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 ...
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...
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...
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD helmer GeorgeRomero is finally going to be filming more dead folk...except it's not going to be for the fourth DEAD film, DEAD RECKONING, at least not right now. Romero has been hired to direct DIAMOND DEAD, a dark comedy/musical...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, George A. Romero has signed on to write and direct GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD.The film will follow a group of college students shooting a horror movie in the woods who stumble upon a real zombie uprising. Whe...
"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...
Last weekend RUE MORGUE held their Festival of Fear horror expo in Toronto's Metro Convention Centre. For three days fans converged on the con to see many of horror's masters assemble and share their stories of working on the set, creating creature effect...
Chesapeake Films has set GeorgeRomero to direct the adaptation of FROM A BUICK 8 by Stephen King. The script was written by Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar.The story centers on a state trooper who is killed on the side of the road. The man's collea...
After last week's announcement at the AFM of a possible DIARY OF THE DEAD 2 getting prepped for next spring, there has been some confusion from all parties involved. It seems that zombie master George A. Romero wasn't included in this conve...
On Tuesday, October 18, our DVD Shopping List column will of course be including the new unrated version of GeorgeRomero's gorefest LAND OF THE DEAD, plus there'll be giveaway copies available. But for those fans who just can't wait, Universal Studios, F...
...l feature GeorgeRomero's cult classics NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and DAWN OF THE DEAD, Sam ("Spiderman") Raimi's EVIL DEAD and Peter ("Lord of the Rings") Jackson's DEAD ALIVE, as well as a behind-the-scenes original HD production DREAM OF THE DEAD: TH...
When it was first released in 1978, GeorgeRomero's DAWN OF THE DEAD shocked audiences with its vision of society breaking down in the face of an apocalyptic nightmare. Following on the aftermath of his groundbreaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD feature a de...
...penter or GeorgeRomero or any number of great cinema directors of our generations have ever expanded the world of horror that we love without Robert Wise’s The Body Snatcher (1945), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), or The Haunting (1963...
...all time. GeorgeRomero and John Russo didn’t invent zombies on film, but their prototype of the shambling, flesh-eating, shoot-the-head to kill them, has become the zombie of choice in popular culture. Without Night of the Living Dead we probabl...
Diamond Dead by Coming Attractions (Tue 11-25-2003)
Genre:Musical/Comedy/Horror.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:GeorgeRomero (Director); Brian Cooper, GeorgeRomero (Screenwriters); Richard Hartley (Producer).Premise:On the verge o...
GeorgeRomero's classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has had a strange life on home video thanks to its public domain status. With every two-bit, fly by night distributor putting out a bargain bin version of NOTLD on VHS (and more recently, DVD), there has be...
Not that anybody needs a license for it in any case, but if there’s an individual who’s entitled to do whatever he wants with the living dead genre, it’s George A. Romero. Romero (for those who know zilch about horror film history) creat...
Almost every writer that mentions this summer's sleeper hit 28 DAYS LATER has linked it to the cannibal zombie movies of GeorgeRomero. Let's get one thing straight: there are NO zombies in 28 DAYS LATER. However, Danny Boyle's horror shocker about psycho...
...famous as GeorgeRomero?` has decided to `tighten` the pacing, remove the original library music score and commission a new one, and shoot new footage that `seamlessly` blends with the original. The basic story is still the same: the dead start rising ...
CREEPSHOW 2 by Andrew Hershberger (Wed 08-15-2001)
Readers beware!!! The following DVD review is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach! For it was written by a creature so foul, so horrifying, so frightening as to actually have seen, endured and enjoyed a little number called CREEPSHOW 2!!! Co...
In a deal announced yesterday between video game maker/distribuitor Hip Games and Living Dead Productions, the former company will create a series of video games based on George A. Romero's series of zombie apocalypse movies, the LIVING DEAD films. The ga...
Genre:Horror/Sequel.Studio:MGM.Production Company:Platinum Dunes.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Daniel Farrands (Screenwriter).Premise:Twenty years after he and his family fled in terror from a haunted house, George Lutz ...
... Director GeorgeRomero, Producer Peter Grunwald and Editor Michael Doherty. When Shaun Met George Featurette. Scenes of Carnage. Zombie Effects: From Green Screen to Finished Scene. Bringing the Storyboards to Life. Scream Tes...
...erground) GeorgeRomero returned to horror films in 1973 with this chiller about an insanity epidemic. Commentary by Romero, interviews, trailers, TV spots, gallery and poster. [ ] DIABOLICAL DR. Z (Mondo Macabro) Amazing and bizarre horror thriller fr...
We’ve covered great minds in cinema up to this point of time, directors and actors which have played a major effect on the culture of movie conscious minds. Individuals whom have awed audiences everywhere. People whom utilized their imaginations ...
... Argento, GeorgeRomero, John Carpenter, Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper, among others. Parker and Mendez also promise some yet-to-be completed featurettes and a few other goodies. The first BOOGEYMEN collection was a definite pass, but this one just might ...
...tlight on GeorgeRomero—George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) is the undisputed master of zombie genre films and Max Brooks (World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide) has written the best selling zombie novels. Join these two titans of the undead...
...nder that GeorgeRomero and his friends made that film at that time in history?The other films under scrutiny are Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Shivers, Last House on the Left and Halloween, each picture analyzed within its historical context—a time when so...
.../director GeorgeRomero (along with spouse/assistant director Chris Romero and actor/makeup director Tom Savini) was happy to provide a commentrak for what was released as a "Director’s Cut" of the film, though the disc still contained some deleted sce...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS John Williams' music for Spielberg's retake on WAR OF THE WORLDS is a tremendous score, and viciously aggressive. Released on Decca (B0004568-02), the album retains the opening and closing narration, spoken by Morgan Freeman, r...
JUDGMENT OF TEARS has a lighter tone than THE BLOODY RED BARON, an element that author Kim Newman decided upon early. `Needing a rest after the war-torn Red Baron book, I decided to skip the obvious World War II setting and relax a little by enjoying `la ...
...OUND; and GeorgeRomero and Dario Argento teamed up to handle an episode apiece of the two-part anthology, TWO EVIL EYES. All were more or less worthy efforts that pleased any fans who were still interested, but none reached the kind of critical mass a...
...who think GeorgeRomero was the lead in that Shakespeare thing that inspired Romeo Must Die? To try to answer these questions, Fandom spoke to a number of low-budget filmmakers, ranging from old masters to the more recent practitioners who follow in t...
...n army of GeorgeRomero rip-offs overtakes the town in search of human blood. The film looks like it was shot with the lens cap on, so dark it`s sometimes impossible to tell what`s going on (or not going on, probably). The characters are the usual rost...
...t funding GeorgeRomero to make another entry in the original series. Blame this one on John Russo, part of the creative team behind the original film, who most recently destroyed any reputation he might have had by creating the abysmal NIGHT OF THE LI...
...terest to GeorgeRomero fans there is a trailer for his “lost” film THERE’S ALWAYS VANILLA, which hopefully means that someday we can expect it from Something Weird - I know they have it available on VHS.There’s an Easter egg trailer for the exceptiona...
In an exclusive chat with CINESCAPE, HOUSE OF THE DEAD scribe Mark A. Altman talked about bringing the popular Sega video game to the big screen with co-writer Dave Parker."I absolutely love this video game so it's really exciting to be bringing the...
A trailer has finally arrived online for Diary of the Dead, thanks to zombie master George A. Romero and Myspace Video. There's also a contest going, which he'll explain in the video clip below. The film has already premiered at many festivals last fall a...
Director-cinematographer-editor (and co-writer) GeorgeRomero set a new standard for horror with the low-budget opus, which launched a trilogy later continued with DAWN OF THE DEAD and DAY OF THE DEAD. The film’s minimal budget actually enhances the film...
Six months after Shock Til You Drop announced it, Variety has confirmed that famous horror director Tobe Hooper will be helming the adaptation of Stephen King's FROM A BUICK 8. For a while, it was thought that another horror icon, George A. Romero, would ...
UNDEAD Heads by Anthony C. Ferrante (Wed 11-30-2005)
They say two heads are better than one, and the brother filmmaking team of Michael and Peter Spierig, who made the low-budget zombie film Undead, whole-heartedly agree. "We have such similar ideas, we rarely argue," says Peter Spierig. "It's a great way t...
Creepshow (Horror/Remake)Current stage: DevelopmentDescription: The new story will involve a few interconnecting stories a la GO, rather than the unconnected stories in the original.Writer(s): n/aDirector: n/aProducer(s): Roy Lee, Doug Davison, Taka ...
...ials that GeorgeRomero directed."Even though that earlier Elite release didn't feature many of the original laserdisc's extras, it nonetheless has been long regarded as the version to ownespecially since NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has a murky licensing ...
... guessing GeorgeRomero didn't have a hand in this Land of the Dead, but whatever.IMAGEArthur Suydam Poster Book $38.99Arthur Suydam Poster Book Sgn Ltd ED $275.00Battle Hymn Farewell To First Golden Age TP $14.99Bomb Queen #1 (of 4) (MR) $3.50Al: Oh, ...
... does hit GeorgeRomero/Peter Jackson levels of gore, which gives it genre street cred even when it plays more as additional splatter rather than joke fodder.
Meister is good as the nervous but essentially reasonable hero, and Feeney has the c...
Sam Raimi sat down with Ryan Rotten to discuss 30 DAYS OF NIGHT which hits theaters today. Despite the fact that Sam Raimi has absolutely no directing gigs lined up, he still has a busy schedule as a producer alongside Rob Tapert and&n...
Zombie master, George A. Romero, just premiered his latest installment DIARY OF THE DEAD at the Toronto International Film Festival last Saturday and now, it looks like he has a distributor for a theatrical release. According to the Hollywood Re...
Zombie master George A. Romero seems to be getting back in the flow of horror short stories. Years after he introduced Creepshow into theaters, the horror director set to work on the Showtime horror anthology series Masters of Horror and now has some...
...n Waters, GeorgeRomero, Jim Jarmusch and Guy Maddin, I team up with the good people at the Music Box Theatre, which is my favorite theater in Chicago, and we talked about doing a marathon. We all liked the idea and set about making it happen, but we ...
...lberg, to GeorgeRomero. I wanted to combine the feel of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS with FRIDAY THE 13TH and CREEPSHOW. How's that for a strange combination? CINESCAPE: What special features are on the DVD and what makes them cool? SCHIFRIN: We packed the DVD...
.... Creator GeorgeRomero apparently has nothing to do with this one.My Thoughts: At first glance, I'd write this one off as another remake and no big whoop, but Steve "Friday the 13th" Miner attached to direct makes me think otherwise. I'm a big Miner f...
From its mystical origins in voodoo folklore to its staple rebirth as a subgenre of all modern horror-related media, the zombie has been a powerful and well-explored model of human otherness. The flesh-eating monsters conjure up such themes as the importa...
...t not the GeorgeRomero type…
The Crazy neighbor, Hanks, is actually protecting the Tunnys by smearing his blood on their front door at night as it seems they won’t attack their own blood and Hanks is one of the children’s a...
...ood lust (GeorgeRomero would be proud). Meanwhile Mason is playing a dangerous game of attempting to manipulate Galatea, yet hide actions from his boss. Can anyone get into HQ and get to the survivors before the boomers?
The next episodes sees both p...
...eels more GeorgeRomero than DC Universe. Batman visually alludes to horror by his very nature, but his writers usually explore Gotham's criminal underworld and focus on the detective side of the character. Niles slices Batman's world open and lays t...
...relful of GeorgeRomero, Lucio Fulci, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. It also gave us a terror tale unlike any we'd seen before, a classic in over-the-top gratuity, but retaining an internal logic and a style that succeeded admirably and went on to become ...
...ilmmakers GeorgeRomero, Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson. Includes the rock anthem "Little Green Men" performed by Buttkrak and features exclusive liner notes from the composer and the directors. www.lalalandrecords.com/Undead.html As noted in today's Musi...
...f another GeorgeRomero zombie remake, this DAY OF THE DEAD is about the Mexican holiday that falls the day after Halloween. The movie was pitched to the studio by screenwriter Diego Gutierrez, who's booted around TV for the past few years. Gutierrez s...
Continuing their production relationship, Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have announced plans for a horror movie titled THE DAY OF THE DEAD. While it may bring to mind images of another GeorgeRomero zombie remake, this DAY OF THE DEAD is about the Mexi...
There was something for everyone at this year's Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, especially for fans that wanted an autograph or just a quick conversation with some of their favorite celebrities. Aside from the extremely long lines waiting to meet George Rom...
A group of young people want to have sex and get drunk, and the perfect place to do this is at an all-weekend-long rave being held on a remote island. When they get to the island they find that nearly everyone who was already at the rave is dead, killed b...
Yes, the new DAWN OF THE DEAD is a remake of the GeorgeRomero horror classic, itself a follow-up to his earlier groundbreaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. And yes, this new DAWN is derivative of or at least shares concepts with other zombie films, specif...
..., man-god GeorgeRomero has written a third issue of TOE TAGS ($2.95). Also, Vertigo is offering the greatest book in print right now, Y: THE LAST MAN #29 ($2.95). All jokes aside, this is an amazing book and you're really missing out if you aren't r...
...reated by GeorgeRomero, the modern zombie movie had its origins in other genres. Movies like FORT APACHE, THE LOST PATROL and ZULU depicted people besieged by an overwhelming force of Others bent on their destruction. In sci-fi cheapies like THE KILLE...
...e Zombie, GeorgeRomero introduced the shambling, undead, flesh-eating version we love so much in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. Recently, the Dawn of the Dead remake and the Resident Evil films – for better and worse – ha...
RESIDENT EVIL by Anthony C. Ferrante (Fri 03-15-2002)
Twenty years ago, the concept of a $40 million dollar zombie movie would have been laughed at. Zombie movies by nature are these renegade little chillers that are homegrown, bloody as hell and oftentimes contain hidden social commentaries. George A. Romer...
...onenberg, GeorgeRomero, Wes Craven and Tom Savini will be among those talking about the horror film from the 1970s, and how that influential decade revived the genre, once the depository of gothic clichés and wild-eyed mad men. But that’s not all,...
...tlight on GeorgeRomero—George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) is the undisputed master of zombie genre films, and Max Brooks (World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide) has written the best-selling zombie novels. Join these two titans of the undea...
...t fell to GeorgeRomero's classic zombie movie to do the job."NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was our choice for our first movie because it was the all-time favorite," remembers Bancalari. "It was just after another company had released a Laserdisc [version o...
Since the Dawn of the DVD, one of the titles horror fans have been screaming for is this unofficial sequel to GeorgeRomero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, cooked up by some of the folks behind the original and Dan O'Bannon, writer of ALIEN. Finally, after ye...
This Week’s RecommendationSPaul McCollough’s original soundtrack for the 1990 GeorgeRomero-Tom Savini remake of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (NMCD 002) is now available, as the second release from the new Numenorean Label (following up their release of John ...
...es in the GeorgeRomero tradition, and Francesco has to routinely put them back where they belong with a head shot from his trusty revolver. His only aide and confidant in this bizarre business - which he keeps secret fearing he'll lose his job is his...
OPINION: Just a warning if you have not seen SPIDER-MAN 2 yet (though that simply boggles the imagination at this point), and you don't want the plot spoiled, read only the next full paragraph, then come back up and click hereto be taken immediately to t...
...cendants. GeorgeRomero took an idea that had been percolating in B-movies like Zombies of Mora Tau, Plague of the Zombies and Invisible Invaders, increased the shock quotient, and made it distinctly his own. If Romero had been a bit sharper about ...
...view with GeorgeRomero (?), bonus short and more. (O) 2005 WORLD SERIES (Sony) White Sox sweep! (O) WEREWOLF HUNTER (Lions Gate) Spanish horror based on a true story in which soap peddler Julian Sands is arrested for a string of perplexing mutilation ...
...all time, GeorgeRomero, and is yet another reminder that it's a crime that it's been nearly eight years since his last picture. Like CHASING SLEEP, BRUISER deals with questions of personal identity, though in a much different manner. In fact, the film...
... director GeorgeRomero’s former partner. `So I always was a big fan of Herbert`s Dune. In fact, I have a signed first edition of the hardback in my personal collection that I got back in 1964. Well, three-and-a half years ago, I was looking over my li...
German composers Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek are currently working on the music for AEON FLUX, the sci-fi adventure starring Charlize Theron as the heroine from the animated MTV series. Previously, Theodore Shapiro had been attached to the project but...
...usic from GeorgeRomero films by composer John Harrison before he switched hats and became a director (DUNE, CHILDREN OF DUNE). The CD will contain Harrison's original soundtrack music to CREEPSHOW (same content as the 1983 Varese Sarabande LP but newl...
Like GeorgeRomero, Mark and John Polonia have been making low budget horror films in Pennsylvania for years – but there most of the similarities end. For example, while the Polonias are twin brothers, Romero is not. And while Romero has made classics lik...
Dead Rising by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Tue 08-29-2006)
There has been one fascination that I have kept over the years, and that is about zombies. It did not matter which movie, or which game came out, I had to be part of it some how. That being said I am a huge fan of all things zombie, even including little ...
Damien Cross has got problems. The dead have risen and eaten his parents. He can't find his girlfriend. His right arm has been torn off. And worst of all, he'd dead. Or rather, undead. And yet he's retained all of his memories and reasoning, unlike all th...
For those of us lucky enough to discover film music during the Renaissance of synth horror scores like Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street, one soundtrack stands above the rest with its wild electric piano, nyah-nyah children's chorus and chilling goo...
...rom other GeorgeRomero projects, remains one of the most potent and effective piano-and-synth scores of the 1980s, capturing both the tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top ghoulishness of the film as well as its scary ferocity. Without a big compositional bac...
...er to see GeorgeRomero and some of his cast introduce his underrated DAY OF THE DEAD, Romero's only zombie film to date that hasn't been remade. A tough act to follow, but Angela Bettis (MAY, CARRIE) proved up to the task, introducing Tobe Hooper's ne...
With less than two weeks to go until the first-ever ManiaFest takes place (September 18 - 21 in Santa Monica, CA), the roster of professionals appearing at the festival has grown in stature. Legends from the worlds of movies, television, writing and comic...
... director GeorgeRomero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) will be joined by Cinescape's Editor-in-Chief Anthony C. Ferrante in a discussion about what scares us in horror films. Screenings of such classic horror films as HALLOWEEN, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, ...
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 GeorgeRomero and company didn’t think to put a copyright notice on the initial release prints caused their hit film to slip...
Once the property of low-budget voodoo pictures, the zombie film was reinvented by GeorgeRomero with his 1968 B&W classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (#17 on the Top 100 list). Drawing on several sources, most notably Richard Matheson`s novel I AM LEGEND, R...
...ilmmakers GeorgeRomero, Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson. Includes the rock anthem "Little Green Men" performed by Buttkrak and features exclusive liner notes from the composer and the directors. http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Undead.html
You might say that 2004 was very much the Year of the Zombie. When was the last time that more than one zombie movie was playing in theaters at the same time? Once a weedy, poorly maintained patch in cinema's horror garden, the Living Dead sub genre ala G...
...ake. Like GeorgeRomero, I prefer zombies that are actual reanimated corpses to the plague-ridden psychos in vogue these days, but this one’s a scary, engaging thrill ride. Includes commentrak, featurettes, deleted scenes, and more. Unrated edition als...
Commercial director Zack Snyder has landed the job of filming the dead walk. Snyder will be the top man behind the lens of the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, originally made by horror master GeorgeRomero. The new version was written by James Gunn (SCOOBY-DOO...
FANGORIA's 16th annual Weekend of Horrors Convention, held in conjunction with Creation Entertainment in Pasadena, California on August 17-18 definitely proved that the horror genre is not only alive and well... but also thriving. It wasn't only the new m...
The first clip for Diary of the Dead has popped up online courtesy of Shock Til You Drop. Judging from the clip, director George A. Romero is showing field reporters how to be at the wrong place at the wrong time for a good scoop. This next installment in...
First, let me say this: I love GeorgeRomero's "Dead Trilogy" (soon to be a quadrilogy). I think he's a fantastic director, and I'm really looking forward to LAND OF THE DEAD. But, TOE TAGS, while not awful, never really rises above the merely adequate....
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD director GeorgeRomero is back in business. After years of being stuck in development hell, Romero's fourth zombie apocalypse film has been given a greenlight and will begin shooting this fall under the title LAND OF THE DEAD. The...
Simon Pegg spent several years banging around British television before scoring a cult success with Spaced, a show he co-created with Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright. But it wasn’t until the massive success of Shaun of the Dead (directed by Wright ...
...20 fame), GeorgeRomero, Bruce Campbell, and somebody who looked like Sam Raimi but wasn`t. Of course, the Anchor Bay folks were there, including director William Lustig (Maniac, Vigilante) and the genre press was well represented, including Fandom`s o...
An exciting new film debuts in theaters this weekend, a melding of two popular but not always viable genres: the zombie film and the videogame adaptation. Inspired by the hugely popular videogame RESIDENT EVIL, and informed by the LIVING DEAD films of Geo...
Vampires, apes and ghosts, oh my!No, the aforementioned weren't the cast of the latest monster movie spoof, but part of the guest list at FANGORIA's 15th annual Weekend of Horrors convention, held in conjunction with Creation Entertainment August 11-12 in...
... Buscemi. GeorgeRomero, who was involved creatively with both the series and the film, will also be featured on the commentary.· TREMORS 3: BACK TO PERFECTION, which is the second sequel to the fondly re...
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 ...
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...
Greetings, Maniacs. Welcome to another week of comic shopping on Thursday. I hope you didn’t break down sobbing at the counter yesterday afternoon when you tried to pick up your books. I remember one Internet journalist describi...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
With the recent run of recent and soon-to-be released zombie movies, new audiences have discovered the living dead are among us what better time to re-discover one of the classics of this sub-genre of horror, George A. Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD? Has it re...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
...REEPSHOW, GeorgeRomero's funfilled horrorshow tribute to EC Comics, has finally come to CD in a lavish version from La-La-Land Records. John Harrison, who started out as an actor and assistant director, moved into scoring when Romero decided using lib...
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 ...
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...
In an overloaded release schedule of sci-fi, horror and fantasy book debuts a few reduxes by renowned authors George R.R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and Naomi Novik stand out amongst dozens of new titles.
The month of July has se...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS With his distinctive violin writing and his flair for fluidly atmospheric and scarily weaving scores, Pino Donaggio was the horror score maestro during the 1970s, providing such now classic scores as DON'T LOOK NOW, CARRIE, DRE...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A slew of paperback releases this Tuesday offers everything from cheeky science fiction to dark, genre-crossing fantasy and dragon-riding mayhem (told by both man and mythical beast perspective).
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s powerhous...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONI Hear Dead People: The music for GeorgeRomero's DEAD saga was inaugurated in 1968 to the accompaniment of an assemblage of vintage library music with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (re-released in 1998 in a new version by John A. Rus...
...ng one of GeorgeRomero’s best yet least seen films, the psychological vampire tale, Martin. Offering a trailer and commentary from director Romero, star John Amplas and cult makeup master, Tom Savini, this film isn’t for every fan, but discerning vie...
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 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...
...sequel to GeorgeRomero's third zombie movie looks into the possible cause of the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Includes commentrak, Making-Of and more. (O) THE DEFENDER (Visual) Dolph Lundgren directs and stars as a Secret Service agent hunting for a gove...
...estingly, GeorgeRomerowho spawned the modern zombie film with his classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in 1968actually had a hand in the early development of RESIDENT EVIL, though ultimately the writer-director left the project before Anderson ever came o...
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...
... director GeorgeRomero's highly influential, 1968 debut feature. There's little I can add to the three decades of comments on this film, which have preceded this column. Suffice it to say that if you've never seen the film since it was restored from n...
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...
Horror Movies.ca is offering forty images from the premiere of GeorgeRomero's LAND OF THE DEAD in Pittsburgh, PA. They have posted photos of Romero, Tom Savini, and others in attendance. Click here to read their short article and to see all the pics.
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...
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...
GeorgeRomero’s four previous zombie films have all followed a natural progression. The Zombie outbreak started in Night of the Living Dead and by the time we reached Land of the Dead the zombies had become the dominant species. However, R...
Universal Pictures is in talks with MONSTERS, INC. co-director David Silverman to helm the company's CG CURIOUS GEORGE movie.GEORGE is one of three CG projects based on childrens' books in development at Universal. The others are Maurice Sendak's classic ...
This past Monday an anonymous source told Yahoo Movies! that comedian Will Ferrell had inked a deal to play the Man in the Yellow Hat in the CURIOUS GEORGE movie set up at Universal. Today vindication arrived in the form of an announcement in The Hollywoo...
While talking to Ian Spelling's Inside Trek & Sci Fi syndicated column, Takei explained why he came on board the Sci Fi cable channel's original TV series, THE CHRONICLE, for an episode titled, "Here There Be Dragons," saying, "It sounded like fun. Th...
What They SayAn unexpected attack on a lonely street was a godsend for George because he can use his attacker as a pawn to score points with Ginzame. Although the attacker?s identity was a big surprise, and George gets slapped by the beautiful innkeeper, ...
Dunk's master, the hedge knight Ser Arlan, has died, leaving Dunk with two choices: either sell off his master's things and try to live off the proceeds, or become a hedge knight himself and try to achieve the glories that Ser Arlan tried to achieve. It's...
What They SayAs Yukari feverishly catches up on makeup exams, the \"Parakiss\" crew works diligently on the gown in preparation for the YSD Fashion Show -- will their centerpiece design take first place? In the aftermath of graduation and the advent of a...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Grindhouse, the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez pastiche of 1970s era exploitation flix, features a soundtrack that similarly draws on the many influences that have driven the film’s conceptualiz...