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FUTURAMA: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS
THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS
A Carbon-Neutral Production!
The Intergalactic Hot Tentacle Action Arrives
Exclusively On DVD June 24 From Fox Home Entertainment
CENTURY CITY, CA – Good news, everyone! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) proudly presents the second of four all-new feature-length adventures when Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs invades Earth on DVD June 24. In their latest extraterrestrial exploits, Bender, Fry, Leela and crew encounter a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles... and soon find themselves involved in a disturbing – yet sensuous – interplanetary love story.
With guest appearances from David Cross (Alvin & The Chipmunks, “Arrested Development”), Brittany Murphy (“King of the Hill,” Sin City), Dan Castellaneta (“The Simpsons”) and world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, The Beast With A Billion Backs may finally meet its match!
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs is jammed with bonus material, including commentary from Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, cast members Billy West, John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche, director Peter Avanzino, and producers Claudia Katz, Lee Supercinski, and Michael Rowe; an entire 30-minute "Lost Futurama Adventure"; featurettes “Meet Yivo!” (behind the scenes with David Cross) and “A Brief History of Deathball”; a sneak peek at the next Futurama epic, Bender’s Game; storyboard animatic; deleted scenes; bloopers, and more. Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs will be available for a suggested retail price of $29.98 U.S./$37.98 Canada. Prebook is May 28, 2008.
This will be the studio’s second carbon-neutral DVD release – its first being Futurama: Bender’s Big Score – solidifying Futurama, Twentieth Century Fox Television (TCFTV) and TCFHE’s commitment to reducing their impact on climate change. For more information on how the carbon emissions were reduced during the production of Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs, please visit http://www.newscorp.com/energy.
Synopsis:
In Futurama’s latest and most tentacle-packed epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. But what lies beyond? Horror? Love? Or maybe both, if it happens to contain a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions! Nothing less than the fate of human and robot-kind is at stake as the Futurama crew takes on The Beast With A Billion Backs.
DVD Special Features:
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs will be presented in widescreen format with English Dolby Surround 5.1, along with French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
• Commentary By Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, Claudia Katz, Peter Avanzino and Lee Supercinski
• Futurama The Lost Adventure – A Long-Lost, Full-Length Adventure Produced for the Futurama Video Game
o Audio Commentary By Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, J. Stewart Burns and Lee Supercinski
• Meet Yivo! Featurette with David Cross
• A Brief History Of Deathball Featurette
• Blooperama: The Futurama Cast At “Work”
• 3D Models With Animator Discussion
• Storyboard Animatic: The Beast With A Billion Backs, Part One
• Deleted Scenes/Storyboards
o Original Opening
o Fry and Colleen Meeting
o St. Asimov Parade
o Zapp and Scientists
o Amy, Fry and Leela
o Scruffy, the Janitor
• Futurama: Bender’s Game – A Sneak Peek at the Next Futurama Epic!
A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets - from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce - throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company.
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Press materials available for download at www.foxpressroom.com
FUTURAMA THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS
Street Date: June 24, 2008
Prebook Date: May 28, 2008
Catalog Number: 2252093
DVD Price: $29.98 U.S. / $37.98 Canada
MPAA Rating: NR
Closed Captioned: Yes
A Carbon-Neutral Production!
The Intergalactic Hot Tentacle Action Arrives
Exclusively On DVD June 24 From Fox Home Entertainment
CENTURY CITY, CA – Good news, everyone! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) proudly presents the second of four all-new feature-length adventures when Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs invades Earth on DVD June 24. In their latest extraterrestrial exploits, Bender, Fry, Leela and crew encounter a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles... and soon find themselves involved in a disturbing – yet sensuous – interplanetary love story.
With guest appearances from David Cross (Alvin & The Chipmunks, “Arrested Development”), Brittany Murphy (“King of the Hill,” Sin City), Dan Castellaneta (“The Simpsons”) and world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, The Beast With A Billion Backs may finally meet its match!
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs is jammed with bonus material, including commentary from Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, cast members Billy West, John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche, director Peter Avanzino, and producers Claudia Katz, Lee Supercinski, and Michael Rowe; an entire 30-minute "Lost Futurama Adventure"; featurettes “Meet Yivo!” (behind the scenes with David Cross) and “A Brief History of Deathball”; a sneak peek at the next Futurama epic, Bender’s Game; storyboard animatic; deleted scenes; bloopers, and more. Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs will be available for a suggested retail price of $29.98 U.S./$37.98 Canada. Prebook is May 28, 2008.
This will be the studio’s second carbon-neutral DVD release – its first being Futurama: Bender’s Big Score – solidifying Futurama, Twentieth Century Fox Television (TCFTV) and TCFHE’s commitment to reducing their impact on climate change. For more information on how the carbon emissions were reduced during the production of Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs, please visit http://www.newscorp.com/energy.
Synopsis:
In Futurama’s latest and most tentacle-packed epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. But what lies beyond? Horror? Love? Or maybe both, if it happens to contain a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions! Nothing less than the fate of human and robot-kind is at stake as the Futurama crew takes on The Beast With A Billion Backs.
DVD Special Features:
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs will be presented in widescreen format with English Dolby Surround 5.1, along with French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
• Commentary By Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, Claudia Katz, Peter Avanzino and Lee Supercinski
• Futurama The Lost Adventure – A Long-Lost, Full-Length Adventure Produced for the Futurama Video Game
o Audio Commentary By Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, J. Stewart Burns and Lee Supercinski
• Meet Yivo! Featurette with David Cross
• A Brief History Of Deathball Featurette
• Blooperama: The Futurama Cast At “Work”
• 3D Models With Animator Discussion
• Storyboard Animatic: The Beast With A Billion Backs, Part One
• Deleted Scenes/Storyboards
o Original Opening
o Fry and Colleen Meeting
o St. Asimov Parade
o Zapp and Scientists
o Amy, Fry and Leela
o Scruffy, the Janitor
• Futurama: Bender’s Game – A Sneak Peek at the Next Futurama Epic!
A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets - from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce - throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company.
# # #
Press materials available for download at www.foxpressroom.com
FUTURAMA THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS
Street Date: June 24, 2008
Prebook Date: May 28, 2008
Catalog Number: 2252093
DVD Price: $29.98 U.S. / $37.98 Canada
MPAA Rating: NR
Closed Captioned: Yes
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Michael Costello on -
30 bucks, that's like a season of futurama! How long is this thing. Can't see me buying this for unless its under 20.
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Permalink Reply by Lamont Cranston on -
This is why Netflix was created
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Permalink Reply by Lamont Cranston on
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Watched it last night. Not bad. Imagine if the author of the Left Behind series decided to rewrite the books, but took a bunch of acid first and had Invasion of the Body Snatchers playing on a continuous loop while he worked. The result would look a lot like the last half of The Beast With a Billion Backs. “Trippy” doesn’t do enough to describe how strange the plot of this one becomes, but it is entertaining. There are stretches where you get the feeling that they were just throwing in gags that got cut from the original series to pad things out, but that doesn’t happen too often (and nowhere near as often as it does in the Family Guy movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story).
All in all I think I enjoyed Bender's Big Score a little more, if only because it held together better as a movie than Beast With a Billion Backs does. Worth watching if you are a fan of the series.
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