Back to the Future

Start chillin' your Pepsi Free's and practicing your guitar licks, cause the Back to the Future trilogy on Blu-ray hits stores today! Coming with all three installments (along with digital copies for your mobile devices), the BTTF 25th anniversary edition comes packed with hours of behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, and documentaries so you can get a closer look at the making of everyone's favorite time travel trilogy.

I got a chance to check out the Blu-ray pack for myself and was truly amazed at the film quality — the flicks have all been remastered for HD viewing and look better than when they were first released in theaters in 1985. Couple this with the announcement that the Back to the Future game is hitting your Mac, PC, and PS3 beginning next month, well it's going to be a very heavy holiday, indeed.

Where can you get the goods? Find out more (including what other big-name star auditioned to be Marty McFly) after the break.

The Back to the Future trilogy drops next week on Blu-ray, but you don't have to wait until then to get a behind the scenes glimpse at the making of future Hill Valley — I got your clips right here!

This behind the scenes footage comes straight from the special features of the Blu-ray edition of BTTF and shows how the futuristic team came up with the concepts for cars, buildings, and scenes of 2015. Get excited for Oct. 26, and check out the video after the jump.

• Your jacket is dry: Marty's jacket and sneaks and Biff's porn mag up for sale — Gizmodo
• Also: Michael J. Fox recreates original BTTF trailer for Spike TV — Urlesque
• Make your own gadget car dash mount — Lifehacker
• Make pixel pictures with this fun online game — Lemondrop
• UN says mobile phones can help alleviate poverty — Switched
• Facebook's "clear chat history" is back — TechCrunch

Just in time to create a new generation of fans is the limited theatrical release of Back to the Future: AMC theaters will be showing two screenings of the film across the country on Oct. 23 and 25! It's hard to believe that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the film, which is a geek girl's dream for obvious reasons: time travel, love, and science — holla! And don't get me started about the sequel — if we can get hoverboards and flying cars by 2015, as the film predicted, it's going to be real fun getting to work.

It's also the film that almost never was. Well, not as we know it, at least. Before Michael J. Fox came on the scene, Eric Stoltz (who is rockin' it in Caprica, BTW) was originally cast to play Marty McFly. The Blu-ray edition of the 25th anniversary BTTF has original footage of Eric in the role and Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis explaining why they had to let him go. Eric ended up OK, landing the starring role in the '80s classic, Some Kind of Wonderful, shortly after.

To see footage of Eric as Marty McFly, keep reading.

• Andy Richter will resume his role as sidekick to Conan O'Brien — Zap2it
• Vampire Diaries spoilers straight from New York Comic-Con — TV Squad
• Announcing the American Music Award nominees! — People
• The Hobbit may be the most expensive movie ever made — MTV Movies Blog
• See early footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future — Cinematical
• New music video for Kid Cudi and Kanye West's "Erase Me" — Vulture
• Aaron Johnson, aka Kick-Ass, shares his five favorite films — Rotten Tomatoes
• The Debt and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark get put on hold — A.V. Club
• Is Taylor Swift's new song about Taylor Lautner? — Music Mix
• Money tips with the cast of Jersey Shore — SavvySugar

• This DeLorean could roll through your hood for BTTF's 25th anniversary — Gizmodo
• Your daily dose of cute: "Tatooine" Star Wars paper animation — Urlesque
• If you're crafty, you too can build a solar WiFi hotspot — Lifehacker
• Singapore Airlines may allow cell phone calls during flights — Switched
• When to update your Facebook relationship status — Lemondrop
• Picture perfect: cool cameras for everyone from the novice to the pro — MSN Glo

Just in time for the 25th anniversary edition of the Back to the Future trilogy, Telltale games announces its upcoming release of the Back to the Future video game! Marty McFly and Doc Brown are back in the episodic game that will be released in five different installments over the coming months this Winter. Best part? Original characters Marty McFly, Doc Brown, and "the DeLorean" will be starring in the game, while Christopher Lloyd has been tapped to voice his original and iconic character.

• This is heavy: Back to the Future is getting its own game — Joystiq
• Most popular photo spots in 79 cities — Gizmodo
• Mario and Luigi movie is a family affair — Urlesque
• Continuity is an addicting game, so beware — Lemondrop
• Hide your audio and video gear with an easy hack — Lifehacker
• Are America's foreign policy secrets about to go online? — BoingBoing