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Freekland is back!!!       With a vengeance!                               Here you will find all the latest news on the Alex Winter, Tom Stern, and Tim Burns fronts...                                                   We are adding to our extensive video archives...                                             Watch the Idiot Box finally!                                      All 6 Epiodes plus more goodies...                                           You missed it?    Coming Soon: Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust...                                                            Check out our message board and chat with...      some dude...

ALEX WINTER NEWS Alex is still working on the Napster project for MTV Films...                                     Find out what Shawn Fanning REALLY thinks about Metallica...                           Illegally download it here...      only kidding...                                    Read about Acts of Charity below...                                       Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live and you may see Alex's name pop up from time to time as a guest director...                                            Alex's own homepage is currently under construction...                                               There everything will be spelled correctly....                                                 

 

See more of Alex's work here:

 

coming soon...
Alex is currently working on developing a biopic on Napster creator Shawn Fanning for MTV.  Tentatively titled Downloaded: The Rise and Fall of Napster, the film will chronicle the rise of Napster from a small time dorm room filesharing program into its becoming a subject of an all out media frenzy and record company litigious onslaught.
Crossroads Films has optioned the dark comedy spec "Acts of Charity," written by Chips Hardy.

Alex  is attached to direct the pic, which follows the trials and tribulations of a young corporate executive sent on a humanitarian mission in the African jungle. Story was developed by Hardy and Winter.

T O M  S T E R N  N E W STom Stern is occasionally hitting Jimmy Kimmel up for a paycheck...                                                                         He is directing the Andy Milonakis Show...                                     Season 1 is out on DVD...                                     Tom is doing a show on Adult Swim entitled "Saul and the Mole People"...                                                  20 Episodes are ordered and it is set to air this fall...                                                     We will keep you posted...                                                                      Tom is also busy looking for children on Myspace...                                                    for his new pilot on MTV2...                                  described as a "kind of South Park", Tom is looking for fresh faces of kids who have never acted before...
Tom is directing for "The Andy Milonakis Show" on MTV2.  Read more in this recent Suicide Girls Interview.  Click on Andy for the official page!
Saul of the Mole Men:  During a scientific expedition to the Earth’s core, a terra-naut stumbles upon a strange civilization of Mole Men—and nearly destroys it.  Deftly combining live-action, puppets, animation and green screen technology, Saul of the Mole People debuts in late 2006.  Twenty episodes have been ordered. ARTICLE HERE

WATCH THE TRAILER

Are you a kid?  Are you on Myspace?  Then Tom Stern wants YOU... er, not like that!  Here, he explains himself:

WATCH THE VIDEO

T I M  B U R N S  N E W S Tim Burns will be emerging from hibernation shortly (He has to eat sometime)....                                                      We have no news at this time....

 

Nothing to report... at this time.

FREAKED ON DVD!

The first disc contains the following extras:

• Audio commentary by Winter and Stern
• A conversation with co-writer Tim Burns
• Deleted scenes
• Hijinx in Freekland, a collection of behind-the-scenes footage (Fango got to check this out too funny stuff!)
• FREAKED art gallery
• Theatrical trailer
• DVD-ROM original screenplay

The second disc includes:

FREAKED: The Reehersel Version, a full-length cast rehearsal of the film, including Keanu Reeves sans Dog Boy makeup, with scenes and dialogue that never made it into the final film
There Are No Weirdos Here, early script readings of selected scenes, featuring actors Winter, Megan Ward, Michael Stoyanov, Derek McGrath, Lee Arenberg and John Hawkes
It’s the Troll, terrifying footage of young actor Alex Zuckerman developing the character of Stuey Gluck
Under Construkshen, behind-the-scenes video showing the creation of the Freek Land set
Behold…The Beast Boy, footage of Winter’s makeup transformation into a hideous mutant freek
Two short films by Winter and Stern, SQUEAL OF DEATH and THE NYU SIGHT AND SOUND PROJECT