Here is the entire Dollhouse Comic Con 2009 panel for your viewing pleasure. Click the jump to view the other parts.

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Here is a interview with Fran Kranz and Diechen Lachmen at Comic Con 2009.

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Limited Edition Dollhouse Season 1 DVD

Fancy getting your hands on one of only 5000 exclusive Dollhouse Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray sets? Continue after the jump for more information!

Limited Edition Dollhouse Season 1 Blu-ray

From July 6 you can pre-order an exclusive Dollhouse Season 1 DVD/Blu-Ray set and get the chance to see sneak peeks of the ‘missing’ episode – “Epitaph One” before anyone else. The sets contain limited edition packaging (see above visuals) and other goodies. More information follows below:

For Immediate Release

FIRST COME… FIRST SERVE…

COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVE OFFERS FANS AN EARLY CHANCE TO
OWN THE THRILLING NEW FANTASY DRAMA BEFORE EVERYONE

JOSS WHEDON’S
DOLLHOUSE
SEASON ONE

Limited Edition Blu-ray And DVD From
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Features Personal Letter From Series Creator
Joss Whedon And Collectible Packaging

Available For Pre-Order At FoxStore.com
Beginning Monday, July 6 At 10 AM PST
Only 5000 Copies Available

CENTURY CITY, CA. – In a studio first, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is offering fans of Joss Whedon’s mysterious cult series “Dollhouse” a chance to purchase a special advanced limited edition Blu-ray or DVD of the groundbreaking first season, exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con International. Individually numbered and highly collectible, only 5000 (2500 Blu-ray/2500 DVD) copies were created, each featuring a personal letter to fans from Whedon and exclusive Comic-Con packaging.

Available for pre-order at FoxStore.com beginning Monday, July 6 at 10:00 AM PST through July 20 (or until product is sold out), a limited quantity will also be available for on-site purchase at the Fox Booth (#1429). In person pick-up for those that pre-ordered the collection will begin at the Fox Booth on Wednesday, July 22 (preview night). Photo ID is required or purchasers must designate at checkout someone who will pick-up the DVD on their behalf.

The “Dollhouse” Season One Comic-Con Blu-ray Disc will be available for a suggested retail price of $69.99 and the DVD will be available for $49.98. Regular versions of “Dollhouse” Season One BD and DVD will be available everywhere July 28.

Series Synopsis:
From Joss Whedon, the creative mastermind behind “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,” comes the provocative “Dollhouse,” a sexy, suspenseful thriller starring the stunningly talented Eliza Dushku. As an “Active,” the mysterious Echo (Dushku) serves as an unwitting agent of Dollhouse, an illegal underground organization that provides its elite clientele with programmable human beings. Actives receive personality imprints, allowing them to temporarily become anyone or anything-the perfect burglar, lover, spy, or assassin. Now, with the FBI and her own shadowy past closing in, Echo must face a rogue Active who will stop at nothing to bring Dollhouse down-forever.

A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD) and Digital Copy as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets – from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce – throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company.

Source: TVShowsOnDVD

Here is the latest on the Dollhouse Comic Con panel:

July 24th, 4 P.M-6 P.M. Join Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon and star/producer Eliza Dushku for a no-holds-barred Q & A about what they have planned for season 2, after they unveil a special screening of the NEVER BEFORE SEEN “Epitaph One” episode of the Fox hit which releases on DVD just four days later. Ballroom 20.

Source: TVWeek

According to reports, Dollhouse will have a super-sized 2 hour panel at next month’s San Diego Comic Con. The reason? So that Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku can answer questions from fans, and so the entire ‘missing’ season 1 episode “Epitaph One” can be screened. The Watcher has more:

I can confirm three things: There will be a “Dollhouse” panel at Comic-Con, “Epitaph One” will be screened and the entire “Dollhouse” session will be two hours long.

The supersized session will take place Friday, July 24, in Ballroom 20, according to Twentieth Century Fox Television. Dushku and Whedon will be serving up “a no-holds-barred Q and A about what they have planned for Season 2″ after the screening of “Epitaph One.” (Whedon and Dushku are the only “Dollhouse” folks participating in this panel, by the way.

Source: Chicago Tribune

According to reports there will be 5000 exclusive Dollhouse Comic Con sets for the upcoming Dollhouse Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray release. The sets will include a Comic Con exclusive faceplate and a “lenticular” letter from Joss Whedon (the Fringe DVD’s will also come the lenticular feature [hologram effect]). Apparently, your best bet of getting hold of an exclusive Comic Con Dollhouse DVD is to pre-order at FoxStore.com (from Jul 6, 10AM Pacific) or take your chance at Comic Con, where some of the 5000 sets will be held over. [more info]

Meanwhile, here is a look at the normal DVD and Blu-ray sets:

Dollhouse Season 1 DVD

Dollhouse Season 1 Blu-ray

Here is the official Press Release with all the details and features:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SHE CAN BE ANYONE…EXCEPT HERSELF

DOLLHOUSE
SEASON ONE

Eliza Dushku Stars In Joss Whedon’s Thrilling New Fantasy Drama
Arriving On Blu-ray And DVD July 28
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Loaded With Bonus Materials Including The Never-Before-Seen Episode
“Epitaph One” And The Original Unaired Pilot “Echo”

CENTURY CITY, Calif. – In a city of millions, many souls get lost… Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents a glimpse into a world where the wealthy, powerful and connected come to play when “Dollhouse” Season One becomes “active” on Blu-ray and DVD July 28. From the mind of Joss Whedon, the creator of groundbreaking cult favorites “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly,” “Dollhouse” stars Eliza Dushku (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “Tru Calling“) as Echo, just one member working for an illegal underground organization that implants employees with false memories and skills in order to perform various missions and dangerous tasks. These “dolls” can become anything that anyone desires; a lover, a fighter, an assassin, even a best friend. Once their assignment is complete, their memories are wiped clean and they are released back into the “Dollhouse” to cohabitate with their fellow colleagues under the watchful eye of those in charge. But Echo is slowly starting to become aware of herself and her surroundings…and one outsider will stop at nothing to bring the entire “Dollhouse” down.

“Dollhouse” Season One includes intense and stunning supporting performances from Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense, Rushmore), Harry Lennix (State of Play, Across The Universe), Amy Acker (“Angel“), and Tahmoh Penikett (“Battlestar Galactica“). The Blu-ray and DVD includes all 12 original episodes and tons of bonus features including the never-before-seen standalone episode “Epitaph One,” the original unaired pilot “Echo,” deleted scenes and seven making-of featurettes. The Blu-ray will be available for a suggested retail price of $69.99 U.S. / $89.99 Canada and the DVD will be available for $49.98 U.S. / $69.98 Canada.

Series Synopsis:
From Joss Whedon, the creative mastermind behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, comes the provocative Dollhouse, a sexy, suspenseful thriller starring the stunningly talented Eliza Dushku. As an “Active,” the mysterious Echo (Dushku) serves as an unwitting agent of Dollhouse, an illegal underground organization that provides its elite clientele with programmable human beings. Actives receive personality imprints, allowing them to temporarily become anyone or anything-the perfect burglar, lover, spy, or assassin. Now, with the FBI and her own shadowy past closing in, Echo must face a rogue Active who will stop at nothing to bring Dollhouse down-forever.

Blu-ray Disc Specs:
The “Dollhouse” Season One Blu-ray is presented in widescreen (16×9 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio and English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. Episodes and special features included in the collection are as follows:

• Disc 1
  • Ghost
    • Commentary by Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku
  • The Target
  • Stage Fright
  • Gray Hour
  • True Believer
• Disc 2
  • Man on the Street
    • Commentary by Joss Whedon
  • Echoes
  • Needs
  • A Spy in the House…
  • Haunted
• Disc 3
  • Briar Rose
  • Omega
  • Never-before-seen episode Epitaph One
    • Commentary by writers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen
  • Original Unaired Pilot – Echo
  • Deleted Scenes
  • “Making Dollhouse” featurette
  • “Coming Back Home” featurette
  • “Finding Echo” featurette
  • “Designing the Perfect Dollhouse” featurette
  • “A Private Engagement” featurette

DVD Specs:
The “Dollhouse” Season One standard DVD is presented in widescreen format with English and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital plus English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The collection includes the same episodes and special features as listed above. Disc breakdown is as follows:

• Disc 1
  • Ghost
    • Commentary by Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku
  • The Target
  • Stage Fright
  • Gray Hour
• Disc 2
  • True Believer
  • Man on the Street
    • Commentary by Joss Whedon
  • Echoes
  • Needs
• Disc 3
  • A Spy in the House…
  • Haunted
  • Briar Rose
  • Omega
• Disc 4
  • Never-before-seen episode Epitaph One
    • Commentary by writers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen
  • Original Unaired Pilot – Echo
  • Deleted Scenes
  • “Making Dollhouse” featurette
  • “Coming Back Home” featurette
  • “Finding Echo” featurette
  • “Designing the Perfect Dollhouse” featurette
  • “A Private Engagement” featurette

A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD) and Digital Copy as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets – from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce – throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company.

“DOLLHOUSE” SEASON ONE
Street Date: July 28, 2009
$69.99 U.S. / $89.99 Canada (Blu-ray Disc)
$49.98 U.S. / $69.98 Canada (DVD)
Total Run Time: 694 Minutes
Closed Captioned: Yes

You can pre-order the regular DVD and Blu-ray sets at Amazon using the links below:

• Dollhouse: Season One
• Dollhouse: Season One [Blu-ray]

More clips of Joss Whedon and Tahmoh Penikett from the Dollhouse NY Comic Con Panel, which took place earlier this year. The video contains spoiler footage from an upcoming episode. Hit to jump to view the video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGUMwKHkBnI[/youtube]

Vid Cred: Fox Broadcasting

Here are 4 official photos from the Dollhouse NYCC:09 panel experience, featuring Joss Whedon and Tahmoh Penikett. Click to enlarge.

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IGN’s report from the “Dollhouse” panel at the New York Comic Con yesterday. Spoilers may follow.

Spoilers for the first few minutes of Dollhouse follow in this paragraph: The opening of the show introduce us to Eliza Dushku’s Echo in what is presumably her true identity, a woman named Caroline. We see her meeting with Olivia Williams’ character Adelle DeWitt, discussing her entering the Dollhouse program – which DeWitt refers to as a volunteer decision, while Caroline/Echo says she has no choice. We then cut to sometime later, with Echo in a much different persona – a sexy, wild child on a motorcycle, spending an exciting weekend with a man she clearly cares deeply for… only for her time with him to be up, and for her to be escorted away. We see her mind wiped, as she reverts to the childlike state she and the other Actives retain while inside the Dollhouse. We see her handler Boyd Langdon (Harry Lennix) display some clear doubts about what is going on, while programmer Topher Brink (Fran Kanz) is the opposite – excited by what they do. We then are introduced to a clearly wealthy man being driven in a car, talking to his young daughter, when his car is stopped – only for his daughter to meanwhile be grabbed at home by masked men, who take her away.

Penikett’s character was not seen in the footage shown, causing Penikett to quip, “That clip would have obviously been a lot better if I was there.” Penikett said his character, Paul Ballard, was “an FBI agent given the case of the Dollhouse; trying to expose the urban myth of the Dollhouse. Nobody has any confidence he’ll get to the bottom of it, because nobody really believes it exists.” Penikett noted, “Paul on the other hand absolutely believes it and he becomes quite obsessed and driven to expose it.”

Whedon said that when it comes to Paul’s investigation and how it’s portrayed on the show, “He can get close to it; even get close to her, but she won’t remember. So they can meet for the first time all year! But he does make progress.” However, he noted that the people behind the Dollhouse “are as anxious to not be discovered as [Paul] is to discover it.”

Whedon described Dollhouse as “far and away the most disturbing thing I can remember doing, at least since Season 6 of Buffy, and probably more than that.” He then noted that there were potentially disturbing elements in the show, regarding Echo seeming somewhat enslaved, and the fact that she sleeps with clients, only to not remember it. He said that for those offended, “they’re not wrong” and “I went for something that is very dark.” Or as he joked, “I’m such a bitter, sad man, and this is my bitter, sad show. Welcome to it!” He noted that his intention was “The audience comes away as unclean as the people in the show – everyone is compromised.”

Whedon noted “The subject matter is daunting and potentially creepy. We want to make sure we’re not just objectifying people – it’s a very fine line.”

Asked about those working for the Dollhouse, Whedon said they weren’t all necessarily evil, noting, “They are, sadly for them, people – people with power, who do one thing, which is abuse it.” As for the clients, “A lot of them are [evil], but not all of them. Some of them are just lonely and strange.” He remarked that some people hiring an Active, “Are misguided, but not terrible.”

Looking ahead through the thirteen-episode season, Whedon described episode 6 as a “key episode” and “involves Paul Ballard getting a little bit closer and meeting a client and not finding what he expects.” As for the end of the season, Whedon said, “We didn’t hold back – We didn’t wrap everything up, but [the finale] makes statements on how corrupt people can be.”

Dollhouse has gotten a lot of attention for what has been perceived as a troubled history, with the original pilot discarded and other re-tooling along the way. Whedon admitted that during this process, “There was a period where I said, ‘I don’t know what this show is anymore.’” He added, “It was the same with Angel. We didn’t find it for five years!”

While he described this as “a dark and scary Joss period,” he said that eventually, “We not only found the show that we were excited about making and the network was excited about airing, but the show actually ends almost exactly the way we had [originally] intended to end this season.” While he admitted that in the early episodes, “I think you’ll see some growing pains,” he also remarked, “I’ve been pumped about what we’ve been putting out the last few months.”

Whedon had an infamously bad experience with FOX on Firefly, but said that when it came to working with a very different regime at FOX on Dollhouse, “They’ve been completely honest and totally supportive… except for the things they don’t like!” He said that he felt a very collaborative vibe with FOX this time, and as for the show being put on Friday nights — which is feared by some fans as a death sentence — he said he completely understood the decision, noting that he and FOX both felt the show would be allowed to grow on Friday nights and “Our expectations are that people will come to this the way they come to all my shows, which is usually kind of gradually.”

When it came to Dushku getting to play a different character each week, as Echo is reprogrammed, Whedon remarked, “It’s an actresses dream, but also a nightmare – every episode is a pilot [for her]! She has to rethink how she moves; how she thinks. It’s an exciting opportunity for her and for us.”

Returning to the darker themes of the show, Whedon noted that he is a vocal feminist, but that because of the storyline of the show, “I expect there to be some kind of backlash” because, depending on how it is handled, the show could end up either being “A fight for her identity or just a misogynist fantasy.” Remarked Whedon, “I’m scared witless by how people will react, but I find I do my best work in those situations.”

Source: IGN

Videos from NYCC:09 Dollhouse Panel. Joss Whedon and Tahmoh Penikett feature in these videos:

Part 1

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osi0Fonc_to[/youtube]

Part 2

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvxZCJqSzC8[/youtube]

Part 3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVyyk8fcMg[/youtube]

Vid Cred: veryvera1