CINESCAPE can't wait for GHOSTRIDER from DAREDEVIL writer-director Mark Steven Johnson. There's so much excitement about what Johnson is conjuring up with Nicolas Cage playing the cursed motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze that we're offering up an early sneak...
... Even so, GhostRider crashes and burns like a gasoline tanker with no breaks. I really wanted to like this movie. Despite the overwhelmingly negative critical reaction, I wanted nothing more than to say that everyone misunderstood the f...
Genre: Comic Book Adaptation/Horror/Action.Studio: Columbia Pictures.Production Company: Marvel Studios/Crystal Sky Entertainment.Project Phase: Post-Production.Who's In It: Nicolas Cage (Johnny Blaze/"GhostRider"; .Who's Making It: Mark Steven Johnson ...
In this sixth and final issue of GhostRider: Trail of Tears, Garth Ennis returns to his usual bag of tricks for a parable about the follies of revenge set in the American South, post-Civil-War (the real one). After Travis Parham nearly dies in a bat...
...ing about.GhostRider is one of those strange concepts a character that seemed to garner some attention during his first launch in the '70s, when a flaming skull atop a leather-jacketed biker evidently spoke to the heart of many comic book readers. Pa...
Marvel’s Mythos series presents painted, condensed retellings of several of the publisher’s most popular characters. Paul Jenkins writes them, Paolo Rivera paints them, and this retelling of GhostRider’s origin is the third in the...
GHOSTRIDER relaunches this week, presumably to drum up some interest in the character before next year's crapariffic movie. Seems a bit premature though, don't it? Since this is a six-issue limited series, and the movie doesn't come out for 11 months? My...
In the only new place the character could go, the GhostRider has set his sights on Heaven. We learned several issues ago that the spirit that turns Johnny Blaze into a bike-riding flaming skeleton is actually an angel. He also belongs to a rogu...
According to SBD, GhostRider pulled in an estimated $15.9 million dollars on it's opening Friday.The opening is a huge boon for the studio, and if the number holds when actuals are released, it will represent an opening bigger than Daredevil received on ...
In spite of producer Jon Voight's recent comments that suggested it was a done deal, scribe David Goyer is saying that Nicolas Cage hasn't signed on to the GHOSTRIDER movie as yet.While talking to the Comics Continuum, Goyer set the record straight regar...
At the end of the recent miniseries, GHOSTRIDER: ROAD TO DAMNATION, we saw Johnny Blaze back in Hell and not a whole lot different from where he started. This new ongoing resumes with Blaze still eternally riding towards the gates out of Hell, only to s...
2k Games has purchased the rights to publish GhostRider, a new third person video game based on Marvel's classic comic. The game's release will coincide with the big-screen adaption of GhostRider in February 2007.The rights to GhostRider were purchase...
According to Sci Fi Wire, Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes are both ready and willing to make a sequel to the upcoming film, GhostRider, should the studio ask.Sci Fi Wire writes:"It depends upon the reaction from the movie-going audiences," Cage sai...
The horror-themed Creature Corner website discovered an unpleasant surprise on the Harlow FX company website: an image of what appears to be trial prosthetic makeup for GHOSTRIDER. For fans of the comic book version who were expecting flames for hair, t...
Sideshow Collectibles and Marvel have released images of their GhostRider Maquette, based on designs from the upcoming major motion picture. Under the supervision of Creative Director Tom Gilliland, the Sideshow creative team studied the conceptual artwo...
GhostRider is a bit of a conundrum, full of grim mythology but with a pretty upbeat, quasi-humorous tone. With almost everybody involved on the same page, the results are enjoyable.
Nicolas Cage plays the adult Johnny Blaze, a professional dar...
Stephen Norrington has gone public on why he chose to exit the previously fast developing GHOSTRIDER movie project.While talking to Comics2Film, the helmer started off by addressing recent comments about the film made by scribe David Goyer, saying, "Cont...
Thus far, Marvel's newest GhostRider miniseries has offered Garth Ennis at his most Garth Ennis. Reread that sentence. GHOSTRIDER prominently features those elements of Ennis's past comics that we've all come to know well -- Biblical themes, scatologica...
Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures are considering another installment of GhostRider? Perhaps so if we go by what Nicolas Cage has just revealed during an interview to ComingSoon for his next film Bangkok Dangerous (hits theaters Friday). The actor hin...
"Jack & Bobby's" Matt Long is in discussions to play the younger version of Nicholas Cage's character in the soon to go into production "GhostRider" for Columbia Pictures. Cage plays Johnny Blaze a man who had agreed to become a host to a vengeful spiri...
According to the New York Post, Sony will not be screening GhostRider early for critics in an attempt to avoid opening day negative reviews.The practice of having limited or no pre-screenings for critics is slowly becoming a common practice for films exp...
Nicolas Cage opened up to Sci Fi Wire about the reason for the GHOSTRIDER delay."They're just tweaking certain things toward the end," Cage said in the interview. "The reason why the movie was delayedI know that's been on people's mindsis there were some...
It looks like we're finally close to seeing the start of filming on the GHOSTRIDER movie. The Australian movie websites Moviehole and Dark Horizons have both reported that the newest Marvel Comics-to-film project will film at the Central City Studios in ...
The long-gestating movie adaptation of Marvel Comics' GHOSTRIDER has hit another bump in the road. It looks like actor Nicolas Cage might not climb onto Johnny Blaze's motorbike after all.Cage had been all geared up to tackle the role of the two-wheeling...
For the second week in a row, GHOSTRIDER won out in the DVD rental race. The comic based movie pulled in another 6.67 million over the past 6 days setting its total rental gross at 15.53 million in its first two weeks. Its box office gross is a...
What They SayIt's the final semester for our intrepid grade school ghoul fighters. But will they live to see graduation? Doesn't seem likely when a vengeful snow spirit screws with their winter break, a decapitated biker tries to get some head, a demon d...
Majesco Entertainment has announced they will release a video game for Sony's GHOSTRIDER next summer to coincide with the release of the film. Climax (U.K.) is working on the new game for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation Portable platforms.Garth E...
Columbia Pictures is in talks with Peter Fonda to join the cast of "GhostRider." Fonda will play the role of Mephistopheles.Donal Logue has already signed on to play play Mack, Johnny's (Nicholas Cage) chief mechanic and best friend who soups up the mot...
Sony Pictures, the parent studio behind the release of the record crushing SPIDER-MAN, has bought out Dimension Film's rights to the long-languishing GHOSTRIDER comic book series. As Marvel Studios head Avi Arad, who executive produced SPIDER-MAN and wil...
The mind-blowing revelation in GhostRider #18 has already cracked the Internet in half, so I’ll liberally refer to it here. It you’ve avoided it thus far, know that spoilers are ahead.
Johnny Blaze has spent most of Daniel Way&...
With BLADE 2 just a few weeks away from release, writer/executive producer David Goyer is eager to move onto his next comic book-inspired project: GHOSTRIDER."GHOSTRIDER's in play," Goyer recently told COMICS2FILM. "It may end up at Sony, but there are ...
Scribe David Goyer has given his take on the chances that Nicolas Cage might still be playing the title role in the GHOSTRIDER movie, and it isn't good.While talking to Comics2Film, the film's scribe expressed his opinion on the matter, saying, "I think ...
...e, a.k.a. GHOSTRIDER, but it actually had a flaming skull embossed on the back. If you Tivoed any of the shows, look close, it's black but there. While it just might be a souvenir from his connection to Dimension's now dead GHOSTRIDER film (to which ...
Sony Pictures has posted a ten second clip from GHOSTRIDER on the offical site. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Wes Bentley, Eva Mendes, Matt Long, Sam Elliott, and Peter Fonda. GHOSTRIDER hits theaters on February 16, 2007.Click here to view the clip. (C...
After delivering a $100 million dollar superhero movie to 20th Century Fox (namely DAREDEVIL), director Mark Steven Johnson has inked a deal to bring another dark Marvel hero to the silver screen: GHOSTRIDER. Before filming begins Johnson will rewrite Sh...
It looks like the big screen version of GHOSTRIDER is still alive at Dimension Films, despite the departure of screenwriter and perennial comic book favorite David Goyer (BLADE 1, 2 and now 3).According to VARIETY, Nicolas Cage is still interested in cli...
According to ComingSoon.net, tentative dates have been released as to when the trailers for SPIDER-MAN 3, GHOSTRIDER, CASINO ROYALE:CASINO ROYALE's trailer will be launched on September 15 with the upcoming film GRIDIRON GANG.GHOSTRIDER's trailer is set...
The beautiful Eva Mendes will star opposite Nicolas Cage for Columbia Pictures in "GhostRider," the adaptation of the Marvel Comics comic book. She will play the true love of the former motorcycle stuntman (Cage) who agrees to let his body become host t...
When star Nicolas Cage announced his plans to work on THE WEATHER MAN for his next project, fans were left wondering if Cage's intentions to star in GHOSTRIDER were being left in the dust -- again. According to IGN FilmForce and GHOSTRIDER producer Gary...
Varese Sarabande has announced an eclectic group of new CDs due to be released on February 13th:
GhostRider features Christopher Young's score for the new comic book adaptation from Daredevil director Mark Steven Johnson, starring Nicolas Cage an...
Producer Steven Paul has been talking about the delayed GHOSTRIDER movie project.While talking to syndicated columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith, Paul briefly discussed the film that was scheduled to start shooting this month. Beck and Smith re...
Moviefone released a new poster for the upcoming film GHOSTRIDER which you can see above.In the film, based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackh...
AMERICAN BEAUTY star Wes Bentley will play the villain Blackheart in the GHOSTRIDER film, scheduled to start filming in February. Bentley will play opposite Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze, the film's tormented hero who makes a pact with the forces of darkn...
...sp; GHOSTRIDER (Sony) Quirky horror action with Nicolas Cage as the Marvel Comics hell-spawn avenger. Widescreen and “fullscreen” editions include commentrak and Making-Of featurettes. Also available in an Extended Cut Edition includ...
The official GhostRider Blog released a new poster for the upcoming film which you can see to the left.In the film, based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power...
...ersion of GHOSTRIDER.The long-developing project got a kickstart recently when David Goyer (BLADE) turned in a script that has everyone involved excited, according to Variety. RIDER tells the story of a demonic avenger who rides a hog while taki...
Word has it that Nicolas Cage is now signed up to play the role of Johnny Blaze, the human alter-ego of the flaming skulled GHOSTRIDER in the coming live-action film. While talking to Empire Online, the film's producer, Jon Voight, revealed, "It's very e...
Sony has moved the release date of GHOSTRIDER, starring Nicolas Cage, to February 16, 2007. Originally, it was supposed to be released on July 14, 2006.The new date still allows some space between RIDER and SPIDER-MAN 3, which will be released three mon...
...y writing GhostRider’s big-screen debut. `I’m in the midst of writing the treatment of the film,` says Goyer of the GhostRider project, which re-teams him with Blade director Stephen Norrington. `Norrington and I have been meeting almost every day.`W...
...s a job, GhostRider creator hated the movie and Hurley shouldn’t have worn shoes at her wedding!
All is norm in the world of celebrity news.
Halle Berry & Parade Magazine not in agreement on “Suicide” article:...
...eased the GhostRider on 3,619 screens. Anytime a movie has that many screens and that many showings, it’s going to track great in the Box Office. The Nic Cage starring vehicle pulled in 44.5 mil this weekend in the 1st spot and it averaged $12,2...
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GhostRider wins of course! Was there ever any doubt?
Sony seems to have known all along how the masses would flock to this movie. In fact, they came to the conclusion that 3,619 screens were just not enough chances for audiences la...
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GhostRider #7 $2.99
Kurt: I don’t care if no one else likes Daniel Way. I think he’s super-cool.
Marvel Adventures Avengers #9 $2.99 Al: Modok! Modok! Modok!
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #20 $2...
... beat out GhostRider and every other movie this weekend.
It’s a comedy, i.e. a film for all ages (all demographics).
It’s 1 hour and 39 minutes long. (more showings per day)
It’s on 3,287 screens. (opti...
...OF 5)$2.99GHOSTRIDER #1 POSTER$5.95Al: Here's the thing with GhostRider: GhostRider is awesome. Okay, he's really hard to write because his basic premise is sort of a mess. (Spirit of vengeance, the demon Zarathos, multiple incarnations, looks lik...
...duled for GHOSTRIDER, an action thriller based on a Marvel comic book from by DAREDEVIL director Mark Steven Johnson, starring Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze alias GhostRider. Young will also compose the music for THE GRUDGE 2, the American version of ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shirow MasamuneTranslated by:Frederik L. SchodtAdapted by:What They SayDeep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robot...
...ting with GhostRider game developers between takes with Eva Mendes. Right.
In all fairness, the actors aren’t usually the ones to blame, or to praise for that matter. As many gamers now know, awful licensed games are usually the result...
Man, I just feel sorry for anybody who didn’t grow up during the Sixties like I did. Our parents actually thought Wonder Bread and Twinkies were good for us, we struck a nice balance between playing outside and unhealthy amounts of television-viewing, and...
...ESSENTIAL GHOSTRIDER VOL 2 TP $16.99
Kurt: I haven’t even finished the first one yet!
GHOSTRIDER FINALE $3.99
Kurt: I’m torn about whether or not to buy this. This is the completed final issue of the last G...
Growing up in an age when Ghostbusters reigned cinemas worldwide, it was only a matter of time until kids got hooked on the idea of whipping out specters and sending them back to a parallel universe. But to this day, I never imagined what it would be like...
...uture for GhostRider, Bill Rosemann, Marvel’s associate manager of retail sales, advertising and promotion, said, `Possibly. We’re thinking about it.` He didn’t expand further, but later at the Marvel Knights panel, Joe Quesada elaborated on the possi...
...got a new GhostRider series, and as soon as I saw that on the shelf, I was like 'again?' Didn't we get a new GhostRider series a couple years ago?" Yeah, we got a new GhostRider series a few years ago, and a new Captain America series, and a new Pun...
...GRUDGE 2, GHOSTRIDER and SPIDER-MAN 3 on his list of upcoming films. -via filmmusicradio.com Cinescape's Music News provides weekdaily news and views on film music, game music, progressive rock, and other notable musical genres, culled from a variet...
...elease of GhostRider, starring Nic Cage. Sony/Columbia’s GhostRider is coming out on 02/16/07 with 3,000+ screens pushing the likelihood that they will cash in on this film. By releasing it in this month, it gives the studio a chance to make a ...
...much like GhostRider (har har). This story arc desperately wants to be a comedy, but it's not funny in the least. To rub salt in the wound, Ed McGuinness's art features cartoonish characters with muscles where the human body doesn't even have them. ...
ComingSoon was lucky enough to be given a sneak preview of Hasbro's upcoming toy releases for: Spider-Man 3, Transformers, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and GhostRider movies, as well as new toys to commemorate Star Wars' 30th Anniversary and...
What They SayWhen nearby construction disturbs a spiritual resting place, kids aren’t the only ones starting classes at this school. And that means it’s up to a scruffy band of young ghostbusters to expel their satanic schoolmates before every...
What They SayAfter her brother gets beat up again, Satsuki and her friends decide the little crybaby needs to butch it up and join the relay team. (Hope he can outrun the ghost who likes to chop off runners’ feet.) But that’s just the beginni...
... Grayson (GHOSTRIDER) and with manga-influenced art by a group called UDON and Studio XD. Rosemann claims that "the art is an animated style that looks like it came right off the screen." The title launches November 28th.DECEMBERo MOMENT OF SILENCE ti...
...more like GhostRider, particularly given the design of the uniforms; and the Thing looks positively silly with a little button nose. The Mole Man is the worst, looking like nothing less than five different anime villains rolled into one. While none of...
...o was the GhostRider back then? Who was the Spider Avatar back then (as suggested by Straczynski's new take on Spider-Man)? What about time travelling characters?Likewise, the idea of just doing a fun, kung fu fantasy book appealed to me. I'm a big fa...
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GhostRider Annual #2 Mercy $3.99
Ben:I’d pray for mercy if I only did this once a year.
Kurt: Ben, if I told you that you couldn’t make anymore sh-t jokes, would you even be able to do The Spinner Rack?
Haunt Of Horror...
Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Elektra, GhostRider) won't be adapting a new comic anytime in the near future for HBO. After years of sitting in development hell, the network has finally scrapped its plans to adapt Garth Ennis' Preacher graphic novel. Th...
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GhostRider #26 $2.99
Ben:Now with 100% more awesome.
Guardians Of Galaxy #3 2nd Ptg Pelletier Var (Pp #827) $2.99
Guardians Of Galaxy #4 SI $2.99
Ben:Three words: Kurt’s a Goth. Two more: Rocket Raccoon.
Kurt:...
...er Fonda (GhostRider, Easy Rider) and Bruce Dern (The Astronaut Farmer, Diggstown) in the motorcycle thriller The Wild Angels, the artsy horror story A Bucket Of Blood, the apocalyptic Gas-s-s-s, the Edgar Allan Poe tale Premature Burial, the science-...
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GhostRider #16 $2.99
Kurt:It looks like Marvel fast-tracked the entire series’s premise. Blaze has hunted down almost all of the 666 parts of the Devil roaming the planet, with only a few left.
Heroes For Hire #14 $2.99
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...in by the GhostRider one, but you don’t have to make the same mistake I did. Newuniversal #6 $2.99 Kurt: Warren Ellis once answered an e-mail I sent him. He only said, like, three words, but still. Red Prophet Tales of Alvin Maker #7 (of 12) $2....
... upcoming GhostRider series. He talks about his five year plan for Wolverine, his night out with Steve Dillon, and what it will take for him to attend more conventions. It's a frank discussion on why Daniel Way loves comics.You can find it here, or do...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Disney’s latest computer-animated feature, Meet The Robinsons, opens on March 30th and comes complete with a stirring score by Danny Elfman. The soundtrack album comes out on March 27th from Walt Disney R...
...e this or GhostRider tells the studios that they can churn out superhero dreck on the cheap. It means they won’t bother hiring competent directors like Chris Nolan or Sam Raimi. Last February, that auteur Shawn Levy was hired to direct...
... studios. GhostRider was this years February success. What is unexpected are two or three films at the same time in a relatively normal slow month doing so well. In this case, we have two films from the beginning of March averaging totals which ast...
...ws, as of GhostRider #18, Johnny Blaze is now part-angel. His soul still belongs to Satan, but Roxanne Simpson’s prayers – the ones she uttered to save him back in the 1970s – earned Johnny a lifeline from Heaven. A rogue a...
...tion film GHOSTRIDER, and he also has the scores for THE GRUDGE 2, THE MESSENGERS and SPIDER-MAN 3 on his platter as well. Meanwhile, Alexandre Desplat is scoring two films called THE PAINTED VEIL and MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM. via www.filmmusic...
...ck Widow, GhostRider, Hercules, the Angel, and Iceman back together again, especially after all that's happened in the intervening years, could be highly provocative, to say the least. I don't even remember what brought them together in the first plac...
... a mask. GhostRider #2 $2.99Al: Why do you have to weigh GhostRider down with all this Hell crap? God, guys, it's a biker with a flaming skull. Get yourself some noir stories with weird villains and zombies and everyone's happy. This shouldn't b...
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GhostRider #13 WWH $2.99
Ben: Kurt, I read the last issue for the WWH crossover and realized how grateful I am to not be reading this on a regular basis.
Kurt: I haven’t read that issue yet, but I usually like this series.
G...
Christopher Young has more big action stuff than SPIDER-MAN 3 in the pipeline. Also on his future scoring schedule is GHOSTRIDER, the action thriller directed by DAREDEVIL director Mark Steven Johnson, starring Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze alias Ghost Ri...
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GhostRider #12 WWH $2.99
Ben: I don’t want to go all Comic Book Guy, but there is no way that most of these heroes taking on the Hulk could last one round.
Kurt: I don’t think GhostRider can really be killed, though, can...
...TCHMEN 8. GHOSTRIDER 7. RUSE 6. SANDMAN5. ULTIMATES4. CAPTAIN AMERICA3. FLASH2. GREEN LANTERN1. SILVER SURFER(Please note I did not list any movies that you voted for that are already in development or that have been optioned, such as FANTASTIC FOUR, ...
...he works? GHOSTRIDER. EX MACHINA. Apparently even CLOAK & DAGGER. These are not high-profile books. The big companies know they've got Hollywood's ear. They know they have the inside track on good ideas, and they know Hollywood knows that the movie-go...
A few weeks ago, a reader asked me what I thought about the dearth of action in modern comic books and "decompression" dragging a story on longer than necessary. Then, Al wrote that review of GHOSTRIDER two weeks ago, complaining about comics in which t...
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GhostRider Vol 1 Vicious Cycle TP $13.99 Al: Get it? "Vicious Cycle?" Like a motorcycle? Except, like, vicious? Hey, does the trailer for the movie look super-lame or what?
Kurt: I will see this. If it rules, I wil...
...haracter! GHOSTRIDER: THE HAMMER LANE #6Cover by Trent Kaniuga and Danny MikiWritten by Devin Grayson; art by Trent Kaniuga and Danny MikiExpect no sidekicks, no scruples, and no mercy in this tire-burning, bone-breaking, final confrontation between G...
Hail and well met, COMICSCAPE faithful. Welcome to another week in which I provide you, my loyal readers and constant detractors, with a half-hour of free, advertiser-supported comic commentary. And this week, CINESCAPE gives you twice the goodness with...
...he kids. GhostRider #1 $2.99Al: Daniel Way and Javier Saltares stubbornly continue trying to renew interest in GhostRider. The problem is, all we can think of is the dreadful fact that Nic Cage is playing him in the movie.Kurt: But will he fight p...
...storm and GhostRider meet and have a contest to see whose head is more on fire.
Kurt: GhostRider has something that Firestorm will probably never have: a movie.
Gen 13 #2 $2.99
Al: Man, none of these Worldstorm relaunches are off to ve...
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GhostRider (PS2 - PSP) - Can someone say movie tie in? Well, that is exactly what you will get with this GhostRider movie based game. At least you can play as a flaming demon hunter.
Chulip (PS2) - A bizarre kissing simulation fr...
A Cinescape scooper sent in four images of the Hellcycle from the in-production GHOSTRIDER, starring Nicolas Cage, which was on display at Comic-Con 2005.The note stated: I was able to get a few up close and personal shots of the Hellcycle from the upcom...
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GhostRider #10 $2.99
Ben: I couldn’t come up with anything this week so fill in the appropriate insults: GhostRider can _____ my ______ and then ______ my _______.
Kurt: Dude, why the hate for the flaming skeleton on the motorcyc...
...NGAVERSE: GHOSTRIDER #1Written, art and cover by Chuck Austen. The greatest of all evils is loose in New York, and it's spreading its dark seed all over town! But it's not the gargantuan Hulk - it's the Enemy, the Prince of Lies, the Dark-Father...
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GhostRider #23 $2.99
Kurt: I am still getting this series, but I haven’t read it since that whole Ghost-Rider-is-an-angel thing from a while back. Any good?
Hulk Visionaries John Byrne TP Vol 01 $24.99
Hulk WWH ...
...Cable, or GhostRider to participate?
“I decide that, since I have the ego of a planet, I can bend the rules for the greater good and commit the immoral act of creating PACs and making campaign contributions to key congressmen a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ono Fuyumi / Inada ShihoTranslated by:Tsubasa AkiraAdapted by:What They SayThe decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try to tear it down, “accidents” start to happen–people get h...
"Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society", directed by Kenji Kamiyama and released in Japan in November 2006, has been awarded with the Jury Prize at the 21st Digital Content Grand Prix.
Produced by Production I.G, Bandai Visual, Ban...
Hello, and welcome to an early look at the first three episodes of Ghost Stories. This show, due for release by ADV Films and dubbed by ADV Studios, represents one of the most unusual dubs to come along in a while. Like many projects that push the envelop...
The Ghost or “Ryeong” is a new Korean horror film, part of the Tartan Asia Extreme line. The film is shackled with the tag line “The Grudge meets Dark Water” and that does a real disservice to the film for a number or reasons....
As a follow-up to the wonderful über-sequel BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the third film in Universal's popular horror series, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, didn't have much of a chance at greatness. James Whale, architect of the first two seminal films, was gone, and Bo...
Entertainment Weekly names Manga's Ghost in the Shell
One Of "The 50 Best DVDs"
(Week of January 19, 2001)
Chicago, IL- January 17, 2001 - Entertainment Weekly has named Manga
Entertainment's cyberpunk Japanese animated co-production Ghost in the Shell
a...
What They SayThe year is 2030, and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the \"Individual Eleven.\" With a sadistic intent of mass destruction, will they triumph in victory or discover the glo...
What They SayBatou is a cyborg. His body is artificial: the only remnants left of his humanity are traces of his brain...and the memories of a woman called The Major.
A detective for the government's covert anti-terrorist unit, Public Security Section 9,...
BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT AND MANGA TO PREMIERE 'GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX – 2nd GIG’
AT THE TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ANIME FAIR IN HOLLYWOOD ON FEBRUARY 7th, 2005
SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE PRODUCTION I.G. PRESIDENT, MITSUHISA ISHIKAWA (GH...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shotaro IshinomoriTranslated by:Bryan MasumotoAdapted by:What They SayThe World at the brink of self-annihilation. The nuclear age has brought with it the arms race, whihc has led to the advent of weapons powerful enough to de...
While access to the massive film library compiled by Ted Turner is provided by the TCM cable channel (and home video releases), another section of this archive has had a troubled road toward creating an identity for itself. Turner owns rights to a huge co...
What They SayIT FOUND A VOICE... NOW IT NEEDS A BODY
In a world caught in the grip of information overload, where artificial intelligence is more than the real thing and cyborg cops spend their lives surfing on an electronic sea of living data, only the...
Knight Rider by Corona's Coming Attractions (Wed 06-02-2004)
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Revolution Studios.Project Phase:Script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:David Elliott, Paul Lovett (Screenwriters); Glen A. Larson (Screenwriter); Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Glen A. Larson ...
What They SayWhen Hajime volunteers Satsuki for pet duty at school, she raises the ire of a fellow student—who, in turn, raises a certain rabid rabbit from the grave Good thing there’s a cabbie to get them the hell out of there! (Though, it...
As part of the recent release of several of their second and third string Classic Monster movies, Universal Home Video has debuted the four mummy sequels to the original 1932 Boris Karloff classic on double feature DVDs. Here we look at the last two films...
If you're thinking of taking in Terry Zwigoff's film GHOST WORLD, you should be aware that it's not about ghosts. And while it's based on a comic book, it also doesn't feature anyone with superpowers. Also missing in action are monsters, guns, secret iden...
We've got a great new contest running now with the support of the folks at Manga Entertainment UK where they've graciously donated a number of prizes for our UK readership!
First, check out these clips for...
Looking to past genre literature for its future projects, Hallmark Entertainment will produce new versions of the classic novels FRANKENSTEIN and KING SOLOMON'S MINES for television. The pair of shows, both to be made as four-hour mini-series, will likely...
Bound to produce endless amounts of fandom wankery, Variety is reporting that with the help of Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks has nabbed the live action adaptation rights for Ghost in the Shell according to ICv2. Spielberg told Variety, "Ghost in the Shell ...
Greg Cox gives GhostRider its film tie-in book treatment, Kage Baker releases a collection of never-before-published The Company stories, and a handful of Anne McCaffrey classics move to the audio book realm in this week’s Book Buzz.
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Cinescape recently had the opportunity to speak with Roy Brewer, one of the guys behind bringing GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX to the United States. He brought us up to speed on the game and some of the features gamers can expect to find when th...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Inada ShihoTranslated by:Satsuki YamashitaAdapted by:David WalshWhat They SayThe ghost hunters\' new case has turned deadly. Naru, the leader of Shibuya Psychic Research, is under a dark spell. When Naru awakens, he foolishly ...
What They SayThe year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as The Laughing Man swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, and corporate espionage leaving no known susp...
What They SayThe year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed to a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. ...
April 14,2004 - Chicago, IL - Manga Entertainment and Bandai Entertainment announce their joint DVD release of the first volume of the highly anticipated anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on July 27th. The series was co-produced by bot...
This month we've got an extra special contest to run for readers in the UK as we've been extra lucky to have the support of Manga UK, Atari and Titan Books for a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex conte...
What They SayMeet Mikami - the sexy leader of one of Japan\'s most successful independent ghost-busting agencies. Together with her eclectic team of exorcists, she\'s prepared to do battle with any supernatural adversary but only for the right price!
Wh...
What They SayFemale cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi and her fellow police officers of Section 9 hunt down a host of criminals in both the real and online worlds. In the course of their work, Kusanagi and Section 9 must do everything from resolving hostage cr...
What They SayCurses never die, but people do.
In the Edo era of Japan, when cultural arts flourished and the samurai code of \"bushido\" emerged, humanity\'s fear of the supernatural was very real! Desiring to wed Lady Oiwa, an ambitious and calculating ...
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex's U.S. premiere just one of the
many highlights of this prestigious pop culture event
Congers, NY - March 4, 2004 - The country's foremost authority on
everything related to comic books, Wizard Entertainment, wi...
According to Variety, Production I.G. has acquired the rights to the animated Ghost in the Shell and plans to re-make it into a live action film.Production I.G was responsible for the animated Ghost in the Shell that appeared in 1995 as well as the follow...
Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) supposes he is a relatively ordinary 14-year-old English schoolboy. This changes when Alex's guardian Uncle Ian dies. Alex learns Uncle Ian was not a banker after all, but rather an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. The Bri...
What They SayThe original GHOST IN THE SHELL was hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the finest Animé films ever produced, and influenced Hollywood films from THE MATRIX to A.I. GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX features the same cyberpu...
In an article mentioning the success that Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Senator International have had with the first release from their Ghost House Pictures company (specifically THE GRUDGE), Variety reveals a new horror project in development at the prod...
What They SayFemale cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi and her fellow police officers of Section 9 hunt down a host of criminals in both the real and online worlds. In the course of their work, Kusanagi and Section 9 must do everything from resolving hostage cr...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ono Fuyumi & Inada ShihoTranslated by:Akira TsubasaAdapted by:David WalshWhat They SayAfter a schoolboy\'s suicide, the team at Shibuya Psychic Research must unravel mysteries at a local high school. As fires break out in an e...
What They Say2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of \"The Puppet Master,\" a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Toget...
The Review!When I saw Ghost in the Shell in English on video in 1996, I was highly confused, the movie left me with a very empty... dry feeling. My friend and I agreed it was good, but the ending was horrible, with that in mind, we took the video back to ...
Blizzard Entertainment unleashes their first novel surrounding the Ghost assassin Nova, Paul Kearney and James M. Ward blend good old-fashion magic with maritime warfare, and Mercedes Lackey debuts another novel in the Scepter’d Isle sequence wi...
What They SayThe Izu Dancer by Kawabata Yasunari
A young student falls in love with a traveling dancer, but societal differences may tear them apart.
The Dancing Girl by Mori Ohgai
A Japanese man working in turn of the century Berlin fathers a child wi...
Celebrating the 20th anniversary from its foundation, Production I.G announces at TAF 2007 a new project, "Ghost Hound" (original title:
Shinreigari / Ghost Hound), written by Production I.G and Ghost in the Shell-famed Shirow Masamune. The main staff inc...
What They SayBased On The Manga By Masamune Shirow
2029-A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, anditheiInternal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of \"The Puppet Master,\" a mysterious and threatening computer virus c...
What They SayPoor Satsuki. Her award-winning art project doesn't just get her an A, it gets her a dead artist intent on trapping her inside her own painting! And when ghost-obsessed Leo finds the spirit of a corpse bride, the deliriously devout Momoko win...
The Review!This is my first review, and English is not my native language, but I hope that you can follow me. I also try to avoid spoilers, but I can not guarantee that there aren't any. ;)
The technique used for animation is not usual. Almost every back...
What They SayMeet Mikami - the sexy leader of one of Japan\'s most successful independent ghost-busting agencies. Together with her eclectic team of exorcists, she\'s prepared to do battle with any supernatural adversary - but only for the right price! Wh...
What They SayMamoru Oshii\'s futuristic animated masterpiece, \'Ghost In The Shell\', is the perfect film to experience on DVD. Seamlessly merging traditional cel animation with the latest computer graphic imagery, this stunning sci-fi spectacle has broke...
It's been justly acclaimed as one of the great works of comic book literature, and now it's made the leap to the silver screen in a well-received film adaptation. Amid the expected blockbuster hits like JURASSIC PARK III and PLANET OF THE APES, GHOST WORL...
Following his work on Cold Fear and Ghost Recon 2 (main theme co-writer), Tom Salta has composed and produced the anthemic live orchestral soundtrack for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, the next installment in the smash-hit squad-based acti...
What They SayThe Review!The popular 1994 comedy TV series has finally been remastered and released on DVD, and fans of the anime (and worshippers of Tsuru Hiromi and Kouda Mariko) Ghost Sweeper Mikami has never been better.
Audio: We are presented with ...
Los Angeles, CA, May 5 2008 - Manga publisher Go! Comi announced today that they will be publishing one of the most hotly-anticipated new manga series, 07-Ghost.
Set in a gothic fantasy world, 07-Ghost tells the story of Teito, a former slave who is no...
Director Ching Siu Tung`s 1990 mega-hit A CHINESE GHOST STORY (88-minutes)inadvertently triggered the birth of Fant-Asia erotica, films that took the elements of this 1987 film and added R-rated sex and nudity. EROTIC GHOST STORY was the first film of th...
What They SayAn in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the explosively popular Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Contains 90 minutes of DVD footage and a 148 page book! This is a limited item - only 15,000 copies released.
DVD Features: Interview Ar...
What They SayBased on the well-known, live-action films of the same name, A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation is the fantastic tale of strange demons, hungry ghosts and timeless love. Tsui Hark is internationally well-know for his iconoclastic ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mamoru OshiiTranslated by:Yuji Oniki (Miscellaneous Translation)Adapted by:What They SayIn 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. Humans have forgotten that they are human, and t...
Chicago, IL- Manga Entertainment and Bandai Entertainment are proud to release the fourth volume of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" in both Standard and Limited Editions ve