News Archive - 2004

August 27, 2004

Spotting Alex in Hollywood!  No Way!

We were recently alerted by a sharp-eyed visitor to this site (the most outstanding Dave dude, who also happened to have his camera handy) that Alex Winter was on a Hollywood street filming a comedy segment for The Jimmy Kimmel Show.  The filmed segment was a spoof of the recent Mike Wallace / New York policeman / fast food confrontation which happened a while back.  Alex has filmed segments for the Jimmy Kimmel Show before, so if you watch the show you might be watching some of Alex's directing on the filmed segments!

For the complete story and full-view pictures, go to the Alex Winter Fansite and click on their News Section!

Our many thanks to Dave for sharing his sighting with the Bill and Ted fans on the message board!!

July 28, 2004

Excellent Adventure comes to Region 4 DVD!  Excellent, mate!

For some time we've been hearing from our most excellent friends down under (that's Australia and New Zealand, dudes) that Excellent Adventure was not available on DVD in their region (DVDs formatted for Region 4 can be viewed in Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America).  Finally we have most excellent news for our Region 4 friends!  Excellent Adventure is finally available in a video store near you!  Thanks to our most alert compadres on the message boards we were able to confirm the existence of this most excellent disc!

For our friends in Region 4 areas, be sure to check your local DVD vendor or online source for this most righteous disc.  And if they don't carry it, call and ask they do!

The breakdown of where the movies are available on DVD as of this date are as follows:

Region 1 (U.S. and Canada)
Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey available

Region 2 (Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa)
Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey available

Region 4 (Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America)
Excellent Adventure available

June 24, 2004

What's Better Than a Free Comic Book?
How about a Free Bill & Ted Comic Book??

We have some most unprecedented news for you, babes and dudes!  Slave Labor Graphics is going to be offering anthology printings of ALL of Evan Dorkin's Bill & Ted comic books later this year!  The scheduled date of release for the first volume is August 2004.  We're going to be posting much more information about these new books in the coming months.

Of more immediate interest, however, is the special promotional Bill & Ted book which Slave Labor Graphics will be offering during Free Comic Book Day on July 3rd.  Free Comic Book Day is exactly what its name implies . . . a day in which participating independent comic book dealers across North America will be giving away selected titles for free!  That's right, you'll be able to pick up a FREE special edition Bill & Ted comic book on July 3rd!  Most non-heinous news indeed!!

For more information about Free Comic Book Day, click here!

June 17, 2004

Bill & Ted meet The Simpsons

Many thanks to Krix, the most outstanding webmaster over at Keanuvision (one outstanding weblog plus!) for sharing this interesting piece of Simpsons / Bill & Ted cross culture . . . you know Bill & Ted are true cultural icons when they make the pages of a Simpsons comic book!!  Click on the thumbnail to view the entire page!

June 3, 2004

From Martians to Cats . . . Peter Hewitt directs Garfield: The Movie

You may remember the name Peter Hewitt from the credits of Bogus Journey.  That film was the up and coming director's first feature film project.  Now Peter Hewitt brings to the screen one of the most popular comic strip characters of the past few decades: Garfield: The Movie paws its way onto the big screen on June 11th.  Garfield will be computer generated, which undoubtedly presented Peter Hewitt with some interesting challenges.  For more information about the movie, click here.

June 3, 2004

Will They Play Nice . . . or Play With Me?

This week's episode of VH-1's Bands Reunited will feature the band Extreme, which performed the song Play With Me on the Excellent Adventure soundtrack.  Will the band get back together for one last gig?  Find out Thursday, June 3rd at 11:00 p.m.!  For more info, click here.

UPDATE: Unfortunately the band did not get back together for a reunion.

May 26, 2004

And the Action Movie Star
Taurus award goes to . . . .

Tonight Spike TV aired the Taurus World Stunt Awards and what a nice surprise to see Keanu win the award for Action Movie Star.  His Speed (and River's Edge) co-star Dennis Hopper introduced a series of clips of stunts performed in Keanu's movies over the years (including some shots from Bogus Journey and Excellent Adventure), then introduced Keanu's stunt double and friend, Chad Stahelski.  Chad in turn presented Keanu with the award.  Keanu was visibly moved by the audience's standing ovation and gave a heartfelt speech, thanking all of the stunt coordinators and people he's worked with over the years.

Keanu was quick to point out that he's "never performed a stunt in my life" and that "stunt men do stunts."  He also made clear that he did not perform all of the stunts shown in the clips that had been shown.  But this is a well-deserved honor for Keanu as he has always gone out of his way to do as much as he can in his movies, and obviously those in the stunt industry admire and respect him for this.

Congratulation, Keanu!  It was well deserved, dude!

April 13, 2004

Your phone may not just be used
for making calls (or traveling through
time) any more!

Exciting news on the cel phone front, babes and dudes!  We're happy to report that Kuju Wireless has announced they are developing a cel phone game featuring the Two Great Ones, Bill and Ted!  Initial reports say the game will feature our heroes traveling through time to collect historical figures throughout fifty excellent levels of gameplay!  Kuju Wireless is aiming for a 4th quarter 2004 release, but of course this is subject to change, so we'll definitely bring you updates on when the game is released and which carriers will be offering it as we receive more info!  Just imagine being able to reach out and touch Bill and Ted anywhere you go!  Not bad!!!!!

January 3, 2004

Freaked not available on DVD??
Now that's truly terrifying!

It's hard to believe, but true.  Freaked is not available on DVD!  One would think this movie, which has garnered quite a cult following since its (unfairly) limited release in 1993, would be available to fans on DVD.  The movie was released on laserdisc and has been seen on cable television here and there, but what fans really want is a full blown DVD release (with extras and commentary if possible).  Why is this hilarious brainchild film by Alex Winter and Tom Stern of particular interest to Bill and Ted fans?  Freaked is the only movie outside of the Bill and Ted films which stars Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves and William Sadler, each of them giving stellar performances in this offbeat, dark and biting comedy!  Anyone who was a fan of The Idiot Box on MTV were definitely not disappointed in this feature length movie, and it really does deserve a DVD release!

Now you can help by signing the *official* petition to get this movie released!  Alex and Tom are behind this petition themselves, so show your support and make your voices heard!

To sign the petition, click here, babes and dudes.

To learn more about Freaked and other Alex Winter projects, you can check out the most outstanding Alex Winter Fansite by clicking here.