As a child, I always thought BruceLee was cool. I mean, I just knew by watching his movies and seeing that look in those glaring eyes that he was one bad man. It's unfortunate that he never got around to reaching his full potential as an actor, as the on...
You know that you've been waiting for information about the upcoming BruceLee game for the Xbox. Ever since you saw that picture included with the upcoming games booklet Microsoft included with the Xbox system, you wanted to know more about this game. Ok...
The late, legendary martial arts movie star BruceLee will live again in a new feature film via the wonders of computer effects.The Korean ShinCine production, headed by Chul Shin and partially backed by Samsung, has acquired the rights to Lee's likeness ...
The Incredible Hulk has long been one of the Marvel Universe's core characters, based in the early Stan Lee/Jack Kirby conceit of a hero wearing the body of a monster. An outcast, a creature who destroys everyone and everything around him Dr. Bruce Banne...
After weeks of fan speculation on the duration and format of Stan Lee`s Elseworlds version of the DC Universe, DC finally broke its silence, giving USA Today the exclusive lowdown in today`s issue. Hang on true believers; the Man is turning his creative e...
ENTER THE DRAGON is one of the most important movies in all of Asian cinema in a number of ways. It turned BruceLee from a cult star into the number one movie star in the world, until his untimely death - and a bankable name for years after, due to the e...
You knew him as Luke Macahan in the 1970s How the West Was Won mini-series, as Billy Montana in three Gambler TV movies, as Frank Buck in the short-lived 1982 series Bring ‘Em Back Alive, as the title character Tron in the Disney feature, as Lee Stetson i...
Ang Lee, hip-deep in preparation for THE HULK, staring Eric Bana as Bruce Banner/THE HULK, Nick Nolte as his pappy and Jennifer Connelly as his main squeeze, and the director is hoping to stave off the usual dribs and drabs of rumors from a comic book mov...
At Wednesday's San Francisco, Calif.-based press conference promoting the Bay Area shooting of Universal's THE HULK, the typically tight-lipped director Ang Lee hinted at what audiences could expect from his rendition of the gamma irradiated green goliath...
Spike Lee will soon be jumping into the murky waters of theoretical physics' clash with the theory of time traveling. The trades are reporting that Lee will be directing co-writing Time Traveler, an adaptation based around the memoirs of African-American ...
Stan Lee is at
it again according to The Hollywood
Reporter. Lee has launched a new company, POW! Entertainment, and is busy
cutting deals with parties in Hollywood.
According to
the writer, MGM and Bruce Willis' Cheyenne Enterprises have signed a ...
Wayne Williams lives in the tough inner city with his mother, whose policeman husband was recently killed in the line of duty. He soon runs afoul of local hoodlum Handz Horgum, who frames the young man as part of an armed robbery at the store where Willia...
...F THE WEEKBruceLee not only revolutionized the action cinema industry, but left a giant hole in it when he died. Having been shown the potential of international box office, producers rushed to fill the gap any way they could with various knock-offs ...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. That’s how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
...l edition BruceLee posters inside. I had BruceLee all over my walls, and I used to photocopy Jet Li pictures and put those on my walls. I know it sounds really sick, because my brother had women all over his walls, all these sexy goddesses, and I h...
Welcome to the second installment of "Fans Take On..." an ongoing feature where fans get to talk about a significant individual in the US anime industry. This month, we asked fans to talk about a legend in the American anime industry, Wendee Lee.
Quicky ...
....(O) REAL BRUCELEE 2 (VideoAsia) Another Lee documentary, plus Bruce Li starring in COUNTERATTACK (aka CHINESE STUNTMAN), with commentrak, behind-the-scenes and more.(O) REVENGE IN OLYMPIA (Ariztical) This may just be the first softcore gay sex martia...
... IMAGE OF BRUCELEE, SNAKE TIGER & CRANE, SHAOLIN DEADLY KICKS, CHASE STEP BY STEP, BRUCELEE THE INVINCIBLE, BIG FIGHT, STREET FIGHTER, DEATH MACHINES, INFERNAL STREET and SHADOW NINJA. (O) LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK (Image) Carl Dreyer's 1920 epic ...
(additional reporting by Arnold T. Blumberg)It's like cats and dogs signing a peace accord or oil and water agreeing that it's finally time to mix: DC Comics has delivered its most beloved superheroes into the hands of their greatest enemy. No, not Darkse...
Stan Lee runs down the various projects he has in development
"One called Earth Walker we're developing for TV. Lightspeed, we're developing that with the Sci Fi Channel. Night Bird, a female hero, with Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin's company."
Mor...
... SAMURAI; BRUCELEE: THE MAN, THE MYTH; BRUCELEE FIGHTS BACK FROM THE GRAVE; CHAMP AGAINST CHAMP; KUNG FU: THE INVISIBLE FIST; NINJA CONNECTION; IMAGE OF BRUCELEE; BLACK DRAGON[ ]BLUE SUNSHINE (Synapse) This long unavailable cult classic, about an ex...
...e bill of BruceLee. First Bruce avenges the murder of his master, next Bruce kills Chuck Norris, and for dessert he avenges the murder of his relatives. Find out more about these films and others like them by purchasing VIDEOHOUND'S DRAGON: ASIAN ACTI...
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...
... the many BruceLee imitators, but many of his movies provide a lot of goofy fun. For some reason, Brentwood left this one out of their Dragon Lee box set. Lee plays a Ming given an Important Document (the ever-present rebel name list) by his dying com...
After nearly four years of courtroom drama and a $100,000 spent by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, embattled comic retailer Gordon Lee has been cleared of all charges. On Friday at the New York Comic Con, at “The CBLDF Presents An Evening wi...
...ival. (O) BRUCELEE LEGACY PACK (VideoAsia) Four Bruceploitation titles from the 1970s: DEATH BY MISADVENTURE, YOUNG BRUCELEE: THE LITTLE DRAGON, BRUCELEE: TRUE STORY and FIST OF UNICORN. With commentraks, featurettes, interviews, deleted footage and...
...AGON: THE BRUCELEE STORY (AMC, 8:00pm PST)
A very well done retelling of the life of BruceLee, at least it seemed good when I saw it back in 1993….
STARGATE SG-1 (SCIFI, 8:00pm PST) “Talion”
When a sinister leader threa...
... he loved BruceLee and always wanted to do something like Bruce, and of course I thought that was great. So that is why I designed some of the kicks, the spinning kick, the scissor kick like BruceLee. He didn`t have to do any special training for i...
...ot to use BruceLee on the KUNG FU series he helped to create, and picked up the son of actor John Carradine instead. But the actor walked away from the program after three seasons when he felt KUNG FU’s innovative urge had dwindled to common theatrics...
Stan Lee is justifiably credited with revolutionizing the comic book industry in the 1960s. He is the man who recognized that the genre could be so much more than dopey fantasies with no relationship to the real world. His characters (among them Spider-Ma...
... ghost of BruceLee asks him to take on some criminals. In the autobiographical DYNAMO, Bruce is hired to imitate BruceLee to become a new film star.(O) ED! (Universal) Matt LeBlanc career highlight teams him with a baseb...
...kie Chan, BruceLee, martial arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championships, of which he is a fan. However, I am honored to share with you a little bit about Duncan`s background, his love and respect for his mother, and his humble beginnings in film, in...
...copies of BRUCELEE ULTIMATE COLLECTION courtesy of Fox, use the subject "BRUCE". For one copy of THE BIG LEBOWSKI courtesy of Universal, use the subject "BIG". For one copy of HOUSE OF VOICES courtesy of Universal, use the subject "HOUSE". SPOTLIGHT O...
... a fan of BruceLee, you?ll be amused by the sounds Ken makes when he fights. Ken takes out almost everyone in one hit, so the fights never last long. After Ken uses Hokuto Shin on a major bad guy, you get the line ?You?re already dead?. When Hokuto S...
...ose early BruceLee two-on-one disks that looked like they were ported directly from someone’s aging VHS collection. Thankfully, this volume isn’t that bad (and it still looks better than my beat-to-hell-and-back VHS tapes), but after the m...
... immortal BruceLee: "Be water my friend . . ." By the end of this episode, Spike's gruffness melts away even more. Escaflowne fans take note: Maya "Hitomi" Sakamoto has a cameo in this episode. Another milestone for this episode, the Bebop crew actual...
Since the death of BruceLee, no performer has represented the face of martial arts more prominently than Jackie Chan. Starting with Asian films like Drunken Master and Fearless Hyena, he quickly established a unique onscreen style emphasizing comedy and ...
...alled the BruceLee method (also his inspiration).
Audience: What are your favorite parts of the movie? (question to be revised
later)
Kanno: I like Spike. English Spike is cool. Ein too.
Kawamoto: I have a Welsh Corgi, who influenced...
...e Runner, BruceLee, Dirty Harry and Jack Kerouac." I say that it is all these things - and possibly, even more. Session 3 will astound and touch you with its lighthearted outtakes on life in Toys in the Attic and Bohemian Rhapsody and with its surpris...
...legendary BruceLee as his trusty assistant Kato. Seen as a challenge to the BATMAN television series, Billy May's music for these 1966 episodes is one of the most sought-after of its genre. Harkit has released it as a limited edition CD with a 20 page...
...ong since BruceLee died. A classic, now available with 20 minutes chopped out of it, courtesy of Miramax. Well, at least they didn’t change the title, and the original 112-minute Chinese version is included as a bonus!NEW RELEASES(O) AMERICA’S MOST HA...
...ic, not a BruceLee kind of kung fu film.KUNG-FU LEGENDS II: TURBO EDITIONThe disc’s clever arcade-style menu screens may have been inspired by this visually inventive short. It includes score-keeping graphics and special effects that makes you want to...
ZERO Sum by David Michael Wharton (Mon 01-10-2005)
...ual parts BruceLee and the Punisher, a fearsome and brutal thug perfectly content to roll over, under, around, or through anyone in his or his employer's way.So then, perhaps it would be appropriate for us to see some hint of his former prowess. Even ...
...thing for BruceLee movies. Boy, do they know how to kick. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER became a hit not due to the hoisted breasts and skirt lengths of its femme leads, but because of genuinely clever, involving and exciting script writing that took t...
Warner Bros has set executive producer Kurt Sutter (FX's The Shield) to write and direct a remake to the 1973 kung fu classic, ENTER THE DRAGON, starring BruceLee. The remake will be titled AWAKEN THE DRAGON to be produced by John Wells, Fred Weintraub a...
...rk Angel, BruceLee figures and more. Heck, even Playmates is having some fun with its BLOCKOS line based on the Simpsons. So who's next on the tiny toy list? Well, that'd be Toynami, the fine folks behind some kick-ass ROBOTECH toys as well as upcomin...
...AGON: THE BRUCELEE STORY and DRAGONHEART) that continue to be used in trailers and commercials a decade and a half later. This will be an original score with new themes, played by the London Symphony Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios. There wil...
...er Bros.) BruceLee kung fu classic. (O) THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE (Sony) (O) FOUR BROTHERS (Paramount) (O) HOUSE OF WAX (Warner Bros.) Horror non-remake remake. (O) LIKE MIKE (Fox) Lil' Bow Wow becomes a star basketball player with the help of some m...
Quadrilogy by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-29-2008)
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Fist of BruceLee/Blood Fight
King of California [Blu,-ray]
King of California [HD DVD]
Kiss and Tell
Ricco the Mean Machine
Studs
ANIME
Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad VI
Naruto Vol. 20- Light Vs. Dark
Ragnarok: The Animation - Second Quest v.2...
And I doubt the late great BruceLee would mind that choice at all. In an interview with the writer and star of The Green Hornet, Rogen told Heather Newgen that he's still looking for martial arts star Stephen Chow to lead the installment though since the...
...played by BruceLee, is now being overseen by Seth Rogen and his partner Evan Goldberg as screenwriters. Previous reports have Rogen wanting martial arts star Stephen Chow in the role of Kato but that hasn't been confirmed yet. Plot Summary: "The ...
...his idol, BruceLee, Fei Long hopes to one day master Jeet Kun Do and train other students in its way.. IBUKI: Descended from a long line of ninjas, Ibuki is a deadly combatant with ancient skills and Ninjitsu training. But she is also an easygoing, yo...
...s GOODBYE BRUCELEE, CHINESE CONNECTION, STREET FIGHTER and DRAGON FIST. (O) MOMENTUM (Buena Vista) No doubt this 2003 US/German TV-movie is being revived due to the renewed popularity of Teri Hatcher, who plays an FBI agent on the trail of fellow agen...
...atton and BruceLee in the space of 10 minutes, and we're treated to Samuel L. Jackson's Mace Windu being as bad an ass as we had hoped.But the most important improvements and strengths go deeper. While Lucas vacillates in interviews between dismissing...
...then you obviously weren't around the first time Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung-Fu, enjoyed his hour of popularity in the Marvel Universe. The character was created at a time when badly-dubbed kung fu and karate movies were all the rage and when Bruce L...
...CLONES OF BRUCELEE) to sex (EMMANUELLE 3). He hired ex-cameraman Alan Birkinshaw (director of the slasher flick KILLER’S MOON) to head into the wilds of the Philippines with a head-scratching array of talent.Stuart Whitman starred in many westerns thr...
...sia) 1979 BruceLee knock-off.(O) TWILIGHT ZONE: Season 1 (Image) [IMG6L]Six-disc set of Rod Serling’s classic TV fantasy anthology in HD transfers. Includes commentraks, Serling lectures, promos, music tracks, bloopers, original pilot and more.(O) TWI...
...ynamic as BruceLee, as menacing as Sonny Chiba or as charming as Jackie Chan, so beware.ROCK STAR is one of those big budget, high concept Hollywood projects that looked like it couldn't fail. You just pair up-and-coming hunk Mark Wahlberg with TV sup...
Director Rob Cohen has released a new set photo for THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE EMPEROR DRAGON over at his official blog. The pic shows the first look of his mausoleum set. He's also revealed that Randy Edelman (Dragon:The BruceLee Story, Dragonheart) will be...
... kid in a BruceLee outfit, appropriate for the disc called 'Class Of Death.' A white background has Becky in a martial arts pose with an orange jumpsuit with black stripes a la BruceLee. The back has 8 small screenshots of the episodes with the disc ...
...more. (O) BRUCELEE, WE MISS YOU (Koch) Bruceploitation starring Bruce Li. (O) CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD (Echo Bridge) Nutty sequel to CATEGORY 6 has James Brolin, top scientist Shannon Doherty, FEMA head Gina Gershon, Swoosie Kurtz, Randy Quaid...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Saruwatari TetsuyaTranslated by:JN ProductionsAdapted by:What They SayHigh-school junior Kiichi Miyazawa ("Kiboo" to his friends) dreams of becoming an action star like his idols BruceLee and Jackie Chan. He just may have the...
It`s been 22 years since Michael Myers broke out of the loony bin, commandeered a government vehicle and then terrorized his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, but the trail of dead bodies left in his wake is pretty easy to follow. Without John Carpenter`...
... official BruceLee poster for Universal Studios; a promotional poster for the Etherian Comic Book Company (poster to premiere at Dragon Con, Atlanta, GA, June 29 - July 2); and, a collage based on THE MATRIX that`s `a gift for myself,` he told me. `I ...
There's some interesting stuff that actor Bruce Campbell had to say to The Seattle Times newspaper this week. Campbell spoke with a Times reporter about the Seattle screening of Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP, that Elvis Presley/Jack Kennedy versus a 3,000...
...ERS (VCI) BruceLeeBruceploitation [IMG4R]from 1980. (O) THE CHRISTOPHER LEE COLLECTION (Blue Underground) A box set of films with horror’s greatest living star in uncut, unrated European versions with DVD extras like interview...
... idolizes BruceLee who gets mixed up with crooks.[ ] TREASURE PLANET (Buena Vista) Disney's visually-engaging animated sci-fi version of TREASURE ISLAND. Includes commentrak, "visual commentary", deleted scenes, games and other features.[ ] TRUTH OR D...
... FISTS OF BRUCELEE.[ ] LARGER THAN LIFE (MGM) The one where Bill Murray inherits an elephant. Janeane Garofalo is the zoologist outraged by his antics. A sweet comedy that turned off Murray’s fans who preferred MEATBALLS. Fulls...
...homage to BruceLee) but also in fantasy and Japanese mythology. Where do your ideas come from? Do the costumes come first or is it the character's power/ability...?JT: My affinity for martial arts grew out of my addiction to Hong Kong action movies in...
...yond; the BruceLee explosion; and much more.Interview footage with dozens of relevant stars, directors and producers – including John Woo, Roger Yuan, Ronny Yu, Lau Kar-Leung, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Cheng Pei-Pei, David Carradine, Corey Yuen, Roger ...
...their pal BruceLee in this prime example of Bruceploitation. Jackie Chan has a bit part.(O) FROST: PORTRAIT OF A VAMPIRE (Artisan) A group of mercenaries comes across a nest of vampires in --- AAAGH! Gary Busey!(O) &...
...all had a BruceLee clone as the star and they even used variations of the late actor’s name such as Bruce Lei or Bruce Le. It was all good stuff!
Come Drink with Me is an early martial arts classic from 1966, written and directed by legen...
... the year.BRUCELEE: QUEST OF THE DRAGON No surprise here. BruceLee is one of my heroes, and him starring in a beat-em up game is just what the doctor ordered. From what I've seen, it's like a 3D FINAL FIGHT game, comparable to the fighting in SHENMUE...
"Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior's" Tony Jaa hopes to be the next big martial arts movie icon to follow in the steps of BruceLee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li by breaking through in the West. Jaa told Reuters that he learned to do all his high flying jumps by leapin...
...Idolizing BruceLee, he envisions a world in hilariously exaggerated style in which practicing kung fu can make everyone's lives better, and Chow is the only film star today who uses his films to directly promote martial arts. The Mighty Steel Leg is...
Occasionally Peter Lorre would give a demonstration of jiu-jitsu in his Mr. Moto B-movie series, but before BruceLee came out swinging in the GREEN HORNET television show, most of the American public had never heard of Asian martial arts of any kind. The...
...ono way. BruceLee first brought Chinese kung-fu film to America, and then Jackie Chan, but it was films like MATRIX, X-MEN and CHARLIE'S ANGELS that put that kind of action in and brought it to the average Westerner. So it only follows that an Americ...
...s and old BruceLee flicks. With the kid-friendly KID, Kamen brought humanity to the martial art."I did intend THE KARATE KID to be a martial arts film that was not about the 'martial,'" says Kamen. "I wanted to present the 'art' or the more spiritual ...
...s.) While BruceLee took off to become a superstar in Hong Kong, David Carradine brought martial arts and Buddhist philosophy to American living rooms via this hit series about a fugitive Shaolin monk’s adventures in the Old West in this classic 1972 s...
...get to be BruceLee or Jackie Chan in my mind.` Like the rest of the actors, the bad guys hadn`t read many of the X-Men titles before getting the job. As such, they didn`t have an idea about the extremely cultish fan following the comic has garnered ov...
... also get BruceLee—sort of—with a segment from DRAGON: THE BRUCELEE STORY.Next up is the great brouhaha between Roddy Piper and Keith David from John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE, followed by another Jet Li martial arts piece, this time culled from the supe...
...played by BruceLee in FIST OF FURY. (O) ICE PIRATES (Warner Bros.) A very funny 1984 space opera spoof with Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman and John Carradine. Much better than the more well known SPACEBALLS. (O) IN...
...erground) BruceLee was preparing to make this philosophical martial arts picture at the time of his death. Five years later, director Richard Moore made the film starring David Carradine, Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall and Eli Wallach. Includes comme...
...for a New BruceLee') join the cast of 'Smallville' (Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW) as series regulars for the hit show's eighth season.
Witwer will play Davis Bloome, a charismatic Metropolis paramedic who – when he isn't saving people &n...
...orship of BruceLee that drew him into performing. While SHAOLIN SOCCER sent up sports movies as a way of promoting the message of kung fu, KUNG FU HUSTLE is his own silly, joyful love letter to vintage kung fu movies. The cast is peppered with familia...
...AGON: THE BRUCELEE STORY. Constant repetition of the theme does prove overbearing, however, and it’s always vital to hammer home that whole exotic, period feeling on these albums, so the soundtrack CD crams in traditional Italian songs like "La Donna ...
... co-star, BruceLee. While not quite as campy as the Adam West Batman series (whose production team also made The Green Hornet ), the series hasn’t stood the test of time all that well. No word yet on the number of episodes on Volume 1, but two dire...
There is a good comedy premise in BRUCE ALMIGHTY, in which a decent fellow gets nearly infinite power and the responsibility that comes with it. It is in many ways ideal for the talents of Jim Carrey, who certainly has some stellar moments here. However.....
From the DVD cover: Tony Valdez (voiced by Wilmer Valderrama) is a college dropout who turned his back on his family's robotics corporation to become a champion skateboarder. But when his parents are murdered and Tony's legs are destroyed in a brutal be...
Comic to film adaptations are
at an all time high in quality and popularity, and one of the most famous
comic book creators has decided it is time to reopen the issue of creator's
rights. None other than Stan "The Man" Lee, co-creator of a...
...TS MASTER BRUCELEE (Delta) Includes Fist of Fear Touch of Death, The Real BruceLee and BruceLee Fights Back From the Grave.(O) MASTERS OF HORROR: VINCENT PRICE (Delta) Includes The Bat, House on Haunted Hill and Last Man on Earth.(O)&nbs...
Due out this November from the Marvel Comics Spider-Man line: SPIDER-GIRL #40Cover by Pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonWritten by Tom Defalco; art by pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonIt's time for "A Death in the Family," as a member of our colorful cast ends up ...
Boy, is my face red! In last week’s column, my spotlight item was a box set of three horror movies that can be viewed in 3-D on the Slingshot label. But soon after the column appeared, a Slingshot representative told me the set has been delayed until next...
Comics2Film's
regular critic thechrisbrown sat down for the big, green comic event of the
summer: Universal Pictures and Marvel's X2: The Hulk. Here's
what our sarcastic critic thought...
Be warned
that the rev...
Let’s get this part out of the way first: SCARS OF DRACULA is not a popular movie. It ranks, in critical estimation, as perhaps the absolutely lowest-regarded film in the Hammer Dracula series, with the possible exception of SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA, whic...
What They SayIn the future, mankind will venture to the far reaches of the cosmos using technologically advanced trains, perhaps the least likely method of intergalactic travel. The fleet of Galaxy Railways transports countless galactic citizens from one ...
Well kids, here we are with another comic movie column. For those of you that never leave the house and still think your copy of SPAWN #1 is worth $80, BATMAN BEGINS opened on Wednesday last week. Critics have rightfully praised it as both an engaging cha...
Well, there are weeks where y'all are talkative and weeks where I'm left wondering if anybody even reads this damn thing. Last week was clearly the former, as the subject of TV on DVD seems to have brought you all out of the lurking woodwork. There's a ...
How's this for a fanboy's dream:In conjunction with the release of SPIDER-MAN, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is going to release a feature length documentary/interview on SPIDER-MAN creator Stan Lee hosted by fellow comic book god and JAY AND SILENT...
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 ...
The New Year is officially here, and with it a new crop of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature is beginning to spring up from the fertile minds of genre authors everywhere. But though 2008 is the year of the new, some authors from the past, ...
Various comic book websites are confirming the news that superstar comic book penciller Jim Lee will be drawing DC Comics' Man of Steel in SUPERMAN. Lee will draw the book for a 12-issue run commencing in March 2004. Joining him will be writer Brian Azzar...
...: LIFE OF BRUCELEE: (Lionsgate) Yet another Lee ocumentary. (O) MASTER’S OF HORROR: Haeckel’s Tale (Anchor Bay) John McNaughton directs a tale of a medical student who discovers a secret city full of wizards and undead creat...
Attendees at
Comic-Con were treated to a panel discussion of Universal Pictures' Hulk
movie. On hand to discuss the film were producers Larry Franco, Gale Anne Hurd,
Avi Arad and director Ang Lee.
The
already-released teaser trailer for the film was ...
You know him. You just don`t remember him. His name is Robert Reynolds, and he`s the most powerful character the Marvel Universe has ever seen. At least when in his guise as The Sentry.`Sentry is the Marvel Universe`s Superman,` says Paul Jenkins, who wil...
The healthy track record of 21st century film adaptations of Marvel Comics characters continues here with what may be the best of the lot.HULK tells the story of how government biologist David Banner (Paul Kersey) was looking for a way to human cells more...
A labor of love can be a most painful child to deliver, mostly because it can be perceived as unwanted when you’re in the exhaustive process of delivering it alone—particularly when you have to pay for most of it yourself. Such was the case with filmmaker...
Perhaps one of the most engaging actors in the history of film is the resplendent Christopher Lee. He has that uncanny ability to hold your attention with a mere glare of his eye, a guttural growl, of his voice or as we most recently saw in SLEEPY HOLLO...
If there's one thing Stan Lee knew, it was how to create cool, interesting characters that would last for decades and become classic superheroes. And that's a relief, since it's arguable this is in fact the only thing Stan Lee knew, judging by the nonsens...
In Part One of our interview with the unrivalled horror icon Christopher Lee, the actor recalled his early years in the horror genre and explained his abhorrence for the phrase `horror film.` In Part Two, we learned why he decided to get involved in Tim ...
From the DVD Cover: The covert world of government "Ghost Squad" agent Daniel Leight (Jason Connery of 'The Secret Life of Ian Fleming' and 'Smallville') comes crashing down when he is critically injured in a building collapse triggered by the genetical...
Spider-Man nuts around the world still have two long months to wait before their favorite wall-crawler officially arrives on the big screen in May, but one famous fan of ol' Webhead is already giving director Sam Raimi's take on the character the thumbs-u...
The latest in the JUST IMAGINE STAN LEE CREATING... series pairs Lee with artist John Byrne for a new interpretation of ROBIN.Here's how DC describes the book, due in February:"An orphan gifted with great agility and intellect, the boy who would one day b...
... inspired BruceLee's FIST OF FURY (1972), where Lee plays a fictional student who avenges his master's death (Jet Li played the same role in FIST OF LEGEND). Yuen Wo-ping directed the 1982 LEGEND OF A FIGHTER which was also about Yuen-gap. The film is...
Christopher Lee will reprise a role he played in the 1967 Hammer horror classic The Devil Rides Out.Lee told Empire Online Joe Dante will direct the remake in which he`ll return to the role of the Duc de Richeleau.As part of a publicity tour for his book ...
The Prize Closet is open again! We have 3 copies of the new deluxe edition of John Waters' CRY-BABY to give away, courtesy of the good folks at Universal. If you want one, just send your USPS mailing address to DVDShoppingList@Cinescape.com with the...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE, director Sam Raimi revealed what's in store with the EVIL DEAD remake he'll be producing. "We want to find a director who will make the film his or her own, with a fresh take on the material," says Raimi. "I will ...
Actress and series star Alexondra Lee is talking about the coming first full season of her SPECIAL UNIT 2 TV series. While talking to Zap2It.com Lee candidly admits, "We got lucky, because, boy, there were not a lot of shows that got picked up this year."...
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jason Lee has signed on to join the upcoming Fox live action and CGI version of Alvin and the Chipmunks.Lee will play the Chipmunks' dad, Dave Seville, while chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore will be computer generat...
Can an anime version of Batman hold a candle next to the recently released Batman movies? Even the animated series of the 90’s?What They SayAcclaimed screenwriters including David Goyer (Batman Begins), Josh Olson (A History of Violence) and Alan Bu...
...sp; BRUCELEE: THE MASTER COLLECTION (Fox) Box set includes FISTS OF FURY, RETURN OF THE DRAGON, THE CHINESE CONNECTION, GAME OF DEATH and BRUCELEE: THE LEGEND.(O) THE COLONY (Lions Gate) When aliens abduct four people to...
...) BEST OF BRUCELEE & THE MARTIAL ARTS (GoodTimes) Bruceploitation set crams BRUCE THE SUPERHERO, BRUCELEE: THE MAN THE MYTH, CHINESE CONNECTION, FISTS OF FURY, DRAGON STORY, and YOUNG BRUCELEE onto two discs.(O) BEST OF OUR GANG (GoodTimes)...
Before my phone interview with Bruce Campbell on Thursday evening, I spent the better part of an hour and a half trying to calm down. I was nervous, to say the least. I undertook my usual pre-interview ritual drinking. This time, it was two swallows of B...
Christopher Lee has now given his opinion on the title STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES... and it's definitely different than Ewan McGregor.Checking in with T-Bone's Star Wars Universe page, a tipster named "Ali" claims to have caught up with ...
Since MTV asked the legendary actor Jack Nicholson on his take of a new Joker and got the eye-catching furious headline, it was only a matter of time before they asked other actors from the pre-Nolan Batman films their take on being replaced. Ac...
In a recent
interview with Keith Giles at Comic
Book Resources, comic god Stan Lee said he's thrilled with the way the Spider-Man
movie shaped up. "They were pretty faithful," Lee told Giles.
"When you make a film you have to make some changes to ma...
The Comics Continuum reports Stan
Lee talked Daredevil during an appearance at the Comics & Pop
Culture Convention in Pasadena, California recently. Lee described his cameo in
the film, and joked, "I don't know why they don't have an Academy Awa...
Variety reports that Stan Lee is teaming up with Walt Disney Pictures to develop three action adventure films under Lee's POW! Entertainment banner. Lee and partner Gill Champion will executive produce the films 'Nick Ratchet', 'Blaze' and 'Tigress'.
Dir...
Ever since artist Jim Lee and writer Jeph Loeb took over duties on DC Comics' BATMAN, the Dark Knight has soared to the top of comic book charts. Originally scheduled to remain on the book for twelve issues and twelve issues only, the success of the duo'...
When interviewing Bryan Singer, it was interesting to hear the X-Men director only give a truly weighty testimonial to one actor and one actor only—and that actor was Bruce Davison. This is a cast that includes such luminaries as Patrick Stewart, SirIan M...
Apparently, director Ang Lee (The Hulk) has been given a NC-17 Rating from the MPAA for his next film, LUST, CAUTION. Usually when they hand this type of rating to a director and a studio, a dialogue is struck and editing is done to tone it back down to t...
Disney has inked an exclusive first-look deal with "Spider-Man" creator and producer Stan Lee and his production company POW! Entertainment.
The multiyear contract calls for Lee -- whose film-friendly characters include the Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Iron...
The Defuser is the hero to walk away with an official Stan Lee endorsement from Season 2 of SCI FI Channel's 'Who Wants to be a Superhero', but even though that chapter is over, Stan Lee and producing partner Gil Champion have many other projects in the w...
The long awaited re-imagining of Wicker Man, currently titled COWBOYS FOR CHRIST, is set to begin next month for Christopher Lee and Director Robin Hardy in both Texas and Scotland, says Moviehole. Btw, I'm talking about the 1973 "Wicker M...
In Part One of our interview with the illustrious Christopher Lee, the actor shared his opinions about the press (specifically, the British Press), his humble beginnings as an actor, and an influential conversation with Boris Karloff, and discussed what i...
It would be nearly impossible for me to think about next summer’s ‘Incredible Hulk’ without at least mentioning Ang Lee’s 2003 effort, but the script I just read does everything it can to forget that movie ever happened.
Lik...
The Hulk by Essex
Universal
Pictures announced Wednesday that it has begun principal photography on The
Hulk, the feature film based upon one of Marvel Comics' most memorable
and popular supe...
This week is a perfect time to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the Fantastic Four, and indeed, the 40th birthday of the Marvel Universe in general as well. A few days ago, just in time to commemorate this landmark in the history of the First Family of ...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE Managing Editor Michael Tunison, Stan "The Man" Lee, creator of Marvel Comics' most memorable superheroes, let loose his rather favorable opinion on the upcoming live action adaptation of SPIDER-MAN."Boy, it looked...
OPINION: OK, I goofed. Although it's been amended since then, any of you who read this column before Thursday will have noticed that I misattributed the recent words of Warren Ellis to M. Ali Choudhury, who reported them to me. (Amongst those who caught t...
For nearly two decades, the enigmatic path to Hollywood set upon by Marvel Comics' hottest properties had been one plagued by misfortune. Be it the web of legal issues locking up production of SPIDER-MAN or the "studio shuffle" that besieged DAREDEVIL ear...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi & Artist: Yoshitaka AmanoTranslated by:Kevin LeahyAdapted by:What They SayIt is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has ended, ravaged in the firestorm of man’s wars and madness. But from the wreckage...
Containing 8 tracks in a limited edition digi-pack pressing, the Italian epic metal band Rhapsody has released an EP titled The Magic of the Wizard's Dream, which proffers a stunning new take on the highlight track from the band's latest album, Symphony o...
Michael
France has spent some time getting to know the denizens of the Marvel Universe.
He has written three films scripts based on Marvel characters. St.
Petersburg Times film Critic Steve Persall interviewed France about
the three projects.
France ...
Contrary to what you may have heard, Jackie Chan did not invent the kung fu comedy. Humor had been combined with martial arts many times before Chan became a star – just look at BruceLee’s funny business in RETURN OF THE DRAGON. As he’s related in countl...
DC Comics had announced an incentive for retailers ordering GEN13 #1, 21 DOWN #1 and THE RESISTANCE #1. For every combined total of 40 copies ordered of the three titles, retailers will receive a bonus: a copy of a new JIM LEE SKETCHBOOK. This 16-page, c...
Let no man call me unwilling to raise the dead. Last week, I hesitated to write yet another critique of Burton's Batman films. Surprisingly, you all wrote an interesting, worthy batch of mail. Seeing as how it was also Halloween weekend, I had every inten...
Stan Lee, the co-creator behind many of Marvel Comics biggest superheroes such as Spider-Man, The Hulk, The X-Men and The Fantastic Four, is getting his own universe to play in. Lee has forged an agreement with childrens entertainment company DIC Entertai...
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Entertainment Weekly caught up with Ang Lee, director of Universal Studios' The Hulk to discuss the creation of the CGI character.
In an unusual move, the article explains how Lee chose to...
"Hellboy" writer Peter Briggs has been hired to write with Stan Lee the script "Foreverman," an original superhero created by Lee. Robert Evans, POW! Entertainment's Stan Lee and Idiom Films will produce. Evans and Lee plan to create a range of ancillary...
Greetings, and welcome to another edition of "Readers Take Aim" on this week's COMICSCAPE. Last week, I asked everyone to send me their thoughts on BATMAN BEGINS, particularly those that didn't care for the film. It seems counterintuitive to welcome disag...
THE PULSE reports that Marvel has filled papers in association with the Stan Lee lawsuit, in which Lee claims that Marvel owes him money based on a 10 percent of profits arrangement for future television or film properties that employ characters he develo...
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy.Studio: Universal Pictures.Production Company: Shady Acres Entertainment/Spyglass Entertainment.Project Phase: Post-production.Who's In It: Jim Carrey (Bruce Nolan); Jennifer Aniston (Grace); Morgan Freeman (God); Lisa Ann Walter.Who...
Stan Lee is talking about his previously announced (and still surprising) partnership with Pamela Anderson for the adult-oriented superhero cartoon, STRIPPERELLA. Set to hit the TNN network next year, STRIPPERELLA's main character will be voiced... now ar...
Confirming long-standing Internet rumors, Lucasfilm officially announced that Christopher Lee has been cast in Star Wars: Episode II as a `charismatic separatist,` despite initial denials from Lee`s manager. Lee, a long-time genre star, was quoted saying ...
When archaeologist Len Lewis goes into darkest Africa in search of the mythical Tree of Life, he gets caught up in the plans of another searcher for the Tree, the evil Reverend Dominic Darrk. But after Darrk's henchmen attempt to murder Lewis, the Tree re...
Salden comes from a world with higher gravity and a thicker atmosphere, a world where the terrorist Gundor Gorrok wreaks havoc. Gorrok has killed Salden's wife and plans to steal the prototype Time/Space Bender to escape. Salden fights his way aboard the ...
We all know the old saying about a cat having nine lives, but what about Catwomen? Well, with Ed Brubaker and Co. launching an all-new incarnation of the feline felon for DC Comics (the first issue is out this week), this particular cat has now exceeded h...
Moviehole.net
scored a swell interview with Spider-Man director Sam Raimi this
week. Here some highlights.
Raimi talked
about the various changes the script underwent during the development. "David Koepp who had wrote the first script...
Still white hot from his success with THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson is making news today with his production company's latest film project. Icon Productions is developing WARRIOR, a movie about the 9th century British queen Bou...
X2: X-MEN UNITED opened in theaters on May 2 and in the 2 weeks subsequent, the sequel has grossed more than the its predecessor. X2's current tally stands at around $175 million dollars. Twentieth Century Fox held the Los Angeles premiere on April 28th ...
One from my collection: OLDBOY This week I thought I'd give a shout out to one of my favorite films of the past few years. I've been watching this one quite a bit lately for pure fun and to gather more insight into the complex layers of this film. If yo...
The Avengers: The Kree-Skrull War collects in trade paperback a story that for many represents one of those key moments in the Marvel Universe that continuity hinges around. Examples are the creation of the Fantastic Four (the official beginning of curren...
Well, for X-Men fans, the dream has finally come true: a multi-million dollar, star-studded movie version of their favorite comic book characters. I’ll leave it to those fans to debate whether this is a worthy adaptation of the source material. As for the...
...at brings BruceLee's personal philosophy to the screen with a still-potent combination of mysticism, humor and martial arts mayhem. 2-disc “Kick Ass” edition includes commentrak, interviews, script, featurettes and more.(O) CLA...
Now don't get angry, Hulk fans (after all, we wouldn't like you when you're angry), but you won't actually get to hear the Green Goliath say "Hulk smash!" or "Hulk is strongest one there is!" when the new Universal feature film, THE HULK, debuts in local ...