...’s KarlSchneider for setting up this interview.
Q: Coming into Slither, what was your mandate, as far as the kind of musical sensibility you felt would be needed for this film?
Tyler Bates: The scope of the music ...
What They SayDark Schneider is the \"Bastard!\"! A lone warlock, freed from years of imprisonment, stands against an army of destruction bent on world conquest and the resurrection of an ancient evil. But Dark Schneider is not protecting the desperate peo...
How do you take an animated character and handle her in a `realistic way?` How do you take a character that’s a second banana and ask her to carry her own series? How do you take a character who is insane, and handle her on a monthly basis?These were amon...
Apparently, Karl Urban has been offered the role of big villain in the upcoming STAR TREK, says IESB. If agreements are reached with the man who played Eomer in LOTR (also in Chronicles of Riddick, Doom), then Urban will be putting on some Romulan make up...
A 'Smallville' episode called 'Exposed,' airing Thursday, Nov. 3, reunites 'Dukes of Hazzard' stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider.
Wopat plays Sen. Jack Jennings (a nod to the "Dukes" balladeer, Waylon Jennings), an old friend of Jonathan Kent's who c...
John Schneider talked to the Ventura County Star about the upcoming season, letting a spoiler or two slip in the process. "Clark has skipped over an important development stage that needs to happen for a young man," he said. "As a real parent, I miss the ...
John Schneider and Margot Kidder spoke about their respective 'Smallville' characters at the 2005 Superman Celebration in Metropolis, IL this weekend. Among the topics: Schneider's expectations for the show's future as well as his own character's fate; Ki...
"(On both shows) we have the good guys who are good not because they're lily-white, but they're good because they make the right choices even when they don't want to," says John Schneider of 'Smallville' and 'Dukes of Hazzard.'
Mr. Deuce Bigelow himself, Rob Schneider, will make an appearance in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Schneider's cameo is one of several from high profile stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathy Bates, Johnny Knoxville and others. Jackie Chan and Steve C...
When asked if he's similar to his (now deceased) 'Smallville' character Jonathan Kent, actor John Schneider replied, "Totally. I'm a very loving, but strict parent. You'd find a lot of similarities between Jonathan Kent and John Schneider. They had fun on...
There is no cooler feeling than picking up your phone and hearing "Hi, it's John Schneider." Man, he's Bo Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard! But of course, Mr. Schneider has no desire to rest on the laurels of his famous southern good ol' boy. Now, he is pla...
KryptonSite caught up with John Schneider and asked about his experience directing for the series, and if he'd do it again next season. "Acting is easy. Actors don't really dissect anything but what they're doing. But as a director, you've gotta dissect t...
Yesterday, John Schneider (Jonathan Kent) was interviewed on The Wayne Brady Show. Click to read what he had to say about Smallville and flip through some screen caps.
"It is what needed to be done," Superman's dad John Schneider says about the casting of Brandon Routh as the movie Superman. More if you follow the link...
VARIETY notes Rob Schneider's new agreement with Disney, a two-year first-look production arrangement. Schneider's next film, THE HOT CHICK, is a body-swap yarn about a young woman who finds herself trapped in the body of a 30-year-old man.The production ...
[Cue an SD Chaos-chan marching across the webpage!]
SD Chaos-chan: ^-^ "Ohayo!! Welcome to Anime on DVD's special super-deformed ranting feature!"
SD Dark Schneider-chan: [walking into the rant] "Yo! I could use a mocchachino here! And a croissant too!"...
Doom by Corona's Coming Attractions (Tue 10-12-2004)
Genre:Horror/Video Game Adaptation.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:The Rock; Karl Urban; Rosamund Pike.Who's Making It:Andrzej Bartkowiak (Director); Dave Callaham (Screenwriter); Lorenzo Di Bonaventura,...
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Paramount Pictures.Production Company:Walden Media/Paramount Pictures.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Jackie Chan (Passepartout); Steve Coogan (Phileas Fogg); Jim Broadbent (Lord Kelvin); Johnny Knoxville; Cecile de Fran...
Well, there are always celebrities and Hollywood properties excelling at making gossip fodder of themselves and this week is no different. This week, we have a Judge smoking pot in idiotic places, Dukes of Hazzard actors getting snubbed from singing ...
Like its zombies, Night of the Living Dead just seems to keep coming back from the grave. The latest DVD release of the classic is a 40th anniversary edition that comes with an outstanding set of extras. There’s no doubt that Night of the Living Dea...
(Komawari cappuccino not included)
Well it's been some time since the last philosophy was mulled over, before you blinked numerous times and feared that the government was being too lenient with their 'get out of the padded cell free' cards. This is natu...
Last Updated: October 5, 2006Genre: Adventure, Sci-FiProduction Company: Ascendant PicturesDistributors: Weinstein CompanyProject Phase: Pre-productionBudget: NAWho's In It: Jim Caviezel, Karl UrbanWho's Making It: Howard McCain (Director, Writer), Dirk B...
When it comes to making money in the Anime business, TV is king. When a wildly popular series manages to make it on the air, a company can expect to see its initial investment in licensing fees and dubbing expenses return quite quickly. It's probably wh...
Genre:Action/Thriller/Sequel.Studio:Universal Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Matt Damon (Jason Bourne); Joan Allen (Helen Landy); Franka Potente; Julia Stiles; Karl Urban; Brian Cox (Ward Abbott); Tomas Arana; Tom G...
The Review!This is JUST what I needed! A good butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners anime!!
Audio:
Sadly, I only listened to the English side of the Audio. However, given that, I noted no problems with the audio. It wasn\'t a perfect audio like more curr...
When Lake Placid came out in 1999 it was a bit of a surprise hit and better than it had a right to be, partly because it was a campy ode to monster movies of the 1950’s. Still, it was not a film that I thought would have been worthy of generati...
I’ve been complaining lately that the marketing campaign for Heroes over-hyped the episodes to a degree that while the episodes were good, they were underwhelming due to the promises of the promotions. Well, now Heroes and LOST have anothe...
The Review!Ahhh . Bastard! One anime series I've been looking forward to seeing ever since I first heard about it. Really . swords and sorcerer . a dark wizard named Dark Schneider . virtually everything named after heavy metal bands . what's not to like?...
[Cue an SD Chaos, SD Dark Schneider and Tamagoyaki happily marching across the column!]
All: ^-^ [with party hats & streamers!] "Omedito!!"
SD Chaos-chan: [dressed up in an EVA plugsuit] "Congratulations to Chris and Melanie Beveridge, who had their bab...
It’s been a long time, I mean a really long time coming but the new episode of LOST is finally behind us. I think I’ve made my thoughts on the first half of this season fairly clear, as have most fans here on the ol' interweb. ...
After he completes working on the sequel to DEUCE BIGELOW comedian Rob Schneider will segway into FEARLESS, a new action comedy in development at Revolution Studios. Schneider will play a timid soldier that undergoes a top secret science experiment, turni...
Greetings Cinescapers! Last week this humble TV critic asked for you the reader to come up with pitches for the worst possible direction for season three of SMALLVILLE and boy did you ever! Response was overwhelming. So many of you contributed ideas, and ...
In Venezuela, a violent political protest claims the life of the mother of Sofia, a mutant girl with the ability to control the wind. Her uncle can't handle the idea of raising a mutant, so she is sent to America to live with her father, a rich businessma...
This week’s DVD peeve expands on a part of last week’s peeve: menu issues. As one reader put it: “I personally hate it when a movie automatically starts and doesn't go to the menu first. No override function to get past some long and drawn out DVD menus t...
Richard Branson, the billionaire businessman who founded Virgin Airlines and the retail chain, will film a cameo in Frank Coraci's AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Branson, who's also known for his promotional stunts riding in hot air balloons, will play a 19...
Genre:Comedy/Drama.Studio:Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks SKG.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Post-production.Who's In It:Ewan McGregor; Albert Finney; Billy Crudup; Jessica Lange; Danny DeVito; Helena Bonham Carter; Steve Buscemi; Robert Guillaume;...
The Pulse website has broken news about a new spinoff X-Men book from Marvel Comics based on the White Queen character. EMMA FROST will be an ongoing series written by Karl Bollers with art by Randy Green and covers by Greg Horn.According to the Pulse's ...
Capcom is a company that generally either puts out incredible titles that we'll talk about years from now, or games that nobody will remember next week. P.N. 03 is one of the latter, a shooter that really does nothing special beyond that of aggravating th...
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...
There are times when GHOST SHIP recalls THE SHINING, which is all to the good, even though it takes place (per the title) on a ruined ocean liner rather than a hotel. The movie has a tendency to spell things out that will strike some viewers as endearing ...
To me one of the great mysteries of the wacky world of cult movies is why Somewhere In Time has developed a Trekkie-sized fan following while Nicholas Meyer’s Time After Time hasn’t. Time travel movies have always had a terrific romantic appeal: the chanc...
VIDEO NEWSHELLRAISER: HELLSEEKER, which reunites stars Doug Bradley and Ashley Laurence from the first film in the series, will hit video stores this October. But FANGORIA.COM recently reported that a sequel to that sequel is already in the works. Apparen...
This Week’s RecommendationSReleased on DVD a couple weeks ago, Roman Coppola’s CQ is as much a homage to such lovably quirky European ’60s sc-fi/spy films as BARBARELLA and DANGER DIABOLIK as it is an intriguing film in its own right. Taking place in 1969...
Even though the cat is pretty much out of the bag on the nature of the ghostly occupants of GHOST SHIP, director Steve Beck is not going to give an inch."I've been having a whole lot of trouble answering the question of whether the ship is possessed," say...
Unless your childhood was completely finished by 1967, you've never had kids of your own, you grew up in a Disney-hating household and/or you spent your formative years away from Western culture, it is almost a certainty that at some point, you've encount...
While covering the recent Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, CINESCAPE photographer Sue Schneider caught up with actor Michael Pare', self-proclaimed Hollywood hermit and star of the syndicated television series STARHUNTER. Perhaps bes...
On October 1st WB Network held a Wednesday Night Premiere Party for ANGEL and SMALLVILLE at The Grove on Fairfax and Third Street, put on by KTLA and KIIS FM. Radio host Clarence Barnes and KTLA's Mindy Burbano and Sam Rubin were the hosts of the night.T...
MGM continues their terrific Midnight Movies series presentation of worthy genre programmers on DVD with this John Agar double feature.Today, INVISIBLE INVADERS is better known as a direct inspiration for George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (or even ...
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...
Back before there was a second STAR WARS movie in theaters, one of the top shows on network TV was THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. On the tube for seven seasons, the show found a second life later in syndication and then on country cable channels such as TNN, befor...
One of the most famous science fiction scores of all time - which astonishingly has never been released in its original soundtrack form – comes to CD for the first time as Film Score Monthly’s Golden Age Classic for March: Dimitri Tiomkin's amazing score ...
Release Date: May 8, 2009 Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: J.J. Abrams Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci Starring: Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Bruce Gree...
NYPD BLUE finally wrapped last week after 12 long seasons. While it's always sad to see a quality show go, BLUE was probably several seasons overdue, and at least they went out on their own terms. Besides, for the first time in 12 years, I don't have to w...
DOOM's Karl Urban is in discussions to star in the Weinstein Company's epic science fiction project OUTLANDER. The story centers on a man from another galaxy who crash-lands on Earth at the time of the Vikings, bringing with him an alien predator.Howard ...
Despite my admiration for the CrossGen project and the enjoyment I got out of the first two monthly collected volumes of other CrossGen titles in FORGE and EDGE, I've wondered whether there would ever be a CrossGen title that didn't feel like it needed a ...
Sci Fi Wire is reporting Christian Bale and Gary Oldman are definitely signed for a BATMAN BEGINS sequel but that Katie Holmes, Morgan Freeman and director Christopher Nolan are not. Bale told Sci Fi "I did enjoy making this one. It's a fascinating chara...
One of the producers of the HARRY POTTER films and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are teaming up on a new movie in development for Warner Bros. Heyman's Heyday Films and Plan B Entertainment are collaborating on a screen adaptation of ON THE NATURE OF HUM...
Screenwriters David Schneider and Drew Daywalt have landed the job of writing the movie adaptation of HUNTER: THE RECKONING, a series of video games published by Vivendi Universal which are themselves based on the role-playing game published by White Wolf...
Although it's a sequel to 2000's PITCH BLACK, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK switches genres somewhat: while the earlier film was sci-fi action/adventure creature horror, the new release is sci-fi action/adventure aspiring epic saga. Writer/director David Twoh...
In his book MONDO MACABRO, author Pete Tombs introduced fans of psychotronic cinema to weird and wonderful film oddities from distant corners of the world. Unfortunately, an introduction was all the reader was likely to get, as most of these films still r...
Big man Michael Clarke Duncan has joined the ever-swelling cast of Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY, reports the trade magazine Variety. What role Duncan will take in the ensemble production remains unknown at the present time.After fulfilling his obligations ...
Poor Jason Bourne (or whatever his name really is). Still suffering from nightmares about a life he cannot remember two years after the events of THE BOURNE IDENTITY, the former CIA Black Ops assassin (Matt Damon) wants nothing more than a peaceful life w...
After starring in two of Universal Pictures summertime films, Karl Urban (who also starred in the latter two LORD OF THE RINGS pictures) will receive another paycheck from the same studio for starring in DOOM along with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Urban, w...
The big screen DUKES OF HAZZARD boys have been found and they are JACKASS star Johnny Knoxville and AMERICAN PIE's Seann William Scott. Knoxville will play Luke Duke, the dark-haired cousin (originally played by Tom Wopat in the CBS TV series) while Scott...
OPINION: First, a brief rant: Marvel has one of the worst websites in the comics world in terms of up-to-date info. Last week, the site was promoting (and is still promoting as of this writing, October 26, by the way) X-STATIX #13 as the first part of the...
Oni Press has already lined up more than two dozen creators for a charity auction to benefit the American Red Cross relief fund.According to Oni, the plan is to offer materials only comics professionals can provide. This means original art, signed comics,...
Having already evaluated the best fantasy soundtracks of 1999 and assessed the best fantasy scores of the 1990, it’s time to cast an ear back over the last hundred years of fantasy, horror, and science fiction film music. Which scores were the trendsetter...
It has taken more than two years to produce, but Gen13/ Fantastic Four finally hits comic racks today. And you thought waiting for an issue of Battle Chasers to be published was bad.`I did the project like two years ago,` admits Kevin Maguire, who writes ...
Well, here`s something else we can blame on George Lucas and his STAR WARS Trilogy Special Editions. This atrocity is actually a full year late for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD`s 30th anniversary. What John Russo has done is taken a horror classic and, in the...
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 many ways, the story told in The Rise of Apocalypse reminds me of the sort of comic stories that Marvel published before the launch of the Silver Age. In telling the origin of the X-Men`s powerful enemy Apocalypse, Rise gives us something like in Amazi...
Kurt Busiek let loose with a barrage of news over the weekend at the Canadian National Comic Book Expo in Toronto, including a new direction for Marvel's DEFENDERS and a DC event in January.On the Defenders front, Busiek said that artist Erik Larsen's las...
(All Photos by SUE SCHNEIDER)Several cast members from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION appeared at this year's Television Critics Association (TCA) Fall Press Tour gathering in Pasadena to talk up the program's addition to the TNN cable channel schedule. C...
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...
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...
Other than director J.J. Abrams and William Shatner going back and forth on the Shatner snubbing, it's been virtually quiet on the Star Trek news front. Until now, that is. You subscribers of Entertainment Weekly will have noticed their latest issue with ...
Vulkon has announced their Tampa line up, for the first Kryptkon - a Superman convention held on August 5-7 2005 at the Doubletree Hotel Tampa Airport in Tampa, Florida. The Special Guests include John Schneider (Smallville's Jonathan Kent), Erica Durance...
Kids' WB! has released a new image from "Hoop Squad," the episode of Static Shock airing next Saturday.
The episode features National Basketball Association players Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets, Karl Malone of the Los Angeles Lakers, Steve Nash of th...
In case you
missed it Tuesday night, The WB is going to rebroadcast the Smallville
episodes "Prodigal", in which Lex
finds his long-lost brother Lucas.
Lex (Michael
Rosenbaum) finds Lucas (guest star Paul Wasilewski), the son Lionel (John...
When asked if he was participating in the new Superman movie, Schneider had this to say (keep in mind this is paraphrased, so it may not be an exact verbatim quote):
"No, and I am actually kind of glad. Smallville is not really about Superman, it's abo...
I wasn't sure what I'd thought about this one and I'm still not sure what I think of it as I begin to write this. I've even watched it twice, it might take a third viewing before I figure it out. (NOTE: after a third viewing, I'm still torn...)
While i...
Here is the ultimate list of the familiar faces that you always see in your favorite fantasy, Sci-Fi and comic book movies and television series, but thanks to their B-Celebrity status, have no idea who these actors are.
When these people&...
CHUD has an interesting rumor about the 'Woverine' movie. According to one of their "closely placed and highly trusted" sources, Karl Urban has dropped out of the movie. Urban was to play Creed, who eventually becomes Sabretooth.
CHUD's s...
It's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm giving myself an early birthday present: a shorter column. Many happy returns. And in keeping with the birthday theme -- namely, focusing on me, myself, and I -- here's a list of four things that would make my birthday ...
Oni Press and Komikwerks have merged their disaster relief efforts into one focused fundraiser. Last week both publishers independently announced that they had started efforts to create auctions that would benefit the American Red Cross relief fund.Oni's ...
When a toy breaks and no one’s around, does it make a sound? Chances are, probably not. But when its owner finds it, you better believe there’s gonna be some cussin’ and whailin’ going on. No sir, toy collecting ain’t for the faint of heart. Heck, I’m liv...
George Romero's classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has had a strange life on home video thanks to its public domain status. With every two-bit, fly by night distributor putting out a bargain bin version of NOTLD on VHS (and more recently, DVD), there has be...
Jared is your average, everyday kid, but only if you consider someone who's read the entire World Book Encyclopedia by age eight and who's skipped three grades "average." There's something different about Jared, and it's that difference that makes jocks l...
Recently, the biggest names in STAR TREK gathered in Pasadena, Calif. to bask in the splendor of the biggest franchise in modern science fiction: STAR TREK Grand Slam 2002.While it was impossible to see everything and attend all of the guest star's appear...
Recently the biggest names in STAR TREK gathered in Pasadena, California to glory and gather in the splendor that is the biggest franchise in modern science fiction: STAR TREK Grand Slam 2002. While it was impossible to see everything and attend all of th...
Yesterday we brought you a torrent of news stemming from the 28th annual Saturn Awards (sponsored faithfully by this very magazine) and today we're pleased to bring you photos of who was there telling us everything about genre events past and future. If y...
This isn't Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's LOST WORLD, and it sure ain't JURASSIC PARK. On the mysterious continent of Dinotopia, humans and intelligent, talking dinosaurs live in harmony, but that peace is shattered when a plane crashes into this strange paradi...
CrossGen Comics has hired Nick Bell as a colorist. Bell will color a soon-to-be-named title in the horror genre.Bell has been coloring comics since 1995 when he got his start at WildStorm Productions. There he began as part of a team that worked on every ...
Annette O'Toole is currently co-starring in one of the hottest new television shows of the yearThe WB's variation on the SUPERMAN legend, SMALLVILLE. Her role as the teenage Superman/Clark Kent's mom, Martha Kent, is unique in that for once the character...
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Sequel. Studio: New Line Cinema. Production Company: Wingnut Films. Project Phase: In the Can. Who's In It: Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn); Ian McKellen (Gandalf the White); Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins); Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee); Orlando...
The WB TV network has released story details, to compliment those previously released photos, from the October 30th episode of SMALLVILLE, titled "Hothead."Fathers and sons come to a standoff as Clark (Tom Welling) joins the football team despite his fath...
Bobby Drake takes off for Hong Kong to confront his ex-girlfriend Opal Tanaka. (Good grief, almost the whole team is over there this week...see X-MEN ANNUAL 2001, and you'll see what I mean.) Seems she's been keeping from him the fact that he now has a so...
First of all, let us all here at the CINESCAPE video secton offer you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. Do yourself a favor, and take a break from your busy schedule to sit down and watch one of your favorite holiday shows - IT'S A WONDERFUL L...
SAVAGE DRAGON creator Erik Larsen has announced that cartoonist Chris Giarrusso will be doing a new comic strip in the back of his comic series beginning with issue #93.Giarrusso is the creator of Marvel's Bullpen Bits and the recent GIANT-SIZE MINI-MARVE...
One of the first noticeable additions to the latest SUPERMAN offshoot is the fact that Martha Kent is not being portrayed as a helpless old woman. (O.K., that and maybe the fact that the woman playing Martha Kent was actually once Lana Lang.)
Annett...
For all those who felt the so-called "anniversary" issue last month was a virtual catalogue of mistakes and opportunities missed, this first regular issue since the big celebration manages to recapture much of what makes the FF work so well these last 40 ...
Rob Schneider is stepping into the shoes of Arnold Schwarzenegger... kind of. The ex SNLer has just signed for the lead in the barbarian movie parody HARV THE BARBARIAN. The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER described the movie as a "MONTY PYTHON-esque tale" (big words,...
After weeks of rumors, the latest press release from Paramount confirms that Karl Urban is set to play Dr. McCoy (aka "Bones") in the upcoming STAR TREK. This has been widely reported by sites such as Trekmovie and IGN but no confirmation h...
A psychotropic
flower turns Lana into the Lolita of Smallville while an infected Pete goes
after Lex in the encore showing of "Nicodemus", the July 9th episode
of Smallville.
Clark (Tom
Welling) must solve the riddle of the mysterious Nicodemus flo...
Comics2Film would like to wish a Happy Birthday to Smallville star Tom Welling, who is celebrating his twenty-fifth birthday today. Welling,
who portrays the teenaged Clark Kent on the WB series, reportedly turned down the role of Clark twice before fi...
Well, we can finally put an end to the William Shatner-cameo rumors that have raged back and forth this past year. There were rumors that the creators just couldn't find a place to fit the actor into the next Star Trek adventure and director J.J. Abrams h...
Fans can now
visit Smallville snoop Chloe Sullivan's "Wall of Weird"
online. The WB issued this press release yesterday announcing the new web
attraction:
As the second
record-breaking season of the hit action series Smallville goes
into...
Several Stars were at the WB Network's All Star Winter Party on Saturday, Jan 22, including Erica Durance (Lois Lane), John Schneider (Jonathan Kent), and John Glover (Lionel Luthor). View some images of them on the red carpet!
Issue #2 of the Official Smallville Magazine was released on Wednesday; visit KryptonSite for many quotes from the mag, including bits from folks like Erica Durance, Annette O'Toole, Tom Welling, and John Schneider...
'Smallville' co-star John Schneider (Jonathan Kent) told SCI FI Wire that this week's episode, 'Perry,' guest stars Michael McKean as Perry White, a drunken and disgraced journalist who now seeks stories for a tabloid news show and thinks he's landed a wi...
So, it's Black Friday today. Time to get out to the stores, if you dare. While you are there, why not pick up a nice new dub? To help you decide, I have put together some thoughts on several recently released dubs, which I plan to make into a regular feat...
The November 3 episode of 'Smallville' not only reunites actor John Schneider with his 'Dukes of Hazzard' co-star Tom Wopat; there's also an appearance by another familiar sight from the TV classic... click for more details; Spoiler Warning.
A new project detailed during the presentation at Sci Fi's New York headquarters were 'Heroes Anonymous,' a live-action drama that focuses on twentysomething superheroes who form a support group. Based on the comic book series by Scott Gimpel and Bill Mor...
View several images of John Schneider (Jonathan Kent), John Glover (Lionel Luthor), and Erica Durance (Lois Lane) at the Warner Bros Television and Warner Home Video party which was held on Thursday, Jan 20th.
John Schneider ('Smallville') and Tracey Scoggins ('Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman') are just a few of the stars scheduled to appear in Orlando Feb 24 - 26.
The latest 'Batman Begins' sequel rumors have Karl Urban up for the role of Roman Sionis a.k.a. Black Mask and Vanessa Redgrave for that of a person close to Bruce Wayne and Alfred. Leslie Thompkins?
Update #2: And the Star Trek items keep on coming in. Maniac Flint has passed word that Entertainment Weekly has unveiled a new external glimpse of the Enterprise that you will see in J.J. Abrams' upcoming film. As you'll likely remember from the first te...
The biggest star this week isn’t an alien, or wizard, or vampire but a space ship! Specifically it’s the Millennium Falcon and Star Wars’ most famous ship is the subject of the latest novel in the SW universe from Del Rey Bo...
In a new interview posted at TV Guide Online, Michael Rosenbaum talks about tonight's new episode, "Onyx," and describes it as the "best episode of the year."
"I get to beat the s--t out of Jonathan Kent (John Schneider), which I've been waiting to do ...
After completing work on King Kong Gentle Giant President Karl Meyer revealed at the film's premiere that his Gentle Giant studio next creates great acting from digitally-controlled figures in the upcoming "X Men-3," "The Da Vinci Code" and "Spider-Man 3.
"Post-production is going great," Marvel Studios' Ari Arad told The Continuum of the 'Ghost Rider' movie on Thursday. "We're starting to get visual effects in."
The WB has released 11 more images from "Exposed," the Thursday, Nov. 3 episode of Smallvi...
The WB has released eight images from "Exposed," the Thursday, Nov. 3 episode of Smallville. The episode reunites Dukes of Hazzard stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat.
Cartoon Network has adjusted its schedule for Saturday night premieres of Teen Titans...
The line up of celebrities who will appear at the 2005 Superman Celebration in Metropolis Illinois have been finalized.
The list includes:
John Schneider ("Smallville")
Margot Kidder (Superman movies and "Smallville")
Noel Neill (Superman Serials...
KryptonSite has posted nearly 75 preview screen captures from the Nov. 3 episode of 'Smallville,' which reunites 'Dukes of Hazzard' co-stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat and has them driving an almost familiar car...
"Everyone knows that in some versions of the Superman myth Clark Kent's adoptive father, Johnathan Kent, dies before Clark literary flies the coop.
"It's very bittersweet. In order for Clark Kent to become Superman, he has to need to fill the shoes of ...
Maniacs can now check out the new trailer for Star Trek which is now online in High Definition today at the official website. Most of you have seen the new trailer attached to most Quantum of Solace showings this weekend.
The next Trek adventure star...
From voice actor Mark Ryan's official website:
I know there's been a lot of speculation about this issue online, so Paramount Pictures has given me official permission to now confirm that I am voicing Bumblebee in the new Transformers Movie.
I was a...
John Schneider (Jonathan Kent), John Glover (Lionel Luthor), and Erica Durance (Lois Lane) were at a party on Thursday night to celebrate 50 years of Warner Brothers television in Burbank, California.
KryptonSite has learned that the title for episode #3-20 of Smallville is "Talisman." The episode is directed by Jonathan Kent himself, John Schneider.
It seems that the whole "Is Shatner appearing in the new film" question will continue circulate for J.J Abrams' upcoming Star Trek, the latest rebirth of this rumor coming from co-star Clifton Collins Jr. Fellow Maniac Joeybaloney has passed alo...
Paramount Pictures has unleashed four new posters for their next adventure of Star Trek at the VegasCon '08 event and TrekMovie.com was on hand to pass them along. The posters feature the top stars of the film and when put together, form the Star Trek del...
Just two weeks after revealing the first trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Paramount and company have done some tinkering around and added a small tweak to the first video clip. Well, it's small and at the end of the trailer but it's still a major tweak...
As someone who spends pretty much his entire life chasing, investigating, and writing about mysterious beasts and diabolical monsters, I have to admit that I have come across some extremely wild and far-out stories in my time – and that’s putt...
He's resisted
Lex Luthor's advances but it looks as if Jonathan Kent is ready to sell out the
family farm to a pesticide baron on an the encore presentation of
"Hug", this week's episode of Smallville.
"Clark
(Tom Welling) is stunned when a pestici...
A brand new
season of Smallville
begins next week with the season opener "Vortex": the gripping conclusion to a twister of a
season finale.
After Clark (Tom
Welling) rescues Lana (Kristin Kreuk) from the eye of the storm, he discovers the storm's...
A triple dose
of Smallville next week gives fans one last chance to get ramped
up for the new season, which begins September 24th.
First, the
legacy begins as The WB presents a repeat airing of the "Pilot" and
"Metamorphosis" episode, airing on Sun...
It's a
back-to-back Smallville next week with encores airing Monday,
August 5th and August 6th!
Monday's
episode is "Rogue" in which Clark makes a deal with the devil.
Clark's (Tom
Welling) secret identity is at stake when a bad cop (guest star Ca...
Creature Comforts, a series I had recently added to the TV Wasteland schedule, just got the big bump by the networks. Last week’s episode came in fourth place in its time slot. If you haven’t watched it, and apparently you haven&rsqu...
In light of the biggest gaming news of 2007 (thus far), this Tuesday’s schedule reinforces the fact that some of the best genre narratives don’t have to originate from the traditional literary form. Greetings all you Maniac readers and welcome...
Welcome to the newly branded UK Cine, as named by Mark Humphreys of Northampton. Your copy of Elfen Lied volume one is in the mail. For regular readers, the column will be running on Wednesdays for the foreseeable future – be sure to update your ...
Actress Aisha Tyler has jumped aboard the action thriller BLACK WATER TRANSIT. Tyler will play a police detective in post-Katrina New Orleans tracking down a man trying to free his junkie son from prison. The film stars Laurence Fishburne and Karl Urban a...
The action-adventure film Pathfinderwill debut on DVD July 31st from Fox Home Entertainment, the mythic clash will be available in its theatrical R-rated version and in an unflinching and brutal two-disc unrated extended edition, packed with extreme ...
X-Men 2
is due in theaters May 2nd and Marvel is poised to capitalize on the excitement
generated by the event in a way they failed to when the first movie came round. The comic publisher held a conference call on Tuesday to discuss plans surrounding ...
One has to wonder how director Joe Carnahan feels about being snubbed twice by J.J Abrams. First, he had the directing gig set for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III only to lose the gig, something Abrams eventually was awarded from Paramount. Now, he has his lo...
Arguably a much better game series than a movie franchise, RESIDENT EVIL is back with the novelization of the third film, Resident Evil: Extinction due out in theatres this fall. G’day all you Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz. We’ve got ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Vantage has purchased the horror script DETAILS from writer Dan Kay.The script is based on a short story by British fantasy writer China Mieville and revolves around a girl who disappears after having uncover...
Woohoo! We're back to a big long list, so we've just got room to get into the Prize Closet. We have 2 copies of BLACKBALLED: THE BOBBY DUKES STORY to give away, courtesy of Shout Factory. To enter, send an email containing your name and address to psycho...
Yahoo! is offering the new trailer for the upcoming feature DOOM.The film stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Ben Daniels, and Dexter Fletcher. It hits theaters October 21, 2005.Click here to watch the Windows Media or QuickTime tr...
Preface to the PrefaceThe following is a rant. As such, I expect some readers to agree wholeheartedly, and others to write unkind things about me and my family. For next week, feel free to step in the ring: e-mail me at comicscape@cinescape.com or at ku...
Kraftwerk is one of the most influential bands to emerge from Germany in the seminal days at the birth of progressive rock and roll in the early 1970s. Yet the band continues to progress and run strong. Over the last two years, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schnei...
Last month's Consumer Electronics Show revealed just how muddy the waters have gotten in the war for High Definition home video. Though High Definition television, now available via cable and satellite, has been slow to creep into homes, indications say t...
ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN continued to hold on to the number one spot at the box office this past weekend with take of $34.5 million in ticket sales.Rob Schneider and David Spade's THE BENCHWARMERS came in second with $20.5 million and TAKE THE LEAD, with Ant...
In the newest category at this year's 26th Annual RAZZIE® Awards, mega-star Tom Cruise found himself in a lose/lose situation: Competing for Most Tiresome Tabloid Target, his Anti-Psychiatry Rant lost out to his own antics with fiancé Katie Holmes to "win...
I think like a lot of people, my first exposure to the art of Frank Frazetta was the old Lancer/Ace Conan paperback book covers. I think I was around 12 or 13 and had never heard of Conan and bought one of the books, I think Conan of Cimmeria, just b...
Production on the new STAR TREK film hasn't begun but that's not stopping Paramount from planning a new teaser, says Latino Review. The next Trek adventure stars Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, ...
What They SayLight Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he\'s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies,...
What They SayJust like Dark Schneider, the \"Best of Bastard!! Original Soundtrack\" is finally back again, returning to full anime music glory, with its magnificent, thundering score by the juggernaut of anime composers, Kohei Tanaka (One Piece, Gad Guar...
What They SayYutaro Tsukayama, after being wounded by his own teacher during a revolution on the Izu Peninsula, departed for Germany in search of treatment for the tendons in his arm. However, on the day he left, he had promised to return and finish his ...
The Review!The penultimate volume of the Rurouni Kenshin TV series continues on in the horrible, horrible German arc, then provides us with a pleasant intermission before starting off the Feng Shui arc. Is this one worth buying? Possibly.
The usuals:
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Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Seino ShizuruTranslated by:Aya MatsunagaAdapted by:What They SayLet The Games Begin
Some people will do anything to realize their dreams... even if it means disguising a girl as a boy so she can play on a famous boy's basketba...
The Kents take
in a young boy who discovers Clark's secret in "Stray", the April 16th
episode of Smallville.
After Martha
(Annette O'Toole) accidentally hits a young boy with her car, the Kents take him
in until they can locate his parents, unaware...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Takayuki Kanda/Naoko TakaseTranslated by:Sachiko SatoAdapted by:What They Say true genius for the ages, Beethoven has left an indelible mark on the music world with such famous works as Symphony No. 5 (\'Fate,\') Symphony No. ...
What They SayA long awaited Ghibli release of the 2nd \"Lupin III\" movie on DVD. The classic film was directed by none other than maestro Hayao Miyazaki! Disc 2 contains the main feature + animated storyboard (played by selecting one of the alternate mul...
What They SayBit struggles to master Liger Zero. When battling Jack Cisco, Team Backdraft or the Desert Gang, Bit manages to use the Liger Zero by itself or with the custom high-speed Jager unit effectively. However, in close-combat against the Zaber Fang...
Ben Cross has been cast in the upcoming STAR TREK, reports the official website for the franchise. Cross will be portraying Sarek, the Vulcan father of Spock, while Winona Ryder will be playing Amanda Grayson, the human mother of the famed Enterprise ...
JFX Online has become the first site to publish production photos of the upcoming STAR TREK film, publishing the first look of Zachary Quinto dressed up as Spock. The site also published a slew of other photos in regards to a scene involving Spock and oth...
In the coming weeks, more and more of our beloved shows will be either going into reruns or just going off the air due to the writer’s strike. While this really stinks, it might offer an opportunity to catch up with some series you’ve nev...
Playwright/actor/director/producer Tyler Perry will be appearing in the next STAR TREK, says Ugo's Back Row Chatter. Our friend Pat also scored some impressive plot information about his character in the film, which revolves around Kirk (Ch...
A new actress has been pegged by Paramount to perform the transporter duties in their upcoming adventure of Star Trek, reports Variety. The trade says that Marlene Forte ("CSI", "Lost") will become the "Chief Transporter"...
Karl Urban better put on some decent running shoes and learn lessons from Apocalypto because he's about to have to take flight from some homicidal natives in the new 3-D action flick Relentless. Director Demian Lichtenstein, who's been following Cameron a...
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...
Phoenix Pictures is in talks with actor Karl Urban to star in PATHFINDER. The films is a remake of the 1987 Norwegian film. The new version is set in North America around the same time, when Vikings inadvertently discovered the continent 500 years before ...
I tend to ignore most script treatments reportedly leaked on the internet because the majority of them are downright lies, false information or old treatments that the director no longer uses for his film. Still, if something comes from a reliable so...
In case you
missed it Tuesday night, The WB is going to rebroadcast the Smallville
episodes "Suspect", that
ponders the question: "Who shot Lionel Luthor?"
When Lionel
(John Glover) is shot, Jonathan (John Schneider) is arrested, but after Clark
(To...
In case you
missed it Tuesday night, The WB is going to rebroadcast the Smallville
episode "Lineage", in which Blair
Brown guest stars in a stunning flashback episode.
A mysterious
woman (Brown) shows up claiming to be Clark's (Tom Welling) mother,...
In case you
missed it last night, The WB is going to rebroadcast the Smallville
episode "Duplicity", in which one
of Clark's friends discovers the spaceship in the cornfield.
After one of
Clark's (Tom Welling) friends discover the spaceship in the ...
In case you
missed it Tuesday night, The WB is going to rebroadcast the Smallville
episodes "Rush", which features the return of Red Kryptonite!
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