OPINION First off, some good news: I've been informed by my good friend and editor ArnoldT.Blumberg and by a few helpful readers that Marvel will indeed be celebrating the 500th issue of FANTASTIC FOUR by changing back tothe old numbering. Thing is, th...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE's own ArnoldBlumberg 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 withthe popular, and vastly grisly, ALIENS, in SUPE...
...tten withArnoldT.Blumberg) as the worst Christmas story! Eh, what are you going to do..."Daria" writes in to say the following about this "groovy" tale written by the recently deceased Bob Haney and drawn by Nick Cardy: "It was a retelling (sort of!...
...APE's own ArnoldT.Blumberg, who ended an otherwise strongly positive article withthese thoughts: "Yes, it does get a bit preachy from time totime, and yes the sentiments all of which have already been heard on television and seen in print countles...
Last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger came out and gave his take on the delay of his COLLATERAL DAMAGE flick.While appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor program on Thursday night,Arnold revealed that he had no qualms at all about the film being pulled out of...
While waiting to start shooting TRUE LIES 2 with James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, comedian Tom Arnold has signed onto Joel Silver's (DIE HARD, DEMOLITION MAN, LETHAL WEAPON, THE MATRIX) new action production, CRADLE TO GRAVE. Arnold finds himself ...
Speaking at his annual golf tournament,The Arnold Classic, actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger let slip how his new Terminator character travels back from the future. According tothe big man himself, the new T-850 Terminator (notice it's...
Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold has died in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84. Sir Malcolm, who won an Oscar for the musical score tothe BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI film in 1958 - was suffering from a chest infection. While renowned as a classical...
David Arnold (TOMORROW NEVER DIES, GODZILLA, INDEPENDENCE DAY, STARGATE) will compose an original score for Stephen Woolley's THE WILD AND WYCKED WORLD OF BRIAN JONES, the film about Rolling Stones guitarist and co-founder. Arnold will also score the new ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger versus the Devil? From the moment it was announced, END OF DAYS sound too preposterous to be a true project. How on earth would Mr. Terminator take on the forces of Satan? In the film, the actor portrays ex-cop Jericho Cane, who bare...
Flying over the cranberry capitol of Canada, I`m gawking out the plane window staring at the magnificent Frazier River. I`m thinking that in about 12 hours, I`ll be on the set of Arnold Schwarzeneggar`s latest film THE 6TH DAY, a science fiction thriller...
Hold on to your hats people: I just got back from a 2-day trip to Canada, hanging out on the set of Arnold Schwarzenegger`s latest sci-fi thriller THE SIXTH DAY, which co-stars Robert Duvall and Michael Rooker. In the film, produced by ROBOCOP’s Jon Davi...
During yesterday's taping of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, Arnold Schwarzenegger made it official and announced that he will be running as a candidateto replace California governor Gray Davis in the upcoming fall election. Previous tothe annoucement i...
According to Virgin.net,Arnold Schwarzenegger may be returning tothe movies, yet.James Cameron is said to be "waiting" for Arnold before he begins work on the movie Battle Angel Alita because he wants Schwarzenegger to play 'Ido' in the film.H...
According toTERMINATOR 4 co-writer Michael Ferris, don't expect to see Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming TERMINATOR film."'Terminator 3' kind of closed the book on Schwarzenegger, as did his gubernatorial career," said Ferris in an interview with Ent...
That's what producer Moritz Borman has hinted at in the latest issue of Empire Magazine. The producer opened the doors officially on Arnold popping up in the two subsequent sequels after TERMINATOR SALVATION:THE FUTURE BEGINS. Borman also explained that t...
If you`ve got terroriststhreatening the world`s oil supply, you call on James Bond. If you`ve got Satan threatening the human race with extinction, you turn toArnold. After a two year absence from the big-screen, Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a dramatic r...
While promoting after-school programs last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his guess on when his delayed COLLATERAL DAMAGE may finally get theatrically released.In an appearance on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles last Wednesday, Arnold guessed as tothe fate of D...
Adam Rifkin has cast David Carradine, Ali Larter, Tom Arnold, Talia Shire and Hayes MacArthur to star in HOMO ERECTUS: A CAVEMAN COMEDY. The film centers on Ishbo (Rifkin), a philosophical caveman who loves Fardart (Larter), but she only has eyes for Ish...
Staggering up the cordoned-off stairways toward the sky-high rooftop set of the The Sixth Day, which is being filmed aloft Vancouver`s Canada Post Office, I hear an ear-deafening noise. Peering through a steel meshed dividing wall, I see a mountainous s...
David Arnold’s fourthtime behind the baton on a James Bond score, Casino Royale, is another masterful romantic action adventure mixing the distinguishing flavors of John Barry’s traditional 007 sound withthe modern textures and vitality o...
The James Bond phenomenon gets a new lease of life – in the form of the new Bond, Daniel Craig – in director Martin Campbell's Casino Royale, for which composer David Arnold returns with an exciting original score. Exclusively to iTunes, So...
The World Is Not Enough, the 19th official James Bond film, scored big at the box office when it was released late last year, but it was hardly the breakthrough film its makers would have us believe. This special edition DVD presentsthe film with a beaut...
For Part One of my conversation with Roger Spottiswoode, I ventured out onto rooftops of Canada, where the , director of The Sixth Day was setting up one of the many action sequences in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film. At that time, he demurred when asked ...
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...
Hollywood is a slaughterhouse where cool movie ideas go to die. Here are ten films that were tragically cut down before their time, simply because they were just too friggin' awesome. #10. Peter Jackson's Halo Fans of the popular video game wept tears of ...
HD DVD Outselling Blu-ray 3:1:: Last week the North American HD DVD Promotional Group, the organization responsible for touting HD DVDs as you could probably guess from the name, issued a press release where they quoted the Nielsen VideoScan DVD sell-thr...
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Paramount Pictures.Production Company:Walden Media/Paramount Pictures.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Jackie Chan (Passepartout); Steve Coogan (Phileas Fogg); Jim Broadbent (Lord Kelvin); Johnny Knoxville; Cecile de Fran...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Dario Marianelli has followed up his notable scores for The Brothers Grimm and, especially, V For Vendetta, with a straightforward horror composition for Asif Kapadia’s moody ghost story, The Return, starr...
From comic books, cartoons, TV shows, films, and rock stars—nearly everything has been made into an action figure. But what about the licenses that have yet been given their justice and made into an action figure? This at week, we take a look at ...
Thanks to a reader named "Valaryc", we've got some amazing snapshots from last weekend's TERMINATOR 3 panel and display held at the Los Angeles Comic Book Convention. Among the attendees on the T3 panel were stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kristinna Loken an...
The Arnold Fans.com continues to publish reports about a possible deal for Arnold Schwarzenegger to reprise his role as Conan.In a note from a Warner Bros., an executive (presumably Alan Horn) stated, "The only thing I can tell you at this time is that th...
After he completes scoring the new James Bond film, CASINO ROYALE, for director Martin Campbell, David Arnold (who perfectly replicated and expanded the classic John Barry 007 sound for TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and DIE ANOTHER DAY), w...
Anyone else almost slip into a coma last week due to excessive amounts of turkey and the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER marathon on FX? O.K. then, maybe it was just me.I'm not saying BUFFY is boring and that's why I almost slipped into a coma. It was a feeling ...
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom France comes the first ever original soundtrack release of the full score from 1976's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Record Makers 7243 593241 2 8). The movie was John Carpenter's sophomore directorial effort, a kind of RIO BRAVO ...
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...
Paramount issued a press release this week promising a `Trekker`s Biggest Dream`--a walk-on role in the finale of Star Trek: Voyager--as the grand prize in a contest to introduce the new Voyager section of the official startrek.com Website. `UPN and Param...
THE SCHWARZENEGGER COLLECTION will be coming to shelves in June of 2006. The DVD box-set will contain three classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movies: PREDATOR, COMMANDO & TRUE LIES.Features on each include:PREDATOR- Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger , Carl Weather...
In a tragic case of life imitating art,the Warner Bros. action pic COLLATERAL DAMAGE (directed by Andrew Davis) was pushed back from its original September release due tothe Osama bin Laden led terrorist attacks that crippled both New York City and Wash...
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As if those heavyweights weren't enough, the con also hosted writer Mark Waid, GREEN ARROW scripter and novelist Brad Meltzer, artist John K. Snyder III, illustrator Adam Hughes, and current fan fave Judd Winick of GREEN LA...
In the first part of CINESCAPE's Arnold Schwarzenegger profile, the actor explained how the attacks of September 11th affected his new terrorist-themed action film, COLLATERAL DAMAGE. Today, Schwarzenegger continues the discussion.
A captured Arnold...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONHans Zimmer, who produced Klaus Badelt's masterful score for the original PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (but who, as Badelt's immediate protégé, was also believed to have had more than a slight hand in its co...
One of 1999`s most heavily promoted, and ultimately disappointing, releases, was director Peter Hyam’s countdown-to-the-millennium thriller of Days, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film, which finds a faithless and suicidal cop out to save a young w...
It’s one week before Halloween, a holiday that has become almost synonymous (probably thanks to John Carpenter) withthe viewing of scary movies at theaters or at home. The deluge of new, classic, obscure and frequently crappy titles that has filled thes...
Although director Andrew Davis' COLLATERAL DAMAGE was pushed back from its original fall release after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11, the filmmaker maintains that his moviewhich stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a fireman o...
2006 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECAP
By far the best soundtrack release of 2007 was certainly the majestic, 3-CD release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Complete Recording – but that’s a revived archival score, and we&...
Eliza Dushku is perhaps best known to genre fans as that other slayer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Dushku's slayer Faith was a counterpoint to Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy for a good part of the show's third season, a tough-fighting, hard-living, take-no...
On this holiday weekend, where everyone is traveling here or jetting off there, one lesser known vacation alternative also happens to be one of the coolest:that ever-enticing sci-fi trope, time travel. With it come the eternal questions that speak tothe...
Never say never again.David Duchovny will reprise his role as Fox Mulder in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES on May 19.Wow, that almost makes me want to watch the show again. Almost.X-FILES creator Chris Carter promises to wrap up the whole mytho...
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED was took in enough cash to rule the box office, smiting JOHN Q to second place and out distancing the other newcomer, Kevin Costner's DRAGONFLY. And for those of you watching, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest att...
Ending months of speculation and wild goose Internet rumors, Nick Stahl (IN THE BEDROOM) has been cast as John Conner in T3: RISE OF THE MACHINES. He steps intothe role after T2's John Conner, Edward Furlong, could not reprise the mantle because of perso...
Withthe final numbers in, we know how big JOHN Q lorded over the box office top ten this last weekend, and how far ROLLERBALL fell in its second week.When the final beans were counted, JOHN Q opened to $23.6 million, followed still by CROSSROADS an...
Sylvester Stallone has been named the Action Star of the Millennium by the Video Software Dealers Association, the trade group from home video businesses. The group will award Stallone (ROCKY, RAMBO) with a trophy at their annual trade show in Las Vegas, ...
Warner Bros. has just released the first image from the currently in production TERMINATOR 3: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES. Set 10 years after the adventures of T2, this third installment in THE TERMINATOR franchise stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl and...
TERMINATOR fans already know that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger will return to star in TERMINATOR 3: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES, but audiences can also anticipate him starring in what looks to be two other returning franchises at Warner Bros.First, Schwarzene...
VIDEO NEWSMedia Blasters, an indie label best known for anime fare, has been making encroachments into Anchor Bay territory lately with periodic releases of some Euro horror goodies. Continuing that trend, the company recently announced their upcoming rel...
A number of disparate elements for the coming TERMINATOR 3 movie project are said to be nearly jelling.Contrary to previous reportsthat every major element was etched in stone, word has it that star Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Jonathan Mostow's in...
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Brandywine.Project Phase: Movies Rumored.Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet, but both Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) and Winona Ryder (Call) have voiced their interest to retur...
Director Andrew Davis has been talking about his newly rescheduled COLLATERAL DAMAGE, which Warner Bros. abruptly pulled off its first release date due tothe tragic events of September 11th.While talking to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Davis spoke ...
Two months after it was pulled from its original release window, Arnold Schwarzenegger's COLLATERAL DAMAGE finally has a solid release date.Warner Bros. has chosen to release the film on February 8th, on the Presidents Day holiday weekend. Previously, MGM...
The first image from the set of TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES is out and... it looks awfully familiar to anyone who's seen the first two.Things are on fire, which is good. A vehicle of some sort is crashed, which is also good. And Arnold is looking b...
Universal Pictures is looking to remake one of its most beloved monster films, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.Gary Ross' Larger Than Life Prods. shingle will handle the film, which will be produced by helmer Gary Ross with his father, Arthur A. Ross. The ...
While promoting his fireman-takes-on-terrorists actioner COLLATERAL DAMAGE, Arnold Schwarzenegger was unusually forthcoming with details regarding the third installment of the TERMINATOR franchise."TERMINATOR 3 is terrific," said Schwarzenegger enthusiast...
Imagine you're a boy genius who can build amazing contraptions like rocket ships and robot dogs. However, you're also such a nerd that you constantly embarrass yourself in front of the neighborhood children who've nicknamed you "Shorty." Burgeoning Texas ...
First of all, let us all here at the CINESCAPE video secton offer you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. Do yourself a favor, and take a break from your busy schedule to sit down and watch one of your favorite holiday shows - IT'S A WONDERFUL L...
Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly has put his considerable foot down, and it now looks like the bulk of the shooting on TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES will be done in California, and not Canada.In an item carried in the CALGARY SUN, the British Columbi...
Rob Schneider is stepping intothe shoes of Arnold Schwarzenegger... kind of. The ex SNLer has just signed for the lead in the barbarian movie parody HARV THE BARBARIAN. The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER described the movie as a "MONTY PYTHON-esque tale" (big words,...
ABCNEWS.go.com covers the building buzz around the possibilitythat the California Republican Party will look toArnold Schwarzenegger as their next gubernatorial candidate in the golden bear state.The plus-sized thespian's backing of a successful $550m e...
By rights, I-SPY ought to not work at all. First of all, it's one of those movie adaptations of a TV series that cannibalizes its source material for names and retains little or nothing of value from the original, which is a form of false advertising. In ...
From the director of that insufferable Barnes & Barnes music video “Fish Heads” comes a tale about avenging angels in Texas. Why their needs to be avenging angels in Texas is for God to say. Personally, I think that’s a bit of overkill in a state wher...
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a record 17 animated films as eligible to be nominated for Oscars. The mixed live/CG production STUART LITTLE 2 is the first such film to be admitted tothe category. A maximum of five will be nomi...
It's fitting that at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier, Calif., a franchise is rising from the dead and taking no prisoners. It's a hot spring day as Arnold Schwarzenegger emerges from a crypt wielding machine guns and carrying a casket on his shoulders....
In part one of our RAPTOR profile, director Jim Wynorski explained how his latest direct-to-video dinosaur fest is a "Hardware Film"a picture that utilizes footage from other films, in this case John Buechler's animatronic dinos from the CARNOSAUR movies....
Although the magazine doesn't state what roles they will be playing in the picture, today's Variety reportsthat Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Cleese will provide cameo appearances in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. The Jules Verne story, which stars Jacki...
Release Date: August 1, 2008Studio: Universal PicturesDirector: Rob CohenScreenwriter: Alfred Gough, Miles MillarStarring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, Luke Ford, Isabella LeongGenre: Action, Adventure, Fa...
While teasing next summer's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES at the San Diego Comic Con, series star Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about getting back to playing one of the most famous hero/villains in movie history, the killing machine T-800. "It was lik...
The crew that gave us the FUGITIVE sequel U.S. MARSHALS is at it again, this time with hopes to create an hour-long drama version of the show on ABC. The network has ordered a pilot of the show, to be produced by FUGITIVE and U.S. MARSHALS producers Arnol...
Best known to genre fans as Faith, that other slayer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Eliza Dushku has actually had a lengthy acting career considering her young age. Before nailing the role of Faith, the tough-fighting, hard-living, take-no-prisoners slayer,...
In an interview with CINESCAPE's own ArnoldT.Blumberg, STAR WARS creator George Lucas is talking again about the symbolic and mythological underpinnings he's tried to weave into his 'adolescent' adventures in the STAR WARS universe. He acknowledges many...
So, the networks are announcing their new fall schedules this week.I've got a couple of shows whose fate I'm really concerned about, but I learned a long time ago that the shows I love are usually the ones that get cancelled.For every SIMPSONS that surviv...
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY is not a film that requires, at this point, any critical re-evaluation. The film stands pretty much as it did when it first wowed fans back in 1991, as both an entertaining spectacle and a landmark special effects film. The bigg...
It's 3:45 a.m. where Steve Irwin is atop the mountainous Great Dividing Range that runs along Australia's eastern coast - but the self-styled environmental crusader, TV documentary host and now movie star is already up and running around with his usual i...
In a recent chat with CINESCAPE's own ArnoldT.Blumberg, X-MEN 2 producer Ralph Winter recently dropped a few bits about the film, and the characters who are playing big roles in the story. "We're going further and deeper about Wolverine," says Winter. ...
VIDEO NEWSWhile many video companies are scaling back on the release of extras laden classic film DVD special editions, Warner Home Video recently announced five new ones coming this September. The announcement includes three Academy Award Winners: AMADEU...
This Week’s RecommendationSOK – I’ll admit a prejudice: John Scott’s majestic and heroic score for THE FINAL COUNTDOWN was an instant favorite when the film first appeared in 1980. A thrilling and compelling story about a modern-day nuclear aircraft carri...
(LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2007) " Anime Expo 2007 (June 29-July 2) in Long Beach is almost upon us and Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce its upcoming convention plans.
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Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Koge-DonboTranslated by:Nan RymerAdapted by:What They SayA Lonely Lad, an Adorable Angel, and Hyperactive Hijinks... It's a hard life for Kotarou. His father is always away on business, and his mother recently passed away. He ...
The Review!This review will be different from my "Tenchi in Tokyo" reviews. When I write my "Tenchi in Tokyo" reviews, it's within a few hours of seeing the episodes for the first time, so I'm recording my initial impressions. I first