If launching a new entertainment brand requires reaching fans on many levels, then Sci-Fi fans with a sense of humor are about to have something to moot about. This month marks the launch of “MOOT MAG,” the print publication of a multi-platform entity that may or may not be of this world, depending on who you ask. Ryan Nellis is the LA based digital media artist with a story so big, it’s not only being told in the new sci-fi humor magazine, but also in an upcoming movie and a web destination with a growing fan community.

Sci-fi mega-hits like Star Wars and Avatar drew audiences so completely into alternate realities that many fans became despondent upon having to re-enter the real world. MOOT invites its fans to join an interactive experience that continues to unfold and infuse their own “real” world with the supernatural phenomena and creatures of the magazine, movie, and website.

Nellis is currently in post-production on a 30 minute MOOT movie. Extensive clips and trailers can be seen at MootMagMovie.com, but a first installment will officially debut online this summer. The film chronicles the dangerous adventures of a Hollywood paparazzo named Mattox Durant. In the film, Mattox creates “MOOT Magazine” to expose a supernatural underworld.

This month, MOOT MAG crosses over from its film role into our world with a limited-run printing. Lucky fans can bend their minds around sci-fi, mystery, and adventure stories, told with the humor of “The Onion” and the escapism of a 1950’s pulp mag. What sets MOOT MAG further apart is the cutting-edge digital art, photography, and graphics that accompany each story, interview, game or contest. The website, MootMagMovie.com will offer even more stories, video, and animation.

Nellis is a life-long fan of the sci-fi genre, but with MOOT he kills all of its sacred cows, presenting his fantasy world through a mixture of tabloid absurdity, comic book creativity, and comedic irreverence. He explains that, in his view, “MOOT appeals to open minds. And if I’m doing it right, those minds get blown open further and further the more they moot.”

Mooters are eagerly awaiting the magazine’s debut at the upcoming Wizard’s Comic Con in Anaheim (April 16-18). Cindera Che, who plays the gorgeous but deadly Asian witch Deva in the MOOT movie, will be on hand to sign autographs.

With each festival we try to bring a new and different theme into the movie theater, and once again it’s Lady’s Night!

Horror Society will feature films directed, produced, or written by women.

The WITCHBLADE Fragrance line features 5ml perfume oil blends based on the characters from Top Cow’s Witchblade series, including Witchblade (Antediluvian, sacred metal, glowing red musk, blessed frankincense, antiqued amber), Witchblade-bearer Sara Pezzini (Hint of leather and an understated vintage musk layered over the scent of lightly perspiring, honey-dusted skin), Detective Patrick Gleason (A classic men’s cologne splashed over a leather trench coat with a hint of gunshot residue) and the Curator (Mysterious herbs and ancient resins). The Sara Pezzini and Witchblade scents are meant to be layered together, but can be worn alone.

The WITCHBLADE Fragrance line retails at $26 a bottle, and will be available for purchase at the Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs booth at C2E2 (#951). For every purchase, five dollars will be donated to the Hero Initiative. Following the show, the WITCHBLADE Fragrance line will be available online at www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com.

The C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo) convention will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois for the weekend of April 16-18, 2010.

SYNOPSIS:
A one-of-a-kind experience that is guaranteed to shock and divide audiences, Dutch filmmaker Tom Six's twisted biological horror film, "The Human Centipede" confidently goes where few films have dared to go. In addition to its shocking imagery, the film also features an indelibly villainous performance by Dieter Laser, whose brilliant and demented Dr. Heiter is sure to soon join the ranks of Freddy, Jason and Jigsaw whenever true horror icons are discussed.

During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help they find only an isolated villa, whose mysterious owner, Dr Heiter, takes them in for the night. The next day they awake to find themselves in the basement, trapped in a terrifying makeshift hospital with another one of the doctor's abductees. Dr Heiter explains to the three of them that he is retired surgeon who had specialized in separating Siamese twins. However his three "patients" are not about to be separated, but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first to connect people, one to the next, via their gastric system, and in doing so bring to life his sick lifetime fantasy: 'the human centipede'.

Release Date: April 30, 2010 in Select Theaters, Available On Demand on April 28th, 2010

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