According to Variety, HBO has acquired the rights to George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series ASongofIceand Fire.The series will be turned into a dramatic series to be written and executive produced by David Benioff (Troy) and D.B. Weiss (Halo)...
Comics Continuum has screen captures from the new episode "Fireand Ice," where Mr. Freeze (Clancy Brown on voice talents) and Firefly (with Jason Marsden on voice) team up. The episode premieres on the Kids WB on May 28th.
This is the third in a series by Cussler and Kemprecos starring Kurt Austin and his trusty sidekick, Joe Zavala. Yes, there are similarities to Dirk Pitt and Al Giordano in Cussler's original series, but Cussler and Kemprecos shake it up enough so that yo...
Watch out sci fi and fantasy fans we've got some work to do with a slew of new titles being released today. The 1632, Diablo, Ghosts ofAlbion, and ASongofIceand Fire series all get new installments this week. Koji Suzuki, the literary source for the ...
...author ofASongofIceand Fire, bound like the Ace Doubles of yesterday.
Project Moonbase & Others, Robert A. Heinlein (Subterranean Press)
Project Moonbase contains the screenplay for the now classic SF film, plus eleve...
...hooked on ASongofIceand Fire. Being that I started the series quite a while after its 1998 debut, the first three novels were already on paperback and the fourth was right around the corner. All in all it looked as if Martin’s epic was someth...
...diehard - ASongofIceand Fireaficionados around the globe. Tor Books also presented renowned British author Juliet E. Mckenna to the states today with her paperback release of Southern Fire. Critically acclaimed for her Tales of the Einarinn serie...
Part IV: Out of the Frying Pan-Dimension, Into the Fireball
Somewhere in the pan-dimensional world of Cup & Saucer, there was trouble afoot. And what a particularly strange foot it was, for there were in fact no feet to cause trouble. No, trouble had app...
...issues on ASongofIceand Fire, George R.R. Martin started stacking on the side projects with the release of unrelated fiction and the screen translation ofASoIaF for HBO. Now unfortunately we have no new info on the upcoming HBO miniseries, but Mar...
In part three of our Hellboy II series we got to sit down with Hellboy’s pyrokinetic significant other, Selma Blair (Liz Sherman). She’s stunning when she walks into the room and like many actors there seems to be a tad of hmmm, let’s ju...
...he series ASongofIceand Fire. It features magic and dragons and all that good fantasy crap, and draws its references from the 14th century War of the Roses. True to Martin`s vision, it also includes some truly creepy gore and some military-politica...
The Canadian channel Teletoon will air episode #21 of "The Batman," the eighth episode of the sophomore season, this weekend. The episode, entitled 'Fire & Ice,' brings together two villains -- Firefly and Mr. Freeze!
The Continium have new screencaps from the upcoming "Fire & Ice" episode of The Batman.
The episode teams Mr. Freeze (voiced by Clancy Brown) with Firefly (voice by Jason Marsden).
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Troma has joined the ranks of video labels offering iPod video downloads on Troma.com. So far, their slate of programming includes lessons from Lloyd Kaufman's film school in a box MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE and edited, serialized version of Trey Parker &am...
The Review!Damn... this is what I've been waiting for for several years: a domestically released, fully licensed subtitled version of Sailor Moon! I really make no bones about liking Sailor Moon: while I admit that the animation is somewhat limited, even ...
...n’s ASongofIceand Fire series, Subterranean is no stranger to vamping up the collector’s editions of the genre’s greatest tomes.
Games Workshop’s Sandy Mitchell unveils new tales and old set in the Warhammer 40K uni...
...uber cool ASongofIceand Fire series (HBO don’t mess this one up!). Originally published in 1983, this novel tells the story ofan underground journalist who is drawn back to the radical ideals of his unsettled youth when investigating a ne...
Of course, there was no way of knowing for sure whether the master masons of Notre Dame de Chartres had specially calculated the alignment of the cathedral to compensate for the offset of the tilt of the earth in their mission to incorporate the precise a...
Last Tuesday BBC released footage ofa rare colony of flying penguins, Locus Magazine announced that George R.R. Martin’s final ASongofIceand Fire tome would clock in at under 90 pages, and, in perhaps one of the more elaborate gags of 2008&rsqu...
For a little while, DIE ANOTHER DAY looks as though it's preparing to do something new with the 40-year-old James Bond film formula. While our hero has been captured and tortured often before, this is the first time he's gotten locked up for 14 whole mont...
...n’s ASongofIceand Fire sequence, and fans of the series will be happy to hear that, despite the delay with A Dance with Dragons’ release, the end of the writer’s strike marks the continuation ofASoIaF’s adaptation. Under th...
...n’s ASongofIceand Fire
4. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
3. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
2. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
1. Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time
In a year punctuat...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Patrick Doyle has proven to be an outstanding choice to compose the music to the fourth film in J.K. Rowling's cinematic franchise, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OFFIRE. Based on Rowling's then-longest and darkest series entry, ...
What They SayAs the ambitious Shishio circles Japan in flames, Kenshin is forced to leave behind everything he loves and become a wanderer once again. After joining forces with Misao Makimachi a young Ninjaand member of the Oniwaban group, Kenshin comes ...
The Review!Packaging: Can I say, GORGEOUS? A dazzling image of Sailormoon in her super fuku, this artwork just dazzles the eye with its beauty. Looking at it, you might think the art looks familiar. Well, it should. For those of you who own LDs of the Sai...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
What They SayDeep down beneath the capital city of Tokyo, Japan, there exists a large, vast, and unknown world known as the "Underground". There, people known as Elemental Users exist; people who have the ability to control the elements: Fire, Water, Ligh...
What They SayThe Review!Shin Shirayukihime Densetsu Pretear, or just Pretear as the Odex release lists it, is a rather surprisingly good thirteen episode series that takes the magical girl storyline and tells a solid good tale with it.
Audio:
For our pri...
With the recent release of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY on DVD, Cincescape thought it would be fun to look at a real life Charly, who runs his own factory."The Best Ice Cream in the World" has converted Hollywood's elite into fans of Charly Temmel's ...
Ever since its conception in 1978, Battlestar Galactica has been offering viewers a layered SF universe, one that manages to stay grounded with the world around us and in sync with contemporary American society. Like any good sci-fi series BSG explores th...
Part III: Dragu Slave Hoochie-coo
Well once again, just when you thought everything was safe and sane and back to normal, someone pulls the OVA out from under your feet and winds up flinging you into Jusenkyo's Spring of Drowned Boomer. Naturally this be...
What They SayLife on Mars is hard for those who live here. As the economy worsens, work becomes scarce and food becomes expensive and highly prized. Gram and his friends try to do the best they can but, he finds himself on the run with the most notorious ...
What They SayWith the fireof Virgo about to go out, Seiyaand the Saints are burning time! Only six hours remain before Saori succumbs to her wounds. The Saints’ next battle pits them against the Gold Saint Shaka, the so-called “closest man t...
Part 1: Desperately Seeking Sake
So there I was one night, happily watching my friend's Revolutionary Girl Utena DVD, when I had realized that to properly revolutionize the world, an otaku needs vast amounts of Sake to help. Especially after seeing the e...
Part II: My Heart's In A Blender Stuck on 'Frappe'
Yes indeed, once more we're here to return to the wonderful pan-dimensional world where men are men, women are scantily-clad, and that ugly ogre eating your sheep and terrorizing your village wears a nam...
Part V: Diagonally Parked in a Parallel World
You ever have one of those rants where you wake up after a wild all-weekend Animefest (and Sake binge), only to find yourself handcuffed to a Ctarl-Ctarl and on a ship bound for Jurai?
Well...me neither. But...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Scheduled for release on September 5th from Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack to JET LI'S FEARLESS is a massive action/adventure score from the composer of HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and Kar Wai Wong luxurious drama, 2046, Shigeru...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
The Review!Okay I was actually looking forward to this Pink Pineapple title from Nutech. Even knowing next to nothing about it, Koihime seemed like a light-hearted hentai comedy, a change of pace for me. Now I will start off by saying this is a hardcore t...
OTAKON 2004 Presents
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Live in USA
When: July 31, 2004 (Saturday) show 5PM
Where: 1st Mariner Arena, 201 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
By Lauren Goodnight and Karyn Waller
After many months of rumors and speculation it was wit...
Fox Home Entertainment's IceAge Super-Cool Edition arrived on DVD this week. From Academy Award®-winning* director Chris Wedge (Robots), the IceAge Super-Cool Edition two-disc DVD set is mammoth-sized entertainment, featuring an all new "Extreme Co...
Composer Edward Shearmur hadn't tackled dragons before scoring this year's fire-breathing hit REIGN OFFIRE (released last week on DVD), but he had tackled just about everything else. One of the first assignments the British-born composer was handed as he...
Imagine popping CASABLANCA into your DVD player. When Ilsa Lund utters the immortal line "Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By," Sam obligingly pounds the keys of his piano producing a generic piece of 40s era music completely devoid of the requested son...
Comic-Con is less than one week away! Here's the latest installment of COMIC-CON PITCH 2006, in which Comics2Film endeavors to connect indie comics creators with Hollywood producers.
Today we're talking to...well...ourselves really. Rob M. Worley, fo...
20th Century Fox has unleashed their first full theatrical trailer for their next installment ofIceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. You can also check out the new poster on the left. The third film of their animation franchise features the voices of Ray Roma...
The Review!Content: A-
Demon Warrior Koji is a very original, extreme and daring hentai-anime from the artist who made the word "hentai" apply to a genre: Toshio Maeda, creator of Urotsukidoji, Demon Beast Invasion, Nightmare Campus, La Blue Girl and oth...
Fox Home Entertainment has announced details for the upcoming release of their ICEAGE Super-Cool Edition on DVD March 14th. From Academy Award®-winning* director Chris Wedge (ROBOTS), the ICEAGE Super-Cool Edition two-disc DVD set will feature an all ne...
You have to give the filmmakers behind the Pokemon franchise credit: the two features released thus far have truly attempted to be something more than 70-minute episodes of the TV series. Although the quality of the entertainment might have been considere...
With Thanksgiving already a few days cold, the holiday season (along with all of its consumer-driven trappings) has officially arrived and though economists predict lean shopping numbers for the end of this year, you wouldn’t know it by the sheer vo...
...l series, ASongofIceand Fire.
Availability
Goths Cage will be available October 2008, and will be priced at $12.95. All 32 pages of the hardcover book will be printed in full-color.
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... Martin's ASONGOFICEAND FIRE series treated the genre in a very different manner. Sure, there were still swords, still knights, and still the occasional bout of sorcery, but Martin took a naturalistic approach that few had taken before. Lackey's tr...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Eun-jung Kim/Seung-Man HwangTranslated by:ae-wa JeongAdapted by:What They SayReputation is everything in a world of icons and popularity contests. So why not score some points here and there by being the nice guy? This is the ...
What They SayKenshin\'s swordsmanship has always been the strongest, but he is not a true master of the Hiten Mitsurugi Style. As a young revolutionary, Kenshin abandoned his martial training prematurely, in order to become a killer and tread the dark pat...
What They SayTheir quest to find the Sorcery Globe takes Claude, Renaand Celine to Port Harley. However, before they can arrive, they are sidetracked by an encounter with Ashton, a swordsman who single-handedly faced a hideous two-headed dragon, but wou...
What They SayLife in the 1920\'s was a great adventure. And for Mosquiton, so was death. Once a terrifying vampire, Mosquiton ends up blood-bound to a seventeen-year-old treasure hunter, Inaho, who\'s obsessed with the secret of immortality. Inaho decides...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tsuda MasamiTranslated by:Michelle KobayashiAdapted by:What They SayKazuma is the yin to his stepsister Tsubasa's yang - their relationship is like fireand ice. Kazuma is a famous singer loved by everyone in school... and Tsu...
...n’s ASongofIceand Fire hiatus would outlast my tenure here with the column, and it makes me sad to think ofall the things I won’t be able to Buzz about in the future: the second volume of my new favorite sci-fi series, Peter F. Hamilto...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
The Review!Audio: I watched this disc in both Japanese and English. The dialogue and music came through clearly, but not especially so.
Video: The colors are soft but lush, lending and ethereal quality to much of the disc. I noticed no real problems with...
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Lasciviously preppy clothiers Abercrombie & Fitch score a three-pack of interviews with actors from Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men 2 in the latest issue o...
The world of Phantasy Star has been a high note on Sega’s life, and could be summed up their Final Fantasy. After the Sega Genesis died it seemed that the series was over, but luckily they brought back it life when the Dreamcast was introduced. ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Won Soo-yonTranslated by:MayukiAdapted by:What They SayIncompatable? Undeniable!
Elle is an aspiring screenwriter determined to make it big. Ryder Baye is a world famous actor that is always the center of media scrutiny. When ...
... the epic ASongofIceand Fire cycle. Martin covers a range of topics from the birth of his acclaimed saga, to his experiences in Hollywood, to "weird stuff," and even reads an excerpt from his new paperback novel, A Feast For Crows.K...
ICE Kunion and Angel Diary's creator to give away original color artwork!
KOREA " July 12, 2006 " The ICE Kunion imprint has been creating a stir by introducing the hottest Korean comics (aka 'manhwa') to English audiences, and now they're heating thin...
FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN may be the most highly anticipated film based on a videogame in the history of cinema. Square's remarkable reputation for putting together an excellent story with an appropriate blend ofaction has made FINAL FANTASY one ...
What They SayA must-have for fans of the movie and Ah! My Goddess in general! This original soundtrack contains 26 musical tracks and the bonus track: CantilenaAngel.The Review!Content: AAudio: A-
Packaging: B-
Extras: n/a
Packaging:
Pioneer has ...
What They SayCrimelord Harry MacDowel\'s bloody rise to power leads to the tragic betrayal of his best friend, Brandon Heat, who has now returned from \'Beyond The Grave\' sworn to exact bullet-blazing vengeance upon his enemies! A perfect companion piec...
Let's jump straight in as we continue to field opinions on who deserves the title of "best living fantasy writer."Fantasy Favorites"I must say that I've read more than my share of fantasy," confesses CINESCAPE reader Greg Skaggs. "Including Tad Williams a...
Super heroes have (finally) been getting a fair shake by the entertainment world in the past few years (ignore the Daredevil movie and this theory holds water). The argument could be made that this is due to the advances in technology that finally allow m...
The Justice League has been through many incarnations over the years, but one usually is seen as being the funniest.Now, J.M. DeMatteis is re-teaming with his Justice League collaborators Keith Giffen and Kevin Maguire for more fun on FORMERLY KNOWN AS TH...
Around a year ago, the world was introduced to the original Guitar Hero. Sure there had been many music games before it, but this one had that special something that propelled it to the top of the heap. The game had a deep level of immersion, and it ac...
With the quirky animated feature ICEAGE currently taking the box office by storm, first time director Chris Wedge takes a moment to reflect on the obstacles, challenges, and joys of working on this chillingly funny CG feature.
Ray Romano, John Legu...
It has been said at times that the 3d platformer genre is all but dead. While I don't believe this is true there is only so many variations that can be taken on the classic, exploring and collecting in the same fire, ice, and water-themed levels. There h...
Saturday, July 3rd
Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we head off in search of... McDonalds! Success! A quick trip to there and CVS to stock up on Coke and some new toothbrushes (curse those cleaning people!) and we're back at the Convention Center.
Video Ro...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS With his distinctive violin writing and his flair for fluidly atmospheric and scarily weaving scores, Pino Donaggio was the horror score maestro during the 1970s, providing such now classic scores as DON'T LOOK NOW, CARRIE, DRE...
A mangaabout flight and friendship that could use a bit of retooling in spots, but is a beautiful read overall.
Creative Talent:
Writer/Artist: Toriko Gin
Translation: Christine Schilling
Adaptation: Brynne Chanlder
What They Say:
When Jack, a wart...
Welcome to the second installment of "Fans Take On..." an ongoing feature where fans get to talk about a significant individual in the US anime industry. This month, we asked fans to talk about a legend in the American anime industry, Wendee Lee.
Quicky ...
Texts on fiction writing are fond of telling writers that any story is allowed one major coincidence. This weather disaster epic is composed ofa whole pile of coincidences. However, writer/director Roland Emmerich shares with Steven Spielberg a great tal...
With the 4th of July looming on the summer horizon, Transformers fans won’t have to wait the next seven weeks to find out what happens in Michael Bay’s film adaptation of the franchise giant. Random House Publishing Group and novelization guru...
What They SayA collection of music featured in the Captain Tylor OVA series \"An Exceptional Episode\", \"From Here to Eternity\", \"The Samurai’s Narrow Escape\" and \"If Only the Skies Would Clear\"The Review!This CD comes packaged up for the cons...
OPINION: Wow, talk about varied opinions! After my extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2 a couple of weeks back, I got people agreeing with me, people disagreeing with me, people kinda disagreeing with me, and people strongly disagreeing with me. (I even got on...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONBrian Tyler visits the neighborhood of horror in TERROR TRACT, a 2000 horror-comedy-anthology format film directed by Lance W. Dressen and Clint Hutchison (the latter also scripted), about a real estate agent who spooks a couple ...