Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Directed by	Peter Avanzino
Written by	Eric Kaplan; David X. Cohen
Produced by	Claudia Katz; Lee Supercinski
Starring	Billy West; Katey Sagal; John DiMaggio; Maurice LaMarche; Tress MacNeille
Music by	Christopher Tyng
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release dates	June 24, 2008; June 30, 2008; August 6, 2008
Running time	88 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

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Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs is the second of the four Futurama straight-to-DVD films.^[1] The film will be released in the USA and Canada on June 24, 2008,^[2]^[3] followed by a UK release on June 30, 2008 and an Australian release on August 6, 2008.^[4]

Plot

Following the events of Bender's Big Score, a giant rift in space and time allows a planet-sized monster from another universe to come to Earth. The monster takes control of Fry,along with everyone else on Earth, making him Pope of the tentacle religion. Soon, the monster proposes to the world, eventually causing humanity to evacuate the planet to live on the monster, leaving robots to inherit the Earth.

Features

Guest stars

The film will feature voice talents from: Brittany Murphy as Colleen, Fry's new polyamorous girlfriend; David Cross as Yivo, the planet-sized tentacled alien; Professor Stephen Hawking reprising himself, this time as his own head in a jar; and Dan Castellaneta reprising his role as the Robot Devil.^[5]

DVD

The DVD will feature footage from the Futurama video game as Futurama: The Lost Episode.

References

^ Vo, Alex (2007-07-30). "Comic-Con Premieres New Futurama Footage; Plus, We Interview Futurama's Rich Moore". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
^ Lambert, David (2008-02-28). "Futurama - Release Date, Cost, Extras, & More for The Beast with a Billion Backs".
^ "Friday Night Lights and Other Announced Releases". TV Guide. 2008-02-28.
^ "Futurama - The Beast With A Billion Backs @ EzyDVD". EzyDVD. 2008-05-13.
^ "Can't Get Enough Futurama: Four New Futurama DVDs". Retrieved 2007-08-01.

External links

The Beast with a Billion Backs at the Infosphere.
First review at www.screenjabber.com
Full color trailer
DVD Talk Review
[1] IMDB Title

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[1] Vo, Alex (2007-07-30). "Comic-Con Premieres New Futurama Footage; Plus, We Interview Futurama's Rich Moore". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-08-01.

[TVShowsonDVD-2] Lambert, David (2008-02-28). "Futurama - Release Date, Cost, Extras, & More for The Beast with a Billion Backs".

[3] "Friday Night Lights and Other Announced Releases". TV Guide. 2008-02-28.

[4] "Futurama - The Beast With A Billion Backs @ EzyDVD". EzyDVD. 2008-05-13.

[5] "Can't Get Enough Futurama: Four New Futurama DVDs". Retrieved 2007-08-01.

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v t e Futurama episodes
Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Season 1	"Space Pilot 3000" "The Series Has Landed" "I, Roommate" "Love's Labours Lost in Space" "Fear of a Bot Planet" "A Fishful of Dollars" "My Three Suns" "A Big Piece of Garbage" "Hell Is Other Robots" "A Flight to Remember" "Mars University" "When Aliens Attack" "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
Season 2	"I Second That Emotion" "Brannigan, Begin Again" "A Head in the Polls" "Xmas Story" "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" "The Lesser of Two Evils" "Raging Bender" "A Bicyclops Built for Two" "A Clone of My Own" "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" "The Deep South" "Bender Gets Made" "Mother's Day" "The Problem with Popplers" "Anthology of Interest I" "War Is the H-Word" "The Honking" "The Cryonic Woman"
Season 3	"Amazon Women in the Mood" "Parasites Lost" "A Tale of Two Santas" "The Luck of the Fryrish" "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" "Bendless Love" "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" "That's Lobstertainment!" "The Cyber House Rules" "Where the Buggalo Roam" "Insane in the Mainframe" "The Route of All Evil" "Bendin' in the Wind" "Time Keeps On Slippin'" "I Dated a Robot" "A Leela of Her Own" "A Pharaoh to Remember" "Anthology of Interest II" "Roswell That Ends Well" "Godfellas" "Future Stock" "The 30% Iron Chef"
Season 4	"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" "Leela's Homeworld" "Love and Rocket" "Less Than Hero" "A Taste of Freedom" "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" "Jurassic Bark" "Crimes of the Hot" "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" "The Why of Fry" "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" "The Sting" "Bend Her" "Obsoletely Fabulous" "The Farnsworth Parabox" "Three Hundred Big Boys" "Spanish Fry" "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Season 5	"Bender's Big Score" (Part 1–4) "The Beast with a Billion Backs" (Part 1–4) "Bender's Game" (Part 1–4) "Into the Wild Green Yonder" (Part 1–4)
Season 6	"Rebirth" "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" "Attack of the Killer App" "Proposition Infinity" "The Duh-Vinci Code" "Lethal Inspection" "The Late Philip J. Fry" "That Darn Katz!" "A Clockwork Origin" "The Prisoner of Benda" "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" "The Mutants Are Revolting" "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" "The Silence of the Clamps" "Möbius Dick" "Law and Oracle" "Benderama" "The Tip of the Zoidberg" "Ghost in the Machines" "Neutopia" "Yo Leela Leela" "Fry Am the Egg Man" "All the Presidents' Heads" "Cold Warriors" "Overclockwise" "Reincarnation"
Season 7	"The Bots and the Bees" "A Farewell to Arms" "Decision 3012" "The Thief of Baghead" "Zapp Dingbat" "The Butterjunk Effect" "The Six Million Dollar Mon" "Fun on a Bun" "Free Will Hunting" "Near-Death Wish" "31st Century Fox" "Viva Mars Vegas" "Naturama" "Forty Percent Leadbelly" "2-D Blacktop" "T.: The Terrestrial" "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" "The Inhuman Torch" "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" "Calculon 2.0" "Assie Come Home" "Leela and the Genestalk" "Game of Tones" "Murder on the Planet Express" "Stench and Stenchibility" "Meanwhile"