"Simpsons" movie gets trailer, release date

from the hollywood reporter

'Simpsons' movie revealed in trailer
By Sheigh Crabtree

Homer Simpson hit the big screen on Friday in a short teaser trailer
announcing "The Simpsons" movie.

Milhouse Van Houten...

It's online now:

David...

Homer in underwear and Superman baby tee... yet another fetish fantasy
destroyed.

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

Maybe this will hail the end of the TV series.

The "Simpsons" teaser debuted prior to the opening of 20th Century
Fox's latest animated film "Ice Age: The Meltdown." The clip announces
Fox's July 27, 2007 release date for "The Simpsons" movie.

The animated 25-second clip opens on a giant superhero S. "Leaping his
way onto the silver screen," intones a narrator, "the greatest hero in
American history!" Cut to Homer Simpson sitting on his couch in his
tighty whities. "I forgot what I was supposed to say," he says. The
narrator continues, " 'The Simpsons Movie,' coming to the screen, July
27, 2007." "Uh, uh," says Homer, "we better get started."

The long-running animated television series created by Matt Groening
and developed by James L. Brooks is currently being adapted for the
big screen at Film Roman Studios in Burbank.

"The Simpsons" has been on television since late 1989. It started as a
segment of Fox's "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987-88.

Film Roman Studios is a subsidiary of IDT Entertainment, which has a
two-year multipicture deal with 20th Century Fox Animation.