Next week, Cartuna and Irony Point kick off the release for Julian Glander’s surreal animated coming-of-age comedy Boys Go to Jupiter. The Blender-animated indie feature, which features a cast of comedy icons and rising stars, opens August 8 in New York at the IFC Center and August 15 in Los Angeles at Laemmle Glendale, with a limited theatrical expansion to follow. Opening weekend Q&As will be held in N.Y.C. and L.A. Ahead of the release, a new clip has dropped, featuring some next-level teen loitering exploits outside a local gas station.
NPR’s Planet Money host Jack Corbett stars in his first film role as Billy 5000, a teenager in suburban Florida desperately trying to make $5,000 when his winter break is turned upside down by the arrival of a bizarre creature from another world. The film also features an original song by Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Miya Folick, who voices Billy’s crush Rozebud.
The voice cast is rounded out by Janeane Garofalo (Reality Bites), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Tavi Gevinson (Gossip Girl), Grace Kuhlenschmidt (The Daily Show), Joe Pera (Joe Pera Talks with You), Julio Torres (Problemista), Sarah Sherman (Saturday Night Live), Tony Award-winner Cole Escola (Oh, Mary!), Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby), River L. Ramirez (Los Espookys), Max Wittert (High Maintenance), J.R. Phillips (Summer Camp Island), Chris Fleming (Hell), and comedy writer Demi Adejuyigbe.
Following its premiere at Tribeca Festival, Boys Go to Jupiter has screened at over 40 film festivals around the world, including OIAF, Animation Is Film, GIRAF, Anima, Kaboom, Animocje and Animage. The film marks the feature directorial debut for Glander, a self-taught 3D artist, animator and filmmaker known online as glanderco. Glande started out making Tumblr GIFs and has gone on to direct viral projects for Adult Swim, Disney, HBO Max and Cartoon Network, while his 3D illustrations frequently appear in the New York Times and New Yorker. In 2019, he released the video game ART SQOOL, which has since become a cult hit.
Boys Go to Jupiter was self-produced and animated entirely over 90 days on the free open-source 3D modeling program Blender. Peisin Yang Lazo executive produced.
Synopsis: It’s the day after Christmas in suburban Florida and Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett) and his friends pass the seemingly endless days by slacking, shoplifting, and beatboxing. In between lounging on the beach and sneaking into pools, Billy spends his time hustling on the food-on-demand app Grubster, desperate to make $5,000 before New Year’s Eve. As he darts around the city delivering to a series of oddball characters, a routine stop at the mysterious Dolphin Groves Juice Company leads to a run-in with his former classmate — and crush — Rozebud (Miya Folick) and a surprise backpack stowaway in Donut, a bizarre creature from another world. But Dr. Dolphin (Janeane Garofalo), the powerful orange juice CEO, will do anything to get Donut back, and Billy is forced to make hard choices about love, friendship, and how far he’ll go for financial security in a world ruled by capitalism in this absurdist and musical take on a coming-of-age comedy.
For details and theatrical release dates and venues, visit boysgotojupiterfilm.com. See the previously released trailer here.
