People outside of Texas can hear about just how seriously the Lone Star State takes its high school football, but for those who have some trouble grasping the notion, FRIDAYNIGHTLIGHTS is a brilliant illustration. A movie that is very much about footbal...
This film caused quite a controversy back in the 80's and it made an impact on the "Slasher Genre" as a whole. This film was originally scheduled for a holiday release from Tri-Star back when the "slashers" were going st...
If Friday's grosses for SCARY MOVIE 3 are any indication, October box office history is about to be made. The Dimension Films sequel took in an estimated $18.5 million dollars...just on Friday alone. That puts SCARY MOVIE 3 on track for a $50 million doll...
Box Office Mojo is reporting that the Fridaynight grosses for UNDERWORLD totalled an estimated $8,550,000. Consider that industry tracking had been estimating a Friday - Sunday opening weekend of $15 million and it's easy to see UNDERWORLD will have earn...
...ge ("FridayNightLights"), Leonard Roberts ("Heroes"), Theo Rossi (1-18-08) and Noel Gugliemi (Evilution) have all joined the cast of the supernatural thriller which filmmakers describe as a spin to The Thing's story from Carpenter...
FRIDAYNIGHTLIGHTS' Scott Porter has signed on to play Rex in Warner Bros.' SPEED RACER.
Porter will be the younger version of Speed Racer's older brother who fakes his death and later returns as Racer X, played by Matthew ...
Last Friday, five years after Sam Raimi’s Ghost House purchased the film rights to Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s three-issue IDW miniseries, 30 Days of Night, the movie hit theaters and destroyed its box office competition. With a tal...
Andre 3000, a.k.a. Andre Benjamin, has become Mark Wahlberg's brother. The Outkast hiphop singer will star in Paramount's FOUR BROTHERS along with Tyrese Gibson (2 FAST 2 FURIOUS) and Garrett Hedlund (FRIDAYNIGHTLIGHTS) in director John Singleton's film...
I'm of two minds this week, so the column will reflect that state with an abrupt change in subject halfway down. As you might have noticed from the title, SFC's Fridaynight line-up is the subject of this week's words and it's going to focus first on the...
InsideOut Music has set an April 25 European release date for the debut solo album from Symphony X singer Russell Allen, entitled Russell Allen's Atomic Soul. The seventh studio album from prog metal group Kamelot is titled Black Halo and will be released...
The largest ensemble of fans of and stars from all ten Friday the 13th films will assemble for a three-day convention celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Friday the 13th, the film often credited with launching the "slasher" sub...
The early figures are in from last night's box office and it appears that HELLBOY led the competition. According to preliminary results the comic book adaptation netted approximately $8,967,500 from its Friday showings (including any midnight screenings f...
What They SayHikaru Kodama, a degraded nurse, falls into a deviant trap and becomes a sex slave. In a secret area of the hospital she undergoes an erotic experiment. Hikaru shows the true nature of her ferocity. She proceeds to go on a splurge of sexually...
What They SayDr. Hirasaka takes it to another level in this Director\'s Cut edition of Night Shift Nurses: Karte 10.5. Watch his madness in peak form as he embarks on some of his most intense experiments yet. No nurses are safe when the Doctor lets loose,...
Even though NBC’s Emmy-winning hit The West Wing was last Wednesday night’s ratings champion by a huge margin, the fall debut of Star Trek: Voyager brought in more young male viewers than any episode of the past three years. Average viewership was up over...
What They SayIn the world of beautiful anime girls, comes the immortal masterpiece \"Night Shift Nurses: Karte 5.5\" In the continuance of this legendary series, director Okesawa himself has personally chosen these gems of outlandish scenes. Witness all t...
Bet you never thought you’d see NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with a 20th Century Fox logo on it, did you? Sure, the fact that director George Romero and company didn’t think to put a copyright notice on the initial release prints caused their hit film to slip...
In case you were beginning to despair of a fantasy with a chewy, satisfying narrative appearing any time soon, you can cheer up now. NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOY DOZOR) is here after having been a huge hit in its native Russia, one of the very few Russian-languag...
It`s been 22 years since Michael Myers broke out of the loony bin, commandeered a government vehicle and then terrorized his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, but the trail of dead bodies left in his wake is pretty easy to follow. Without John Carpenter`...
Oni Press in March will release DAYS LIKE THIS, a graphic novel by J. Torres and Scott Chantler that is the fictionalized account of one woman's ambitions in the music industry and the teenage girl group she creates.Here's how Oni describes the book:"Set ...
The paperback two-volume set of STAR TREK—STRANGE NEW WORLDS now on sale at bookstores everywhere is just a preview of things to come. Last November, John Ordover, Pocket Books’ Executive Editor for STAR TREK books announced the winning authors of the thi...
Despite both horror remakes not being due in theaters until spring 2009, New Line and Universal Pictures may be prepping a first official online teaser trailer for their upcoming films Friday the 13th and The Wolfman. The first indication is both studios ...
It may have been first announced at ManiaFest but it was the team at Bloody Disgusting that got it online first. Fans of the FRIDAY THE 13TH film series, your prayers have been answered: there is a DVD box set in the works at Paramount.A representative fr...
Fifteen years before The X-Files made government conspiracy a way of life, there was Capricorn One. Born from post-Watergate angst and television’s increasing technological versatility, the film remains an effective thriller and adventure story, tightly-...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Myung-Jin LeeTranslated by:Ellen ChoiAdapted by:What They SayGun is still having a difficult time trying to win Seung-Ah\'s love and attention. To make matters worse, Seung-Hyuk, a close friend of Seung-Ah and former resident ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Myung-Jin LeeTranslated by:Ellen ChoiAdapted by:What They SayGun is still having a difficult time trying to win Seung-Ah\'s love and attention. To make matters worse, Seung-Hyuk, a close friend of Seung-Ah and former resident ...
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...
[EDITOR`S NOTE: A strange rift in time and space—a gateway to a parallel dimension—has opened up somewhere near Gastonia, North Carolina, allowing our faithful correspondent to report on events until now unknown in our dimension, events that take place in...
Nobuhiro Watsuki
WARNING! The last question listed at the bottom of this page contains a major Kenshin spoiler. Do not read past question number 31 if you haven\'t seen the second Kenshin OVA series
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On the night of Friday, October 13th, at the recently restored Vista Theater (where Hollywood meets Los Feliz), fans converged for the 30th Anniversary Celebration of HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, the feature film version of the Gothic soap opera from the ‘60s. ...
According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has given the green light to the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan's film, The Happening.The film, previously known as The Green Effect, is a paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents ...
With Halloween ready to strike so soon, we were expecting 30 Days of Night to pull this victory but the question was “How much?” For four consecutive weeks, the box office report has turned in dismal results and this weekend, 30 Days had a lot...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
The upcoming adaptation of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT hits theaters this Friday, October 19, 2007 so press for the film is kicking into overdrive. There's two interviews with two key parties of the film published this morning detailing their parts in the upcoming h...
Last week's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ep, "Flesh and Bone", not only continued the show's steady trend toward becoming one of the best-written shows on television, but it upheld the long-standing dramatic tradition of "the interrogation episode." Sometimes it'...
"F.E.A.R." by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Sat 11-25-2006)
Over a year ago First Encounter Assault Recon, which has been shortened to F.E.A.R. for extra scary value, hit the PC shelves and set them on fire. It was a game that came out just before Halloween, and it provided all the shocks and horror that people...
Imagine a world where any and every sordid desire can be fulfilled…if the price is right.
Premieres on IFC Friday, March 7 @ 11:00pm ET/PT
Animated Series distributed by FUNimation Entertainment, 24 x half hour episodes
Dubbed in English
ItR...
The summer draws near, and comic publishers saturate fans with news and previews of upcoming films, conventions, and merchandise of all stripes. Compared to the Bronze Age and earlier, comic fandom has much more to offer. Back then, fans could b...
Random thoughts alert!You know what? Tuesday nights are too crowded, TVwise. There's BUFFY, GILMORE GIRLS, 24, AMERICAN IDOL (please forgive me, I can't help myself), SMALLVILLE, KINGPIN, THE SHIELD, and to a lesser extent - A.U.S.A. and LESS THAN PERFEC...
It wasn’t the first Christmas-based horror film – titles like BLACK CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS EVIL popped up occasionally throughout the 1970s. And it wasn’t the most offensive. Heck, it wasn’t even the first film to put a homicidal maniac in a Santa Claus ...
For horror movie fans, this is one of their favorite times of the year. You will be hard pressed to flip the channels on your satelite without finding a good horror classic on one of the channels. I found one myself earlier tonight with the letterbox edit...
Hurray! It's winter! Time to unpack the sweaters and stow the Speed-o! Time to drag out your electric blanket, and curl up next to a fire with a big bowl of popcorn! Sure summer is long gone but we still got to thinking about it... Every summer, we're alw...
So there I was, participating in this silly little `meet the authors` event last Fridaynight at a suburban shopping mall. It was organized by the alumni association of my alma mater, to give exposure (whatever that means) to those of us who (A) admit we ...
Old shlockmeisters never die. They just get really old, and then people belatedly realize how cool they were and start giving them awards, as tokens of thanks for all the great cinematic memories.Samuel Z. Arkoff, that one-of-a-kind producer and mogul who...
The folks at Flashback Weekend once again presented the most innovative convention idea ever this past weekend in Rosemont, Illinois, just outside Chicago. The Horrorama was conceived as a cross between a horror convention and a film festival something t...
Genre:Action/Science Fiction.Studio:Twentieth Century Fox.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Unknown.Premise:Unknown.Release Date:Unknown.Comments:When last we saw the ravaged Earth at the end of ID4,...
...ly (NBC's FridayNightLights)
Adrianne Palicki (NBC's FridayNightLights)
Scott Porter (NBC's FridayNightLights)
Keep in mind that others have also auditioned for the various roles in the movie. These are just the actors...
All of last week`s genre ratings action was on Fridaynight. First, Sabrina the Teenage Witch delivered the most female viewers ever for a WB Fridaynight program. Second, the debut episodes of Freedom and Level 9 brought in 29 and 18 percent more viewers...
A commenter here at Mania believes that I don’t like holiday episodes of TV series based on my review of the Christmas Special episode of Supernatural. Well, I didn't actually hate that episode, I just thought it was sub-par compared to the res...
Last week's tragedy has prompted all the broadcast TV networks to team together for an unprecedented live program this Fridaynight called AMERICA: A TRIBUTE TO HEROES. which will also operate as a fund raiser.Initially planned to appear on ABC, CBS, NBC ...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
Pre-Season Launch for "Survivor: Gabon" on Thursday, Sept. 18 Monday Comedies, Including the Series Debut of "Worst Week" and the Night's Top Drama "CSI: Miami," Premiere Sept. 22 "NCIS," Freshman Drama "Th...
This week the end of August brings with it the beginning of this year's new fall television season for NBC and FOX. While both networks aren't rolling out all of their new programming in the next seven days, we're finally getting a new dose of fresh conte...
Four people (a psychic, a ghost hunter, a filmmaker and a historian), all trained in the art of paranormal phenomena and loaded with three cameras, are flown to Louisiana to investigate the ghoulish goings-on in a notorious haunted house, plagued by the s...
I'm really not trying to turn my repeatedly delaying this STAR WARS/STAR TREK column into a running joke, I swear. I fully intended to delve into that rich subject material this week, after finally closing out George Lucas' franchise last Fridaynight. ...
In Part One of my review of the American Cinemateque’s Japanese Science Fiction and Monster Film Weekend at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, I focused on the opening night screening of a newly struck, subtitled print of Gojira, the seminal 1954 film (re...
In celebration of the release of LAND OF THE DEAD and for ZOMBIE-lovers who can't get enough, MONSTERS HD, a VOOM Channel available on the DISH Network, will unleash the walking dead with WEEKEND OF THE DEAD on Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25. The ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another web-slinging, wall-crawling edition of Comicscape, where we elevate Internet discourse above typing in “leet.” Last week, I offered my mixed review of Spider-Man 3. In short, while I thoroug...
After converting the bulk of our DVD collection to thinpaks in order to conserve space, we ended up with a huge stack of empty art boxes. Rather than just have them laying around here or being put in storage...
Not arguably, one of the two most buzz-worthy events coming out of Comic-Con this year was the footage of Watchmen (the other being the latest Terminator installment). At this point, we've all seen at least one Watchmen trailer, and it's hard not to get e...
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...
It’s nearly the end of January (already!) and despite the Bears being in the Superbowl this year, this week my attention is fixed on Friday, when once again I’ll be attending the annual B-fest 24-hour B-movie marathon. Some folks claim to l...
The Cartoon Network's JUSTICE LEAGUE animated TV series will still launch on November 17th, but its regular slot will be established days later.The network has announced that the after the 90 minute premiere episode, titled "Secret Origins," on November 1...
Genre: Comic Book Adaptation/Action/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Marvel Entertainment.Project Phase: Pre-production.Who's In It:Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Eric Dane.Who'...
To anyone else, it sounds like a living hell. It's sometime in the mid-1980s. You work as a restock clerk in a chain book store, in a lower-end mall in a nondescript suburb of Nowhereville. You're 25, a community college drop-out, and you live with your m...
Random thoughts alert!Anyone else think that if Dawn from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER were in a horror movie she would be the first to get killed?Why is it that every time there's trouble Dawn sneaks out of her bedroom window and makes it worse? Hasn't she l...
Welcome to CINESCAPE's new weekly television column "Remote Patrol." Designed to give you an overview of the current week's genre television (with a dose of self-serving cynicism), this new addition to our site is set up to be your one-stop shopping for w...
OPINION: It still amazes me that, before three weeks ago, I had never heard of BitTorrent, the revolutionary (and controversial) new way of trading comics via the Web. But it wasn't until a friend told me about it at a faculty party that I checked into it...
Last week, we talked about end-of-season cliffhangers that kept the audience glued to the their seats all summer in anticipation of the following season's reprise. This week, we turn our attention to those shows that went out on a cliffhanger never to re...
Last Updated: September 15, 2006Genre: Horror, ThrillerProduction Company: Columbia Pictures, Ghost House PicturesDistributors: Columbia Pictures, Senator InternationalProject Phase: FilmingBudget: NAWho's In It: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Manu Bennet...
Heroes, like LOST, is a series that due to its nature can do virtually whatever it wants with characters and their relationship. Previously on Heroes, it has been made extremely plain that Nathan and Peter’s father is dead. Well, this season Arthur ...
March 31, 2006 (Cypress, Ca) " Bandai Entertainment Inc., a member of the "Eureka Project" (which includes Studio Bones, Bandai, Bandai Visual, and Hakuhodo) announced today that it's new series Eureka SeveN will debut Saturday April 15th on Cartoon Netw...
I’ve got to get this off my chest – no, it’s not a size 78 triple D cup – I love, I mean love, Doris Wishman. While normally I’d reserve such a comment to the middle or end of my review, I feel it’s very, very important that you the reader are aware of th...
A WLIW New York Presentation EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE on MONDAY, JANUARY 30 at 8 PM on WLIW21 New York Public Television with Ritchie Blackmore & Candice Night LIVE in the studio! Don't miss the exclusive premiere of BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: CASTLES & DREAMS ...
It’s not every day that you get a chance to talk to one of your fave Star Trek cast members, but today’s the day. Nana Visitor, a.k.a. Major Kira for the entire seven-year run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, will be the guest of TV Guide Online tonight (5 ...
We\'ve got a late night double shot for those of you that are home on a Fridaynight to check out from Jarred tonight. Bringing this series up to date with reviews, he\'s got a look at Project Arms Vol. #7 (of 22) as well as Project Arms Vol. #8 (of 22) f...
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST stormed into theaters this past Fridaynight and boy did it ever leave an impression! When the dust settled, PIRATES had hauled in $55.5 million on Friday alone, a number that gives the film the single-day box o...
So, you wanna start taking bets on which new TV show will be the first to get the boot?The first two weeks of the new TV season are over and this is usually when the networks start realizing that maybe some of their new shows aren't as great as they thoug...
As the saying goes, 'It pays to be at the right place at the right time.' Such was the case last Fridaynight in a movie theater located in the heart of Los Angeles...An anonymous scooper sent in the following email this past weekend:"I work for the Mann ...
Not only does ABC have not one, but two popularly and critically acclaimed shows (LOST and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), as well as several entirely watchable shows that haven't yet cracked the top of the ratings (BOSTON LEGAL and LIFE AS WE KNOW IT)...Not only ...
Five for '05 by David Michael Wharton (Mon 12-27-2004)
Another Christmas come and gone, and I hope everyone out there managed to take in his or her federally mandated allotment of fruitcake, eggnog, and soul-crushing familial strife. Fear not, we've still got New Year's Eve to look forward to, with opportunit...
So, you know what show I'm just all about these days?HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET.Man oh man, it is such a good show. I've been watching the reruns on Court TV it airs at 1 a.m. weeknights, but that's a little late for me so actually I TiVo all the episo...
Don S. Davis, most well known playing a character from the Stargate television franchise, Major General George Hammond, died on June 29th at age 65 as a result of a massive heart attack. Davis played Hammond as a regular character through season ten ...
Michelle Erica Green re-introduces her weekly TV column FREQUENCIES by examining XENA, WITCHBLADE, the new television lineup, and those zany Saturn Awards.XENA may be coming to a close, but the action heroine-led WITCHBLADE continues to attract its audien...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!Next week’s Star Trek: Voyager installment `Inside Man` serves yet another warning about the dangers of trusting Reginald Barclay’s holograms. I’m sure most people remember that we met Reginald Barclay on Star Trek: The Next Genera...
DARK ANGEL executive producer Rene Echevarria has been talking about what lies ahead on the second season of his series, and it's biggest challenge: the Fox Fridaynight slot.While talking to Zap2It.com, Echevarria first addressed the program's new Friday...
The whole world changed on September 11th when 4 airliners were hijacked by Al Queda terrorists, two of which were deliberately crashed into the world Trade Center towers. The structures collapsed on live television on virtually every channel. A third jet...
In the first few decades of the Television Age, though coast-to-coast broadcasts via the major networks drew large audiences, TV's bread and butter came from local programming. In those days, sometimes a single TV personality would host a morning kids' sh...
Boston, December 27, 2007: New England Anime Society (NEAS), the Massachusetts-based non-profit organization behind Anime Boston and Providence Anime Conference, is proud to be participating in First Night Boston, an all-ages New Year's Eve celebration on...
What They SayContains three seperate hard-core stories!
Thief
In a village in a faraway land, there lived a couple whose ages were very far apart. While working hard in the fields, they looked happy together, but the wife was troubled. Her husband alway...
...ot; "FridayNightLights," "Las Vegas," "Scrubs" and the returns of "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." Also included will be the premiere of the previously announced new dramedy &...
NBC unveils the Fall 2008 series premiere dates for new programs and returning favorites including a three hour launch of the hit drama "Heroes" on Monday, September 22, the Thursday night debut of the new comedy "Kath & Kim" (9:30...
Volume Three of ADV Films’ FARSCAPE discs brings us to the fifth and sixth episodes produced for the series, “Back and Back and Back to the Future” and “Thank God It’s Friday… Again.” This combination of somewhat uneven episodes makes for a less compellin...
Giving Thanks by David Michael Wharton (Mon 11-22-2004)
So this is the time of year when we're all supposed to spend time dwelling on the things we're thankful for. Given the state of the world -- with famine, disease, poverty, and war rampant -- probably the most arrogant, myopic thing I could possibly do is ...
By Jay LockeBeing Toronto’s fan-run convention, I wasn’t expecting any great sources
for anime DVD news, and I wasn’t disappointed. In a nutshell, there was
nothing revealed in the world of anime DVD. However, I wasn’t th...
Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55.
Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp dead. Lt. William Baldwin said in a news release that the...
For the past few years, Flashback Weekend's Horrorama conventions in the Illinois suburbs just west of Chicago, have presented the same stuff as other horror cons, with a dealer room, guest autograph sessions and panels, and the like. But they've given th...
There’s a certain sort of… je ne sais quoi… to a new anime convention, especially when it’s one of the smaller conventions. That might sound a bit weird with the summer being full of big conventions like AnimeExpo and Otakon...
The upcoming schedule for the New York Comic Con 2008, which will be held April 18-20, has been released:The full schedule of movie trailers and special sneak peek previews which will be featured in the IGN Theater at New York Comic Con has been announced...
I remember as a kid seeing a commercial for this water park in Indiana called “Indiana Beach.” Their advertisement, done in this annoyingly catchy jingle, was, “There’s more than corn in Indiana.” Now I haven&...
Strike Victims by Stephen Lackey, Columnist (Mon 02-18-2008)
... Unit and FridayNightLights. Now I haven’t watched FridayNightLights, well one because a central theme is of course football which I don’t care about and two it’s a teen drama which I can watch if there’s something else...
The Halloween holiday is upon us and various television networks are kicking it into overdrive with their horror-themed programming schedules. If you're a horror fanatic, like me, you probably own all of the horror films that you truly...
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...
Alan Ball is the man behind HBO’s critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under. That series was a surreal drama centered around a family that has to come together after the father’s death to continue running the family business - a funeral home....
I come not to praise TRU CALLING but to bury it.In case you hadn't heard, former Slayer Eliza Dushku's GROUNDHOG DAY/RUN LOLA RUN hybrid went down for the big dirt nap a while back. I can't imagine that even the cast and crew were terribly surprised: the ...
You may have about the sixth annual Spook-a-Thon Halloween film festival at the old Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. We dropped in for the festivities last Fridaynight, including screenings of the original version of The Haunting, Frankenstein Me...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! It's been a long, lonely week without you. Hope you've been keeping busy. Bet you did lots of fun things. I didn't. That's right, not one interesting thing happened to me last week, unless breathing i...
Whew!Most of you guys agree with me about ANGEL's Fred and Gunn being the lamest couple on network TV. It's so nice to hear from my peeps and learn that I'm not the only one out there.I should mention though, that in no way whatsoever am I saying that Fre...
CBS has ordered a full season of their Fridaynight genre drama JOAN OF ARCADIA. The show has pulled in good ratings since its debut last month, rejuvinating the network's Fridaynight doldrums. The new order of shows will bring JOAN up to a full year's w...
...y.
"FridayNightLights": No new episodes to air.
"Grey's Anatomy": 4-7 new episodes to shoot. Expected to begin airing in April & May.
"Heroes": No new episodes expected until the fall.
"House"...
Has the day finally come when "Primetime" tv gives genre shows a shot? More specifically, science fiction/fantasy/horror? Everyone knows of which I speak of here. Genre shows have a knacking habit of being shunted off primetime network programmi...
The major networks are still looking at the success of independent web series and scratching their heads. They’ve tried to jump into this arena before and failed pretty miserably. It’s obvious to fans why the major networks haven’t ...
Curiously, it seems that the Smallville showrunners are exiting the series just a few weeks after CW announced an upcoming eight season. Here's what Alfred Gough and Miles Millar had to say in an open letter to their friends.As the creators of "Small...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another Comicscape adventure at the movies! I rarely see movies in the theater these days. Between the incessant chatter, the rising ticket prices, the ridiculous levels of air conditioning, and the overpriced ...
The May sweeps officially started last Thursday and some of our favorite series came back from hiatus that night. Smallville and Lost both came back to the same average numbers they had been getting for the past season while another series, Supernatural a...
Superhero Hype has learned that actor Taylor Kitsch ("FridayNightLights") will play Remy LeBeau aka Gambit in the upcoming origin tales. There's been rumors that the character will be making an appearance since production was scheduled fo...
Ray’s (Robert Patrick) a pathetic loser who runs a video store and likes to exchange movie quips with his film savvy employee. Harley (Jennifer Esposito) is a hard rocking ex-convict who crosses paths with soft spoken dork Ray, starting up a string of eve...
I have a lot of things I'd like to talk about, and in no particular order. This has been the busiest week of my life, and throughout it, three things that this Gamers' Thumb needs to cover have been brought to my attention.The first is the "New game" smel...
...ter Berg (FridayNightLights, The Kingdom) comes pretty close to molding it back together into a cohesive 92-minute movie, but the flawed script takes too many leaps in the last act, and it doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
But it still has a l...
In a recent interview, political satirist, radio-host, actor and SIMPSONS voice Harry Shearer hinted progress on a big screen adventure for THE SIMPSONS might be creeping forward. Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers and Ned Flanders among other...
Dimension Films took the top treat this past Halloween weekend as SCARY MOVIE 3 held the number one spot at the box office again. In its second weekend of release the sequel scored $21.1 million dollars, bringing its total take to over $78 M in just ten d...
Here's some good news for all those actors, producers and crew members working on LOST, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES or MEDICAL EXAMINATION: you can consider taking out a loan for a car or house because your networks have given a full season order of episodes for...
Northern California's largest comic book and pop culture convention celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Moscone West Convention facility this February 10-12, 2006. Friday, February 10th features a special look at the upcoming MirrorMask DVD from the Ji...
What They SayFrom director Norihiko Sudoo (DIRECTOR: COMIC PARTY / ASST DIRECTOR: CASTLE IN THE SKY), with character designs by Kosuke Fujishima (OH MY GODDESS! / SAKURA WARS) and art direction by Junichi Higashi (MY DAYS WITH MIDORI / AI YORI AOSHI: ENIS...
What They SayUnlock the music within your heart!
New Year\'s has arrived, but the seasonal festivities don\'t seem to be lifting Miu\'s spirits at all. With the spring recital fast approaching, Miu is under a lot of pressure to complete her piano composi...
What They SayFrom director Tatsuo Sato (DIRECTOR: COMIC PARTY / ASST DIRECTOR: CASTLE IN THE SKY), with character designs by Kosuke Fujishima (OH MY GODDESS! / SAKURA WARS) and art direction by Junichi Higashi (MY DAYS WITH MIDORI / AI YORI AOSHI: ENISHI ...
What They SayAs the final preparations are made for the Von Braun\'s maiden voyage to Jupiter, the Space Defense Front makes a bold attempt at interrupting the INTO summit by taking control of the Jovian explorer. Again, the Debris Section is caught in th...
The new trailer, hitting theaters Friday, for M. Night Shyamalan's SIGNS is on the web. The flick centers on a preacher, Mel Gibson, and the troubles his family encounter when crop circles start showing up on his farm. To check it out, click on the source...
ROBOCOP is back in a new four-part miniseries, PRIME DIRECTIVES, from Fireworks Entertainment of ANDROMEDA and F/X fame. Producer Julian Grant described the new series to Sci-Fi's promotional site as "hard-hitting, true to the original ROBOCOP feature fil...
French actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz set out to accomplish only one thing when shooting his latest feature CRIMSON RIVERS: make a good 'ol fashioned American action movie. Influenced by cinematic persuasions ranging from David Fincher's SE7EN to Hong K...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting journey into the darkest reaches of Comicscape. I, your stalwart and steady captain, will take us careening into one of the greatest mysteries to plague the comic industry as we ask, “Whatever...
Fumi Yoshinaga is renowned for the quality of her yaoi titles, so it's a mystery why she'd curse Lovers in the Night with a name worthy of a paperback on a drug store shelf. Self-parody is a possibility; Lovers in the Night offers any excuse for its tw...
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...
What They SayPint-sized girls, Mao-Chan, Misora-Chan, and Silvia-Chan enlist the help of new alien detective, Kiku Ichimonji the Third, and continue to give it their all to defend Japan against attacks by the cute yet pesky aliens.
Aliens targeting appl...
What They SayEveryone knows the feeling of coming home and finding their home broken into. Your possessions thrown around, dresser drawers are ransacked and everything you own has the unmistakable feel of a stranger\'s fingers on them. Then you realize so...
It’s a good Tuesday on this the first week in November as we’ve got a handful of series sequels, a couple promising, original new novels, and a Star Trek Enterprise guide in this Penguin Group- and Wizards of the Coast-dominated Weekly Book...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mamoru Oshii / Katsuya TeradaTranslated by:Camella NiehAdapted by:What They SayAt Yokota Base in Japan, American soldiers stand guard at the brink of the Vietnam War. Although they fear the enemy outside their base, an even mo...
With the WGA strike under way and reports of both sides digging their heels into trenches well into the 2008 year, Fox Television has adjusted their lineups for the coming season. Some canned shows will air on different days while others are being po...
Following up on the item we reported on late Fridaynight, according to a couple of retail sources on the recall, it was done due to an issue with the UPC/barcode area. The release itself is fine and there shouldn\'t be any playback issues with it but the...
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...
In a weekend where Mariah Carey's GLITTER was the only new film release, the American public stayed away. Given recent events, the Fridaynight telethon and a lack of new films, it's understandable that this was an extremely slow weekend at theaters.Keanu...
During the Television Critics gathering in L.A. this week, Fox's Gail Berman dropped some hints as to what we can expect to see happening during the program's second season. Berman told the assemblage that the second season of the series will be "infused ...
THE SIMPSONS has returned to the top spot in genre programming ratings for the week of Dec. 10-16. The program was 30th in overall ratings.Coming up in the second slot was ABC's ALIAS, because, once again, CBS pulled their THE AGENCY off of the week's sch...
Fridaynight Columbia Tristar hosted the premiere screening of the theatrical film COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE to a packed house at the Anime Expo in Long Beach, CA. The film, released in Japan under the title COWBOY BEBOP: KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR, features...
A band of quirky outsiders, who are occasionally morally ambiguous but are basically good guys at heart, come to form a makeshift family, and plow through the galaxy on an unusual spaceship. OK, what show does that last sentence describe? It could be FARS...
Word has been spreading quickly this weekend that the Sci Fi Channel has cancelled their beloved show FARSCAPE. This news comes after an online chat session that took place Fridaynight with star Ben Browder and executive produder David Kemper. Apparently...
Houston-based ADV Films acquired home video rights to Farscape, the Sci-Fi Channel’s top-rated series from the Jim Henson Co. Farscape--if you’ve missed it--is the story of a group of former interstellar prisoners and a space-lost human astronaut fleeing ...
The secret identity of the lead actor for an upcoming Gene Roddenberry television series titled GENESIS can now be revealed. BABYLON 5’s Bruce Boxleitner is the actor who has been signed to star in a remake of Gene Roddenberry’s 1973 movie of the week GEN...
What They SayThe Holy Grail War Begins!Ten years ago there was a secret war fought by master mages with their servants in order to obtain the Holy Grail and the result was devastating to everyone. Today, the Holy Grail War is beginning again with new mast...
In the advent of the Sci-Fi Channel`s Dune mini-series, there is only one question that`s now been left begging. To wit: Why did this TV version work—with notably one fifth the total budget—when the Dino De Laurentiis production fell flat on its face? For...
You might not agree but you can understand the desire to remake horror films such as Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. However, is Hollywood so devoid of imagination that they now have to remake lackluster films from the 1980’s? Whe...
Usually our convention year is limited to one convention down in Baltimore. This year, due to a new local one in our area, we bumped up to two. And then due to some events in the region, we ended up with three.
Anime Next, normally in New Jersey, shifted...
Novelist Yvonne Navarro would look right at home in the cast of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. The slim blonde author practices martial arts and, given the right tools, could probably kick some serious vampire butt. But her main weapon is her computer, with wh...
On-the-run Cade Foster (Sebastian Spence) starts his second year battling the invading Gua aliens by facing their greatest warrior, Lucas (Sable). With her consciousness deposited into a human husk with 60% more alien DNA, Lucas is instructed to test ever...
What would it be like to live in a world where superheroes actually existed? What would it be like if a supervillain could come hurtling out of the sky at any moment? And would everyone be in favor of superpowered humans taking the law into their own hand...
The first official FARSCAPE convention started Saturday August 5th, 2000. Approximately 1000 fans congregated at the Burbank Airport Hilton Hotel, in Southern California. Creator Rockne S. O’Bannon greeted the crowd. O’Bannon, clearly thrilled to see s...
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FridayNightLights: The Second Season
Laverne & Shirley - The Fourth Season
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! - Season 1
UNDENIABLE CLASSICS
She Done Him Wrong (Universal Cinema Classics)
BOX SETS
British Horror Quadruple F...
With this short, silent, standalone mini-graphic-novel, Alex Robinson invites you to explore his Lower Regions. I heard great things about Robinson and his Lower Regions, so I thought I’d check them out. There’s a lot going on in tho...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoshitaka Amano / Hideyuki KikuchiTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayFollowing on the heels of the retrospective Coffin comes this new collection of paintings, line-art illustrations, and photography by Vampire Hunter...
When JJ Abrams is on, he’s really on. He’s brought us so many fantastic series and films including Alias, Lost, and the underrated Mission Impossible III, that anything he does must be investigated. If you’re into that kind of series Fel...
The 12th Annual Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards ceremony was held Fridaynight during the San Diego Comic-Con 2000 Convention. The awards are named after comics legend Eisner, creator of The Spirit. Considered by many to be the `Oscars` of the comic bo...
WONDERFALLS is no more. Producer Tim Minear made the announcement yesterday at the Buffistas website, informing the show's fans that the axe had fallen. "Well, not sure what to tell ya'll -- but we're cancelled. Effective at once," Minear wrote on the web...
Saturday Morning Cartoons. This phrase might not mean anything to some readers, but to my generation it's something magical. Sure, our local stations had syndicated shows and programs for kids that ran cartoon shorts on weekday mornings and afternoons, an...
The Review!Audio: When I first viewed episode one on that cold and lonely Fridaynight, I was greeted by a one of those meaning-free typical anime opening songs that for some suspicious reason weeds it\'s way into your head.
I have come to love it though,...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful. This is my last column before San Diego Comic Con. After the con, I'll have a lot to write about, depending on what I catch while there. Most of the time, I'll talk to publishers about my own proposed miniseries (IMMORTALS)...
In the wake of Bryan Singer's agreement with Warner Bros. to direct the new SUPERMAN movie, 20th Century Fox has abruptly terminated its two-year development deal with the X-MEN director and his Bat Hat Harry production company. Fox was still in the first...
I left my first experience at San Diego Comic Con behind a bit sadly. Aside from a few awkward moments with editors and comics professionals (never underestimate my ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time), I had a great time and will likely retu...
I was originally going to sing the praises of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA this week, but that was before this Creeping Lovecraftian Death Cold set up shop in my head and turned my respiratory system into an industrial-grade snot factory. And so, as I lay here fe...
Even mass amounts of rain couldn't stop the premiere of the Disney/Pixar movie CARS. Over 30,000 people showed up on Fridaynight at the event staged at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.The event had just about everything: A 12 lap auto race, giant screening of...
Actor Al Lewis, who was best known for playing Grandpa on THE MUNSTERS, died Fridaynight. He was 95. Before Lewis joined THE MUNSTERS, which ran from 1964-1966, he co-starred on CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? As Officer Schnauzer, he played opposite Fred Gwynne'...
What They SayAfter ten years of dormancy, Linea awakens from a capsule in the countryside of Japan. Without any memories, she wanders into a small research center staffed by three beautiful women. Sayako, one of the researchers, is entranced by the stra...
Ghost House Productions and Fearnet have released a teaser trailer to their upcoming prequel web series, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: BLOOD TRAILS, for the horror and Steve Nile fans eagerly it. This 7 part special web series, centering on a man named George ba...
What They SayUncut! Includes the deleted scenes from the first Night Shift Nurses!
The Night Shift Nurses are back and naughtier than ever in this raunchily revealing adventure! On a forbidden hospital ward, the head doctor performs madly erotic experim...
What They SayOnce upon a time, there was a young boy named Giovanni whose life was filled with hardship and despair. In addition to his studies, he worked early in the morning and after school every day to earn enough money to feed his sick mother. Becaus...
What They SayIn the aftermath of the last battle, only four Servants remain. Two of them inhabit Ryudou Shrine, making the next fight a dangerous one, as Shirou will have to face Assassin and Caster within their domain. Unfortunately, Shirou doesn\'t have...
What They SayOn the verge of death and enduring a serious wound, a man stumbles into a hospital, only to be saved by a sexy nurse named Yu Yagami. He is moved to the special ward where he is interviewed by the beautiful hospital director Reika Goei. There...
Even with new wide releases hitting theaters this weekend, it's hard to stop the train otherwise known as The Dark Knight. The film has been toppling records since it debuted last Friday and another one is set to shatter by Sunday or Monday, this one bein...
The upcoming Vampire story 30 Days of Night may not be in theaters till this Halloween but that won't stop distributor Sony or producer Sam Raimi from planning ahead. An inside source/scooper over at Cinema Blend are passing along that both Sony and Raimi...
What They SayThe Magi have assembled and the War for the Grail has begun. A new battle begins as the next Servant attacks and draws blood. Who could Rider\'s master be? Shiro must be extra careful as even his closest friends could be deadly enemies. Nonet...