Writer Mark Schultz cannot emphasize enough that his four-issue ALIEN VS.PREDATORVS. TERMINATOR miniseries from Dark Horse Comics is, first and foremost, an exciting action-adventure that should appeal to fans of all three franchises. The reason for his...
...ed on the Aliensvs.Predator comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics.Premise:Venturing into the Antarctics wastes, an industrial entrepreneur and his team of soldiers and scientists discover a buried structure under the ice. Inside they ...
...the first AliensVs.Predator film.
In addition, there is a footprint feature which, when turned on, will alert the viewer that the particular scene is one of the added/expanded scenes not seen in the theatrical release.
There is also the digital cop...
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AliensVs.Predator Vol. 1 is one of the first of these omnibus editions presenting 456 pages of story and art. Now the Dark Horse Omnibus books are a bit smaller than their Marvel and DC counterparts, and they are also a bit more expens...
...ie within AliensVs.Predator: Requiem. When the title creatures face off against each other in those moments where we can see what’s happening, or when we see Aliens swarming up the sides of a power plant and a hospital, it’s cool.
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...egan with ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: PREY (by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry) and followed in ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: HUNTER`S PLANET (by David Bischoff), which were both based on Dark Horse Comics mini-series. These comics and novels have broadened the concept...
A first look at the upcoming sequel, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM, has appeared online courtesy of IGN Movies. This is the follow up the 2004 film from Fox that pitted the two sci-fi icons in combat while humans tried to get out of the way. The sequel lea...
Electronic Arts and Fox Interactive have shipped their latest chapter in the cosmic brawn between species, ALIENSVS PREDATOR EXTINCTION, for the Sony PlayStation 2. The Microsoft Xbox version will ship to stores on August 5.With 21 missions to go through...
Just one day after IGN revealed the first photo of Fox's upcoming ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM sequel, they have released the first trailer online as well. The trailer is a Red Band/ Rated-R trailer. I realize a lot of our readers cannot view them at...
If you need a new dose of duelling extraterrestrials, then you should be informed that Apple is hosting the exclusive internet trailer for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. We've finally gotten our first looks at the Aliens, facehuggers, Predators and the human explore...
A new trailer for the upcoming sequel, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM, has hit the web courtesy of IGN Movies. The new trailer features more bloody carnage and sequences including a shot of a Predator holding 2 Aliens at once, a scene involving some swimmin...
It is the mark by which the faithful shall know one another ... If you hear an argument about who'd win in a battle between Superman vs. Batman, Darth Vader vs. Ming the Merciless, Dracula vs. the Wolfman, you know you are listening to dueling genre geeks...
Hot off the success of his zombie/videogame movie RESIDENT EVIL, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson is gearing up to make the long-rumored fanboy wetdream ALIENSVS.PREDATORmuch to the chagrin of many of those same fanboys the world over who hold a grudg...
It makes sense that when Sigourney Weaver mentioned that she had been talking about a fifth ALIENS film, there might also be somebody toying with the previously believed to be dead ALIENSVS.PREDATOR as well.While talking to 13th Street, producer Joel Si...
Yahoo Movies has posted a one minute snippet from ALIEN VS.PREDATOR showing -- what else? -- an Alien and a Predator going at it...hard. The fighting prowess of both ETs is clearly shown in this teaser in a fight to the death somewhere inside the catacom...
There's another new trailer for Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR available for download on Apple's website, and it's even better than the one that hit the 'net last week. This new preview presents more of the film's set-up: humans find mysterious pyramid buried u...
The FilmJerk website has followed up on our ALIEN VS.PREDATOR article posted earlier today and confirmed that the action does take place in Antartica and that the film's main character is named Lex. Furthermore, FilmJerk has posted detailed character des...
That was quick of 20th Century Fox: the new teaser trailer for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR is now ready for download at Apple's website.Since it is just a teaser, there's no real footage from Paul W. S. Anderson's movie to show you yet. Instead, we've got some clo...
As if Superman hasn’t had his hands full with the likes of the Aliens (from the movie franchise of the same name) and the Terminator, now he has to turn his attention to the alien hunter known as the Predator. At about the same time, he has to go up again...
So by now you should have heard the news that 20th Century Fox has given a greenlight to ALIEN VS PREDATOR, the long-awaited meeting of two of sci-fi's biggest and baddest creatures. If you attended the San Diego Comic-Con last week you may have even spot...
Aliensvs.Predator – Requiem arrives on DVD today. The meeting of two monsters squaring off toe to toe is far from an original concept. If we look back we will see a time before there was “vs.” movies, a time when monsters wo...
There hasn't been much news lately on Paul W.S. Anderson's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR project. We know Anderson stepped down as director on RESIDENT EVIL 2 so he could focus on the A VS. P project but that was months ago. Where does the project stand now? Is ther...
With the imminent release of 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, McFarlane Toys has a new series of action figures inspired by the film available to fans. The five figure set features three Predator characters seen in the film (Elder Predator, Celtic P...
Variety is reporting that Amalgamated Dynamics, the creature effects shop, will craft the critters for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. The firm, led by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., created the creature designs for the previous two ALIEN pictures, ALIEN 3 and ALI...
Dreamworks Animation's first film utilizing stereoscopic 3-D technology, MONSTERS VS.ALIENS, has been pushed ahead from May 15, 2009 to March 27, 2009. Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) are directing this 3-D look at the 50's era of ...
Dark Horse Comics has announced that they will publish a original companion comic story to this summer's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR film. Titled ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: THRILL OF THE HUNT, the 96-page graphic novel takes the story elements of Paul W.S. Anderson's f...
Bloody Disgusting got a report from a scooper regarding ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2. Here is the basic gist:- None of the cast from ALIEN VS PREDATOR will be returning.- Movie will be set in a different time.- Studio wants Sigourney Weaver to play a part.- Weave...
...Predator- Aliensvs.Predator -- Requiem (20th Century Fox) BEST KISS -- Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer -- Disturbia (DreamWorks SKG) -- Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey -- Enchanted (Walt Disney Pictures) -- Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung -- Harry Pott...
We'll have to file this one as a story spoiler, but it's just a small one: the Coming Soon team has published masks and accessories offered by Rubies Costume Company for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. The photo on the CS site shows all sort of fine E.T. swag that yo...
McFarlane Toys has been granted the license to create a series of action figures based on Fox's upcoming extraterrestrial ultimate fighting contest, ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. McFarlane has already produced a line of ALIEN and PREDATOR figures that are out in st...
Actress Sanaa Lathan (who can be seen playing opposite Denzel Washington in OUT OF TIME) has landed the role of Lex Kline in ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, Paul W.S. Anderson's meeting of the 20th Century Fox extraterrestrials. Lathan's character is the lead in the ...
McFarlane Toys has released images of their new 12-inch action figures based on characters from ALIEN VS.PREDATOR.The SCAR PREDATOR, the last remaining member of a small hunting party sent to Earth to test their mettle against a horde of Alien attackers,...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz and Johnny Lewis have all signed on to play roles in 20th Century Fox's upcoming film ALIEN VS PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.Epps will play Kendra, a young girl who must protect her little...
Preparing himself to star in ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, actor Lance Henriksen spoke with Fangoria about the upcoming project. Henriksen, who first faced one-half of the extraterrestrial foes in James Cameron's ALIENS, let go a slight story spoiler that fans have...
Remember last week, we talked about the studios cutting into each other for 2009-2010 films? Well, appparently, some studios are thinking the exact same thing and have already started adjusting their schedules. Dreamworks( Paramount) have ...
An anonymous scooper wrote in with a tip we looked into, and we got it confirmed: screenwriter Shane Salerno (SHAFT, ARMAGEDDON) will receive co-writer credit on ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. Previously we believed that the film's director, Paul W.S. Anderson, was ...
According to Variety, DreamWorks Animation will make all it's films in 3-D starting in 2009.The first all 3-D film produced will be the 2009 release of Monsters vs.Aliens, which starts production this spring.Monsters vs.Aliens follows an alien invasion ...
...s such as Aliensvs.Predator:Requiem and Sweeney Todd on Christmas against some clear family competition?
I understand that alternative programming is a good thing in some cases such as releasing Dan in Real Life on Halloween weekend but Dan ...
Ron Marz believes in responsibility. The proof lies in his exclusive contract with CrossGeneration Comics, which he made sure had a clause allowing him to complete work he`d previously committed to for Dark Horse Comics. Interestingly, that same sense of ...
The weekend estimates are in and it looks too close to call. I’ll go ahead and call it anyway though, folks. 1st place goes to Stomp The Yard (pulling in 13.3 mil) while Night of the Museum is only 300,000 dollars behind at 2nd place. Yes, that&rsqu...
In our last two feature installments, we presented a chat with artist Jon Bogdanove focusing on the new Superman/Aliens match-up, SUPERMAN/ALIENS II: GODWAR, a sprawling cosmic epic co-starring Darkseid and the New Gods. This mini-series, courtesy of comi...
Everyone loves zombies. They scare the hell out of you. They serve as a perfect metaphor for, well, “us.” And, best of all, they eat people. With those sterling qualities, I see very little not to like about our lumb...
There's a new ALIEN VS.PREDATOR internet exclusive trailer.It's got more Aliens.More Predators.More humans caught in the crossfire.More explosions, more chestbursters, more gunfire, more carnage. And something new: heavy metal rock music.Click to begin y...
We've been hearing rumors on the grape vine that it's going to be a race to finish work on ALIEN VS.PREDATOR in order for the film to meet its release date -- which is just three short days away from today. While it's not completely unusual (albeit stres...
After months of rumors, innuendo and vitriolic diatribes, it's been confirmed that the powers that be at Twentieth Century Fox have tapped RESIDENT EVIL and EVENT HORIZON director Paul Anderson to write and direct the years-in-development ALIENSVS. PREDA...
...earing in ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM. To check out that photo as well as some other cool screenshots of aliens and predators in the film, click the link above or just click on the photo to the left. The upcoming R-rated sequel, directed by the Strause...
... counting ALIENSVS.PREDATOR). But, rather than risk creating an original work that didn't shamelessly (and poorly) ape Singer's style, they went for the easy out. Instead of a great movie, we got a passably entertaining one good for a matinee or a ...
Spartan sequel planned for 300?
The Rumor: A sequel is on the horizon for Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the Frank Miller comic 300.
The Source: Producer Mark Canton to SOSHollywood
The Mania Verdict: TRUE---Warner Bros. lists the budget for 3...
An international trailer for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR has surfaced on the website for the English tabloid The Sun. The trailer contains about 95% of the same footage seen in the domestic AvsP trailer but there is some new material in there, plus the internation...
Last night two different kinds of extraterrestrials were sighted in the Long Beach, CA area and we're looking for eyewitness reports. No, there weren't any UFO landings or alien abductions (that we know of) but instead we were able to glean that 20th Cent...
...e Matrix, Aliensvs.Predator and countless other movie tie-in product. If there’s a fight between buying a movie license and buying more research and development for an original property, time shows most companies will go to Hollywood. Beside...
The official website for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR has thrown up a second behind-the-scenes featurette, this time examining the crafting of the creatures for the film. In the short film we get to see Tom Woodruff, one of the principals at Amalgamated Dynamics, s...
...otage. In Aliensvs.Predator, opening December 25, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises ever are back. Agent 47 hits the big screen, as Fox present footage from the long-awaited movie adaptation of the legendary videogame fran...
Deep under the ice shelf in Antarctica, two different groups of extraterrestrials are waging a war -- and we're caught in the middle. ALIEN VS.PREDATOR is the long-awaited rumble in the interstellar jungle that fans of these two franchises have been wait...
Actor Lance Henriksen, who portrayed the android Bishop in ALIENS and then Bishop's human creator in ALIEN 3, is getting another face-to-face encounter with the extraterrestrial bugs. Henriksen is the first to be cast in Paul Anderson's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR...
In anticipation of its imminent release, Apple's trailer website has added a new minute-long clip from ALIEN VS.PREDATOR featuring a confrontation between three humans, two Predators and one smart Alien. Saying more than that would reveal the surprise, s...
It seems that McFarlane Toys has another hit on their hands. After releasing the first assortment of action figures based on 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR last month, the company has announced plans for a second wave of figures.Six new figures wil...
On display at the Master Replicas booth at this year's San Diego Comic Convention are a host of the company's new items for the next quarter including a number of replicas inspired by 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR movie. One of the most impressive...
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Cast: NA
Who's Making It: Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) are Co-directors
Genre: CG/AnimationProduction Co: DreamWorks AnimationDistributor:
Dr...
Last week we revealed the first figure in AliensVs.Predator: Requiem Action Figures Series 3, the Open Mouth Predator, and today we unveil the second half of the series: the Stealth Mode Predator! Masked, cast in translucent plastic with surges of elect...
"The Magic 8-Ball" (who was 100% right about when we'd see the teaser trailer for RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE) knocked on our door late last night to tell us another scoop. Are you ready to see your first look at Paul Anderson's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR next mont...
Galactus versus Aunt May. The Kingpin versus a box of Dunkin Donuts. The JLA versus a Predator squadron. What do these pairings have in common? Simple: none of ’em would be much of a fight.Think about the matchup—the third one, that is. The first two are ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of cutthroat Comicscape action! Late as usual, I realize the furious spell of controversy over the statue of Mary Jane Watson-Parker leaning over a laundry hamper wound down last month, but the storm ov...
PRIZE CLOSET: We have 5 copies of X-FILES MYTHOLOGY Volume 4: Super Soldiers courtesy of Fox for lucky readers that send an email containing their name and address to psycho@psychotronic.info with "X-FILES SUPER" in the subject line. We also have a couple...
...series of AliensVs.Predator: Requiem: the Open Mouth Predator! Ugly as sin and loaded with weapons, the Wolf hits shelves this May as part of Series 3 of our AliensVs.Predator: Requiem Action Figures! Take a look at our first official images and ch...
Vivendi Universal Games has announced that a video game based on 20th Century Fox's PREDATOR movie franchise is in development. PREDATOR: CONCRETE JUNGLE, a third-person action/adventure console game, is being coded by Eurocom Entertainment Software and i...
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers is pure 1950’s B movie fare. The plot and acting are campy, the budget is minuscule, and it’s filled with 50’s sci-fi clichés, but the film had one thing going for it, and that was the stop-motion...
Two new collectibles will be hitting the market sometime in late 2007-early 2008 from the ALIENSVS PREDATOR series. Each of the two items are Kotobukiya Japanese Imports based off the first film but timing in release with the sequel. The alien and predat...
Fangoria is now confirming the earlier rumor (first published by Creature Corner this past August) that New Line Cinema is actively contemplating a FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH film. While earlier reports were at first dismissed by actor Bruce Campbell, in re...
PitofHorror.com recently caught up with Robert Englund to talk about his upcoming projects. And in the interview Englund revealed some updates on a NIGHTMARE prequel and the rumored FREDDY VS. JASON VS. MICHAEL MEYERS project. In regards to a NIGHTMARE pr...
Last Updated: August 23, 2006Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, MusicalProduction Company: Alter Ego EntertainmentDistributors: Nu-Image Films (International Media)Project Phase: In DevelopmentBudget: NAWho's In It: NAWho's Making It: Thunder Lev...
OPINION: The phrase "If you build it, they will come" never resonated for me more than this week: after printing what I had of the somewhat tepid response to my first call for titles you wish had never been cancelled last week, the amount of mail this wee...
... gem. (O) ALIENSVS.PREDATOR (Fox) Dumb but fun clash of [IMG6R]two sci-fi/horror franchises which have already met in comics and games. Widescreen and fullscreen editions include two commentraks, Making-Of, deleted scenes, featurettes and m...
Alter Ego is taking orders for V-Rex vs. Kong Statue.As described on their site, "the fiercest creature of Skull Island, the V-Rex is the only dinosaur brave enough to challenge the mighty Kong. An awesome predator stalking the tangled jungle in search of...
IGN FilmForce has been breaking a nice load of exclusive story material on the ALIENSVS.PREDATOR, CATWOMAN and CONSTANTINE movie projects thanks to the industry resource Showfax, a resource used by casting agents to audition actors for possible roles.Fo...
The sequel to FREDDY VS. JASON was so close to happening back in 2005. How close? At one point, the FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH script had approvals from New Line executives and actor Bruce Campbell brought on board to co-star in the film. Then everything fe...
In just five days, when a lot of people will be opening Christmas presents from their loved ones, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM will be invading theaters. With the marketing aspect of this film reaching its climax, Ryan Rotten had a chance to sit ...
The notion of an ALIEN VS.PREDATOR team-up has long thrilled fans, and it has come to fruition in a variety of mediumsthough the film version has yet to materialize (Paul W.S. Anderson is reportedly at work on a script for such a film right now, however)...
For many a horror fan, Halloween is amateur night, when the whole world wants to party in the graveyard we live in. But the holiday has its distinct advantages, and pretty high on the list is the accessibility of horror movies on TV. In between parties an...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONBig news for film music fans is the first ever, legitimate release of the oft-requested soundtrack to PREDATOR (VCL 0803 1022), John McTiernan's 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger Rambo-Meets-Alien monster thriller. The music never ...
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...
In breaking with tradition this week, a Pocket Star release has given me an excuse to spend most of my discourse on something I positively love: WARCRAFT.
Ever since playing a demo version of the original Warcraft (on a Shuckysoft shareware CD) a...
The rumors about FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH are true. Today's Hollywood Reporter confirms that New Line Cinema has entered discussions with director Sam Raimi, the fellow who helmed the three EVIL DEAD pictures and who owns the copyright to Ash, the sarcast...
With remade versions of Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider enjoying great popularity and a big screen A-Team movie in the hopper, it appears there’s still a public demand for cheesy TV entertainment. With that in mind, we present our list of clas...
Of all the genre collections that hit bookshelves daily, this week’s release schedule’s got one with the coolest unifying element I’ve ever encountered: one that pays homage to the stand-up citizens who provide death for hire.
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THE FILM MUSIC OF AKIRA IFUKUBE Akira Ifukube has maintained a notably symphonic style in his prolific array of film scores, utilizing traditional Japanese styles and voicings for many of his adventure and dramatic films, while embodying his music for sci...
Finally, in Hall H, with its multiple HD screens, there was something to watch other than trailers of movies. Lionsgate and Marvel debuted their Hulk vs. DVD at the San Diego Comic Con on multiple giant screens. Hulk vs. Wolverineis the first in a two sto...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...
With Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith reportedly looking for $20 million each to do MEN IN BLACK 2, this new series of novels by sci-fi author Dean Wesley Smith (STAR TREK, SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, ALIENS, PREDATOR, SHADOW WARRIOR, etc) might be as close as we ge...
It turns out there's still life left in Warner Bros. EXORCIST franchise as Renny Harlin's EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING prequel captured the top spot at the box office this past weekend. The movie, which tells the tale of Father Merrin's first encounter with th...
Two seperate sources have confirmed that we will be traveling to a different planet in the sequel, ALIENSVS PREDATOR: REQUIEM. Apparently, both Shock Til You Drop and Fangoria have been tipped off that we will be seeing the homeworld of the Predator in t...
The Strause brothers made it clear to the media that they had a plan for a third installment in the Aliensvs.Predator franchise being solely in space and it seems they may get their wish very soon. STYD is reporting that a fly on the wall at 20th ...
... place is Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem with a weekend total of 10.0 million in receipts. Since its launch on Tuesday, the film has pulled in 26.8 million in its moderate 2,611 theaters across the nation. Not a bad set of box office numbers for Fox here...
Producer Tom DeSanto has acquired the feature film rights to the videogame CITY OF HEROES from NCsoft and Cryptic Studio.
The story around a group of superheroes who live in Paragon City and must team in order to fight an invasion of aliens known as the ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another serving of Comicscape calamity, where we rise above the fray and endorse insight over insults, and wisdom over whining. Once again, thanks to everyone for your praise and criticism in the comments secti...
May the worst team win! FEARnet, the world’s premiere horror and thriller website and video on demand service, continues to break new ground with the chilling new slam dunk of an interactive tournament called Death March: Tournament of Blood. Forget...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting adventure into the dark soul of American comic books! This week, I’ll expound upon a recent and controversial announcement by Diamond Comic Distributors. For those of you that may not kno...
It must have seemed like a good idea during the pitch session: genre hybrids have yielded successful results in the past, so why not combine supernatural horror with explosive action? After all, ALIENS, PREDATOR, and SPECIES proved that you could sell tic...
A commenter here at Mania believes that I don’t like holiday episodes of TV series based on my review of the Christmas Special episode of Supernatural. Well, I didn't actually hate that episode, I just thought it was sub-par compared to the res...
There are few events that can be said to be among television's dependable heavyweights, shows that are practically guaranteed to draw in tens of millions of eyeballs. The Academy Awards. The Grammys. The latest episode of Fox's WHEN HOUSEHOLD PETS GO BAD....
A new international trailer has appeared online for Fox's upcoming installment of ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM courtesy of Filmweb. The new trailer puts more of an emphasis on the town in Colorado where the Predator ship goes down. As the trailer progress...
The site Alien Experience recently interviewed Andrew Li the Assistant Art Director for Alien vs.Predator 2.
Li revealed, "We used A LOT of locations on this movie, so I won't go into details here to bore you. We shot in an old hospital for the men...
At the start of a New Year, it’s traditional for me to look ahead to what’s coming up in the next 12 months. This is impossible when it comes to DVD releases, as labels are never sure of their production schedule more than a few months in a...
Column News: With the switch over to the new site design, I thought I’d make a couple of minor changes in High Def Revue. The most notable one is that the Blu-ray discs will be listed first in the Upcoming Discs section from now on. ...
...fi horror Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem and the family adventure Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. Fox and Sony are releasing these two films on Christmas Day on 2,500 theaters or more so next weekend’s box office report should be interesting...
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Last month I reviewed the DVD release of CABIN FEVER, one of the better horror films of recent years. The delightfully packed disc includes among its extras a record FIVE audio commentary tracks. That nutty director Eli Roth did one commentrak, then hoste...
Fox has announced via a press release that they will be giving special advance screenings of ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM in New York and Los Angeles. The special screenings will be done at 12:01 am on Christmas Eve. Here's the press release for those of ...
Before we dive in, there's a new, official-type e-mail address you can reach me at. You can still get me at kurtamacker@yahoo.com, but now comicscape@cinescape.com is up and it comes directly to me. It mostly just makes me look slightly official when I'...
Quadrilogy by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-29-2008)
...of ‘Aliensvs.Predator’ sounds incredible. It is the execution that falls flat. I don’t want to see humans mixed into the fray. I want a straight up war with Predators as actual characters, not just killers in suits.&n...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSA perhaps forgotten short-lived TV series from 1977 has been mined as this month’s Silver Age Classic from FSM. A thoroughly satisfying compilation of all the original music written for the 14-episode TV series, LOGAN’S RUN (FSM...
...lar "Aliensvs.Predator" franchise; the Vin Diesel action film "Babylon A.D."; and "Hitman," starring Timothy Olyphant, based on the wildly popular video game of the same name."Fox is not going to be able to particip...
I had a chance this weekend to take in the latest RESIDENT EVIL film, APOCALYPSE, and compare it to my experiences playing through the RESIDENT EVIL franchise of games as it falls squarely in the realm of RESIDENT EVIL 2/3.I was a pretty big fan of the fi...
According to Fangoria, filming on the upcoming film ALIEN VS.PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST will begin September 23 in Vancouver.The shoot will last until December 14 under the watchful eye's of directors Colin and Greg Strauss. Colin and Greg will b...
I've collected comics in one form or another since 1982. It started with a weekly trip to the local Magic Mart and later moved to a little comic book specialty store called Gulf Coast Comics. I think it's safe to say I have a bit of an affinity for the ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSEngland's Harkit Records continues to mine the retrograde treasure trove of 1960s film music with three new releases that are a delight of the period. Making its first foray onto CD, George Duning's lighthearted and theatrical s...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
I had a strange feeling that Klaus Badelt’s new score was going to be a good one. For Premonition, the third effort from actor-producer-director-random hyphenate Mennan Yapo, the composer noted for Cat...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another weekly web of Comicscape wonder. For the past couple of weeks, we talked about Spider-Man 3 in lieu of discussing the end of DC’s weekly maxiseries, 52. The film came out the same week as the final issue of...
Greetings Maniacs, and welcome to another calamitous Comicscape adventure, where we crack wise about comics and I insult movies everyone else likes. Last week’s admittedly merciless review of Ghost Rider garnered very little mail – n...
A trailer for the upcoming family oriented fantasy THE WATER HORSE:LEGEND OF THE DEEP has hit the web courtesy of Yahoo Movies. The trailer shows how a boy finds an egg that has a baby creature inside. The creature would grow up to be the legendary Lochne...
Harald Kloser, the noted composer who scored Roland Emmerich's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW as well as ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, will compose the music for Emmerich's next film, according to Daily Variety. The title of the film is 10,000 B.C. and takes place at the e...
...odd & Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem taking in revenue as well.
Disney’s Enchanted continued its success, landing in 2nd place for the weekend with 10.7 million to show for it in its third week of release. The film has accumulated 83.8...
In his latest newsletter, novelist Steve Alten revealed that two of the principal team members of HELLBOY are now involved in turning his first novel, MEG, into a movie.In a section promoting the forthcoming release of Alten's new novel MEG: PRIMAL WATERS...
All right, I can finally stop buying INFINITE CRISIS books. It's over. Yes, there's the BRAVE NEW WORLD special, AFTERMATH, ONE YEAR LATER, and 52, but the event itself has finally concluded. This week in COMICSCAPE, I'm going to offer some of my thoughts...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Danny Elfman's first orchestral composition written for the concert hall, Serenada Schizophrenia, has been released this week by Sony Classical. The piece received its world premiere on February 23, 2005 at New York's famed C...
There were a lot of great entries, but Stephen Smith's defense of MALLRATS was judged to be the most concise, to the point, and in keeping with the Essence of Smith. Plus, his name is Smith, thereby fuelling several conspiracy theories if I pick him, so h...
The publication of my book VideoHound’s DRAGON: ASIAN ACTION & CULT FLICKS (Plug that book enough, Brian?)(Are there any left in the warehouse?) has led to one of my favorite DVD labels asking me to contribute some audio commentary tracks to upcoming ...
Retromedia Entertainment has released two films from the popular Gamera series as a double feature DVD, using prints and titles from their American International television release from the early 1970s. Gamera is a giant monster turtle with the power to f...
Dark Horse has been doing a magnificent job of digging through their 20+ year archives to present their omnibus editions for titles such as Aliens, Predator, and Indiana Jones. As it’s been over ten years since these stories first saw print the...
A ton of new ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM images have appeared online courtesy of Clint Morris/Moviehole. Along with the images provided by Fox, the Brothers Strause have shed some light on the new Predalien. Here's the details on the new creature;
The cr...
So for this WWJCD I had a tough time trying to decide which movie to tackle. It was a toss up between Chick Fights, See No Evil, or Dark City. Although watching women pummel each other and masturbatory scenes featuring everyone’s favorite wrestl...
Paul W.S. Anderson has made quite a career for himself in genre films. Starting with the surprise hit Mortal Kombat, he then went on to helm the sci-fi cult hit Event Horizon, another successful video game adaption with Resident Evil and the long awaited ...
For Ray Harryhausen, the ’50s were stage one of his career as a special effects ace whose stop-motion-animation effects were far more important to the success of the movies he worked on than any actor or director. Harryhausen had gotten his start working ...
In Part One of my review of the American Cinemateque’s Japanese Science Fiction and Monster Film Weekend at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, I focused on the opening night screening of a newly struck, subtitled print of Gojira, the seminal 1954 film (re...
Greetings, and welcome to another edition of Mania.com’s Comicscape. Before reading this week’s column about Marvel’s Secret Invasion, know that the issue is spoiled down to the last detail. If you haven’t read it yet, th...
Latino Review has posted two stories about when we might expect to see the BATMAN BEGINS trailer on theater screens. The site first reported that the trailer would run on prints of ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, out on August 6. Today, Latino Review said that the BA...
IGN FilmForce posted a bit of an odd scoop today regarding AVP 2 and a possible director for the film.The scoop suggests that Greg and Colin Strause are set to sign on to direct the sequel to 2004's Alien vs.Predator. Apparently they have met with the p...
20th Century Fox has cast Reiko Aylesworth and Steven Pasquale to star in ALIEN VS.PREDATOR 2.Greg and Colin Strause will direct. The script is by Shane Salerno. Davis Entertainment's John Davis and Robbie Brenner will produce.Filming begins next week in...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Latest effort in Intrada's limited Special Collection series is the world premiere release of Elmer Bernstein's avant-garde opus, SATURN 3. The score is one of a handful of true sci-fi films scored by Bernstein, who began his ca...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Despite being a huge fan and collector of Asian action films for many years, I was totally unprepared for the zany incredulosity that is KUNG FU HUSTLE. An absolutely mind-boggling mix of action and comedy, kung-fu and wire-fu ...
Fox Studios will be in attendance this year at the San Diego Comic Con. Last year Fox pulled out of the SDCC unexpectedly, stating that none of their films: Aliensvs.Predator 2, Jumper, Babylon A.D. (I guess this was 10,000 B.C.?), and Hitman were ready...
Batman Begins by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 02-28-2005)
Genre:Action/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Warner Brothers.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/"Batman"); Michael Caine (Alfred); Katie Holmes (Rachel); Liam Neeson (Henri Ducard); Morgan Freeman...
...reations, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR, is going. And by the way, John Bruno [director of VIRUS] is serving as the effects supervisor on that project. We're negotiating a deal right now for GRENDEL, which will be announced soon we hope. We have a great project ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom La-La Land Records comes The Fantasy Film Music of George Pal (LLLCD 1016), a new limited edition collection of more than an hour's worth of music from the famed sci-fi producer's last seven films, much of which has never b...
According to a scooper for IESB, there may be an upcoming solo PREDATOR film in the pipeline."PREDATOR 3 (won't be called that), would be a brand new chapter in the series," says the scooper. "All those rumors about it starring The Rock or John Cena as S...
One would think that everybody would be scrambling to churn out tie-in merchandise to WAR OF THE WORLDS (see below for some of that). Paramount has a deluxe edition DVD of the 1953 George Pal version ready to go, but reports say Steven Speilberg requested...
I’ve long considered Dark Horse to be the smartest and most resourceful comic book publisher. When they started out over twenty years ago, they made the conscious decision to not try to take on Marvel and DC at their own game. Instead, the...
...art, with Aliensvs.Predator - Requiem bowing at No. 2 on both charts. Alvin and the Chipmunks, the nation's top DVD seller for the last two weeks, slipped to No. 3 on First Alert, while a third new release, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege T...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Puss in Boots, originally slated to go direct-to-DVD, is now set to get a theatrical release.The films release is expected sometime after the fourth chapter of the Shrek franchise which is scheduled for release in 2010...
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Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
The Great Debaters
I understand that studios need to fit some of these films in before the Oscar nomination ballots are mailed but fitting so many films toget...
When Dark Horse Comics began publishing in 1986, they took a strategic path far different than most of the other independent publishers of the day. Dark Horse was clever enough to go after licensed properties that already had a built-in fan following...
OK, for me the upcoming fall season doesn’t hold much excitement as far as new shows as it did over the past few years but there are a few exceptions. Now four of the five major networks have fall season sneak previews on their websites that fe...
Brian Tyler’s latest score, Bug, is to be released by Lionsgate through iTunes and other such digital platforms this month. Tyler, who seems to be just about the busiest composer in town, has created an evocative score that brings together the idiom...
Far from the usual cash-in four-to-six issue miniseries Marvel publishes, David Lapham's DAREDEVIL VS. PUNISHER: MEANS AND ENDS works well for several reasons. The miniseries has not been without its missteps (the whole Bushwhacker subplot needs to die), ...
I've been playing Capcom's STREET FIGHTER series for almost as long as I can remember. Okay, not really but it really has been a long time. And while there have been a lot of incarnations of the series, I'll never think twice about pumping a couple of qua...
Today we discuss chapter stops – not ever considered a “bonus” or “extra” on DVD, but an important part of each release if you ever want to find a certain scene quickly. Yet, often mishandled by DVD producers. Many simply plant a chapter stop every ten mi...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE's own Arnold Blumberg magazine, comic artist John Bogdanove talked about his work with Chuck Dixon and Kevin Nowlan to bring the Man of Steele face to face again with the popular, and vastly grisly, ALIENS, in SUPE...
Hot Toys has released images of the upcoming 14" Elder Predator Model Kit.The realistic based 1/6 scale (14 inches tall) Predator, has been sculpted to scale to 16 inches tall Alien Warrior figure.The figure comes with highly detailed body armor and weapo...
DRACULA VS. KING ARTHUR, the critically acclaimed hit graphic novel published by Silent Devil, will now be adapted into a role playing game entitled VAMPIRES vs. KNIGHTS by Tony DiGerolamo. The game is a d20 role-playing supplement that uses the...
The smash international success of King Kong vs. Godzilla (which unfortunately Classic Media does not own the rights to for this series) demanded another sequel, and producer Tomoyuki Tanaka had the inspired idea to pit their monster star against Toho...
The game that launched Nintendo into the spotlight as a major contender featured a carpenter by the name of Jumpman battled a beast named Donkey Kong for a woman named Pauline. The carpenter became a plumber, his named changed to Mario, and he and Donkey ...
Anybody who goes to a movie called BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER expecting subtle character development and profound observations about the human condition doesn't know his or her action flicks, and they probably deserve what they get. But even veteran genre ...
Video games publisher and developer Namco Hometek has announced SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON, a new aerial-based action adventure game starring Peanuts' Snoopy and a cast of classic characters. While taking a nap atop his doghouse, Snoopy has a magical dream ...