Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray are writing CHASTITY: RE-IMAGINED #1, part of the June Re-Imagined event from Chaos! Comics. "It's a one shot, but we pack it full of high-octane action, horror, and, of course, hot chicks with a thirst for blood," Palmiott...
The re-imagining of H.G. Lewis' THE WIZARD OF GORE is the realization of a childhood dream for director Jeremy Kasten.
Kasten and producers Dan Griffiths & Dan Gold pursued the remake rights to the film with the vision of taking the c...
After the cult movie success of RE-ANIMATOR, a somewhat surprised Jeffrey Combs found himself embarking on a career making horror movies, often with some of the same cast and crew. He says, `FROM BEYOND [1986] was the same sort of artistic group, same pro...
After a generous hour of interviewing on July 5th, he returned to the FUNimation booth for some quality time with the cast of Ouran High School Host Club. Jackie Smith, Senior Public Relations Manager also took part in the interview. This interview ...
In each and every toy line there used to be a play set. A headquarters, command center, bunker or a castle that was the crowing achievement in your toy collection. It was the beating heart of your adventures and it was on your holiday/ birthday wi...
When Tim Burton first announced that his version of PLANET OF THE APES would be a "re-imagining" and not a remake of the 1968 classic, many fans were outraged. I imagine now that we've seen the results of that "re-imagining," they're even more upset the ...
OPINION: First of all, you're probably wondering why this week's comics reviews are so far out of date. Well, there's a good explanation for that, and it all has to do with an itty bitty hurricane named Ivan. I've occasionally mentioned the fact that I'm ...
I caught up with Gen Fukunaga, CEO of FUNimation, the afternoon of July 5th at Anime Expo 2008. He was busy with the line of people anxiously waiting to meet the recently announced cast of Ouran High School Host Club. We found space to intervi...
(Additional Reporting by ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG)Just about every major comic book hero has at one time or another had his or her origin told, retold, expanded, re-interpreted, re-imagined or otherwise manipulated by countless writers looking to make their mar...
When Tim Burton calls, talent comes a running. And even the threat of wearing thick makeup and heavy prosthetics doesn't discourage actors from working with the mastermind behind such fantasies as BATMAN, BATMAN RETURNS, BEETLEJUICE, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, ...
John Logan, screenwriter for GLADIATOR and the upcoming STAR TREK: NEMESIS, had to think for about five seconds when offered the chance to adapt the classic H.G. Wells' SF novel, THE TIME MACHINE, for Dreamworks. Offering a new take on the original novel ...
What They SayIt's Arika's first day of class and she's determined to start off on the right foot. However, other people within the school have different plans for her...as one of her uniforms ends up for sale in an Otome idol shop. And if Arika and the re...
Last Updated: September 28, 2006Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, AdventureProduction Company: WingNut FilmsDistributors: NAProject Phase: Peter Jackson has optioned the novels.Budget: NAWho's In It: NAWho's Making It: Peter Jackson (Director, Screenplay, Producer...
Continuing its recent practice of looking to its own past for films to make, the Disney is beginning work on a remake of 1959's talking dog comedy, THE SHAGGY DOG. This comes only eight years after it remade the film in 1994 for television. The film tells...
Last time, writer John Ostrander gave us the scoop on the new Lady Death story arc, THE MOURNING. In Part 2, he explains why Lady Death isn't just another "bad girl," chats a bit about his opinion of the so-called "mainstreaming" of the Chaos! Universe, a...
What They SayA monumental high school comedy.
Time for the graduate volume of Japan’s campus comedy Cromartie High School! This time, your finals include: Biology - where the delinquents of CHS bring their own pets to school; Geography - get lost o...
Magical girls and boys are beginning to appear all over the world and one of the more powerful one appears to be a cute cooking girl named Sasami… What They SaySasami has an amazing secret: magic courses through her veins! But the...
This week, I’m going to talk about something near and dear to my own inner child. It’s going to be about someone in our Hollywood scene who has been a personal favorite of mine since I was a kid and it’s someone who made an impact in ...
The purpose of the digital stuntman is to: A. Replace a human stuntman for stunts that would likely kill or seriously injure a human. For example, getting hit by a bus.B. Do stunts beyond the abilities of a human actor playing a super-powered character. F...
Jason Statham is the action king for the modern age. Sure his movies don’t do the numbers that Stallone’s and Willis’ did in their heyday but they resonate stronger with an edgier, hipper crowd. A smart man’s action hero, he’...
The full schedule for this year's Comic Con has been released here but as always, we're going to sift through the press releases and give you the panels covering Movies, DVD and TV events. You can check out the first two days below.Wednesday, July 23, PRE...
Actor Guy Pearce, who plays Alexander in the new Dreamworks adaptation of THE TIME MACHINE, hadn't even read the H.G. Wells novel before taking the role, but he didn't consider that a hindrance to shaping his character, who is after all very different fro...
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...
"We are doing visual effects on somewhere in the vicinity of 300 shots," says Eric Nash, Digital Domain FX supervisor for Dreamworks' new production of H.G. Wells' classic SF novel, THE TIME MACHINE. "The bulk of it involves the time travel sequences as w...
IESB.net previewed sat down with animation superstar Kevin Munroe and previewed footage from the upcoming 'Gatchaman' feature. Here's an excerpt from the article, which bears exclusive first-look artwork from the film:
...they are going for something m...
Back in the summer of 1999 I was chomping at the bit for a little film called Star Wars The Phantom Menace. I would ritualistically watch the trailer that I recorded when it was on Entertainment Tonight, listen to the soundtrack and rearrange my action fi...
The Inglorious Bastards (1978), known internationally as Quel maledetto treno blindato or in some circles as G.I. BRO, has been given a Criterion Collection quality release by Severin Films. A three disc DVD packed with multiple documentaries, a soundtrac...
What They SayShe’s faced death between the sheets, been captured and tortured by the enemy, and has raised the suspicion of her superiors for not being ruthless enough. Now Mylene Hoffman faces her greatest challenge yet when she sees the f...
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Hello, and welcome to another look at English dubbed anime. One of the great aspects of watching anime right now is that new shows come out all the time. But that doesn't mean that anime has abandoned its narrative ancestors by any means. Samurai 7, relea...
Masahiro’s hunt for Kyuuki puts him in danger while other elements of a supernatural order begin to appear as well.
What They Say
Masahiro desperately looks for Kyuki as Akiko prepares for her upcoming examinations. As he wanders the city day an...
Writer-director Craig Mazin had a burgeoning career as a comedy screenwriter in the late ‘90s when he found himself in a room with David Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun!), bandying about ideas. Their collaboration led to series redeemers Scary Movie...
Anyone paying attention to Hollywood studio filmmaking knows that originality is often at a minimum. Any given year will see more than one major film about vampire blacksmiths or talking racing dogs or whatever released. So it should come as no surpri...
3-Disc Box Set to be Priced at $29.95 SRP and Single Discs to be Priced From $9.95 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (November 21, 2006) î ș Central Park Media announced today that it will kick off the new year with the re-release and re-pricing of Black Jack DVD Collec...
Featuring skillfully-crafted narrative, multilayered characters, and politics more bloody than a George R.R. Martin parley, Brian Ruckley’s Winterbirth delivers an epic tour de force in what Entertainment Weekly describes as “heroic fantasy sp...
After over a year of delays, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier will hit comic shops next Wednesday, November 14th. The Black Dossier has been the source of controversy and speculation ...
Well, the cover will certainly sell copies, but when you publish series focusing almost entirely on scantily-clad bikini and leather-wearing demons and vampires, you must know your audience fairly well. Chaos! knows who's reading and how to deliver exactl...
Inkworks has just announced a brand new trading card set, billed by them as the most "Simpsonsational," centering on the best sitcom of the last 30 years, THE SIMPSONS.The set is not a MAGIC: THE GATHERING type game set, but an old fashion characters set....
Suffering from less of the heavy-handed narration that's marred the two previous installments of this series, the third episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Quandary Phase seems more suited to audio adaptation than its narrative-drenched forb...
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...
Uncle Sam sees it all, and in Steve Darnall and Alex Ross Uncle Sam, the breathing icon is going insane.A Revolutionary veteran named Shay, facing bankruptcy for joining the war, starts a second revolution and is crushed by Washingtons troops, and He is...
Leave it to the comics industry to drop about three things at once in around one week, all worthy of discussion in this week’s Comicscape. DC’s Countdown reached its half-way point last week, World War Hulk wrapped today, and Marvel very ...
We passed this one by when it came out a week or two ago, but it's too important a release to let slip away. As we reported on these pages some time ago, the folks at Marvel were quite excited about the prospects for this new project an historic teaming ...
When Brit author Richard K. Morgan first released Altered Carbon, his debut novel of hardboiled SF genius, the body-swapping detective tale met with little criticism. Winning the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel in 2003, the impressive sci-fi work goes...
After a season's worth of kryptonite-inspired monsters-of-the-week, Clark Kent (a.k.a. Superboy but don't let The WB know I said that) tackles perhaps the one force (aside from those green glowing meteor fragments) that he is powerless against and no, I...
When Warner Brothers canceled “Justice League Unlimited” I wondered how long it would take for the League to return. It certainly didn’t take too long. Based on Darwyn Cooke's award-winning graphic novel, ‘Justice League ...
According to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures will adapt Lionel Wigram's upcoming comic, Sherlock Holmes, for the big screen.Neil Marshall has signed on to direct the film based on a script from Michael Johnson.The exact storyline is being kept under wraps,...
At the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Seoul, South Korea, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled STARCRAFT® II, the sequel to its award-winning real-time strategy game STARCRAFT. The announcement took place inside the Olympic Gymnastics ...
This week's column comes to your courtesy on readers teabagging2000 and lracors who innocently mentioned an Elseworlds comic in regard to my review of last weeks episode of THE 4400. Little did these two commentators know, but I'd been forced to push my ...
The classic 16-bit video game, BOMBERMAN, will be re-imagined by Konami for the Xbox 360. The game will be called BOMBERMAN: ACT ZERO and feature armored battle suits, cybernetic warriors and a new multiplayer mode.The game takes place on a desolate and ...
Jim Butcher propels the Dresden Files, Janine Cross’s dark fantasy series reaches its conclusion, and entertainment journalist Edward Gross takes a stab at chronicling the development of all things Harry Potter in a very weighted edition of this ...
It’s a good Tuesday on this the first week in November as we’ve got a handful of series sequels, a couple promising, original new novels, and a Star Trek Enterprise guide in this Penguin Group- and Wizards of the Coast-dominated Weekly Book...
In the wake of so many lucrative CG films it’s easy to see that early blockbusters like Toy Story (1995) and Shrek (2002) were the frontrunners for traditional animation’s demise. Now 12 years after the first theatrical release of a CGI fea...
February 25, 2004 (Cypress, CA) ? Bandai Entertainment announced the remaining DVD catalog titles set for re-release during the month of April 2004. The re-release of DVD properties was deemed necessary in order to help facilitate and ease the establishm...
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February 25, 2004 (Cypress, CA) ? Bandai Entertainment announced the remaining DVD catalog titles set for re-release during the month of April 2004. The r...
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a promising young medical student who has sort of gotten on the wrong track with his studies. You see, hes invented a serum that can re-animate the dead, and upon arriving at his new school West begins to experiment on r...
Box Set to be Priced at $39.95 SRP and Single Discs to be Priced From $9.95 SRP to $19.95 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (September 12, 2006) î ș Central Park Media announced that it will reduce the price on four of its popular DVDs at the time of their re-release on...
Ah, the politics of high school girls in an all girls catholic school…What They SayWhen Yumi Fukuzawa entered the Lillian Girls' Academy, a prestigious all-girls Catholic school in Tokyo, she never imagined she would catch the eye of beautiful and ...
It’s time to talk about the Godfathers of Modern Cinema. Only a select few can be properly placed in this type of category because of the lasting imprint they collectively shaped from the 60’s through the 70’s, 80’s onward to to...
A slew of paperback releases this Tuesday offers everything from cheeky science fiction to dark, genre-crossing fantasy and dragon-riding mayhem (told by both man and mythical beast perspective).
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s powerhous...
If Tyler Bates is any evidence of the current state of the art of music for horror films, cinema of the macabre is in very good hands. The composer of Zach Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, and James ...
Another reboot, remake or re-something is imagined for the Hellraiser series, reports Shock Til You Drop. The Weinstein Company have hired two new screenwriters, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, to adapt a new big screen series for the classic horror fr...
While reveling in the glory of winning best film at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, Elijah Woods revealed what has been buzzed about online for a week or so now, and that is there are re-shoots slated soon backing New Zealand. Said Woods, "They've realized tha...
After years of being out of print, the TRON soundtrack is being re-released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film. Composer Wendy Carlos has remastered the original electronic themes for the release, as well as included tracks cut from the fil...
Pre-orders have always been a way for a company to hype a game up and to get an advance look at the sales potential for a title. In the past, I remember pre-ordering games like MARIO 64 to get a free t-shirt, or maybe a bag with the game's logo on it. Reg...
After filling March up with a number of re-releases under their own distribution and their own UPC numbering, April 13th will see the remainder of titles that they have in their catalog being resolicited to retail. Eagle eyed folks will notice some titles...
Michelle Erica Green re-introduces her weekly TV column FREQUENCIES by examining XENA, WITCHBLADE, the new television lineup, and those zany Saturn Awards.XENA may be coming to a close, but the action heroine-led WITCHBLADE continues to attract its audien...
"The next thing I'm shooting?" series star James Franco said over the weekend. "Re-shoots on 'Spider-Man.' "
Revealing that director Sam Raimi has put out the call for "more action," Franco said he's being called back to the set of the blockbuster. "Pr...
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK has been something of a holy grail for Williams' fans over the years, with the album making a quick exit from stores upon its release in 1987 and going on to become one of the rarest Williams albums ever released (beaten by SPACECA...
VIDEO NEWSTheres not much on the video news front this week, so your old pal the Vidiot thought hed share with you (direct from the American Film Market) some titles which will likely be going the direct-to-video (DTV) route in the near future.RUTGER HA...
It’s the last Weekly Book Buzz of the year, and even though this release schedule is for the first batch of SF, Fantasy, and Horror books coming out in 2008 I wanted to take a quick, clichéd look at the requisite lists of 2007 superlatives.
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Greetings Maniacs, and welcome to another week of Comicscape calamity! This week’s column will touch on a few happenings in the comic world and give them their due credit—or seething contempt, as needed. We’re all smiles here at Comics...
Universal's Golden Age Of Horror will soon be coming our way when Universal Studios unleashes a host of DVD double-features sure to whet the cinematic appetite of any classic-era horror movie fan. Not wanting to miss out on the interest generated by their...
You`d be hard pressed to separate Bernard Herrmann`s score for PSYCHO from the movie itself, but because the scores of silent films are not etched in people`s memories--few original scores exist and fewer are performed--musicians have a relatively open fi...
As Dreamworks and Paramount gear up to resurrect a franchise this Independence Day, Random House Publishing Group is capitalizing on the hype by printing the official prequel novel to the live-action film.
Hello everyone and welcome to this Tues...
Ladies and gents, it's lovely to be back. It is I, your faithful Cinescape TV reviewer once again holding down the fort for my phosphor dot brother Dave whilst he settles into a lovely new house...funny that he hasn't told me his new address yet... Anyhow...
The bad thing about months with five release weeks is that you always get a week or two where the pickings are very slim. Such is the case this week! Everything from fiction to non-fiction is rather light but it’s really just the calm befo...
The director and
writer team from now-filming The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
will re-team for the live-action, English-language remake of Akira
according to today's Variety.
Stephen
Norrington is set to helm the remake of Katsushiro Otomo' ...
What They SayThe final member of Panther Claw\'s \"big four,\" Black Claw, is destroyed by Honey\'s anger. However, Honey\'s confused feelings lead to Sister Jill taking her in. The world is in danger of being fused together through the Jill Trees, and on...
What They SayIt is the near future. The destructive acts of a mysterious armed group, Panther Claw, were occurring around Tokyo and frightening the citizens. Though the police and riot squad, led by Inspector Natsuko, were dispatched, they were unable to ...
It seems only fitting to talk about Stephen King in the first Book Buzz column of October. Turned 60 last month, the American horror guru has written over 50 bestselling novels and won countless literary awards. His patented brand of disturbing, psycholog...
Sew Cal Logo, Inc., a Southern California based film wardrobe, hat and surf wear manufacturing company, has completed and shipped a production company re-order for 'Superman Returns' cast & crew merchandise. The new blockbuster motion picture is scheduled...
An interesting byproduct of Crunchyroll trying to go legit is that they\'re getting hit with a lot more requests to remove licensed titles - here and from Japan. A new one that\'s shown up with reference to a US company is Re: Cutie Honey which is listed ...
It\'s the first of the month so it\'s time to take a look at what kinds of collections and re-releases are due out this month in our breakdown article called, simply enough, \"Collections & More\".
We're approaching the final months of development for Capcom's next installment into their Award-winning franchise with Resident Evil 5 ready to hit both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 either later this year or 2009, depending on different sources. Capcom...
Disney has staked it's claim to the Halloween weekend as The Nightmare Before Christmas prepares to roll into theaters on October 20, 2006. The movie will be digitally remastered and shown in 3-D, making it the second re-release of its kind for Disney (C...
Contrary to news posted elsewhere from the AXNY CPM panel, Justin Sevakis has denied that CPM intends to remaster and re-issue the original two Revolutionary Girl Utena discs. Justin did have this to say however; \"Which isn\'t to say that we\'re never go...
Though it doesn\'t appear to be under the Essential Anime line-up, ADV Films upcoming re-release of the You\'re Under Arrest movie will now include an anamorphic transfer and contains the Japanese 5.1 audio.
FUNimation has formally branded their priced down re-releases as the Viridian Collection and has sent out a listing of titles due out in January and February:Basilisk Vol. #5 (Viridian Collection) - 100 minutes - $19.98 - 01/22/2008 Basilisk Vol. #6 (Viri...
The mainstream side of CPM has updated today with a new title and another month of massive repricings of their releases:Shadow Star Narutaru Vol. #3 - 75 minutes - $19.98 - 09/13/2005On the re-pricing side of things, another box set and several other titl...
Dean Lachiusa, a fan of George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, has re-edited the film, which is in the public domain. He has named his "version" of the film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: SURVIVORS CUT. Lachiusa has added a new beginning and various new ele...
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...
The FilmJerk website is reporting that the October re-release of Ridley Scott's classic monster movie ALIEN will include some, if not all, of the picture's deleted scenes. The site's sources also say that the film's soundtrack will be remastered. As we ...
This Week's RecommendationRichard Band's wonderfully twisted, Bernard Herrmann-tinged score for Stuart Gordon's debut grand-guignol, over-the-top horror visualization of H. P. Lovecraft's RE-ANIMATOR has come out in a lavish new edition on La-La-Land Reco...
Brian Yuzna's BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR and Paco Plaza's SECOND NAME have scored deals in Germany thanks to a deal between the Spanish company Filmax and Germany's EMS New Media, reports VARIETY.The same two companies have teamed before to place films in the Ger...
The new collections coming from FUNimation for their priced down re-releases of Yu Yu Hakusho look like they\'re going to be re-authored as the first set of fourteen episodes is a double disc set whereas it was originally released across four or five disc...
What They SayIt is the near future. The destructive acts of a mysterious armed group, Panther Claw, were occurring around Tokyo and frightening the citizens. Though the police and riot squad, led by Inspector Natsuko, were dispatched, they were unable to ...
What They SayThe domed city of Romdo is an impenetrable would-be utopia where humans and robots coexist and everything is under complete government control - or so it appears.
While working on a mysterious murder case, Re-l Mayer, a female detective fro...
Jessica Alba and Michael Chiklis, who co-star in Fantastic Four, defended the film and director Tim Story against rumors that last-minute re-shoots were necessary to salvage the comic-book-based SF film. "Every movie has additional shots and so called 're...
AnimEigo, the company responsible for the domestic DVD releases of such anime classics as OH MY GODDESS! and AD POLICE FILES, announced that they're issuing a re-release of the cult hit film LONE WOLF AND CUB. The news was issued at this weekend's Anime E...
Jeffrey Combs, who was a genre icon from his work in the 1980s cult classic RE-ANIMATOR before his stellar work on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, is now talking about returning to the film series which first put him before our eyes. He's gearing up to return...
Spider-Man 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
Genre:Action/Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker/"Spider-Man"); Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson); Alfred Molina (Dr. Otto Octavius/"Doc...
I am grateful to Adam Sternbergh of nymag.com for saying a lot of the things about Lost that were starting to bug me as well. In his article Never-Ending Stories: How to fix shows like “Lost’’ (http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/23763/...
“Everybody loves robots,” simply states Fon Davis. “I remember thinking in the early 80s that right around the corner I’ll have my own.” Unfortunately for Fon and many other enthusiasts (myself included) technological innovat...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting adventure into the unknown with Comicscape! San Diego Comic-Con has left me with rant material for the rest of the calendar year and beyond. Marvel’s decision to publish Amazing Spider-Ma...
Of Herbert West, who I first became aware of in Stuart Gordon's ingenious film RE-ANIMATOR and who subsequently became a major figure in my fan fiction, I can only see through the glassed-over eyes of my romantic soul, though the panes of those windows ar...
Most people know Glenn Danzig through his 30-year musical career. From the Misfits to Samhain to Danzig, he has remained a pioneering force in dark rock. His discography includes everything from cacophonous, yet catchy hardcore punk to 1950&rsqu...
Greeting Maniacs, and welcome to another spine-tingling Comicscape spectacular! For this week, I’ve interviewed Marc Moorash and Heather Stanley – the creators and publishers behind a cool new series called Polyglot & Spleen. ...
In a second sad blow to film musicdom, Composer Shirley Walker passed away last week, barely a week and the identical age as Basil Poledouris who died on November 8th. Walker died after suffering a brain aneurism from which she did not regain c...
Welcome back! In part II of our Comic-Con interview with director Paul W.S. Anderson we discuss the pitfalls of futuristic movies, the nature of modern action film editing and the Castlevania movie!
Q: Why do we never see the audience that’...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
Now, this is starting to get back to the Eureka that will all want. The episode isn’t quite as humorous as other episodes, but the humor here is well executed. Also, there’s a surprising bit of social commentary in play in the episode too.
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What They SayRe-l, Vincent and Pino have been re-united but the danger is far from over. Pino enters a cave and discovers a mysterious giant, Re-l is taken over by a not-so-pleasant doppelganger, and Vincent is forced to participate in a game show with de...
Growing up in an age when Ghostbusters reigned cinemas worldwide, it was only a matter of time until kids got hooked on the idea of whipping out specters and sending them back to a parallel universe. But to this day, I never imagined what it would be like...
The first release week of September is considerable with all the Geneon re-releases that are making fans happy but there's a lot to love elsewhere as well if you go by this weeks voting. It's little surprise that Lucky Star Vol. #3 topped the charts again...
In 2000, the Dabel Brothers were doing independent comic books that flew under just about everyone's radar. A short time later they were working with Image and then, when Devil's Due left that publisher, they brought the Dabel Brothers with them...
On March 21st, 2006, Japanese composer Hiroshi Miyagawa died of heart failure at the age of 75. Best known outside of Japan for his sumptuous and award-winning scores for the lavish anime series, SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO (Uchû Senkan Yamato, 1974), Miyagaw...
Greetings, Maniacs. Welcome to another week of comic shopping on Thursday. I hope you didn’t break down sobbing at the counter yesterday afternoon when you tried to pick up your books. I remember one Internet journalist describi...
After striking gold…much, much gold…with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, executives at New Line set about trying to find another fantasy epic to adapt, choosing Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Now, when I&rsqu...
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...
With the 4th of July looming on the summer horizon, Transformers fans won’t have to wait the next seven weeks to find out what happens in Michael Bay’s film adaptation of the franchise giant. Random House Publishing Group and novelization guru...
Devil’s Due Publishing releases a boxed set of R.A. Salvatore’s most beloved fantasy tales, individual SF and fantasy ‘best of’ anthologies get the 2006 treatment under Wildside Press, and BBC Books releases their first literary...
Back in the 80s, when horror had succumbed to the formula of stalk-and-slash psychos chasing hapless teenager, along came a film that truly revitalized the genre: REANIMATOR. Amidst the films over-the-top horror, the performance of Jeffrey Combs brought...
I am sorry for the lateness, but I just discovered your website, and a fortunate discovery it was. While going through your various links, I found a `nailed-it` review by Frederick Szebin of the SCI-FI Channel`s new show, The Invisible Man. It just so hap...
IGN reports that a casting notice has appeared online indicating additional filming is happening for the movie version of 'Dragonball'.
A posting on Actors Access as casting search website, calls for SAG actors to work on upcoming filming for the ma...
The second full trailer for Sony Pictures and Capcom's upcoming CGI-created Resident Evil: Degeneration has popped up online courtesy of Game Trailers. You can check out the new trailer below. The film, co-produced by Capcom, features the voices of Alyson...
Resident Evil: Degeneration may not be hitting DVD and Blu-Ray until December 30, 2008 but that's not stopping your from watching the first eight minutes right now courtesy of IGN Movies. The intro and a new redband clip have popped up online for the upco...
Joss Whedon will stick around Buffy, the Vampire Slayer for awhile. The series` creator just inked a new 4-year, 8-figure deal with 20th Century Fox Television.Under the exclusive contract, estimated by Variety at well over $20 million, Whedon will create...
Elite Entertainment have long been valued providers of treasured genre movies for the home entertainment market. Beginning on the collector-driven laserdisc format and making the transition to the hugely popular DVD medium in recent years, Elite has alway...
VARIETY reports that syndicated SF series GENE RODDENBERRY'S ANDROMEDA and MUTANT X have booth been renewed. ANDROMEDA stars Kevin Sorbo and will be seen for a fourth season.MUTANT X, which is co-produced in part by Marvel Studios, will be in its third se...
THE SHIELD creator Shawn Ryan has accepted a new contract that will see him working on his hit FX show for at least two more seasons. Ryan's deal with the network and Fox means that he'll earn more than $200,000 per episode of THE SHIELD, and that he'll s...
The Providence Anime Conference kicked off this past weekend in its inaugural event. The conference – a convention by any other name – was put into reality by the people behind the New England Anime Society. Though that name may not be too fam...
YAHOO! Entertainment runs a Reuters report that video-game maker Activision has extended a pre-existing license with Marvel through 2009. The license grants the gaming company the right to continue developing games based on Marvel characters, including th...
It's true what they say: It's hard to keep a good man down. And apparently it's even harder to keep a good HE-MAN down. Yep, it seems neither time nor the evil minions of Skeletor could keep the big guy out of the picture for long.Nearly 20 years after Ma...
VARIETY reports that Fox has picked up a full season of JOHN DOE, as well as the police show FASTLANE.DOE's high ratings are the reason given for the amnesia serial's survival. Fates of other Fox shows, including Joss Whedon's SF series FIREFLY, hang in t...
Seventeen years after the cult comedy/horror classic RE-ANIMATOR first hit the eyes of fans, producer Brian Yuzna sat down with CINESCAPE's Scott Collura to talk about the film and the new Millennium Edition DVD of the flick. "RE-ANIMATOR benefited from ...
The closing of Speakeasy Comics earlier this year left a lot of creators in a pinch. In certain cases, remaining inventory of unsold books has been returned to creators to sell for themselves. Dawn Brown's critically acclaimed graphic novel, Ravenous will...
Awww yeea it’s Tuesday everyone and Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Unfortunately we don’t have an extensive list of new releases hitting the shelves this week but there are still a couple of choice morsels coming out on hardcover ...
This past Friday, the Cartoon Network announced production has begun on a two-hour feature RE-ANIMATED.The project which combines live action with animation tells the story of a boy who requires an emergency brain transplant after an accident at an amusem...
On the opening weekend of BROTHER BEAR, Walt Disney Pictures announced that it has signed the film's directors and producer to work on a new and presently unknown animated movie project. Helmers Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker and producer Chuck Williams w...
An additional 15 hour-long episodes of Showtime's science-fiction series JEREMIAH begins production on October 23rd, and adds Sean Astin, LORD OF THE RINGS' Sam Gamgee, to the cast which already features Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, VARIETY repor...
Our first month of Star Spotlight is now coming to an end, fellow Maniacs. We began our inaugural column with one man who turned the filmmaking industry on their heels, George Lucas. We continued to one of my personal favorites, the legendary director ...
We've had little to nothing to report for Capcom's upcoming sequel Resident Evil 5 since last summer's E3 teaser trailer but that halt of information is no more. In the latest issue of Famitsu, we got some new developer video footage of the process behind...
What They SayRe-l, Vincent and Pino are back on Romdo to face off against the machinations set in motion by the Creator! Vincent must come to grips with who he is and what he wants to become while Re-l faces the ugly truth behind her own existence. Can th...
She’s played a presidential candidate amidst a sex scandal in The Contender, went against type as the heavy in the Bourne series and now she’s a sadistic prison warden in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race, a re-do of Roger Corman&...
Starchild will be releasing a new Kido Senkan Nadesico DVD Box on 03/24/2006 that will certainly catch the eye of some hardcore fans of the series. For 43,000 yen, it will have a new 5.1 audio track, a new HD telecine based on the 16mm film from the TV se...
Tony Phan has finished out a series of Japanese reviews for us today as he has a look at the 12/21/2004 release of Re: Cutie Honey Vol. #3 (of 3) from Toei Animation Japan.
Tony Phan\'s returned with another look at some of the Japanese Region 2 releases of note, this time with a review of the 09/21/2004 release of Re: Cutie Honey Vol. #1 (of 3) from Toei Japan.
Last month we
announced the winners in the "G.I. Joe Comic Cover Contest" sponsored
by Devil's Due Publishing
and C2F.
Due to
extenuating circumstances the judges at Devil's due have had to alter their
ruling. As a result, we have a new ...
Sony Pictures and their production partner Capcom has unveiled the full trailer for their upcoming CGI film Resident Evil: Degeneration at the San Diego Com Con. The film will be connected more to the original best selling video games than Paul W.S Anders...
Firestorm will appear next season on Cartoon Network's Justice League animated series, The Continuum has learned.
In other Justice League news, the Christmas-themed "Comfort and Joy" episode will air on Cartoon Network Saturday at 10 p.m. (ET), followed ...
"Sony has decided to unleash two different double dips for their favourite cash cow, 'Spider-Man.' This release is the same two-disc set which first saw the light of day way back in September 2002, but Sony has added exclusive third disc. In an effort whi...
Screenwriter Kurt Sutter has taken another pass at wrapping up his involvement with 'Punisher: War Zone'.
To recap: on February 14th Sutter posted on his blog that he was not going to seek a writing credit for the film, and made some pointed observations...
Cartoon Network
announced several major programming initiatives for 2002 at a press conference
in New York this week. Speakers at the event included Cartoon Network executive
vice president and general manager Jim Samples, senior vice president of
p...
A glossy high value production, Darker than Black takes a look at the world through an interesting prism with a lot of hints as to what’s to come.
What They Say:
A new and deadly breed of covert agent walks the streets. Known as Contractors, these...
On November 28, in celebration of the year of Superman, Warner Home Video will release a host of DVDs, all starring the late Christopher Reeve in his landmark portrayal of the Man of Steel. Leading the way will be the long-awaited Superman II: The Richar...
Actor Dennis Quaid told Superhero Hype that he's wrapped his role as General Hawk in the 'G.I. Joe' movie, and the production is now headed for a three-month shoot in the Czech Republic.
Over the past couple of weeks, we've been talking to the head of Elite Entertainment, Vini Bancalari, the man who has long been providing fans with great home video versions of classic genre movies. With films like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, HOUSE ON SOROR...
Legion of Super Heroes will be part of Kids' WB!'s Super Sneak Saturday on Sept. 15. All during the morning, the network will show 30-second previews of the new season, which begins on Sept. 22. In addition, the network will show the two-part finale from ...
Recent talk from Marvel's Peter Cuneo and rumors about a two-headed treatment from screenwriter James Vanderbilt have the interwebs whipped up for speculation about what 'Spider-Man 4' will look like. With no actors signed for a fourth installment, it see...
First up, is creator of Rex Mundi Arvid Nelson. He talks about the concept, birth and premise of the graphic novel. He is followed up by Executive Producer Mike Richardson who gives us production details including the announcement that this is a Dark Hors...
Hello Maniacs, and welcome back to another edition of the All-New, All-Different Comicscape. This week, rather than give you a long-winded rant on one subject, I’m going to take a look at a several different news items that have interested me over ...
Ain't it Cool sits down for an exclusive chat with Marvel's "it" boy Jon Favreau. The director, who is in development on 'Iron Man 2' and just signed on as an executive producer for 'The Avengers' talks at length about both movies and worki...
Tony Phan is checking in with us again by helping out with some Japanese release reviews. This week, he\'s taking a look at the 10/21/2004 release of RE: Cutiey Honey Vol. #2 (of 3) from Toei Animation (Japan), which does include a shot of the mask that\'...
According to a new section of their site found here, CPM is setting out to get the series out at a good price, all 52 digitally restored episodes, and a limited edition collector\'s metal case for only $99.95. The deal is that you must order by Februrary ...
Apparently, 3rd party developer Capcom heard all the complaints about DEAD RISING not having 2 player co-op mode and planned ahead for the upcoming release RESIDENT EVIL: UMBRELLA CHRONICLES. According to the publication of Weekly Famitsu, the Wii game wi...
Last week’s column on the some of the moral quandaries in recent superhero comics generated a couple of interesting e-mails that merit printed responses. I asked readers to consider the mind-wiping fiasco from DC’s Identity Crisis, To...
To tell you the truth I didn’t know quite what to expect when I found out I was going to be interviewing a Senior Editor of the company that made Dungeons & Dragons a household name. Would he be a condescending geek? An arrogant Magic player ...
What They SayFrom Masami Yuuki (the creator of PATLABOR), with Designs by Yutaka Izubuchi (LODOSS WARS), and Design Assist by Takehiko Ito (creator of OUTLAW STAR), comes an unabashed parody of everything Japanese including super-hero anime, idol singers,...
What They SayWhat kind of world will you find outside the walls of paradise?
Re-l leaves the safety of Romdo in order to bring Vincent back and clear his name. Leaving the shelter of the city is a test of courage, but dealing with the realities of life o...
The Batman will be part of Kids' WB!'s Super Sneak Saturday on Sept. 15. All during the morning, the network will show 30-second previews of the new season, which begins on Sept. 22. In addition, the network will show the two-part finale from the last sea...
Josh Gates stars in one of the SCIFI Channel’s most successful new series; Destination Truth. He’s a passionate explorer and traveler and a true skeptic. He has a degree in archeology rather than something more animal based. “I think wha...
Check out the newly relaunched Official Site for the 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' video game with new images from the movie, the trailer for the game, screen shots and much more...
While we're expecting more footage to be shown for the upcoming CGI movie Resident Evil: Degeneration at next Friday's July 25th panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, Sony Pictures and their production partner Capcom has launched a new website in connection w...
Centuries after Earth is in ruins, humanity is working in the stars to build a civilization that can go back and properly shepherd it back to health.What They SayEarth, no longer able to sustain life due to the rapid development of human civilization, was...
If you’re like me you may think you’re well-versed on fantasy literature, but it doesn’t take much to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of Forgotten Realms and Eberron literature out there. It was only recently that I myself was abl...
Do you like cyberpunk and dark futures where man and machine intermingle, as man becomes more like machine and the machine more like a man? Ergo Proxy drops us into such a world, where philosophy acts as a guiding light for the mystery of human identi...
With the start of 2008 comes news of the next round of book-to-screen translations, and if you’re like me this news is usually met with equal doses of boyish hope and fearful skepticism. Because as all of us readers know the translation of a book in...
After a weekend highlighted by crappy weather and lousy Super Bowl adverts, I found something last night that turned my whole sub-par Sunday around: the news that Star Trek Books is finally releasing their very own “Guide to Women.”
It’...
In an odd bit of counter-intuitive programming, the Fox Network has announced it will not be airing reruns of it's biggest hit of the season, 24. The thinking is this: while 24 was the biggest hit of the season for them, it wasn't that big a hit. In fact,...
Though largely neglected in the past, the link between science fiction and technological development is an important one; one that spurs scientific discovery and connects the world of grounded truth with the realm of infinite possibility. The pulp magazin...
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...
The year 2007 was punctuated by the release of the final Harry Potter tome, by the start of the fourteen-week WGA strike, and by the deaths of some of SF’s and fantasy’s top writers, chief amongst those Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Jordan. But as ...
The Walt Disney Studios unveiled a diverse and ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through the year 2012 at a New York press conference held today by Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt ...
What They SayLocked in mortal combat with the attacking Zentradi fleets, the Macross has finally fought its way across the solar system to Mars, where an abandoned base may offer temporary safe haven. But this planet is named after the god of war and the ...
Recorded at: Anime Central '05
Caitlin Glass may be relatively new to anime dubbing, but she's already played some fantastic characters. She's probably best known for her role as Winry in Fullmetal Alchemist. Her other characters include Hiyono in Spiral...