Prior to the series' television broadcast, three private preview screenings of episode 1 were held on March 15 and March 16 in Osaka and Tokyo respectively, which was attended by the series' Japanese voice actors as well as a pool of 3800 randomly selected applicants. On April 15, 2008, at 17:00 JST, the last 6 minutes of the then unaired third episode was accidentally posted onto the Internet due to an error by Bandai Channel, Bandai's online broadcast channel and the series online distributor, in the midst of testing a system preventing illegal online uploads. The picture drama was based on a live event held in Tokyo, Japan on Lelouch's birthday. Another OVA anime titled was announced and revealed through the anime's official website. Takahiro Kimura did the character designs of the series. Makoto Baba was assigned as the director of the OVA while episode scriptwriter Yuuichi Nomura and music composer Kotaro Nakagawa returned for the said project. In the story, Lelouch makes the ultimate use of his Geass for his little sister Nunnally, who loves Alice in Wonderland. The Blu-ray was released by Bandai Visual on July 27, 2012 with English subtitles and bundled with a 40 page picture book. A 3-part theatrical film remake of the TV anime was released, with the first film titled released on October 21, 2017. The second film titled was released February 10, 2018. The film placed 8th at the mini-theater ranking on its opening weekend. The third compilation film, titled was released in theaters on May 26, 2018. Each film has several changes to the storyline, as Taniguchi stated, to give it more of a "what if" scenarios leading to the new film.  "" movie was announced on November 27, 2016. It was released in theaters in Japan on February 9, 2019. It takes place in the alternate continuity established in the recap films and is a sequel to the "Zero Requiem" arc of that continuity. The new "Code Geass" series was first revealed on December 5, 2009. In April 2010, it was officially revealed that a new "Code Geass" side story anime called would be directed by Kazuki Akane ("The Vision of Escaflowne"). The side story is an OVA series set in Europe during the Britannian invasion of the continent between "Lelouch of the Rebellion"s two seasons. Originally intended to be released in four chapters, production of a fifth "Akito the Exiled" episode was announced after the Japanese debut of the third entry on May 2, 2015.