Portishead upcoming release in final mixdown

From Geoff Barrow on the Portishead blog:
"as to the new album , we met the label the other day which was good , i dont think we scared them too much..well mabey a little. going to london to have a listen in a proper studio soon but until then were just mixing the stumps ,stems.whatever. ---------thinking about names ---------films looking really good"

Meeting with the label reps, thinking of names and having a "proper" listen all adds up to . . . wait a minute—did he say something about a film? Holy Crap!

If there's some sort of film to go along with this album, we think we'd be willing to overlook the fact that we've been "Portishead-less" for the last decade. Maybe.

Until then, fingers crossed for an early 2008 release date. Stay tuned.