..." recalls KellyAsbury, the film's director. "[Fusco] did sort of a first half screenplay which really has served as the structure of the film. The general structure has been there for a long time. Themes and characters have come and gone, characters h...
When interviewing Bryan Singer, it was interesting to hear the X-Men director only give a truly weighty testimonial to one actor and one actor onlyand that actor was Bruce Davison. This is a cast that includes such luminaries as Patrick Stewart, SirIan M...
...ection by KellyAsbury and Lorna Cook relies on some powerful key images to enlist audience sympathy, then sets a pace that flows swiftly without being hectic. The blending of traditional animation and CGI is smoother here than it was in, say, DreamWor...
...SHREK 1), KellyAsbury and Conrad Vernon and screenwriters Adamson (who also penned the story), Joe Stillman (another first-film veteran), J. David Stern and David N. Weiss have loosened up here, so that the pop culture references feel a little m...
Shrek 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Tue 06-08-2004)
... Adamson, KellyAsbury, Conrad Vernon (Directors); Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, David Stern, David Weiss (Screenwriters); Andrew Adamson (Story); Aron Warner, David Lipman, John H. Williams (Producers); Pacific Data Images (Computer Animation House);...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. Thats how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
Senator Kelly isn't done with Professor X and his X-Men, at least not in the movies.
Bruce Davison, who played Kelly in the original X-Men movie, told SCI FI Wire that he is, "going up [to Vancouver] to do something in
X-Men 2. Sen. Kelly, they're goi...
If you don't remember actress Kelly Hu from her brief appearances in GROWING PAINS and NASH BRIDGES, or for her role as Grace Chen in MARTIAL LAW, you might not be entirely alone. But if you still don't know who she is now that THE SCORPION KING has premi...
Patrick Smith Kelly will be in charge of penning the screenplay for the adaptation of the Kit Whitfield werewolf novel, BENIGHTED, says the Hollywood Reporter. The supernatural thriller will likely be directed by Andrew Adamson who is also producing ...
E! News Live
recently ran an interview with X-Men 2 cast member Kelly Hu,
who noted that her character, Ann Reynolds, is "also known as Lady Deathstrike."
However, Hu seemed in-the-dark about the character, as she says the writ...
Weeks after being cast as the best friend of the young lead in Disney's remake of FREAKY FRIDAY, Kelly Osbourne has left the project for "personal reasons."Osbourne was to play the best friend of co-lead Lindsay Lohan, who plays the strong-willed daughter...
How does Bruce
Davison's Senator Kelly character return to X-Men 2 when he
apparently did in the first movie?
"Let's just say Senator Kelly's feeling a little blue these days,"
Davison told SCI FI Wire, hinting that his role in the sequel will actua...
According to a Fantagraphics press release, Fantagraphics has acquired the rights to publish a comprehensive series of Walt Kelly's classic comic strip, POGO.Press release:Fantagraphics Books is pleased to announce that it has acquired the rights to publi...
All teenagers have adjustment problems, but Donnie Darko is in a class of his own. There's the psychiatric medication he's supposed to take, but often neglects. And the guy in the bunny suit only he can see. Oh, yeah and he just may be taking trips throu...
Thursday at the San Diego Comic Convention a panel was held to focus on Richard Kelly's DONNIE DARKO: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, in limited release in theaters as of today. Attending the panel was Kelly, the film'd director/writer, producer Sean McKittrick and a...
Jeph Loeb, the writer behind Superman, has one rule when he commences an interview: he won`t comment on the creative teams that came before the current regime because, as he puts it, `I have a lot of respect for those guys.` Nonetheless, there must be som...
Domino by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 11-05-2004)
Genre:Action/Biography.Studio:New Line Cinema.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Greenlighted.Who's In It:Keira Knightly (Domino Harvey); Mena Suvari; Christopher Walken; Mickey Rourke; Lucy Liu; Jacqueline Bisset; Macy Gray; Edgar Ramirez; Shondr...
As discussed last week, DC`s four primary Superman titles went through a bit of an evolution beginning with SUPERMAN #151, with new creative teams writing and drawing the books, a new editor--in the form of Eddie Berganza--overseeing the Man of Steel`s ad...
The Review!Oh. So this is where the Young Brash Good Guy went to.
He laid low until volume 2, that sneaky fella.
Well anyways, the second volume of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory came out this week, and true to my word in my review of the firs...
What They SayNaga and Lina find even more adventure, when Naga destroys a tavern with fire just to get Lina\'s attention. The villagers, not too happy with Naga\'s antics, demand payback in the form of a rescue. Later, Lina tiers of protecting Sirene Fitz...
From a press release
Culver City, CA – From acclaimed writer/director Richard Kelly, the visionary creator behind the modern classic Donnie Darko, comes another exercise in mind-bending cool with 'Southland Tales', available on DVD March 18, 2008 f...
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz, where information on tomorrow’s batch of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror lit are brought to light today. In a slow week of genre releases Dr. Who hardcovers and a couple original tales of speculative fic...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
Readers most closely identify Dan Simmons with his rightfully popular epic SF novel HYPERION and the other three books in the HYPERION CANTOS series that followed. But Simmons has written in many other genres, including mystery and horror...and he's even ...
Unlike her collaborators on the new Jack the Ripper film FROM HELL, Heather Graham readily admits that she knew very little about Saucy Jack and his vicious exploits beyond the sort of pop culture awareness that any respectable movie fan might have."I di...
Dont believe everything you read. For months now, many of my fellow reviewers have been decrying the merits of Steampunk, the new creator-owned Cliffhanger series from writer Joe Kelly and artist Chris Bachalo. Among other things, theyve called it confu...
DOMINO, it must be said, is consistently energetic and largely entertaining, especially in its early sections, but it's also a mess. The late, real-life Domino Harvey was a woman privileged by birth (her father was actor Laurence Harvey, who died when Dom...
The Human Defense Corps has been established as a separate branch of the military to deal with alien threats to humanity, and it's made up of decorated soldiers who fought in previous campaigns against aliens - in the words of Private Kelly, the ones who ...
What They SayIn 19th-century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which one is born dictates the path his or her life will likely follow. But when Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, and William, an earnest member of t...
LAKE PLACID (coming out on video this week) is the next step in the evolutionary process that led from JAWS to ANACONDA. The unlikely but amusing story has a JURASSIC-size Salt Water Crocodile showing up in an isolated lake not too far from the Easter Coa...
Cinescape as the all the info on the Richard Kellys director's cut of DONNIE DARKO, which hits the stands on Tuesday. Here is the scoop directly from Fox. Also, see the special sneak clips at the end of the article. Fox Home Entertainment invites you to ...
I somehow missed the cultural phenomenon that is THE OSBOURNES the first time around - between work and my absolute hatred of reality TV, I couldn't think of a good reason to spend my precious time, even for half an hour, to watch (and try to understand) ...
DC Comics has provided more details about "The Obsidian Age The Hunt for Aquaman," a seven-part, twice-monthly story starting in JLA #69. Written by Joe Kelly, "The Obsidian Age" features alternating chapters illustrated by the art teams of Doug Mahnke ...
Hey, I know you guys are all upset about all this talk about the WB shooting down BIRDS OF PREY.As of this column's writing, the WB hasn't officially cancelled BIRDS OF PREY, but it hasn't extended the series order beyond the original 13 either.Here's why...
By rights, I-SPY ought to not work at all. First of all, it's one of those movie adaptations of a TV series that cannibalizes its source material for names and retains little or nothing of value from the original, which is a form of false advertising. In ...
Waiting nine years to work again with one of Hollywood's top-notch actors is always worth the wait for actress Eliza Dushku. So when THIS BOY'S LIFE director Michael Caton-Jones wanted Dushku to act alongside Robert De Niro once again for his new crime dr...
ACTION COMICS reaches rarefied air in terms of longevity when DC Comics releases the 800th issue of the title in February.Written by Joe Kelly with art by Pascual Ferry, Duncan Rouleau, Cam Smith and Marlo Alquiza, plus Tim Sale, Mort Drucker, Lee Bermejo...
There is no immediate connection between the title and the content of CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE the nearest apparent link is the story's inclusion of a live little girl (cradle) and a hefty body count (a lot of graves) but that's hardly the point. What might h...
As a lover of movies, I dearly love the DVD format. However, now that theyve been around a while and the format has become established, the honeymoon is over. I still dearly love DVD, but there are some things I dearly hate about them, and from time to t...
About a week before shooting is set to begin, Brad Renfro has been replaced by Jason Ritter (SWIMFAN) as the male hero in FREDDY VS. JASON. The film, which also stars Robert Englund as Freddy Kruger, Monica Keena and Kelly Rowland (of Destiny's Child), is...
This Week's RecommendationRichard Band's wonderfully twisted, Bernard Herrmann-tinged score for Stuart Gordon's debut grand-guignol, over-the-top horror visualization of H. P. Lovecraft's RE-ANIMATOR has come out in a lavish new edition on La-La-Land Reco...
Activision Value, a division of video game distributor Activision, announced that it has released a PC game based on Warner Bros. GODS AND GENERALS movie, now in theaters. The game uses a first-person perspective to put the player in the boots of a capta...
VARIETY reports that William Kelly, Oscar-winning screenwriter best known for WITNESS, died Monday of cancer at 73.The writer divided his efforts between publishing and novels and the big and small screens, with writing credits that include the shows KUNG...
VIDEO NEWSFROM HELL was a box office disappointment, but for those who missed the Hughes Brothers highly atmospheric take on the most legendary serial killer in history, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has recently announced that the film will be rele...
The Doctor, Anji, and Fitz land on a planet populated by characters straight out of fairy tales, a world where the normal rules of physics don't apply and where wishes have as much power as binding contracts. As a group of traders arrive on the planet loo...
Digital Domain has been tapped to provide special effects for Revolution Studios' Vin Diesel starring action project, XXX.For the film, DD will create over 100 effects shots, most of which will involve extreme sports activities. The film will feature Dies...
David Goyer has been turning up in countless reports about upcoming Marvel movie projects from BLADE 2 to GHOST RIDER to DR. STRANGE and beyond, but now this fan favorite is returning to the comics themselves, and we took the opportunity to catch up with ...
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Sequel.Studio: Warner Bros.Production Company: Atlas Entertainment.Project Phase: In the Can.Who's In It: Freddie Prinze Jr. (Fred Jones); Sarah Michelle Gellar (Daphne Blake); Linda Cardellini (Velma Dinkley); Matthew Lillard (Norvi...
The WB TV network has released details of the coming January 15th episode of SMALLVILLE, titled "Rogue."In the ep's story, Clark's (Tom Welling) secret identity is at stake when a bad cop (guest star Cameron Dye) witnesses him use his superhuman powers an...
DONNIE DARKO writer and director Richard Kelly has agreed to rewrite and helm Columbia Pictures' newest thriller KNOWING for the studio-based Escape Artists.KNOWING, which was originally written by Ryne Pearson, is about a man who discovers a time capsule...
It looks like Destiny's Child alum Kelly Rawland is going the route bandmate Beyonce Knowles did with AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER, and taking a part in a high-profile sequel. According to MTV, Rowland has signed onto FREDDY VS. JASON, joining current cast...
VIDEO NEWSThe creative talents within the film business have always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the machinations of the industry itself. Many films have been made about just how sordid, perverse and stupid the film business really is, and o...
Green Arrow, enjoying a renaissance even beyond Kevin Smith's stint as writer, get his first SECRET FILES special in October. Highlights of the 64-page special include: * In the lead story, written by Judd Winick with art by Diego Barreto and Robin Rigg...
It's wrong for a reviewer to walk into a movie with preconceptions. However, enjoyable as the two recent Stephen Sommers MUMMY films have been, a spin-off starring the secondary villain in the second film whose onscreen history has been tweaked to make hi...
Kelly Preston is going where Molly Shannon has gone before: Into one of the straight roles in a big budget, feature film adaptation of a Dr. Seuss classic. Preston has signed onto the DR. SEUSS' THE CAT IN THE HAT adaptation gaining steam at Universal und...
OPINION: You may have noticed a larger than usual number of graphic novels from Europe on the shelves these last few months. It's not because your comics shop owner has suddenly become more enlightened in his/her thinking and gone all "citizen of the worl...
We've now entered August and have one month to go until the networks start to roll out their fall television programming and it shows in this week's TV Wasteland. Love 'em or hate 'em, reality TV dominates the fresh programming airing on networks right no...
Kurt Russell (MIRACLE) and Kelly Preston (THE CAT IN THE HAT) will get the chance to wear costumes with capes as a pair of superheroic parents in SKY HIGH. In the Walt Disney Pictures film Russell and Preston will play Commander Stronghold and Josie Jetst...
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEADThe Elite is back, and they're ready to take on and take over the world. The JLA are prepared to fight them off, but the Elite is pulling no punches, especially Sister Superior, who wants revenge against Superman for his part in t...
The names of the child actors playing the four remaining winners of the Wonka Golden Ticket have been revealed:AnnaSophia Robb will play Violet Beauregarde, a girl that wants to win every contest at all costs;Philip Wiegratz will be Augustus Gloop, the ov...
Lynda Carter's prior experience playing the star of the 1970s television series WONDER WOMAN will come in handy when she plays the school principal in SKY HIGH, the new movie from Walt Disney Productions. Carter will oversee a high school where the sons a...
DONNIE DARKO writer-director Richard Kelly has provided original material for the truly strange website that also acts as a sequel of sorts to the film, which is currently in limited release.Still, though it operates as a sequel with details of the film's...
HBO has announced that it will end its Emmy-award winning series SIX FEET UNDER at the conclusion of the next season, its fifth. Created by AMERICAN BEAUTY screenwriter Alan Ball, the show follows the ups-and-downs of a Los Angeles family involved with th...
FRIDAY THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER apparently ended the killing spree of Jason Voorhees, chopped to bits with his own machete by crafty little Tommy Jarvis. To some, this signaled the end of the slasher genre and perhaps horror cinema altogether, as box o...
AMERICAN BEAUTY actress Mena Suvari has landed a plum role in DOMINO, the New Line Cinema action/biography film about to start filming next week. Suvari will star alongside Keira Knightly in the film and play a producer's assistant; Knightly's role is tha...
Actress Kelly Hu has joined the cast of The WB Network's DARK SHADOWS. Hu will play the part of Dr. Julia Hoffman, a physician that makes the startling discovery that one of her patients is deceased -- because they are a vampire. The character of Dr. Hoff...
Yes, the new DAWN OF THE DEAD is a remake of the George Romero horror classic, itself a follow-up to his earlier groundbreaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. And yes, this new DAWN is derivative of or at least shares concepts with other zombie films, specif...
Actress Anne Bancroft has joined the ensemble cast of DELGO, a computer generated animated film produced by Fathom Studios. Lending their voices to the film also are Val Kilmer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Ripa, Er...
Recently FOX held the 2003 Teen Choice Awards at the Universal Amphitheater. For the first time, fans ranging from their teens into their 60's had on-line access, (through AOL and Teen People), to vote and have a say in production elements of the show. Th...
The suits at Paramount have always looked down their noses at their moneymaking slasher series. There must've been cigars all around when they sold the rotting franchise off to New Line. Well, now that Ronny Yu has hit a home run with FREDDY VS. JASON (an...
A peeve from our mailbag: I am also not a fan of selling pan & scan and widescreen editions separately. If the audience wants a choice, sell them together in one or two discs. This selling separately is nothing more than greed. Well, I dont know ho...
So far, Ive had no takers in my offer to sell out in return for a new DVD player, so Im expanding the offer to include retailers. Thats right, the first manufacturer or retailer that sends me a new DVD player will see it described as nifty in this co...
Paramount Pictures recently held the World Premiere of SCHOOL OF ROCK at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. This film which stars Jack Black as Dewey Finn, a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur who gets kicked out of his band. So what does he d...
If you're not a fan of either the FRIDAY THE 13th or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movie series, you will not be converted by this long-awaited crossover, but it delivers the bloody "goods" for the horror faithful. Effectively forgotten by his home town of...
Thunderbirds by Corona's Coming Attractions (Tue 04-20-2004)
Genre:Family/Adventure/Science Fiction.Studio:Universal Pictures.Production Company:Working Title Films.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's Voices Are In It:Bill Paxton (Jeff Tracy); Ben Kingsley (The Hood); Anthony Edwards (Brains); Sophia Myles (Lady Penelop...
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...
After 23 years of partnership, heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne is leaving Sony Music. The move comes after daughter Kelly Osbourne agreed to leave the company's lineup of artists this past January. Already the music industry is speculating that Kelly's...
The nominations for this year's MTV Movie Awards, airing Thursday, June 10 at 9 p.m. ET, are in and 'X2: X-Men United' has picked up four nods:
'X2: X-Men United' is nominated for "Best Movie."
Hugh Jackman and Kelly Hu received a nom for their work...
Yet another cast member has been added to the X-Men 2
roster.
Victoria
Time Colonist reports that Brian Cox (Bourne Identity, Rushmore, Long Kiss
Goodnight) is among the newcomers of the film. He will be playing "Stryker,
a villainous ...
Although filming
has been underway for weeks now, MGM has sent out the start of production press
release on Bulletproof Monk. The movie is directed by Paul Hunter
and stars Chow Yn-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Seann
William Scott (Dude, ...
Our friends over
at KryptonSite tell us that three new
episodes of Smallville follow on the heels of January 15th's
"Rogue" episode.
Look for
"Shimmer" to follow "Rogue". That episode features the
return of Kelly Brook's character, introduces STAR...
Comics2Film
recently spoke with Shi creator Billy Tucci about the recent
announcement that his flagship character had been optioned for feature film
development by producer Mimi Polk Gitlin and Ma...
The
Comics Continuum reported on the recent appearance of both Daredevil stars
on ABC's Regis and Kelly in Primetime special, which aired on Tuesday. Ben
Affleck and Jennifer Garner both appeared on the show, and Ben even offered a
tad bit of commenta...
Comics2Film recently got a sneak preview of the brand new X-Men
2 trailer debuting this Friday with the theatrical release of Daredevil.
To get a detailed recap of all that happens in the first full trailer, keep
reading. However, be warned that what f...
Production
Weekly had an interesting summary of the movie version of Chaos! Comics' Jade.
Although we knew it is in development, the PW article indicates there are
quite a few talent attachments as well.
According to the
article, Kelly Hu is attach...
A TV adaptation of the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick has failed twice for Warner Bros TV so why not try it again? ABC has given a put pilot order to a new version of the supernatural tale to be written by Maggie Friedman ("Dawson's Creek"). ...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is best known for his work on television, playing missing father John Winchester in Supernatural and making recurring appearances on Grey's Anatomy. Jackie Earl Haley enjoyed success as a child actor—most notably as Kelly Leak in...
Director: David Williams
Studio: IS&M
Translator: Masako Ollivier
ADR Script: Dylan Otto Krider
Daisuke Niwa - Voiced by Kevin Corn - The main character, 14 years old. He likes Risa Harada (the younger sister of twins). When he thinks about Risa, he tran...
Hello, and welcome to a poignant moment in "Being a Brief Discussion..." The fact of the matter is that no matter how much we might wish otherwise, our favorite shows eventually come to an end. In one sense it's a sad event, but it's also a time when we c...
Fan-favorite Michelle Ruff's performance as Kasumi in Hand Maid May still continues to please, and lead roles in Chobits, Ai Yori Aoshi, Please Teacher and Sugar in the last couple of years have seen her move into the elite of Los Angeles based voice acto...
Part Duex: Everything starts from a question.
All right, I've been enough of a bad boy this week, so its back to what you guys love: English Dubs. But first, a question!
Hi my name is Paul, I am like so many others a huge anime fan. I enjoy both Sub a...
ADR Director: Kyle Jones
Translator: Sarah Alys Lindholm
ADR Script: Monica Rial
Studio: ADV Studios
CHARACTERS:
Madlax - Voiced by Nancy Novotny - An agent-for-hire in Gazth-Sonika, specializing in assassinations and bodyguarding. She’s been doi...
WOWOW to premier the much-awaited animation on May 3rd
2007.03.08
GDH K.K. (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Shinichiro Ishikawa, Securities Code: TSE Mothers 3755, hereafter GDH) has announced that AFRO SAMURAI, the animated series produced b...
Opening Ceremonies
Hosted by: Adam Ferraro
The opening ceremonies for Anime Boston took place in a grand theatre room. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling and an upper level let some special guest sit from above and watch the people who were seate...
New apparel featuring exclusive series artwork arrives July 2008!
GRIMES, IA, April 18, 2008 - Right Stuf, Inc. and Nozomi Entertainment are pleased to announce six new T-shirt and tank top designs - featuring character artwork from the hit anime series G...
AIR TV
For generations, Yukito's family has searched for "the girl in the sky." That is all he knows. So, he wanders Japan searching for clues. One summer he wanders to the seaside town of Kami... and there he meets three very special girls, one of whom m...
SCI FI Wire spoke with 'Southland Tales' director Richard Kelly who talked about the reworking of his movie after a weak critical reception. That work involved adding over 100 visual-effects shots as well as new scenes to clarify the story.
"The w...
Updated November 26th
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September 3, 2000 is judgment day for THE OUTER LIMITS. On that evening, Showtime will open exhibit #132, a special two-hour presentation titled `Final Appeal.` The proceedings will be overseen by Hollywood legend Charlton Heston as Chief Justice Haden Wa...
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...
In a re-release that began in June, at various dates and times across the United States, a remarkable resurrection of a favorite genre film is being broadcast over 300 Public Television stations. The 1980 film adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin`s classic 1971...
With over half of its sixth and final season now broadcast on Showtime at the end of June, The Outer Limits will continue unveiling its remaining 10 episodes before reaching its final 132nd episode. The special two-hour final episode titled `Final Analysi...
This month, Batman dies.No, really. Were not kidding. What, you dont believe us?Okay, fair enough. We comic fans have been burned so many times by resurrected heroes and meaningless `events` that were skeptical of anything that promises major changes i...
It's nice to see Fox marketing their new anthology series NIGHT VISIONS the right way by acknowledging that this is essentially an updated riff on THE TWILIGHT ZONE. In commercials for the series, the rock song "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring hums in t...
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...
Jimmy Palmiotti is taking SUPERBOY in a new direction when he and Dan DiDio take over as writers with #94 in November."Dan and my plans are to take the amazing job Joe Kelly has done with the book and take it a little more down to earth and simplify the b...
Activision announced today that it has 14 XBOX titles and 10 GAMECUBE titles in development. The revelation came during an earning call in which Activision announced a slight profit, beating analysts' expectations. The company announced that it has 6...
Annette Bening didn`t exactly shoot to stardom. It only seems that way. After several years on stage (earning a Tony nomination in 1987 for `Coastal Disturbances`), the actress came to Hollywood, where she made her film debut in the forgettable THE GREAT ...
Back in the 1950s and 60s, DC Comics devised a means of telling a number of fanciful stories that could never be pulled off in regular continuity (i.e. what if Batman had been raised by the Kents?, what if Superman lost his powers?, what if Superman had ...
Ron Perlman ("Hellboy") and Kelly Hu ("X2: X-Men United") are joining Samuel L. Jackson as part of the voice cast for Spike TV's "Afro Samurai." The five-part animated series, which premieres Jan. 4, is based on a graphic novel by Takashi Okazaki and cent...
Not only does ABC have not one, but two popularly and critically acclaimed shows (LOST and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), as well as several entirely watchable shows that haven't yet cracked the top of the ratings (BOSTON LEGAL and LIFE AS WE KNOW IT)...Not only ...
Variety reports that 'Transformers' and Industrial Light & Magic were the big winners last night at the sixth annual Visual Effects Society awards
The Autobots raked in four awards:
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion ...
Updated December 7th
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Smallville story editor Kelly Souders spoke to Wizard magazine and revealed more upcoming episode info. from the show. KryptonSite has compiled some spoilers.
The CW has released 10 images from "Crimson," the Thursday, Feb. 1 episode of Smallville. The episode was written by Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders and directed by Glen Winter.
Just released on DVD on Tuesday, the 'Invincible Iron Man' animated movi...
From Variety:
Samuel L. Jackson starrer "Afro Samurai," a theatrical toon based on a five-episode TV series produced by Japanese animation house Gonzo, will open in Japan Oct. 27, Gonzo parent GDH announced Tuesday. Based on a comic by Takashi Okazaki,...
Be sure to check out these Spider-Man cast appearances this week:
Monday
- Kirsten Dunst on The Late Show with David Letterman
Tuesday
- Entire cast on MTV TRL
- Tobey Maguire on Live with Regis and Kelly
More...
Hard as it is to imagine a time before television, forgetting all of the sensationalism that comes standard with a TV set, there nonetheless have been plenty of frothing-at-the-mouth media frenzies that pre-date the boob tube. One of the most notorious of...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATION
MovieScore Media has released its fifteenth soundtrack of the year – like the others, exclusively online and available through iTunes or the label’s web site. Frostbite (aka Frostbitten) is the...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kentaro YabukiTranslated by:JN ProductionsAdapted by:What They SayTrain and his partner Sven go after a huge bounty, attempting to track down a weapons smuggler who is dealing dangerous new technology on the black market. They...
What They SayAfter the return of B-Set and Gord the Twilight Brigade finally put together all the Virus Cores. After activating the cores, a terrible battle with TaN follows. Ovan is finally captured by Naobi, who lured Ovan into a trap. However the illeg...
What They SayIn the annals of fantasy there is no mage as feared, no sorcerer as powerful as the fiery Lina Inverse. And when the exceptionally well-endowed Naga the Serpent accompanies her, the forces of evil will find there€™s nowhere to h...
What They SayAfter barely making it out of the Forest of Death, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura proceed to the next stage of the Chunin Exam: a one-on-one sudden death elimination battle! Pitted against each other in individual combat, an assortment of young, b...
Any fan who spends enough time watching anime eventually learns how to classify new shows into any one of several categories. Some shows are difficult to label and never admit to any one sub-genre. Others are relatively easy and fit a niche with minimal f...
ADR Director: David Williams
Studio: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors
Translator: Sarah Alys Lindholm
ADR Script: Thomas Gonzalez
Kyouta Kamikurata - Voiced by CHRIS PATTON - a junior in high school. Yoriko's childhood friend; she is one of the most important ...
MACROSS:
2009. Ten years of furious conflict and frenzied construction have turned an alien wreck into a human triumph: the colossal space battleship Macross. On the day of the ship’s launch, the world waits with bated breath to witness mankind̵...
It is 2047. Five years ago, under attack by creatures known as Mimetic Beasts, the countries of the world banded together and using giant robots, defeated the creatures, at the cost of many lives. One pilot who survived is Goh Saruwatari. But having suffe...
Maburaho is a world where everything is pretty much the same as the real world, except for one thing – magic exists, and everyone has the ability to use it. Magic (and spell count, the number of times one can use magic) often determines one’s ...
Director - Lowell Bartholomee
Studio - Monster Island
Ban ? Rich McDonald (ADV Debut) - Ban is one of the two main characters, he is one-half of the Get Backers. He's approx. 18 years old. He generally goes for a "cool" personality. He's a highly talente...
What They SayThe ancient artifact known as Noah\'s Ark has been uncovered. Buried underneath the North Pole and forgotten since before the birth of history, the Ark holds the potential to elevate its controller to the status of a god... as well as the pow...
What They SayIn the annals of fantasy there is no mage as feared, no sorcerer as powerful as the fiery redhead Lina Inverse. And when the exceptionally well-endowed Naga the Serpent accompanies her, the forces of evil will find there’s nowhere to hi...
Sci-fi fans know D.B. Sweeney as not-at-all-nice-person John Goetz in the late, lamented Jericho TV series. Other genre projects include Fire in the Sky, Spawn, and TV shows like Strange Luck and Harsh Realm. But his career has encompassed a number of dif...
The American Film Institute (AFI) has once again updated their Top 10 Lists of all the major movie categories and sent them to media outlets. You can check them out below. What do you think? Agree? No? Share your thoughts.The American Film Institute (AFI)...
Fox is finally learning from its own animated television success. Shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and King of the Hill continue to play successfully for them, even though it seemed for a while that the network was dead set on killing these shows. Fox...
U.K.'s Velvet Octopus is working on a sequel to the 2001 cult film DONNIE DARKO entitled S. DARKO.
The story picks up seven years after the first film (and Donnie's death) when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a r...
Through a hard weeks worth of effort, readers in the English Track forum have managed to play out the guessing game started by ADV\'s Janice Williams to figure out who the English cast will be for the upcoming Nuku Nuku OVA release:
Nuku Nuku - Allison Ke...
Publishers Weekly has a new interview up today that talks with Kelly Sue DeConnick who works on a lot of mang adaptations and provides a look at things from that point of view.
What They SayThe vixen, the doll, and the super golem contest: don\'t miss another exciting Slayers tale!
All Lana Einburg wants is for her golem-making father Galia and her equally ambitious brother Huey to end their long-running feud. But her world ge...
What They SayThe championship match is about to begin, but before that can happen, everyone must confess their deepest secrets and confront their own demons as the past finally catches up with the present. In the most exhilarating battle yet, the Miracle ...
What They SayA re-telling of the fan-favorite Escaflowne TV series available in the US for the first time ever! This LIMITED 3-disc set contains the Movie CD soundtrack and a second full DVD of bonus materials: Production Art Gallery, Staff and Cast Inter...
Telecasts on Cable Network SPIKE on January 4th, 2007
2006.10.31
GDH K.K. (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Shinichiro Ishikawa, Securities Code: TSE Mothers 3755, hereafter GDH) has announced that AFRO SAMURAI, the animated series produced by it...
NEW YORK, NY " January 30, 2007 " Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Random House Inc. and one of the premiere publishers of manga in the U.S., announced today the acquisition of MAKE 5 WISHES, created in collaboration with platinum-selling and Grammy Award-n...
The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 6th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects in over a dozen categories of film, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were ...
Rebecca Romijn, who is playing Mystique for the third time, said she went through the makeup process some 20 times for X-Men: The Last Stand.
"It's been the same four women for all three movies," Romijn said during an appearance on the syndicated Liv...
Maxim Magazine, the #1 best-selling men's general interest magazine in the country and the world, unveils their highly anticipated 5th annual Hot 100 list. The list is dotted with the women of the comics-to-film scene. C2F girls include: #1 Jessica Simpso...
Brian Wayne Peterson and Kelly Souders discuss their plans for season 8 of 'Smallville' with Collider.com.
Peterson says he's approaching this as if there will be a ninth season, but also considering their options if this ends up being the finale.
They ...
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Marvel
recently announced volume two of the Marvel Encyclopedia series,
due in book stores in April. The book is specifically timed to come out in
conjunction with the X-Men movie. That's because this volum...
The CW have released the description for the October 23rd episode of 'Smallville' entitled "Prey". Sam Witwer's character Davis Bloom begins his descent into what the Smallvillified version of the comic-book heavyweight Doomsday!DAVIS STARTS TO ...
You loved 'Smallivlle'. You wanted to love 'Birds of Prey'. Now The CW is taking another pass at adapting the Batman family for the teen drama crowd with the just-announced series 'The Graysons'.Variety reports that current 'Smallville' showrunners Kelly ...
Welcome to the second installment
of the DCG Flashback. Once again, we hope you'll join us as we take a look into
the hidden depths of the C2F vaults and unearth some of the classic art of
yesteryear.
Marvel Heroes vs Onslaught by ...
With apologies to Walt Kelly, Spider-man has met the enemy and not only is he wearing his costume, he might just be our hero. Such is the theme of "Intervention," an all-new episode of 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' premiering this Saturday, Jun...
Writer-director Richard Kelly’s follow-up to his cult classic Donnie Darko is such a massive undertaking with all the ideas he wants to deal with that it unfortunately collapses under the weight of its aspirations. It’s a noble effort, but by ...
Clark makes a
deal with the devil in an encore presentation of "Rogue", the May 28th
episode of Smallville.
Clark's (Tom
Welling) secret identity is at stake when a bad cop (guest star Cameron Dye)
witnesses him use his superhuman powers and coerce...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
New York, NY—Thursday, December 6, 2007: Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—has formed a new manga imprint with Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC. Seven Seas, founded i...
Animated Series Premiered on Spike TV in January
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GDH and FUNimation Entertainment have announced they will offer a sneak peek of director's cut footage of the critically-acclaimed animated...
The
scintillating Kelly Hu flaunted her sex appeal in this spring's Scorpion
King, and now she'll be a thorn in the side of a certain team of mutants.
The Hollywood Reporter
posted official confirmation of Hu's signing on to the X-Men 2 ...
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...
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KryptonSite
reports John Glover has joined the cast of Smallville on at least
a semi-permanent basis. Glover, who plays deliciously evil Lionel Luthor,
is appearing in the opening credits of Smallville's new season,
and will be appearing in many ep...
Stax from IGN FilmForce is offering a sneak-peek at the script for the highly anticipated sequel to X-Men.
This particular draft of the script runs one-hundred-nine pages and is dated April 30, 2002. Along with giving a brief synopsis of the story, ...
This week’s episode of Medium is probably the worst of the season. The goal of the episode is to start a story arc that the series really doesn’t need, a conflicted husband dealing with a potential affair with his cougar boss. This i...
The May sweeps officially started last Thursday and some of our favorite series came back from hiatus that night. Smallville and Lost both came back to the same average numbers they had been getting for the past season while another series, Supernatural a...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Anna Faris has signed on to star in the upcoming farcical sci-fi comedy titled Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel.The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts (two geeks and a cynic) ...
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...
According to SCI FI WIRE, The upcoming third season of the BBC's DOCTOR WHO will feature a famous character from British History, William Shakespeare."William Shakespeare [played by Dean Lennox Kelly] is going to be in one of the episodes," Russell T Davi...
Walt Disney Pictures has signed Susan Sarandon to star in ENCHANTED. She joins a cast that already includeds Amy Adams and James Marsden.As previously reported, the story centers on a princess-in-waiting who is banished from a classical animation world b...
The SF films of the 50's are often dismissed on whole as low budget drive-in fodder made by the likes of Roger Corman to turn a quick buck. While that is true to a large extent it isn't entirely accurate. There were a handful of excellent S...
Creative Talent Writer/Artist: Ao MimoriTranslated by: Kelly Sue DeConnickAdapted by: Joe YamazakiWhat They SayDear Valentine, You gave me my first stolen kiss, But something clearly was amiss. Your ex-GF Seemed awful pissed...The longer I longed to date ...
Anne Bishop jumpstarts the Ephemera series, Craig Gardner delves into Battlestar Galactica, and Star Wars’ theological motifs get the Gospel treatment in this week’s edition of the Buzz.
Goodday to all you Maniacs and glad to see yo...
According to Variety, Adam Shankman (Hairspray) has signed on to direct the upcoming fantasy comedy, Bedtime Stories, for Walt Disney Pictures.The film, based on a script from Matt Lopez, revolves around a harried architect whose life is turned upside dow...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
With a lovely, though hardly unexpected final revelation, ALIAS is on maternity leave and, as faithful readers of PEOPLE magazine no doubt know, it's a girl. Back to your regularly scheduled review. As I mentioned when reviewing "Bob," it's a bit of a sha...
I thought my crossover critique in last week's COMICSCAPE would garner mail a plenty, but to no avail. My rant about the FANTASTIC FOUR movie must've driven away my readership or something. Fortunately, I received a few thoughtful, lengthy letters that co...
So what movies do you have lined up for St. Patrick's Day? While some may lift a glass to toast Francis Ford Coppola's FINIAN'S RAINBOW (below) or the charming THE QUIET MAN (drinking, brawling & beautiful scenery how much more Irish can you get?), o...
AMERICAN DREAMS composer and arranger Danny Pelfrey and music supervisor Greg Sill are producing a groundbreaking new soundtrack for the NBC series, featuring a fistful of popular music stars singing some of the most memorable hits of the 1960s. Pelfrey a...
As the rich and beautiful(?) prepare for Oscars big ceremony tomorrow night, a few "interesting" people and techniques are involved in helping everyone to look their best.Reuters reports Dr. Bob Keller, a former trauma surgeon with a slight resemblance to...
Usually at this time I'd be plugging B-Fest 9 (www.b-fest.com), the 24-hour B-movie marathon I attend every year. I'd be crowing about how this show combines a love for trashy cinema with a grueling endurance test, and explaining how MYSTERY SCIENCE THEAT...
THE RING TWO starts out as a near-copy of its 2002 predecessor (and the 2000 Japanese original that spawned both), which might not have been a bad thing. A very nervous high school student (Ryan Merriman), aware of the one-week death curse surrounding a f...
Yahoo! Movies is offering the trailer for the upcoming SKY HIGH. The movie stars Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Bruce Campbell, Lynda Carter, and Danielle Panabaker. It was directed by Mike Mitchell. The Walt Disney Pictures' film hits t...
On Sunday, July 10th Warner Bros. Pictures held the premiere of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, which was a benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The carpet was a milk chocolate color and sprayed to smell...
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 ...