Warner Bros. has made a deal to make a movie about IanFleming. Damian Stevenson wrote the script. Andrew Lazar will produce.The story will center on how the author's own experiences with womanizing and spying shaped his signature secret agent creation....
IanFleming would be 100 years old were he alive today. He's not alive, but his greatest creation--Bond, James Bond--is very much so. Friday’s Quantum of Solace will mark the 22nd time in 46 years of celluloid adaptations that 007 will likel...
...g creator IanFleming, Sir Kingsley Amis and John Gardner. Benson is, however, the first American to ever have the job. `They’re big shoes to fill,` Benson says of his predecessors, especially Fleming. `It’s a heavy mantle, and I don’t take it lightly....
...taries:
-IanFleming’s Incredible Creation
-The Road to Casino Royale
-James Bond in the Bahamas
-IanFleming: The Secret Road to Paradise
-Death in Venice
-Becoming Bond
-James Bond: For Real
-Bond Girls Are Forever
-Featurettes...
...illers of IanFleming (having made vampires of Inspector Lestrade and Biggles, I here present a secret agent with a license to drink blood) and Patricia Highsmith (I didn`t know when I wrote that Anthony Minghella was going to film THE TALENTED MR. RIP...
... novelist IanFleming, and that MGM and Danjaq -- the company that has produced James Bond films -- `infringed (his) work by continuing to release James Bond films featuring McClory`s character.` Rafeedie disagreed and dismissed McClory`s claims `with ...
The new official title for the next adventure of 007 is now called Quantum of Solace, which was taken from a collection of short stories published by source author IanFleming back in 1960. While at a press conference for the new reveal, Sony a...
Producer Kevin McClory's latest attempt at legally wresting some control of the JAMES BOND franchise has been shot down. McClory, who came into partial ownership of the character due to a lawsuit settlement on his script collaboration with Bond creator Ia...
...al novel, IanFleming used it as a garnish to their characters: hinted at, but never dwelt upon. The film version makes rampant mincing the order of the day. From their first scene when they clasp hands and giggle about how unattractive women are to an...
... his grim IanFleming roots and refraining from the barest hint of quip or smirk. The rest of the cast looks like they need a hug even more than he does, from Olga Kurlenko's wounded tigress of a Bond girl to Jeffrey Wright's po-faced Felix Leiter. Eve...
...ritten by IanFleming, the story recounts the making of the world's greatest secret agent.
Reinforcing the highly charged, action packed plot of the movie is the original music from David Arnold, the award-winning composer and arranger who pr...
From the DVD Cover: The covert world of government "Ghost Squad" agent Daniel Leight (Jason Connery of 'The Secret Life of IanFleming' and 'Smallville') comes crashing down when he is critically injured in a building collapse triggered by the genetical...
The second annual Goldeneye Film Festival and Retreat will take place Dec. 7-12, 2005 at the former home of 007 creator IanFleming in Jamaica.The festival "will feature more than 350 reels including features, docs and shorts from around the globe. The li...
...on of the IanFleming stories and reflects the excitement and mystery of our latest script."DIE ANOTHER DAY will star Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, John Cleese and Judi Dench, and will be released in the US and U...
A new James Bond book has been announced as coming out in 2008 from British author Sebastian Faulks. The book has been approved by the IanFleming estate (the original author died in 1964) and it will be released in what would have been Fleming's 100th ye...
The estate of IanFleming is honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the first James Bond book, CASINO ROYALE, by creating a new award for thriller writing named after the iconic British author. Starting later this year, the IanFleming Steel Dagger award wi...
...hing that IanFleming wrote.`YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE truly made the Bond franchise larger than life, as Blofeld (Donald Pleasance) was capturing American and Soviet space capsules and bringing them to a hollowed-out volcano used as a headquarters in order ...
Penguin Publishing is stepping in where many James Bond fans have been hoping someone would tread. As many Bond fans have known for awhile, it's been tough to get the original IanFleming written Bond books over the last few years. But now, Penguin Publis...
... original IanFleming source material running dry?
"You're always looking back at Fleming for inspiration," notes Broccoli's EON partner Michael G. Wilson, "all the writers do. Without getting specific, maybe there will be references to...
...vies, the IanFleming novels and any future Bond movies released by MGM.EA also revealed that it is in full development on a new Bond game. Titled JAMES BOND 007: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING, the game is scheduled for a holiday 2003 release.Got a scoop? Kn...
...ed on the IanFleming novel filmed in 1965. In addition to Lennertz' score, the game that will feature the voice of Mr. Bond himself: Sean Connery. Also coming up for Lennertz is a thriller for the Sci-Fi Channel, PAINKILLER JANE. -via www.musicfromthe...
...e genre's IanFleming-era glory days are here again.Setting a frenetic pace from the word go, director Kang Je-gyu sets up the story with a shockingly violent prologue detailing how Hee, a petite female soldier from the North, fights her way through sp...
According to Reuters, a brand new James Bond novel, by a mystery author, will hit shelves in May of 2008.The book will be released exactly a century after James Bond's creator, IanFleming, was born. Fleming first wrote CASINO ROYALE in 1953.The sequel t...
HorrorFest promises, “8 films to die for”. These films are different, twisted and low budget (though not to low). They are missing one thing: movie stars. Sometimes this can be a good thing. Some actors bring a stigma to a ...
In Death Race’s dystopic future, Ian McShane plays Coach, the head of Statham’s pit crew. A great casting choice, Ian McShane has the world weary wisdom to own this part. McShane is confident but approachable, extremely smart while never patro...
Rumors about Superman
have been zipping around the Internet like speeding bullets. You've heard them:
the movie is in trouble. The budget is skyrocketing. Ratner's out and Armageddon
director Michael Bay is in. Sounds pretty scary, right?
Wrong.
Va...
Has Sir Ian McKellen signed yet or is he still in talks? McKellen answers: "Although I haven't actually signed the contract it is intended that I reprise Magneto in the 3rd X-Men movie. Shooting starts in September in Vancouver, where I shall join the cas...
Sir Ian McKellen raised hell at last night's British Independent Film Awards, announcing he would do a third 'X-Men' film.
"X-Men and its story is about mutants, about people who feel disaffected with society, and whom society is hard on, appeals most ...
Sir Ian McKellen told the media last year that he would return to Lord of the Rings when New Line hired Peter Jackson back for the prequels in one form or another. Well, time has past and New Line is no more but Peter Jackson is back (as an executive prod...
Actor Ian McShane has joined the film, DEATH RACE, for director Paul W.S Anderson & Universal Pictures. This is a remake of the Roger Corman directed cult classic Death Race 2000. The actor will be playing a coach for one of the "Death Racers&quo...
Former NRL star Ian Roberts, has been cast as henchman "Riley" to Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor, completed his first week of filming alongside the megastar on the superhero set."It only just hit me two days ago how incredible this opportunity is - I'm like a ...
In a recent interview for 'Return of the King' Sir Ian McKellen also talked about 'X-Men 3'. McKellen said he plans to see director Bryan Singer and one of the writers at the premiere of the new 'Lord of the Rings' movie:
"I'm told by both of them that t...
British actress Christina Cole has signed on to the upcoming horror film, THE DEATHS OF IAN, for Stan Winston Productions. Cole will play Mike Vogel's girlfriend in the film.The film follows an all-American guy (Vogel) who is murdered each day by various...
On his official, Sir Ian McKellen answers a variety of questions about the character Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies. "I hear positive news about the second sequel, which is likely to include Magneto. The start date, considering Bryan Singer's other commitm...
Here's the scoop on Ian Somerhalder, whose six-episode guest stint on "Smallville" begins tonight at 9 pm/ET. The star of "Rules of Attraction" and "Life as a House" previously worked on the WB's old series, "Young Americans." Now, he's back as the myster...
Ain't It Cool News conducted an interview with Sir Ian McKellan. A question asked was, "are you talking about an X3 at all?"
McKellan: I will be doing that tonight with Bryan Singer, who's coming to see the premiere. I should perhaps try to corner him...
Sir Ian McKellen, Grail expert, master of magnetism and wizard extraordinaire, has signed on to use those sonorous tones to narrate Stardust, Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
The film stars newcomer Charlie Cox as Tristran, a...
There's been some confusion over the plot details and characters revealed on the upcoming DEATH RACE remake since it was first announced. Anyone who remembers the 1975 Roger Corman cult classic, DEATH RACE 2000, knows the story of that film featured racer...
IM MEMORY: MICHAEL SMALLFilm composer Michael Small, 64, passed away on November 24, 2003. Small wrote musical scores for over 50 feature films and TV programs, as well as hundreds of TV and radio commercials. His many credits as include the music for Ala...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kaori YukiTranslated by:Gemma CollingeAdapted by:Kristine BlachereWhat They SayIan used to just see dead people. Now he is one. Trapped inside his own body by the Fairy Cube, Ian must now figure out how to stop the devious spi...
...peared in IanFleming`s novels, yearn for a return to a more serious Bond. Not that the novels were without their outrageous elements (come on, 007 fought a giant squid in the novel of DR. NO), but Fleming captured a sense of gritty reality amidst all ...
For years, the image of Bob Burden's vegetable crimefighter, FLAMING CARROT presided over the best booth at my local watering hole, the benighted Comet. Obscured once in a misguided attempt to rid the place of graffiti, he soon reappeared, freshly painted...
When Timothy Dalton appeared in LICENCE TO KILL, which was destined to be his swan song as James Bond – with no one, not even the actor himself expecting Pierce Brosnan to replace him in the next film six years later – he was proud of what had been accomp...
Of the entire Dune oeuvre, probably the toughest roll to play is its principal villain, Baron Harkonnen. In producer Dino De Laurentiis’ movie, he’s played as a sort of malevolent cherub—grossly overweight, vulgar and with boils sprouting all over what li...
Sydney's very own man of steel, Ian Roberts, will hit Hollywood off the back of his role in the blockbuster 'Superman Returns'.
The former NRL player turned movie star has spent the past eight weeks playing a henchman to Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor in th...
Back in April at KryptonSite, we posted an April Fool's gag that Ian Somerhalder (The Rules of Attraction, Fearless) would be coming to Smallville playing a young Bruce Wayne.
While he's definitely not playing Bruce, IanSomerhalder.net is reporting, an...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ian McKellen will provide the voice of the narrator for the upcoming romantic fantasy Stardust.The film centers on a young man who promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star (Claire Danes) and ventures in...
Ian McShane (Deadwood) has signed on to star with Renee Zellweger in CASE 39 for Paramount Pictures. McShane will play a cop who helps Zellweger investigate the case.The script is by Ray Wright and centers around an idealistic social worker (Zellweger) w...
"... Mike (Bay) is one of the greatest action directors ever so he's going to have some of that. You'll see in some of the ending sequences, once we get into the third act there is some great ground and air based action with both military and non-military...
Q: Do you think I should read Lord of the Rings before seeing it in theatres? I really don`t know anything about it.A: And I don`t know anything about your reading habits. The novel is long although many, many people have read it many, many times over. So...
Man-Thing "sticks pretty close to the Marvel comic which was a rather cult comic," Bliss explains. "It's essentially about a swamp creature and stays quite true to the darkness of how it was drawn in the comic. I play an alligator hunter who patrols this ...
When audiences last saw Sara Pezzini, the NYPD detective used the title's Witchblade to turn back time, thus "saving" the lives of the people she loves Danny (Will Yun Lee), Jake (David Chokachi), and Gabriel (John Hensley) but also resurrecting the pow...
...rosnan as IanFleming`s famous creation. The latest Bond film, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, is meant to set the character up in a way that will carry the franchise into the next millennium. This is quite a feat when you consider that the films have long si...
Bite MeWhile we`re still in a Hallowe`en mood, I thought we`d start the nonfiction segment of our rant (what`s with the royal we all of a sudden, DD?) with more seasonal material. Check out this brand new title: The Dracula Cookbook: Authentic Recipes fro...
A feeling of dread was quickly washed away by this surprisingly fun shounen series.
What They SayOpen the door to another world! Ginta Toramizu is an underachieving high school boy who dreams every night of a fantasy world where he finally gets a chance...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. That’s how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
Recently,
Eonline's
Television maven Wanda invited Witchblade stars David Chokachi
(detective Jake McCartey) and Eric Etebari (Ian Nottingham) to chat with fans.
The two eagerly accepted and answered many questions about what lurks ahead
...
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...
The one thing to bear in mind while watching BIRDS OF PREY is that if you're expecting a straightforward translation to television from the comic of the same name, you're going to be out of luck. If you're looking for an imaginative reinterpretation of th...
Another well made piece of fluff from Amicus, Hammer’s chief British competitor, AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS boasts a competent cast, a respectable director (Roy Ward Baker, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER), an engaging, if forgettable, premise and a title that prom...
Based on the popular British television series DOCTOR WHO, this 1965 theatrical adaptation was engineered to take advantage of a wave of Dalekmania that was sweeping the U.K. The Daleks were the most popular foe of the Time Lord from Gallifrey, so much so...
If there was any one person who would be able to describe the world of James Bond, it would been the late screenwriter, Richard Maibaum. Beginning with the first 007 film, DR. NO, he had played an integral role in shaping the life of the super spy, having...
For decades, the upcoming THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING has been unspooling inside the heads of every reader effected by J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic. However, the closest movie-going audiences have come to watching the trilogy unf...
t's been a bad year for fans of the King Crimson 1971-1972 lineup. Another former member of the acclaimed prog rock band has passed away: drummer Ian Wallace, who was part of the same Islands-era lineup as the recently departed Boz Burrell.
Wal...
In a recent television interview, Patrick Stewart confessed that before he took on the role of Professor Charles Xavier, he had virtually no idea what the X-Men were all about. `I was as ignorant of the X-Men as I was of Star Trek 14 years ago,` he told t...
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...
Release Date: December 7, 2007 Studio: New Line Cinema Director: Chris Weitz Screenwriter: Chris Weitz Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Dakota Blue Richards, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Freddie Highmore, Kathy Bates, Tom Cour...
Gripping human drama, spine-tingling suspense, cutting-edge special effects, impressive production values THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA has none of these, but it's a heap of fun anyway. An affectionate spoof of '50s-style sci-fi Z-movies of the most laugh...
Now that Peter Jackson's live-action epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS is finally herea feat thought more or less impossible to pull off only a few years agothe question can finally be answered. Does the film live up to the potential of J.R.R. Tolkien's revered ...
Opening today at the Elgin Sky-Vue Drive-In is one of those new breed of Space Age thrillers that have been pulling in audiences across the nation. To be honest, your roving reporter can't claim to be a convert it all seems like something out of one of t...
Back with their original lineup, heavy rockers Anthrax are out on tour ready to rock the nation in 2006. After years of rotating members and shuffling lineups, the band that is largely credited with stabilizing the American metal scene return to the form ...
It should be said up front that NATIONAL TREASURE is entertaining in the manner of a genre that has subtly slipped away in recent years, the action-adventure romp. It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has the kind of big setpieces associated with his w...
Part one of CINESCAPE's PLANET OF THE APES comic book coverage retraced the lineage of Earth's smartest monkeys through their various four-color incarnations. With the 20th Century Fox/Tim Burton remake poised to take the summer movie-going audience by st...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
SPOILER WARNING: This Q & A with Patrick Stewart contains MAJOR revelations about the events depicted in 'X-Men: The Last Stand'..
Comics2Film's thechrisbrown sat down with Patrick Stewart out in NY to discuss X-Men: The Last Stand.
He came in the...
AMC announced today that acclaimed film actors Jim Caviezel (The Passion of The Christ) and Ian McKellen ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "X-Men" films) have signed on to star in the network's reinterpretation of the highly influentia...
Even though director Guillermo del Toro has another four good years of production ahead of him for the upcoming Hobbit prequels, that's not stopping him and executive producer Peter Jackson from answering tons of fan questions. The duo worked together in ...
Episode #1 - `Premiere.` Written by Rockne S. O’Bannon. Directed by Andrew Prowse. Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), in his experimental craft on a trip around Earth during the present time, is drawn into a wormhole that deposits him on the othe...
Panic Room was formed following the break-up of the Welsh progressive rock band, Karnataka, and features 4 members of the original award winning line-up. The band's music ranges from intimate acoustic songs to full-on multi-layered symphonic prog rock, wh...
In the conclusion to the series, truths are uncovered, motivations revealed, and loyalties are tested as Ian fights to save Rin, and the world.
Creative Talent: Writer/Artist: Kaori YukiTranslation: Gemma CollingeAdaptation: Kristina Blachere
What They ...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
WITCHBLADE by Matthew F. Saunders (Mon 08-21-2000)
Comic book movies traditionally don`t work. Translating from one entertainment medium to another is a difficult process. Each medium has different strengths and weaknesses, and what works for one doesn`t necessarily work for another. Just ask Marvel Comic...
Titus Groan, the first Gormenghast novel, was published in 1946. Its sequel Gormenghast appeared in 1950. Both names are arbitrary; arguably, the first book is more about Gormenghast and the second more on Titus. Titus Alone, the third book, followed in 1...
...inated in IanFleming’s novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. There are also two audio commentaries, several behind-the scenes clips, and a `making of` documentary that is a fairly typical promo piece, featuring brief interviews with Pierce Brosnan a...
To prepare for this summer`s X-Men movie, Marvel Comics has released three X-Men movie prequel comics: X-Men Movie Prequel: Magneto, X-Men Movie Prequel: Rogue and X-Men Movie Prequel: Wolverine. And who can blame them? If all goes well, the movie could f...
In a year when moviemakers have engaged in a heated competition to see who can make the loudest, dumbest, crassest, most offensive pile of crap, Steven Spielberg’s A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is a flawed little gem. While its commercials and trailers hav...
In a dimly lit distillery turned seedy Canadian redneck trucker bar, something`s about to go down. An enraged and hulking patron with a sharp knife suddenly lunges at a stranger sporting a distinctive pointy hairstyle, a leather jacket, and lumberjack shi...
Old toys never die. Well, sometimes they do, but often they just get repackaged or rediscovered by new fans attracted to the property when it becomes a big-budget movie (like TOMB RAIDER) or a popular TV show (like WITCHBLADE). Today, we take a look at a ...
Captain Janeway, a role that Kate Mulgrew had to fight for, that first went to Genevieve Bujold, has come to define a large part of her adult life. Despite long hours, contractual disputes and rumors of tension between herself and co-star Jeri Ryan, who p...
The closer it gets to Halloween, the hotter it gets here in SoCal. Is it the famed Santa Ana winds, or something else entirely? Clever segue here to our first title: The 13th Element, by science writer John Emsley, which seems an appropriate title for thi...
ALIEN ADVENTUREMany early Imax films were documentaries (Speed, The Dream Is Alive). Gradually, narrative films have emerged in the format. But as with any specialty format, the temptation for visual thrills has often outweighed narrative concerns. In thi...
FARSCAPE creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, still very involved as an executive consultant during the series second season, says, `The show is really working with abandon now, which is the way it should be. It just swings from the emotional and the romantic sid...
Welcome to the second day of 2001: A Space Vidiocy. The new video selections are slim this week, but, with the holidays behind us, better days loom just ahead. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at the third misfire in a row from one time genre master, Paul V...
An uptight hypochondriac living in New York shares his time with someone totally his opposite. Comic misadventure ensues.Hollywood should be given some kind of award for the recycling it does. THE ODD COUPLE has shown up over the years in various forms...
TOY STORY was one of the best overrated movies ever made. To be honest, the screenplay wasn`t all that wonderful: the plot mechanics were loose; the lead character, Woody, was really a selfish, unsympathetic protagonist, and the film didn`t really kick in...
... Moore as IanFleming`s intrepid agent 007, the Bond films transformed from tongue-in-cheek spy thrillers to action-comedy romps that strove more for cheers than thrills, laughter than suspense. This approach reached its height (or depth, if you prefer...
David Kemper, executive producer of FARSCAPE, the Sci-Fi Channel’s prime time ratings star, issued a challenge to the uninitiated. He said, `Talk to someone who has seen this show, and look at it yourself. Just tune in once, and you’ll be hooked. It’s ce...
Martyrs director Pascal Laugier has been tasked with helming Paramount Vantage's upcoming horror thriller Details, which is based on a short story by China Mieville. This isn't the only horror adaptation on Laugier's current plate since he's also in charg...
Finally, someone who understands! Trek X screenwriter John Logan told startrek.com this week that he`s a lifelong fan who went trick-or-treating in his youth dressed as Captain Kirk. `I`m a rabid fan...I`m not just doing this for the money, believe me,` e...
Inside a makeshift, Wrestle-Mania, steel death cage, a giant `Spider-Man` banner dangles above 9 empty chairs. On the hardwood floor, lies the insignia `NYWL,` surrounded by a single thread of tattooed barbed wire. The anxious, pastry-totting media rep...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Although it has been just five months since CRUSADE completed its first run broadcast on the TNT network, the obstacles mounting against a potential revival of the series have ramped up, says series producer John Copeland. There is some reason for optimis...
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 release of the long-awaited Spider-Man movie may still be months away, but Sony Pictures Entertainment isn`t waiting until 2002 to get the PR bandwagon rolling. The studio invited dozens of journalists, including Cinescape`s own Steve Hockensmith, to ...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
It only just debuted as one of the latest in CrossGen's popular line of comics, but SOJOURN has experienced such demand from fans and retailers that CrossGen will be reprinting the sold out #1 issue in a 64 page special edition that also features material...
The third AUSTIN POWERS film has been given the greenlight by New Line, and it has a title: AUSTIN POWERS 3: GOLDMEMBER.Plans for the film are to ramp up production in mid-November with a fast release date of July 26, 2002. In the film, Mike Myers will re...
The Digital Webbing comic info website is launching its first comic series: DIGITAL WEBBING PRESENTS.This comic taking the website's name is intended as a vehicle for creators to "test drive their concepts and creations in a proven, reliable venue rather ...
Brannon Braga has been talking quite a bit about what inspired the creation of the coming ENTERPRISE and what the first episode will involve.While talking to Ian Spelling's syndicated Inside Trek & Sci Fi column, Braga spoke of the series' evolution, ...
The coming SCORPION KING project isn't the only film that Universal has for wrestler The Rock, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson.According to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, the Rock is already attached to a project called HUNTING BRONZE, an action-comedy written ...
Fan demand for CrossGen merchandise is high, and the hugely successful publishing newcomer has heard the cry for licensed products. In early September 2001, CrossGen will unveil a virtual mall offering an array of licensed merchandise based on their popul...
Alby continues his search for Susan Mendes, who along with the mysterious Kalendorf is working for the Daleks to bring hope to the human slaves. As Alby and journalist Gordon Pellan risk death to reach the planet Guria, Kalendorf becomes increasingly worr...
James Marsters has been talking about the new UPN situated season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and his role of Spike in all of it.While talking to Ian Spelling's syndicated Inside Trek & Sci FI column, Marsters spoke of how the new season starts, sayin...
CBS is dealing with a quandary. What do they do with a Chuck Norris starring TV movie called THE PRESIDENT'S MAN: GROUND ZERO, in which the action actor takes on a character based on Osama Bin Laden? Norris has no doubts. He wants it aired.According to Va...
Jurassic Park may soon be upon us. Well, maybe not Jurassic Park, but possibly Pleistocene Park.
Scientists have been able to examine the DNA of a woolly mammoth though preserved keratin samples (hair, hooves, fingernails, feathers, et al...
If professional STAR WARS booster Steve Sansweet were writing this, chances are he'd be saying, "STAR TREK is back...and in a big way." In this case, however, it wouldn't just be hyperbole; it'd be an accurate assessment of "Broken Bow's" potential to re-...
Tom Welling has been talking about how his role of young Clark Kent and the budding legend of the man who will be Superman will be depicted in the coming SMALLVILLE TV series on The WB. While talking to Ian Spelling's syndicated Inside Trek & Sci Fi c...
ROSWELL's third season is looming, and cast member Shiri Appleby is talking a little bit about what lies ahead.Specifically, Appleby spoke to Ian Spelling's syndicated Inside Trek & Sci Fi column about the season opener "Busted," saying, "Max and Liz ...
Scribe David Goyer has been talking about his screenwriter cum director career. While talking to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Goyer spoke of the BLADE 3 project, which New Line has already ordered up, saying, "After BLADE 3, I'm done writing for oth...
VIDEO NEWS· SHREK has already claimed this year's top box office title. It's November 2nd DVD release may claim other records as well as DreamWorks launches the title, at sell-through prices, with their bigg...
In the midst of a conflict, the Iron Maiden receives a call to come to the Savage Land a telepathic call that she shouldn't be receiving, since all the telepaths on Earth were killed. She and Jade Dragon find a city which was built by Magneto out of the ...
On the planet Vega VI, the blossoming romance between Susan Mendes and Alby Brook is interrupted by the crash-landing of an Earth ship, the first casualty in the coming invasion of the Daleks. Soon the largest Dalek fleet ever assembled blockades the syst...
Since their acquisition by DC, the Wildstorm studio has continued to turn out some solid material marred only by their seeming inability to deliver anything on a set schedule. While a DANGER GIRL Ultimate Collection has been announced at this year's San D...
On hand to enjoy the excitement of the Comic-Con International: San Diego was actor Elijah Wood, whom many may recognize as Frodo the Hobbit in New Line Cinema's upcoming LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. CINESCAPE managed to catch up with the young actor for an...
Word has it that the long rumored, and often denied, on screen teaming of Jackie Chan and Jet Li has finally taken the first crucial step. According to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Revolution Studios has made a deal with the two stars to team in a f...
Defying the standard comic book industry rule that friends must first meet and beat the hell out of each other before teaming up to save the day, CrossGen Comics and Dynamic Forces have instead avoided the fisticuffs and partnered to produce lithographs, ...
While promoting AMERICAN PIE 2, actor Thomas Ian Nicholas dropped some big details of the coming 8th HALLOWEEN movie.While talking to About.com's Action-Adventure movies webpage, Nicholas said... well, what he said could definitely be considered spoilers....
Warner Bros. has released loads of shots, some familiar, some new, from their upcoming HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE. Daniel Radcliffe stars as the young wizard in a film directed by Chris Columbus.
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Wa...
When word came out that Uma Thurman had become pregnant, there were rumblings that suggested that Quentin Tarantino might have to recast his female lead for his upcoming KILL BILL. While talking to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Tarantino revealed tha...
Edward, Stephen and Charles Chiodo, who created 1988's KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, are hoping that they can get a sequel up and rolling.Though they've talked about doing so for some time, the brothers feel that now might be the right time to get peopl...
91 year old actress Gloria Stuart, who appeared in the classic 1933 Universal film THE INVISIBLE MAN, will be turning up as a guest on the contemporary TV show.While talking to Ian Spelling's syndicated Inside Trek & Sci Fi column, Stuart revealed how...
Word of Uma Thurman's surprise pregnancy may place Quentin Tarantino and Miramax in a difficult position. Tarantino's long in development plans for the film were said to have included a schedule to start shooting this fall. Given the circumstances, and co...
Universal Pictures has moved the release date of its remake of DEATH RACE 2000 from September 26th to August 28th, 2008.
DEATH RACE stars Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyerse Gibson and Ian McShane. Paul W.S. Anderson wrote and directed.
The story is set i...
Want to die a horrible death in the upcoming DVD release of Universal's remake Death Race? Want to win a trip to the San Diego Comic Con where you can meet the cast and crew? Well, Universal Pictures has sent out a giveaway to online media informing fans ...
Janice Williams of ADV has finished up with the dub cast guessing game for their upcoming release of Wild Arms:
Sheyenne - Ian HawkKiel - James LyonLoretta - Wendee LeeMirabelle - Julie MaddalenaIsaac - David LucasJerusha - Sue Beth Arden
In a detailed report of billionaire Phil Knight, the trade is announcing a few projects that the Nike operator is running through his CG and stop-motion company Laika. While his animation company is already releasing Coraline soon, they also have three ne...
First there was the CGI-animated television spin-off ROUGHNECKS, then the financially crippled DVD sequel STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION. A smattering of comic and game adaptations, including Markosia’s steady stream of graphic noveliza...
A new action sequence featuring the martial arts skills of Kung Fu Panda (voiced by Jack Black) has popped up online courtesy of DreamWorks Animation & Yahoo Movies. The clip shows that one really must learn martial arts if they would like to eat a du...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shohei ManabeTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:What They SayNoppori and Pocchari are two nasty hitmen. Stitch Head is a mute and monstrous heavy on a mysterious mission. And Mr. Q is quick-tempered, foul-mouthed thug...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Noboyuki AnzaiTranslated by:Kaori Inoue & Gerard JonesAdapted by:Kaori Inoue & Gerard JonesWhat They SayCould it actually be the beginning of the end? Princess Snow of Team Mar is captured by the Chess Pieces and taken to the ...
In yet another slow week of mid-month sci-fi, horror and fantasy book releases Karen Marie Moning’s audio book release of Spell of the Highlander, Greg Egan’s hardcover debut of Incandescence, and the unfortunate suicide of SF author, screenwr...
Premiere Event For North American Comic and Manga Fans Set The Stage For Announcements Of More Than Twenty New Titles For 2008
San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2007 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and compre...
On Wed., Feb. 28, at 7pm at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, anime director Mamoru Hosoda will screen his award-winning film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" (Toki o Kakeru ShĂ´jo) and take questions from the audience. The screening and discussion will ...
Part Duex: Everything starts from a question.
All right, I've been enough of a bad boy this week, so its back to what you guys love: English Dubs. But first, a question!
Hi my name is Paul, I am like so many others a huge anime fan. I enjoy both Sub a...
After striking gold…much, much gold…with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, executives at New Line set about trying to find another fantasy epic to adapt, choosing Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Now, when I&rsqu...
A new production company, Kismet Classics, has been created by Kismet Entertainment Group and International Media Films for the purpose of exploiting the remake rights to a number of Italian, sci-fi, horror and adventure films, 13 of which were crafted by...
With lots of half-truths, rumors, and continuous buzz surrounding Abrams’ rendition of the upcoming STAR TREK XI film, can William Shatner himself provide us with some possible clues to the plot of his on-screen Starfleet origins?
Hello Man...
Director/producer Sam Raimi has already indicated this opinion once before about who should direct THE HOBBIT and he hasn't changed his mind. A number of A-list directors and stars of the LOTR series feel the same way which has put New Line into a de...
His name, his face, and his voice are synonymous with Horror, however Vincent Price began his career on Broadway, but where it would end was far cry different then he could have ever predicted. Vincent Price would go on to become the Master of the Ma...
Becoming the second remake news tonight, model turned actress Natalie Martinez is set to star in DEATH RACE, the remake to the Roger Corman classic. She'll be playing a romantic interest for Jason Statham's Frankenstein. Her role is named &...
Stephanie Sanchez over at IESB got a scoop on THE HOBBIT, a pretty impressive one if it turns out to be true. An inside source is saying that director Sam Raimi may not be directing the rumored CLASH OF THE TITANS remake after all, as previously reported,...
The Sword of Truth series debuted in 1994 with Wizard’s First Rule and has been chugging on ever since. Translated into 20 foreign languages with 10 million copies in print, Terry Goodkind’s leviathan of an epic clocks in at over 7700 pages an...
You will have grasped by now that the 23.5 Degrees gang has a fairly fluid approach to the space-time continuum. But perhaps this is precisely why we find it intriguing that, over the centuries, a multitude of churches and cathedrals across Europe have be...
At first, I saw Evergreen trees, then a muddy beach with sawed off tree trunks where the Scottish scientists had set up their base camp. The film was already not off to a good start. Thankfully these same scientists had convincing accents becaus...
ThespianIan McShane---who took home a Globe for his foul-mouthed Al Swearengen in "Deadwood"---is ready to lead a new drama pilot for the peacock network called "Kings", reports Variety. Christopher Egan is also set to lead the cast o...
Last weekend I ventured to a Horror Convention in New Jersey. There were the usual fans, freaks, weirdos and B movie stars. This was my third time to this particular convention but my first time there as your beloved (yeah, I am going to get fla...
Have you Hulu’d yet? If not, then you definitely should because surprisingly it’s pretty much all it was hyped to be. Many months ago much was made of NBC pulling all of their programming from iTunes. The word was that Apple was...
It’s been five years since the first Star Wars: Clone Wars television miniseries debuted on Cartoon Network, yet the folks over at Lucasfilm Animation seemed to have held onto the idea of an anime-style Star Wars arc pretty tightly. This August will...
She’s played a presidential candidate amidst a sex scandal in The Contender, went against type as the heavy in the Bourne series and now she’s a sadistic prison warden in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race, a re-do of Roger Corman&...
Ian McKellen said he fears he won't be asked to resume his role as Magneto in the spin-off X-Men movie about the comic book character -- because he's too old.
"I have heard of a story being developed," he said. "A Magneto spin-off would probably be abo...
According to Variety Though her "X-Men" character Jean Grey was killed off to save her fellow mutants in the last film, Famke Janssen has signed a deal to return for 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment's "X-Men 3," to be directed by Matthew Vaughn. ...
"The movie is being shot on 35mm film at Central City Studios and some plates are being captured using a Sony HDC-950 camera," said John Fleming, General Manager, Digital Pictures Melbourne.
It's judgment day, boys and girls...the
day when the good are rewarded and the wicked are PUNISHED.
That's
right...today is the day "The
Punisher" blasts into movie theaters, dishing out black vengeance
...
It's
a never-ending stream of updates at the official
X-Men 2 movie website.
Fans who stop by
are now greeted by Ian McKellen's Magneto. If they venture into the Cerebro area
they'll find a Magneto desktop wallpaper waiting for them to download....
According to this press release in which Vinnie Jones pimps an online gambling destination says the actor has "just been signed up to star alongside sexy Halle Berry and Sir Ian McKellen in the forthcoming [X-Men 3]."
"['Superman Returns' is] one of these gigantic movies. It takes an eternity to finish—we started in March," says actor James Marsden, who plays the father of Lois Lane's child in the movie.
The actor also talks about returning to the role of Cyclops in...
Remember that CGI animated 'Spider-Man' series that aired on MTV a while back. I started some time after the first movie came out.
Well, now you can relive the glory of that show as it's set to broadcast via Kabillion, the multi-platform kids' entertainm...
Rogue Pictures pre-emptively bought film rights to an upcoming vampire comic book titled "Blood on the Tracks," setting Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon to write and direct the adaptation. Michael Zoumas is on board to produce via his Zoom Entertainment, ...
Sir Ian McKellen's official website has an interesting new feature that allows fans to see the age-defying transformation Magneto underwent in X-Men 3's opening scenes.
The cast of the upcoming 'X-Men: The Last Stand' said that the film raised issues that struck close to home, so much so that actors Ian McKellen, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman ended up arguing about the film's central dilemma during a roundtable interview ...
Ian McKellen
posted two new photos on his website
of himself as returning X-Men foe Magneto in X-Men 2. The photos
might contain some spoilers. Those of you who want to be surprised have
been warned.
One photo
is of Magneto as we last saw him, we...
Sara
Pezzini did not wake up to find Bobby Ewing alive and in the shower (a la Dallas) but the first season of
Witchblade did not really happen yet. Wizard
Magazine's James McDonough recently interviewed Witchblade executive producer
Ralph Hemecker...
Cinescape reported today, that there are no real obstacles in the way of the already
in the works Spider-Man 2. This is important because fans will recall that
the Spider-Man film faced an epic legal battle before becoming a reality.
It took the Spi...
We've
been seeing strong indicators for weeks, but today the Hollywood trades say it's
offical: Spider-Man 2 is on!
Variety
reports that the studio has signed deals with Tobey
Maguire, Kirstin Dunst and director Sam Raimi as well as producers Laura...
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Producer/screenwriter/comic
creator Peter Lenkov (Tracker) told Comics2Film that he's
got several projects in the realm of comics and movies in the works. ...
Even
though Ian McKellan portrays the super powerful villain Magneto, there is
still an authority the Master of Magnetism fears. According to Dark
Horizons in a recent interview with an unnamed source, McKellan
was asked about the script to X-Men 2....
Just when you
thought we were finished announcing prizes for Comics2Film's 5th
Anniversary Giveaway, the FedEx man brings us something new! The latest
bit or wearable coolness comes directly from Top Cow, makers of fine comics and
producers of the h...
On the set of X-Men
2, Comics2Film attended the press conference where the stars
almost outnumbered journalists on October 18. In a somewhat chaotic, humorous
environment, questions that ranged from the personal to the political were
fielded by the ...
The X-Men
return in February! No, we're not talking about the X-Men 2
sequel. We're talking about the expanded re-release of the original X-Men
movie on DVD.
According to DVDFILE.COM
the disc set (dubbed "1.5 Collector's Edition") will b...
Since early news of The Wb's new show
Birds of Prey, comic fans have been
concerned over changes to the character of Dinah Lance/Black Canary. Gotham Clock Tower has new information on a particular episode which may be music to
fans ears. The episode...
Starting next
week, fans of the Witchblade TV show will have a chance to score
some collectibles and help out a charitable cause at the same time.
Actors Eric
Etebari and Anthony Ci