Cin’Groupe’s adult-oriented,CG-animated series gets more outrageous than ever with Tripping the Rift: The Movie, a feature-length, uncensored chapter in the continuing adventures of Chode and his crew of misfit space smugglers. The flick arrives at retail today, along with the home-video debut of director Frank Darabont’s vfx-laden adaptation of the Stephen King horror novella The Mist. Also released today is the first season of the Adult Swim comedy series Frisky Dingo from Williams Street Prods.
Tripping the Rift: The Movie begins with a routine mission to protect an angry princess and soon becomes a filth-splattered saga of dismembered royalty, indestructible clown assassins and desperately horny housewives. As Chode provokes the ultimate wrath of Darph Bobo, pals Gus, Six, T’nuk, Whip and Bob struggle to stop a time-traveling killing machine from ruining a booze-soaked birthday party. Boasting foul language, senseless violence and gratuitous nudity, the film features the voices of series regulars Stephen Root (King of the Hill), Maurice LaMarche (Pinky and the Brain), Jenny McCarthy (Scary Movie 3), John Melendez (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno), Gayle Garfinkle (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) and Rick Jones (Anastasia).
Created by Chris Moellerand Chuck Austen, Tripping the Rift is produced by Cin’Groupe of Montreal. The show enjoyed a two-season run on SCI FI Channel in the U.S., and can now be seen on Canada’s TELETOON. The 13-episode third season will be available on DVD this December. Learn more about the show and movie at www.trippingtherift.tv.
A mysterious fog rolls into a small town in Maine, bringing with it strange and dangerous creatures in The Mist, Darabont’s third Stephen King adaptation after The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. The film stars Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Andre Braugher as members of a group of survivors who hole up in a grocery store and fend off CG monsters designed by legendary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson and brought to the screen by visual effects shops Caf’ FX and KNB EFX. Look Effects and Digital Dream also contributed to the film, which is being distributed by Genius Products.
Darabont originally envisioned The Mist as a black-and-white film fashioned after the creature features of ’50s and ’60s. As Ray Harryhausen oversees the colorization of his black-and-white classics, Darabont is going the other way around with the 2-disc special edition DVD set, which includes a black-and-white version of the film in addition to the color version that played in theaters. Also included are behind-the-scenes featurettes, including a look at the creation of key visual effects shots.
Frisky Dingo Season 1 from Warner Home Video offers all 13 episodes of the Adult Swim series on a single disc. Created by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, the twisted minds behind Adult Swim favorite Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo plunges viewers into the world of the villainous Killface, whose mission of destroying mankind is derailed by the boring details of media buys, personnel staffing and marketing. His arch nemesis is Awesome X, the alter ego of billionaire Xander Crews, who is more concerned with the sales of his action figure line than foiling Killface’s plans and saving the world. The DVD features more than 150 minutes of content.
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