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Here’s a first look at the new trailer and poster for Cheatin,’ the award-winning, surreal animated adult tale of love, jealousy, revenge, and murder.

Inspired by the work of James M. Cain (“Double Indemnity”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”), Cheatin’ marks Academy Award nominated Bill Plympton’s seventh animated feature film.

The film screened at the St. Louis International Film Festival in November 2014. In his Sliff review, Jim Batts called the film, “a wonderful, imaginative featuree animated film,” adding Plympton is, “at the zenith of his artistic powers here, with a long-form film that captures all of the charm of his quirky shorts.”

In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of Romance.

But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity spells out an untimely fate.

With only the...

This interview was conducted by Jim Batts on November 11th, 2011.

Bill Plympton is one of the most creative and prolific artists to emerge out of the independent animation shorts film arena of the late 1980′s. His short Your Face was nominated for an Academy Award and follow-up shorts like How To Kiss and How To Quit Smoking became the highlights of several traveling animation compilations and festivals. He soon branched out into feature films with The Tune and set up a New York animation studio to produce commercials and music videos along with more features and shorts. Recently Plympton has helmed several live action features. He’s here in St. Louis to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 20th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival. Mr. Plympton was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to speak with me by phone.

Wamg: My name is Jim Batts with WeAreMovieGeeks.

We couldn't be happier that director Joe Carnahan has gotten a green light to start production next week on The Grey, a thriller that stars Liam Neeson, and we also are liking the actors that have filled out his cast. With the lack of female names, could this be the next The Thing?

Per Deadline New York Neeson will be joined on the shoot by Dallas Roberts (Tell Tale, Joshua, "Rubicon"), James Badge Dale ("24", "Rubicon"), Dermot Mulroney (Zodiac, Hair High), Frank Grillo (Mother's Day, My Soul to Take), Nonso Anozie (RocknRolla, "Prime Suspect: The Final Act"), and Joe Anderson (The Crazies, The Ruins). They play oil-rig roughnecks left stranded by a plane crash right in the hunting zone of a pack of rogue wolves on the frozen Alaskan tundra.

Coming off the Fox film The A-Team, Carnahan said he was glad to be making a down and dirty indie, even...

Hey Gang! The full schedule for Comic-Con 2010 has been unleashed on the world today and boy, oh boy does it have a lot of great stuff! We have the full list for you below to check out. I've highlighted all of the events that we are excited about seeing. Check out the list below and start planning out your Comic-Con adventure now!

We will be doing a meet-up at the Con this year, we will fill you in on all the details once we have it all planned out. See ya there!

Special Preview Night Programming

Wednesday, July 21

Attendees at Comic-Con's Preview Night can also experience special programming, games, and Anime and Film screenings in addition to the giant Exhibit Hall! Here's a rundown of the Wednesday night fun, including the chance to get a first look at the new homes for Anime and Films in the Marriott Hotel and Marina.

Comic-Con has just released the full schedule for Preview Night on Wednesday, July 21 and Thursday, July 22. We have broken down the full schedule by the film and TV events for each day, so take a look at this schedule below.

Wednesday, July 21 - Preview Night

6:00-9:00 Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings

Wbtvg continues its Comic-Con tradition of hosting a special sneak peek premiere event on preview night, this year offering fans two opportunities to screen one of the fall season's most highly anticipated new series: Nikita, starring international action star Maggie Q. In addition to Nikita, Wbtvg will unveil special video presentations related to its other series. Ballroom 20

Thursday, July 22

10:00-11:00 The Spark of Imagination

Peek inside the minds of leading authors and filmmakers to explore how imagination informs the creative process. New York Times bestselling children's author Tony Diterlizzi (The Spiderwick Chronicles) details the precedent-setting...

Here are the movie and TV highlights

The San Diego Comic-Con has posted the schedule for Thursday, July 22. You can view the full schedule here, but below are the movie and TV events that ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype/ShockTillYouDrop.com will be concentrating on.

Wednesday, July 21

6:00-9:00 Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings— Wbtvg continues its Comic-Con tradition of hosting a special sneak peek premiere event on preview night, this year offering fans two opportunities to screen one of the fall season’s most highly anticipated new series: Nikita, starring international action star Maggie Q. In addition to Nikita, Wbtvg will unveil special video presentations related to its other series. Ballroom 20

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Thursday, July 22

10:00-11:00 Jeff Smith— The perfect way to start off Comic-Con 2010's program schedule is with a visit with Jeff Smith! Jeff discusses his current sci-fi adventure series, Rasl, as well as the upcoming Bone books from Graphix.

Face front, True Believers -- the Thursday panel schedule at this year's San Diego Comic-Con has just been released, and surprising to no one, it's jammed-packed with movie goodness and we'll be liveblogging and tweeting from all of it. Overwhelmed? Need some help deciding what to sit in on? Allow us to offer a few suggestions...

DreamWorks Animation: Megamind: 10:00 Am - 11:00 Am, Hall H: DreamWorks make their Comic-Con debut by kicking off the festivities in the infamous Hall H with a sneak-peek at their upcoming, superhero genre bending animated flick Megamind. Expect the film's cast -- Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill -- to join director Tom McGrath onstage for what should be the funniest panel of the show. Danny Elfman panel: 10:30 Am - 11:30 Am, Room 6Bcf: The Simpsons, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas -- look, if you're not familiar with Elfman's storied career as a composer,...

Bill Plympton's Hair High, the world's first animated "rom-zom-prom-com", is now available on DVD direct from the writer/director/animator's website.

The film, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2004 and won festival awards at FantAsia in Montreal, Animadrid in Spain, and Anifest Trebon in the Czech Republic, features the voice talents of Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney, Eric Gilliland, Keith Carradine, Beverly D'Angelo, David Carradine, Martha Plimpton, Michael Showalter, Ed Begley, Jr., and Justin Long.

Synopsis:

An outrageous Gothic myth from the 1950’s, Hair High is the legend of Cherri (Silverman) and Spud (Gilliland), a teenage couple who are murdered on prom night and left for dead at the bottom of Echo Lake. Exactly one year later their skeletal remains come back to life, and they return to the prom for revenge and their justly-deserved crowns.

The DVD's special features include:

• Director's Commentary

• Scene Breakdown and Voice-over Sessions...

Independent animator Bill Plympton has been bringing his unique, off-kilter comedic sensibilities to the screen for a few decades now, and several years back, he ventured into genre territory with the feature Hair High. Yet the film hasn’t managed to break out past the festival/limited-release circuit—until now; Fango got the scoop that it’ll finally hit DVD this summer.

It’s 2009 and I’m more than a little jazzed to be writing about the Toronto After Dark Film Festival….again. See, Tadff (running from August 14th to 21st at The Bloor Cinema) is a kind of local little engine that could, a collection of international weird cinema curated by Adam Lopez and his crack team of programmers that is now in its fourth year - no mean feat in Toronto seeing as there are over 100 film festivals in this city at any given time and most of them go tits up after their first year.

But Lopez and his merry band of movie minded miscreants are tireless crusaders for creepy, strange and subversive celluloid. Last year, the lads showcased Let The Right One In and Repo! The Genetc Opera, two films that meant a lot to me.

This year, their little one week of wonders positively explodes with a...

CANNES -- France-based ED Distribution will co-finance and handle French theatrical duties on Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton's next feature, Angels and Idiots. Writer-director Plympton (I Married a Strange Person), whose feature Hair High is up for sale at the Festival de Cannes, will be coloring and editing his hand-drawn work by computer for the first time. The dark, surreal Angels focuses on a man who repeatedly wakes up with wings and tries to get rid of them. Production just began on the $100,000 feature, which is slated for completion in a year. But ED's Fabrice Leroy said the company can wait for the acclaimed director's work. "Sometimes he can deliver the film a year late, but that's OK," Leroy said. "We want him to feel free to achieve the movie he wants to do."...

CANNES -- France-based ED Distribution will co-finance and handle French theatrical duties on Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton's next feature, Angels and Idiots. Writer-director Plympton (I Married a Strange Person), whose feature Hair High is up for sale at the Festival de Cannes, will be coloring and editing his hand-drawn work by computer for the first time. The dark, surreal Angels focuses on a man who repeatedly wakes up with wings and tries to get rid of them. Production just began on the $100,000 feature, which is slated for completion in a year. But ED's Fabrice Leroy said the company can wait for the acclaimed director's work. "Sometimes he can deliver the film a year late, but that's OK," Leroy said. "We want him to feel free to achieve the movie he wants to do."...

• Bill Plympton is a crazy genius, and that statement has never ringed more true than after watching his latest full-length magnum opus Hair High (only just recently released here, I believe). You either love him or you’re annoyed by him, and both for the same reasons; his animation style is slow paced, absurd, twisted and gross. You either get his sense of humor or you don’t. Or maybe you just need to be in that special mood to watch one of his little fares. Either way you’re in for a roller coaster ride you might wish you could get off of but can’t. So just sit back and enjoy the ride. It’s alive!! It’S Aliiiiive!!!!! Set in the 1950s, Hair High tells the story of Bud, a teenage outcast new to his high school who quickly becomes the slave of Sherri, the school queen,

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