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Yay, Fanboys finally made it over to Germany! I subjected myself to the torture of watching it dubbed into German last night, and I have to say that even though the choice of dubbing voices was bad, the translation was actually really good. All the jokes worked quite well, and people laughed in all the right places.

( Ich bin William Shatner, ich kriege alles. )

If you've followed what's going on with Fanboys, you will know that it's being released in the US on February 06, 2009. If you didn't, well, you know now.

The thing is, the Weinstein Company chose to only release it in 40 theaters in 8 cities initially. These cities are:

::: Austin, TX
::: Chicago, IL
::: Houston, TX
::: Los Angeles, CA
::: New York, NY
::: Philadelphia, PA
::: San Francisco, CA
::: Seattle, WA

Word is that it will expand to more cities and theaters if it does well in these eight cities. We're asking you to please help us make that happen. Click here to learn what you can do to help.

Since I've been posting here about Fanboys, maybe I should give you a quick update on what's been going on. You know, just for the record. We have a release date. Okay, that's nothing new, but this time it actually looks like it might be the one. Feb 6, 2009.

Weinstein has also released a new poster (which sucks, so I'm not gonna post it here). And a new trailer. Which also isn't all that great. It's up on Yahoo! Movies somewhere (and no doubt other places too).

I've also written (another) article about the movie and its (hi)story. This one I will gladly link: www.seeya.at/fanboys.

Oh, and the cancer storyline has been restored. The Stop Darth Weinstein campaign seems to have hit a soft spot and Weinstein buckled and let Kyle Newman put the cancer storyline back into the final cut. Yessss!

Here's the best part, though: I've seen the final cut. How, you may ask. I was in LA in October and we (two friends and me) were invited to a screening of the final cut. And I loved it just as much as I thought I would.

And that's pretty much it. May The Force Be With The Release Date.

If you've heard about the movie Fanboys, you might be wondering what's going on with it, seeing how it was promoted as coming out on Jan 18, 2008 for a while. Now, before you go looking for local showtimes, the movie wasn't released on Jan 18.

( If you want to know more about the story of Fanboys, click here. )