If you check out the website for Icelandic musician Bjork, you can see the video for her song "Moomins and the Comet Chase". It's part of the soundtrack for the movie based on Tove Jansson's children's classic Comet in Moominland, and 100% of the funds generated by the track will be donated to Pakistani children's charities, because Bjork is awesome.

Labels: Charity, Movie Adaptations, music, Tove Jansson

I'm a little confused--apparently, some Finnish film studio has already made one Moomin movie (based on the fantastic series by Finnish novelist and artist Tove Jansson) and is working on a second, due out this fall. However, this article suggests that the "new" films are actually remastered and re-voiced versions of the vintage Polish-Austrian TV series, while this one seems to think the upcoming film an entirely (or at least mostly?) original product.

Either way: music by Bjork! Stellan and Alexander Skarsgard doing the voice acting! None of those people are Finnish, but we'll take 'em anyhow.

Labels: Tove Jansson