While the first issue of Scott Alan Kinney's KILLERSTUNTS INC. has yet to come out, the buzz on the upcoming comic book continues to build. After the film rights were optioned by movie producers Chuck Gordon and Adrian Askarieh late last year, now comes ...
KillerStunts, Inc, an upcoming comic book mini-series, created and written by Scott Kinney, and illustrated by penciler Scott Cohn and inked by industry vet Mike Manley (Batman, Ninjak, Monsterman) will look to hit stands this month. The four issue KSI m...
Since it was first announced a year ago, much has changed for "KillerStunts, Inc." with a new artist and film adaptation moving quickly. Scott Alan Kinney updated CBR News on the comic front (with exclusive art) and producer Adrian Askarieh spoke about t...
Alan Scott, (not the original Green Lantern) the creator of the indy comic 'KillerStunts, Inc.' writes to give us an update on future issues of the comic as well as production on the feature film.
The all-seeing Rich Johnston reports in his 'Lying in the Gutters' column, "I hear that producers Adrian Askarieh and Chuck Gordon are developing a big-budgeted feature version of the upcoming 'KillerStunts, Inc.' comic series. "
In a pre-emptive move, Chuck Gordon's Daybreak Prods. and Adrian Askarieh's Prime Universe Prods. have optioned film and TV rights to the upcoming comic book series "KillerStunts, Inc." and will produce through their respective companies. Leo Partible, c...
Before the first issue has hit the stands the film and television rights for KILLERSTUNTS, INC. have been sold. Adrian Askarieh's Prime Universe Productions and Chuck Gordon's Daybreak Productions, both involved with the live-action SPY HUNTER film, nabb...
"What a difference a comic book, a comic con, a film option, a new publisher, a story change, a new artist, a short film, a name change, and a year make! Oh, for the record, I didn't really change my name; I'm now using my real name, Scott Alan Kinney, as...
"Sources tell me 'Agent Zero' -- a concept by Scott Alan Kinney ('KillerStunts, Inc.') and backed by DPG Visions is apparently getting some play in TV land ..."
I'd like to do a review every now and again of a film from my personal collection at home. Whether it's an old film or recent release, if it's on DVD and it's in my film library, it's fair game for review. I like to find time on my weekends when I can dus...
When his first two pictures were hits at the box office, Dario Argento found his work very much in demand. Suddenly, every producer in Italy wanted him to make one of his giallo thrillers for them. While turning down one leading offer, Argento recommended...
Sony is attempting to keep the UMD format viable with a new marketing strategy lately. They've been bundling together the UMD and DVD editions of certain films at a special price. It's hard to figure their reasoning here, but I think they're assuming some...
Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, creators of the hit Web series "Ask a Ninja," are writing an adaptation of the 1978 cult monster movie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, with Nichols set to make his directorial debut. M. Dal Walton III, the force...
I can't adequately summarize the last four issues (if you include #0) of HUNTER-KILLER, because the one never quite knows where the story stands. You see, HUNTER-KILLER operates in the shadowy realm of government conspiracies, black ops, and agents with a...
What They SayThe mind-shattering prequel to the hit cult thriller Ichi the Killer
A masochistic mobster meets his match in the dark streets of Tokyo. His nemesis, Ichi, is a psychopathic killer with an unrelenting thirst for bloodshed. A horrifying secr...
Troma has joined the ranks of video labels offering iPod video downloads on Troma.com. So far, their slate of programming includes lessons from Lloyd Kaufman's film school in a box MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE and edited, serialized version of Trey Parker &am...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
There's nothing like living with a psychopath, is there? I've noticed a few thrillers getting green lit out of Hollywood the past few months involving a killer friend in the same house and here's another one. Screen Gems has acquired Sonny Mallhi's spec t...
Giant Killer Robots' next project, under wraps until today, is the "Fantastic Four," the 20th Century Fox movie based on the Marvel comic strip characters, due out in July. The company's entire staff has been working on the "Fantastic Four" behind tightly...
David Fincher will be heading back behind the camera after Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to the graphic novel THE KILLER, reports Variety. The pic will be produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Alexandra Milchan. Allesandro Camon is dev...
Giant Killer Robots was the lead VFX house for 20 th Century Fox's highly anticipated summer blockbuster, Fantastic Four. As the primary VFX vendor, GKR delivered the film's most challenging and photo-realistic effects. GKR created and developed the intri...
VARIETY announced today that yet another comic book will be making the leap onto the silver screen. Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment will produce BEAUTIFUL KILLER, based on the single title comic of the same name. Jessica Alba (DARK ANGEL) has ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another skull-burning installment of Comicscape. Last week, I asked for readers to submit their Marvel jokes for the chance to replace Al Brown, the column’s joke writer and a future federal inmate. ...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
SWORDFISH director Dominic Sena has found his ext project. It's an adaptation of the 1952 novel THE KILLER INSIDE ME that reads like a special kind of horror film. It centers on Lou Ford, a sheriff in a small Texas town who likes killing as much as the mu...
Relativity Media has acquired Hunter-Killer, a spec script that was written by producer Arne Schmidt, who submitted it under a pseudonym. He wrote the script under his pen name due to his industry related job which includes line producer credits on the XX...
Once a main squeeze for international man of mystery Austin Powers, actress Elizabeth Hurley is preparing to star in a new movie called THE METHOD. The $7 million dollar indie thriller is about a Hollywood actress who finally gets a meaty role she can si...
Killer Films will develop a feature from Ariel Schrag's autobiographical comicbook of modern teenage life, 'Potential,' to be produced by company principals Christine Vachon and Katie Roumel and newly elevated development exec Jocelyn Hayes.
Happy Wednesday to all of you for comic readers, every Wednesday is a holiday. That is, of course, unless you're married then every Wednesday is an exercise in shame and deceit and brings you one step closer to an episode of DIVORCE COURT or whatever it...
David Fincher will direct the movie adaptation of 'The Killer' a graphic novel written by Matz (ne Alexis Nolent) and illustrated by Luc Jacamon, reports today's Variety.
Allesandro Camon will write the script, for the film which is described as being...
You might have read that Halle Berry suffered broken bones on her new movie "Gothika." Is she taking it a bit easier as "Catwoman?"
"I'm going all out for the stunts," Berry insists. More...
Not even 20 years have passed since director John Woo released his Hong Kong action film, THE KILLER , but a remake is still on the horizon, says the Hollywood Reporter. A new American take of the film, yet featuring a new Korean star, will be u...
David Carradine and Daryl Hannah reunite for the first time since their roles on the big screen in the two "Kill Bill" Volumes to star in the two-part original movie miniseries, "Kung Fu Killer" slated to premiere this August on Spike ...
Due out on 09/21/2004 from Central Park Media, we\'ve got another slightly early look at one of the more disturbing titles to come out as of late with a review of Ichi the Killer: Episode Zero.
What They SayBrainwashed by the 108 Dragons, a powerful Chinese crime syndicate, Yo Hinomura is transformed into a killing machine known as \"Crying Freeman\" for the silent tears he sheds for his victims.
When the lovely artist Emu Hino witnesses one o...
Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba are jumping aboard director Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of The Killer Inside Me, says the Hollywood Reporter. The project would be the second adaptation from noir author Jim Thompson, who's novel was originally adapted...
"There are no Indian horror movies." I live in what has been documented as the most diverse neighborhood on the planet, and as I browsed through the many Indian, Pakistani, Russian, African and Filipino video stores lining its main thoroughfare during the...
Modern American society is both appalled and fascinated by serial killers, from Henry Lee Lucas to Ted Bundy. However, the first known example of this breed so classified in United States history has been largely ignored. H.H. Holmes murdered at least nin...
Why does everyone have a great big plasma HDTV but me? Well, not really, but that's the impression you get if you flip through a few nights of network television lately. Manufacturers of high end entertainment electronics are doing their best to place pro...
Showtime is on the fast track to develop a new series based on Jeff Lindsay's "Dexter" novels. James Manos Jr. will adapt the books and also serve as an executive producer on the show.The series will focus on criminal lab technician/serial killer Dexter ...
This episode of Medium was much hyped due to the guest appearance of star Patricia Arquette’s sister Rosanna. It’s funny to see the two of them together in this episode, each playing the type of character that made them famous. Patricia has al...
In 2006, Warner Bros, with the help of GO STUNTS will bring Superman back to life in Superman Returns. Not to be outdone, GO STUNTS is currently working to bring Spiderman back to theaters for Spiderman 3.
More...
The guys over at Killer Films are breaking out of their indie roots and going back in time for a big production named William the Conqueror, reports Variety. The trade says the shingle behind Far From Heaven and Hedwig and the Angry Inch are developing a ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kikuchi Hideyuki / Saitoh MisakiTranslated by:Brendan FrayneAdapted by:What They SayEVEN DEMONS HATE DR. TAIMA'S NEEDLES OF DOOM!
With a strange plague of demonic possession slowly taking over the bodies of unsuspecting victim...
The Xbox and Game Boy Advance ports of TRON 2.0: KILLER APP have now reached store shelves. First released in the summer of 2003 for personal computers, TRON 2.0 returns gamers back to the digital universe first realized in the 1982 movie TRON, except thi...
George W. Bush squeezed by John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election on the votes of millions of born again evangelical Bible-quotin churchified Christians. So how will we be celebrating in the first DVD review since Election Day? By discussing one of...
News from the High Definition DVD front: Microsoft released an HD-DVD player add-on for its Xbox 360 game console last November. But the big news is that some cyber geeks are reporting that they’ve figured out a hack so the thing works when hooke...
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...
This week I’m most looking forward to Lost, mainly to see if this episode makes up for the lackluster season so far. We were promised in ads that the last two episodes of the fall season would change everything. Last week we saw SPOI...
Another WB distributed-Dark Castle production grabbed a leading star this morning. The Hollywood Reporter reports John Cusack joining THE FACTORY, a new psychological thriller on the horizon from producer Joel Silver. Morgan O'Neill, a winner of the Austr...
What does it take to make one of the more interesting entries in crowded summer of blockbusters? Take one part Angelina Jolie; one part most successful director in Russia’s history (Night Watch and Day Watch); one part Scottish up and comer James Mc...
If there was any one person who would be able to describe the world of James Bond, it would been the late screenwriter, Richard Maibaum. Beginning with the first 007 film, DR. NO, he had played an integral role in shaping the life of the super spy, having...
You may notice something different down at the bottom of the Shopping List from now on. We're going to give Universal Media Discs their own little section. I've been listing UMDs since they started selling them, but up to now I've only given them token me...
It may have been the cult movie archivists at Something Weird Video who first identified the fact that, while only a relatively small group of western fans would take interest in their huge library of old public domain oaters, horror and sci-fi fans might...
If you have ever seen a John Woo film and read most of what`s written about them, you`d think that they`re about guns. Hands lovingly caressing revolvers or stroking pump-action shotgun barrels, Woo`s heroes tap dance upon the fence between psychotic rel...
So what if you didn't have to do it every day? What if you could stop going though the motions of the pointless tasks that define your banal day-to-day existence? What if you could kick it all aside, and free yourself live the life you always wanted?
Thi...
This important DVD release (part of Anchor Bays `Dario Argento Collection`) came out earlier in the year, but with Halloween upon us, now seems like a good time to review it. Deep Red is one of the most important films in the career of Italian horror mae...
With this DVD release, EI Alternative Cinema, under their "Retro Shock-O-Rama" label, adds yet another title to a film that has been shown as HANDS OF DEATH, BLACK VOODOO, KILLER'S CURSE, HOSPITAL OF TERROR and BEYOND THE LIVING. Most commonly, and proper...
The purpose of the digital stuntman is to: A. Replace a human stuntman for stunts that would likely kill or seriously injure a human. For example, getting hit by a bus.B. Do stunts beyond the abilities of a human actor playing a super-powered character. F...
VIDEO NEWSEverybody has to start somewhere and Steven Spielberg first grabbed the attention of critics and audiences with the 1971 TV movie DUEL. On May 21st, Universal will bring the film to DVD in a special edition package featuring a Spielberg intervie...
The news.telegraph.co.uk Web site reports that Anthony Hopkins will be compensated for his starring role in RED DRAGON under a profit sharing agreement. The agreement provides for 7.5% of the movie's gross with an up-front payment of 5.3 million pounds (a...
Italian horror icon Dario Argento is about to direct an English-language homage to the genre which him a cult-classic favorite. Variety confirms that the director is set to lead Giallo, a new slasher that's set to star daughter Asia Argento, Ray Liotta an...
The most hideous evil lies within us. No, I'm not talking about our tendency to flip on a dime between "good" and "evil" depending on the circumstance, I'm talking about our brains - not as the center of our conscious and subconscious being, but as someth...
According to Twitch, the 1979 horror film Driller Killer is set to be remade by British filmmaker Andrew Jones. The film is rumored to be vastly different from the original, adapting a more psychological study of the title character as he fades into deme...
Fox Searchlight Pictures is giving horror fans a chance to see 28 DAYS LATER two weeks earlier than the film's official release date. The studio plans on showing the film in 28 cities on Friday, June 13 -- just for one night only -- before releasing the ...
Edward, Stephen and Charles Chiodo, who created 1988's KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, are hoping that they can get a sequel up and rolling.Though they've talked about doing so for some time, the brothers feel that now might be the right time to get peopl...
Disclaimer
I'm not an expert in video signal theory or anything like that. This article is just a brief (well, it was supposed to be when I started), general overview compiled from various sources for your information. I don't make any claims about the a...
It was a weak weekend for the genre at the box office. AMERICAN PSYCHO disappeared from the Top 10 in only its second week of release, and science fiction, horror, and fantasy films were shut out of the Top 5 positions, which were held by U-571, LOVE AND ...
Sometimes there are movies which you love, yet which are so quirky and offbeat that you cannot justify that love to anyone who isnt already in on it. The Chiodo Brothers debut and so far only film, KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, is just such a mo...
Dozens of residents braved chilly weather last week to catch a glimpse of spectacular stunt sequences being filmed along a portion of Lougheed Hwy. for the big-budget superhero film 'X-Men 3'...
This spring, Blade returns to the big screen and he's got more trouble to contend with than ever before. In Blade 2, Blade is forced to team-up with a group a vampire assasins called the Bloodpack in order to stop the Reavers, a new species of mut...
Jessica Alba is
set to become a big screen super-hero with an adaptation of Black Bull's comic Beautiful
Killer according to today's Variety.
Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment are developing the concept for the
former Dark Angel star.
The...
he marketing machine kicks into high gear for Warner Brothers' upcoming Superman Returns with a high-flying stunt and high-tech downloadables for Xbox.
In a promotion called "Look! Up in the sky!" the studio will project the Man of Steel's iconic S shi...
As a kid growing up in Wahiawa, Nito Larioza read comic books and relished the action-hero escapism. Now he's leading a charmed Hollywood life, working with and training movie stars Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Kelsey Grammer, who are principals in "X-Me...
The 'Spider-Man' film broke box office records when it hit screens in 2002 making a staggering 64 million pounds in its first weekend. Now 'Spider-Man 2' is due out in a couple of weeks and Tobey Maguire has been telling us that he doesn't feel under any ...
The very experienced Vanuatu stuntman Wilfred Wooddrow has another stunt job lined up for February 15 with Nicholas Cage in Melbourne on the movie 'Ghost Rider'.
...reator of KILLERSTUNTS, INC. from the new publisher Alias Enterprises (no relationship to the great Bendis comic or the annoying Jennifer Garner show). Alias publishes creator-owned comics, similar to the Image model. KILLERSTUNTS, INC. tells the sto...
FREE DVDs, kids! In celebration of Hanukah, we have 3 copies of Jet Li’s martial arts epic Fearless in our Prize Closet to give away, courtesy of Universal. To enter, send an email to DVD Shopping List which includes your name and address, ligh...
"Crackdown" by Captain Gordon Edward (Sun 03-11-2007)
Imagine a world where crime has wreaked havoc on every city, causing anarchy on every street corner. Imagine a world where rival gangs comb the streets looking for their next target. What kind of world would that be? The world of Crackdown. There is ho...
What Wanted lacks in terms of originality, it more than makes up for with style and excitement. Based on the comic book series created by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, the ultraviolent action thriller seamlessly channels the likes of John Woo and the Wachow...
As has been well documented, Jesus of Nazareth has been misquoted and misrepresented by his followers for two thousand years. Its about time someone got back to promoting the two-fisted Fightin Jesus the kind of hero that wont cop out when theres da...
From a press release
Universal City, Calif. – James McAvoy (Atonement) and Academy Award® winners Angelina Jolie (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) and Morgan Freeman (Dark Knight) star in the sexy, visually stunning, action thrill-ride 'Wanted', coming to D...
Untraceable is a thriller that is heavily influenced, for both good and bad, by the Saw film series. As in Saw, the killer uses ingenious and diabolical traps to kill his victims. The victims actually are given a chance to survive although remot...
Way back in the early days of this site, I had written an article that had gained a surprising amount of linkage. Not within the anime sites of course, because back then DVD was still considering something that was doomed. But among the DVD sites and thos...
From a press release
Universal City, Calif., October 13, 2008 – James McAvoy (Atonement) and Academy Award winners Angelina Jolie (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) and Morgan Freeman (Dark Knight) star in the sexy, visually stunning, action thrill-ride 'Wanted'...
While studying corn-pest predators in Illinois, I was once in the middle of `flat` nowhere, when suddenly the skies darkened and a tornado ominously swooped down and weaved a destructive path through a field I had just been in. The next thing I knew, my c...
If you hadn't caught on yet, COMICSCAPE didn't run yesterday because of the Fourth of July holiday. As UPS doesn't deliver on federal holidays, the new comics didn't hit the shops until today. I hope everyone had a happy holiday and didn't lose any finger...
Percepto Records has just released a deluxe soundtrack of the 1988 cult classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. This lavish World Premiere limited edition CD showcases every note of composer John Massari's sinister synth-score plus the popular theme song ...
Hunter-Killer premiered in 2005 to much fanfare, with readers and critics looking forward to “the next Rising Stars.” However, delays spread 12 issues of an ostensibly monthly, ongoing series across two years, with this twelfth issue...
Mark Wahlberg may have spoken too soon when he accepted the lead role in director Tim Burton's revised PLANET OF THE APES. After all, the actor hadn't even thought about the big shoes he'd have to fill taking on a part inspired by the one Charlton Heston ...
Nearly a month after The Kingdom hit theaters, screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan and Jamie Foxx will be reteaming for a new crime thriller called THE ZEBRA MURDERS: A SEASON OF KILLING, RACIAL MADNESS, AND CIVIL RIGHTS. The film will be bas...
So our massive sci-fi TV giveaways from last week have left the ol' prize closet totally exhausted. The prize winners should've been notified by now, and there will never be another giveaway in this column again. Aaaah I should know that I can't fool you...
Twisted Pictures, the producers behind the SAW series, is developing a new horror film which will debut on Break.com. The project is currently called THE INTERNET KILLER.
No director has been set yet, but Twisted is currently develo...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER points out that Christina Ricci is at the table for a role with Charlize Theron in MONSTER, a film that recounts the story of Aileen Wuornos, executed on October 9.Wuornos was convicted of the 1989 murders of seven men. MONSTER will...
Welcome to our special Boxing Day column! Hope you’re all enjoying your holidays, got a lot of great gifts, and had a chance to relax a bit with good friends and family. Speaking of gifts, the producers of the hit documentary An Inco...
VIDEO NEWSOne of the next big titles coming to home video will be this summers hit, MEN IN BLACK II. The current word on the DVD release is that it will be a 2-disc set. Disc one will feature the film in either anamorphic or full screen image along with ...
As the thinking goes, with every format/media that comes out, there is one "killer app"lication that will make it a household word. For VHS, many make claims of the movie Top Gun, which was the first of the sell-through tapes to hit the market. For CD, a ...
Penguin Group USA unveils a powerful new anthology on hardcover featuring fantasy’s most prestigious character archetypes: the almighty, all-ass-kicking wizard. Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Orson Scott Card, and many other established fantasy authors ro...
That's right, fans it's October! The season of spooky pranks, ghoulish doings, colorful costumes and tasty treats is upon us. Of course you know what I'm talking about: Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Everyone who claims to be Canadian c...
This week the Prize Closet holds copies of two DVDs about heroes assigned to quests by their respective deities. Enter to win by sending an email containing your valid mailing address to psycho@psychotronic.info. To win one of five copies of the thri...
Part V: Diagonally Parked in a Parallel World
You ever have one of those rants where you wake up after a wild all-weekend Animefest (and Sake binge), only to find yourself handcuffed to a Ctarl-Ctarl and on a ship bound for Jurai?
Well...me neither. But...
Wow seems like theres more DVDs every week. Lets get to em. SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEKThis weeks spotlight item has suffered for years due to unfair comparisons with previous entries in its series, and because it was released around the same time as the ...
Something's terribly wrong when the "serious" summer movies boast more thrills and chills than the blockbusters. Adrian Lyne's UNFAITHFUL turned out to be a sophisticated roller coaster for adults, and now we have Chris Nolan's INSOMNIA, a fiendishly enjo...
It took 13 long months for Batman to catch the Hang Man, the mysterious serial killer whos been whacking Gotham City cops in the pages of Batman: Dark Victory. The maxi-series, which wrapped up earlier this month with a spectacular double issue, finally ...
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...
Does success breed paranoia? Apparently so, since Miramax decided to keep SCREAM 3 well away from the Internet press (no press junkets or advance screenings). One would suspect this meant the distributor had something to hide, yet the film itself turns ou...
Curious what
it's like to be the in charge of the amazing stunts for a show like Smallville?
Then check out Kryptonsite's recent
interview with Lauro Chartrand, Smallville's first season stunt
coordinator. Chartrand coordinated most of the stunts o...
FIGHT CLUB and SEVEN director David Fincher is in talks to helm a movie about the ZODIAC killer. Both Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures are working on a deal that would see the two studios finance and make the film a reality.Based on the true crime book...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Rei MikamotoTranslated by:Michael GombosAdapted by:What They SayTerror has struck the sleepy little town of Shiraike. A serial killer stalks the streets murdering innocent girls. Twenty-nine grisly murders have been committed,...
VIDEO NEWSJEEPERS CREEPERS was a sleeper hit this summer and MGM is cashing in on its popularity by rushing it to home video as a January release. There will be a Special Edition DVD release offering a making-of featurette, deleted footage and, most eye-p...
`They say there`s no devil, Jim, but there is, right out of hell -- I saw it,` Commodore Matt Decker told Captain James T. Kirk in the classic episode `The Doomsday Machine.` The titular devil, a massive weapon that powered itself by destroying planets, w...
Its one week before Halloween, a holiday that has become almost synonymous (probably thanks to John Carpenter) with the viewing of scary movies at theaters or at home. The deluge of new, classic, obscure and frequently crappy titles that has filled thes...
The oeuvre of the Hannibal Lecter stories begs to be psychoanalyzed as Dr. Lecter himself would do. Because some familiarity with the character of Hannibal `the Cannibal` Lecter is absolutely vital to the understanding of Harris`s long-awaited novel HANNI...
3-Disc Box Set to be Priced at $29.95 SRP and Single Discs to be Priced From $9.95 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (November 21, 2006) Central Park Media announced today that it will kick off the new year with the re-release and re-pricing of Black Jack DVD Collec...
You might not agree but you can understand the desire to remake horror films such as Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. However, is Hollywood so devoid of imagination that they now have to remake lackluster films from the 1980’s? Whe...
In last week’s thrilling DVD Shopping List column, we looked ahead to the major and intriguing genre theatrical and direct-to-DVD movie releases scheduled for the next 12 months. We ran out of room halfway through the list, so we pick it up here ...
The slasher film sub-genre received a shot in the arm with the blockbuster success of Scream a few years ago. Since then, numerous sequels, follow-ups, and imitators have emerged; only the first sequel really matched the box office of the original, but by...
Barry Hoffman is the author of several horror and psychological suspense novels, but he might be best known as the editor and publisher of Gauntlet Press, which is dedicated to publishing horror, having sprung out of his anti-censorship magazine, also cal...
Its comedy week here at `Vidiocy,` as two recent hits and a largely forgotten item from the early 60s lead us into a week of mirth and madness. Up first, Buena Vista Home Entertainments release one of the years biggest surprise hits, Scary Movie. R...
From video game to major motion picture, TOMB RAIDER brings the buxom Lara Croft to cinematic life via Angelina Jolie. It was a complicated process, but CINESCAPE managed to hook up with Jolie and the behind-the-scenes talent to discuss the making of the ...
The international success of "giallo" horror films from Italy by Dario Argento and Mario Bava led to a gush of stylish spaghetti splatter in the 1970s. Soon, dozens of directors were working on these violent whodunit thrillers. One of the best of these wa...
Bite MeWhile we`re still in a Hallowe`en mood, I thought we`d start the nonfiction segment of our rant (what`s with the royal we all of a sudden, DD?) with more seasonal material. Check out this brand new title: The Dracula Cookbook: Authentic Recipes fro...
Comics2Film loves that David Fincher. We were excited back when he was a contender to direct 'Spider-Man'. Now a chat with MTV.com reveals that Fincher has plans for lots of other comic-based fare.
He's presently attached to direct the film version of Br...
VIDEO NEWS SHREK has already claimed this year's top box office title. It's November 2nd DVD release may claim other records as well as DreamWorks launches the title, at sell-through prices, with their bigg...
For the past 30 years millions of STAR TREK fans all over the world have faithfully watched 79 episodes of the original 1960s TV series in reruns and videotapes in a seemingly perpetual loop. There are hardcore fans today who can tell you, from a single l...
1999 was a notably strong year for fantastic genre films at the box office, but much of that success came from a horror offshoot that hasn`t typically enjoyed a lot of audience acceptance: the ghost story. The mega-hit THE SIXTH SENSE, the critically wel...
I was going to give this book an "A" (and an enthusiastic one) until I got towards the end of the book. Before I tell you why, let me go into what the book is about.There is a serial killer on the loose in Syracuse, New York. This killer likes children, p...
Most DVDs contain movie trailers, at least for the feature and often a few advertising other features on the same label. However, surprisingly few discs have been devoted exclusively to trailers (which we all know are often better than the movies advertis...
VIDEO NEWSMovie re-titling is a practice as old as film itself, but it's usually a marketing con job pulled by some scurrilous, fly-by-night distributor to trick unsuspecting rubes into paying to see a movie they've already seen simply by changing its nam...
The plot of director Robert Harmon's THE HITCHER is so simple that to recount it almost sounds derisive. A young man on a cross-country trek picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a serial killer. The driver escapes unharmed but soon finds he is being ...
As Clint Eastwood works on into his 72nd year without any obvious loss of energy or commitment to the business of thrilling us, his creative efforts to stay in the game as a screen hero despite his advancing age have become one of the most fascinating ele...
One of the trilogy of Hallmark holidays - Father's Day and Mother's Day are the others - Valentine's Day seems perfectly suited to piss off anybody who just so happens, through no fault of their own, to not have a significant other to shower with imprompt...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Eiji Otsuka Artist: Housui YamazakiTranslated by:Toshifumi YomidaAdapted by:Carl Gustav HornWhat They Sayour body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little ...
When nature wants to strike down on man - via retribution for folly or just for the heck of it - one of its deadliest tactics is enlarging, or unleashing a prehistoric, gigantic variant of, an animal or insect. From the latest attack via those enormous wo...
I really, really tried to like this book. I love Stephen King's writing; I love most of what Peter Straub writes. I'd read THE TALISMAN (the prequel to this book) years ago and loved it. So I was eagerly awaiting BLACK HOUSE. All I could think of was, "Fi...
In part one of CINESCAPE's coverage of Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors convention, our intrepid correspondent detailed his visit to the event, which took place at New York's Brooklyn Marriott Hotel on January 5th and 6th. Today we continue to explore the da...
On opposite sides of the planet, two genre moviemaking veterans had violence on their minds. In the U.S., director Peter Hyams (2010, OUTLAND) was wondering what the heck he could do to freshen up Alexandre Dumas' much-adapted swashbuckler yarn THE THREE ...
What They SayIn this enlightened age, few even believe that Boogiepop exists; she’s used as an urban myth used to frighten the ignorant. But where urban myths end, reality takes up. Five years ago a serial killer held the city in fear, slashing and ...
Genre:Thriller.Studio:Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures.Production Company:Phoenix Pictures.Project Phase:Development.Who's In It:Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Mark Ruffalo, Chloe Sevigny, Anthony Edwards, Gary Oldman.Who's Making It:Jamie Vanderbilt (Sc...
This 2004 Italian thriller represents both a step forward and a return to form for writer/director Dario Argento. In recent years, fans of the Poe of Cinema have been wanting him to return to the kind of giallo thrillers with which he first made his mark ...
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...
Rebounding from a lackluster second outing, THE INSIDE comes back strong with a great twist on the typical serial killer storyline. "Pre-filer" focuses on the VCU's pursuit of a killer who targets proto-serial killer and removes them from play before the...
First, the good news: next week is my first interview in a while. I'll be talking with the man...the legend...THE CHIN: Bruce Campbell. We'll be chatting about his new comic book and movie THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN. The first issue of the miniserie...
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...
As you may have noticed, Halloween is coming up this week and- what, you didnt know? Well take a look at a calendar, genius! Now that youre way behind in making a costume, let me offer a couple Shopping List suggestions. Cut a big circle out of cardboar...
Last week I reported on how several DVD labels were releasing Mexican genre cluster content on DVD in the USA without taking into consideration the massive English speaking audience that enjoys such classics as LA LLARONA and CASTLE OF THE MUMMIES OF GUAN...
Sean Bean will play a serial killer in the upcoming remake of THE HITCHER for Rogue Pictures. The remake of the 1986 horror film also stars Sophia Bush.The script for the film was penned by Eric Bernt and follows a young couple driving across the country...
No doubt as s a promotional stunt for the release of the comic adventure epic PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, a gang of Video Pirates were arrested in New York, 22 people stand accused of sneaking camcorders into theaters to capture hit movies...
What They SayWhen partners Yao & Lu are ordered to clean up an island resort paradise, the assignment seems like a reward, until they find themselves stalked by a masked serial killer. They may not be at Camp Crystal Lake, but it\'s certainly Friday the 1...
What They SayMoney & Blood! Whether a fake promisory note or an empty wallet, a variety of challenges face Mugen, Jin and Fuu in their struggle to survive. Not even monsters of legend, murderers or never-ending rain can shake their iron will and confidenc...
The Review!Tenchi in Tokyo: A New Career is the seventh Tenchi in Tokyo disk, and this is my seventh Tenchi in Tokyo review. What an amazing coincidence! (I'm sure that Louis Farrakhan will have a field day trying to find the hidden numerical significance...
The New Year is officially here, and with it a new crop of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature is beginning to spring up from the fertile minds of genre authors everywhere. But though 2008 is the year of the new, some authors from the past, ...
In breaking with tradition this week, a Pocket Star release has given me an excuse to spend most of my discourse on something I positively love: WARCRAFT.
Ever since playing a demo version of the original Warcraft (on a Shuckysoft shareware CD) a...
This series didn't come back from its hiatus strong for me. The flashback to the day before the bombs went off was completely boring other than the Hawkins and Jake storylines. This series has always been “Jake centric” but now ...
Horrorfest, the weekend of horror that brought films which were too graphic or disturbing for general audiences to theaters, is set to land on DVD shelves March 27.All but one of the Horrorfest DVDs come out on March 27th and there is also a DVD set avail...
Of all the genre collections that hit bookshelves daily, this week’s release schedule’s got one with the coolest unifying element I’ve ever encountered: one that pays homage to the stand-up citizens who provide death for hire.
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Creative Talent Writer/Artist: Peach PitTranslated by: Christine SchillingAdapted by: N/AWhat They SayTrying to go after "the Butterfly," Michiru and Koyomi end up finding themselves in an offline meeting for killers! Chika, Shito, and Shiba are...
I received a special invitation in my mailbox this week. It's not exactly on topic as concerns DVDs, but it might pertain to DVD recorders or more specifically, the new HD format recorders - and material you can collect for same. Anyway, it gives me a ch...
What They SayConvinced that the cyber-terrorist known only as \"the Laughing Man\" has resurfaced, Section 9 accelerates their inquiry to include eavesdropping on a chat room whose participants are not who they seem to be. They are also found investigatin...
What They SayConvinced that the cyber terrorist known only as the Laughing Man has resurfaced, Section 9 accelerates their investigations. Major Kusanagi goes into a virtual chat room devoted to the Laughing Man and has an unusual encounter. But the peopl...
What They SayNyu is a babe in the woods. Washed up on the shore, unable to communicate, she's discovered by a pair of college students " Kohta and Yuka "and counts on them for everything.
Lucy is a vicious killer. Equipped with a battery of deadly psyc...
There are some bright spots on the TV horizon, but those bright spots are few and far between. It would be easy to say get your hands on Season 3 of LOST, or the first 3 seasons of BSG, or some other television series box set but that doesn’t h...
With just a few short weeks before BIONIC WOMAN premieres on NBC, Alice Newgen at Comingsoon had a chance to discuss a wide variety of topics covering the show with creator/executive producer David Eick(Battlestar Galactica) and leading star Michelle Ryan...
There were a lot of new episodic series this season, most of which only lasted a few episodes. Episodic TV draws rabid fans though; if you start a story in that genre then viewers want to know how it all ends. Many of these series such as ...
As Dreamworks and Paramount gear up to resurrect a franchise this Independence Day, Random House Publishing Group is capitalizing on the hype by printing the official prequel novel to the live-action film.
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Happy Wednesday, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting installment of Comicscape, where I’ll drag you through the soul-wrenching depths of moral inquiry and sequential art psychoanalysis. This week, I want to revisit an issue I touched ...
What They SaySven is your run-of-the-mill sweeper (aka bounty hunter) - down on his luck, haunted by the perpetual grumbling of his stomach and looking to make enough cash to get by. Oh, and he can see the future, but only about five minutes into it. When...
Can an anime version of Batman hold a candle next to the recently released Batman movies? Even the animated series of the 90’s?What They SayAcclaimed screenwriters including David Goyer (Batman Begins), Josh Olson (A History of Violence) and Alan Bu...
At the New York Comic Con X-Files creators Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz spoke of a DVD that would precede their new X-Files film X-Files: I Want To Believe (in theaters July 25, 2008). The DVD was to be a refresher on Agents Mulder (David Duchovny...
We present this guest DVD review from James Harvey at The World's Finest Online
Just in time for the theatrical release of 'The Dark Knight,' Warner Home Video has unleashed the highly anticipated 'Batman: Gotham Knight', the new direct-to-video anim...
One of the main reasons why fans are so excited to see one of their favorite TV series seasoned on DVD is that this is the only way theyd ever get to see these shows uncut and uninterrupted, with no network "bugs" or promos hogging the lower frame, and n...
Part IV: Out of the Frying Pan-Dimension, Into the Fireball
Somewhere in the pan-dimensional world of Cup & Saucer, there was trouble afoot. And what a particularly strange foot it was, for there were in fact no feet to cause trouble. No, trouble had app...
Part 1: Desperately Seeking Sake
So there I was one night, happily watching my friend's Revolutionary Girl Utena DVD, when I had realized that to properly revolutionize the world, an otaku needs vast amounts of Sake to help. Especially after seeing the e...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story by: Seimaru Amagi Art by: Tetsuya KoshibaTranslated by:Haruko FurukawaAdapted by:What They SayA serial murderer is on the loose, someone who dresses up as a clown...a killer clown.
Officer Kurumi Ayaki reporting. Due t...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Atsushi SuzumiTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SaySumire Takahana is a seemingly normal school girl cursed with the ability to see malevolent ghosts known as \"Viruses.\" Her life hits a crossroads after a run-in with a \"go...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tou Ubukata / Kiriko Yumeji Translated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:Ikoi HiroeWhat They SayLia is still searching for her murderer, but will success save her soul or doom her to the fires of hell? Her fate is tied to the destiny of...
Behind the opening titles, we're invited to be voyeurs as a blind masseur (Ezio Marano) massages the beautiful nude body of model Maria Zani (Barbara Bouchet). After she has an argument with her husband Paolo (Silvano Tranquilli) in which he confronts her...