How do Muppets reproduce to make Muppet Babies? Also: Star Wars.

What more is there to say? Watch it on Cinevore or Cinemassacre!

Additionally, the James Bond-themed episodes of OA that launched Season 2 were resounding successes. THANK YOU to everybody who is watching and commenting. We have more plans for this series going forward, but for the near future anyway, we think it’s a safe bet to expect monthly episodes for Season 2. If you keep watching, that is.

Check us out on YouTube, and if you haven’t yet, subscribe!

Also, support our awesome friends The Game Chasers by subscribing on YouTube and watching on RetrowareTV.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody! Here’s to a great 2012!

And of course, if you enjoy the show, write something awesome on Cinemassacre’s forums!

In other news, we hope to have a new forum-style system on this site in the near future, but no idea how near said future is. So just keep checkin’ back.

And lastly, for our other projects: the episode of Living in 8 Bits that we Cinevores co-wrote now has over 40,000 views on YouTube, and we have another one in the can, set to go live probably sometime in the spring. Whenever we have a few spare hours, we have been writing new scripts for LI8B, because we love that series, so even if only a tenth of them get produced, we’ll probably have a good number racked up soon. We also have a similar OA-related surprise coming up in an upcoming episode of The Game Chasers in the next couple of weeks. Keep an eye on their Facebook or website for all the latest this Xmas season.

As for the “official” OverAnalyzers episodes, Bond Part 2 coming this weekend to Cinemassacre, and eventually, right here on Cinevore.

For thse who haven’t seen it, Living in 8 Bits is a web series from the brilliant minds at Mixed Nuts Productions, revolving around game quirks and how they’d play out in real life.

Cinevore’s writing team Matt Conant and Stephanie Yuhas co-wrote this episode, with of course some tweaks from showrunner Mike Licisyn, and the usual awesome improv thrown in by the hilarious talent.

AND… it featuring cameos from Stephanie Yuhas (OverAnalyzers) and Cinemassacre’s James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd and OverAnalyzers).

We’ve got another episode coming soon, and are in talks to write a few more. ‘Cause we’re game geeks. And it’s fun, dammit.

Congrats to Mike Licisyn on his rising success with this series! If you like what you see, check out LivingIn8Bits.com and Mixed Nuts Productions on YouTube.

Living in 8 Bits follows the interview-style reality show format of shows like The Office, but applies it to the premise that video game logic exists in real life. Prior episodes have focused on hilarious and diverse video game topics ranging from football teams that are unstoppable when they zigzag across a field to doors that open only when shot with firearms, to the tragic consequences for main characters in shooters whose arms get stuck that way.

Originally scheduled for October 29th, the shoot has been postponed due to unseasonable weather predictions including the threat of snow (really? before Halloween?). The episodes will likely film in November and arrive on LivingIn8Bits.com sometime this winter.

In addition to the two episodes mentioned above, a collaboration on two future episodes are in planning stages as well.

For all the original Metroid fans out there, check out Mixed Nuts’ hilarious recent episode “Justin Bailey”:

We also just got back from our trip to PAX Prime in Seattle, where we were filming coverage of Cinemassacre‘s panel and signing, as well as some publicity stunts for Screenwave Media, who will also be helping revamp Cinevore’s website and make it easier for everybody to view our videos.

Meanwhile, Cinevore is once again a Presenting Sponsor of Project Twenty1‘s Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival, which this year will be welcoming nearly 150 short and feature-length films to the Philadelphia area from all corners of the globe. Also, the typical workshops, parties, etc. All-access passes are now available at ProjectTwenty1.com. Remember to dress to the nines for Sunday’s Red Carpet Awards Ceremony, the highlight of last year’s festival.

Cinevore’s key personnel will all be there, as will James Rolfe (AVGN) from Cinemassacre, as well as the Quentin Tarantinos and Ridley Scotts of tomorrow. And as we all know, the best people to get drunk and party with are creative people, right? Hope to see you there!

Check out the full interview and learn more about the making of OverAnalyzers and working with James Rolfe HERE.

Equally exciting, some of you may recall our work on the short film Choose, by Good to be Seen Films, last summer. Cinevore’s Stephanie Yuhas was co-producer of the film, and Matt Conant did his usual behind-the-scenes videography. Well, the film has gotten into the LA Shorts Fest, an Academy-Award nominating festival! Meaning if people like it, hey, we might actually be up for an Oscar. Pretty sweet. We are now trying to find ways to cover the cost of the 5-day trip to L.A. for the festival during this era of perpetually high gas prices/airfare. The festival is the end of July, so hopefully we’ll solve that dilemma soon.

Meanwhile, Matt Conant has also been involved in the documenting of James Rolfe’s adventures at the Too Many Games convention in Oaks, PA, filming a review of the Back to the Future game series by Telltale Games, and posting a quickie review of the new J. J. Abrams film, Super 8.

Also, any filmmakers out there who have not yet signed up to be a team in this year’s 21-Day Filmmaking Competition, the Late Deadline has been extended until July 1st! Hurry up and get onboard now. If you enter and the fest isn’t everything you hoped, Matt Conant is one of the organizers, so he gives you permission to personally punch him in the balls. But trust us, you’ll have fun.

Exciting stuff ahead this summer, including a new revamp of this website to allow for easier access to the videos. Stay tuned…

But the other driving force always at our core, propelling everything we do: narrative fiction.

We are proud to say that in the past few months, we’ve had a number of chances to work on awesome projects with our friends at Cinemassacre. Our collaborations began with Piece of Meat in 2008, where James Rolfe was a key member of the cast and did our hilarious special blood effects.

In the last 12 months, we’ve lent a hand with many Cinemassacre videos, including Blob Town, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead location tours, interviews with Tom Savini, George “The Animal” Steele, and Rifftrax’s Mike Nelson, videos from this January’s MagFest 9, some other stuff currently in post, and a few other projects in development that we can’t even speak of yet.

But as awesome as the documentary projects have been, March will bring a return to fiction (kind of)! Matt Conant and Stephanie Yuhas, the brains behind Cinevore, are co-creators of Cinemassacre’s upcoming web series… (drum roll)… OverAnalyzers.

In collaboration with James Rolfe and Mike Matei, and Lee Rosenfeldt, the Cinevore team has been hard at work writing new material since November. The first half-season of the show is now wrapped and in editing. It’s hard to call the series “fiction,” hard to call it even “scripted”, but it’s also hard to call it anything else. You’ll kind of have to see it to understand, but we’re excited at the direction it’s taken, and every brain at the table brings something new and important to the project.

If you are a fan of nostalgia, pop-culture, or pop-nostalgia, there’s no way you won’t love OverAnalyzers. Expect posters, stills, and trailers coming very soon, and complete episodes starting next month on Cinemassacre.com.

With frequent updates here, of course.

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