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...
The second AVP feature film fared little better than the first film from a critical standpoint. Part of the problem with the AVP films is living up to the success and acclaim of the solo films. Fox seems almost in a no-win situation with the series i...
With Marvel and DC Comics having enjoyed so much success with their Essentials/Showcase Presents Omnibus reprints, Dark Horse Comics has jumped on the bandwagon with their own massive tomes of reprint material. One of the things that really made Dark...
After Aliens in all three gestation forms run amok on a Predator ship (presumably the same one from the end of Alien Vs. Predator), the whole caboodle crashes to Earth outside a small town in Colorado. A lone Predator is sent to deal with the infestation....
...What puts ALIENSVSPREDATOR 2 above other FPSs is the atmosphere. The majority of the levels have a dark foreboding feeling about them that makes you find yourself hunched close to the screen trying to squint into the darkness, and jumping every time ...
Machiko Noguchi, the only human ever to become a Blooded Hunter in the Predator clan, has been traversing the universe with the clan for over a year. Although blooded by the fallen leader Broken Tusk, she is still considered an outsider: human, small, and...
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, ALIENSVSPREDATOR 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 VSPREDATOR, 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 VSPREDATOR 2. Here is the basic gist:- None of the cast from ALIEN VSPREDATOR will be returning.- Movie will be set in a different time.- Studio wants Sigourney Weaver to play a part.- Weave...
MTV has alerted the media to their upcoming 2008 MTV Movie Awards. The press release and nominations can be seen below.Nerds, pirates and robots take over as MTV: Music Television today announced the nominees for the "2008 MTV Movie Awards." Dom...
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 VSPREDATOR: 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 ...
The holiday weekend played out exactly as expected for the most part with Disney’s Enchanted weaving its magical fairytale straight into 1st place above the rest of the pack. It was a weekend for the family as this box office report will point, spel...
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 ...
...oy dream. AliensVSPredator but in a different “rating” then all 6 of the movies which put the two franchises on the map. Yes, a PG13 rating. Does it do badly? Nope. The studio got a profit and more even if fan boys got a little upset over...
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...
Updated: A new video has appeared over at Yahoo UK featuring the intro to the movie. I'm told that the clip was shortened down to around 5 minutes but the scene may be a bit longer in the film version. In basics, this is the beginning of the film where yo...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND generated a small truckload of mail. The reactions ranged from complete agreement with my review, to total disagreement from fans that thought the film met or exceeded the previous two. Regardless, t...
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...
You have to feel sad for Vin Diesel. Aside from his career shift from bad-ass Pitch Black to The Pacifier (or, as I like to call it, Adventure In Babysitters 2: First Blood), the former $20 million man is perhaps the only person in videogame land, and...
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...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
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...
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Release Date: March 27, 2009
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Who's Making It: Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) are Co-directors
Genre: CG/AnimationProduction Co: DreamWorks AnimationDistributor:
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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 ...
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Kurt: The first AvP miniseries was pretty good, but I’ve noticed that most of the Dark Horse Aliens and Predator comics haven’t aged well. My childhood memories are crushed yet agai...
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...
At this year's International Toy Fair, NECA debuted some of the most anticipated releases of the year. In the coming weeks, NECAonline will be featuring the first approved photos and teasers for the latest additions to our ever-growing roster of action fi...
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 ALIENSVSPREDATOR 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...
Usually at this time I'd be plugging B-Fest 9 (www.b-fest.com), the 24-hour B-movie marathon I attend every year. I'd be crowing about how this show combines a love for trashy cinema with a grueling endurance test, and explaining how MYSTERY SCIENCE THEAT...
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, ALIENSVSPREDATOR: 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 ...
None of the films released on Christmas day had any print distribution over 2,800 so this weekend’s numbers reflect that. This translates to the top 5 films being returning movies from previous weekends. The top 3 films have at least 3,484 thea...
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...
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Ben: I feel like a little bit of the kid in me dies every time I read something I loved when I was in middle school only to find out that it sucks.
Kurt: I’m glad I’m not the only one.
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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. ...
Updated: International numbers have been added...
The box office cash for this weekend was spread out as expected. With so many new releases this weekend (and this week), audiences chose a bit of everything making for some big moneymakers in the t...
Known within the comics community as the king of licensed properties, Dark Horse Comics has become a major force within an industry once dominated by the "dynamic duo" of DC and Marvel Comics. Over the course of its 17-year history, the company has explor...
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)
‘The Invasion’ hits the street today on DVD and though not many people saw it I thought it was worth at least a one time viewing. It was entertaining but the original ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1956) and the ‘Inva...
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...
There are SPOILERS inside the link in this article but the genre fans who hated the original ALIENSVSPREDATOR will enjoy this bit of news. The directors behind the sequel, ALIENSVSPREDATOR: REQUIEM, have spoken to MTV about quite a...
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...
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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...
It was an absolute dismal weekend at the box office this weekend as you will see in the result charts below but none came out worse than the actual winner for the weekend, New Line’s The Golden Compass. One has to wonder if New Line executives are n...
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...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
In part one of our "publisher profile," Dark Horse Comics president Mike Richardson discussed the company's origins and its commitment to creator rights. In this segment, the publisher examines the company's movie production arm, taking a candid look at s...
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...
Fox basically owned the DVD market this past week. The studio grabbed the top four spots in DVD sales and top 2 places for DVD rentals with its latest releases. Juno debuted at No. 1 on both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert Sales chart and Home Media Mag...
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...
It was a weekend where half the movies didn’t budge. Five of the 10 movies landed in the same exact spot as they did last weekend while Awake’s debut pushed Hitman down one slot. It was also a weekend, judging from the numbers, where audiences...
Paramount Home Entertainment's Cloverfield landed in first in both the national DVD sales and rental charts its first week in stores. The film, which topped out just north of $80 million in U.S. theaters, coasted to an easy victory on the Nielsen VideoSca...
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 ...
What They SayJoe Yuki, one of the coolest DJs in Shibuya, has a secret identity as the leader of gangs. Because of his traumatic childhood, he fiercely hates \"weaklings\" and sees winning as his only option in life. One night, an old man is being taunted...
Genre:Comic Book Adaptation/Action.
Studio:Warner Bros.Project Phase:Development Hell.
Who's In It:Unknown.
Who's Making It:TBA
Premise:After experiencing a personal tragedy, Batman becomes more adversarial in his quest for justice in Gotham City. M...