[Promotional still from the upcoming Cageflick Drive Angry 3D]

The UK release of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is still over a month away, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a million exciting Pilgrim nuggets floating about waiting to be condensed into a Thursday blog post. So here they are:

REMIXES
Frequent Wright-collaborator and VJ-extraordinaire Osymyso has been hard at work making seven video remixes of the film, which have been drip-released across the last week as exclusives on a variety of not-as-good-as-Ultra-Culture movie blogs. Rather than send any more traffic their way, I’ll direct you to this Youtube channel, which has all the remixes in glorious 1080p.

BOOK
The sixth and final book in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic book series, entitled Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, was released on Tuesday. You can get it on Amazon for slightly over a fiver.

COMIC-CON
Edgar Wright has touched down in San Diego for the annual blogosplosion that is Comic-Con. He’s promised ’surprises’ for today’s big panel.

SOUNDTRACKS
Track listings have now been confirmed for both the Soundtrack album and Nigel Godrich’s sure-to-be-amazing Original Score. Let us know if you can think of a way to force the August 23rd UK release date forward. In the meantime, you can listen to one of the tracks Beck wrote for Scott Pilgrim’s band Sex Bob-Omb here:

GAME
The Scott Pilgrim game is due for release on August 10th. You can watch a trailer for it here. I won’t say any more about it because I don’t really know about video games.

SEEING THE FUCKING THING
Tickets for the UK’s biggest and best Scott Pilgrim vs. The World preview, a.k.a. Ultra Culture Cinema #04, will go on sale soon. To be the first to find out, join the mailing list. It’s going to be ‘a night to remember’.

The BBFC’s website has had a snazzy redesign (see above), and along with a ridiculous amount of blue and a frankly excessive use of Verdana, they’ve also added a little ECI logo to highlight classifications which feature their always-hilarious ‘Extended Classification Information’ boxes.

Sometimes these appear suddenly a couple of weeks after a film has been rated, as they often contain spoilers that are embargoed until just before release. One such late addition has just appeared on the page for The Human Centipede.

I made my feelings about The Human Centipede pretty clear a couple of weeks ago, but some of the phrases in this new ECI are too good to pass up:

‘undoubtedly grotesque’

‘The Board has taken legal advice’

‘bloody flap’

Eurgh.

The movie selection on the BBC’s iPlayer website is getting better and better and better. This week, the following movies are available to view immediately in glorious HD video:

Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg)
Available until 12:14am Sunday 25th July

The Damned United (dir. Tom Hooper)
Available until 10:34pm Sunday 25th July

Dan In Real Life (dir. Peter Hedges)
Available until 12:44am Thursday 22nd July

Is Anybody There? (dir. John Crowley)
Available until 10:39pm Saturday 24th July

I can’t personally vouch for the last two, but they’re all ‘Fresh’ on Rotten Tomatoes so they’re probably not that bad, and if you’ve got all the right cables like I have for a bit of cheeky Laptop –> TV connecting, then there’s absolutely no excuse for you not to be enjoying the fuck out of at least one of these RIGHT NOW.

Get on it.

The new issue of pop culture bible Entertainment Weekly just ‘hits the stands’ in the States (as well as a few of the fancier newsagents in Central London) and it’s rammed full of previews in honour of this week’s annual San Diego Comic-Con.

Above you can see the first official photo from Zack Snyder’s forthcoming violent fantasy thing Sucker Punch, which features a largely female cast and is set in some kind of semi-hallucinated 50s mental institution. As you / might / remember, I’m not the biggest fan of ‘first official photos’ but I thought this one was worth posting because only yesterday I was bemoaning the absence of Jena Malone in 2010’s Hollywood, and today here she is: slap bang in the middle of one of the most hyped movies going. Nice to see Abbie Cornish and Emily Browning finally punching their way into the A-list too.

Say what you like about Zach Snyder, but he can pull just about any old fucker out of obscurity.