Dead Like Me Movie

Once again Dead Like Me Online has found some great Dead Like Me news… (If you haven’t already joined their forum.. You SHOULD! All the stories, discussions, chat are hidden until you join, but you cannot beat it for Dead Like Me Talk)

Take a look at this:

The new Dead Like Me: Life After Death DVD Artwork / Cover. How cool is that? I like that it’s more in the “fun” style of the original First Season artwork, then the kind of “grim?” artwork from season 2.

The first two series are also getting new artwork to give everything the same look/feel, as well as the one package “complete collection”.

I cannot say if this is the 100% genuine artwork that will be used for the dvd’s. It could just be really good fan art.

What do you think? Are you happy with the new design? Always like to read others comments.

New Series artwork (Click for full size):

After some research to confirm, the release date for the straight to DVD “Dead Like Me Movie” / “Dead Like Me Film” has now been set as:

17th February 2009

Dead Like Me: Life After Death as the movie is called, will be released at the same time as the new Dead Like Me - The Complete Series Giftset.

You wanted a release date – there it is

Let’s hear your thoughts! Do you still care? has the wait been too long?

Would like to say a BIG THANKYOU to “Wizewun” – a new member in the Dead Like Me Movie sites forum for this information. (Thank you!)

Details from www.tvshowsondvd.com

This is unbelievable – Thinking that I had solved the “Dead Like Me Movie” websites problem with spam (a long time ago!), I did  a search on google today for the website address – and see links to 1000’s of SPAM sites hidden in the Header of our site!

This sucks! It looks like it was a known hack on our host – but I had never heard of it until today!

Anyway, it’s fixed now…

BUT — if you own a blog, even if you cannot see any spam on page — do a “View source” and have a speach for this:

Hidden Spam in Wordpress (display:none)

Thanks so much to The Non-Designer - and this post here to get rid of the problem.

Cheers.

Thanks to BloodyDisgusting.com and the author MrDisgusting for posting this information from the San Diego Comic Con.

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Go read the article he posted here: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13059, and check out the cool “coming soon” poster (With the date 2009 )

Also mentioned is a new website owned by MGM where you can watch and interview with Ellen Muth, and a bit more…

http://www.deadlikemedvd.com/

The site is a bit “dead” right now, with most features “Coming Soon”, but hey, check it out, add it to your favs, and keep checking back.

Great find there from “DB7878” from DeadLikeMeOnline.com who gives thanks to “MyNameIsDan” from Ellen-Muth.com

As i said in the last post, someone from mgm let me download a MASSIVE zip file of pictures from season 1 and 2 of dead like me. The files in this MASSIVE zip (4gb) are also MASSIVE. It will take some time to compress them, and upload them to the site. They are mainly scenes from the series. (in file formats, i cannot open haha).

Anyway, after looking through, i saw 2 i’d never seen before, so thought i’d upload them now while i work on getting the rest up:

 Cheers.

I’ve just got back from a holiday, and I cannot BELIVE all the SPAM that poor Dead Like Me Movie site has received over the last two weeks!Regular commenter to the site; “Fernando” said it best: “Damn Spammers!”

It’s taken over 2hrs to delete more than 5k spam comments – but it’s all gone now, don’t worry – and I’m not going to biitch about it any more…

What’s happened in the last two weeks:

MGM have emailed to tell us about some great offers on iTunes - 99¢ per episode.

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Also, I’ve been given access to a folder containing 3.7GB of pictures from Series 1 and Series 2!! I’m downloading it for all of you now! But it’s going to take 23hrs!!! Guess that will be a post to read tomorrow

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.

I wasn’t going to post this – but if I didn’t, when the date comes, I would be saying; “I was told this was going to be the release date months ago!” – But no one would believe me.

Here we go…

I just received an email from a claimed “insider” that the Dead Like Me Movie will be released on the July 22nd 2008. The guy (girl?) claims that the final effects are now almost complete, the DVD design is complete, and they are releasing the DVD a day before comic-con - to promote, sell DVD’s and get more buzz.

How true is this? Who can say?

If you listened to the great podcast posted over at http://justpushplayonline.com/?p=307 you will hear Ellen say that the movie will be released in July. So the “Insider” is right there – but they could have just made a day up after listening to that.

I’ve search all over trying to confirm the email – there is nothing on any of the official sites, or the usual: Wikipedia, Dead Like Me online, etc.

So will July 22nd be “Day of the Dead”???

We’ll see – but if it is – you heard it here first! (If it isn’t, just pretend I said nothing)
Can anyone backup (or dismiss) this “news”??? Post in the comments, don’t email,  let’s keep it in the open…

Cheers.