Producer KevinMcClory's latest attempt at legally wresting some control of the JAMES BOND franchise has been shot down. McClory, who came into partial ownership of the character due to a lawsuit settlement on his script collaboration with Bond creator Ia...
MGM has won the long-running legal battle with screenwriter KevinMcClory over James Bond. In a decision handed down Friday in Los Angeles, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Rafeedie dismissed the last remaining elements of McClory`s claim that he was the ...
... her that KevinMcClory is trying to make "Thunderball" for a third time - it is the only film he owns, apparently - and that the word is, Pierce Brosnan is going to be in it! That would be a smack in the mouth for "Casino Royale", I'd think?Michael.T...
It seems that reporter Alice Newgen has been busy with interesting conference calls lately. Right after finishing a discussion with the new Jamie Sommers(Michelle Ryan) of NBC's Bionic Woman, she got right back on the phone for a discussion with actor Kev...
Kevin Conroy had studied for and starred on the stage, advanced his career through soap operas, and was featured in television series like "Dynasty" and "Tour of Duty." He had no idea that stepping into a sound booth in 1991 to audit...
If one was to philosophically understand what Paul Verhoeven is trying to accomplish with the much anticipated Hollow Man, perhaps you could sum it up as, `The art of invisibility without being invisible.` Hollywood is again revisiting the past by re-inve...
Acclaimed animation writer Kevin Hopps offers his third script of the 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' season in "The Uncertainty Principle," an all-new episode premiering Saturday, May 10 at 10:00 a.m. ET/PT on Kids' WB!/The CW.
Hopps has worked...
Kevin Manthei's music has been heard in cinemas, through television speakers, and out of computers since 1995. He has made his most notable strides as a composer of highly cinematic, rhythmically layered scores for computer games, but recently has had the...
The eight issues collected in Daredevil Visionaries: Kevin Smith are the first eight of Daredevil vol. 2, and they serve less to reintroduce the Daredevil character as to salute him with a sort of medley of fictional themes. Thus we get writer Kevin Smith...
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 ...
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Filmmaker and
former Daredevil writer Kevin Smith filmed his cameo bit for Daredevil
on Thursday. He made a one day appearance on the set, a location at the Crenshaw
Hospital in L.A. In a nice n...
Yahoo/A.P. covers the renaming of a street in Paulsboro, New Jersey after director Kevin Smith. Tyler Street became Kevin Smith Way in a ceremony attended by Smith. The filmmaker is shooting JERSEY GIRL in the community.Smith says, "Hopefully nothing nefa...
Film and comics pro Kevin VanHook is back on SCI FI channel this weekend with a new feature film: "Haunted Prison". C2F takes a break from our coverage of comics-only film to take chat with VanHook about the project, which he produced, co-wrote and dire...
Forget the Klingons and Romulans. Ask almost any fan of the original Star Trek who their favorite `evil` aliens were, and the answer is simple: the Gorn. The green, warlike reptiles’ first appearance was in the fan-favorite episode `Arena,` in which Kirk ...
Kevin Conroy, the benchmark by which fans compare all Batman voices, returns to the title role in Batman Gotham Knight, the third release in the DC Universe Animated Original Movie series from DC Comics, Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video and Warner Bros....
In his book of academic criticism, author (and former CINESCAPE correspondent) John Kenneth Muir admits that Kevin Smith has often referred to his own films as being nothing but a series of "fart and dick jokes". Despite this self-depreciating claim, Muir...
This past weekend bat-fans
tuned in to the Kids WB! and watched as a whole new version of the Dark Knight
was introduced to youngsters everywhere. 'The Batman' features a younger,
sleeker, more cutting-edge version of the hero and his villains.
The ...
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Things I have learned over the last couple of years going to San Diego for Comic-Con is that it seems to be worth it to arrive on Wednesday night as any number of catastrophes can keep you grounded and delayed from missing those earl...
With Kevin Smith set to appear on NBC'S THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO on June 24 to promote his upcoming Marvel mini-series, SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, more art is coming out from the books. "I'm as proud of my work in comics as I am of...
My initial reaction upon seeing the two-disc set AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH at my local Blockbuster was probably the same as that of a lot of people who know nothing about the actor-director-comic book writer: "An evening wasted with Kevin Smith, more li...
"First rule. Trust your director, which I do implicitly. In a sense, when Bryan first started talking to me about it, about a year before I got offered the part, he always said that it was going to be darker, it's going to be bitter, it's going to be a Le...
Kevin Spacey was present at the Palm Springs Film Festival and he was able to shed some light on his new challenge that he will be facing when he takes on Lex Luthor in director Bryan Singers' new 'Superman'.
At Comic-Con: "Warner Bros. Presents a Trio of Animated Features — First up is 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles': Director Kevin Munroe appears in person to preview this shell-raising return to the big screen of Laird and Eastman's classic quartet in a fully...
Marvel prexy Kevin Feige gives the scoop on various Marvel movies in development. Some remarks of interest:
We've got the 'Incredible Hulk' that will go into production, the day that ['Iron Man'] goes into post on July 9th, 'Hulk' starts production i...
Superheroflix.com spoke with actor Kevin Spacey who reveals that a return to the role Lex Luthor does not appear to be on his near horizon.
"There are no developments [on 'Superman 2'] right now. I know as much as the rest of the world knows," Spacey t...
Ben Affleck says he's only interested in making a "Daredevil" sequel if his buddy Kevin Smith directs it. So what does the "Dogma" director think about the prospect of adapting his "Daredevil" comics stories for the big screen? "I had heard [there was int...
Kevin Smith in a recent interview says: "...(Mark Steven Johnson) asked me if I wanted to direct an episode of 'Preacher'; which I thought was pretty kind of him; but, I don't know if I'm up to that. I love that book so much, and being able to translate o...
"I love the idea of just being viscerally thrilled with action, but then you get that laugh in. There are so many comic films and genre properties that try to hit that mix and so few of them work, but with the Turtles we for some reason buy it," says Kevi...
Those high-flying, high-kicking mutant ninja turtles are back next February in a new animated feature. CBR News sat down with director Kevin Munroe to discuss the film and the mythology of these Turtles.
Just in time to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his first film, writer/director/star Kevin Smith has announced plans to make a sequel to CLERKS. The movie, titled THE PASSION OF THE CLERKS, is set ten years after the events seen in the first flick. It ...
Kevin Smith has revealed more information on his upcoming horror project in a recent interview with Rotten Tomatoes UK.Here is an excerpt from an interview:In Topeka, Kansas, a controversial church group made largely of members of the Phelps family and ru...
According to Variety, Kevin Smith has signed on to direct an upcoming pilot for The CW titled, Reaper.The show will follow a 21-year-old who finds out his parents sold his soul to the Devil and now must work as a bounty hunter retrieving souls for the Pri...
Kevin Bacon has agreed to star in the upcoming film DEATH SENTENCE for 20th Century Fox. The vigilante drama centers on a father, played by Bacon, whose family is attacked as part of a gang initiation. The father is out for revenge and enacts a death se...
After countless sci-fi related jokes within his movies, director Kevin Smith is finally moving into the world of sci-fi itself. HR reports the director behind Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is developing a futuristic outer space comedy. The indie-minded S...
Maniac "Daforce" has attended the HEROES panel at the Comic Con where it was announced that director Kevin Smith will be directing the first episode of the spinoff, HEROES: ORIGINS. This is the mid season spinoff which will let viewers and creat...
It seems that the alumni of HBO's ROME are branching out into top roles 7 months after the show left the airwaves. Stephanie Sanchez at IESB is reporting that actor Kevin McKidd (who portrayed Lucius Vorenus) is rumored to be in the top spot as the new TH...
From Wizard Magazine's interview with writer/actor/director Kevin Smith:
Wizard: Rumor has it that your Daredevil arc might actually be your plot for the second film.
Smith: Both Ben [Affleck] and Mark [Steven Johnson] have asked me about writing th...
IGN digs deeper on Punisher casting rumors.
Actor Tom Nowicki is indeed portraying a bad guy named Lincoln in 'The Punisher.' Whether Lincoln is anything like the Tombstone from the comics remains to be seen.
Also, Kevin Nash is confirmed to be in t...
"She looks pretty dead to me," says Marvel Studios exec VP Kevin Feige to Entertainment Weekly of Jennifer Garner's Elektra character. "But there's going to be a movie."
While plot reports vary -- potential characters include secret agent Nick Fury and c...
The dark and violent comic Sin City is now a movie. Director Robert Rodriguez says that even on the page, artist Frank Miller's stories had a cinematic quality. To learn more, NPR asked director Kevin Smith to speak with Rodriguez and Miller.
Kevin Smith hasn't talked about 'Green Hornet' yet this week. Watch Tech TV's "The Screensavers" this Wednesday night and maybe some new 'GH' news will come out. The show airs Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and Thursday at 12 a.m. and 8 a.m. All times eastern....
During his long career as a professional wrestler in the WCW and WWE, Kevin Nash is probably best known as Diesel. As an actor, Nash makes quite a splash in 'The Punisher,' taking on Thomas Jane's title character in a fight sure to rock the rafters...
"[The new CGI 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'] movie is really going to be a throwback to the tone of the first comics," says director Kevin Munroe. "We're going after a moodier and darker grit that will give us a lot of negative/black areas on screen. The...
"I guess Lex has always been a character really almost from the beginning who's always been a capitalist. And for him, it's always about land, it's always been about land," says actor Kevin Spacey of his villainous character. "I always loved in the script...
The voice of actor Kevin Conroy helped define the character of Batman for fans of the animated Dark Knight beginning in the early 1990s with Batman: The Animated Series, and right through the final episode of Justice League Unlimited. In the following int...
Kevin Munroe, director of the CGI movie on the Ninja Turtles talks about the genesis of the movie, his love for the characters and the Gatchaman flick he's working on right now: "We just finished the script and are in early design. We actually came out he...
Writer/Director Kevin Munroe, hot off of TMNT, was on hand to promote the heroes in a half shell up in San Francisco this weekend. He reveals which voice over actors were cast as the famous ninja turtles including James Arnold Taylor, aka Obi Wan Kenobi i...
"He's a nemesis. He's sent to kill [The Punisher], and it's a pretty good little fight scene. I'm that guy in the red-and-white shirt. I got my hair all chopped off for it," says wrestler/actor Kevin Nash of his role as The Russian in "The Punisher."
Mor...
With his new movie JERSEY GIRL opening in about a month, Kevin Smith has received the call to make the big screen adventures of THE GREEN HORNET his next mission. Smith will write the script and direct the movie for Miramax Films as his next project, hopi...
At his Wizard World panel, Kevin Smith said that about possibly working with Ben Affleck on "Daredevil 2," he was flattered by Affleck's comments but doesn't want to work on "Daredevil." For the same reason he had a hard time working on "Green Hornet." He...
"I will finish the 'Green Hornet' script by November 1st. Right now it's just f***ing vexing me," said filmmaker Kevin Smith at a recent press event. "And everybody keeps asking me about it. I'm 100 pages in. And my wife was just like, 'Well, great. So th...
Miramax co-president of production Jon Gordon is looking forward to getting Kevin Smith's draft of "The Green Hornet." Smith has been unabashed in admitting he's uncertain if he wants to direct the big-budget franchise, but Gordon said he doesn't expect a...
It takes a lot of brawn to play the muscle-bound villain in the latest Marvel-to-movie blockbuster, The Punisher. Just ask WWE superstar Kevin Nash who stars as "the Russian" in the upcoming film. Little did he realize that taking on this role would also ...
"I watched the other actors but not with any sense of wanting to reference them because the Lex I portray is a very different Lex Luthor. This is a very bitter Lex, a very angry Lex, a Lex out for revenge. There's still humor, but it's not the same," says...
He's one of the all-time, quintessential arch enemies. He's maniacally determined. He has a quick mind, a sly sense of humor, an eye for style (albeit outlandish), and no conscience. As nemesis extraordinaire in Superman Returns, Lex Luthor will implement...
From his myspace blog Kevin Smith talks about a whole bunch o' stuff, including a cut of 'Watchmen' that he screened:
I saw 'Watchmen.' It's fucking astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the fol...
IESB reports that actor Kevin McKidd is rumored to be the favorite to topline the 'Thor' movie. McKidd is best known for his role in HBO's 'Rome' where he plays Lucius Vorenus.
IESB says they have not received full conformation on this info.
Want to have a chat with Kevin Smith (and not via the internet)? You
can have your chance on May 31st, when ACTOR (A Commitment To Our Roots)
organization will host an evening with the writer/director/actor Smith at the
Writer's Guild Theater.
"Parti...
Kevin Smith continues to avoid work, making the press rounds talking about other people's movies. This time he's commenting to MTV Movies Blog on 'Green Hornet', a film he was once attached to direct. That honor has now fallen to 'Knocked Up' and 'Superba...
Check out the new Kevin and Krypto Figure Pack with Bonus DVD: This toy has all the pieces needed to simulate the Kevin and Krypto flying sequence from the Cartoon Network show...
Welcome to the
latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is
Kevin Newburn, one of the DCG's most prominent illustrators.
Comics2Film (C2F): What
materials do you use when drawing?
Kevin Newburn (KN): Mostly
traditional dr...
"I heard Singer's thinking about [Kevin] Spacey as Lex Luthor, which is awesome," filmmaker Kevin Smith told The NY Post, although it's unclear why Smith would have any special insights into the production...
Though it has been the stuff of rumors only over the years, Kevin Kilner will finally be returning to EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT in the program's upcoming fifth season.According to the prgram's official website, Boone will appear in two episodes set to air in ...
Kevin Smith has given cheer to the hearts of DAREDEVIL fans everywhere by announcing on his site that he will make a cameo appearance in the live action movie based on the "The Man Without Fear.""[Director] Mark Steven Johnson was goodly enough to offer a...
Comedy director Kevin Smith (Clerks 2) told AintitCoolNews that he was planning a horror film as his next project."I feel after seven comedies it's time to take a left turn and do a straight up different movie, in this case horror," said Smith."Its gonna ...
Yahoo News runs a Reuters story on the recent addition of Kevin Smith to the crew of SCARY MOVIE 3, which stayed at Dimension Films when the Wayans brothers accepted an offer to develop a sci-fi/fantasy spoof at Sony instead. Smith will co-write and execu...
In a short sidebar to a piece about upcoming comic book movies in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, CLERKS/DOGMA/JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK director and comic book scribe Kevin Smith let readers in on some of the oddities he's encountered while writing for the bi...
In an interview published by of Twentieth Century Fox about it's new comic book adventure DAREDEVIL, staring Ben Affleck and ALIAS' Jennifer Garner, genre favorite Kevin Smith (DOGMA) talked about his role in the new film, and his hopes for the project. S...
Normally wouldn't cover this but a slow news day and knowing we have a lot of Kevin Smith fans compels me to publish it. The Hollywood Reporter says this morning that five more joined the cast and crew of Zack & Miri Make a Porno, the latest productio...
Two days on the job here and I never thought I would have to make a title like that one. Seriously though, that's exactly what happened here. We already know that director Kevin Smith has a close working relationship with Harvey Weinstein. We just didn't ...
Director Kevin Smith has always been a straight up & honest (very honest) man with the people who follow his movies and even to those who routinely bash his work. It's only natural that he's now responded to the recent blow in regards to Rosario Dawso...
The announcement that Kevin Smith had been hired to write SUPERMAN LIVES, following the ousting of the Jonathan Lemkin and Greg Poirier drafts of the script, seemed surprising to many. After all, Smith was an independent filmmaker whose writing credits ba...
In Hollow Man, an updating of the classic invisible man premise, directed by Paul Verhoeven, actor Kevin Bacon stars a brilliant and arrogant scientist named Sebastian Caine, whose work at a top secret experimental laboratory renders him invisible. Unable...
For a director who doesn't have a new movie coming out anytime soon, Kevin Smith sure has a lot going on. Not only is he consistently making news with his various forays into comic books (DAREDEVIL, GREEN ARROW, SPIDER-MAN) but he can be seen in the next ...
Film journalist and comics writer (BLOODWULF, ELFQUEST, JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY) Andy Mangels explores the meteoric career of screenwriter-director-TV series creator Kevin Williamson in this thorough, well-written tome. He digs into Williamso...
In part one of our interview with Kevin Bacon on the making of Hollow Man,, the star described some of the difficulties caused by wearing make-up that allowed Sony Pictures ImageWorks to remove him digitally from the frame, thus creating the illusion of i...
Opening with an arresting teaser in which the horribly mutated genius Dr. Kevin Burkoff (Jeffrey Combs) is kidnapped and murdered by government agents, "The Ballad of Kevin and Tess" begins in the middle of a high stakes gambit that only ups the ante with...
Does your stomach hurt? What about your back or head? Perhaps you’ve simply got a cold or the flu. Maybe its more serious. Maybe you’re suffering from a Viral Hemorrhagic Fever your whacked-out neighbor created in his basement. Or maybe its because you ju...
Popularity isn’t everything. The Gorn have fascinated Star Trek fans for more than 30 years, ever since they debuted in the original series episode `Arena` in 1967. But what do we really know about these cool alien lizards? Sure, they’re big, green, extre...
It was announced just a few weeks ago that director Kevin Smith would be helming an episode of HEROES: ORIGINS for NBC-Universal. Apparently, he will be working on another genre project for the television property. In a recent interview with Aol Tv, he's ...
Over at Ground Zero for Kevin Smith fans, the JERSEY GIRL director told his fans in his own words what the latest inside news was on Smith's newly announced GREEN HORNET movie project.Smith explained that he had climbed onboard Miramax's superhero project...
On March 23, Warner Bros. is teaming up with Weinstein Company and Imagi Animation for TMNT, a CGI-animated film that brings the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back to the big screen for the first time in 14 years. Recently, The Continuum was part of a pres...
Marvel Studios announced on Tuesday that Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard has joined the cast of Iron Man and will play Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes.
"When we first began to think about Iron Man, we always envisioned Terrence as Rhodey," said Marvel Studi...
A few weeks ago, Robert Sanchez over at IESB.net passed along the news that actor Kevin McKidd(Hbo's Rome) was in consideration to star in Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of THOR. So, are the rumors true? Technically, yes, but perhaps not as the Norse God him...
"When I went to meet with the co-creators of the Turtles, I brought issue one because I figured, worst case, I'll get my first issue signed if I don't get the job. He handed me back the book at the end and driving back to the airport I open it up and ther...
Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that 'TMNT' director Kevin Munroe has signed on to direct the long-gestating 'Dylan Dog' movie.
Munore had previously been attached to the 'Gatchaman' film, that was to be produced by Imagi, the people behind the awesome Tu...
Filmmaker/comics writer Kevin Smith says that his new Marvel Comics mini-series will be called SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO. As announced by Marvel last week, the mini-series didn't have Black Cat in the title. Smith says th...
Kevin Smith (the actor, not filmmaker) died tragically last Friday in a film shoot in Hong Kong. Smith made a name for himself with American audiences as Ares, the God of War on XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS opposite fellow New Zelander Lucy Lawless.Smith was fa...
Kevin Bacon has been in films as diverse as FOOTLOOSE and JFK, but there are also a fair number of genre pics in his filmography, including TREMORS, FLATLINERS, the upcoming THE HOLLOW MAN—and he starred in one of last year’s most under-appreciated effort...
Kevin Eastman, creator of the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and current publisher of Heavy Metal confirmed for fans on his message boards that a new, live-action Ninja Turtles movie is in the works.
"Yes, it is true. Although the CGI film did well ...
"No, it really comes down to I'm really not talented enough to pull off a movie like that," says 'Clerks II' director Kevin Smith. "It was between that and 'Clerks II' and I drove toward 'Clerks II' in such a big, bad way and almost had to fight Harvey We...
"You know, when you're on movie sets, the give you a golf cart so you can drive around to get from one stage to the other, so I had my golf cart kind of suped-up. I had Kryptonite stripes put on the side (laughter) and I had a big Superman logo on the fro...
Filmmaker and comic creator Kevin Smith tells Andersen Jones of E! Online that he wouldn't even want to direct 'Superman' now.
"Too big," Smith told Jones. "Too big and too many people in the audience who are like, 'You're doing it wrong, you're doing it...
"Harvey [Weinstein of Miramax], who read the pages, called me, and said 'This is too good. I'm not letting you back out of this. It's time you grew up and pushed yourself by trying something different than all the talky flicks,'" filmmaker Kevin Smith sai...
Scott Taylor returns with another edition of Page One, Panel One and this week he's chasing Kevin Smith and The Green Hornet, plus sounding off on the state of the comic marketplace in general.
Kevin Dunn will play Shia LaBeouf's quirky, do-it-yourself dad in the big-budget, live-action extravaganza based on the Hasbro toy line being directed by Michael Bay.
"I think this is going to be a great summer for comic-book fans because there are going to be two spectacular comic-book adaptations out there," says Kevin Feige, executive vice president of Los Angeles-based Marvel Studios and an executive producer on "F...
Genre:Comedy/Mystery.Studio:Miramax Films.Production Company:View Askew.Project Phase:Development Hell.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Kevin Smith (Screenwriter, Director); based upon the character from the Fletch series of books by Gregory McDonald.P...
"[My favorite turtle] Today is Rafael. I think Rafael is neat cause he actually wants the same things as Leo does in the movie but he's going about it in a completely different way, which is really interesting I think. So, it's like the two sides of the s...
Spacey was told not to watch the old Superman films to study Lex:
"Don't watch Gene Hackman," says Spacey. "Trust your director [Bryan Singer] which I do implicitly and in a sense when Bryan first started talking to me about it a year before I actually...
FilmSchoolRejects.com reports that actor Kevin Durand will play The Blob (under heavy makeup) in 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
Durand has been seen in movies like 'Wild Hogs', 'Mystery, Alaska' and '3:10 to Yuma'.
"He said "I want you to do the definitive documentary on the history of Superman."
"I want us to do it together. It's very important to me. I would love to work with you, I've always wanted to work with you," and I said "I've always wanted to work with y...
"To me, it's one of those great, iconic parts," Spacey exclusively told Wizard: The Comics Magazine, taking a break from tooling around the New Krypton set of the film in Sydney, Australia in a golf cart adorned with the Superman logo. "Bryan's been very ...
Wanna see "Guardian Devil" on your television? The limited edition Daredevil Digital Comic DVD is now avaialble. The disc features the first 8 chapters of Kevin's saga, lots of beautiful Quesada/Palmiotti artwork, and lots more background info.
Fueled partly by pre-release controversy, but mostly by the presence of marquee value stars, DOGMA became writer-director Kevin Smith's most successful film, earning $30-million at the box officesmall by big studio standards, but not bad for a film that c...
In Part One of my interview with the polemical Paul Verhoeven, we talked about the effect of Elisabeth Shue’s injury on the shoot, and the directing difficulties incurred due to the invisibility special effects, how that affected Kevin Bacon’s performance...
Marvel's Senior VP talks about a variety of projects in the recent Wizard magazine.
"Mark Frost has turned in a draft for 'Fantastic Four' and now he's working on some minor revisions," Feige is quoted as saying. "Mark's working on his polish with an eye...
"I would say we went even further back, to the original comic book. To me, the comic book shows actual depth in the characters. In the shows and movies the Turtles all became shallow caricatures of themselves. It was like Raphael is the angry one, so push...
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...
The season is winding down and everything is kicking into high gear. Last week, after getting kicked out of Promise City by Jordan and being told that Kevin was basically a prisoner in the city, Shawn called Tess for help to break Kevin out. Tes...
Sometimes, the reason a story seems familiar is because it's got such potential for satisfaction that people can't resist telling it over and over. Such is the case with BAD COMPANY, which has a plot that, in its broad strokes, has been part of popular cu...
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Satoshi Fujii - Ergo Proxy, Heat Guy J, Gatekeepers, Hellsing TV & OAV, Amazing Nurse Nanako
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Some first looks have appeared for Ben Stiller's upcoming Tropic Thunder and Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make a Porno. While both of these films may be straight forward comedies, they both have a touch of genre inside them. Thunder will spoof the war cl...
Remember that "Pre-Strike Priority List" we discussed last month? It had a laundry list of high profiles films which the studios wanted in production prior to the impending June 2008 strike. Well, it seems as time has rolled onward since Septemb...
Alright readers, I'm going to warn you now that this "memo" should be taken with a grain of salt. The reasoning behind that warning is we don't know how old this memo is..It could have been pulled together by the various studios rather quickly a...
Voice Actors from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Pokémon, Gravitation to Attend
PORTLAND, Maine - March 9, 2008 - PortConMaine, New England's longest running convention for Japanese animation, gaming, and pop culture, has proudly announced that stars of the hi...
With Timur Bekmambetov’s latest Night Watch film adaptation smashing box office records in Russia (yet again) and the film still fresh in the states from its US debut this past June, author Sergei Lukyanenko has officially put Russia on the map for ...
The Providence Anime Conference kicked off this past weekend in its inaugural event. The conference – a convention by any other name – was put into reality by the people behind the New England Anime Society. Though that name may not be too fam...
Yesterday
afternoon Marvel Studios announced finalized agreements on two motion picture
deals with Universal Pictures. The deals were for Sub-Mariner and Prime.
These deals come as post-production continues on the first project being jointly
develop...
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 jarrod...
OPEN RANGE is a return to the big screen for Kevin Costner whose last movie, DRAGONFLY, was in 2002. It is also a return to the traditional western tales which is a favorite for this Academy Award-winning director, actor and producer.The story is about th...
Funny thing about Steve Martin is that no matter how many times he tackles a serious role, the marketing firms develop collective amnesia and hype the film as some sort of first. There’s actually good reason for this, for when Mr. Martin restrains himself...
In 1995, courtesy of Dan Jurgens and Kevin Nowlan, Superman encountered a race of Aliens unlike anything he had ever seen before. They were relentless, ferocious fighters, almost impossible to beat, and nearly succeeded in killing even the Last Son of Kry...
Picking up where we left off, here's the rest of the best!#7) Elektra - Proving that not all bad girls are irredeemable demons bathing in blood or writhing in the fires of Hell (how Chaotic), Elektra Natchios is a complex woman with some serious issues. A...
After the debacle of the so-called "historical movie" PEARL HARBOR, I was more than a little apprehensive about seeing THIRTEEN DAYS, despite the accolades the film had received and despite my interest in the source material. I'm pleased to say that my fe...
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 ...
In the Prize Closet this week we have one copy of MALLRATS to give away. Okay, some of you may think that's extremely lame. Many folks consider MALLRATS slightly below JERSEY GIRL on the Kevin Smith filmography, and you might not think it worth opening th...
Last winter, this column ran a very popular poll to find out which TV series readers most want seasoned on DVD. Well here's a progress report. While SEINFELD, MILLENNIUM, QUANTUM LEAP and the animated BATMAN and SUPERMAN series have started to arrive, cer...
OPINION: Before I begin this week's discussion of the comic books you most wanted to see made into movies, I'd like to share one e-mail in particular that made a very deep impression on me, sent by no less than the producer of LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENT...
R.A. Salvatore’s The Hunter’s Blades trilogy gets a collector’s edition facelift, the Time Spiral Cycle wrenches out another installment with Planar Chaos, and two notable female SF authors get some well-deserved credit for their con...
A script page out of Kevin Smith's just announced comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno has been leaked to Entertainment Weekly. They kindly put it up online for everyone to read. Obviously in Smith style, the one script page of dialogue between characters Za...
From a press release
Get ready for heart-pounding thrills when Warner Home Video and Village Roadshow Picture’s action-packed film 'Constantine' arrives on Blu-ray™ Hi-Definition October 14. Constantine, directed by Francis Lawrence (...
At the recent Wizard World Chicago, Comics2Film sat down with the various men responsible for bringing the Dark Knight to his latest animated adventures in 'Batman: Gotham Knight'.
Bruce Timm needs no introduction as the man who redefined Batman for a ...
Universal Studios was gracious enough to allow Mania the opportunity to interview the producers, director and villain of the Incredible Hulk. After watching a kick ass action sequence and the first of Emil Blonsky’s super soldier formula inject...
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 ...
With the San Diego Comic-Con in full swing this past weekend, this latest edition of Mania’s Most Maniacal Rumors is kicking itself into overdrive to cover the hottest scoops out of the event. It’s time for another weekly wrap-up of the week&r...
Mary Maxwell's not your typical student. She reads comic books and longs for an exciting, action-filled life, something she's not likely to get while living with her boring scientist dad. But you know what they say: "Be careful what you wish for..." Soon,...
In April 2 posting on NewsAskew.com, reporting on an April appearance by Kevin Smith at Berkeley: "Kevin has been immersing himself in 'chop-socky' films to prep for Hornet...He dropped a couple hints, confirming the rumor that Jet Li is being saught for ...
Writes Tad Stones from his blog:
"Kevin Hopps, screenwriter of Hellboy: Blood and Iron, once worked for a story editor who had taken over a series under trying circumstances. Although he might not have agreed with the change, he approached his new bos...
When Brit author Richard K. Morgan first released Altered Carbon, his debut novel of hardboiled SF genius, the body-swapping detective tale met with little criticism. Winning the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel in 2003, the impressive sci-fi work goes...
Ever since its conception in 1978, Battlestar Galactica has been offering viewers a layered SF universe, one that manages to stay grounded with the world around us and in sync with contemporary American society. Like any good sci-fi series BSG explores th...
To call Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob creations the next "it" comedy duo may be reaching, but the two have certainly impressed some Hollywood's hottest clientele. So much so, in fact, that when the director decided to base an entire film on these norma...
In part one of CINESCAPE's Kevin Smith profile, the acclaimed indie filmmaker discussed the end of his "slacker" films or what have affectionately been dubbed the Jersey Chronicles. However, the conclusion of this chapter in his career does not come with...
It's the end of an era for writer/director/actor Kevin Smith. The 31 year old filmmaker who has redefined modern day pop culture with his gorilla-style filmmaking, witty dialogue and reliance on "dick and fart jokes" brings closure to the "slacker" chapte...
The star that was Mystery Science Theater 3000 shined brightly in the heavens for 12 short years, but inevitably it fell to Earth and was snuffed out. Mike Nelson (Michael J. Nelson), Crow (Bill Corbett) and Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) retired, but their...
You know it’s funny; it took about 30 minutes of this episode for me to get into Reaper. The premise of the show is that we have yet another 20 something (Another one, how many 20 something’s does it take to screw in a light bulb and make...
This particular award show may end up ultimately being the award show for 2007 films and television shows. As you know, the WGA denied requests for waivers to the Globes and Oscars. In fact, the WGA plans to picket the Globes, which has a lot of insi...
So, the season finale finally came last night and I have to say on many levels, I’m disappointed. The episode picks up right where the previous one left off. A deadly virus has apparently spread through Global Dynamics and the building has...
A group of armed robbers dressed as Elvises hold up a casino and come away with lots of cash. But the trouble is just beginning when the group`s leader, Murphy, decides he doesn`t want to share. His second-in-command, Michael, tries to keep Murphy from mu...
The latest Best Selling lists have been released from most of the news publications for this past week. It looks like author James Patterson is leading the way on most of the lists from his latest novel, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. Here's a look at the Best Selle...
Genre:Horror.Studio:Dimension Films.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Christina Ricci; Skeet Ulrich; Scott Foley; Omar Epps; Shannon Elizabeth (Becky); Illeana Douglas; James Brolin; Robert Forster; Judy Greer; Scott Baio; Core...
Last week we spoke to Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson about their decision to partner on a new series of books based on the late Frank Herbert's legendary DUNE novels. This week we chat with them about the new release DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD"In many ...
He is smooth. He is calm. He is debonair. Kevin Spacey embodies old Hollywood in his classic style. Always dressed up in a suit and tie when doing press for his films, Spacey takes his job seriously. That strict devotion is what garnered Spacey two Academ...
OPINION: I've only recently become familiar with John Constantine, the lead character in Vertigo's longest-running series to date, HELLBLAZER. Even so, I was appalled to hear the changes that were being made to the character to bring him to the screen - a...
A scooper out in the void of cyberspace contacted the site yesterday and gave us two links to check out which, if their facts are straight, tell us which character Elijah Wood is playing in Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY film. Upon first hearing the news, Wo...
Hollywood is a slaughterhouse where cool movie ideas go to die. Here are ten films that were tragically cut down before their time, simply because they were just too friggin' awesome. #10. Peter Jackson's Halo Fans of the popular video game wept tears of ...
On Sepetmber 4th, “Prison Break” Season Two arrives on DVD. Featuring the return of Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, the second season adds Hollywood veteran William Fichtner to the ensemble cast as the determined FBI agent hot...
DEPASQUALE’S NORTH WINDComposer Jared DePasquale, known here for his effective low-budget horror scores to THE FRIGHTENING, ANCIENT EVIL: SCREAM OF THE MUMMY, and THE DEAD HATE THE LIVING, recently entertained a somewhat more benevolent form of fantasy, p...
In the race to reach viewers first, Sci Fi Channel beat director Paul Verhoeven’s The Hollow Man with their own project `loosely based` on H. G. Wells’ novel The Invisible Man and titled…well, The Invisible Man. In this version, we have Darien Faukes, wh...
Film Roman, Inc.
announced monday that it will acquire acclaimed visual effects house,
VanHook Studios. Former comic pro Kevin VanHook and his staff, including top effects artists
Chadd B. Cole and Vince Di Meglio, will form a new division, Forum Vis...
Brian Herbert, son of legendary DUNE author Frank Herbert, had been contacted many times over the years by science fiction authors asking permission to write the concluding volume in the DUNE series."My father had a final book of DUNE planned in his head,...
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...
Lisa Ryder, who plays Captain Beka Valentine on Gene Roddenberry`s Andromeda, doesn`t mind trading reality for science fiction on a regular basis. The actress has starred in Total Recall 2070, Psi Factor and the upcoming Friday the 13th sequel Jason X, pl...
There were a lot of great entries, but Stephen Smith's defense of MALLRATS was judged to be the most concise, to the point, and in keeping with the Essence of Smith. Plus, his name is Smith, thereby fuelling several conspiracy theories if I pick him, so h...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hideyuki Kurata / Tomomasa TakumaTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:Mallory ReavesWhat They SayArena, denied her final confrontation with Kevin, has agreed to go back to her grandfather\'s house! On top of this, the s...
The International Animated Film Society have announced the nominees for the 2008 Annie Awards.
Of interest to comics readers are the following:
Kudos to DC Comics and Warner Animation. 'Batman: Gotham Knight' and 'Justice League: The...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...