...ight-host DavidLetterman decided to strike up an official deal with the WGA through his company Worldwide Pants so his two talk shows, his show and the later broadcast of Craig Ferguson, would have WGA writers on board. Letterman's actions seem to hav...
...lenged by DavidLetterman. Leno declines and when Letterman asks why, Leno simply says, "Because I will kill you, my friend." Letterman replies, "Leno, you're not my friend." Two seconds later Letterman is dead and Leno is standing beside the corpse cr...
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DavidLetterman probably has good things to say about the Law
I wouldn’t be surprised by that praise either.
Here’s the deal when it comes to some high profile people like DavidLetterman. They are frequently ta...
One doesn’t need to see every episode to follow the adventures of David Banner (Bill Bixby). The opening credits alone give you all that you need to know what is going on with David Banner and his alter ego the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno). David Banner as t...
SCARY MOVIE 2 by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Sat 01-05-2002)
...tagonized DavidLetterman in a series of now forgotten vignettes during the '80s? Yes, Chris was the man who taught us to kinda half laugh and yet still be able to change the channel. I hate Chris Elliott, I hate him like Jesus hates nails.No matter ho...
John Shea is returning to his role as Adam Kane for four episodes of Mutant X this season, The Continuum has learned.
Kirsten Dunst, who is returning as Mary Jane in Spider-Man 2, will be a guest on CBS' The Late Show with DavidLetterman on Friday.
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DavidLetterman started a trend two weeks ago and now UA and the Weinstein Company have followed. There's also word that Millennium Films is entering negotiations, which you will see in today's "Conan" news. Another smaller producer/distrib...
...es on THE DAVIDLETTERMAN SHOW, with Pekar responding so badly and bluntly to what he perceives as Letterman's condescension that we can hardly believe what we're watching. (A final, non-televised appearance is dramatized with Giamatti's Pekar amping u...
Kirsten Dunst, who returns as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 2, will be a guest on CBS' The Late Show with DavidLetterman on Monday, June 28, two days before the film opens.
E!'s Behind the Scenes special will air on July 1 at 4:30 p.m.; July 2 at 8:...
Here's a clip from 'Transformers' that aired on the Late Show with DavidLetterman last night. It features Megatron squaring off with a defiant Shia LaBeouf.
This one takes some eagle eyes, but media-savvy fanboys-and-girls noticed something interesting last week with Nicolas Cage's television appearances to promote his new film WINDTALKERS. At the MTV Movie Awards, and then on DavidLetterman and Charlie Rose...
...seats for DavidLetterman (thanks, Mike Carlin!) and get offered Wonder Woman all in the same week.It’s gonna take a lot to top that week, for me, actually.So to answer your question, it might’ve been in Dan’s head for some time, but ...
Be sure to check out these Spider-Man cast appearances this week:
Monday
- Kirsten Dunst on The Late Show with DavidLetterman
Tuesday
- Entire cast on MTV TRL
- Tobey Maguire on Live with Regis and Kelly
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Despite the fact that parent company MGM wants no part of it, United Artists has inked an interim deal with the WGA in much the same way that DavidLetterman did last week through his company Worldwide Pants. Variety reports that this deal allows striking...
...Show with DavidLetterman and Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. However, actors who are asked to appear on the struck network talk shows will have to cross WGA picket lines, creating the same situation that has led to the consensus among actors to sk...
Due to the current writer’s strike, the writers of The Late Show with DavidLetterman aren’t bringing home any bacon, but they can apparently still find it in themselves to be clever and funny. I’m really on the fence about the stri...
...) acts as DavidLetterman to Zorak’s Paul Schaffer, meaning the show’s band leader is a giant green praying mantis who hates Space Ghost and everything he stands for. The show used original animation elements and designs from the Sixties series, making...
.... Brooks, DavidLetterman and Dwight Hemion. While Voyager has been nominated in several categories for Saturn Awards and Kate Mulgrew won Best Actress in that genre competition a few years back, none of the performers on any of the Trek shows have eve...
... remember DavidLetterman was one of the people! [audience laughter] I figured they had a pretty broad approach to that character. That would have been a really interesting version of the movie.THE VISUAL TEXTURES OF THE FILM ARE SO RICH. HOW WAS IT WO...
...d to kick DavidLetterman on The Late Show). You won’t believe your eyes, but then the film doesn’t expect you to: it just piles on more and more wire work, stunts, and special effects until you just about have to cheer and applaud. At this point, you ...
...letter to DavidLetterman and I set my timer [on my VCR] because [the letter] was just too crazy, he might actually answer [it] on viewer mail. And he did, one time when I had my VCR set to tape him. He saved my ass because when the Secret Service fina...
I got into the indy comics scene late, so I never heard of David Hine until a few years ago when he began working for the stateside offices of Marvel Comics. In a short space of time there were a few Marvel miniseries: Daredevil Redemption, Son of M., th...
Season 3 of the Incredible Hulk went out with a whimper. David Banner (Bill Bixby) got mixed up with some forest fire fighters and a crazy fire bug. The plot was mundane and your standard throw away episode of the series. The ideas of cliffhanger season f...
Interviewer: Way Jeng
There aren't many shows that I give an unqualified recommendation. A show might be great, but there's almost always something that has to be noted. There might be a small but significant flaw that the audience will have to tolerate....
It would be difficult to imagine Buffy-creator Joss Whedon finding a more suitable creative partner than David Greenwalt. Having served as co-executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer since its first season, it seemed only natural that Greenwalt woul...
From the Del Rey Internet Newsletter #126:
As Del Rey will be publishing the official novelization for SPIDER-MAN 2, we have signed on acclaimed science fiction writer Peter David. A New York Times bestselling author for his multiple Star Trek: The Next ...
As a political statement, THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE is a lot murkier than seems intended, while as drama, it veers between being almost wrenching in places and borderline silly in others. As a mystery, though, it winds up being pretty decent. However, the ma...
Marvel usually draws on the same stable of screenwriters for its projects, such as David Goyer, Zak Penn, Simon Kinberg and David Hayter. Another of these Marvel veterans is the scribe writing Captain America: David Self.
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Thanks again, everyone for a week of interesting comments. Let's jump in...Williams, David nominatedThe first one of the week comes from Allan S in Long Beach, who responds to Travis Clarke's claim from last week that David Gemmell is "probably the best f...
`They left me out of the picture!` David Fury says of the October 1, 1999 issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY that listed the BUFFY episodes to date and featured a photo of and a discussion with the principal BUFFY writers. `I was a freelancer last year,` he ex...
After he completes scoring the new James Bond film, CASINO ROYALE, for director Martin Campbell, David Arnold (who perfectly replicated and expanded the classic John Barry 007 sound for TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and DIE ANOTHER DAY), w...
Last November Fox TV announced that had ordered a series pilot based on Michael Oeming's original graphic novel 'Six'. The series, retitled 'Them', is currently targeted for midseason 2008.
Recently I spoke with David Engel, Manager and Co-Executive ...
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...
Comics2film's
Rhonda Hearon recently had a chance to chat with up and coming new artist David Morán, also know as the Digital Concept Gallery artist
Marrow2000. David
is a twenty year old art student currently living in Santa Ana, California, but
he'...
On his his
own website, comic scribe, novelist and columnist Peter David recently
revealed his involvement with the recently announced Teen Titans
animated show. David writes a number of titles for Marvel and DC, including the
popular teen team book...
It's ironic that 2001 would be the year of release for one of Stanley Kubrick's most eagerly awaited and controversial motion pictures. With Steven Spielberg writing and directing what was to be the late master's greatest sci-fi epic, A.I. is a film to be...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Matoh SanamiTranslated by:Rie HagiharaAdapted by:What They SayWho would have thought that there was anything worse than changing into a woman on nights of the full moon? Marlo certainly didn't.
But now his engagement to David...
You'd think that getting slimed by rapidly evolving alien creatures would make a performer a bit apprehensive. Well, that's just not the case for David Duchovny. The actor who has made a name for himself investigating aliens for the past eight years on TV...
According to Variety, Warner Bros. TV has hired David Nutter to direct the pilot for the upcoming show THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES. Fox has officially greenlit production on the show.The show is a TERMINATOR themed show, revolving around Connor and her s...
Stephen David Brooks (Heads N TailZ) will direct the upcoming horror film BREW for The Ilya Salkind Company, according to ComingSoon.net.BREW is the story of a self-styled loser who inherits a family brewery drowning in debt. His girlfriend convinces him ...
J. Michael Straczynski announced that David Goyer will be writing a treatment for Marvel Studios' THOR.Mark Protosevich was originally tabbed to write the script and Goyer will be taking his place. No word on if he will be altering Protosevich's script o...
David Goyer has revealed on his Blog that he is no longer writing and directing the upcoming film, The Flash, for Warner Bros. Pictures.Goyer writes:Well, I've been waiting a few months to relate this news -- but I am sad to say that my version of The Fla...
According to Variety, David Mamet will direct the upcoming feature film, Redbelt, based on his own original screenplay.The film, which will be fully financed by Sony Pictures Classics, is an American samurai film set in an underworld inhabited by bo...
David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy) has signed on to direct the thriller Unthinkable. The trade says that Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is in charge of production and Peter Woodward & Oren Moverman penned the screenplay. The project is still...
Universal Pictures has signed David Dobkin to direct the big screen adaptation of Dark Horse's comic book, R.I.P.D..The comic book, written Peter M. Lenkov, centers on the Rest in Peace Department, the dedicated yet dead police officers who patrol the dea...
According to Variety, David Goyer has signed on to direct the upcoming X-Men spinoff, Magneto.In the film, a young Magneto seeks revenge on the Nazis who killed his family while befriending a young Charles Xavier."It's the story of Magneto's life, an...
Writers David Goyer and Geoff Johns give double meaning to the term `double threat.` Together the duo is charting the course of the Justice Society of America as they head into the twenty-first century every month in DC Comics’ JSA. Separately, both are w...
On the set of David R. Ellis' new movie Final Destination 4, ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to ask Ellis about Dead of Night, a movie based on the Italian comic book by Tiziano Sclavi Dylan Dog, that he was supposed to direct and now is instead in the ...
'Wedding Crashers' and 'Fred Claus' director David Dobkin revealed to MTV News that he's signed with Warner Bros. to bring the DC Comics character 'The Flash' to the big screen in a solo film.
The movie will apparently be a direct spin-off of the 'Just...
There has been talk of a SPIDERMAN feature film for years, with a variety of famous names connected to the project: everyone from Roger Corman to James Cameron. But now it seems the project is truly on the way to reaching the silver screen, with David Koe...
`Internet buzz helped make PITCH BLACK a successful film,` says screenwriter-director David Twohy of his hit film. `The film outperformed expectations--it made $14 million the first week, and debuted in 4th place. The next week it was in 5th place, and is...
As director David Fincher (SEVEN, FIGHT CLUB) readies his Jodie Foster-starring suspense thriller PANIC ROOM for release at the end of the month, speculation on what his next project may be has led the trade papers to throw out such high-profile titles as...
Blade may have his work cut out for him facing down blood-hungry vampires in the new Wesley Snipes horror-adventure, BLADE 2, but for screenwriter/executive producer David Goyer, it was a walk in the park... or perhaps cemetery."There were no difficulties...
Famed producer David Zucker sat down with USA Today and discussed a brief bit about the upcoming Superhero Movie, a spoof on the latest batch of superhero movies we've seen in theaters as of late. A new photo featuring stars Drake Bell and Christopher McD...
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE is the new caper comedy project for the director of television's MONK series, GALAXY GUEST, and a number of other notable TV movies and series, Dean Parisot. Written by Judd Apatow and Nick Stoller, it is a remake of the 1977's same...
Today during the press day for The Invisible, the IESB was able to pry some information out of David Goyer about The Dark Knight, Super-Max/Green Arrow, Blade and what really happen with The Flash.
From his blog on the internet's worst website, David Goyer writes about the just announced 'Super Max'
"Is it real? The answer is "YES", it's a real project. It's just in the early stages of development, but amongst the tidal wave of super-hero movies ...
"Yes, I'm a bad guy again. He's a very bad vampire," said actor David Palffy, who recently played Anubis in Stargate SG-1.
"I'm the one who hunts Blade down. And, as usual, you have a life expectancy where it could end at any time."
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IGN has confirmed that David Koepp, who scripted the first Spider-Man movie, will not be back to script Spider-Man 4 after all. The Indy IV and Jurassic Park screenwriter was in talks for the job earlier this year.
Koepp, who is gearing up to direct th...
Peter David has announced on his official website that he'll be writing the novelization for Iron Man:
"The major project at the moment is one that I've not announced before this: I'm writing the novelization for the upcoming 'Iron Man' movie which wil...
Like fast action, graphic violence, hot chicks and intricate storylines? Then "Blade" is the show for you. In an exclusive interview, CBR News spoke with Exec. Producer David Goyer about the series and its future. Plus we talk comics and get updates on "T...
The Hollywood Insider at EW.com reports that Paramount Pictures have gotten cold feet about the prospect of a David Fincher produced 'Heavy Metal' update:
[Fincher] has been spearheading an edgy remake of the 1981 R-rated animated flick inspired by the...
On the official website for the most kick-ass horror/humor comic being published today, Eric Powell has announced that 'The Goon' has been optioned for film by acclaimed director and producer David Fincher and Academy-Award nominated Blur Studio to develo...
If your not a comic book fan, you may not have heard of David Johnson. Maybe you've heard of a little show he's worked on...'Justice League'. In this interview, Johnson hints to working on a new WB show called 'Legion' and "a Bruce Timm new project".
"It's a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I'd worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect," says 'V for Vendetta' co-creator David Lloyd. ...
On his blog, comic scribe Peter David writes, "As for the [Fantastic Four] film, I can tell you with authority that it is not at all the goofball comedy as first reported, but instead faithful in tone and style to the Lee/Kirby comics. There's some major ...
"My whole life, all I wanted to do was write a Batman movie," David Goyer told Cinescape magazine. "It was excruciating for me because here I was being offered to work with an amazing director, but time-wise there was no way I could do it." More...
"Batman Begins" co-writer David Goyer has partnered with Bently Tittle and Pascale Faubert to option "The Fall," a graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Jason Lutes.
Written by Brubaker and illustrated by Lutes, "The Fall" is a modern-noir story of a luckle...
A friend of a scooper of a spy supposedly heard Marvel's Peter Cuneo in a radio interview say that David Duchovny will take over the role of Bruce Banner in the 'Hulk' sequel, which will be a direct-to-video affair.
"It was no influence whatsoever. It's only because of the strange circumstances that I didn't really know that the script was based on a graphic novel," says 'A History of Violence' director David Cronenberg. "It didn't say it on the front page, and I got...
Dark Horse Entertainment, David Fincher and animation house Blur Studios are teaming up to bring cult comic The Goon to the big screen as a CG-animated film. While no studio is yet attached to distribute the new comic film, Universal has a first-look deal...
According to Variety, David Strathairn will play the lead role in Paramount Pictures THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES and will then shoot for the third installment of the BOURNE IDENTITY franchise.THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES centers on three children who move to t...
Before September 11th, the most dramatic news out of The Toronto Film Festival was that Matthew McConaughey had saved a woman who'd fainted while waiting in line for a movie. Before September 11th, the most shocking thing around town was how Joaquin Phoen...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
Spider-Man's 3 official novelization, written by Peter David, will be released on March 27 by Pocket Star. David also wrote the novelizations for Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.
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Making films is an organic process. Particularly if you work with a director like Bryan Singer, who constantly refines scenes until the day they`re shot. And while it`s normal for scripts to be revised numerous times, the X-Men feature film went through n...
DreamWorks is hoping that it can whet the interest of director David Fincher for his next movie project. The studio has a Scott Frank script titled THE LOOKOUT that it wants the helmer of FIGHT CLUB to tackle for them. Frank's story is about a young man w...
With good buzz washing over his latest feature titled PANIC ROOM, director David Fincher is looking towards his next project. While he has several things on his plate, genre fans are probably most tantalized by the potential of his directing RENDEZVOUS WI...
New Line's FINAL DESTINATION 2 project now has a director. David Ellis, a second unit director and stunr coordinator has signed on to direct the coming film, which has a script by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The project is eyeing a late fall producti...
David Arquette is usually pretty cavalier when it comes to going after roles. But he was literally foaming at the mouth after he read the script for the giant spider invasion movie EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS."I was like 'I've got to do it,'" he recalls. "I calle...
For a time it was rough going for PANIC ROOM director David Fincher during production of his new hit thriller. Several weeks into shooting, the film's star Nicole Kidman injured her knee and had to drop out of the production. With some 19 days worth of fi...
Ian Ebright sat down for a telephone interview last week with David Arquette. The actor is busy plugging his latest movie project, a wrestling comedy called READY TO RUMBLE, but he`s known to horror fans for starring as Officer Dewey in the mega-successfu...
David Koepp is one of Hollywood’s Billion Dollar Screenwriters—which is to say, the combined box office grosses from the various films scripted by him exceed $1-billion. These include a fair number of science fiction, fantasy, and horror blockbusters, suc...
In 1990, the world was enthralled with an original new television show called TWIN PEAKS that was co-created by offbeat filmmaker David Lynch (ERASERHEAD, DUNE, BLUE VELVET) and which introduced the mystery of "Who Killed Laura Palmer." Of course, Lynch m...
David Julyan's orchestral score for the British horror hit THE DESCENT, directed by Neil Marshall, will be released on CD by Cooking Vinyl next Monday, March 27. The critically acclaimed film is expected to premiere in the USA later this year. Recently, J...
Comics2Film loves that David Fincher. We were excited back when he was a contender to direct 'Spider-Man'. Now a chat with MTV.com reveals that Fincher has plans for lots of other comic-based fare.
He's presently attached to direct the film version of Br...
According to Sci Fi Wire, David Goyer and David Heyman are co-producing a feature film based on the fantasy novel, Here, There Be Dragons.The novel brings together three strangers (John, Jack and Charles) in London during World War I, where they become en...
Composer David Newman has been elected President of The Film Music Society, a nonprofit organization formed by entertainment industry professionals to preserve and restore motion picture and television music. Newman replaces Christopher Young, who rec...
HIGHLANDER creative consultant/showrunner David Abramowitz gets his second Q&A off to a bracing start by acknowledging that the series had a political philosophy: "I've always been a relatively liberal Democrat and that's the political bent of HIGHLANDER....
He`s the X-Man you never knew. Shortly before X-Men finally opened on July 14, many fans were surprised to learn that an unknown screenwriter named David Hayter was receiving sole `Screenplay` credit. Director Bryan Singer and executive producer Tom DeSan...
After John Turman and Michael France turned in their work, but before James Schamus took a crack at penning the script for 'The Hulk', David Hayter ('X-Men') wrote his own version of the green goliath. Check out this examination of his draft...
With the 20th Birthday Edition DVD of Child's Play hitting markets this week, Shock Til You Drop had a chance to talk shop with the creators about the planned remake of the killer doll tale. There have been reports that the producers wanted to go back and...
There have been whispers of a Cloverfield 2 on the horizon in the near future. Even the trades said Paramount approved of a could-be-sequel not too long ago. But nobody's asked the leading star of the original until now. Ryan Rotten asked star Michael Sta...
Screenwriter David Hayter will make his directorial debut on 'The Black Widow,' a comic book adaptation he is writing for Lions Gate Entertainment. Hayter is such a fan of the character that he named his daughter Natasha when she was born this month. More...
David Arnold (TOMORROW NEVER DIES, GODZILLA, INDEPENDENCE DAY, STARGATE) will compose an original score for Stephen Woolley's THE WILD AND WYCKED WORLD OF BRIAN JONES, the film about Rolling Stones guitarist and co-founder. Arnold will also score the new ...
This September, the silver screen adaptation of John Wagner and Vince Locke's graphic novel "A History of Violence" hits theaters. Convention goers were given a sneak peek of the film and a chance to chat with the film's writer, Josh Olson, and the film's...
Paramount Pictures and director David Fincher continue their growing friendship with a new graphic novel adaptation on the horizon, the big screen treatment for Charles Burns' Black Hole, reports Variety. After completed Zodiac and The Curious Case o...
According to Variety, David Paymer has been added to the all-star cast of OCEAN's 13. He will join George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin and Don Cheadle to name a few.The film will follow the continuing criminal exploits of Danny Ocean and ...
David Fincher will be heading back behind the camera after Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to the graphic novel THE KILLER, reports Variety. The pic will be produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Alexandra Milchan. Allesandro Camon is dev...
Joss Whedon the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future ...
According to Production Weekly, David Ondaatje will remake the 1927 silent film THE LODGER.The original was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel by Marie Adelaide Lowndes.The film will follow a fictional version of the Jack the Ripper killing...
The executive producer of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, David Eick, sat down with Now Playing Magazine to talk about the upcoming third season of the show.Eick confirmed that 20 episodes have been ordered and will be run continuously except for a break over the C...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the BBC is refusing to deny various press reports saying that David Tennant will be leaving the show Doctor Who after the current season finishes filming."He is totally committed to filming the third series, which...
According to Wizard, David Goyer has is developing a script based on the Green Arrow at Warner Brothers.The film, titled Super Max, is a take on take on supervillain incarceration in the DCU. It revolves around a wrongly convicted Green Arrow who has been...
.hack//SIGN - Koichi Mashimo
Koichi Mashimo (President of Bee Train, director of .hack and Noir), Ken Iyadomi (Bandai Ent. VP & panel host), and another Japanese guest (who didn\'t say much) were present at the panel.
This is one of the more interestin...
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...
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...
PREVIEW/INTERVIEW: Next month, David Yurkovich and Top Shelf Productions will be turning the superhero genre on its ear with LESS THAN HEROES, a collection of his stories from the hard-to-find THRESHOLD series that it's impossible to describe without usin...
The central mystery behind Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence won’t be solved by this new special edition DVD, despite two discs full of material. A.I. began its life as a Brian Aldiss short story (“Super Toys Last All Summer Long”) and endu...
"It's about a man who has gone from a life of murder and practised violence - like you, he can kill a man with his bare hands - to running a restaurant in a small town; he's got a wife, a teenage son. All that dark stuff is behind him. Now, some critics w...
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...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
Inner and outer beauty describes Maria Bello. She stars as the wife of Viggo Mortensen in 'A History of Violence.' If there's one character who doesn't change in the film; Maria stays true to Viggo even after certain things with his personality change.
Goyer on 'Blade': "It could go any different direction. There could be another 'Blade'; there could not be another one. There could be a 'Nightstalkers'; there could not be another one. There could be another 'Blade' without Wesley."
On Batman Begins: "i...
The second volume of Blood+ continues the fun from volume one, but still suffers from minor flaws that keep it from being as good as it could be.What They Say
They are called Chiropterans, ravenous creatures that can change their form, disguising themsel...
Peter David's SUPERGIRL has been for some time one of the great undiscovered pleasures of the superhero genre. With solid scripting, superb character development, excellent art and a healthy helping of humor, the series has been one of the most consistent...
Alright readers, I'm going to warn you now that this "memo" should be taken with a grain of salt. The reasoning behind that warning is we don't know how old this memo is..It could have been pulled together by the various studios rather quickly a...
Hosts: David Williams, Mariela Ortiz, Lauren Goodnight, Jessica Williams
The panel started out with host introductions and an explanation of the ADVocates program for anime clubs. Then David, the primary host, opened the floor to questions. The following ...
Just back from the premiere of '30 Days of Night,' Steve Niles took a few minutes to speak with us about how happy he is with the film adaptation and what else he's working on.
C2F: Where did the original idea for '30 Days of Night' come from?
St...
VANILLA SKY is a movie with some noticeable problems, some of which cannot be discussed without giving away major plot points. This arguably extends even to genre, which director/screenwriter Cameron Crowe handles coyly rather than tantalizingly. He's not...
(DISCLAIMER: This piece is purely satirical and in no way reflects the views of Nelvana, nor, for that matter, my own views (except for "number one").)
Steve Brandon*
(Portion of a transcript of the Monday, June 20th, 2000 broadcast of The David Letter-...
Remember that "Pre-Strike Priority List" we discussed last month? It had a laundry list of high profiles films which the studios wanted in production prior to the impending June 2008 strike. Well, it seems as time has rolled onward since Septemb...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Matoh SanamiTranslated by:Rie HagiharaAdapted by:What They SayMarlo has a problem. On the night of the full moon, this half-werewolf, half-vampire undergoes a mysterious and terrifying transformation:
He turns into a girl.
D...
In a year when moviemakers have engaged in a heated competition to see who can make the loudest, dumbest, crassest, most offensive pile of crap, Steven Spielberg’s A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is a flawed little gem. While its commercials and trailers hav...
From a press release:
Culver City, CA (12/17/07) – From producers Sam Raimi (director, Spider-Man trilogy, producer, The Grudge) and Robert Tapert (producer, The Evil Dead series) and director David Slade (Hard Candy), comes '30 Days of Night', ava...
JUMPER by Abbie Bernstein, Columnist (Thu 02-14-2008)
Unlike, say, Star Trek, which uses its transporter simply as a plot device, the space-bending abilities of David Rice (Hayden Christensen) are very much the point of Jumper. As an adolescent, David discovers he has the ability to “jump” from o...
Batman Begins by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 02-28-2005)
Genre:Action/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Warner Brothers.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/"Batman"); Michael Caine (Alfred); Katie Holmes (Rachel); Liam Neeson (Henri Ducard); Morgan Freeman...
The big secret about Unbreakable is that it’s really a comic book superhero movie.Yes, you read that right.The explanation offered by Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) for David’s miraculous escape from the train wreck is that David (Bruce Willis) is the real-li...
Martian Child is based on David Gerrold’s book about his experiences as an adoptive dad. The stumbling block to adoption on film has been changed to make lead David Gordon (John Cusack) a single widower rather than a single gay man (as Gerrold is), ...
Although Superman: The Movie was a monumental cinematic undertaking and one of the most talked-about creative battles between director and producers, Richard Donner fully expected to complete the filming of Superman II, which he had begun shooting simulta...
It’s become something of an annual event: the new Anne Rice novel, every fall season, usually just in time for Halloween. For fans, it’s another chance to delve into a familiar world of vampires, witches, spirits, and other supernatural phenomena, all pre...
Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that it has moved back the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009. The sixth installment of the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the majo...
Genis and Starfox travel (via a temporal vortex contained in a toilet bowl, no less) to the year 2099, where they encounter a future version of everyone's favorite web slinger, Spider-Man. In the meantime, they're leaking chronoparticles which are being t...
Shrek 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Tue 06-08-2004)
Genre:Fantasy/Animated/Sequel.Studio:DreamWorks SKG.Production Company:DreamWorks SKG.Project Phase:In the Can.Type of Animation:Computer Generated Imagery.Whose Voices Are In It:Mike Myers (Shrek); Cameron Diaz (Princess Fiona); Eddie Murphy (Donkey); Jo...
Thursday
The alarm rings. 5:15 AM. I question my sanity and can’t come up with anything
positive. I have a 6:30 AM flight to get to though, as I head off for the Big
Apple Anime Fest (BAAF) and Anime Expo New York (AXNY)! The dub of the B...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its RoboCop franchise. Aronofsky, the director of The Fountain, and Self, the writer of Road to Perdition, make a formidable creative te...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS UK film composer David Julyan, noted for his moody scores for Christopher Nolan's FOLLOWING, MEMENTO, and INSOMNIA (the latter two scores issues on Thrive and Varese Sarabande CDs, respectively) has taken a dark swing into horr...
Jack
Brodie is master of disguise. He can go anywhere and do almost anything. His secret:
he doesn't just impersonate someone. He becomes them. In the graphic novel
"Brodie's Law: Project Jameson", Jack used his new abilities to gain revenge on London'...
That subtitle may be stating the obvious after all, stories such as this one are replete with turning points, or they wouldn't be worthy of the appellation "page turner" but this is indeed a watershed moment for one of the most suspenseful comic books ...
On August 18 2004, I had the chance to take a trip to the UK office of ADV for a special interview with one of the most renowned American voice actors, Monica Rial. She has been in numerous English anime dubs in the past few years, including some of the m...
American fans of Brit SF guru Neal Asher have long since dealt with delays between the UK and US release dates of his work. Being published through two different companies, Tor UK/Macmillan in Britain and Tor US in the states, has resulted in Polity novel...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Well, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON is coming to your video store this Tuesday, January 13th and let me tell you I'll have no problem curbing mine for this SEINFELD lite with swearin...
At the behest of the Supreme Intelligence, Jenis and the homicidal Una-Rogg go into the Negative Zone to retrieve a special type of radiation that will reverse Rick Jones' premature aging. But what would a trip to the Negative Zone be without a visit from...
Doug Jones who has played the physical role of Abe Sapien in both films will also be playing the voice of Abe in 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army.' He explained how that came about and how he drew from his past to augment his performance.
"When I was ...
With Timur Bekmambetov’s latest Night Watch film adaptation smashing box office records in Russia (yet again) and the film still fresh in the states from its US debut this past June, author Sergei Lukyanenko has officially put Russia on the map for ...
Hiroyuki Morioka Panel & Interview In March of 2002, I watched Crest of the Stars for the
first time and immediately regretted not picking it up when it first came out.
When Otakon announced they were having Hiroyuki Morioka as a guest, I was quite
...
FARSCAPE creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, still very involved as an executive consultant during the series second season, says, `The show is really working with abandon now, which is the way it should be. It just swings from the emotional and the romantic sid...
STAR TREK fans think of him for IMZADI, which is still the best TREK novel ever written. And fantasy fans think of him for the dryly witty SIR APROPO OF NOTHING... but let's face it... despite all the great work he's done over the years, we're always goin...
Wunderkind director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Say Anything...) missed a beat with last year's Vanilla Sky, a remake of Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), the 1997 Spanish thriller. Re-teaming with his Jerry Maguire star Tom Cruise, Crowe p...
The essence of Death is hiding within Rick Jones` girlfriend Marlo in order to avoid destruction at the hands of the mad death god Walker. Thanos, Thor, and Jenis – in trying to protect both Death and her host body – take the pair to Purgatory – the one p...
Straczynski told us from the outset that we shouldn't expect the usual from this superb twelve-issue miniseries, and then he proceeded to demonstrate that in every issue. As the series reached its climax, more and more twists and turns were introduced unt...
Revenge crazed Indians and pathetic rockers, two great tastes that taste great together? Well, no, but for David F. Friedman completists, Something Weird Video has joined together two films from the legendary producer’s ’70s period that boast something so...
Winifred Phillips is an award-winning composer, producer and vocalist who writes and produces epic choral and orchestral music for cinematic productions. As the composer for Radio Tales, the acclaimed music drama series broadcast via National Public Radio...
Straight continuity. That`s the way director Richard Lester describes the genesis of Superman III, a sequel that had to be produced given the worldwide success of the first two entries in the series. The question, however, was where to take the Man of Ste...
Last week David X. Cohen answered the first five of my questions about his cancelled-but-not-forgotten animated TV series FUTURAMA and today I'm back with the final part of my talk with Cohen. If you haven't heard, Fox Home Video has just released Volume ...
Episode #1 - `Premiere.` Written by Rockne S. O’Bannon. Directed by Andrew Prowse. Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), in his experimental craft on a trip around Earth during the present time, is drawn into a wormhole that deposits him on the othe...
You can keep your super strength, speed and flying…teleportation, now THAT is a super power! The ability to transport yourself to any location on the globe in a blink of an eye; what can beat that? David Rice is a normal but shy 15 year o...
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...
Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling's final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released in two parts. The announcement was made by Jeff Robinov, President of Warner Bros. Pictures...
After a lengthy hiccup in their publishing schedule, Tor Books finally got back on track this Tuesday with a slew of new novels from such powerhouse genre authors as Harry Turtledove, David Coe, and L.E. Modesitt, Jr. to round out a Weekly Book Buzz th...
Readers who
enjoy Comics2Film's Digital
Concept Gallery are no doubt well acquainted with the artwork of David Jose
Morán. He's been posting top-notch artwork there under the name Marrow2000
and more experimental work under the name DavidJZM.
He's ...
John Ledford, David Williams, Matt Greenfield, Mariela Ortiz
This was the "official" industry panel for ADV, and as such there was more swag to go around. Everyone who asked a question got a DVD or volume of manga. Still, since it was the third ADV panel ...
Boston, April 2, 2008: On October 3 - 5, 2008, Rhode Island will receive its first anime convention when the Providence Anime Conference (PAC) makes its debut at Providence's Rhode Island Convention Center. Open only to attendees 21 and over, PAC features...
Genre TV shows have always had trouble winning the big awards, not to mention mere nominations, at the Emmys, so it`s a pleasant surprise to see some of the newest as well as some of the most recognizable names in sci-fi and fantasy television get nominat...
Farscape never ceases to surprise and amaze its viewers. One of the things that helps keep them off guard is the creators’ determination to avoid a `house style,` or a usual way of presenting each episode. It’s common for different writers to add their ow...