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Good news, everyone! Entire ‘Futurama’ cast coming back

July 31st, 2009, 10:06 pm by Jayson Peters

250px-futurama_planet_express_spaceshipIt looks like our long intergalactic nightmare is over. The Toronto Star is reporting a scoop: that the entire voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with 20th Century Fox Television after weeks of intense salary negotiations.

The Matt Groening animated sci-fi comedy was recently hauled out of the graveyard of beloved programs by Comedy Central, but Fox had been playing hardball with John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Tress MacNeille and Katey Sagal, saying “We love the Futurama voice performers and absolutely wanted to use them, but unfortunately, we could not meet their salary demands.”

Fortunately for fandom, we won’t have to put up with bad impersonations or cheesy excuses. Let’s just hope the compromise agreement doesn’t leave too bitter a taste in anyone’s mouth. We want Futurama, and the entire wacky Planet Express crew, to be with us for a good long while, this time around.

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Bad news everybody! ‘Futurama’ to be recast

July 17th, 2009, 2:50 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams

As we’ve learned from Pet Sematary and countless zombie movies, coming back from beyond the grave is never without a price. Apparently, the resurrection of Futurama is going to carry a steep cost indeed. A casting call has gone out to find replacements for everyone’s favorite Planet Express workers. It looks like everyone, from Fry, to Bender, to Zap Branigan is getting replaced.

As usual in these situations, it comes down to money. Fox released a statement saying “We love the Futurama voice performers and absolutely wanted to use them, but unfortunately, we could not meet their salary demands.” Let’s hope they can work things out and put the original voice actors back to work.

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‘Good news, everyone!’

June 11th, 2009, 12:55 am by Jayson Peters

farnsworthBack from the Wild Green Yonder?

Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reports that Comedy Central has ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama for 2010. This follow’s the series’ success on DVD, including four feature-length discs culminating in the recently released finale Into the Wild Green Yonder.

That’s right — Futurama — The Simpsons’ younger, geekier cousin – has pulled a Family Guy, as we always knew it eventually would. Futurama aired on Fox from 1999 to 2003 before going on to rerun success on Comedy Central, which led to the direct-to-DVD movies.

The crew of Planet Express were last seen in Wild Green Yonder boldly going into a wormhole to escape the lecherous Captain Zapp Brannigan as 20th Century refugee Fry and one-eyed-beauty Leela finally professed their love for one another. What new adventures await them on the other side?

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Planet Express crew is back in ‘Futurama: Bender’s Game’

November 4th, 2008, 10:49 am by Jayson Peters

Futurama Bender's Game

I may need to get the cover art of this latest Futurama direct-to-DVD feature printed up as a poster. It’s many visual references to old-school D&D, combined with the clever play on words with Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi epic Ender’s Game, promise much in the way of Groening goodness.

Also out this week:

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Classic Trilogy DVD boxed sets, Lucasfilm, THX, 20th Century Fox

Primeval BBC America

Other Futurama stuff:

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‘Futurama’ goes medieval on its own shiny metal @$&!

July 7th, 2008, 10:52 pm by Jayson Peters

The third direct-to-DVD Futurama feature will be titled Bender's Game, in an homage to sci-fi great Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game.
There are some things you just can’t kill.

Take Futurama, for example. The animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening ended years ago, but it’s been brought back to great effect on DVD.

The second direct-to-DVD feature, The Beast With a Billion Backs, just dropped and the third should arrive before year’s end. It’s titled Bender’s Game, in an homage to sci-fi great Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game. Read the rest of this entry »

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