JulianneMoore wants to set the record straight regarding rumors of additional footage that was shot and then cut from HANNIBAL. While talking to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cindy Pearlman, Moore declared, "There are rumors that we shot a graphic love sce...
Oscar-nominated actress JulianneMoore has closed a deal to star in THE FORGOTTEN, described as a supernatural thriller. Moore will play Telly Paretta, a mother who loses her eight-year-old son and then is told by a psychiatrist that she never had him in...
JulianneMoore has been pegged to lead the supernatural thriller SHELTER, reports Variety. The film will be produced by Nala Films with a budget somewhere between 22 and 25 million. Swedish duo Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (Storm) will direct the fea...
JulianneMoore is in talks to star in CHILDREN OF MEN with Clive Owen. The sci-fi project is set in the near future, in a world sent into turmoil when people lose the ability to have children. Moore would play "the first woman to become pregnant in nearl...
Jonathan-Rhys Meyers ("The Tudors") has been signed by Nala Films to star in their upcoming supernatural horror thriller Shelter. The actor will be leading opposite the already attached JulianneMoore with Swedish duo Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stei...
...biquitous JulianneMoore, a screenplay by Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List, Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Gangs of New York) and the profane David Mamet, and assurances that the film would deviate from the book in certain key areas, and it looked as thou...
You've probably heard by now that Alan Moore has permanently dissociated himself from DC Comics, its affiliate Wildstorm, and America's Best Comics the imprint Moore started in 1998. This is significant news, and yet it's not entirely unexpected. This is...
Ronald D. Moore, speaking from his new office where he works as co-executive producer on ROSWELL, is happy to talk about his job. After leaving STAR TREK and working for a stint on the short-lived series GOOD VS. EVIL, Moore was approached to see whether...
CHEERS alumni Woody Harrelson is in discussions to star with JulianneMoore (RULES OF ATTRACTION) in THE PRIZEWINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO. The film, a co-production between Revolution Studios and DreamWorks, is based on the true tale of a 1950s Mom who wrote...
Actor Dominic West is in talks to star in the thriller THE FORGOTTEN. If he signs on West will play a psychiatric patient named Ash Cornell who befriends a woman named Telly (JulianneMoore) who believes she had a son even though there is no proof of the ...
JulianneMoore wasn't out of the minds of audience goers this past weekend as her new film, THE FORGOTTEN, opened at the top of the box office chart. The Sony Pictures thriller took in an estimated $22 million dollars from Friday to Sunday, making it the ...
The trailer for the upcoming Paramount Pictures film, Next, starring Nicolas Cage, JulianneMoore, and Jessica Biel can now be found online via Apple.You can view the trailer here.The film, based on the Philip K. Dick story The Golden Man, sees Nicolas Ca...
... Cage and JulianneMoore, gets an orchestral score composed by Mark Isham. The film, scheduled to be released by Paramount on April 27, tells the story about a magician who can see a few minutes into the future – a talent that attracts the in...
... TriStar) JulianneMoore stars in this paranoia chiller that overcomes its plot holes by delivering thrills. Includes commentrak, Making-Of featurettes, deleted scenes and more.NEW RELEASES(O) ANGEL OF DEATH (MGM) Detective Mira Sorvino tracks a serial...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Mark Isham’s absorbing musical score for Lee Tamahori’s Next, released on CD by Lakeshore, is as much a part of this gripping science fiction thriller as Nicholas Cage, JulianneMoore, Jessica Biel, o...
...e Julian (JulianneMoore), Theo winds up agreeing to help them spirit a young immigrant named Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) to safety. Kee is pregnant, which makes her valuable to all sides and Theo’s basic decency – which Julian has counted on...
... starring JulianneMoore as the mother of ten who, in the 1950s, supported her family by writing jingles and entering them into contests. For that score, Frizzell teamed up with newgrass band Nickel Creek, whose latest album hit number one on Billboard...
... starring JulianneMoore, Frizzell recruited Newgrass band Nickel Creek to play on his Americana score. John Frizzell's other credits range from comedies such as Beavis and Butthead Do America and the cult classic, Office Space, to the dark comedy ...
...ive Owen, JulianneMoore and Michael Caine. The film features original music by acclaimed contemporary concert composer John Tavener, as well as previously composed Taverner pieces and other classical cues. via www.filmscoremonthly.com www.varesesarab...
Blackfilm has a look at the CHILDREN OF MEN poster, you can see it attached above.The film is a sci-fi thriller from director Alfonso Cuaron and stars Clive Owen, JulianneMoore and Michael Caine.CHILDREN OF MEN's plot synopsis reads: In 2027, in a chaoti...
...rocreate. JulianneMoore plays the woman who is the first in almost 20 years to be pregnant. Clive Owen stars as an agent who agrees to take the woman to a sanctuary at sea, where scientists hope that the birth of her child will help them save the futu...
...niversal) JulianneMoore as a legendary jingle contest winner. With commentrak and more. (O) RAMONES: THE TRUE STORY (MVD) Rare unreleased interviews and performances. (O) ROBERT BENCHLEY AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ALGONQUIN (Kino) Humorist Benchley made h...
... Jackson, JulianneMoore and Ron Eldard star in this tight kidnapping drama that is set to be released on 16 January 2006. According to the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, Howard will also compose the music for MEN IN BLACK director Barry Sonnenfeld's next p...
...ce, I see JulianneMoore [who took on the Starling role] and 'Oh, I want to go to bed with her.' I see Jodie Foster, 'No way.'"In the latest issue of PREMIERE, Foster discussed the movie and her decision with, "There's been so much weird blood about th...
...e Ferris (JulianneMoore), who has managed to figure out exactly how Cris’ power works, and some terrorists whose behavior is remarkably counter-intuitive.
Cris works as a Vegas stage magician, keeping his true nature under wraps so tha...
...sses him. JulianneMoore is believably cast, but simply no Jodie Foster, and Ray Liotta seems intent on giving us a piece of his mind. This one looks great, moves fast, doesn't make a lot of sense and is ultimately unsatisfying. But folks loved it at t...
... starring JulianneMoore, Gary Sinise and Linus Roache. The BOBBY JONES film tells the story about the legendary golfer, portrayed by Jim Caviezel. John Morris' critically acclaimed, Academy Award nominated and long out-of-print score for THE ELEPHANT ...
JulianneMoore is in discussions to join Nicolas Cage in the science fiction/thriller NEXT for Revolution Studios. Based on the Philip K. Dick short story "The Golden Man", NEXT is about a man (Cage) that has the ability to see the future and choose a dif...
... Peretta (JulianneMoore) is a grieving mother whose son Sam (Christopher Kovaleski) died 14 months ago in a plane crash. Telly has little rituals watching videotapes of Sam, going through a photo album and she's in therapy with kind Dr. Munce (Gary ...
... Allison (JulianneMoore), who is working with the government on this project.All the script beats are here from the GHOSTBUSTERS franchise, with the ghosts replaced by alien-like creatures. It's a trip worth de ja vu-ing about if only to watch Duchovn...
Variety has filled out the remaining cast members starring in the psychological thriller THE FORGOTTEN starring JulianneMoore. Joining Moore and the previously announced Dominic West are Anthony Edwards (E.R.), Linus Roache (THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK), A...
...ckson and JulianneMoore is due out on February 28th. www.varesesarabande.com Cinescape's Music News provides weekdaily news and views on film music, progressive rock, and other notable musical genres, culled from a variety of sources.
For those of you who are interested in spandex-clad superheroes, don't think Moore is all about 'chick stuff.' Moore has a Batman project in the works, as well as something regarding a certain well-known wall-crawler we all know and love. Moore waxes enth...
...at it is (JulianneMoore and Nicole Kidman co-star), although the picture doesn't open until the end of the month. Adaptation, on the other hand, is a slightly less conventional outing for Streep, helmed as it is by BEING JOHN MALKOVICH's Jonze. In it ...
...ckson and JulianneMoore. "The emotionally atmospheric score contains the fusion of orchestra and electronics that Howard is known for doing so well," writes Dan Goldwasser of the recording session. "Pete Anthony is conducting the 61-piece orchestra co...
...nce, with JulianneMoore replacing her as Agent Starling. Foster who has no regrets even today for turning down HANNIBAL - says she thinks the intrigue audiences have with thrillers has to do with basic survival instincts."I think with thrillers it's ...
From a press release
LOS ANGELES, CA August 19, 2008 -- Seizing an opportunity to leverage the current wave of popularity and notoriety surrounding the new digital graphic novel sensation, 'The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore', MGM Domestic Television Distrib...
...tors like JulianneMoore who had nothing to do.THE LOST WORLD's biggest excess was its ludicrous climax set in San Diego a cheap attempt at outshining the then-upcoming American GODZILLA film (a move that threw any illusions of credibility out the win...
...wn Chong, JulianneMoore and Steve Buscemi. George Romero, who was involved creatively with both the series and the film, will also be featured on the commentary.· TREMORS 3: BACK TO PERFECTION, which is ...
As ROSWELL enters its third season, in some ways the show will be re-inventing itself. ROSWELL has a new home, moving from the WB Network to UPN. Both BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ROSWELL are making this move. It gives the show's writers reason to believe...
Yesterday, ROSWELL co-executive producer Ron Moore dished about the fan favorite show's transition to the UPN network. Today in part two of CINESCAPE's interview with Moore, the writer/producer offers a glimpse of what to expect from the show in its third...
During the summer of 1999 shock waves rippled through the STAR TREK community as the departure of Ronald D. Moore from the VOYAGER staff and STAR TREK proved to be truth and not rumor. Moore had little to say publicly at the time, leaving this post for o...
Terry Moore, first and foremost, is a storyteller. The medium may differ, but telling stories has always been a big part of Moore's life. Interested in comics in childhood, Moore soon moved on to bigger things, pursuing a career in film editing. It was hi...
Happy Wednesday to all of you for comic readers, every Wednesday is a holiday. That is, of course, unless you're married then every Wednesday is an exercise in shame and deceit and brings you one step closer to an episode of DIVORCE COURT or whatever it...
Let’s go back to the beginning for Moore, to get a history lesson as well as an idea about what about VOYAGER upset him so much. He remembers, `When I came aboard in the third season, NEXT GEN was very much the new kid on the block. There was a lot of sta...
After over a year of delays, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier will hit comic shops next Wednesday, November 14th. The Black Dossier has been the source of controversy and speculation ...
`Tell me why there are no gay characters in STAR TREK,` says Ron Moore. `This is one of those uncomfortable questions I hate getting when I was working on the show, because there is no good answer for it. There is no answer for it other than people in cha...
When it comes to
who should fill the Hellblazer trench coat in the upcoming movie Constantine,
the character's creator Alan Moore says it ain't Nicolas Cage.
"No offense
to Nicolas Cage, but they should've gotten Sting," Moore recently told Entertai...
ROSWELL co-executive producer Ronald D. Moore has been talking about the coming second episode of the series.While talking to CINESCAPE's Anna L. Kaplan, Moore gave info on the second episode, title "Michael, the Guys, and the Great Snapple Caper," which ...
Though a lot of details were addressed and wrapped up in the second season of ROSWELL, the program's creative minds remained positive that a third season of the series was in the cards. That includes co-executive producer Ronald D. Moore.While talking to ...
After weeks of rumors and fan petitions sprung from rumors, the Sci-Fi Channel has settled on Ronald D. Moore as the man to bring BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA back to the small screen. This latest development follows years in which original GALACTICA star Richar...
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE) has been hit with an unexpected twist of fate: Walt Disney Pictures is refusing to allow its subsidary, Miramax Films, from distributing Moore's next picture, FAHRENHEIT 911, this summer.Moore's ...
When David
Hayter recently signed on to write, and possibly direct the Watchmen
movie he wasn't sure if he should expect to get any feedback from the book's
typically hands-off writer Alan Moore. Now, a nice write-up on EW.com
recently features comm...
Shemar Moore was
on hand for an AOL Live Chat back on October 9, when The WB's Birds of
Prey premiered. Fans can check out The
Clock Tower for the complete transcript or read on for the highlights.
Moore was in
great spirits and talked quite a bit...
Former SAINT and JAMES BOND Roger Moore is making his way back to the spy world, this time on the March 10 episode of ALIAS. Moore will play Edward Poole, a member of the sinister Alliance of Twelve and cohort of the evil SD6 leader Slone.What's more, Moo...
In the latest WIZARD magazine, legendary comic book powerhouse Alan Moore (FROM HELL, LEAGUE OF EXTRODINARY GENTLEMEN, and of course THE WATCHMEN) was asked yet again about a sequel to his groundbreaking 1986 classic, THE WATCHMEN. In response, Moore said...
It’s time for another edition of Mania’s Most Maniacal Rumors, where we blow the lid off the week’s juiciest gossip and hush-hush industry whispers.
If you have a rumor you want to contribute, we’re all ears. Just send it to jarro...
Stuart Moore, editor of the Marvel Knights line, will be leaving his Marvel Comics staff position in July to concentrate on a writing career. "When Stuart first came to Marvel Knights I was certain of two things," Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada says....
Ronald D. Moore asks pointedly, `What is STAR TREK exploring? What are the things it’s trying to make the audience think about? What relevance does it have to you and me? If it doesn’t have a relevance to you and me, in our lives, what’s the point? Why am...
The Galactica 2003 website has published a report today that "according to a handful of sources, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has been given the greenlight for series."Nevertheless, with it being nearly the end of January (which is supposedly the time all the GAL...
Most big genre movies, nine times out of ten, will have a video game to accompany its movie. The marriage of these two mediums seems only natural but it has been harder for a video game to be made into a movie. For each highly successful Resident ...
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA producer Ronald D. Moore is the subject of an extensive interview at Hollywood North Report's new "Flight Deck", their sub-section devoted to tracking the new GALACTICA series slated to run on The Sci Fi Channel next year. In the five...
When it comes to THE NEXT GENERATION feature films, Ronald D. Moore is candid about his successes and failures. He co-wrote the first two with Brannon Braga; Michael Piller wrote the third. Moore says, `I am more than willing to accept at this late date t...
Moore says that he recognized VOYAGER’s biggest problem by the end of the first episode. `By the end of the pilot, you have the Maquis in those Starfleet uniforms, and— boom—we’ve begun the grand homogenization. Now they are any other ship. I don’t know w...
Eventually, Moore felt it was time to leave Image and go back to self-publishing. "For me, it was better to self-publish. There were too many distractions in working with a studio on this book, so many other factors to deal with that were beyond my contro...
Although Moore did not watch `Survival Instinct` or `Barge of the Dead,` he laughs and says, `I watched ‘Equinox’ because I was involved with that. When we started the season, they had done ‘Equinox I,’ but they had no idea what ‘Equinox II’ was supposed ...
"Battlestar Galactica" showrunner Ronald D. Moore has signed with United Artists to create and write a sci-fi trilogy, reports Variety. UA is keeping details of the project under wraps. Moore has written extensively for TV and film, with featur...
John Moore will direct a remake of the 1978 conspiracy thriller Capricorn One, reports Variety. Peter Buchman penned the screenplay for New Regency. The original cult hit was penned and directed by Peter Hyams and starred Elliot Gould, James Brolin and O...
Here's Alan Moore revealing what he thinks about the V for Vendetta movie. Top stuff. It seems that this is was footage shot for the BBC, but their website does not allow people to stream it outside of the UK.
I'm sure a lot of you pick up Entertainment Weekly but if you don't and you are a Battlestar Galactica fan, you may want to. Their latest issue had a two page picture of the final season stars in a set photo which resembles "The Last Supper" pai...
Bruce Timm, producer of Cartoon Network's 'Justice League Unlimited' animated series, told The Comics Continuum that the show's second episode will be an adaptation of the Alan Moore story, "For The Man Who Has Everything."
Regency Enterprises has brough on Chris Moore to direct the remake "Race With the Devil." This is a remake of the 1975 horror thriller that revolved around two couples that head off to Colorado for skiing and dirt biking. Along the way, they witness a sat...
We all know the 'Watchmen' movie is happening. An interview with Alan Moore from "Tripwire Annual" magazine reveals, not surprisingly, that the writer of the graphic novel is not terribly interested in the movie.
"If they go for some other novelty opti...
20th Century Fox has hired John Moore to direct THE OMEN 666. The film will be remake of the 1976 horror classic about the arrival of the Antichrist in the home of an unsuspecting family.Dan McDermott will write the script. The studio hopes to have the f...
According to a Hollywood North Report source, Joel Moore (Dodgeball) has been all but officially confirmed as one of the leads in James Cameron's forthcoming science fiction epic, Avatar.In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another ...
Director John Moore (THE OMEN-2006 remake) has been tapped to direct THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS. The dark fantasy story is based off author John Connolly's novel of the same name and it was published last year.
Story Premise: It centers on a 12-year-old Eng...
If you're a fan of the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series and you'd like to get some elements of the upcoming season four (final season), series co-creator Ronald Moore has talked a bit about it in the latest magazine edition of Starburst. The fellow geeks o...
Entertainment Weekly chats up Alan Moore for their 'Watchmen' issue. Not surprisingly the acclaimed comic writer has plenty of interesting things to say and none of them are in support of the movie:
EW: ['Watchmen' direcor Zack Snyder is] supposed to b...
Neil Gaiman sheds light on recent rumors that Alan Moore was so put off by the "Constantine" movie that he'd taken steps to divorce himself from it.
"Oh, it's true that Alan's rejected the money for 'Constantine' and assigned it to his cocreators, but ...
Joel Silver, producer of the upcoming feature film based on Alan Moore's V for Vendetta graphic novel, sidestepped a question from SCI FI Wire about Moore's public comments against the producer after a Warner Brothers press release incorrectly implied tha...
"I don't want anything more to do with these works," 'V for Vendetta' author Alan Moore said in a recent telephone interview, "because they were stolen from me — knowingly stolen from me."
More...
Demi Moore has agreed to star in HALF-LIGHT, a new thriller being produced by Lakeshore Entertainment. Screenwriter Craig Rosenberg (AFTER THE SUNSET) will direct the picture from his own screenplay. Shooting is expected to commence this coming August in ...
Anonymous scooper claims that "after reviewing the script and casting of 'Hellblazer', Comic Kingpin [sic] Alan Moore has done the unthinkable. He's washed his hand of the entire debacle...he's instructed DC to NOT credit him as the creator of the charact...
'The film has got nothing to do with my work, it has a coincidental title to a book I've done and they've given me a huge wedge of money. No problem with that,' Alan Moore tells the Sunday Herald in the UK about LXG. More!
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Moore, known for ripping into novice directors on Project Greenlight, will make his own directorial debut on the horror-action film Killers.The script, written by Kelly C. Palmer, revolves around a group of close...
Director John Moore's (The Omen) schedule continues to fill up recently. Last week, he was tapped to direct the adaptation of the VIRULENTS comic, a story based around vampire zombies fighting soldiers in Afghanistan. Now, Variety is reporting the directo...
According to Variety, John Moore is in negotiations to direct the Regency Enterprises film PILGRIM, formerly titled 'Splinter Cell'.The script, written by William Wisher, follows the story of a former CIA agent who, haunted by the murder of his mentor, ac...
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Our own Tim Janson sits down with 'Watchmen' co-creator Dave Gibbons to talk abo...
During a book signing in Burbank, Calif., author Christopher Moore takes a moment to share a unique theory about the cosmos."It seems that the universe is constantly striving to achieve harmony and balance," he observes. "And yet, the universe is doomed t...
Ronald D. Moore told the Hollywood Reporter he and co-executive producer David Eick began thinking about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's end midway through the second season.
Moore said, "We thought, if we don't start paying this off and really ...
Surprisingly, Ronald D. Moore has never directed an episode of the Sci-fi series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. The mastermind behind the popular show helped develop the series and acted as head writer/executive producer but never went behind the camera himself to...
Leave it to the comics industry to drop about three things at once in around one week, all worthy of discussion in this week’s Comicscape. DC’s Countdown reached its half-way point last week, World War Hulk wrapped today, and Marvel very ...
Expect Roswell to return to the character drama that marked its first year while maintaining its sci fi elements that have surfaced recently.`The network had wanted a stronger sci-fi component, and had made that clear in the middle of last season, ... but...
Another horror comic on the way? Yesterday, we learned that DARKCHYDLE was being adapted to the big screen. Today, we learn from Variety that an adaptation of the "zombie vampire" comic, VIRULENTS, is also being prepped. Fox has selected John Mo...
F.A.K.K.2 (CM0005): Once again I find myself reviewing an action figure based on an animated movie I haven`t even seen yet. Of course, since Kevin Eastman`s Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 hasn`t been released on video yet, I don`t feel too bad about it! Featuring...
Ronald D. Moore is talking again about his Herculean task of digesting years of shows and two decades of fan love while distilling the BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA franchise into a new mini-series for the SciFi Channel. Moore, a fan of the show from way back and...
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA honcho Ronald D. Moore answered quite a few questions in a recent open-forum Q&A session, and the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA fansite has posted the interview.In the session, Moore describes his creative approach to the remake, notes that th...
Alan Moore is set to have his likeness show in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Moore is viewed as one of the comic book industry's finest writers and is known for an enormous beard and long hair.He will appear on the show in an episode that wil...
B. Clay Moore and Steven Griffin's 'Hawaiian Dick' has been picked up by New Line Cinema with actor Johnny Knoxville set star. Moore spoke with CBR News and shared a few details of how the deal came to be.
Demi Moore is returning to the big screen after a few years off, and is taking a high-profile role to do it. She's going to play the role of a "fallen angel" in CHARLIE'S ANGELS: HALO, opposite still good angels Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. ...
The 12th Annual Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards ceremony was held Friday night during the San Diego Comic-Con 2000 Convention. The awards are named after comics legend Eisner, creator of The Spirit. Considered by many to be the `Oscars` of the comic bo...
JOY RIDE producers Chris Moore and J.J. Abrams (ALIAS) are hoping their film, which did mediocre box office during its theatrical release, will find its true audience when it hits home video and DVD this week. The film follows two brothers, Lewis (Paul Wa...
In the ten months that editor Stuart Moore has been with Marvel Comics, the publisher has become the most talked-about company in comicdom. A lot of that has to do with the personality and business acumen of Moore's boss, Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, but ...
Rich Johnston is back, guns-a-blazin':
Alan Moore, co-creator of the "V For Vendetta" comic, has publicly disassociated himself from the upcoming Warner Brothers movie project based on the comic book and written and produced by the Wachowski Brothers. ...
The L.A. Times Hero Complex blog has a nice interview with Alan Moore up in which he confesses his deep, abiding love for the phenomena of films made from comics, and specifically the adaptation of his masterpiece 'Watchmen'.
Just kidding.
No, in fact M...
What on Earth can I say about Alan Moore`s historic run on Saga of the Swamp Thing that hasn`t been said a thousand times already? What critical observation can I make that has not been made by far more capable pens than mine? Picking up the trade paperba...
Alan Moore is known for wanting to have no involvement in the film adaptations of his comics, and even contentious relations with Hollywood when his name is used illicitly to promote a movie. So it's no surprise that, in a recent interview with Wizard Uni...
Stax at IGN FilmForce has taken a look at one of the more recent drafts of the screenplay for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and has given it
an overall positive review.
This re-write by James Robinson was dated March 6, 2002. Better received t...
For those of you that are hardcore fans of Battlestar Galactica, the name Ron Moore is synonymous with quality science fiction television. Even if you aren’t a BSG fan ,you may still appreciate him for his work on what many say was the last good Sta...
In a recent interview with Infoshop News, Alan Moore talked about the impact, or lack thereof, the film 'V for Vendetta' had on the American public. The commentary is lead in by the interviewer telling Moore about an "A for Anarchy" group that used the fi...
Daredevil, the Punisher, Elektra, and many more of Marvel's more down-to-earth stars have been revamped in one way or another for a new century and a new generation of readers via the Marvel Knights imprint. Taking a slightly more mature perhaps even dar...
Years ago when it came to making it big at the box office, there was rarely a second chance. Right out of the gate the film either bombed or sky rocketed to the top five. But now DVD has changed all that. A film like JOY RIDE can do just O.K. at the theat...
MGM Domestic Television Distribution has optioned U.K.-based online graphic novel The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore for development as a series, reports Variety. The studio aims to develop "Jonas" into an action-drama, with a U.S.-U.K. co-productio...
"David Hayter's screenplay was as close as I could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen. That said, I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a cert...
I don?t know what possessed STRANGERS IN PARADISE creator Terry Moore when he designed the cover for this issue, but it has to count as one of the worst in the series? history. Never mind, though, we?re not going to stare at that cover for more than a few...
We have to talk about V FOR VENDETTA. We can't ignore it. There's no way we can pretend this controversial Molotov cocktail of a comic book adaptation hasn't landed in theaters. Of course, I will run your e-mails on the subject next week, but I have to cl...
While audiences across the country will soon get a Halloween dose of horror courtesy of Jack the Ripper in the new motion picture, FROM HELL, starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, they might be unaware that the film is actually based largely on a comic...
NBC Universal Television Studio has signed a two year deal with BSG's Ronald D. Moore.Moore is already at work on a new fantasy show called PEN AND THE SWORD. The series centers on a young man at a temp agency who discovers the building he works in is a ...
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 08-09-2004)
Genre:Documentary.Studio:Lions Gate Films.Production Company:Dog Eat Dog Films.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Michael Moore (Himself); George W. Bush (Himself).Who's Making It:Michael Moore (Director, Screenwriter); Michael Moore, Jim Czarnecki, Ka...
If you buy SNAKES AND LADDERS in the hopes that it'll be another stylish and creepy horror story like the one Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell presented in FROM HELL, you're going to be disappointed. If you buy it expecting anything vaguely like WATCHMEN or ...
Like most Baby Boomers, Mel Gibson grew up with the Vietnam War on TV every night. In particular he remembers the reaction his father, a veteran of World War II's bloody Guadalcanal campaign, had to the United States' deepening involvement in the Southeas...
What`s old is new again. Vertigo, DC Comics` adult imprint, is offering a different spin on some of its oldest titles, and it`s looking to the Louisiana swamps to do it. Since its January 1993 launch, only Hellblazer has escaped cancellation out of the im...
I certainly don't need to tell you how incredible Alan Moore's work is-it's hardly a surprise to hear that he's one of the most talented and innovative writers around, et cetera, et cetera. It's more of a surprise when his work doesn't live up to that tal...
Tonight, at 7:00 p.m. Central time, the Marshall Public Library Board of Trustees will convene to vote on whether or not to remove two graphic novels from their shelves BLANKETS by Craig Thompson and FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel. Louise Mills, a resident ...
Of all the genre collections that hit bookshelves daily, this week’s release schedule’s got one with the coolest unifying element I’ve ever encountered: one that pays homage to the stand-up citizens who provide death for hire.
...
While denying a rumor about President Laura Roslin's(actress Mary McDonnell) character leaving the show halfway through Season 4, executive producer Ronald Moore and his wife fueled more speculation that the rumored split between the first half and s...
TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES is a queer duck of a title: it's ostensibly an anthology, but one which deals with only three storylines, those being the standalone adventures of Tom Strong, Young Tom Strong, and Jonni Future. As a rule, these stories run on ...
Image Comics has announced that HAWAIIAN DICK: BYRD OF PARADISE, a three-issue mini-series by B. Clay Moore and Steve Griffin, will launch in December. Here's how Image describes the book: "Originally pitched as a cross between the X-FILES and the ROCK...
When last we left the crew of the Battlestar Galactica, at the end of season two, their settlement on New Caprica was being invaded by the Cylons. Both Admiral Adama (Edward James Olmos) and Commander Adama (Jamie Bamber) decide to jump away from New...
THE SAINT isn’t a show all that well known to modern American audiences, though it seems instantly familiar to many because of the presence of a young Roger Moore in the title role. Also known as Simon Templar, The Saint is a wealthy, debonair rogue with ...
The Tom Strong family Tom Strong himself, his daughter Tesla, a younger version of himself, and six foot tall talking rabbit Warren Strong come together for the first time to battle the evil Paul Saveen, Earth's deadliest science-villain! Saveen has fie...
Last time I reviewed an anthology from America's Best Comics, I wondered whether the company's moniker really applied and where the Alan Moore magic had gone. Looks like I was looking at the wrong anthology. In a tribute to the old SUPERMAN FAMILY titleor...
Terry Moore remains one of the most successful independent comic book creators in the business today, having based the large part of his career entirely on his own series, STRANGERS IN PARADISE, which chronicles the lives and loves of lifetime friends Kat...
Gloria West is a waitress in a diner in New York who also happens to be a registered schizophrenic and who believes herself to be a superhero named Glory. Problem is, Gloria West really is the superhero named Glory. She's also the daughter of the goddess ...
Constantine by Coming Attractions (Mon 03-15-2004)
Genre: Horror/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio: Warner Brothers.Production Company: Shuler Donner/Donner Productions.Project Phase: Released.Who's In It: Keanu Reeves (John Constantine); Rachel Weisz (Angela); Tilda Swinton (Gabriel); Djimon Hounsou (Papa Mid...
For years, James Bond fans bemoaned the seemingly endless cycle of `special edition` 007 laserdiscs. It seemed that, as soon as they bought a deluxe laserdisc of, say, From Russia With Love, yet another `special edition` would be announced. This annoying ...
My colleague of questionable esteem, Al Brown, and a couple of readers suggested I write a column about comics that might appeal to women and those repelled by spandex, big guns, big muscles, and big tits. Rather than just targeting women, I've decided to...
Not arguably, one of the two most buzz-worthy events coming out of Comic-Con this year was the footage of Watchmen (the other being the latest Terminator installment). At this point, we've all seen at least one Watchmen trailer, and it's hard not to get e...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Aoyama GoshoTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayGhastly beheadings, bloody murders, and cold-hearted child abductions-
Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intu...
Dave Gibbons cut his teeth by inking issues of Britain's legendary 2000 A.D. comics. He moved to DC Comics in 1982, where he became best known for his association with Green Lantern. In 1985, he teamed with writer Alan Moore to create Watchmen--subsequent...
Imagine, if you will, our hero being buried in an avalanche of snow during a harrowing ski chase in the Swiss Alps; plunging off a 5,000-foot precipice while evading a team of KGB assassins; being thrown from a plane sans parachute during a savage midair ...
The New Year looms on the horizon yet again, and I find myself lacking inspiration for a column in between the twin drinking binges of Christmas and New Year's Eve. As such, you'll have to make due with my ramblings about the state of the comic industry i...
Having superpowers isn`t all it`s cracked up to be. When last we saw the superpowered main characters of Rising Stars, a cadre of suddenly high-powered Specials prepared to wreak havoc on the world that had ruined their quiet lives. The words of the power...
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FilmForce reports that the April issue of Wizbang! features interviews with the cast and crew of Fox's
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Shane West (cast as "Tom Sawyer"), Peta Wilson ("Mina Harker") and Jason Flemyng ("Dr.Jekyll/Mr. Hyde") r...
The 30th Annual Saturn Awards, 'Celebration of the Fantastic,' were held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel on Wednesday, May 5th. As the excitement built on the red carpet the key phrases from everyone about The Academy and Science Fiction in general seemed...
OPINION First off, some good news: I've been informed by my good friend and editor Arnold T. Blumberg and by a few helpful readers that Marvel will indeed be celebrating the 500th issue of FANTASTIC FOUR by changing back to the old numbering. Thing is, th...
Marvel Comics has announced plans for ELEKTRA, including a new art team, a mini-series and a fill-in artist.Carlo Pagulayan will become penciler, joining inker Danny Miki in June."They join cover artist Greg Horn, and regular writer Greg Rucka, who's brin...
Writer-director Randall Wallace's (THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK) new Vietnam War film WE WERE SOLDIERS is based on the true-life memoir WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE... AND YOUNG by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and journalist Joseph L. Galloway. The film jettisons the po...
With the help of the mysterious Dr. Moreau and under orders from Campion Bond, Quatermain and Mina find something which may repulse the Martian invasion once and for all. Meanwhile, Hyde prepares to perform one last service for his country - and for his f...
Hollywood churns out so many remakes that sometimes you wonder whether they have any new ideas left; even worse, they botch so many of them that you wonder why they even bother. Then, suddenly, a good one turns up, and you realize that there’s nothing int...
The comic industry and its fans have often called WATCHMEN the greatest comic ever written the medium's CITIZEN KANE, if you will. This month, TIME agreed and named Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's seminal work one of the top 100 novels of the 20th century....
THE WEST WING is no longer the exclusive home of quality dramatic politics on TV. With "Colonial Day", Ronald D. Moore and his writers have taken the political underpinnings that Joe Straczynski made the purview of science-fiction storytelling in BABYLON ...
Hurray! It's winter! Time to unpack the sweaters and stow the Speed-o! Time to drag out your electric blanket, and curl up next to a fire with a big bowl of popcorn! Sure summer is long gone but we still got to thinking about it... Every summer, we're alw...
The problem that many modern DC titles telling a story in flashback have is that they almost always run into the post-CRISIS continuity snarl. It's incredibly difficult to set a story in the Silver Age, for instance, when according to modern timetables th...
Before you read another word: if you don’t love Horror movies then, ‘Hatchet’ isn’t for you. If you love Horror movies, and I mean really love Horror movies, then you will find ‘Hatchet’ to be so ridiculously viole...
Welcome to another week of Grind Your Axe at COMICSCAPE. I'm your host and all-around nice guy, Kurt Amacker. This week, we took some time at the Home Office to tear open some of your letters about that swinging new flick, V FOR VENDETTA. As most of our v...
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Disney Television Animation Special Projects and cable sports outlet ESPN have
announced that the popular syndicated comic strip In The Bleachers
will make the transition to animation this month. 15-second animated shorts will
run within select...
Outside of film, there are few mediums more willing to milk a cash cow than the world of comic books. Do you like Iron Man? Well, here’s War Machine. Does Venom suit your fancy? Maybe you’ll like Carnage. Or Toxin. Or Anti-Venom. How abou...
Terry Moore is the creator, writer and artist of one of the best modern comic book series ever published, STRANGERS IN PARADISE. Apart from very few tangential trips to other projects (such as LADY SUPREME and a recent Willow/Tara BUFFY one-shot for Dark ...
Many websites
received this plea yesterday from Top Shelf Comics Top
Shelf Comics chief Chris Staros. It's a bit off topic but important
never-the-less.
Dear Comics
Fans,
We have just been
informed this week that our boo...
Before I get to the review proper, I'd like to take a moment to look at the title of this piece. A sledgehammer and spanner are the tools Commander Barry Garner uses to repair the damaged manifold that allows Major Lee Adama to save the Battlestar Pegasu...
OPINION: Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day and that, if you weren't out remembering those who have fought and died for our freedom, you were at least enjoying the fruits (and nicely grilled meats) of that freedom at the park or campgrounds of your cho...
It took 10 painful years for America to disentangle itself from its tragic misadventure in Vietnam, and ever since then directors such as Michael Cimino (THE DEER HUNTER), Francis Ford Coppola (APOCALYPSE NOW), Oliver Stone (PLATOON), Stanley Kubrick (FUL...
A cult favorite that received a limited theatrical run, only to develop a small but feverish following on video, TAPEHEADS is that rare comedy that actually improves with repeat viewings. The first feature directed by Bill Fishman – who later went on to C...
Image Comics is inviting readers to get a look at its upcoming HAWAIIAN DICK mini-series with an all-new online strip by creators B. Clay Moore and Steve Griffin. Available for viewing at www.imagecomics.com, HAWAIIAN DICK: STRIPS will be a biweekly intr...
...ntury Fox)JulianneMoore in FAR FROM HEAVEN (Focus Features)Renee Zellweger in CHICAGO (Miramax)Performance by an actress in a supporting role: Kathy Bates in ABOUT SCHMIDT (New Line)JulianneMoore in THE HOURS (Paramount and Miramax)Queen Latifah in C...
According to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA producer Ronald D. Moore, the part that original GALACTICA cast member Richard Hatch is in discussions about playing is that of a "Nelson Mandala-like character" that's been a prisoner for 20 years. If you recall, in the ...
Sci Fi Channel has announced that it has officially given a greenlight to the first season of the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Instead of receiving an order for a minimum of six episodes (as one of our sources informed us last month), the network has committ...
I never thought I would ever write these words, but here goes: the latest issue of STRANGERS IN PARADISE is not only a huge disappointment, but potentially a major slap in the face to long-time devotees of the series. It features (or, to give the benefit ...
I'll admit that I had reservations when I heard that Albert and Allen Hughes, the sibling directors of such so-called "badass" films as MENACE II SOCIETY, would be doing the film adaptation Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's brilliant graphic novel FROM HELL...
In high-concept terms, THE TENTH KINGDOM might be described as `Lord of the Rings meets the Brothers Grimm.` A $40-million, ten-hour mini-series, the saga follows the adventures of a young woman, Virginia (Kimberly Williams, previously seen in FATHER OF T...
Hello Maniacs, and welcome back to another edition of the All-New, All-Different Comicscape. This week, rather than give you a long-winded rant on one subject, I’m going to take a look at a several different news items that have interested me over ...
SPIRAL by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Sat 02-16-2008)
The director and star of ‘Hatchet: Old School America Horror’ (Adam Green and Joel David Moore) have brought another thriller, albeit different, to the screen. Mason, (Joel David Moore) is your everyday insurance salesman drone living in ...