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After wowing TV audiences with a cutting-edge, animated look at “a galaxy far, far away,” Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One is coming to DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc November 3 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Warner Home Video.
Live the adventures again and again, and dig deeper into the first season of The Clone Wars with a comprehensive look behind-the-scenes of the popular animated series. Uniquely packaged with an exclusive 64 page production journal, the four-disc set contains all 22 episodes from the groundbreaking first season — including seven extended Director’s Cuts — as well as companion featurettes for each episode. And exclusive to the Blu-ray disc, The Jedi Temple Archives provides in-depth access to an extensive database of creative materials.
“I’m a longtime Star Wars fan, and the same’s true for a lot of the guys working on the show,” said supervising director Dave Filoni. “And as a fan, I know that Lucasfilm can be pretty secretive. They’re famous for it. But we’re all so proud of the work that’s gone into The Clone Wars, and we wanted to share some of our production tricks, and open up the vault and reveal our efforts. You’re going to get unprecedented access, to see the nuts and bolts of our series — from concept to finished animation.”
Created and executive produced by George Lucas, the first-ever TV production from Lucasfilm Animation explores the tumultuous time between Episodes II and III of the live-action saga, expanding the scope of Star Wars beyond anything seen in the feature films. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, the heroes of the Republic — including the valiant Jedi Knights and their loyal clone troopers — fight bravely to repel the attacks of the evil Separatists and their droid army.
“The live-action saga was just the beginning. The universe is vast, and there are so many more stories to explore beyond Anakin’s fall and redemption,” said Lucas. “The scope of the war gives us the perfect vehicle for a weekly series, allowing us to look at how the conflict has affected the farthest reaches of the galaxy, including characters, creatures and races we only glimpsed in the feature films. Animation has allowed us to visualize the worlds and characters of Star Wars in all new ways.”
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One will be available November 3 for the suggested retail price of $44.98 for DVD and $59.99 for Blu-ray.
Special Features:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One is presented in widescreen with English, Spanish and French 5.1 DTS audio and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
Seven Director’s Cut Episodes: “Rising Malevolence”, “Shadow of Malevolence”, “Lair of Grievous”, “Rookies”, “Storm Over Ryloth”, “Innocents of Ryloth” and “Liberty on Ryloth”.
22 Episodic Featurettes that go behind-the-scenes with Supervising Director Dave Filoni and crew about the making of each episode.
Spectacular 64 page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes, and concept art from each episode from Season One.
Blu-ray Exclusive – The Jedi Temple Archives: An extensive database exploring test footage, early concept art, 3-D character and object turnarounds and early animation. The Archives is a rare look at the assets in various stages of creation for The Clone Wars, with a wealth of surprises and never-before seen moments sprinkled throughout.
Synopsis:
As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights — including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master Yoda and padawan Ahsoka Tano — struggle to maintain order and restore peace. But despite the best efforts of these brave protectors, more and more planets are falling prey to the sinister forces of the dark side…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars features the voices of Matt Lanter (90210) as Anakin Skywalker, Ashley Eckstein (That’s So Raven) as Ahsoka Tano, James Arnold Taylor (The Spectacular Spider-Man) as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Tom Kane (Wolverine and the X-Men) as Yoda.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One
Street Date: November 3, 2009
SRP: DVD $44.98, Blu-ray $59.99
Total Episode Run Time: 484 Minutes, Featurette Run Time: 146 Minutes
MPAA Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
If you are at Comic-Con in San Diego next week and would like to meet the cast of The Guild and get info on Season 3, there’s kinda no way you can avoid us! We’ll be everywhere! As a handy guide we’ve made this blog post so you can find us somewhere each day!
Xbox Live and Microsoft, our sponsor, has arranged for our panel to take place on:
Friday at 10:30am-11:30am in room 5AB.
We’ll be screening TWO videos, so you won’t want to miss it, I promise, we will be showing something that people are going to get excited over!
We’ll be signing a special promotional poster afterward in the Xbox booth from 12pm-1pm, and after that we’ll be doing Game with Fame from 2-3pm, so come play with us! What a treat to promote the show and play video games, ha! 🙂
We have our OWN booth this year (#4417) shared with Jamie Chambers, who is premiering the new Supernatural RPG game! We will be selling Season 1 and Season 2 DVDs, t-shirts from Jinx.com (including brand new designs!) and a variety of cast photos that you can get signed! There is at least one signing scheduled with the cast for each day, check the times below.
For signing times with the cast in The Guild booth, we are asking that you please purchase one item from the booth, even if you are bringing something to be signed. We are still an indie production and have a lot of expenses related to renting the booth and cast travel, etc. We greatly appreciate your supporting our independent show and enabling us to attend conventions like this! As always, you can get your Comic-Con Souvenir program signed for free per Comic-Con regulations.
THE GUILD COMIC-CON SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY, July 22
* 6pm – 8pm — Cast signing in Booth
THURSDAY, July 23 (SANDEEP’S BIRTHDAY)
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
* 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Free Autograph Area (may get your souvenir booklet signed for free) — Table AA8
FRIDAY, July 24
* 10:30-11:30am — Panel (room 5AB)
* 12:00-1:00pm — Cast signing in Xbox Booth.
* 2:00-3:00pm — Game with Fame in Xbox Booth!
* 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm — Cast signing in Guild Booth
SATURDAY, July 25
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
* 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
SUNDAY, July 26
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
Are you the Kwisatz Haderach? You might be! Better safe than sorry, right? Might as well pick one of these t-shirts up and make sure the world knows you are a sci-fi messiah whose organic mental powers can bridge space and time. T-shirt guaranteed to make your name a killing word.
Hatley Nature invites you to “get clothes to nature”. Best known for their pun-based animal designs, such as “Making the Moose out of Life”, humour is an integral part of this French-Canadian company, a fact made quite evident in the story of Hatley Nature’s origins:
Growing up in the small town of Hatley, the Oldland boys loved running naked through the woods. But the day came when Chris, Nick and Jeremy had to leave Hatley and enter the real world where public nudity just wasn’t understood. To be accepted, the boys combined their love for nature with comfortable clothing and the Hatley line was born.
Joining Hatley Nature’s all-age “punny” critters are three playful lines of clothing and accessories for children: Aliens, Mermaids, and Wild Pirates.
Aliens Kids Lunch Tote
The Aliens designs are reminiscent of elementary school class assignments to draw what outer space might look like. There’s an Aliens pajama set, onesie, raincoat, rainboots, umbrella, back-pack, and the adorable Aliens Kids Lunch Tote. The lunch tote features the same all-over print that most of the Aliens items do, with friendly aliens of all sorts shaking hands with astronauts, flying saucers through the stars, and bearing banners that spell out “take me to your leader”. Such optimistic depictions of interstellar peace do Star Trek proud. The dark blue canvas has a contrasting orange trim and light blue handle, and the zipper, which wraps around three sides of the bag and has two zip pulls for easy access, is a matching light blue. The tote is well-padded to protect its contents and keep them insulated, and has an elastic, velcro-tabbed strap to secure drink containers. There’s even an inner pocket to put mission notes for your little space explorer.
Mermaids Messenger Bag
The Mermaids collection, sporting phrases like “Sea Princess” and “Catch of the Day”, includes a swimsuit (naturally!), reversible sun hat, onesie, pajama set, and the Mermaids Messenger Bag. This roomy bag is bursting with pockets of various sizes — three outside and three within the main compartment, one of which zips up — to store sunscreen, keys, snacks, and other day trip necessities, as well as the interesting bits of flotsam usually collected on walks along sandy shores. It’s the perfect beach bag for fantasy enthusiasts who adore the movie Splash and always keep a lookout for signs of merfolk when near the ocean. The aqua-coloured fabric has an all-over print of starfish, seashells, and mermaid silhouettes, with an embroidered starfish on the front flap, dark blue trimming, and a solid blue liner. Made of soft cotton canvas, the messenger bag is machine washable… just remember to securely tuck the adjustable shoulder strap inside the bag first, as it has two large, antique-finished buckles on it that could damage a washer if allowed to bang about like loose anchors. A magnetized snap closure ensures that none of your valuables will be lost at sea.
Wild Pirates
Searching for a treasure trove that Captain Jack Sparrow would have envied as a child? Then plunder some booty from the Wild Pirates. Pint-sized swashbucklers have pajama sets, t-shirts, and a onesie, hoodie, raincoat, rainboots, and umbrella to choose from, while the Pirate Sport Tank and Pirate Girly Tee are loot for teens. (Hopefully adult buccaneers will eventually get a few selections, too.) The Wild Pirates line dips into a vast pool of nautical imagery, so everything one would expect to see in a pirate design is represented: tall ships, Jolly Roger flags, skull & crossbones, treasure chests, gold coins, kegs, anchors, peg legs, hook hands, and swords. Cute animals wear typical pirate crew attire, but the Jolly Roger is made more kid-friendly with a fuzzy bear face replacing the usual skull. Arrr!
Order directly through the Hatley Nature website, or one of their associated Retail Shops. For all the latest news and special offers, follow Hatley Nature on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for their newsletter.
Depending on how deeply you like to dig into Wikipedia, you may or may not know that July is a month of geeky celebrations and events. We have cool shows like OSCON and Comic-Con and holidays such as SysAdmin Day and Pi Approximation Day, but we also get to celebrate some important birthdays of those that helped shape the geeks we are today. Three of those birthdays were celebrated just a few days ago — Erno Rubik, Patrick Stewart and Harrison Ford all share July 13 as their birthday. Now that’s a momentous day! And speaking of momentous birthdays, our very own 10 year birthday is approaching very soon! Be on the lookout for specials, contests, and general geeky shenanigans coming up in August while we celebrate 10 years of geeking out with you.
And are you going to Comic-Con? Nichelle will be there signing Cabonauts autographs and on the Saturday night at the Masquerade Ball, we’ll premiere The Cabonauts trailer to about 6,000 people! The trailer will reveal which sci-fi spectacular guest stars we have in the pilot too. 🙂 If you’re not there, don’t worry; we’ll put the trailer online the very next day!
The aptly titled At Last is Lynda Carter’s first release since her debut effort, Portrait, which came out way back in 1978 (and is much overdue for a rerelease). Lynda Carter composed three of the songs on her first album, but At Last is composed entirely of cover songs, “a classic collection of standards that will delight both old and new fans alike”.
Playlist:
1. You Send Me
2. Where Did Our Love Go
3. Deed I Do
4. Million Dollar Secret
5. Cry Me a River
6. Secret of Life
7. Blues in the Night
8. Come Rain or Come Shine — Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine
9. At Last
10. Summertime
11. Cloudburst
12. The Way You Look Tonight — The Very Thought of You — As Time Goes By
Lynda Carter’s strong, sultry voice provides the perfect background music for a romantic evening or an elegant dinner party. The songs on At Last, including two medlies, are quite spare and subdued, really recreating the feeling of a live jazz and blues session — not surprising, since At Last is composed entirely of songs that were featured in the sold-out cabaret show tour, “An Intimate Evening with Lynda Carter”.
Those who know Lynda Carter only as Wonder Woman will be surprised to learn just how far back her musical roots go. According to the Histography on her website, she began singing on stage at the age of five in a local talent show, twenty years before being cast as Wonder Woman in 1976. The notes for At Last sum up her distinguished career, saying, “Lynda Carter is an accomplished singer who has performed to rave reviews before sell-out crowds around the world. In addition to her long acting career, Lynda has had the distinction of producing and starring in five highly rated network televisions specials. She has appeared onstage with Ray Charles, Tom Jones, Kenny Rogers, Bob Hope, George Benson and Ben Vereen.” In 2005, she even spent an eight-week run as corrupt jailer Matron “Mama” Morton in London’s West End production of Chicago.
With a new Wonder Woman movie in development, it would be wonderfully appropriate to hear a song by Lynda Carter on the soundtrack, especially as there’s no word yet if she will be making an appearance in the film, either in a cameo or larger role such as Wonder Woman’s mother, Queen Hippolyta. (A bit of trivia: when asked who should succeed her in the iconic role of the Amazon Princess, she reportedly singled out Catherine Zeta-Jones and Cindy Crawford as favoured candidates.) The Wonder Woman theme song is so ingrained in fans’ memories of the classic TV series, it would be a thrill to hear the original Wonder Woman sing it on the big screen, and Lynda Carter’s new CD definitely proves that she has the ability to do it justice.
Web series creators and stars of the unique new show, Safety Geeks: SVI appear at this years San Diego Comic-Con, produced by Pith-e Productions and sponsored by KoldCast TV. All professional actors from traditional media, this marks the cast’s first appearance at the convention where the comic style and subject of the show seems ideally suited for the Comic-Con audience. Safety Geeks: SVI was recently cited in a New York Times article on the coming of longer web series and has been quickly building a following among comedy and science fiction fans, self-professed geeks, and lovers of Monty Python and Adult Swim. This live action series plays like a living comic book using special effects to create a “funny” Sin City-type world. The cast, writers and producers are there this year to meet fans and make new fans at the autograph table and on the floor of the Comic-Con Convention, here is their schedule:
Safety Geeks: SVI Comic-Con Autograph Table Schedule:
Some sample DVDs of the first five episodes and cast autographed pictures are available at their autograph table and on the Comic-Con free table. Convention attendees can even order a T-shirt at the booth and enter a drawing for a gift card, if you sign up free for the fan list and watch Safety Geeks: SVI online. Watch the series now online at KoldCast and then come to the convention to get a chance to meet the sexy stars of the series, and even Brittney Powell.
Also, David Beeler and Tom Konkle have a film, Star Wars: The Fate Of The Duel as a finalist in the 2009 Star Wars Movie Challenge Awards on Friday, July 24 from 8:30 – 10:30 PM in Ballroom 20.
Safety Geeks: SVI is a live-action, innovative 12 episode program that combines the familiar form and structure of investigative shows with the fresh anarchic free form of Adult Swim while drawing on the dryness of British humor, yet with a more “in your face” American feel and lots of visual gags created with the post production artistry of Konkle, Thor Melsted and Mike Smith.
According to show creators Tom Konkle and David Beeler, the show plans to use innovative technologies and ideas to create 100 percent of the surreal sets and vehicles. The production team includes Roger Tonry, Michael Sherwood and casting director Liz Paulson.
It stars David Beeler as Reginald Syngen-Smythe, Tom Konkle as Budwin Yaker and Brittney Powell as Dr. Randi Minky, Benton Jennings as Hopkins, Mary Cseh as Sparky Van Der Graff, with Jim Woods, Mark Teich, Steve Tom, Ransford Dougherty, Chanel Ryan, Laura Hayes, Frank Payne, Adria Tennor, Ben Wang and many others.
The Dave and Tom-created Safety Geeks: SVI and Invention with Brian Forbes comedy series are posted on Koldcast.TV, and merchandise and music will be for sale through KoldCast’s ShowShops with distribution also on TivoCast, Zune and iTunes as part of Koldcast’s overall deal with those companies.
Looney Labs has a reputation for creating fun, high quality games (such as the award-winning Fluxx series) and their newest addition is no exception. Are You the Traitor? is a game of deception in which you must hide your own identity while rooting out the identities of your foes. The story goes something like this:
Once upon a time there was a mysterious magical key that could unlock untold horrors if it fell into the wrong hands. One brave soul was entrusted with the care of this key in order to get it safely into the hands of a good wizard who would destroy the key forever, saving all mankind from the wicked it might unleash. In order to further safeguard the key, the key holder’s identity was kept secret. He travelled on his journey in search of the good wizard with several companions, trusted guards whose sole purpose was to protect the key and its holder. As the party approached the good wizard, an evil wizard appeared, hoping to capture the key for himself, but because he didn’t know which of the companions was the key holder, he quickly disguised himself as the good wizard in hopes of convincing the key holder to give up the key willingly to the wrong wizard. The key holder wasn’t the only one with allies, though, for among the trusted companions was a treacherous soul who intended to give away the identity of the key holder if only he could figure out which wizard was his master without giving away his own treachery. Caught at an impasse, the key holder had to choose who to trust, for the fate of the world rested in his hands…
The role you play in Are You the Traitor? depends on which card you are dealt: Key Holder, Guard, Wizard or Traitor. After dealing the cards, the wizards draw another card to determine if they are the good or evil wizard, then must close their eyes while the key holder reveals himself to the guards. Once game play begins, each player must fulfill their task. The key holder must determine who is the good wizard and present the key to him. The traitor must determine who is the evil wizard so he can try to give away the identity of the key holder without compromising himself. The guard must determine which is the evil wizard so he can capture him. The good and evil wizards must convince the key holder of their good intentions in hopes of being given the key.
Gameplay is free-form discussion, each player attempting to figure out others’ identities without revealing their own role. Because of the free-form nature of gameplay, game time depends on how many players are involved and how into character they get. Each round, treasure cards are given to the winning team and then the cards are shuffled and dealt again. The first player to earn 10 points wins the game.There are enough cards for 4 to 10 players so it’s great for parties. It’s recommended for ages 13 and up since the deception role-playing nature of the game may be beyond younger children’s understanding.
Artist Dave Harrington has provided some very nice artwork. The item cards are well designed and the player cards are full of character. The cards are beautiful, simple and elegant with icons at the top to help you identify your role and task. The cards are heavy with rounded edges so the corners won’t easily dog-ear or wear. The small package fits in a coat pocket so you can take it with you when you know you’ll be spending time with a group. Remember, the larger the party size and the more you get into your role (come on, ham it up!… you know you want to), the more fun will be had by all.
Are You the Traitor? is a great addition to your game library. You can shop for it online at Looney Labs and Amazon, or look for a retailer near you with Looney Labs’ handy-dandy Store Locator. While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out their other popular games: Fluxx 4.0, Zombie Fluxx, and the new Monty Python Fluxx.
The annual tradition of Comic-Con International — the must-see annual gathering for comic, movies, television and pop culture fans in San Diego, California — continues again this year, and Star Wars is well represented as always. The event runs from July 22-26 (including Preview Night) at the San Diego Convention Center. Each day is packed with activities, panels, and of course the non-stop buzz of the enormous show hall.
Here is just a glance at the Star Wars events on Friday, July 24th to keep an eye on. Schedules are always subject to last minute changes, so you should double-check the event schedule printed at the show each day.
10 – 11 AM: Hasbro Star Wars (Room 7AB) — Come hear what the Hasbro Design and Marketing teams have in store for the remainder of 2009, and catch a special sneak peek into some 2010 secrets.
11 AM – 12 NOON: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Building the Universe (Room 7AB) — Get a rare glimpse into the epic scale of the ongoing galactic conflict with key production staff from the series.
12 – 1 PM: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Behind the Mic! (Room 7AB) — Join supervising director Dave Filoni as he talks with the actors behind your favorite Clone Wars characters!
1 – 2 PM: Behind the Scenes: The Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic (Room 7AB) — LucasArts and BioWare discuss the making of the new massively-multiplayer online role-playing PC game.
2 – 3 PM: Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi (Room 7AB) — Join Star Wars authors and editors as they discuss the new novel series.
3 – 4 PM: Star Wars: Collectibles Update (Room 7AB) — Featuring eFX, Gentle Giant Studios, Kotobukiya, Museum Replicas, and Sideshow Collectibles.
5:15 – 6:15 PM: The Star Wars Spectacular (Hall H) — Get all the latest news from the Star Wars universe in an all-new show format! Join our special guest hosts — G4’s Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira — as they grill a galaxy of guests from The Clone Wars and beyond, including supervising director Dave Filoni, voice talent from the show and more! It’s an all-new, interactive Star Wars Spectacular!
8:30 — 10:30 PM: Star Wars Fan Movie Awards (Ballroom 20) — Don’t miss the most entertaining Star Wars fan-made movies out there!
For an expanded list of Star Wars activities at Comic-Con, including the other days of the convention, bookmark this article here at StarWars.com.
If you were about to dig a huge hole, I bet you wouldn’t want to dig though any hard, uncomfortable news… you’d want it to be through some Squishy news! We’re talking about some seriously cuddly bedrock. And here it is!
1) Admit it, you’ve been wondering where we’re going to be next weekend. Well, we’re going to tell you! Squishable is going to be at OTAKON, the awesome anime convention in Baltimore next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (the 17th to the 19th)! Stop by our booth (#1214) in the exhibitors room and say “Hey, you’re very attractive!”
2) We’ve got some restocks! At long last, the Squishable Frog and the Squishable Leopard are back! Seriously! Also, both Kauzbots are back in stock after selling out the first week… support refugee rights or clean water in adorable robot form!
3) Not that we’re desperate for approval or anything (…yeah, we are) but the BBC has written an article about the women’s group in Bangladesh who makes our Fair Trade Red Robots (and our Fair Trade Bees)! Best quote ever: “When we first saw one we just started laughing… We had never seen anything like this before in our village, we don’t even have a word for it.”
6) And last of all… don’t forget the Squishable Video contest! You have until July 31st to put those excellent video skills to use in the pursuit of a free Squishy and cash for your favorite Charity. Good karma! Do it!
