According to the Hollywood Reporter, JeremyPiven and Molly Shannon have signed on to lend their voices to the upcoming CG-animated comedy IGOR. They will join Steve Buscemi, John Cleese and Christian Slater who are also lending their voices.The film cen...
E! Online's
Anderson Jones reported in his
Movie Scoop column that JeremyPiven (Grosse Pointe Blank) has been hanging around the production offices
of the Superman movie. The rumor came from a scooper named only as
Sloth.
It is unclear if the...
...informant JeremyPiven becomes the target of a host of competing assassins. Cast includes Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Common, Andy Garcia, Alex Rocco, Alicia Keys, Wayne Newton, Ray Liotta and Ryan Reynolds. Widescreen and “fullscreen” e...
... starring JeremyPiven and created by VERONICA MARS mastermind Rob Thomas. Thomas has stated that the rights for this series are tied up in limbo and so there's no plans for a DVD release, but I would definitely prefer to see my rom-com wisecracking i...
...; Israel (JeremyPiven, doing his best to stand out in heavy company), a top line Las Vegas magician who, when embraced by the local Cosa Nostra, gets big ideas and pushes his way into the Mob. But Israel goes too far and gets caught. Out on bail, h...
...orks with JeremyPiven. Lee and Champion filled iF MAGAZINE in on life beyond SUPERHERO and what the rest of this year hold in Part Two of this exclusive interview.
... Bridges, JeremyPiven, Idris Elba and Tom Wilkinson. Ritchie penned the screenplay and directed.To check out that trailer, click here.Plot Summary: When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all ...
...y Liotta, JeremyPiven, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Berg, Taraji Henson, Chris Pine, Martin Henderson, Jason Bateman and Common. Universal Pictures released it in January with a production budget of just $17 million and it wound up grossing $57.1 million worl...
Chatsworth, California (January 23, 2007) Adult Source Media has announced several of their best selling adult titles will be prominently featured in the new major motion picture, "Smokin Aces". The dark action comedy, starring "Entourage" star Jeremy Piv...
Universal Pictures and director Peter Berg have released the first four minutes of their latest release, THE KINGDOM, courtesy of Yahoo Trailers. The thriller which opens this Friday stars Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Jeremy P...
Three new trailers of THE KINGDOM have appeared online today, courtesy of Apple. This action/thriller stars Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, JeremyPiven, Danny Huston & Richard Jenkins.
Plot Summary: Centers on Special...
...r father. JeremyPiven is great as one of Jack’s neighbors, who dispenses advice mostly by repeating things that Jack told him (which of course Jack doesn’t remember saying because they were all said before his consciousness was dropped into this life)...
... includes JeremyPiven, Jay Leno, Jennifer Coolidge, Molly Shannon, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese.The Weinstein Company will distribute the film domestically and holds the international rights as well.
Actors Simon Rex and JeremyPiven have joined the growing cast of Dimension Films SCARY MOVIE 3. Rex and Piven join returning cast members Anna Faris and Regina Hall and new cast members Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards in the horror movie spoof.Shootin...
...tors like JeremyPiven and Saul Rubinek for impactful one-scene appearances, and gets a great unbilled cameo from Don Cheadle, who makes a fabulous contribution to the outtake reel that hilariously graces the end credits.Bottom line RUSH HOUR 2 is not...
...rising is JeremyPiven bringing home another statue for his role as an highly mouthy agent in Hbo's Entourage.
Here's the list of winners, folks.
Drama Series: "The Sopranos," HBO.
Comedy Series: "30 Rock," NBC.
Miniseries: &quo...
...y Sanders JeremyPiven, and Dennis Leary as the menacing, wisecracking crime boss, Fallon. Alan Silvestri creates an intense orchestral score to underline the gritty urban action, blending lengthy suspense sequences for strings with dynamic action moti...
...eyes Jr., JeremyPiven, Don Cheadle, Saul RubinekWriter: Jeff NathansonDirector: Brett RatnerDistributor: New Line Home EntertainmentOriginal Year of Release: 2001Suggested Retail Price: $26.98Extras: DTS 6.1; 2.0 Dolby Surround; 5.1 Dolby Su...
...el Weisz, JeremyPiven, Bruce McGill, Bruce Davison, Nick Searcy, Cliff Curtis, Gary Grubbs, Nora Dunn and the Jurors. Joining the stars were guests Rebecca De Mornay, Tate Donovan, Anne Cusack, Drew Fuller, Shannon Elizabeth and many more.Got a scoop?...
In a special one episode edition of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, JeremyPiven (BLACK HAWK DOWN, RUSH HOUR 2) stars as Tyler, a kind and modest telephone linesman, who acquires the ability to hear people's thoughts after being struck by lightening. He uses his power...
According to Variety, Jeremy Renner has signed on to play a lead role in the upcoming Fox Atomic film 28 WEEKS LATER. The film is the sequel to the zombie thriller 28 DAYS LATER.In the film, the story will pick up six months after the end of the first fi...
Name:
Jeremy Johnson
Position in Pioneer:
Post-Production Consultant
What does that position entail?:
I was hired to design and work on Pioneer Animation's DVDs. My specific responsibilities include creating the menus, working with the producers to dec...
A year ago, Jeremy Sisto was starring as a private investigator with deep psychological scars in 'Kidnapped.' This season, Sisto joined the 'Law & Order' legacy of actors as a detective with a haunted past.
It's seem only natural that his next star...
..., staring JeremyPiven. "It starts off with a one-hour pilot that I directed," Frakes told SCIFI WIRE. "I'm so proud of it. It's an adult television show. It has that great TWILIGHT ZONE cautionary-tale tone. [His character] is hit by lightning and he...
John Logan, screenwriter for GLADIATOR and the upcoming STAR TREK: NEMESIS, had to think for about five seconds when offered the chance to adapt the classic H.G. Wells' SF novel, THE TIME MACHINE, for Dreamworks. Offering a new take on the original novel ...
I recently picked up the Kidnapped Complete Series on DVD. I watched a few of the first episodes of this series when it originally aired but then it got shifted around on the schedule and finally cancelled. The concept was that Jeremy Sisto play...
At every opportunity, I've written in some detail about Judd Winick's singular talent, and I'm certainly not the only one, so by now most of you should know he's one of the most promising new creators in comics today. He's already making history with his ...
Genre:Supernatural.Studio:Dimension Films.Production Company:Impact Pictures.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Vincenzo Natali (Director); Paul W. S. Anderson (Screenwriter); Jeremy Bolt (Producer).Premise:A ghost story with...
`Love hurts.` Ouch. They aren`t kidding.Spoiler Warning!Valentine opens in the gymnasium of Robert F. Kennedy Junior High School, 1988, where a Valentine`s dance is underway. Jeremy Melton, geek extraordinaire, asks five of the popular girls to dance. The...
Dungeons & Dragons is a game of medieval mystery and magic, and its public reputation over the past few decades has been marked by fear and misunderstanding, mostly because a few mixed-up kid devotees took their own lives or, even worse, other people`s li...
GOSFORD PARK is a curious mixture of meticulous observation of English social class structure and customs in the 1930s and a desultory murder mystery that follows the outer form of an Agatha Christie whodunit/whydunit. The former, with its passion for det...
Judd Winick's writing always sends me into orbit faster than just about any other writer's work nowadays, but I hadn't yet been introduced to the series that Winick fans have been clamoring over for ages: THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY WEEN, BOY GENIUS. I believ...
BAFTA® award-winning composers Jeremy and Julian Soule have composed the music for the new video game, Prey, which is being hailed by many as featuring the first movie-length soundtrack for a video game. With a running time of over three hours, the releas...
REAL STEEL is the title for a new science fiction movie now receiving a second shot at being greenlighted. Written by Dan Gilroy (who also penned a scrapped draft of Warner's SUPERMAN), screenwriter Jeremy Leven (THE NOTEBOOK) is now taking a crack at the...
Say, do you love renting DVDs, but are tired of the drudgery of rewinding them when you're ready to return them. Here's a link to a great gadget that can help - http://dvdre.notlong.com. Works on games and CDs, too! Here are the winners of the BAA BAA BLA...
The Weinstein Co. and IFC Films have teamed up to acquire North American distribution rights to the thriller UNKNOWN. The film stars Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, Joe Pantoliano, Bridget Moynahan and Jeremy Sisto. The story centers on five men...
I come not to praise TRU CALLING but to bury it.In case you hadn't heard, former Slayer Eliza Dushku's GROUNDHOG DAY/RUN LOLA RUN hybrid went down for the big dirt nap a while back. I can't imagine that even the cast and crew were terribly surprised: the ...
20th Century Fox has set an August 1st start date for production of the film ERAGON. The film is based on the novel by Christopher Paolini. The story centers on a teen farmboy whose discovery of a dinosaur egg in his homeland of Alagaesia leads him on a ...
SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. recently announced a partnership with Secret Level, a San Francisco-based development studio, to recreate a classic SEGA franchise for PlayStation®3 (PS3) and Xbox 360. Under the terms of the worldwide exclusiv...
CONNIE AND CARLA and MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING star Nia Vardalos has joined the cast of the independent film LIVING IN NEON DREAMS. Written and directed by Jeremy Tarr, the film is a contemporary take on Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND story where, aft...
OPINION: Did anyone else catch the excellent NEW YORK TIMES article on graphic novels in the magazine section this past Sunday? If not, you can find it on-line here (once you've registered for a free membership, of course). And make sure to check out the ...
VAN HELSING opened Friday May 7th to sold-out crowds nationwide. VAN HELSING is a fun movie and the action never stops. You could almost say it's campy! Hugh Jackman makes the most handsome VAN HELSING I've ever seen, but then again what woman wouldn't th...
What would Darth Maul look like had he survived his lightsaber battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi and been given mechanical legs? That's one of the tantalizing notions promised to be shown in a forthcoming graphic novel being put together by artists working on th...
Actor Jeremy Renner (S.W.A.T., LORDS OF DOGTOWN) is in negotiations to star in CLASS ACTION alongside Charlize Theron. Renner would play Bobby Sharp, a worker at a small town mine that doesn't think it's a suitable working environment for women such as Th...
Ladies and gents, it's lovely to be back. It is I, your faithful Cinescape TV reviewer once again holding down the fort for my phosphor dot brother Dave whilst he settles into a lovely new house...funny that he hasn't told me his new address yet... Anyhow...
Two new film production companies that specialize in genre-oriented entertainment were announced today, with one emerging from the realm of print media.First mentioned is the newly minted New Arc Entertainment, a film production arm of IDT Corporation, an...
DEAD AND BREAKFAST, Matthew Leutwyler’s take on the “un-dead” genre, is headed to DVD on September 6th from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film will also be available day-and-date on the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) ...
Sony is attempting to keep the UMD format viable with a new marketing strategy lately. They've been bundling together the UMD and DVD editions of certain films at a special price. It's hard to figure their reasoning here, but I think they're assuming some...
JAKKS Pacific recently announced that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with MGM Consumer Products to develop, manufacture and distribute a line of toys based on the entire ROCKY franchise, which includes ROCKY, ROCKY II, ROCKY III, ROCKY IV, ...
First Look Studios has grabbed the worldwide rights to the upcoming film Special. The movie stars Michael Rapaport as a comic book-loving meter maid who finds himself with amazing superpowers. After taking a mind-altering drug, he is sent into a world o...
Greetings fellow comic fiends, and welcome to another exciting installment of COMICSCAPE. By the end, I'll be hanging off of a cliff and you'll have to tune in next week to find out if I survive or not. Actually, I'll run my in-depth and hyperbole-free ...
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm taking a vacation. If you don't know me, this will not seem an unusual thing for me to say. Trust me, it's unfathomable. Usually, I define "vacation" as working from somewhere other than my place of residence. This time...
Open Sky Entertainment is remaking Herschell Gordon Lewis' 1970 cult film THE WIZARD OF GORE.The story centers on a master illusionist who is investigated for a string of gruesome murders.Open Sky's Glenn Garland and Christopher Duddy are producing the mo...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS After a pair of thunderously powerful retrospective recordings of classic horror film music released in 1996, and an in-depth collection of jungle horror film music like THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and THE ALLIGATOR PEOP...
HBO is teaming up with director David Cronenberg to turn his 1988 film DEAD RINGERS into a series.The film centered twin gynecologists, both played by Jeremy Irons, who go insane after becoming romantically involved with the same woman.Wesley Strick will ...
The nominees for the 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. The Eisners are held every year at the San Diego International Comic Convention and are the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Simply put, these are the best of the b...
TNT has announced it will air NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES: FROM THE STORIES OF STEPHEN KING next summer. The eight-hour series will star William H. Macy, Kim Delaney, William Hurt, McKenzie, Samantha Mathis, Jeremy Sisto, Ron Livingston, Henry Thomas, Tom B...
NBC has signed Jeremy Sisto and Timothy Hutton as part of the cast of KIDNAPPED. They will join Dana Delany, Linus Roache, Mykelti Williamson and Delroy Lindo.The series centers on private kidnapping/retrieval expert (Sisto), with each season chronicling...
Like all types of film, many animated cartoons from the first fifty years of cinema have already disappeared and many are crumbling away in vaults as we speak. But you can do something about it. ASIFA (Association International du Film d'Animation) is a 4...
I've got some letters in the mailbag commenting on the giveaway for the XENA anniversary box sets we announced last week, and TV Best-Of collections in general. The issue is whether these DVDs are even necessary when the entire run of a series is already ...
Oni Press in March will launch MIDNIGHT MOVER, a four-issue mini-series by crime writer Gary Phillips and artists Jeremy Love and Jeff Wasson.Featuring covers by HARLEY QUINN artist Mike Huddleston, this tale of sex and murder features the seedy world of ...
Video game scores are now among the categories in this year's MTV Video Music Awards. GameTrailers.com and MTV are proud to announce two new MTV Video Music Awards to be presented on MTV's Overdrive during the world famous VMAs "Best Video Game Soundtrac...
Clark Johnson (TV's THE WIRE, THE SHIELD) has gained another cast member for his big screen adaptation of S.W.A.T. . Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell (MINORITY REPORT) have already signed on, and the new actor joining them is Jeremy Renner (now out in ...
Random thoughts alert!So, Fox is putting FIREFLY on hiatus in January. In case you don't know what "hiatus" means, it's when networks pull a show you really like off the air while making empty promises that it will return.The WB is making a move that make...
The first look at the new PETER PAN has appeared (where else?) online. Ain't It Cool News published the photo of Jeremy Sumpter reclining in the outstretched paw of a stone dragon, gazing upward at the sky. That photo was but one of three to appear on t...
On March 17th at the Pacific's Cinerama Dome Theater in Hollywood, Calif., Newmarket Films and FLAUNT MAGAZINE presented the Los Angeles premiere of SPUN. The film is based on three rather bizarre days in the life of former junky Will de Los Santos, who w...
It’s hard to believe, but when I was a kid, there weren’t any zombie movies – at least not the way we think of them now. Sure, there were a few old flicks in which a voodoo master raised the dead to create some slaves for himself, but a human being was in...
Eliza Dushku (TRUE LIES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) has signed to star in a new independent horror film produced by longtime special effects and make-up maven Stan Winston. The film, WRONG TURN, will tell the story of a group of newly minted adults who fin...
Making good movies about any kind of filmmaking is a tricky business. Logic suggests that filmmakers should be conversant with the subject matter of their own field, but often the topic leads to self-consciousness or preciousness.Happily, this is not the ...
It's true what they say: It's hard to keep a good man down. And apparently it's even harder to keep a good HE-MAN down. Yep, it seems neither time nor the evil minions of Skeletor could keep the big guy out of the picture for long.Nearly 20 years after Ma...
PARADIGM, the comic by Matthew Cashel and Jeremy Haun, is relaunching in September from Image Comics. Originally published by Cashel and Haun's Two Irish Guys Press, PARADIGM is the tale of twenty-something Christopher Howells, an average guy, completely...
P.J. Hogan has cast little known Jeremy Sumpter to play PETER PAN in the upcoming big screen, live action version of the fantasy tale about a flying boy who never grows up. Opposing Sumpter as Captain Hook will be Jason Isaacs (THE PATRIOT, BLACKHAWK DOWN...
Mindfire Entertainment has had the movie rights to Tecmo's DEAD OR ALIVE video game franchise for a little more than a year. Now comes word that the Mindfire peeps have new partners to help them realize the film, namely, Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bol...
The Hollywood Reporter mentions that second unit director Alexander Witt is going to get his chance calling all the shots on RESIDENT EVIL 2, scheduled to begin filming in August in Toronto, Canada. Milla Jovovich will reprise her role as Alice, the lone...
Okay, so I took the month of November off, but I still managed to catch a few of the great premieres that opened during that time. So get set over the next few days we'll catch you up on all the excitement that happened in Hollywood.DR. SEUSS' THE CAT IN...
Music's Kiss by Randall D. Larson (Thu 10-16-2003)
The music is as creepy as anything you’ve ever heard. Shimmering violins and percussion dust off ancient sarcophaguses, buried deep in hidden chambers. Deep, sepuchral cello bespeak ancient mysteries while an onslaught of relentless chords echo the coming...
So many different versions of PETER PAN now exist in our memories the Disney animated classic from 1952, countless stage versions, televised adaptations of the stage versions and of course J.M. Barrie's original books that it's easy to forget there has ...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Well, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON is coming to your video store this Tuesday, January 13th and let me tell you I'll have no problem curbing mine for this SEINFELD lite with swearin...
Actor Jeremy Irons has joined the cast of Ridley Scott's KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, now filming in Morocco. Irons will play a character called Tiberias.More is known about the character that DEEP SPACE NINE actor Alexander Siddig will play in the film thanks to a...
Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a troubled young woman fresh out of a six-month term in a mental hospital, but not long after she gets home her mother's overprotectiveness and her father's drinking make her turn once again to her habit of cutting hers...
It was a hot and sunny day at The Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles as I took my place in one of the photographer pens on the red carpet. Fans were in bleachers and screamed for their favorite television stars as they walked down the red carpet to...
Last week David X. Cohen answered the first five of my questions about his cancelled-but-not-forgotten animated TV series FUTURAMA and today I'm back with the final part of my talk with Cohen. If you haven't heard, Fox Home Video has just released Volume ...
I didn't think this would ever happen, but a sequel is being planned for the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie that came out three years ago. MATRIX producer Joel Silver will be overseeing the project via his Zinc Entertainment company along with Sweetpea Enterta...
Columbia Pictures held the World Premiere of S.W.A.T. on July 30th at the Mann Village in Westwood. The movie was inspired by the 70's television series of the same name which starred Steve Forrest, (who does a cameo as a S.W.A.T. truck driver), Rod Perry...
Critics have always held Andrei Tarkovski's 1972 SOLARIS, the first screen adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's science fiction novel, in high regard, but I've come to believe this opinion is based mostly upon the story's ideas, and the edited version of the fil...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...
The final series produced by Gerry Anderson in "Supermarionation" (at least until his attempt at a comeback with TERRAHAWKS in the 1980s), this is surely one of the oddest television shows ever broadcast. The production technique in itself is strange – ov...
Surprisingly, even with the writer’s strike there are still a few shows to watch either premiering or returning over the next couple of months. How long some of these shows actually stay on the air after their premieres is depressing but at thi...
Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the comic book "The Leading Man" from Oni Press. Marc Platt will produce through his Marc Platt Prods. banner along with Eric Gitter via his Closed on Mondays Entertainment banner, which has a partnership with...
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ToonZone has posted the full cast list for 'Justice League: The New Frontier'. Much of it had already been revealed in previous articles but here are some new names we don't remember seeing before:
John Heard as Ace Morgan, Miguel Ferrer as the Martian...
Lionsgate has provided this description of the 'Punisher: War Zone' movie:
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly ...
From his head-turning debuts in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet' to his iconic Special Agent Dale Cooper in 'Twin Peaks' and his current plum primetime role on 'Desperate Housewives,' Kyle MacLachlan has had a memorable career.
Now you can add a new benchmark ...
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Los Angeles, CA and Kansas City, MO (April 17, 2008) - America's most prolific and fan-friendly manga publisher, TOKYOPOP, has announced an exclusive agreement with longtime mobile partner GoComics, a leader in digital entertainment. The new agreement, wh...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Min-Woo HyungTranslated by:Youngju RyuAdapted by:What They SayThis slipcased volume uses special printing techniques and high-quality paper to present the artist's work as it was meant to be viewed. It includes never-before-se...
Trudie Styler's Xingu Films has acquired film rights to American Reaper, a new graphic novel coming soon by Pat Mills and Clint Langley under their Repeat Offenders banner. Mills and Langley have been frequent collaborators, having worked together on the ...
Normally proportioned girls and varied sex makes this a title worth picking up.
Creative Talent:Writer/Artist: UmashikaTranslator: Sebastian AzarAdaptation: Sebastian Azar
What They Say:Seven intensely erotic stories with submission as the main theme. ...
The full cast has been confirmed for Ealing Studios' Oscar Wilde big screen adaptation of Dorian Gray, reports Variety. Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Mic...
History tends to repeat itself at the box office year after year and this weekend is no different. Last year for our Mania box office report, we were talking about Walt Disney winning its second consecutive weekend in a row with their family film The Game...
PunisherWarZoneMovie.com is now fully operational with new features supporting the upcoming movie.The new site features a noisy, splashy interface with the usual content of videos, wallpapers and film summaries. The most intriguing aspect is the "Ent...
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...series JeremyPiven, Entourage (HBO) Kevin Dillon, Entourage (HBO) Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother (CBS) Rainn Wilson, The Office (NBC) Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men (CBS) Supporting actor in a drama series William Shatner, Boston Le...
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script for the big-screen version of their online Venus Kincaid
comic.
Twentieth Century Fox has hired
Lori Lakin to write the script. Lakin recently ser...
Ben Stiller has boarded the big-screen adaptation of the Oni Press graphic novel 'The Return of King Doug' according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Stiller is producing via his Red Hour Productions office, and may star in the film as well. The film is set up...
There's ghosts and ghouls and goblins...but this manga won't haunt the dreams of Castlevania fans.
Creative Talent:Writer/Artist: Kou SasakuraTranslation: Ray YoshimotoAdaptation: Jeremy Black
What They Say:In a small village near the Romanian border, ...
LionsGate have sent over a couple of photos from the upcoming 'Punisher War Zone' starring Ray Stevenson (HBO's "Rome") as Punisher, directed by Lexi Alexander and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Ari Arad. The film's executive producers are...
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Darwyn Cooke's award-winning, comic-book miniseries, 'DC: The New Frontier' has been adapted into the second DC Universe PG-13 animated movie. Set during the...
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Somewhere between the Emmy Award nominations and the critically-acclaimed stage performances from Broadway to Los Angeles, Neil Patrick Harris still finds room in his busy schedule for his guilty pleasure: comic books and the super heroes within.
Harri...
Comic creators Pat Mills and Clint Langley have sold the film rights to their upcoming graphic novel 'American Reaper' to Trudie Styler's Xingu Films, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The story is set in a future where identity theft leads to victi...
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FUNimation ADR director Christopher Bevins has posted to the English Track forum with a listing of the English cast that will appear in next months release of the anticipated Desert Punk series. The ADR directing duties are being shared by Zach Bolton and...
The full schedule for this year's Comic Con has been released here but as always, we're going to sift through the press releases and give you the panels covering Movies, DVD and TV events. You can check out the first two days below.Wednesday, July 23, PRE...
The re-imagining of H.G. Lewis' THE WIZARD OF GORE is the realization of a childhood dream for director Jeremy Kasten.
Kasten and producers Dan Griffiths & Dan Gold pursued the remake rights to the film with the vision of taking the c...
In case you didn't already get a chance to catch it, Moviefone is hosting the new trailer for THE INVASION. As most already know, the film stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright and Veronica Cartwright.
The science...
A cast has been set for the Iraq war drama, THE HURT LOCKER. The film is being directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty with featured cameos by Guy Pearce & Ralph Fiennes.
Plot Summary: It cen...
Warner Bros has been kind enough to send along clips to their next horror film, THE INVASION, which is about to hit theaters next weekend. The film is a update/remake of the horror classic, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, starring Nicole Ki...
Apparently, there has been a fifth new casting addition of the upcoming 4th season of LOST, says Entertainment Weekly. Actor Jeff Fahey(most recently seen as "J.T" in GRINDHOUSE) has joined the cast of the show according to executive p...
Storywise, I was not that impressed with 28 Days Later. It’s your basic big outbreak horror movie ala Gearge Romero’s The Crazies – an easily transferred, fast acting virus turns people into raving, bloodthirsty berzerkers. The plague of...
Greg Cox gives Ghost Rider 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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Another poster for the upcoming 20th Century Fox film ERAGON has been released.The film, which has a budget of about $100 million, will be released on December 15, 2006 and is currently in post production.The film follows a farm boy in his homeland of Ala...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Danny Elfman's first orchestral composition written for the concert hall, Serenada Schizophrenia, has been released this week by Sony Classical. The piece received its world premiere on February 23, 2005 at New York's famed C...
OK, I hear you. The one thing I knew coming into this article is that folks would have comments and things they'd like to see in this article. I will try to incorporate some of the comments from last week's article. I do watch other shows besides the g...
According to Variety, New Line has hired Bruce Joel Rubin (Deep Impact, Ghost) to rewrite the sci-fi romance picture The Time Traveler's Wife.The film, which will be directed by Robert Schwentke, follows the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and He...
In last week’s thrilling DVD Shopping List column, we looked ahead to the major and intriguing genre theatrical and direct-to-DVD movie releases scheduled for the next 12 months. We ran out of room halfway through the list, so we pick it up here ...
Some comedy news with an alien genre twist has hit the web courtesy of Variety. James Gunn, writer behind the Dawn of the Dead remake & director of Slither, had a recent pitch, titled PETS, bought up by New Regency Films. Ben Stiller (under ...
There have been 5 actresses whom took up the role of Jane Moneypenny in the Bond franchise of films (both affiliated and non-affiliated) but none portrayed the character longer then thespian Lois Maxwell who began the role with 1962's Dr. No and ended her...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
When Warner Brothers canceled “Justice League Unlimited” I wondered how long it would take for the League to return. It certainly didn’t take too long. Based on Darwyn Cooke's award-winning graphic novel, ‘Justice League ...
Ben Stiller is ready to produce and likely star in The Return of King Doug, an adaptation of an upcoming Oni Press graphic novel whose film rights were picked up by DreamWorks. The comic was was penned by Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who are also attached...
Columbia Pictures has grabbed a new action-adventure spec that sounds vaguely familiar, replacing teacher for novelist. The distributor has optioned Johnny Rosenthal's action-adventure script Iron Jack, says Variety. Todd Garner is producing through his B...
Ever since the theatrical release of A NEW HOPE George Lucas’ Star Wars series has come to dominate pop culture, evolving its form to fit new mediums as the uncontested poster boy of mainstream sci-fi. Novels, toys, television series and comic books...
Do you know this term, “rivet counting” when it refers to movies and TV? The gist of it is that rivet counters can’t enjoy the architecture because they are to busy counting the rivets. By definition of what I do, writing revie...
When looking for alternatives to the run of the mill TV series, there are some interesting online options. For us science fiction fans, the best has been Sanctuary, an online series from the creators of Stargate and starring Amanda Tapping from Starg...
So, those of you who read my early review of Journeyman know that I’m not surprised to see the series getting the axe and that I’m not terribly disappointed about it. I do have sympathy for fans of the show though. I’ve seen ma...
On October 9th, 20th Century Fox Home Video will release 28 WEEKS LATER on DVD. The sequel to Danny Boyle's 28 DAYS LATER, picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated the Mainland Britain. The U.S. Army declares that the war against inf...
Some set photos from New Line's sci-fi adventure drama THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE have appeared online courtesy of Just Jared. The film stars Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston and Jane McLean. Robert Schwentke is directing the flick, ...
There's nothing worse than a reviewer pronouncing that he's "seen the future of filmmaking" in the work of a particular director - so for your sake (and mine), I'll resist that temptation. I will go so far as to say that Christopher Nolan, director and wr...
...s, Extras JeremyPiven, Entourage Tony Shaloub, Monk Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate, Samantha Who? America Ferrera, Ugly Betty Tina Fey, 30 Rock Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty Performance by...
The poster for the upcoming 20th Century Fox film ERAGON has been released.The film, which has a budget of about $100 million, will be released on December 15, 2006 and is currently in post production.The film follows a farm boy in his homeland of Alagaes...
Mark Cuban's 2929 Prods. has grabbed the rights to an upcoming Cold War spy thriller called A Forest of Mirrors, reports Variety. The fact-based spy thriller script was penned by Jeremy Gough and the trade says that Anand Tucker will direct. Andrew Lauren...
This Week’s RecommendationCATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Dreamworks 0044-50410-2) is a very different John Williams soundtrack. Taking a cue from 1960s lounge music and jazz, Williams provides playful and jaunty musical accompaniment for Steven Spielberg’s freewhee...
Twentieth Century Fox recently hosted the premiere for SOLARIS at the Pacific Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, Calif. A remake of the 1972 sci-fi classic, SOLARIS tells the story of a psychiatrist Dr. Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) sent to examine strange hap...
The Sci-Fi Channel has released a list of what new programming it intends to broadcast in the 2004-2005 year. Among the new shows being offered are ongoing series, two new mini-series and a host of special programs for its out-of-this-world audience.Eigh...
Maybe there haven't really been that many uninspiring offerings in the style of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE lately and it only feels that way, but in any event, WRONG TURN serves as a modest tide-turner. A moderately low-budget backwoods slasher entry not...
Some movies divide their audiences in two. SOLARIS is more likely to create three camps people who are totally baffled, people who respond ardently to director/scenarist Steven Soderbergh's mixture of sincere inquiry into issues of identity, memory and i...
CRAZY AS HELL wastes no time in letting us know that things aren't quite right in the world of Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach). The renowned psychiatrist watches with alarm as blood pools out from under his bed and then wakes in his chair with a start. Howe...
14 year old Matthew O'Leary is currently starring alongside Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton in Paxton's directorial debut, the dark thriller FRAILTY. O'Leary plays the younger version of Fenton Meiks McConaughey plays the older Fenton who, along wit...
ENIGMA is set during WWII in the '40s and feels a bit like something Alfred Hitchcock might have made in the '50s. We have a smart, alienated hero in the throes of sexual obsession, working around mysterious colleagues who may or may not be trustworthy, w...
At the tender age of 14 Dominique Swain played the lead in director Adrian Lyne's 1997 version of LOLITA, and in her new college whodunit NEW BEST FRIEND she pops pills, snorts coke and has a lurid affair with co-star Mia Kirshner. If that sounds dramatic...
VIDEO NEWSMGM will make the small army of John Carpenter fans happy this summer when they finally bring J.C’s semi-classic ghost tale THE FOG to DVD. Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Atkins will be onboard with Rob Bottin’s waterlogged ghosts. T...
Although 20th-century America was, sadly, full of serial murderers, few achieved the notoriety of Jeffrey Dahmer. One reason for this surely is Dahmer's prolific body count; another was his choice of victims sex crimes against men tend to attract even mo...
WARNING! Possible EPISODE III SPOILER information is contained in this story!So remember the news that the man inside the Wookiee suit, Peter Mayhew, would be reprising his character again in EPISODE III? There's a tantalizing rumor over on The Force.net ...
RESIDENT EVIL director Paul W. S. Anderson has sold the horror pitch NECROPOLIS to Dimension Films. Described as a ghost story with psychological overtones that takes place in Chicago, Anderson's deal with Dimension will mean he must write the script for ...
The 30th Annual Saturn Awards, 'Celebration of the Fantastic,' were held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel on Wednesday, May 5th. As the excitement built on the red carpet the key phrases from everyone about The Academy and Science Fiction in general seemed...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSOriginal music from the legendary 1970's Japanese Samurai films series, LONE WOLF AND CUB (a.k.a. THE BABY CART SERIES) is now available from LaLaLand Records. I had the extreme pleasure to write the notes for this significant s...
Last Updated: September 4, 2006Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, ThrillerProduction Company: DNA Films, Figment FilmsDistributors: Fox Searchlight PicturesProject Phase: Pre-ProductionBudget: NAWho's In It: Jeremy Renner (Sgt. Doyle), Naomie Harris (Selena), Harold ...
The team behind Screen Gems' RESIDENT EVIL movie are lending their talents to a new movie based on a video game property, this time for Atari Games' DRIVER franchise. Director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt will produce a DRIVER film w...
As a child growing up in Jamaica, Jonathan Fierce could see detailed snippets of the future. Now he's working for the FBI as a valuable resource, even though his visions of late have been less accurate than usual. This time the bulk of the team he works w...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! It's the end of the New Year weekend and let me tell you folks I've got the most sidesplitting headache ever to birth its way out a bottle of Jack Daniels. What this means is that I'm going to be shor...
There are many classic Christmas movies to choose from as you gather the whole family together holiday season. But let’s say you hate Christmas, you hate your family, and you pretty much hate everything else. And let’s say you’d like to ruin Christmas for...
The particular breed of viewer who thinks it's impossible for cop dramas to have too many automatic weapons going off and armored officers breaking down doors will naturally have a soft spot in his or her heart for S.W.A.T., the not-exactly-classic 1975-7...
While it failed to attract box office when it was released last year, Steven Soderbergh's SOLARIS may find its audience on home video. SOLARIS tells the story of Chris Kelvin (George Clooney), a psychiatrist in the future who is summoned to the space stat...
The director of CUBE has a new job. Vincenzo Natali has been hired to helm NECROPOLIS, the horror project set up with Dimension Films. Paul W. S. Anderson wrote the script for the picture which he'll also produce while he's busy shooting ALIEN VS. PREDATO...
Actor John Leguizamo isn't a stranger to lending his voice to animated endeavors. After playing a sloth in ICE AGE and an alien in TITAN A.E., Leguizamo is hooking up again with Fox Animation and ICE AGE's Blue Sky Studios for THE IGUANA BROTHERS: A TALE ...
Alexander Witt's follow-up to RESIDENT EVIL, RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE, finished principal photography last Friday in Toronto. The movie brings back Milla Jovovich's character Alice, who survived the events of the first film, and resumes her battle with vi...
Ever since THE SIXTH SENSE, makers of American suspense thrillers have gotten so obsessed with plot twists, turns and trick endings that audiences have almost gotten used to enduring an hour or so of unintelligible plotting before they're handed a denouem...
BARRY WEEN remains one of the most consistently delightful comic book titles out there, even if the content is not exactly all-ages friendly. Barry is Calvin if his Spaceman Spiff fantasies were based in reality and leavened with the sort of profanity tha...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
From the sublime to the rotund, we look at a quartet of song and score soundtracks for recent films – from Disney’s wondrously magical Bridge to Terabithia to the comic antics of Eddie Murphy in Nor...
HELL’S HIGHWAY is a shot on video horror tale from the self-proclaimed king of micro-budget productions, David Sterling. I doubt Sterling spent over $50,000 to make this, and I could believe it was made for as little as $10,000. The acting is uneven, the ...
Genre:Adventure/Historical.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Orlando Bloom (Balian); Liam Neeson; David Thewlis; Eva Green (Sibylla); Jeremy Irons (Saladin); Alexander Siddig (Imad).Who's Making It:Ridle...
Ah, another week of summer, another desperate attempt to find things worth watching. Sure, it's gorgeous outside, the sun practically beckoning us out of doors, but then we might get skin cancer, and really, who needs that grief? No sir, much better to ...
Before I begin this week's column, I have an announcement to make: my last COMICSCAPE column will be Wednesday, February 2, and my last review for CINESCAPE for the time being will also appear that week. I'm sure there's at least one or two readers who wi...
Sixteen-year-old Michael Angarano has landed the lead role in Disney's SKY HIGH. Angarano will play Jeremy, the son of two superheroes named Commander Stronghold and Jetstream who goes to a high school where every kid is the son or daughter of someone wit...
Veteran actor Charles Gray passed away on Tuesday at the age of 71, according to his agent. The actor specialized in smooth, suave, but dangerous characters. He was perhaps most well known to genre fans for his work as the Criminologist in THE ROCKY HORRO...
Man, this movie was so bad that I didn’t even bother to review it when it came out. After all, we already had plenty of other coverage on the movie, and anybody could tell from the trailer that it was going to suck big time. So I figured why waste my brai...
Vigilantes are so damn cool, you’ve just got to get up and cheer every single time one of those saviors of society plug a nasty in the head, back, shoulder, crotch or wherever their bullet be aimed. Best place to view vigilantes? Why the movies of course,...