Video: The Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars trailer

Earth's greatest music festival party boys coordinate a Christmas Eve event where everyone on the Mars outpost will get together and sing Christmas carols.

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In production since 2001, The Flaming Lips' eagerly anticipated "Christmas On Mars" - A Fantastical Film Freakout featuring The Flaming Lips will be released on CD/DVD format on November 11th on Warner Bros Records / Cinema Purgatorio. Directed by front man Wayne Coyne alongside co-director George Salisbury (the band's audiovisual technician), many of the film's Mars sets were constructed in Coyne's back garden at his home in Oklahoma City. The film does indeed take place during Christmas time on Mars, as the colonisation of the Red Planet is underway. But when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod [...]

Wayne Coyne, director of Christmas on Mars and visionary frontman of rock band the Flaming Lips, will join fans and friends for Cinema Purgatorio's screenings of Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips, on Wednesday, November 5, 7pm and 9:30pm, at the KGB / Kraine Theater. Tickets are HERE . Lots and lots of related merchandise is HERE . Info on work the Flaming Lips are doing for NBC HERE . Below you will find the CoM trailer(s)/ads, AND some (other?) Halloween-related Flaming Lips videos... The [...]

It's been in production since 2001, but Wayne Coyne's bizarro holiday sci-fi film is touching down at last, with the help of left-field distribution house Cinema Purgatorio. Although it has screened at music fests and art houses, The Flaming Lips' longtime hi-def freakout is finally going widescreen from Atlanta to Manhattan. Like the band itself, the venues are offbeat and the show times are unusual, including early-morning and late-night screenings. Some theaters will feature the band's Zeta Bootis Mega Supersonic Super-Sound Surround System, which The Flaming Lips created especially for the film, and nearly all of the [...]

En vistas al inminente lanzamiento de Christmas on Mars , la película de los Flaming Lips , no está de más echarle un vistazo a este avance del largamente esperado proyecto. Todo apunta a un disparate psicodélico en la onda de los últimos años del grupo. Eso sí, tengan cuidado, pues el vídeo revela mucho. Aunque parece que tal cosa no tiene importancia en una inteligente broma cósmica como esta. Vía: Hipersonica Comparte esta anotación

Het schijnt dat de kerstfilm van de Flaming Lips eindelijk uit gaat komen dit jaar. Of, zoals iemand in de commentaren op de Youtubes opmerkt: "It's finally coming out! If Chinese Democracy comes out this year these surely are the signs of the apocalypse".

by phil Christmas comes early...well, sort of. If you're talking Christmas on Earth- then yes, very early. If you're talking Christmas on Mars, then it's more like seven years late. But, don't hate, congratulate. The Flaming Lips are finally letting the public see their feature science-fiction film, Christmas on Mars . This fall, Christmas on Mars will screen in cities across the United States and subsequently be released on DVD in November 11. Trailer and [...]

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