finale(if there ever is one) will be the Television event of the century.   :Bow:

[Geekyfanboy]

7-Elevens get a 'Kwik-E-Mart' makeover

By DAVID KOENIG
AP Business Writer
 
DALLAS (AP) -- Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame,
in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.

Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola,
KrustyO's cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.

It's all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of "The Simpsons Movie," the big-screen debut for the long-running television cartoon,
which loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks and is run by a man with a thick Indian accent.

For 20th Century Fox Film Corp. and Homer's creators at Gracie Films, the stunt is a cheap way to call attention to their movie, since 7-Eleven
is bearing all the costs, which executives of the retail chain put at somewhere in the single millions.

At 7-Eleven, they're hoping it shows the ubiquitous chain has a trait seen in few corporations - the ability to laugh at themselves.

"We thought if you really want to do something different, the idea of actually changing stores into Kwik-E-Marts was over the top but a
natural," said Bobbi Merkel, an executive for of 7-Eleven's advertising agency, FreshWorks, a unit of Omnicom Group Inc. "It shows they get the joke."

The monthlong promotion has been rumored a long time - it's hard to keep a secret known by so many suppliers and franchisees - but 7-Eleven
managed to keep the locations of the stores quiet until early Sunday morning. That's when the exteriors of 11 U.S. stores and one in Canada were flocked in industrial foam and given new signs to replicate the animated look of Kwik-E-Marts.

The U.S. locations where a 7-Eleven store was transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart are New York City; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Burbank, Calif.; Los
Angeles; Henderson, Nev.; Orlando, Fla.; Mountain View, Calif.; Seattle; and Bladensburg, Md.

More of the article and a photo at:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=entertainment&id=5440476

[Geekyfanboy]

 The Simpsons Are New Englanders

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2007/07/12/the-simpsons-are-new-englanders/

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Exec. News Dir.)

All this time the majority of Simpsons fans assumed the family was from the Ohio Valley, but it turns out they come, not from Springfield, Ohio â€" but Springfield, Vermont.

After a huge campaign to give the family of Homer and Marge a real home State, which included the making of pink doughnuts, weiners, videos and music composition, the little New England town can now boast to be home to this purely American animation icon.

There were a lot of States out there with towns called Springfield vying to be given this dubious honor. The most recognized of them all being Springfield, Ohio. But others like the Springfields in Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee and my home State of Nebraska all made a bid to have their town become the fictional home of the cartoon family.

After all the bally-hoo and online vote counting, Vermont came out on top of the pack.

And what will the ultimate reward be for Springfield, Vermont, aside from all the notoriety? This little hamlet will play host to the grand premiere of “The Simpsons Movie” on July 21, 2007.
And, this premiere ought to prove interesting since the town’s theater only seats 100 people.

The other Springfields won’t be left totally alone out on the curb. They will get to host screenings of the movie on July 26th, one day before full release.

The film opens worldwide on July 27, 2007.