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!
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.
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.
Simpsons Movie: $70 Million Opening Weekend
The Simpsons Movie has exceeded even generous estimates to top the U.S. box office, taking a massive $74,036,787 in its first three days.
This makes it the 20th biggest opening U.S. weekend in history, behind The Da Vinci Code and the 5th Harry Potter film (source).In the UK, the Simpsons flick took £13,626,853. Worldwide takings are estimated at $170m.
This result is seen as a triumph for Fox's omnipresent marketing, which included Homer opening this week's Tonight Show, dressing up loads of 7-Eleven stores as Kwik-E-Marts, and the launch of SimpsonizeMe.com, the website that allows users to automatically generate a Simpsons 'avatar' from a provided photo.
Daily Box Office results:
Friday 27: $30,758,269
Saturday 28: $23,799,369
Sunday 29: $19,479,149
Monday 30: $9,277,515
This makes it the 20th biggest opening U.S. weekend in history, behind The Da Vinci Code and the 5th Harry Potter film (source).In the UK, the Simpsons flick took £13,626,853. Worldwide takings are estimated at $170m.
This result is seen as a triumph for Fox's omnipresent marketing, which included Homer opening this week's Tonight Show, dressing up loads of 7-Eleven stores as Kwik-E-Marts, and the launch of SimpsonizeMe.com, the website that allows users to automatically generate a Simpsons 'avatar' from a provided photo.
Daily Box Office results:
Friday 27: $30,758,269
Saturday 28: $23,799,369
Sunday 29: $19,479,149
Monday 30: $9,277,515
iF Magazine interviews David Silverman
Simpsons Movie director David Silverman knows what it takes to turn Tomacco into gold without being a cheese eating surrender monkey.It started with the decision to use a real world 'character' as the president of the United States. Yes, President Arnold Schwarzenegger was a conscious decision to go with the actual man rather than his caricature of Rainer Wolfcastle.
They initially had another version of Wolfcastle in office but in the end it just made more sense - comedically and logically - to go with a cartoon version of the governator.
Secondly, was the creation of Spider-Pig and, of course, now classic song that accompanies the hilarious animal. It didn’t take 12 people to write the song but they still felt that if it was coming out of the same room as everything else, it should go to everyone’s credit, Silverman says.
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They initially had another version of Wolfcastle in office but in the end it just made more sense - comedically and logically - to go with a cartoon version of the governator.
Secondly, was the creation of Spider-Pig and, of course, now classic song that accompanies the hilarious animal. It didn’t take 12 people to write the song but they still felt that if it was coming out of the same room as everything else, it should go to everyone’s credit, Silverman says.
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Simpsons Movie: $30 Million Opening Day
Twentieth Century Fox's official Friday estimate shows The Simpsons Movie made $30 million in the U.S. Box Office on Friday, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Being around the sum they hoped to take for the whole weekend, Fox now believes the movie could have an $80+ million opening weekend.If confirmed, the first-day takings would be good enough for The Simpsons to slot into the Hollywood's Top 17 opening days of all time, right behind the $30.1 mil of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
Being around the sum they hoped to take for the whole weekend, Fox now believes the movie could have an $80+ million opening weekend.If confirmed, the first-day takings would be good enough for The Simpsons to slot into the Hollywood's Top 17 opening days of all time, right behind the $30.1 mil of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
10 Gizmos For Simpsons Fans
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, PCMag.com has posted their "top 10 gizmos for The Simpsons fans".
From the site: “In addition to the television series, the family has shown up in a variety of places: They demonstrated their vocal prowess on The Simpsons Sing The Blues album, been branded (it didn't hurt, promise) for special editions of board games, such as Clue and Monopoly, and starred in their first feature-length film, The Simpsons Movie, which debuts today.“Today we celebrate this not-so-tech-savvy family and pay homage to the long-running TV show. So, of course, we searched for the some of the greatest branded The Simpsons merchandise this side of Springfield.”The list includes a robotic Homer, doughnut maker, talking shower radio and more.
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From the site: “In addition to the television series, the family has shown up in a variety of places: They demonstrated their vocal prowess on The Simpsons Sing The Blues album, been branded (it didn't hurt, promise) for special editions of board games, such as Clue and Monopoly, and starred in their first feature-length film, The Simpsons Movie, which debuts today.“Today we celebrate this not-so-tech-savvy family and pay homage to the long-running TV show. So, of course, we searched for the some of the greatest branded The Simpsons merchandise this side of Springfield.”The list includes a robotic Homer, doughnut maker, talking shower radio and more.
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Bluegrass Tribute To The Simpsons
Last week CMH Records released an album of bluegrass versions of songs from The Simpsons.Entitled Four Finger Music: The Bluegrass Tribute to the Music Made Famous by The Simpsons, the album is a compilation of Simpsons' classics performed by the twangy bluegrass band Hit & Run.It is available digitally through vendors such as iTunes, eMusic, and Napster, or you can buy a physical CD through their website, where you can also listen to audio samples. The album will hit retail stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart in September.Track listing:"The Simpsons" Main Title
We Put the Spring in Springfield
The Monorail Song
Cut Every Corner
Who Needs the Kwik-E Mart?
See My Vest
Senor Burns
We Do (The Stonecutters Theme)
Baby on Board
Bagged Me a Homer
Happy Birthday, Lisa
Planet of the Apes: The Musical
Hail to Thee, Kamp Krusty
"The Simpsons" Closing Theme
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