One of the more enjoyable evenings at the American Cinematheque`s 1st Annual Festival of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction featured a screening of the ground-breaking horror film Hellraiser and a subsequent discussion with writer-director CliveBarker ...
CliveBarker will making his only U.S. appearance this year in order to introduce and sign his first-ever action figure line, CLIVEBARKER'S TORTURED SOULS.TORTURED SOULS is the collaboration of Barker and Todd McFarlane, creator of SPAWN and owner of McF...
CliveBarker recently appeared at the Bookstar bookstore in Studio City, CA, for a signing of his newest book COLDHEART CANYON: A HOLLYWOOD GHOST STORY. Barker was greeted by over 100 fans waiting to have his book and other items signed. Click on the thum...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, CliveBarker is partnering with Walden Media to create an original young adult thriller which will center on the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.The film, which barker will produce and develop the story for, will revolve arou...
CliveBarker has a new production in development about the end of the world. Barker's Midnight Picture Show company and Armada Pictures are working on PLAGUE, a feature length horror film to be directed by Hal Masonberg. The film's script was written by M...
On Saturday, December 14th, CliveBarker and Todd McFarlane appeared together at the pop culture store Meltdown in Hollywood, Calif. to sign the latest wave of their action figure line, CLIVEBARKER'S TORTURED SOULS 2: THE FALLEN from McFarlane Toys. Hans...
CliveBarker is getting the opportunity to envision the TORTURED SOULS movie for us. The horror novelist, whose last film directed was 1995's LORD OF ILLUSIONS, will helm the movie based on the horrific action figure line he created.The movie is set up at...
It's been a long famine for horror fans wanting to see CliveBarker's horror muscles stretched in a cinematic form. Thankfully, this fall his producing and story talents will grace SAINT SINNER on the SciFi Channel, and thankfully he's sat down with our o...
Saint Clive by Chris Wyatt & Anthony C. Ferrante (Tue 11-05-2002)
When people ask CliveBarker what he does for a living, he says, "I'm an imaginer.""It's hard to classify what I do," he explains. "And I think that the term 'artist' seems a little pretentious. What I do is live by my imagination."Though Barker first cam...
On Saturday September 21, the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood opened an art exhibition of paintings from Clive (HELLRAISER) Barker's new book ABARAT. The novel is the first installment of a series of four young adult fantasy/adventure books and is...
NECA has joined forces with horror master CliveBarker to celebrate Clive's return to the characters and universe of pleasure and pain that he created - HELLRAISER.To mark this special event NECA presents the first ever HELLRAISER playset, "The Cenobite L...
Mania was on hand at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors event this past week, where author CliveBarker revealed that yet another of his short stories is getting the big screen treatment very soon. According to the author, Dread, which first hit book stores in...
It seems that horror fans and CliveBarker fans are about to be snubbed once again. Ryan Rotten is reporting that Barker's Midnight Meat Train will only be getting a very limited theatrical run on August 1, 2008. How limited? Only 100 theaters before gett...
In a surprise move, horror aficionado turned painter CliveBarker is returning to the director's chair after an eight-year absence, inking a pact to helm Universal's horror pic "Tortured Souls."
Comic-to-film uber-writer Hans Rodionoff penned the script....
Q. HOW DO YOU RELATE TO THE CHARACTERS IN YOUR BOOKS AND IN YOUR FILMS?Barker: I don`t relate to the characters in my films the way that I relate to the characters in my books. In my books I can really get into the characters. The characters in films belo...
There seems to
be no end to the comic-to-film writing gigs our pal Hans Rodionoff is landing.
We told you Tuesday he is the new writer on Spawn 2. Now Variety
reports that Rodionoff is penning the script for CliveBarker and Todd
McFarlane's Torture...
Checker Book Publishing Group has announced a November release of CLIVEBARKER'S TAPPING THE VEIN, an anthology of comic-book adaptations of Barker's short stories. The book collects nine stories, adapted to the comics medium by creators including P. Cra...
CliveBarker's treatment for DEMONIK is being shopped around Hollywood by John Woo's Tiger Hill Entertainment. Barker and Woo will produce the film. There will also be a video game based on the film that will be put out by game developer Terminal Realit...
...nal movie CliveBarker Presents Saint Sinner.
Comics2Film spoke
with Hans Rodionoff, who wrote the
most recent drafts of the teleplay, about the movie and his involvement with it.
The writer told C2F that the story starts with "two succubae
who, ...
...h creator CliveBarker says it has more to do with a rights issue than anything."HELLRAISER toys was something we could never do because I don't have those rights and I've been told they're hard to get," says Barker, who instead worked out a deal with ...
`We have such sights to show you!` That’s a memorable line from CliveBarker’s Hellraiser that you’ll hear repeated to much lesser effect in Tony Randel’s Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. It’s creepily effective in the first film, but yawn-inducing in the second....
When CliveBarker'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...
As soon as the legendary CliveBarker began writing, he was considered a king of the macabre. The chilling masterpiece COLDHEART CANYON proves this to still be the case. "Coldwater Canyon", a famous Los Angeles street (located near the CINESCAPE offices i...
Genre:Horror.Studio:Universal Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Script stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Hans Rodionoff (Screenwriter); based upon the Tortured Souls line of action figures, created by CliveBarker and manufactured ...
First off, let me identify myself as the co-writer and the director of Hellraiser: Inferno. I am the director whom CliveBarker described as `very nice`—a description which was perhaps as hastily uttered as were his aspersions toward my film.His reaction,...
Nickelodeon Pictures and Paramount have snagged the feature film and television rights to CliveBarker's ECTO-KID short story. The story is based on the short-lived but good comic book series of the same name created by Barker and published by Marvel in t...
He's wrestled with vampire hunters and demon-possessed bikers in a variety of projects that are both in theaters and on the boards, but now writer David Goyer is teaming with living legend and horror maestro CliveBarker to shape a new series for cabler H...
Back in the mid-1980’s, a friend who knew that I was into horror suggested I read a series of books written by a new horror writer named CliveBarker called The Books of Blood. I did, and became an instant fan. Barkers’ tales were a ...
The Fangoria Convention that will be held in Pasadena, CA, on August 11th, will feature a "Boogeymen" panel that will feature a number of well known horror figures. The convention will close with a panel featuring CliveBarker, Robert Englund, Gunnar Hans...
...o publish CliveBarker, Neil Gaiman and Chuck Dixon already, and this just rounds out a tremendous first year for Checker." Earlier this week, Checker announced a November publication of ALIEN LEGION: PIECEMAKER, a 212-page trade paperback. This is Ch...
...nd titles.CliveBarker’s [IMG3L]excursion into TV-moviedom, SAINT SINNER (CD released this week by La-La Land Records), contains an impressive and expansive score from Christopher Lennertz. Primarily symphonic, this large-scale orchestral and choral sc...
...s guy is. CliveBarker, Larry Cohen, Bill Condon, Wes Craven, Susan Faludi (well, Backlash was sorta like science fiction, wasn`t it?), Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and others are set to be there. Even if you`re not invited, it sounds like a good place to...
...ose early CliveBarker books and horror anthologies.""Steve's worked with some of the masters of horror," says Ted Adams, IDW's Publisher. "With this mini-series, he has the chance to show everyone what he's learned."Covers are by Ashley Wood.
...or legend CliveBarker, titled SHADOW HOUSE. One of the busiest scriptwriters in genre entertainment, he's also planning to direct his own adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short story titled "Murder Mysteries," which first appeared in the anthology, SMOKE A...
...ormeister CliveBarker. `The year before, there were two movies that I saw, HELLRAISER and EVIL DEAD II, where I immediately called my agent and said ‘I must work with these guys!’ I didn’t know I’d be working with them back-to-back a year later!`Elf...
...worthy of CliveBarker, as pitiably disturbing as he is frightening to see.
Beowulf is the oldest known tale in (old) English, about a hero who comes to save Danish King Hrothgar’s hall from the ravages of the monster Grendel, then going...
...nne Rice, CliveBarker, Neil Gaiman, Whitley Strieber, and last but certainly not least, Stephen King—American readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled! It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body...
...uction by CliveBarker. In addition, the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT trade paperback features eight all-new story pages not included in the original mini-series release. "Steve and Ben really wanted to give something extra to fans who buy the trade paperback. The...
...
Imajica, CliveBarker (HarperCollins)
Amid a seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition, and mythic horror, Imajica picks out the brightly colored threads of three memorable characters: John Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master forg...
...ooks very CliveBarker (before he sucked (unfortunate choice of words)).
Kurt: Wow, you’ve managed to offend both the disabled and the gay community in one column. That’s a record, even for me.
Infinity Inc #9 $2.99
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...an Damme, CliveBarker, Stuart Gordon, José Mojica Marins, Abel Ferrara, Gary Oldman, and even the late Herk Harvey (Carnival of Souls). He announces his Phantom Video `B`wards for the `90s, with divisions such as `Not a Pretty Sight, Gratuitous Male N...
... Rice and CliveBarker for many
years. It is a world that is ripe for visualization as animation. But
American animators have typically shied away from this dark vision in favor
of super-heroes and comic buffoons. This is where anime comes into play.
T...
...s include CliveBarker, Poppy Z. Brite, Richard Matheson and more.Intelligent consumer? Green Party member? Tree-hugging hippie? Shop with a conscience at www.greenmarketplace.com. And check out just how evil that corporation is who makes your favorite...
... story by CliveBarker) and last year he received an Emmy nomination for his score for Stuart Gordon’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired MoH entry, Dreams in the Witch House.
Varese Sarabande Records has announced they will release Trevor Raben&...
...s classic CliveBarker film is perfect for the holidays. There are a few special effects sequences that look a little cheesy but overall this gory flick is still just as great now as it was when it originally hit theaters. Pinhead is an icon of the hor...
...s include CliveBarker, Neil Gaiman, Raymond Feist, Juliet McKenna and Ramsey Campbell. Last minute tickets should still be available but act fast if you do want to attend. Expo Expands again The organizers of the London Expo have added a couple more g...
...cored the CliveBarker miniseries, SAINT SINNER (using what the film's director, Joshua Butler described as "an incredible gift for melody") and composed music for all types of media, from film (the jazz-based gangster drama BABY FACE NELSON, the seduc...
According to Variety, Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in the horror film Midnight Train.The film, based on the CliveBarker short story Midnight Mean Train, centers on a photographer on the trail of a serial killer who operates in the subway system.R...
...g out of CliveBarker, but the characters aren’t especially interesting. Selenia is actually contradictory, a sword-wielding heroine in one scene and screaming, “Arthur, save us!” when an acorn/boat goes adrift. There’s also...
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...
...ual parts CliveBarker, Hieronymus Bosch and M.C. Escher. SILENT HILL hits the ground running, with understandably worried mom Rose (Radha Mitchell) running across the highway and to the cliff beyond, almost equally alarmed husband Christopher (Sean Be...
...tage with CliveBarker and Stan Winston.(O) FIELD OF DREAMS (Universal) Anniversary edition of this heartwarming drama about a farmer who builds a supernatural baseball field. Includes commentraks, deleted scenes, featurettes and more. Widescreen and f...
...he latest CliveBarker novel in paperback, a purchase that could conceivably give him several days' worth of enjoyment, as opposed to an only slightly cheaper comic that might last an hour, if that. And that's only the literate teens - what about the o...
...ng out to CliveBarker for another trip to the well," he admits. "With the advent of popularity in horror currently, I think the time is right for the definitive version. I certainly want a crack before a current rapper gets a crack at inheriting the ...
...s include CliveBarker and Tobe Hooper, with more to be announced shortly. Mania Fest will also present Oscar-winning special effects master Stan Winston with a Maniac Career Achievement Award celebrating his work in such films as THE TERMINATOR trilog...
...ere guest CliveBarker, Tracy Bingham, Majandra Delfino, Mary Hellmund (Majandra and Marieh's mom), Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Lloyd and many others.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
What do you get when you take one married couple, their 15-year-old daughter and evil creatures from the netherworld? You might be looking at a new NBC series called DEMONOLOGIST. It's being created by horror novelist CliveBarker and DEAD ZONE writer Ted...
...r, namely CliveBarker, Wes Craven, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, Eli Roth and Rob Zombie.) -- Finally, on Sunday, September 21 ManiaFest will be premiering the world debut of Lions Gate Entertainment's MONSTER MAN. Scheduled to attend are Michael Davis ...
...ts of the CliveBarker series.As the star of 1987’s HELLRAISER and its 1988 follow-up, HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II, it has often been rumored that Laurence would be returning to the long-lived franchise. But aside from the occasional bit of recycled foota...
... not even CliveBarker could convince me the twain should meet. So lo and behold my surprise as I found myself actually liking this one.
This episode introduces a new girl, Tomoe Misaki, who suffers from a severe inferiority complex. Her parents, pref...
... VAMPIRE. CliveBarker mixed an animal rights message into his dark fantasy novel SACRAMENT. Thomas Harris kicked his fans in the gut with HANNIBAL, probably the most-anticipated sequel in horror novel history, and Dean Koontz was still writing in ‘80s...
...) Creator CliveBarker steps back from the series for this 1992 sequel in which TV reporter Terry Farrell discovers a sculpture that holds the captured souls of Pinhead and his friends. Includes featurettes and deleted footage. (O) THE HIDDEN BLADE (T...
...line that CliveBarker often does - the line between sex and death - and in this case, as is so often the case with Barker, death wins out. Unfortunately, so does the grotesque.If Morrison didn't have talented artists like Chris Weston and Gary Erskine...
CliveBarker is making a horror film pitch based on his McFarlane Toys line of TORTURED SOULS action figures.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the scribe-director has been sending studio execs the action figures themselves as part of his pitch.If that ...
...to life.
CliveBarker will executive produce. Daniel Simpson will direct from a script by CliveBarker and Paul Kaye. Steve Lanning and Cliff Lanning will also produce.
The stop-motion animated sequences will produced by Chiodo Bros. Productions...
...n King or CliveBarker. In fact, his publisher Harper Collins is pleased to report that AMERICAN GODS started out at #22 on the Amazon.com and that's just from pre-orders alone.
Preludes and Nocturnes, the first trade paperback in Gaiman's SANDM...
...ed from a CliveBarker novel. Another rep from our world is Doctor Mary Malone, whose researches into Dark Matter have led her to an Eden in danger of dissolution. And let`s not forget Lyra`s dad, the wonderfully hubristic Lord Asriel, preparing his fi...
... King and CliveBarker. Undoubtedly publishers are looking to bring up awareness for the titles before this coming Halloween sales season (which is like the retail Christmas of the horror genre). You're going to have to wait for the end of this article...
... King and CliveBarker all made deals with the cabler to create original programming. Spielberg will be behind the long in the works alien abduction miniseries TAKEN; King was doing a FIRESTARTER sequel; and Barker was bringing his SAINT SINNER comic b...
...he latest CliveBarker title. Of course, a coupla weeks ago a full-page ad for Laurell K. Hamilton`s new book did appear in EW, graced with a glamour photo of the author.Be that as it may, at least we have fiction to talk about. Terry Brooks is back (d...
...anel with CliveBarker, or the special award ceremony for George A. Romero, but the total enthusiasm of the sold out audience. The Fangoria conventions always have big name actors and directors discussing their latest projects, that's half the fun in a...
...oduced by CliveBarker. Includes commentrak and deleted footage. (O) PLAYTIME (Criterion) Jacques Tati's breathtaking and hilarious 1967 comedy has his befuddled everyman Hulot lost in a modern cityscape. (O) POPULATION 436 (Sony) Census taker Jeremy...
...re of the CliveBarker cable-TV movie, SAINT SINNER, which debuts on October 26th and don't miss hearing Christopher Lennertz's score which makes its CD debut on October 15th from a new label called La-La Land Records (http://www.lalalandrecords.com ...
...or master CliveBarker and the cast of Midnight Meat Train take you on a terror trip through hell. Finally, director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III), Tobin Bell (Saw I, II and III) and the filmmakers of Saw IV invite you to play a game in the cru...
Universal Pictures has signed a deal with CliveBarker and Todd McFarlane to produce a film based on the CLIVEBARKER'S TORTURED SOULS -- ANIMAE DAMNATAE action figure line.The pair are said to have sealed a mid-six-figure sum against well over $2M for th...
...slap on a CLIVEBARKER: THE PLAGUE title even though it's been reported that CliveBarker had nothing to do with it nor is it an adapted work from his library of fiction.
Here's the backstory of the situation as told by the original director Hal Maso...
...tale a la CliveBarker in his early years than a DOCTOR WHO adventure, and it's a slow building horror at that. Lewis takes his time leading us to a resolution that seems far too much of a cop-out after all the build-up. The Doctor has some nice soul-s...
...ular 1992 CliveBarker story, includes Barker commentrak, featurettes, storyboards and more.(O) THE CHARLEY CHASE COLLECTION (Kino) This volume in Kino’s SLAPSTICK SYMPOSIUM series celebrates the underappreciated comic actor and director for the Hal Ro...
.../director CliveBarker (discussing the new BOOGEYMAN DVD), and a PLANET OF THE APES dialogue with Booth Colman (Dr. Zaius from the classic television series) and Eric Greene, author of PLANET OF THE APES AS AMERICAN MYTH. Along with the always-anticipa...
...lliamson, CliveBarker, Mimi Rogers, The Murderdolls, Scott Glen and many others. The biggest surprise of the night was the arrival of Christina Aguilera. Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
...re toward CliveBarker territory, combining elements of traditional cop dramas with venereal horror.Ozone is the name of a new, highly addictive street drug that is often fatal for users. Detectives Eddie Boone (James Black) and Mike Weitz (Tom Hoover)...
...e: author CliveBarker, director Cameron Crowe, actor David Carradine, fantasy authors Terry Pratchett and Terry Brooks, Tolkien scholar Dr. Jane Chance, musicians Geddy Lee and Lemmy Kilmister, publisher Forrest J. Ackerman, illustrators Colleen Doran...
...d various CliveBarker novels. However, if you don't mind a couple of notions that have surfaced before, CONSTANTINE is pretty entertaining. Keanu Reeves stars as John Constantine, a man with one hell of a problem. Plagued by visions as a child and bel...
...on 2002's CliveBarker horrorshow, SAINT SINNER, calls "an incredible gift for melody." After learning to play the trumpet and guitar, he ventured out of performance to study composition, jazz arranging, and theory in high school. Soon, he made his way...
...lendors" CliveBarker. "Writes with elegance, wit, and awe-inspiring surprises" The Times (London). Nancy Holder: USA Today bestselling author of 200 short stories and 78 novels. Co-editor of Outsiders, an anthology featuring Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z Bri...
... telefilm CLIVEBARKER'S SAINT SINNER that incorporated an 80-piece orchestra and full choir. CliveBarker described the score as "Truly brilliant... Chris Lennertz has the kind of talent which will quickly put him in the major league of film composers...
...US MIND); CliveBarker; Eli Roth (CABIN FEVER); Keith Jarrett; Amber Valletta; Daniel Gillies (SPIDER-MAN 2); Jason Bateman (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT); Pete Yorn (SPIDER-MAN); Benito Martinez (THE SHIELD); Leelee Sobieski (THE GLASS HOUSE); Courtney Peldon...
There isn't much anger that visibly bursts through the surface when talking with revered author and filmmaker CliveBarker. He's a soft-spoken Brit edging up onto his 49th birthday who has penned 21 very diverse books (running the gamut of fantasy, horror...
...vel Comic/CliveBarker book titled ECTO KID?). It was during their work in that industry that the idea for THE MATRIX originally developed. However, as the brothers fleshed out the story, they decided that the proper venue for a tale of this scope woul...
...tures and CliveBarker for the rights to the author's ECTO-KID. Based on a short story and a short-lived Marvel comic book series, Nick is looking to develop the project as a movie followed by a regular TV series.Finally, perhaps sensing the coming suc...
...of spooky CliveBarker figures, collectors can expect four of the original six creepoids to get the big treatment. AGONISTES, THE SCYTHE-MEISTER, VENAL ANATOMICA and TALISAC are the four currently planned for an October release. Specific price and reta...
... novelist CliveBarker (HELLRAISER), director Tobe Hooper (POLTERGEIST) and director George Romero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) will be joined by Cinescape's Editor-in-Chief Anthony C. Ferrante in a discussion about what scares us in horror films. Screen...
...ng out to CliveBarker for another trip to the well," he admits. "With the advent of popularity in horror currently, I think the time is right for the definitive version. I certainly want a crack before a current rapper gets a crack at inheriting the ...
...ists are: CliveBarker (novelist, director), Wes Craven (director, SCREAM), Stuart Gordon (director, RE-ANIMATOR), Tobe Hooper (director, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and the best space vampire film you'll ever see, LIFEFORCE), George A. Romero (directo...
This new special edition re-release of Bernard Rose’s CANDYMAN gives us an opportunity to re-examine this horror film that, despite two inferior sequels, has often fallen through the cracks of pop culture. Based on a BOOKS OF BLOOD story by CliveBarker, ...
...cifically CliveBarker's thoughts on their script plans.
We are actually writing the script right now and we don't want to remake exactly the Cliver Barker movie," Bustillo tells Twitch Film. "We have met Clive and told him what we want to ...
"I honestly don't know what's happening there because everybody's talked about it," said actor Clive Owen when asked about 'Sin City 2'. Owen played Dwight in the first movie and is expected to return for the sequel. "It's been announced a few times that ...
Asked about the sequel Sin City 2, which would reunite him with co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, Clive Owen responded: "I have no idea. They've been talking about it, but nothing's been sorted out yet. I think Rob is definitely intending to...
"Rodriguez is doing this strip cartoon picture Frank Miller thing and he's been so faithful. He recreates it image by image by image," says actor Clive Owen of the movie version of 'Sin City.'
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According to Variety, Clive Owen has signed on to star in the upcoming Columbia Pictures film, The International.The film, to be directed by Tom Tykwer, is an action-thriller about an Interpol agent who investigates corruption at powerful banking institut...
`The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried in the belly of that smothering month, wondering if he would ever find his way out through the cold coils that lay between here and Easter...`So opens CliveBarker`s 1996 chi...
The first trailer for Clive Owen's upcoming terrorist thriller The International has popped up online courtesy of Columbia Pictures' official website. Owens will co-star alongside Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Brían F. O'Byrne. Director Tom ...
...l. While CliveBarker’s subsequent offerings have fallen short of that initial promise, Anchor Bay’s DVD release makes it clear that Barker’s directorial misfires have done nothing to detract from the power of Hellraiser. From the brilliant conceptio...
...chor Bay) CliveBarker's 1987 franchise-launching directorial debut. (O) LEECHES (Tango) Leeches are mutated by steroids sucked out of swimmers. (O) RED SCORPION (Tango) Dolph Lundgren as a KGB-trained killing machine. (O) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: BEST OF ...
Apparently, there really was a homicidal barber in late 19th-century London. The tale was told often, in many versions, even before composer Stephen Sondheim and librettist Hugh Wheeler collaborated on their musical Sweeney Todd, which seems to constantly...
... director CliveBarker's first film after the surprise commercial and critical success of HELLRAISER. That debut had raised a lot of hopes that Barker would be the savior of the horror film in the '80s, but this one pretty effectively dashed those hope...
Robert Rodriguez' brutal film noir, SIN CITY, comprises a series of three inter-related stories, each based on a different graphic novel by Frank Miller, who was brought it as co-director (along with Quentin Tarantino, who guest-directed the segment where...
What They SayPlaytime takes on preposterous proportions when Marie\'s pretend family puts Hare\'s mom and her old fling together in the same bed. Hare must now quickly find Dr. Clive another woman, but the only one interested in him is a slobbering, raven...
What They SayHare and Guu return to the jungle to find the familiar old gang, and a few new faces including a psychotic new schoolteacher and a couple of goth roaches. Marie dreams up new ways to entice Hare\'s affections. Dama goes on a destructive rampa...
What They SayAs the awesome power of the Chimeras is unleashed in waves of horror that engulf the planet, the Lords of Darkness launch a new offensive against the Champions of the Spirits.
Now the crew of the Silver Noah must face their greatest challeng...
Sahara by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 06-14-2004)
Genre: Action/Adventure.Studio: Paramount Pictures.Production Company: Crusader Entertainment/j.k. livin prods.Project Phase: Released.Who's In It: Matthew McConaughey (Dirk Pitt); Steve Zahn; Penelope Cruz (Eva Rojas).Who's Making It: Breck Eisner (Direc...
What They SayAn Outlandishly Hilarious Series from the Master of Anime Comedies!
Brace yourself for an avalanche of nonstop action, out-of-this-world adventure... and a mind-reading alien...The Review!Hare continues to suffer under the weirdness of Guu w...
What They SayThe bonds of love connect beyond time and distance, and bring Clive and Weda back together while also connecting Hare with the grandmother he\'s never known. But reconciling Weda with her mother may take a miracle. Normally that\'d be impossi...
You may have noticed that now it seems like each and every TV series ever made is available on DVD in season-by-season box sets. Not true – they won’t all be out until next year. It’s madness, unless you happen to be a big fan of the TV series in question...
On display at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Konami of America is in development on a PlayStation 2 title based on Disney's forthcoming KING ARTHUR film. Set for release on July 7, the film stars Clive Owen as the legendary ruler of Engla...
Empire Movies has done a nice job of landing the first images from the upcoming KING ARTHUR movie, now in production and being directed by Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY). The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movie stars Clive Owen as the legendary King Arthur, Ke...
The creator of adventurer Dirk Pitt is now suing the company that is making a movie out of the character. Novelist Clive Cussler has filed suit against Crusader Entertainment yesterday alleging that the film production company had significantly altered th...
Penelope Cruz is in talks to join the cast of SAHARA, the movie based on Clive Cussler's novel of the same title. Starring as Cussler's rough and ragged adventurer Dirk Pitt is Matthew McConaughey while Steve Zahn will play Pitt's sidekick.Cruz's characte...
Director Mike Hodges created an icon of British crime drama with 1971's GET CARTER. In some ways, I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD feels like a close relative of the earlier film, though some of the plot points would have been just about impossible to get past th...
Ioan Gruffudd, the star of the most recent HORATIO HORNBLOWER mini-series, has been cast as the knight Lancelot in Jerry Bruckheimer's KING ARTHUR movie. Gruffudd also starred in BLACK HAWK DOWN and 102 DALMATIONS.KING ARTHUR will be directed by Antoine ...
The stars took over Disneyland on Saturday, June 28th for the world premiere of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL. The red carpet stretched from the main gate all the way down main street to Frontierland where a huge movie screen was dra...
...ear. CliveBarker Power Rank: 77Last Year's Rank: 46Secret Identity: Author/Artist/FilmmakerSuperpower: Ability to creep people out with a single glance.Current Adventure: Last year's success of the stunning children's novel Abarat was tempered by...
Music From the Movies has confirmed that there has been a change of composers for SAHARA, Matthew McConaughey's upcoming action-adventure film. Instead of Brian Tyler (TIMELINE), the film's new composer will be Clint Mansell (MURDER BY NUMBERS, REQUIEM FO...
Blink-182 is taking a break - and it could be a long one. The San Diego-based trio is on "indefinite hiatus" and "there is no set plan for the band to begin working together again," Geffen, their record company, said in a statement last week. Blink-182 ha...
I'll say this first: for next week, send in your responses to this column and your rants about other comic-to-film changes. If you still hate Spider-Man's organic web-shooters or find yourself incensed that Mystique wasn't Rogue's mom, e-mail me here or ...
ProgAID was set-up in the wake of the terrible earthquake and Tsunami disaster that tragically struck on the December 26th 2004. F2 Music decided to co-ordinate the recording of a CD single to help raise as much money as possible for those that need it.Th...
Jerry Bruckheimer's production KING ARTHUR purports to tell the "true" story of the legendary founder of the British Empire. As the opening text puts it, "Recently discovered archeological evidence sheds light on his true identity." Well, what the evidenc...
Rising star Clive Owen (who made a name for himself in CROUPIER as well as behind the wheel as THE DRIVER for BMW's series of short films) has landed the part of KING ARTHUR. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing this new tale of the legendary English king who ...
...sion with CliveBarker's HELLRAISER series of films, but apart from that factoid and the decision to Americanize Constantine and his home turf, there are no other differences that he can think of.Reeves added that he worked closely with the film's dire...
...niversal) CliveBarker's tale of a monk commissioned to track the succubi he unwittingly unleashed over 200 years. Includes commentrak, deleted scenes and more.(O) SIMPLE REVENGE (MTI) A disgruntled office worker seduces her boss' husband, then frames ...
CLOSER might make an interesting double bill with KINSEY. In CLOSER, the characters are perfectly capable of asking and answering pretty much every conceivable question about sex they're even perfectly comfortable performing a wide variety of acts (albei...
The tagline on KING ARTHUR reads, "The untold true story that inspired the legend." How true this actually is will be anybody's guess, but there's no denying that this is a version of Arthurian lore that has never been committed to film before.For one thi...
On November 11th at Barker Hanger at the Santa Monica airport The Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, a division of The T.J. Martell Foundation had it's annual event Bogart Backstage, a family gala which is designed to create an original, high energy entertaining...
Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro play Dwight and Jackie Boy, respectively, in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City. ComingSoon.net talked to both actors about their roles in the film, based on Miller's graphic novels.
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Robert Rodriguez had to quit the Directors Guild of America so he could add graphic comic book artist Frank Miller to the credits of their upcoming film "Sin City." And, as an added violation of the rules, he added in the credits: "Special Guest Director ...
IESB.net is reporting that two major villains in the 'G.I.Joe' movie have been cast.
According to their sources, Arnold Vosloo, who fans best remember as the sorcerer Imhotep in 'The Mummy', is set to play Zartan in the film.
Even bigger news is the cas...
Clive Owen, who stars in Robert Rodriguez's upcoming film version of Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City, told SCI FI Wire that he's already completed his role in the film, which is aiming for release later this year. More...
Quentin Tarantino has gone from "Kill Bill" to dollar bill. He got paid exactly $1 to film a scene in "Sin City." Robert Rodriguez co-directed the rest of the Dimension Films drama with Frank Miller, who created the graphic novel series. Tarantino filmed ...
One of the Biggest Talents of Anime and Video Games Comes to Nation's Largest Convention
Anaheim, California (March 20, 2008) ‹ Famed American voice actor and writer David Hayter is the latest addition to the hottest line up of Anime Expo®
2008 Gu...
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Late last year Max Allan Collins relaunched a classic with the Hard Case Crime novel 'Deadly Beloved', featuring Ms. Tree, the comics character he created with artist Terry Beatty. Comics2Film had a chance to talk ...
Rosario Dawson has joined the ensemble of the Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller-directed Dimension Films noir drama "Sin City." Dawson will take part in the third and final segment. Rodriguez based the film on Miller's graphic novel series. The finale also st...
With this classic, director James Whale created many of the mad scientist characteristics that the genre still clings to today. Loosely adapted from both Mary Shelley`s novel and a play by Peggy Webling, this tale of Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), a me...
...esign for CliveBarker’s disturbing descent into hell generated some of the most startling textures and tonalities heard in modern horror scoring. With his proclivity for `sound mass` comprised of orchestral, electronic, and natural sounds treated in ...
Last year, two of the most macabre creative minds in genre entertainment joined forces to present an original line of collectible monster figures, CLIVEBARKER'S TORTURED SOULS. Following the success of that first release, Todd McFarlane (of McFarlane Toy...
...then you obviously weren't around the first time Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung-Fu, enjoyed his hour of popularity in the Marvel Universe. The character was created at a time when badly-dubbed kung fu and karate movies were all the rage and when Bruce L...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Peach-PitTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:Peter AhlstromWhat They SayWhen Takeya rescues Ren from DearS dominatrix Barker Rubi, the trauma has caused her to lose her Japanese language skills. The cure? A little R&R,...
What's both great and problematic about SIN CITY is that it is the most faithful imaginable live-action adaptation of a comic book imaginable. Scratch that most people who aren't the movie's co-directors, Robert Rodriguez and graphic novel creator Frank ...
...LRAISER 2 CliveBarker passed the directorial whip to Tony Randel for this sequel, which picks up the story only moments after the conclusion of the first film. The results are bigger but rarely better. While this film certainly has its moments, there ...
Regarded by many as the greatest horror film ever made, director James Whale’s sequel to FRANKENSTEIN (#16 on our list) was for many years a complete anomaly in the genre: a big-budget film from a major studio, helmed by their top director working at the ...
I have to admit from the outset that the only reason I picked this book up is because of a blurb on the cover. It features a rave review from none other than Clive Cussler (one of my very favorite authors), who says of NECESSARY EVIL: "Escapist fiction of...
Maybe it's fallout from the mega-success of Universal's THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and Columbia Pictures' xXx films but extreme sports have never been hotter for Hollywood. Case in point: today's announcement of another extreme sports-themed movie in devel...
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Houston, TX
ADV Films has set a street date of November 27th, 2001 for the upcoming home video release of Arc the Lad: "Day of Reckoning". ADV Films plans concurrent day & date release of both VHS and DVD formats for this final spellb...
What They SayThe action never stops as Elk, Shu and Lieza find themselves pursued at every turn. When the bounty on Pondit is lifted, Elk is sure it\'s a trap and he and Shu hatch a scheme to find out who\'s after Lieza by using her as bait. What they don...
Variety's reporting that Universal Pictures is set to adapt the British thriller series Second Sight, which aired on BBC in 1999. This is the same series which starred Clive Owen in his first break out role and featured quite a few well known co-stars fro...
Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson have joined Clive Owen and Julia Roberts in DUPLICITY, reports Variety. Tony Gilroy wrote the screenplay and plans to direct while Laura Bickford is set to produce for Universal Pictures. Wilkinson just received a...
Hellraiser by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Sun 12-16-2007)
Release Date: September 5, 2008 Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company Director: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo Screenwriter: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo Cast: TBA Genre: Horror Plot Summary: Released in 1987, "Hellraiser" told the story of a...
The end of 2007 has come and gone. We’re now in the first day of 2008 and whether this year will be better or worse than the previous year, nobody knows. You don’t. I don’t. Even Thor doesn’t know and he’s a fictional god (...
Thespian Ken Watanabe has joined the cast of Universal's upcoming vampire flick Cirque du Freak, reports Variety. The action will co-star alongside John C. Reilly and Salma Hayek in the first adaptation of the 12-book children's series by author Darren Sh...
...ony Todd (CliveBarker¹s CANDYMAN series) delivers his most powerful and evil performance as SHADOW, an executed and resurrected serial killer who invades a women¹s prison in search of the girl known only as Solitaire (Carla Greene)! Solitair...
... based on CliveBarker's short story "The Forbidden". While Ryan cautions that Sony is merely mulling the remake idea over at the second with no director or writer yet attached, there have been whispers of replacing the hook-handed villain, p...
IGN recently learned that a Sin City videogame was in the works. While we know nothing of the game (platform, publisher, etcetera), the news comes as no real surprise given our industry's focus on franchise titles, specifically star-studded franchise titl...
Dimension Films hosted two press conferences for "Sin City" at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills to promote the film. The first conference featured Robert Rodriguez, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson and Clive Owen.
What They SayDr. Clive and Weda\'s marriage brings baby Ame into the household, but that\'s not the only wedding in the wings. A most unexpected character finds that love and war aren\'t always exclusive!
Meanwhile, the village elder\'s chest hair return...
...gonist in CliveBarker's 'Hellraiser' films. She's been cast as Elaine in the movie.
The pair join 'Saw' villain Tobin Bell, who was cast late last year. Bell is also a producer on the film.
Horror icon Robert Kurtzman will direct.
Originally publis...
A recent
write-up appearing on SCI FI Wire
indicates the TV movie version of CliveBarker's Saint Sinner will
air this year.
The SCI FI
Channel plans on airing movies never seen before on the network every Saturday
night at 9 p.m. ET/PT in 2002. T...
Fans who haven't
caught the Saint Sinner commercials airing on SCI FI or related
networks can tune their web browser to CliveBarker.com.
The official website for the TV movie's creator is now showing the trailer for
the show.
The movie
features Gr...
Oscar winning actor, Adrien Brody, is ready to defy ethics by creating a deadly organism in SPLICE, says Bloody Disgusting. The sci-fi horror film is being produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube) about some dangerous exp...
New Line has put up more clips of their action thriller, SHOOT 'EM UP, which stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti & Monica Belucci. One of the clips is the intense shootout at the beginning of the film. These are red band trailers and clips so you will nee...