Dead Like Me

Great news for Real fans of Dead Like Me – You can now get the first series for your iPhones and iPods!

This is going to be very cool for watching the show away from home, on the go, and perfect for introducing new fans to the show

The full series is priced at $27.99. Individual episodes are priced at $1.99

Check it out: LINK TO ITUNES

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p.s The information about the show being on iTunes was provided by MGM themselves via email. The email also had this little “tease” at the bottom too…

I will also have some great news regarding the movie to you soon! =)

Keep checking back in the future, as soon as they tell me, I’ll tell you

A friend has told me there is a great post on DeadLikeMeOnline.com (with a quote from Ellen-Muth.com), by the user DB7878.

I’ve tried to find it to give you the link, but i carn’t so check this out.

Basiclly it says that MGM is having money troubles, and it just simply dosnt have the cash to pay to get the DVDs of the Dead Like Me Movie out this year.

Here is the bit of the message:

Cash flow is short. That’s why they’ve decided to delay the Dead Like Me Movie. Normally, no one in their right mind would incur up front expenses and then decide not to start earning the revenues. They just don’t have even the moderate cash it would take to launch the DVD for what is a modest project on time.

This is also why they’ve recently been throwing the first two seasons of episodes out there to any TV station with a few dollars. This behavior hurts the Movie launch, damages chances for a start up of the series, and IMO only makes sense if they’re sacrificing the DLM franchise in long term to gets some cash in the short term to fund those major commitments that they absolutely cannot afford to come up short on.

For me sliver of good in all this is that the financial pressure has probably been there for some time. That they elected to green light the Movie shows they know they have a valuable franchise on their hands. If they had the resources they probably would have already restarted the series.

The original cancellation was, in part, due to extreme financial difficulties that impacted MGM’s flexibility in the negotiations with Showtime. Here we f#@#g go again.

The sad thing is the overall situation for them could take a long time to resolve itself so that some owner of the DLM franchise could have the means and will to get it going again.

What you think? I never would have thought MGM had money troubles, but if you search google, there is a bit going around about it.

Here’s something you really didn’t want to hear – The Dead Like Me Movie has been pushed back to 2009!!

Quoted from ellen-muth.com:

We’ve just had word that the movie of Dead Like Me has been moved back to 2009. At this stage it’s too early to say for sure when in 2009, but hopefully it will be early 2009! On the plus side Ellen has finished the entire 90 minute commentary with the director in one day! If we hear any more we’ll be sure to let you know.

This is a real setback – and we could really do with a reason (although, I’m sure we wont get one). From that statement we can see that: A: The movie is complete, B: The rerecording that needed to be done is now finished. C: Even the DVD extra features commentaries are complete. (90mins length of the film?)

What exactly is the hold up??? What can possibly take 6 months to complete?

 I think Homer Simpson has the best way to describe the news: “D’oh!”

Please feel free to fill the comments with your pain. Go on… let it out. You’ll feel better.

There is so little news about the upcoming Dead Like Me Movie, that this blog is basically dead for weeks at a time. Sorry about this – I’ve said it before, if anyone has any news or info AT ALL, just post in the forum, and I’ll put it on the main page for all the world to read

So, what can I tell you that you may not know…

Since posting the article below about 22nd of July being the release date for the movie, it seems more certain the “July” will be the month. The exact day is still not known – but we’ll see.

There is a rumour going around that some of the cast have been required to rerecord certain parts of dialogue due to background noise from a truck. This has also been posted on the Sci Fi channel Dead Like Me Forum.

“Dead Like Me Online” has reported that there will be references to the site (and members?) in the new film. The owner is being very “hush hush” about it, and has set up a competition for people to spot the refrences. Worth a look! If any site should get a mention for helping Dead Like Me come back, it’s DLMO!!

And Finally…

BeBe, a member on here, and on Dead Like Me Online, has started posting some transcripts from Starfury last October.

Here is a little bit of what’s been put:

Susan/Bebe: Hey Ellen, I just wanted to ask did you enjoy going back to make the new DVD movie of Dead Like Me?

Ellen: Very much so, it actually, it changed a lot form the series, I can’t really say what the changes are, but I like them a lot.
We’ve lost two characters, but one has been replaced and the other one seems to have gone oo-o-off [gestures away] where we don’t know where he’s gone off, but then a new character is introduced.
And just going back and seeing the cast again, and you know, reading the new material they wrote and the new ideas that they came up with, it was a lot of fun. And we had all changed over three years, so you see us and like Mason; all of a sudden this skinny, scrawny little shit, is all of a sudden like muscular, I don’t know where that came from! And Delores lost ‘a lot’ of weight, and I still look like me but… I guess! [Giggles] Ah, but other than that, I Mean yeah, I had a good time doing it.

You can read more in the Dead Like Me Online Forum, but you will have to join.