Christmas on Mars

The Flaming Lips are eyeing next March's South by Southwest film festival for the release of their long-forthcoming feature film, Christmas on Mars, according to a recent Billboard.com interview with frontman Wayne Coyne.

"It is coming. In fact, it's better than ever. Because it's taken so long, we've become better filmmakers. There's better computer effects. I think it will be much better," Coyne said. Come to think of it, it makes sense that the Lips would need to build UFOs before traveling to Mars.

After Christmas on Mars' SXSW premiere, Coyne mentioned that the band plans to take the film on a tour of some sort. "I want the Flaming Lips audience to shape this. It'll be like our live show, which evolves as it goes. We'll show it to the audience and let them talk out there on message boards, and then maybe we'll take that and go back and change it and put it out there again and see what they think. It'll be a different experience than sitting at home and watching a DVD, for sure. I don't know if a lot of bands can do that, but the Flaming Lips sure can."

Currently, Christmas is in the final editing stage. The band is also transferring it to HD and adding "in-depth special effects."

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Flaming Lips DVD

The Flaming Lips have announced the release of their much-talked about DVD entitled 'U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City' for July 10.

Filmed last September at the band's show at the Zoo Amphitheater in their home city of Oklahoma, the performance features a typically over-the-top stage show including a giant UFO shaped lighting rig, hundreds of stage props and effects and of course, Wayne Coyne crowd surfing in a giant bubble.

In addition to the actual performance, the DVD features interviews, backstage access and a ringtone application in which fans can make and buy their own ringtones.

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