In an overloaded release schedule of sci-fi, horror and fantasy book debuts a few reduxes by renowned authors GeorgeR.R.Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and Naomi Novik stand out amongst dozens of new titles.
The month of July has se...
... jousting.GeorgeR.R.Martin is the writer responsible for singlehandedly getting me interested in fantasy. I'd had some dalliances with the writing of Mercedes Lackey in the past, but Tolkien never did it for me (all those damn songs completely put me...
After years of sitting in HBO's development hell, the cable channel has officially greenlit production on the pilot for their fantasy drama series, Game of Thrones, which is based on the book series by GeorgeR.R.Martin. Screenwriters David Benioff (X-Me...
...ND ICE by GeorgeR.R.Martin. The plot is deeply satisfying and loaded with three-dimensional characters. Martin's characters are painted in shades of gray...not 'white' for good, and 'black' for bad. And, more refreshingly, no one is safe. Major c...
...elease of GeorgeR.R.Martin's A Feast for Crows, the fourth book of one of the most well-written fantasy series of the past decade (A Game of Thrones passed its 10 year in print anniversary this past August). Although it didn't garner the coveted Hugo...
... today of GeorgeR.R.Martin's A Storm of Swords to the fanfare of wealthy - or maybe just absurdly diehard - A Song of Ice and Fire aficionados around the globe. Tor Books also presented renowned British author Juliet E. Mckenna to the states today wi...
...picked up GeorgeR.R.Martin’s A Game of Thrones. With his unique characters, merciless plot developments, and grounded sense of realism, I was utterly hooked on A Song of Ice and Fire. Being that I started the series quite a while after its 1998...
...and Fire, GeorgeR.R.Martin started stacking on the side projects with the release of unrelated fiction and the screen translation of ASoIaF for HBO. Now unfortunately we have no new info on the upcoming HBO miniseries, but Martin’s other side p...
On November 21, Apple Corps Ltd/Capitol will release the soundtrack to Cirque du Soleil's Beatles spectacular, Love. The disc will contain 26 Beatles classics put together from original masters by George and Giles Martin in 5.1 Dolby Digital stereo.&n...
...olume II, GeorgeR.R.Martin (Spectra Books)
Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author GeorgeR.R.Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storyte...
...re greats GeorgeR.R.Martin (Wild Cards), Steve Niles (Savage Membrane), and Martin H. Greenberg (My Favorite Horror Story).
Mark Wolverton’s 2002 expose on the superhuman powers of Superman gets a paperback facelift with the re-release...
A podcast featuring George R. R. Martin has gone live on iTunes and is also available via RSS feed.You can find it at these various links:iTunesRSSYou'll need to have iTunes or an RSS Reader to subscribe to the podcasts.It is the very first podcast for th...
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GeorgeR.R.Martin’s The Armageddon Rag is a very different glimpse into the author’s writing prowess outside the uber cool A Song of Ice and Fire series (HBO don’t mess this one up!). Originally published in 1983, this n...
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5. GeorgeR.R.Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
4. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
3. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
2. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
1. Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time
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..., such as GeorgeR.R.Martin, Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Add to that list David Farland, whose epic Runelords series continues now in Worldbinder. After the events of Sons of the Oak, Fallion and Jaz, the sons of ...
...o another GeorgeR.R.Martin story. It would be nice to pull from that world. It gets complicated sometimes to choose or if there’s enough money. We work under restrained budgets. We’re not going to spend $50,000 [to buy] a story.` (GeorgeMartin is th...
...re Dream, GeorgeR.R.Martin (Subterranean Press)
When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something's amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, ...
...olkien or GeorgeR.R.Martin or some other writer with too many syllables in their name. It's far better than reading such derivative tripe as this.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think atfeedback@cinescape.com.
...t whereas GeorgeR.R.Martin got ensnared by the stagnation of book delay, Terry Goodkind got tripped up by another pitfall of the fantasy epics: he lost touch with his own story.
The Sword of Truth reached a crossroads with the release of the...
Pulling from such fantasy influences as J.R.R. Tolkien and GeorgeR.R.Martin, Scottish author Brian Ruckley has synthesized a worthy epic opener that goes far beyond a mere recycling of popular genre archetypes.
At the dawn of the Second Age the Gods ...
...tasy guru GeorgeR.R.Martin has described as “a thoroughly engrossing debut novel from a major new fantasist”), Betrayal continues the saga of Otah and further explores his past in a realm where treachery runs amok and family names are pai...
...rdan, and GeorgeR.R.Martin, Audley has become quite the hot commodity over in Old Blighty. While his path to representation may have initially been aided by his mum, her hand definitely didn't guide the bigwigs at Simon and Schuster when they snapped...
Featuring skillfully-crafted narrative, multilayered characters, and politics more bloody than a GeorgeR.R.Martin parley, Brian Ruckley’s Winterbirth delivers an epic tour de force in what Entertainment Weekly describes as “heroic fantasy sp...
Available only as an audiobook via Audible.com at the time I got it, this novella is from one of the premiere horror authors - GeorgeR.R.Martin. And it involves werewolves, one of my favorite horror characters.Randi Wade is a small town detective, kind ...
...d I think GeorgeR.R.Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire hiatus would outlast my tenure here with the column, and it makes me sad to think of all the things I won’t be able to Buzz about in the future: the second volume of my new favorite sci-...
There’s a man named Martin and there’s a man named John. And there’s another man named Martin and another named John. And then… there’s another man named Martin and another named John. Creative TalentWriter...
According to Variety, HBO has acquired the rights to GeorgeR.R.Martin's bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.The series will be turned into a dramatic series to be written and executive produced by David Benioff (Troy) and D.B. Weiss (Halo)...
Last Tuesday BBC released footage of a rare colony of flying penguins, Locus Magazine announced that GeorgeR.R.Martin’s final A Song of Ice and Fire tome would clock in at under 90 pages, and, in perhaps one of the more elaborate gags of 2008&rsqu...
...ranslated GeorgeR.R.Martin’s novella The Hedge Knight into graphic novel format and, at long last, found their niche.
Now seven years later, Dabel Brothers Production is still doing what they’ve done best: adapting best-selling sci-fi an...
...lusion of GeorgeR.R.Martin's NIGHT OF THE VAMPYRES is a little suspect and not as strong as the others. This is the kind of collection that is perfect for taking out and reading a story or two in your hammock. The tales are not too long but the quali...
Love is a new Cirque du Soleil stage show, co-produced with Apple Corps and featuring the music of The Beatles, opened in June 2006 in Las Vegas.
The soundtrack, released last week on Sony Classics, comes in a standard single-CD version, but the...
In our last week’s column, I alluded to how passion for the arts molds that star to be elevated to a whole other echelon of achievement inside Hollywood’s history books. Certain actors find such passion with every word they utter in the gla...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSEngland's Harkit Records continues to mine the retrograde treasure trove of 1960s film music with three new releases that are a delight of the period. Making its first foray onto CD, George Duning's lighthearted and theatrical s...
Bantam Spectra has provided Cinescape with an excerpt from George R. R. Martin's upcoming A Feast for Crows. The novel will be released on November 8, 2005. THE PROPHET The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was...
The station (Xfm) is halfway through their "Bounty Hunter" competition, where members of the public try to get celebrities to call in to the host Christian O'Connell for a chance to win £10,000. Yesterday morning, the British radio program "Christian O'Co...
...SWORDS by GeorgeR.R.Martin THE COLLAPSIUM by Wil McCarthy THE TOWER AT STONY WOOD by Patricia A. McKillip DECLARE by Tim Powers PASSAGE by Connie WillisNovellas "A Roll of the Dice" by Catherine Asaro "May Be Some Time" by Brenda Clough "The Diamond ...
In a way, George Lucas is a film student's dream of what a filmmaker should be, an auteur, a man who makes films with a distinctive, personal imprint all his own. Or let's put it another way: a wide, mainstream audience regards him in much the same way th...
Perhaps anticipating renewed interest as result of STAR WARS, EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM MENACE, author John Baxter has turned his attention to one of Hollywood’s most successful director-producers in MYTHMAKER: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GEORGE LUCAS, Baxter`s ...
FIRESTARTER by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Mon 03-11-2002)
Who can forget the recent George W. Bush interview from ON THE RECORD WITH BOB COSTAS when Mr. Costas asked our president what he felt "was a great film." Bush took a deep breath, locked eyes with Costas, and in a no-nonsense tone said, "FIRESTARTER." "FI...
In the fall of 2004, Capitol Records released The Beatles: The Capitol Albums, Volume 1. This 4 cd set was the first time that the American versions of any Beatles albums were available on compact disc. The set consisted of Meet the Beatles, The Beatles S...
The Herrings are busy navigating the Saint George Coordinate this week, so I get to write the column again. I'm trying to write proper this time, no swearing or slang, but it would be tons easier if I could just sing to you.
Did you know that the patron...
On January 27, 2002, the popular A&E Network will broadcast a new episode of their award-winning BIOGRAPHY series featuring one of the most important people in modern movie making, George Lucas. You can say what you want about THE PHANTOM MENACE but y...
The bad thing about months with five release weeks is that you always get a week or two where the pickings are very slim. Such is the case this week! Everything from fiction to non-fiction is rather light but it’s really just the calm befo...
...itions of GeorgeR.R.Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, Subterranean is no stranger to vamping up the collector’s editions of the genre’s greatest tomes.
Games Workshop’s Sandy Mitchell unveils new tales and old s...
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The lengthy line of manga fans snaking down the Highway 16 sidewalk Sunday meant one thing to Navy Cmdr. David Waterman — they had "broken the code" in communicating with the Japanese public.
The first hour was manga madness ...
Kate Mulgrew says she wants her character to die. Robert Beltran says he expects his character to die. Garrett Wang says he’s afraid his character will die. Now Jeri Ryan has become the latest Star Trek: Voyager star to suggest a gloomy fate for her alter...
Simon and Garfunkel's "notorious score" for hit 60s film THE GRADUATE is still considered the best soundtrack in film history, according to a new poll taken by Giant magazine. The magazine's study, 50 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time, found the duo's soun...
The big screen version of THE JETSONS is still in the works. It is being reported that Sam Harper has written a draft of the script for the live-action JETSONS' feature film. Adam Shankman is set to direct. Denise Di Novi will produce.Rumor has it that ...
A famous Hollywood producer once said that there are only two reasons to make a sequel: 1) There's more story to be told, or 2) There's more money to be made. Sadly, the producers of FIRESTARTER: REKINDLED don't have more story to tell.Stephen King's nove...
If you are old enough to be on the Internet reading this review, you are well out of the target audience age for CURIOUS GEORGE. On the other hand, if you are acquainted with people between approximately three and six years old who want to go to a movie, ...
This television season, Rudolf Martin has offered two distinct takes on a single `character`, essaying the role of Count Dracula as well as Bram Stoker`s real-life inspiration for the fictional count, Vlad the Impaler. Let`s face it, the man simply can`t ...
... guys? If GeorgeR.R.Martin's not your bag, dad, you can always buy the RISING STARS VOL 1: BORN IN FIRE trade paperback for $19.95. Or you can buy STREET FIGHTER #2 three times over, with covers by Campbell, Tsang, and Warren, all of whom I'm sure ar...
...t month - GEORGER.R.MARTIN'S THE HEDGE KNIGHT - will be pleased to know that Image and Roaring Studios will be shipping the second issue of this classy adaptation of Martin's fantasy short story this week. Image is also shipping out TORSO: THE DEFINI...
In Part One of my story about the 40th Anniversary Celebration Screening of H.G. Wells` THE TIME MACHINE, I discussed the beauty of downtown LA`s Orpheum Theatre and how the LA Conservancy runs an Annual Last Remaining Seats Film Festival to widen awarene...
...tation of GeorgeR.R.Martin's THE HEDGE KNIGHT, you can grab it this week, this time with a cover by no less than Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell! Well worth your attention - and the internal art by Mike S. Miller is pretty damn good, too!Vertigo's rolli...
On May 24 Rhino Home Video delivers BRIAN WILSON PRESENTS SMiLE: THE DVD. The two-disc package features nearly four hours of material, including the documentary Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson And The Story of SMiLE (from LSL Productions, in association w...
Steve Martin has more or less left his wild and crazy comedic roots for a more dramatic and quirky career of late. In his most recent film NOVOCAINE, Martin plays dentist Frank Sangster who is living a successful yet mundane life until a beautiful and sex...
Imagine popping CASABLANCA into your DVD player. When Ilsa Lund utters the immortal line "Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By," Sam obligingly pounds the keys of his piano producing a generic piece of 40s era music completely devoid of the requested son...
...ersion of GeorgeR.R.Martin's New York Times bestselling novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Goths Cage will be available October 2008, and will be priced at $12.95. All 32 pages of the hardcover book will be printed in full-color.
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...including GeorgeR.R.Martin’s classic “Meathouse Man” and “The Song the Zombie Sang” by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg.
In the hands of so many horror masters, the Living Dead is one of the best zombie anth...
...milar to GeorgeR.R.Martin’s treatment where anything is possible but often misunderstood.
Perhaps I’m being a little too harsh on the grading of this book because the meat of it is quite a good read. If the story structure and ...
It’s time to talk about the Godfathers of Modern Cinema. Only a select few can be properly placed in this type of category because of the lasting imprint they collectively shaped from the 60’s through the 70’s, 80’s onward to to...
Composer/musician George Sarah has one of the more distinctive sounds to be found on album, TV and the L.A. club scene. His electronica-meets-classical compositions can be found performed live around Los Angeles in company with the String Trio at venues a...
Sure, he may have his own movie studio, a reputation for shaping the childhoods of countless thirty-somethings and enough money to rest on his laurels until the end of time, but that hasn't stopped George Lucas from daring to revisit his greatest triumph ...
Interviewer: Way Jeng
Recorded: Kamikazecon '05
From Gravion Zwei to Hello Kitty's Animation Theater, George Manley has provided voices for many fan favorites over the years. He's also the voice of Lord Kozan in the upcoming Samurai Gun, due for released...
Neal Morse (ex-Spocks Beard) has finished his latest progressive rock solo release, featuring an amazing line-up including Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) on drums and Randy George (bass), with the addition of special guest Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big) on guit...
It is not often that a mere fan club has the resources and talent to produce a documentary about their favorite television show. Fanderson, the Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society based in England, has done just that with their one-hour production, THE UF...
When I first started writing about the comic book industry, one of the first people in the industry that I became fast friends with was colorist Laura Martin. She was working with the online magazine, Sequential Tart and coloring a multitude of proj...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Last week we asked who would win in a fight, Mick Jagger or Dean Martin and let me tell you, it was no contest. Dean "Dino" Martin killed Mick Jagger. As they say in the funny papers, blood everywhere...
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER fans were delighted earlier this year when series regular Anthony Stewart Head teamed with composer/musician George Sarah to created the album MUSIC FOR ELEVATORS. CINESCAPE recently sat down with Sarah to discuss his work in elec...
I began the Star Spotlight column back on March 4, 2007 featuring George Lucas as one of the Godfathers of Modern Cinema. It featured one of the men responsible for changing the landscapes of Hollywood over the last 30 years. A man who shell shocked pop c...
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER fans were delighted earlier this year when series regular Anthony Stewart Head teamed with composer/musician George Sarah to created the album MUSIC FOR ELEVATORS. CINESCAPE recently sat down with Sarah to discuss his work in elec...
PRIZE CLOSET: We have 5 copies of X-FILES MYTHOLOGY Volume 4: Super Soldiers courtesy of Fox for lucky readers that send an email containing their name and address to psycho@psychotronic.info with "X-FILES SUPER" in the subject line. We also have a couple...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Alan Menken hasn't entirely dropped out of site since scoring a run of successful Disney animated features from THE LITTLE MERMAID through HERCULES. He did some TV work, scored Disney's humdrum animated HOME ON THE RANGE as wel...
Reuters is reporting James Bond will once again drive an Aston Martin. His car in CASINO ROYALE will be the Aston Martin DBS. Daniel Craig visited the Aston Martin headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, last week to check out his new ride.The carmaker sta...
James Bond will drive an Aston Martin again in the next 007 film, as announced on Thursday by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Eon Productions, and Aston Martin. The 20th installment of the longest running and most successful franchise in cinema history, produc...
Vampire movies suck. Or rather, a large percentage of vampire movies suck, yet they continue to draw massive audiences. Cult fanatics will watch the same terrible movie over and over, and in many cases, the more terrible the film, the more they wi...
How do you out-cool Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack? You don't, of course. Frank, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and the boys were the epitome of singin', swingin' cocktail-culture charm, and the passing years have done nothing to diminish the effortless cha...
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...
According to Variety, Bridgette Wilson and martin Henderson have both signed on to star in the TV pilot version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They will join Jordana Brewster in the cast.The pilot picks up about six months after the end of the film, and f...
According to MTV, George Clooney has signed on to star opposite Robert De Niro in the upcoming remake of 36 Quai des Orfevres.The film, which will be directed by Marc Forster from a script by Dean Georgaris, focuses on two detectives and a quest to solve ...
George Lucas talked with the Associated Press on Wednesday about his upcoming animated STAR WARS TV series, saying that the show could air as early as next year even though he has not sold it to a network yet.The series is set during the time when the Rep...
In a recent interview with USA Today, George Lucas talked about the upcoming film, Indiana Jones 4.The cliff notes: First trailer coming Thanksgiving, official title yet to be announced, still trying to get Sean Connery to sign on, wasn't Lucas's idea to ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, George Lucas has donated a whopping $175 million to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.The donation, which will be made through his Lucas Foundation, is the largest single donation in USC's ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, George Clooney has signed on to direct the upcoming Warner Bros. film Belmont Boys.Written by Ocean's Thirteen writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien, Belmont Boys is the name of a group of seven thieves who meet as ...
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency probl...
Age: 65 Most Recent Film: Land of the Dead Best Film: Dawn of the Dead Most Underrated Film: Martin Did You Know: He was arrested by security guards in 1954 for throwing a burning dummy off of a rooftop while making his first 'feature,' The Man From the M...
Something nasty usually happens to James Bond's ride in his various adventures, much like the flips in Casino Royale, but the latest mishap happened while no cameras were rolling. For the production of Quantum of Solace---currently filming in northern Ita...
Legendary horror director George A Romero is currently filming DIARY OF THE DEAD and he has now given an update on it. It's been rumored that Romero is going back to his "indie" style reminiscent of his original concept NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD ...
An awards dinner presented by U.S. performing rights organization BMI honoring composers of the music from the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series, and highest-ranking cable network programs, will be held at the ...
JAM! SHOWBIZ runs an AP story covering the Los Angeles Curious George lawsuit between Hanna-Barbera and Jon Shapiro on the one hand, and Universal Studios on the other. In the lawsuit, filed Thursday, Shapiro and the animation studio contend that Universa...
Many mathematicians and theologians are now saying that the Number of the Beast is actually 611. I know - short notice to reschedule your Antichrist party, but a late Saturday date is better anyway. Getting that tattoo changed is going to be a bitch, thou...
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At GeorgeR.R.Martin’s site you can find out what the author likes to do for fun, how his trip to Portugal is going, and even what he currently likes to watch on television. Over at Brandon Sanderson’s page you can read chapter-by-c...
The death last week of legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, on August 18th, coming so close after that of Hollywood maestros Jerry Goldsmith (on July 21st) and David Raksin (August 9th), has robbed Hollywood of its last three connections with the film...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Well ABC has announced its new fall lineup and more then a few readers have noted their concern that ALIAS. I thought it was going under the alias WIFE SWAP, but I was wrong. However, don't worry ALIA...
The nominees for the 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. The Eisners are held every year at the San Diego International Comic Convention and are the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Simply put, these are the best of the b...
Sad news has come of the demise of musician George Harrison, often called the quiet member of The Beatles. It had become well known in the press of late that Harrison was battling cancer, to which he finally, gracefully succumbed on Thursday afternoon at ...
USA Films has picked up Paul Bernhaum's script TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY, which tells the story of actor George Reeves' sad demise.More specifically, the film explores Reeves' death from its botched investigation in 1959 back through flashbacks ...
The creator of STAR WARS is finding the future of animation in the far east. Yesterday George Lucas announced that his company, Lucasfilm Ltd., has created a new digital animation studio to produce movies, television shows and video games in a digitally a...
Via the official STAR WARS website, Lucasfilm has announced plans for THX 1138: THE GEORGE LUCAS DIRECTOR'S CUT. Lucas has restored his 1971 science fiction movie and also created new material that has been inserted into the scenes of the film, just as he...
Moviehole has confirmed with an insider over at the Brothers Warner that there's no truth to the rumour that Melissa George ['Alias'] will be whacking on the 'Supergirl' suit. Their source tell them they're still a couple-of-years away from a go-picture.....
In an interview with our own Zachary Sotolongo, STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES writer/director George Lucas talked about the pressure of fan attention he toils under while creating the STAR WARS prequel trilogy, as well as what will happen whe...
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR's Melissa George has signed on to star with Josh Duhamel in the suspense thriller TURISTAS.The story centers on a group of young adventure travelers who must cope with the aftermath of a bus accident that maroons them in a remote Bra...
The rumor of the day has eclectic film-maestro George Miller, he of 'Mad Max', 'Babe' and 'Happy Feet' fame, directing the 'Justice League of America' movie.
Info is leaked by a source who has been correct in the past. No official announcement has been...
Although 'Madman' updates have been few and far between in the seven years since Robert Rodriguez optioned the property, it appears there is plenty of activity on the project. Creator Mike Allred posts on his message boards:
"I've set [pre-production w...
Part two of an interview with writer Martin Pasko has been posted by the Word Balloon podcast. Pasko discusses his role on Batman the Animated Series and the Batman: Mask of the Phantasm full-length movie.
It seems we could have a fourth Jason Bourne adventure faster than previously thought. Director Paul Greengrass and leading star Matt Damon have both been clear that they're returning though Damon did say back when Ultimatum hit theaters that the story wo...
'Justice League' director George Miller continues to rail against the Australian government to grant the 40% tax credit to the American studio production and facilitate hosting the shoot in his home country.
Miller continues to champion the idea that a s...
Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) will be trying to avert terrorism once again in Alcon Entertainment's Nagasaki Deadline, reports Variety. He's been hired to direct the action thriller which was originally scripted out by David and Peter Griffiths (Collat...
The back package copy on Anchor Bay’s new edition of DAWN OF THE DEAD describes the new commentrak recorded for it "startling", but what’s truly startling is their new High Definition transfer of the film itself. I’ve seen George A. Romero’s sequel to his...
"Is that what's going around?! I haven't had any calls."
That was actor George Clooney's reaction to rumors that he'd be voicing Optimus Prime in the live-action 'Transformers' movie.
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Background performer go-sees will be held in Toronto, March 30 for the George Reeves biopic "Truth, Justice And The American Way". The film, set during the 1950's, is looking for males and females with a slick, 'actor', 'starlet' or film industry look.
Sam Regsiter, senior vice president, original animation for Cartoon Network, had this to say: "There was one other thing that came from [Teen Titan's artist George Perez]. We are thinking of mining the other Titans to use as auxillary members, [and I aske...
Wizard Magazine, in their latest issue, claims that 'The Jerk' himself, Steve Martin is close to landing the role of Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White in the upcoming 'Superman' movie.
Composer and songwriter Billy Martin writes on his official website, "My song 'Going Up' will be in the movie 'Spider-Man 2'. The song was placed by my publisher, Marc Ferrari at MasterSource."
George Takei is talking about the failed fan-fueled bid to launch a STAR TREK: EXCELSIOR TV series... and how he thinks the campaign may have inspired the coming ENTERPRISE.While talking to Ian Spelling's Inside Trek & Sci Fi syndicated column, Takei ...
The new book "The George Reeves Adventures of Superman Companion" by Peter S. Murano is now available. It gives critical episode reviews, dialogue from all the actors, trivia questions and more.
The local newspaper in Margaretville (in New York's Delaware county) reports that George E. Harris II, best known to Superman fans as Officer Mooney in "Superman: The Movie", died on December 29, 2005 aged 84.
MUSIC FOR ELEVATORS may have a title that’s a little too hip for some rooms – I mentioned to a friend of mine that I was going to give the album a listen and she sympathized, assuming it was a CD of Muzak. In reality, there’s nothing elevator-like about a...
The Moviehole website reports that Steve Martin is confirmed to star in the remake of THE PINK PANTHER. The announcement was made by MGM Vice Chairman Chris McGurk at a swanky industry party held in Hollywood. McGurk spoke to the assembled guests and cele...
Actor Jason Isaacs and actress Melissa George(30 Days of Night) will be joining John Cusack in a new thriller, STOPPING POWER, from director Jan de Bont. Intermedia Films and Action Concepts is handling the production, says Hollywood Reporter. Cusack will...
George Lucas recently caught up with TheForce.net and IESB.net to talk about his upcoming TV projects. Here is what each site wrote:TheForce.net (Follow link for full story)“the future is in television.” That’s why he’s conce...
George A. Romero has signed on to both write and direct the thriller SOLITARY ISLE.The film will be based on a short story by Koji Suzuki which chronicles an expedition to a deserted island that turns deadly as the explorers face an unknown force.The film...
Hollywood is still doing its best to cash in on nostalgia for 1970s style horror films,providing a trip down memory lane for fans who huddled in grindhouse theaters or drive-ins to catch this new wave of explicit terrors. But most of the modern audienc...
Melissa George will star opposite Josh Hartnett in the upcoming film 30 DAYS OF NIGHT for Sony.Based on a Steve Niles graphic novel, the story is set in a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutiv...
George Clooney in PET SEMATARY?According to Bloody Disgusting, George Clooney is in talks to play a role in the upcoming remake of Stephen King's PET SEMATARY for Paramount Pictures.The site did not know how big of a role Clooney would play in the film, b...
George Lucas might be the man behind the legendary Star Wars movies, but in plastic he's just a lowly Storm Trooper. Hasbro, the maker of Star Wars toys, is paying tribute to Lucas with a limited-edition action figure fully decked out in Storm Trooper att...
"This is like STAR WARS for horror fans" stated Eli Roth, Director of CABIN FEVER. "Zombie Master" George A. Romero once again brings to life and the big screen another Zombie movie for the enjoyment of horror lovers all over the world. Universal Pictures...
Wild and crazy guy Steve Martin is contemplating whether to star in MGM's proposed remake of THE PINK PANTHER. If he agrees, Martin will be stepping into the gumshoes of Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the French detective who always was getting into trouble ...
Melissa George (30 Days of Night) is in final negotiations to lead the supernatural thriller Triangle, says the Hollywood Reporter. Christopher Smith (Severance) is directing. Jason Newmark and Chris Brown are producing the film, set to begin sh...
Reporters have asked the same question to leading Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf and director Steven Spielberg these past few months on the possibility of a fifth adventure. Ford and Spielberg said they would love to come back so it's not strange that someon...
What They SayWhile George is still in Sendai searching for a man who holds the key to the 15-year-old secret, he stumbles across the dark past of the \"Tiger Lady\". A past that Sanae desperately attempts to conceal. After he returns to Kimujuku, George h...
In the latest move by a Hollywood movie studio to remake a classic movie, Walt Disney Pictures has picked up the rights to remake the 1937 movie TOPPER with an eye for Steve Martin to play the Cary Grant role.In the original TOPPER, Grant played George Ki...
A scooper claiming a loose connection to actor Steve Martin says the actor met with 'Superman' director Bryan Singer. Speculation is they talked about Martin playing Daily Planet chief Perry White. More...
In part two of CINESCAPE's George Lucas interview, the director talked about returning to the prequel trilogy after a 19-year hiatus. In this installment, he discusses the slow but steady shift toward digital filmmaking.As we all now know, George Lucas an...
In part one of CINESCAPE's George Lucas interview, the filmmaker discussed his rocky relationship with the press after the critical lashing he received for THE PHANTOM MENACE. In this installment, the director explains why exactly he returned for a preque...
VIDEO NEWSActor Val Kilmer has never really clicked with audiences and become the star his talent and looks once seemed to guarantee him. Part of the reason for this failure is that he so often comes across as an unlikable and arrogant ass, both on and of...
Genre: Science Fiction/Action/Sequel.Studio: Universal Pictures.Production Company: Radar Pictures/One Race Productions/Primal Foe Productions.Project Phase: In the Can.Who's In It:Vin Diesel (Richard P. Riddick); Colm Feore (Lord Marshal); Judi Dench (Ae...
Boldly Going? by David Michael Wharton (Mon 12-06-2004)
We're well into the fourth season of ENTERPRISE, a season under the guidance of new show runner Manny Coto. Nine episodes in, how does ENTERPRISE's bold, new direction stack up against the legacy of the TREKs that came before, not to mention other SF gian...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Nicely coinciding with the release of the second season DVD from the revived Doctor Who TV series is this soundtrack CD from Silva Screen, featuring Murray Gold’s wonderful music from the first two season...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced its nominations for the 28TH annual Saturn Awards to be held this summer in Los Angeles. The ceremony honors the best in genre entertainment from 2001.What follows is a complete list of ...
Noting the extremely successful example of DreamWorks SHREK, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have now chosen to bring CURIOUS GEORGE to the big screen in an all-CG feature film.This is only the latest development for a project which had been ...
George Lucas Age: 61 Most Recent Film: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Best Film: Star Wars Most Underrated Film: THX 1138 Did You Know: Had a car accident just out of high school that ended his dreams of professional race car driving -- but t...
Director George Miller may have traveled nowhere with the now dead Justice League production but he's now looking to expand his horizons to space for Warner Bros. After turning Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" into the 2004 film Troy, Warner Bros. ...
IESB.net takes a look at the script for the 'Green Lantern' movie and offers up this rumor: George Miller is no longer attached to direct the 'Justice League' movie, but may take the reins of this one instead.
The site laid hands on a draft of the script...
This Week's RecommendationSTHE DARK CRYSTAL has arrived on CD in a splendidly packaged, limited edition 2-CD set from Numenorean (NMCD 003). The first CD contains the contents of the original soundtrack LP (13 tracks), digitally remastered. The second CD ...
The composer who came in the spotlight in 2004 with a beautifully melancholic, subtle, but wholly melodic string-led score for THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR now returns with an ambitious project about the mysterious death of George Reeves, TV's Superman. Its titl...
Some days you eat the bear. Some days, the bear eats you. So goes an old Russian proverb, which explains that some days are just better than others. It’s a simple bit of wisdom that would seem to apply also to the world of home video. Last Tuesday’s re...
Actress Melissa George seems to be getting comfortable with the horror genre. According to Moviehole, the actress has been cast to lead a new horror film on the way titled CAPTIVE.
Plot Summary: The happily married mother of a 6 year old boy, Jaime Tayl...
We live in a marvelous time for television fans. If you'd told me ten years ago that I would have high resolution digital transfers of every episode of AMERICAN GOTHIC or SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND on discs the size of a CD, I'd have laughed in your face wh...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION A new soundtrack record label named Nicabella had made its debut with John Frizzell's excellent score for STAY ALIVE, William Brent Ball's eerie thriller about a group of teens who stumble upon a new video game called Sta...
That's right, fans it's October! The season of spooky pranks, ghoulish doings, colorful costumes and tasty treats is upon us. Of course you know what I'm talking about: Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Everyone who claims to be Canadian c...
lknight wrote: "Ok, AD is no FG but... That review of American Dad's first show is extremely exagerated. It seems more of an essay about being "sarcastically cool" (with hot-shot Something Awful-esque analogies) than a serious and objective review of the ...
While current events may have taken away some of its razzle dazzle, last night's 75th annual Academy Awards still shined brightly and commanded the full attention of the entertainment world. Hosted by Steve Martin, the show ran on-time and no major hiccu...
Don't get me started on a rant about all the Christmas DVDs coming out already or the fact that most of them are just repackaged versions of stuff that came out last year. Just don't. That doesn't mean I'm not in the Spirit of Giving. In our Prize Closet...
The rumors have been thick in recent weeks that Sir Thomas Sean Connery would be returning from his retirement in order to reprise his Henry Jones Sr. character in Indiana Jones 4. If you keep up with said news, you would have found out those rumors are n...
Like most jaded film critics, I snub my nose at the Disney kid-oriented flick. Yeah, secretly I still cherish my own youthful Disney kid film experiences like THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE, HERBIE RIDES AGAIN, THE PARENT TRAP, and whatever piece of crap Kurt R...
The 30th Annual Saturn Awards, 'Celebration of the Fantastic,' were held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel on Wednesday, May 5th. As the excitement built on the red carpet the key phrases from everyone about The Academy and Science Fiction in general seemed...
The horror movie genre has gained incredible speed in recent years, with many modern films taking notes from their classic counterparts of yesteryear. But while filmmakers conjure up the next new plot twist or horrid character to make you jump out...
Although John Scalzi’s original Old Man’s War novel got served by Robert Wilson’s Spin in the 2006 Hugo competition for Best Novel, the online blogger turned sci-fi master snagged his first silver ro