We`ve seen tons of sci-fi films set in outer space, where our brave, spacesuit-clad explorers visit far off places, battle alien beings or even get lost. Each of these shows feature some kind of spacesuit that you know a real astronaut could never actuall...
In the last few weeks, I've had the honor of getting to speak with not one, but two voice actors from ADV. This time around I did a little email sparring with Chris Patton. (Ah, gotta love the Internet as even interviews take on a whole new approach tha...
Five never-before-seen stories highlight BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE VOLUME 2, a new hardcover collected edition shipping on Aug. 28. VOLUME 2 which is 176 pages -- collects the back-up tales from BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #1-16. The five new stories, which als...
Having released perhaps the largest styrene model kit of a science fiction subject ever, the crew at Polar Lights turned to illustrator ChrisWhite for a magnificent box cover painting of the spacecraft landed on the surface of Altair IV. White, who has a...
Another production snafu has happened for director Joe Carnahan, the man set to bring the James Ellroy crime novel to the big screen. Last week, Chris Pine dropped out of WHITE JAZZ because production would begin at the same time as JJ Abrams' S...
What They SayFrom Osamu Tezuka, one of the great pioneers of Japanese animation (ASTRO BOY, BLACK JACK, HI NO TORI), comes one of the \"first-generation anime classics\" to reach American TV! Fans have long remembered its catchy theme song, spectacular de...
OPINIONAmazing, the amount of responses that including a single controversial quote in a column can garner! I got a record amount of letters responding to last week's column about the ULTIMATES's Nick Fury, an African-American character. The responses wer...
Opening Ceremonies
Hosted by: Adam Ferraro
The opening ceremonies for Anime Boston took place in a grand theatre room. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling and an upper level let some special guest sit from above and watch the people who were seate...
What They SayUniversal Century 0079. The War has taken a turn for the worse for the Federation Forces. Amuro has been placed in solitary confinement for ignoring orders. But when Ramba Ral and his men attack the White Base - Sayla\'s hidden past is soon r...
...lustrator ChrisWhite. When you open the box you get more than seventy parts molded in a day-glow green plastic (ironically, the only Godzilla movie ever to depict Godzilla as green in color was the recent Godzilla 2000). Several of the main body parts...
Black and White are Japanese monsters, as inexplicable and accepted by those that fear them as Gamera and Godzilla. Inseparable since birth, Black is the embodiment of chaos, darkness, uncontrolled rage and hatred, while White is the embodiment of good, l...
What an excellent day for an extended exorcism! Come September 22nd over 800 theatres across America will exhibit the definitive edition of the 1973 classic THE EXORCIST that contains 13 minutes of restored footage!When the movie initially opened on Decem...
OPINIONBefore we launch into this week's discussion, I must apologize to the reader who brought up the Nick Fury question in the first place - seems I called him "Brian" when his name is actually "Chris." That being said, I must remind everyone that if yo...
After a quarter of a century of terrifying audiences worldwide, THE EXORCIST recently went under the knife and recovered 13 minutes! Opening in over 800 theatres across America on September 22nd, THE EXORCIST: THE VERSION YOU’VE NEVER SEEN contains an ent...
What They SayFrom the creator of Astroboy comes Kimba, one of the \"first-generation anime classics\" from Japan, and the first to be broadcast in color, in 1965.
Featuring spectacular designs and trailblazing animation techniques, gentle stories, and a ...
Before Walt Disney`s SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS hit screens, animation was a world where rubbery animals `bonked` each other on the heads with blunt objects. Disney knew that his film was going to need to be more. In SNOW WHITE, the characters run a ...
The Review!I think that this is the third belated "Tenchi in Tokyo" review that I've done. I seem to remember that Volume 3 was delayed by several months last spring, and then I had just left on vacation when Volume 4 arrived in my mailbox (in Pincourt, Q...
BLACK HOLE #9 by Arnold T. Blumberg (Thu 12-13-2001)
BLACK HOLE is one of those excessively strange series that I just can't avoid. For some reason, although there is something in Charles Burns' work that I find very unappealing in both his illustrative and storytelling styles I somehow can't pull myself ...
It can definitely be argued that Warner Bros. is no stranger to the world of animation. However, even with cartoon legends like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in its stable, as well as experience in producing such live-action animated fare as this s...
Before I get to my interview with THE SURROGATES creator Robert Venditti, there's some movie madness to take care of first. I just saw BATMAN BEGINS at an early screening. While not perfect, it is still very, very good. I'm still gathering my thoughts and...
What They SayThere\'s a spy aboard the White Base! But will the spy remain loyal to the Zeon forces or to those on the White Base who have proven themselves to be friends?
Kai finds his life changed forever by the latest Zeon attack. Amidst all the chao...
Over the past couple of years, Jad Ziade and Alex Cahill’s fledgling publishing company, The New Radio, has garnered the attention of the mainstream comics press with their one-shots Xeric-Award-winning Something So Familiar and, later, The Island. ...
All right, lets get this little shindig on the way.
Good evening everyone. :)
This being our first official studio chat, we're finding our way in how we're doing things, so please bear with us tonight.
Charles McCarter of Bandai has been gracious enou...
What They SayThe year is 4699. A young adventurer sets off to find Captain Ahab and his crew of outlaw whale hunters. Only Ahab can save his home planet from the most horrific beast known throughout the universe-The Moby Dick.The Review!The journey to Moa...
I'm not sure whether the subject of comics and politics was simply not of much interest to everyone, or whether people were simply too stunned by the election results to write in about it. Perhaps it was a combination of both. However, a few of you did wr...
What They SayThe Gazth-Sonika Civil War - As the death toll mounts, so do questions about both the conflict's purpose and its highly secretive facilitators. Even the ruling power's Army Commander hired mercenary Madlax to carry out his own assassination i...
Blizzard Entertainment unleashes their first novel surrounding the Ghost assassin Nova, Paul Kearney and James M. Ward blend good old-fashion magic with maritime warfare, and Mercedes Lackey debuts another novel in the Scepter’d Isle sequence wi...
They`ve been promising it for years, but we kept getting familiar fairy tales, action-figure ready characters, and Broadway ballad after Broadway ballad. This summer, however, it seems as if animation is breaking down boundaries and pushing the proverbia...
It's an uncomfortable truth about Warren Ellis' work that his longer form works, whether they be ongoing series or maxiseries such as GLOBAL FREQUENCY, are always stronger beasts than his miniseries have been. Take MEK, for instance: great setup, terrific...
Chronicles of an AoD Senshi
Day 1
The day started bright and sunny. The alarm beeped me awake and I gracefully slipped from the bed, had a shower and ate some breakfast. Whereupon I nonchalantly walked to my car and put in my already prepared bags (with ...
OPINIONHonestly, I'm starting to think I should just head this column with "Mea Culpa" in big bold letters every week, the amount of apologizing I end up doing. It seems that not only did I completely get the JLA's current minority line-up wrong (John Ste...
DC Direct has released an image of their upcoming BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE: BATMAN statue. It was sculpted by Jonathan Matthews.This original creation, inspired by Steve Rude, is painted in monochromatic tones, which reflect the mood of Batman: Black and ...
Just a warning: if you've never been exposed to the GRENDEL mythos before, this may not be the book to begin with. It's far too complex to explain here, or else I'd give it a try - besides, I have a feeling I'm missing part of the story myself. The main t...
1999 was a notably strong year for fantastic genre films at the box office, but much of that success came from a horror offshoot that hasn`t typically enjoyed a lot of audience acceptance: the ghost story. The mega-hit THE SIXTH SENSE, the critically wel...
This April, Blue Line Pro Comics continues to collect the history of LITTLE WHITE MOUSE with LITTLE WHITE MOUSE PERFECT COLLECTION #2.Collecting the second series, this trade paperback is filled with extra artwork and sketches never before published.This ...
Although its stature among horror fans comes nowhere near equaling that of Dracula and Frankenstein, the Halperin Brothers’ White Zombie is a classic in its own right—a sometimes creaky but always wonderfully atmospheric Gothic fantasy that benefits from ...
Day 1
The day started bright and sunny. The alarm beeped me awake and I gracefully slipped from the bed, had a shower and ate some breakfast. Whereupon I nonchalantly walked to my car and put in my already prepared bags (with everything I would need) into...
The Marvel MAX line breaks new ground this month, and not just with adult content and added violence. Chuck Austen's series, U.S. WAR MACHINE - one of three titles launching the MAX line - is a weekly black and white format comic book priced at only $1.50...
The future of prog rock supergroup Yes looks shaky following news that a planned 2006 reunion tour has been scrapped. The oft-feuding group had scheduled to join up this summer, but guitarist Steve Howe has set solo dates instead after tiring of one unnam...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shimizu Aki (Original Concept: Konami)Translated by:Patrick CoffmanAdapted by:What They SayEnter a world filled with adventure, love, bravery and courage.
Enter the world of Suikoden!
As a young girl, Chris Longfellow lost he...
Yesterday we brought you a torrent of news stemming from the 28th annual Saturn Awards (sponsored faithfully by this very magazine) and today we're pleased to bring you photos of who was there telling us everything about genre events past and future. If y...
TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE is a parody of action movies, performed entirely with marionettes. This is very funny in spurts, and it has moments of true comedic inspiration throughout, but there is overall a repetitiveness (sometimes very literal) and an ex...
Everyone can now breathe a sigh of relief, not only because Voyager was on the air this week in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando, Portland and Baltimore, but because people in those cities will still have many months of ...
Last night in Century City, Calif., not all that far from the Twentieth Century Fox lot, home of THE X-FILES, DARK ANGEL, the STAR WARS films and more, the 28th Annual Saturn Awards were handed out at the St. Regis hotel, honoring the best and most shinin...
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...
Just when I thought of lumping virtual reality stories into the same cliché dump as `…and then I woke up!` and cyberpunk, along came THE MATRIX. Shook things up a bit, as far as my acceptance of VR fiction. Now, thanks to Chris Carter, I’m back to the b...
Beautiful Women Looking for a Male Housemate?!
El Cerrito, CA – September 7th, 2004 Today, Infinity Studios LLC announces they will be publishing The Missing White Dragon, a truly spectacular anthology worthy of calling a classic by Park, Young Ha....
The Review!The crew of the White Base reached Earth at the end of the first volume, and now, they must get past Garma Zabi?s, the son of Zeon?s leader, forces. Who will survive?
Audio:
As before, Bandai?s release of Mobile Suit Gundam is dub only. The v...
What They SayAwaited DVD edition of the group\'s \'WHITE REFLECTION\' promo clip. Also includes a nonstop dance mix footage shot at Roppongi\'s Velfarre during the show they gave in 1998.The Review!White Reflection is the ending theme for Gundam Wing: End...
Beautiful Women Looking for a Male Housemate?!
El Cerrito, CA – September 7th, 2004 Today, Infinity Studios LLC announces they will be publishing The Missing White Dragon, a truly spectacular anthology worthy of calling a classic by Park, Young Ha....
From the heyday of Britain’s Ealing Studios comes this delightful science fiction film boasting the substantial talents of one Alec Guinness. Guinness, a master of mimicry, dazzles audiences yet again as eccentric inventor Sidney Stratton.Stratton is your...
In this crackdown era, HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE is one of the last things you'd expect from a major studio: a genuine doper comedy. It also turns out to have a couple of serious messages on its mind (delivered hilariously and offhandedly) and...
It`s common knowledge that Chelsea Clinton is a Star Trek fan, but last week U.S. citizens learned that Vice President Al Gore may be as well. At the Democratic National Convention, where he accepted the Democratic party`s nomination for president, Gore`s...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuu WataseTranslated by:JN ProductionsAdapted by:What They SayJealousy makes the heart grow darker and Mayura's envy of Alice and Kyo's developing relationship makes her vulnerable to being devoured by Darva, dark mistress of ...
What They SayThe once impenetrable band of seven, now diminished to six, was forced to come to terms with inevitable when Gorobei risked his life to save his brethren. With sword in hand, Kambei is determined to find answers. Leaving the surviving samurai...
Arguably a much better game series than a movie franchise, RESIDENT EVIL is back with the novelization of the third film, Resident Evil: Extinction due out in theatres this fall. G’day all you Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz. We’ve got ...
If you are a fan of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Cartoon Network Adult Swim Colon Program Show for Television, there’s probably no way in hell I can write anything here that will keep you from seeing this movie. Maybe you’ll wait for the DVD,...
What They SayDirected by first-time director Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by
Katsuhiro Otomo, the legendary creator behind the cinematic masterpiece
Akira, Spriggan is based on the comic Striker by Chu Takasige and Ryoji
Minagawa, which originally ap...
What They SayA girl named Duck - or rather, a duck who wants to become a girl - falls in love with a prince. One day, a bizarre old man emerges and gives her a magical pendant that transforms her into the waltzing Princess Tutu. Now she must choose - for ...
It looks like Disney's over $1M investment in a comprehensive SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES DVD was worth the money they spent.According to Variety, in its first 24 hours of release, the DVD, which is packed with extras, sold a record amount of 1 milli...
Whether or not you enjoyed the rather hollow cinematic translation of Eragon this past December, there’s no denying that Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Trilogy has legs. Ever since the first book’s film adaptation release, the seco...
Funnyman Chris Tucker is standing on the verge of making big bucks for coming back in a sequel to MONEY TALKS for New Line Cinema. Tucker stands to make $20 million dollars guaranteed for starring in the sequel, with more profit participation (his salary ...
According to a report first published two days ago at the Smallville Fans website, the actor who has been cast to play future Daily Planet newspaper editor Perry White is....Michael McKean.The well-known McKean has had a long and varied career, starring i...
Steve Rogers' investigation of an imprisoned white supremacist leader's ownership of a WWII-era Captain America costume leads him to discover the existence of a black Captain America, Isaiah Bradley, who went on a suicide mission into Nazi Germany in 1942...
Ethan and Joel Coen's planned TO THE WHITE SEA project looks to have stalled for good. The project, which was planned to star Brad Pitt, would tell the World War II era story of of a B-29 bomber gunner who survives a crash in Japan. He then sets over acro...
In a recent interview to promote the release of HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, director Chris Columbus commented on the concerns he has about the three young stars of the film -- Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emily Watson (Hermione Granger) a...
Director Ronnie Yu`s beautifully made tale is based on cult martial arts novelist Jin Yong`s famous Chinese fable about rival Ming Dynasty clans and a forbidden love affair between a swordsman and a `wolf girl` who possesses supernatural powers. In order...
Twenty-seven years after its initial release, with a re-release just around the corner, it is difficult to convey just what a significant milestone THE EXORCIST is in the history of Horror Cinema. Today, it is commonplace for top directors to work with ge...
Reprinted with permission by the author
Comic Retailer
January 1, 2003
People have a tendency to speculate on what changes the new year will bring. Certainly different cultures have different expectations and openness to change. Actually in other countr...
These are segments from the replies that you, the readers, have sent in. These particular ones relate to a topic that is quite important to me, the censorship of shoujo anime. The following quotes from you guys will be in bold text (those parts are the qu...
The Review!Continuing where the first volume\'s cliffhanger left off, Full Metal Panic! kicks into gear with action, drama and comedy coming out in full force.
Audio:
Having already seen the show in Japanese once, I listened to the English track. Actuall...
What They SayThe reality that the real world is destroyed and that he and everyone he knows are just computer recreations of dead humans, has driven Kyo into an existential crisis. What\'s the point of living in the false peace of Maihama or fighting in t...
James Woods is out and Woody Harrelson is in the cast of THE BIG WHITE, the dark comedy that stars Robin Williams. Williams plays a travel agent living in Alaska who finds a frozen corpse. Believing that he can collect the life insurance for his brother (...
What They SayThings haven't gotten any better for poor Mikey the mannequin. He's still stuck living in Japan, his dad's still mentally absent, his mom's considering a divorce, and his cousin Laura is still out to make his life a living hell. But wait, thi...
Innocent Venus
The year is 2035. Twenty-five years ago hyper-hurricanes devastated the planet, killing billions, destroying the world economy and leaving North America, Russia and Northern Europe encased in ice. Japan has achieved a limited recovery throu...
VIDEO NEWSWhile we're all waiting for Quentin Tarantino to finally start production on his too long awaited new film, KILL BILL, we will at least be able to console ourselves with the re-releases of his ground-breaking, trend setting previous efforts. Up ...
PRIZE CLOSET: We have 5 copies of X-FILES MYTHOLOGY Volume 4: Super Soldiers courtesy of Fox for lucky readers that send an email containing their name and address to psycho@psychotronic.info with "X-FILES SUPER" in the subject line. We also have a couple...
After a successful run with indie publisher Shooting Star Press, Tom Waltz and Casey Malone's CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE has found a new home in trade paperback form at IDW. The black and white miniseries tells the chilling story of a black ops squad of only ...
Director Chris Wedge and his Blue Sky Studios team have followed up their 2002 hit ICE AGE with ROBOTS, a fantasy that is at once extraordinarily imaginative in visual terms and surprisingly flat in terms of character and narrative. The filmmakers get so ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Varese Sarabande has released the score to CONSTANTINE (302 066 636 2), a commanding combination of atmosphere and rhythmic pulse. Studio tampering resulted in the inclusion of Klaus Badelt, a first-rate composer (K-19, PIRATES...
When Clive Barker's SAINT SINNER debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel, it was accompanied by one of the most remarkable film scores to grace cable television in years. 30-year old composer Christopher Lennertz, recent veteran of 17 feature films - from the subli...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and welcome to another week of four-color spills, thrills, chills, and kills. Last week, I went back to the well and ran a pretty well-received column about politics in comics. After two failed attempts at a...
With a whopping 1345 minute to the set and a lot of extras, it\'s taken a bit of time to go through the release but Brett\'s checking in today with a look at a true classic with the 11/29/2006 release of the Kimba the White Lion Ultra Box Set from Right S...
Chris Wedge (Ice Age) will direct the upcoming animated film THE LEAF MEN AND THE BRAVE GOOD BUGS for 20th Century Fox Animation.The film is described as an epic adventure centering on ancient elfin magic, the book follows a troop of brave bugs who march ...
According to Moviehole, Chris Durand (Halloween H20) will play a role in the upcoming sequel RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION.The site says Durand will play one of the film's foremost villains and "will be a hard peach to squash."Moviehole also reported that Jen...
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's THE BIG WHITE is available on DVD starting today, June 13, 2006. THE BIG WHITE stars: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown, Alison Lohman and Woody Harrelson. The film is from Bri...
In early November, DC Direct will offer the BATMAN: BLACK & WHITE: BATMAN Statue for sale. Designed by Kelley Jones and sculpted by Ray Villafane, the statue captures the true essence of Batman as inspired by the art of Kelley Jones. The limited-edition f...
Chris Weitz (ABOUT A BOY) is executive producing 55 HOLLY STAR for Exodus Film Group, with Michael A. Nickles (THIS IS NOT A FILM) writing and directing. Nickles' tale concerns a salesman near the end of his rope who has a near-death experience, and invol...
The horror genre starts 2005 very respectably with WHITE NOISE, a shivery ghost story for the new millennium that marries the technological and the supernatural in a narratively satisfying and viscerally creepy manner.While it isn't essential to know this...
DC Direct has announced the upcoming Batman Black & White statue. This limited-edition original creation was designed by Matt Wagner and presents his unique vision of the Caped Crusader. It is painted in monochromatic tones. It was sculpted by Paul Ha...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Moore, known for ripping into novice directors on Project Greenlight, will make his own directorial debut on the horror-action film Killers.The script, written by Kelly C. Palmer, revolves around a group of close...
While this isn\'t the Ten Year Anniversary article that I had originally intended to write, it actually works well as a piece to talk about the future of AnimeOnDVD.com. Please take a few moments to read a Special Announcement from Chris Beveridge about t...
Plus an Ohayocon 2008 preview, Wii workouts, reviews & more in episode 57.
GRIMES, IA, January 4, 2008 – Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer Right Stuf, Inc. is pleased to welcome Chris Beveridge – the founder and webmaster of Anim...
What They SayThe once impenetrable band of seven, now diminished to six, was forced to come to terms with inevitable when Gorobei risked his life to save his brethren. With sword in hand, Kambei is determined to find answers. Leaving the surviving samurai...
One has to wonder how director Joe Carnahan feels about being snubbed twice by J.J Abrams. First, he had the directing gig set for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III only to lose the gig, something Abrams eventually was awarded from Paramount. Now, he has his lo...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Columbus is in negotiations to direct the upcoming fantasy adaptation, The Lightning Thief.Based on the first book in the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series by Rick Riordan, the story centers on a...
New Line Cinema has informed us that the official site for HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE now features the film's trailer. The comedy, which opens July 30, stars John Cho (AMERICAN PIE 1 and 2/b>) and Kal Penn (MALIBU'S MOST WANTED) as two buddies wh...
Newsarama is reporting that legendary UNCANNY X-MEN writer Chris Claremont and EXCALIBUR artist Alan Davis will become the new creative team on Marvel's UNCANNY X-MEN. Claremont rose to fame writing UXM in the mid-70s and was a direct component of transfo...
Matt Wagner`s Grendel: Black, White & Red gives us a tour through the world of master assassin and best-selling author Hunter Rose, also known as Grendel. The trade paperback collects short stories, each of them written by Wagner and drawn by a different ...
Nothing real surprising out of this news but I'll pass it along at any rate. Due to the WGA strike being full in effect and the rumored tidbits on Warner Bros. being gunshy on releasing a new SUPERMAN film, the sequel to the Bryan Singer is up in the...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sylvain White has signed on to direct the upcoming futuristic thriller, Static.The film, written by Brad Gann, is set in Los Angeles, where the leader of the city's toughest street gang must use his wit and skill to ba...
Chris O'Donnell has been cast in one of the lead roles for TNT's upcoming limited series, THE COMPANY.The series is from Sony Pictures Television and is based on Robert Littell's best-selling book. The series will be six hours long and trace the history ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Palmer is attached to direct the upcoming film A Spell for Chameleon for Warner Bros Pictures.Chameleon is based on the Piers Anthony novel that kicked off his incredibly popular and long-running Xanth novel seri...
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has announced an October release for Snow White: The Special Edition, a feature packed DVD of Walt Disney’s seminal masterpiece of animation. Pioneer has also announced a July release of Akira the Special Edition, a newly r...
Chris Carter, who wasn't able to attend the TCA gathering in L.A. did get in his take on signing on to another season of THE X-FILES via a letter to Fox.The letter, which was distributed to the press had Carter addressing his signing, saying, "The decisio...
A Fantagraphics Books email update notes that 826 Valencia, a young writers' resource in San Francisco that provides tutoring, workshops, and English as a second language classes, sports a two-story mural designed by award winning comics artist and book d...
Chris Rock's next film will be for Universal Pictures and called SICK DAY. Teaming up with Imagine Entertainment and producer Brian Grazer, Rock will play a lazy guy who phones in sick to his job and then causes trouble with the next-door neighbors. The r...
While director Chris Columbus has already announced he will not be returning to direct the third installment of the HARRY POTTER series, THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, it doesn't necessarily mean he won't be back at all to direct future installments.In a recent...
With the quirky animated feature ICE AGE currently taking the box office by storm, first time director Chris Wedge takes a moment to reflect on the obstacles, challenges, and joys of working on this chillingly funny CG feature.
Ray Romano, John Legu...
Chris Klein was pretty excited about signing on board John McTiernan's upcoming ROLLERBALL remake.While talking to Chicago Sun-Yimes columnist Cindy Pearlman, Klein spoke of his enthusiasm for the vehicle, saying, "It was a movie where I read the script a...
Opening in theaters today, the new paranormal thriller WHITE NOISE examines the unnerving discovery of electronic voice phenomena (EVP). Researchers claim that by using voice recording equipment and playing back supposedly dead air, spooky voices can be h...
Hello, and welcome to another look at anime in English. This time the topic of discussion is centered on Hello Kitty's Animation Theater (hereafter simply Hello Kitty), released by ADV Films and dubbed by ADV Studios. Though this show isn't everybody's cu...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Park Young HaTranslated by:Je-wa JeongAdapted by:What They SayCome and enter the world of Asian folk tales and Asian urban tales... All with a romantic twist!The ReviewThe Review: (please note that content portions of a review...
Los Angeles, CA, March 14, 2007- It's White Day and while the "men" of 801 Media Inc. would love to give their adoring fans chocolate and flowers, it is a bit hard considering they are two dimensional, imaginary characters. So instead, 801-chan and Tomo-c...
Rogue Pictures and Crystal Sky Entertainment have hired Sylvain White (STOMP THE YARD) to direct the big screen adaptation of CASTLEVANIA.
Based on the video game from Konami, the script by Paul W.S. Anderson centers on a Transylvanian kni...
DC Direct plans to release a 5.5" tall x 7" wide x 5" deep statue of Batman designed by Jim Lee and sculpted by Erick Sosa.Painted in monochromatic tones, this limited-edition statue reflects the mood of Batman: Black and White, the stunnin...
The first season of Chris Carter's MILLENNIUM has finally been given a Region 1 street date of July 20. This disturbing thriller debuted on Fox in 1996 and contained storylines that were even more darker than Carter's other creation, THE X-FILES. MILLENNI...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Brittany Murphy is in negotiations to star in the upcoming adaptation of The White Hotel.The film, to be written and directed by Simon Monjack, centers on an opera singer (Murphy) who seeks out the services of Sigmund ...
VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF EDGY MANGA TEKKONKINKREET: BLACK & WHITE BY TAIYO MATSUMOTO
Acclaimed Series Blends Japanese And Western Art Styles And Offers Gritty And Surrealistic Portrayal of Disaffected Urban Youth
San Francisco, CA, August 1, 2007...
THE X-FILES creator Chris Carter is currently toiling with his team on the conclusion of the cult series turned pop culture phenomenon, but he had a few spare moments to look back on the season that provided the mythology connection between the TV show an...
This special edition boxed set of 12" collectible figures of Apollo and Starbuck from the classic 1978 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA TV series is limited to only 500 sets. The set is based on the "Experiment in Terra" episode in which the two main characters are e...
DC Direct is now offering the BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE statue. It was designed by Andy Kubert and sculpted by Jon Matthews.
Painted in monochromatic tones, this limited-edition statue reflects the mood of BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE, the stunning collections ...
The “husband and wife in peril on their honeymoon” film comes a dime a dozen, but THE WHITE SHEIK is different - it’s in Italian. Sure, the husband character, Ivan (the eye-popping Leopoldo Trieste), has the wacky “Has my wife Wanda [the huge-eyed Brunell...
Video game developer/distributor Interplay has entered into a new partnership with White Wolf Publishing to develop a line of video games based on their fantasy-based EXALTED game franchise. This marks the second White Wolf property that Interplay has de...
Perhaps I'm not the best person to review a comic based on DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Playing D&D brings back bad memories of sitting around a table with a bunch of geeks who felt they were better than other geeks because they didn't wear their geekiness on thei...
Electronic Arts has announced that a sequel to its hit 2001 PC game BLACK AND WHITE is now in development. Lionhead Studios, run by Peter Molyneux, are returning to create the second chapter in the BLACK AND WHITE franchise."Our relationship with EA span...
What They SayUniversal Century 0079. the White Base is still a target for the Zeon forces, as a renegade soldier attacks. Meanwhile, Char is planning an attack of his own, and Dozul Zabi has set up another attack to expose Char as incompetent. While searc...
From Star Trek’s FTL warp drive to Carl Sagan’s concentric-ringed, space-tearing Machine, spaceships have been as much a staple of science fiction as aliens or any other concept that has helped define the genre. Within the fictional SF univers...
OPINION: I'm not entirely sure why, but I got neither death threats nor a lot of positive feedback on last week's musings about Captain America. I hope that doesn't mean no one cares about the old man anymore... My thanks, though, to the two(!) readers wh...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another edition of THERE GOES YOUR LIFE!. Last week, Voodoo Maverick's Tedd Walley and John Williams helped me walk you through the soul-sucking, wallet-draining endeavor that is self-publishing. This week,...
Believe it or not, Chris Tucker wasn't in a rush to make a sequel to RUSH HOUR, the 1998 blockbuster that vaulted both him and co-star Jackie Chan onto Hollywood's A-list. Tucker turned the idea down "lots of times," he says, and had to do the deepest kin...
For anyone doubting the impact Christopher Reeve had on audiences in his interpretation of Superman, they need look no farther than the world's reaction to his tragic horse-riding accident four years ago. The love and support demonstrated spoke volumes an...
There are many classic Christmas movies to choose from as you gather the whole family together holiday season. But let’s say you hate Christmas, you hate your family, and you pretty much hate everything else. And let’s say you’d like to ruin Christmas for...
What They SayTouma’s a cram-school student which is bad enough, but too add to his problems, he’s told the sexy Meiko he’s a student at the most prestigious university in Tokyo. Between classes at the cram-school and taking tests to get...
This is both the best and the worst time of year for a TV writer. It's the best because a new season is in bloom, with promising new entertainments across the dial. It's the worst because I suddenly have even less of a social life than normal. I've seen s...
What They SayUrara likes Touma. Touma likes Mieko. Mieko might like Touma, but Mieko will only date a college man, so what’s a low achiever like Touma to do? Well, why not lie and say he got into the most prestigious college in Tokyo? Now all 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...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuu WataseTranslated by:JN ProductionsAdapted by:What They SayAlice' sister, Mayura Seno, is under the control of Darva, dark mistress of the Maram Words - and Alice and Kyo Wakamiya are the only two people who have a chance o...
After twenty-eight years, William Peter Blatty is finally happy with the film version of The Exorcist that he scripted and produced. Ever since the initial release, the author has expressed his disappointment with William Friedkin`s final cut, even going ...
If you think Wolverine`s creator enjoyed the great outdoors and beauty of the backwood trails of Canada while growing up, you`re wrong. Len Wein was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, attended college out on Long Island, Farmingdale specifical...
The Review!The disk that shoujo anime fans in the United States and Canada have been eagerly awaiting. The second DVD of Revolutionary Girl Utena, entitled "The Rose Collection 2", comprises episodes 8 through 13, which are volumes 3 and 4 of the original...
The Review!Tenchi in Tokyo: A New Career is the seventh Tenchi in Tokyo disk, and this is my seventh Tenchi in Tokyo review. What an amazing coincidence! (I'm sure that Louis Farrakhan will have a field day trying to find the hidden numerical significance...
Minor Spoiler Warnings ahead, readers. We've already heard an inkling about this by way of director Paul Haggis saying the next film, JAMES BOND 22, begins two minutes after CR ended. Still, the actor who portrayed middleman Mr. White, Jesper Christensen,...
X-Files creator Chris Carter made a rare convention appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con International 2000 on Saturday, July 22. Following a brief, introductory video clip that featured scenes from The X-Files` past seven seasons, several X-Files bloope...
What They SayUniversal Century 0079. As the war between the Federation and the Zeon forces continue - The Usually level-headed Sayla puts the crew of the White Base in danger as she desperately attempts to gather information on her brother.
Soon after, ...
What They SayUniversal Century 0079. For once, things seem calm and the White Base crew enjoys a little bit of relaxation. However, they are soon interrupted by the arrival of an elite force of Zeon pilots - the Black Tri-Star, who seem more than a match ...
OSMOSIS JONES by Anthony C. Ferrante (Fri 08-10-2001)
It's been a disappointing summer to say the least and just when I've given up all hope of something truly original ever coming out, along comes OSMOSIS JONES. A mixture of live-action and animation, this clever little film mixes gross-out comedy with a so...
MTV has announced the nominations for the their annual movie awards, which will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon. The awards show will air on TV June 9 on MTV.Two new categories have been added this year. The first is Best Frightened Performance. The nominees ar...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shin MidorikawaTranslated by:Elina IshikawaAdapted by:Elina IshikawaWhat They SaySince ancient days, the Gaius School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has trained the fiercest swordsmen and the most powerful wizards. Now one boy cou...
Veteran actor Robbie Coltrane has received critical lauds and a cult following for his diverse career. He's done broad comedies like NUNS ON THE RUN with Monty Python's Eric Idle. He's done serious drama, like his performance as Falstaff in Kenneth Branag...
Man, let me tell you, nothing gets a little filly into your arms quicker than a foreign flick. I was putting my moves on my boss – a randy, squat forty-seven year old sex pot whose skin condition spelled connect the dots to love - at Bodacious Burger when...
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...
In Year Book Stories: 1976-1978,Top Shelf Publisher Chris Staros chronicles two anecdotes from his high school years – the first in which he ran for class president during his freshman year, and the second when, at the tender age of 16, his rock ban...
What They SayThe newest and deadliest weapon of the future has arrived, and it’s more powerful than ever before. The next stage of human evolution, a race of “metahumans” with powerful psychic abilities, has begun to appear on Earth. The...
Though this latest press statement of a new Chris Carter movie goes out of its way to say it's "not supernatural", it's hard to say whether the film will not have some genre aspects. After all, it's Chris Carter, series creator of "The X-Fi...
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...
As the old saying goes when it rains it pours and this week’s schedule, being positively drenched with new releases from top genre publishers Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast, is no exception. But perhaps the most interesting release on this editi...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another controversial edition of Comicscape! Last week’s review of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer sparked a hellacious debate on the comment section unlike few we’ve seen on the site. It ...
The Review!How can one show have so many cliches packed into it? Teenager with special powers, teenager with extrodinary abilities, mecha, high school, and even the forlorn girl in the school uniform walking amongst the cherry blossoms in the first episod...
Last month, MGM released DVD box sets of both GREEN ACRES and MISTER ED, two zany sitcoms from the 1960s which now enjoy relatively equal cult popularity. Both contain two discs full of episodes, and come in boxes with googie retro-fun, Nick at Nite type ...
The Sword of Truth series debuted in 1994 with Wizard’s First Rule and has been chugging on ever since. Translated into 20 foreign languages with 10 million copies in print, Terry Goodkind’s leviathan of an epic clocks in at over 7700 pages an...
The Review!As some of you from the chat may know, I run a website at http://senshitv.dhs.org called SenshiTV, and if any of you look at it, you can tell what a flaming Moonie I am, so you can bet your life I'm scrutinizing this disc as best I can. I went ...
SCARY MOVIE 2 by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Sat 01-05-2002)
Lying awake at Christmas camp, I tapped the upper bunk and awoke a fellow councilor. "Hey Greg, you know I was just thinking. That movie SCARY MOVIE 2, it had some funny moments. In fact, I think it might be Chris Elliott's finest hour." Greg, awoken, jum...
What They SayIt’s Yu-Gi-Oh! like you’ve never seen before: Unedited, Unchanged and Uncut! Experience all the action, all the monsters and all the duels in their original Japanese form! It’s Your Move!
Episode 1: Kairyu-shin
Episode 2:...
Chris Evans' primary claim to fame these days is Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four movies. His other genre ventures include the criminally underrated Sunshine and the recent CG-animated version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He returns to science ficti...
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’...
There`s something odd about Marvel`s pumping out a collection like X-Men Visionaries: Joe Madureira. Here, Marvel urges the reader to simply enjoy the art—which is remarkable—and ignore the stories, which have great gaping holes struck through them. Why? ...
What They SayIn the aftermath of the great earthquake, one ruthless corporation stands ready to take over the devastated city of Tokyo with an army of synthetic monsters. Only a single band of female mercenaries oppose the monolithic power of Genom. With ...
Have you ever found yourself walking down a Hong Kong street when all of a sudden you find yourself on the set of a sci-fi thriller in the middle of production? No? Well, one of our oldest scoopers, Flyboy, found himself on the set of PUSH last week ...
OPINIONI don't know what shocks me most: the fact that I got deluged with hate mail from a reader for not including SPAWN in our discussion last week (for space reasons, but also because no one who wrote in really said much about it); or the fact that sai...
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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...
What They SaySixteen-year-old Himeno Awayuki wants a normal, happy life. But when her nutty father Kaoru marries the wealthy executive Natsue, Himeno finds herself living on an estate the size of a small country and saddled with two stepsisters, Mayune an...
Greetings, fanatics and casual readers alike, and welcome to another COMICSCAPE. Welcome also to one of those damnable holiday weeks when the new comics don't arrive until Thursday. Curse you, Labor Day, and your federally endorsed celebration of the wo...
You all clearly love movies. Some of you clearly love complaining about them, but you see them nonetheless. Whenever Hollywood graces us with another comic adaptation, I dutifully run a brilliant and slightly over-analytical dissection. As such, I ran ...
Ten years ago, TV was a different world. First run syndication was still a viable delivery system for original drama programming and independent stations everywhere were glutted with action adventure shows of every description. Original cable programmin...
Well, it's been an interesting ten years. As I suspect everyone with an interest in TV already knows, the WB and UPN will cease transmission next season to make way for a new hybrid network called CW (taken from CBS, the owner of UPN, and WB). Though I'...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
Composer David Kitay has scored DARWIN AWARDS for writer/director Finn Taylor. The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this Wednesday, January 25 at 6pm at the Eccles Theatre. In addition, Kitay will take part in Music & Film: The Creativ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION The taut science fiction score for the 1996-97 TV series, DARK SKIES, has been released as a limited edition 10th anniversary soundtrack CD by Perseverance Records. The CD contains almost an hour's worth of Michael Hoenig's sco...
If AMERICAN DREAMZ, with its puckish take on both the workings of the White House and AMERICAN IDOL, never bites as hard as it might, it still has a lot more snap than we might have expected from a major studio enterprise. Directo