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For anyone who missed Van’s interview last night on BlogTalkRadio, he did confirm the rumor about Nikita. You can listen to it via streaming by visiting BlazinRy link above.

The CW channel has released the official guide for the November 4th episode. It’s called ‘Clawback’ and the press release has been widely distributed.

The first place I saw it was on SpoilersGuide.com, who published:

Nikita Season 2 Episode 7 “Clawback” Guide

RYAN REACHES OUT TO NIKITA FROM PRISON

• While in prison, Ryan (guest star Noah Bean) discovers patterns that reveal how Oversight gets its funding.
• Ryan arranges a meeting with Nikita (Maggie Q) to fill her in, but Amanda (Melinda Clarke) intercepts their coded messages to each other and alerts Oversight, who sends in one of their own to interrogate Ryan.
• Nikita and Michael (Shane West) scramble to break Noah out of prison before Oversight gets to him.
• Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) is being tailed by Gogol, and comes face to face with someone from her past.

And here is TVGuide’s version:

Season 2, Episode 7

Episode Synopsis: Ryan has secrets to give Nikita regarding how Oversight is funded, but Amanda intercepts the messages between Ryan and Nikita, and Nikita and Michael race to get Ryan out of prison. Meanwhile, Alex runs into someone from her past. Original Air Date: Nov 4, 2011

Guest Cast Noah Bean: Ryan

In the meantime, publicity images have been released as well and can be found on ksitetv.com. There are lots of Noah Bean and I didn’t see any of Van. These are definitely spoiler-y.

[spoiler]The episode looks to have lots of action involving Nikita and Ryan. Since those scenes didn’t involve Van, my preliminary guess would be that he is playing the “someone” from Alex’s past.[/spoiler]

I’ll post viewing options closer to the airdate for anyone who doesn’t get the CW.

People are already starting to talk about NoVANber on Facebook, so let’s hope this run of activity keeps up!

On October 18th, OCCUPANT starring Van Hansis, Thorsten Kaye, and Cody Horn will be available in the US on cable/satellite at: AT&T, Bresnan Communications, Charter Communications, Cablevision, DirecTV, Insight, Mediacom, RCN, Suddenlink, Verizon, Xfinity Comcast (select markets).

For Canada, cable/satellite outlets will be: Cogeco, MTS, Rogers, Shaw, Telus. 

And for broadband options: Amazon Video, Apple iTunes, Blockbuster on demand, Cinemanow, PlayStation, Vudu, Xbox and Zune.

UPDATE, 18 Oct 2011: I just tried searching on Amazon and couldn’t find it, even searching under ‘Amazon Instant Video’, which is where it’s filed, but Van’s on-the-ball fans have posted the link on Facebook. So apparently, it’s available.

I have seen a confirmed report from Rogers in Canada and Consolidated Communications, but have had no luck with Comcast in my home neighborhood. Will keep you posted…

Blockbuster already has their page up, and you can post a rating and a review.

In the meantime, We Love Soaps tweeted a photo of Thorsten Kaye from the premiere showing. And Michael Fairman reminds us that Van Hansis will be on Ryan Holmes’s Blazin’ Ry show tonight at 8pm Eastern to talk about Occupant, Psych and his upcoming mystery guest spot. The call-in number is 917-388-4131.

Hope you’re all enjoying Vantober!

As said previously, most of these are from scenes adjacent to ones in the trailers, but not all. If you don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading!

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Here are a few screencaps to whet your appetite. These are not necessarily representative of the whole film or even in sequence, though obviously, it’s skewed for Van fangirls and fanboys.

In the interest of getting these up sooner rather than later, I’ve just dumped all the screen caps in here, without creating thumbnails or using a gallery plug-in. Since that would make the home page on this site dreadfully slow, I’m putting them all after the jump.

UPDATE: 17 Oct 2011: I couldn’t get the spoiler tag to work with images in side, so I’ve moved the last set of images (which are the most potentially spolier-y to another page. If you don’t want to be spoiled at all, stop reading. Most of the new (previously unpublished) scenes are actually in this set, though they also reveal the least about the storyline (at least not beyond what has previously been pretty widely discussed), in my opinion at least.

Enjoy!

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All right, Vanatics, it’s time to get excited! Occupant had its World Premiere last night, October 14th at 7.00 p.m. as the featured screening for the Gotham Screen International Film Festival.

There is a second showing tomorrow night, Sunday, October 16th at 10:15pm. Tickets are still available and Occupant’s producers have confirmed on their Facebook page that they will again be giving away posters autographed by star Van Hansis.

The premiere showing at Quad Cinema in Manhattan was well attended and included many of the people involved in making the film, including actor Thorsten Kaye. The GSIFF organizers have posted a gallery on their Facebook page including these images:

If you can’t attend, you can still:

• put OCCUPANT in your Netflix queue,
• review the film on Netflix, and
• vote for it on IMDB.com (rate and review it)

Van will make a return appearance to Ryan Holmes’s BlazinRy channel on BlogTalkRadio this coming Monday evening at 8.00 p.m. Eastern Time/5.00 p.m. Pacific. He mentioned on his Facebook that he would be talking about Occupant, Psych, Wedding Day and about when he can be seen next on TV. Fans can call in live or join fellow fans in the BlogTalkRadio chat room.

In the meantime, here’s what I can tell you about Occupant:

• Van carries this picture – the way Dan Radcliffe carries the Harry Potter franchise. He is in virtually every scene and the entire film revolves around him. That by itself pretty much makes this a must-see for any Van fan. Not quite every scene is shot from his POV, but it’s pretty close. He probably has over an hour of screen time – that’s like a month or two in soap-years.
• Van has described this as a psychological thriller. And that, it is. While there are “jump” moments and there is a body count, this is definitely not a cheap-scares slasher flick. There are a LOT of things that make you go “hmmm….” (though I can’t comment on whether I am being slowly drawn into the ending or whether I’ll be blindsided since I haven’t seen it!).
• Despite spending a non-negligible portion of screen time hitting the bottle (and with the week Danny Hill is having, who would blame him?!?), there’s no sign of DrunkyLuke. Or sober Luke, for that matter. And that’s a good thing. Van has created a new character definitely distinct from Luke Snyder (though he somehow has Luke’s voice, and happily still has Luke’s dimples!)
• Shallow alert: there’s a shower scene (!).
• Based on the first 1:15, there’s not much to warrant an R rating – well, except for some language that Luke Snyder would only use in fan-fiction! Alas, this applies to the shower scene as well….But I couldn’t watch the final 10 minutes due to technical difficulties, and am told things get more…interesting in the film’s closing act.

The complete list of outlets where you can watch Occupant upon its general release, October 18th can be found on the film’s official website.

Download options will include Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Cinema How, xBox 360 Live, Playstation 3 and Vudu HD Movies. You can also watch via cable video on demand via most of the major players including Comcast, Time-Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Cablevision, AT&T U-verse, Verizon, Charter Communications, Sudden Link, Mediacom, and RCN Television.

Occupant producers report that the DVD will be available in November. Many of you have probably already seen the new poster/cover art as it is apparently shown on Netflix:

I’m not sure if the DVD will be available for general purchase on October 18th, but if you live outside North America, and do not have access to a Region 1 DVD player, if you’re not already familiar with this, it is worth checking into whether or not a DVD unlocking code is available for your DVD player (or a friend’s). More information on making DVD players multi-regional can be found here.

In the meantime, don’t forget to Like the trailers on Vimeo.

A screencap gallery will be posted shortly, so stay tuned….