Editing The Flaming Lips (section)

===''Christmas on Mars'' (2008)===
In 2001, the Flaming Lips began filming a low-budget [[Independent film|indie]] film entitled ''[[Christmas on Mars]]''. Filming for the movie ended in late September 2005 and premiered on May 25, 2008, at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363240/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt |title=Christmas on Mars |website=IMDb |access-date=March 3, 2013}}</ref> The film tells the story of the first Christmas of a colony set-up on the surface of Mars and was written by Wayne Coyne, and co-directed by Wayne Coyne, Bradley Beesley and [[George Salisbury (director)|George Salisbury]], with the band and their friends acting in the movie.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363240/ |title=Christmas on Mars (2008) |website=IMDb |access-date=February 16, 2012}}</ref>

The band brought the film to rock festivals across America during the summer of 2008 and screened it in a large circus tent they had bought for that purpose. The film was released on DVD on November 11, 2008, along with a soundtrack written and performed by the Flaming Lips.

The band released their first live concert DVD, ''UFO's at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City'', on August 7, 2007. The band also contributed original songs to the soundtracks of several 2007 films, including "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to be in Love" for ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'', "I Was Zapped by the Super Lucky Rainbow" for ''[[Good Luck Chuck]]'', "Love the World You Find" for ''[[Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium]]'', and "Maybe I'm Not the One" and "Tale of the Horny Frog" for ''[[The Heartbreak Kid (2007 film)|The Heartbreak Kid]]''.