In a recent interview with www.kcchiefs.com, KyleTurley was asked a question about his involvement with the upcoming film, RAMBO IV.QUESTION: Not only are you trying to get back into football, but I heard you're going to be in Rambo IV?TURLEY: "No, I thi...
OPINION: As I write this, I'm on a train to visit a friend in Atlanta, my laptop perched on a pillow on my knees, a techno version of the 60s SPIDER-MAN theme blaring in my headphones, and a huge picture of a Dalek from DOCTOR WHO staring out at me from t...
In an exclusive interview with iF, Kyle explains the power of hand-drawn animation to these films, how proud he is of his baby girl character X-23 and of course revealing his passion for POWER PACK in Part 3 of this 3-part story.
Writer/artist Kyle Baker is working on a PLASTIC MAN graphic novel for release late in 2003.In the story, Plastic Man falls in love with a G-Woman investigating a murder that seems to have been committed by Eel O'Brian. It's up to Woozy Winks to clear Pla...
From his head-turning debuts in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet' to his iconic Special Agent Dale Cooper in 'Twin Peaks' and his current plum primetime role on 'Desperate Housewives,' Kyle MacLachlan has had a memorable career.
Now you can add a new benchmark ...
Recently, iF Magazine had the opportunity to speak with Kyle about 'Doctor Strang' and Marvel's upcoming slate and got a sneak peak into the inner workings of promoting Marvel characters on a whole new platform in Part 1 of this three-part interview.
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"The Ultimate series was so cinematic and so spectacular there was no real way to tell that story in single form," says 'Ultimate Avengers 2' producer Craig Kyle. "It was a project that lent itself to an immediate sequel. We had to modify the story so it ...
Voice actor Kyle Hebert has announced that they\'ll be doing a series of regular chats on his site starting April 5th, along with surprises guests and other items. Be sure to check out the site for details on accessing their chat room as well as checking ...
In addition to series favorites, Batman and Mr. Freeze, this mix also includes the long-awaited debut of The Riddler and the Previews Exclusive Selina Kyle, which is limited to only 4000 pieces worldwide.
New Previews Exclusive Selina Kyle
Hello, all... I'd originally intended this week to simply print the remaining responses to the Hal Jordan question and to move on to something else equally irrelevant to real life. (If you'd rather skip what follows and go directly to those responses, cli...
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEADMy first reaction to the news that Judd Winick would be doing a story addressing the gay bashing of Kyle Rayner's friend Terry was that it would be a must-read issue. Granted, much of my enthusiasm might have come from the fact that...
Ron Marz believes in responsibility. The proof lies in his exclusive contract with CrossGeneration Comics, which he made sure had a clause allowing him to complete work he`d previously committed to for Dark Horse Comics. Interestingly, that same sense of ...
OPINION:The results are in, and it looks like I should leave the predictions game to the experts. Out of the eleven categories I made predictions about, I was only right about seven of them and at the college I teach at, 60% or thereabouts would be a D....
It's not easy being green - especially if you're Oliver Queen and Kyle Raynor and you're expected to work together because you share the same taste in color schemes. But this time Ollie and Kyle share a similar goal: shape-shifting aliens in search of ble...
DARKNESS FALLS sets up the back story for its mythology with a voiceover that tells us all about it. While a prologue set in the mid-1800s might have been a little pricey, starting a horror movie off with a mouthful of verbiage tends to give the audience ...
What They SayEver wanted to learn more about the faces behind the voices of your favorite anime? KyleHebert.com is proud to launch a new, unique, and just plain fun DVD series devoted exclusively to anime dub voice actor interviews. Its new and unique bec...
Yes, I know, it's been a whole two weeks since my last column. I have a good excuse, really! Wait a second here... I'm actually writing another column fairly soon after my previous one. Well, this won't last long, so enjoy it while you can!
This week ...
Kyle Raynor has discovered the cause behind his increasing power and the reason why his ring hasn't needed recharging. It appears that when Hal Jordan reignited the sun, he left part of his Parallax power behind, and Kyle's been siphoning all that energy....
Given the close timing of their respective releases, it's hard to avoid comparing FLIGHTPLAN to the somewhat similar RED EYE and coming to the conclusion that FLIGHTPLAN is the movie RED EYE was trying to be. While still not free of plausibility issues, ...
John Stewart's career as a Green Lantern ended with the death of Oa, but his career as a hero ended when Grayven crushed his spine. Now that Kyle Raynor has the almost godlike power of Ion, however, such an injury is a minor thing to fix?and yet John stil...
I had my reservations about this particular Elseworlds outing, despite its focus on Green Lantern and despite the appeal of its turn-of-the-century setting. Most of those reservations came from my opinion of Howard Chaykin, a writer whose comics works has...
Comics2Film's
Jim Harvey caught up with Craig Kyle, one of the head producers for X-Men:
Evolution, to talk about not only his work on the hit animated Kids'WB!
series, but how he got into animation and what attracted him to doing X-Men:
Evolution. An...
Welcome back to the late days of the 1970’s, where a film noir seems to reign supreme at the front lines of any video media. Classic characters were established, comic or otherwise, while mystery was around every corner. Here we meet Kyle Hyde in...
Not every villain is born of a rivalry between college buddies and a disfiguring accident, or a bizarre mutation, or even a simple desire to conquer the known multiverse. Sometimes life just gets too tough to handle, and taking up the ol' supervillain rac...
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...
Readers of GREEN LANTERN since Judd Winick took over may note a curious thing: it's not just about Kyle Rayner anymore. If any title deserved to have the word "family" added to the title (as in BATMAN FAMILY, SUPERMAN FAMILY, or even GREEN ARROW FAMILY), ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another dive into the shallow end of Comicscape! Last week’s none-too-scientific analysis of the many 1990s throwbacks plaguing the industry generated a lot of comments, but little mail. I intended to run...
Warner Brothers finally re-released the original four Batman films on "super-special-Über-badass-cure-for-cancer" two-disc editions last week in conjunction with Christopher Nolan's BATMAN BEGINS. I hadn't seen BATMAN or BATMAN RETURNS in over ten years. ...
What They SayMysteries swirl like a sandstorm around the enigmatic ruins of Sakura\'s homeland; a site of unknown power, clearly coveted by forces both dark and light, evil and right. Syaoran and his noble friends, Kurogane and Fai, are observed from on h...
What They SayA tragic love lost in time has Daisuke under its spell! The mysterious Second Hand of Time has suspended time for the lovely Freedert, who awaits the return of her knight in shining armor, Elliot. Still, all good things must come to an end an...
The third issue of Marvel’s X-Force follows the murderous mutants as they pursue the fanatical religious sect known as the Purifiers. The sect kidnapped Rahne in the first issue, and her teammates have hacked, slashed, and tortured a bloody pat...
Filmmakers have kept a respectful distance away from airline thrillers since 09-11-2001, but that period of mourning ended in 2005, with more than one picture exploiting the new state of air travel to lend extra dimension to the action. Not that they deli...
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 ...
The nominees for the 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. The Eisners are held every year at the San Diego International Comic Convention and are the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Simply put, these are the best of the b...
Selina Kyle comes back from the grave this month in an all-new series written by Ed Brubaker (BATMAN, THE SANDMAN PRESENTS: DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, DEADENDERS) and drawn by Darwyn Cooke (BATMAN: EGO) and Mike Allred (MADMAN, X FORCE). Anyone who's seen the p...
Now that Kyle Raynor has discovered the cause behind his increasing power, he must fight off Nero lest the evil ring-slinger takes it all. But there's a choice to be made before Kyle can accept the power that will make him nearly omnipotent, a choice that...
Universal Pictures has announced a definitive start to filming for Peter Jackson's remake of KING KONG. The film will start shooting this month in New Zealand for a worldwide theatrical release on December 14, 2005.The movie studio issued a press release ...
OPINION: The phrase "If you build it, they will come" never resonated for me more than this week: after printing what I had of the somewhat tepid response to my first call for titles you wish had never been cancelled last week, the amount of mail this wee...
Yesterday, ROSWELL co-executive producer Ron Moore dished about the fan favorite show's transition to the UPN network. Today in part two of CINESCAPE's interview with Moore, the writer/producer offers a glimpse of what to expect from the show in its third...
Ronald D. Moore, speaking from his new office where he works as co-executive producer on ROSWELL, is happy to talk about his job. After leaving STAR TREK and working for a stint on the short-lived series GOOD VS. EVIL, Moore was approached to see whether...
What They SayAfter battling their way back to Earth, Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes and the crew of the SDF-1 must learn to cope with a new set of rules imposed by a bureaucracy with little understanding of the grave threat that faces the entire world.
Unfortu...
This may be the busiest episode of a series that features some really busy episodes throughout its run. The rush of the episode may be its biggest problem. There were tons of things that happened in this episode that probably should have at leas...
The one thing to bear in mind while watching BIRDS OF PREY is that if you're expecting a straightforward translation to television from the comic of the same name, you're going to be out of luck. If you're looking for an imaginative reinterpretation of th...
It seems the new trend for the studios is to release TV “event” episodes as single DVDs despite the same episode being released in box set later down the line. It must be profitable because South Park has been doing it for a while and lon...
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...
OPINION: A brief warning before we start: I had so many varied and intelligent responses to the question of how you'd characterize the main differences between Marvel and DC that I'm having to make this column extra-long. Do not try to adjust your televis...
We all know the old saying about a cat having nine lives, but what about Catwomen? Well, with Ed Brubaker and Co. launching an all-new incarnation of the feline felon for DC Comics (the first issue is out this week), this particular cat has now exceeded h...
Yes, I know, it's been quite a while since I managed to squeak out a Lost in Translation column. This week's episode is called "The Long Road Back" simply because it has been quite a journey to reach this point. The how and why an English language track...
ROSWELL co-executive producer Ronald D. Moore has been talking about the coming second episode of the series.While talking to CINESCAPE's Anna L. Kaplan, Moore gave info on the second episode, title "Michael, the Guys, and the Great Snapple Caper," which ...
It’s apparent that Tom (Joel Gretsch) will be the center of the few remaining episodes of this season. A lot happened to set up the season finale in this episode which sounds good, but had it not been for Tom it could have all played mediocre.&...
Back in season two, Maya had visions of war but that plot thread seemed to have been forgotten in season three but now in season four that plot thread is finally coming back into play. Jordan makes his big move with Kyle and Isabelle prodding him alo...
I'm sure you've noticed by now how certain superheroes in the DCU have virtual "families" surrounding them. Hell, DC even published books titled SUPERMAN FAMILY and BATMAN FAMILY for the longest time, and even though those particular heroes' nuclear famil...
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: BATMAN - THE STONE KING is the first of six adult prose paperback novels starring the DC Comics characters from Pocket Books. THE STONE KING, which reaches comic book stores this month, is written by Batman veteran Alan Grant a...
LucasArts recently released a new trailer of their upcoming first-person shooter, JEDI KNIGHT II: JEDI OUTCAST.The trailer, which runs a little less than a minute, shows off numerous weapons, environments and characters that will be seen in JEDI OUTCAST. ...
Tonight's episode of ROSWELL will not only be the season finale, but also the series finale. Due to network indecision over the fate of the show, ROSWELL producers and writers had little time to come up with a satisfying series conclusion. But, given the ...
So, you know what show I'm just all about these days?HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET.Man oh man, it is such a good show. I've been watching the reruns on Court TV it airs at 1 a.m. weeknights, but that's a little late for me so actually I TiVo all the episo...
Mounting a convincing adaptation of Frank Herbert’s DUNE, indisputably one of the greatest novels of imagination of all time, has long been a dream just out of reach of contemporary filmmakers. Attempts to film the classic novel were launched as early as ...
VIDEO NEWSThere’s not much on the video news front this week, so your old pal the Vidiot thought he’d share with you (direct from the American Film Market) some titles which will likely be going the direct-to-video (DTV) route in the near future.RUTGER HA...
POWERPUFF GIRLS #25, based on the Cartoon Network animated series, will feature six pin-ups from special guest artists.The pin-ups will be by Mike Allred, Kyle Baker, John Byrne, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola and Adam Warren.In the lead story - by Jennife...
Jonathan Frakes, a co-executive producer on ROSWELL, has been talking about the new directions being explored in the 3rd season of the series.While talking to SCIFI.COM, Frakes spoke of the first UPN season for the series, saying, "We can't pretend most o...
September's issue of GREEN LANTERN is blending gut-crunching comic book action and advocacy of tolerance of gays and lesbians. DC has announced LANTERN #154 will tell the story of Kyle Rayner's pal Terry Berg, who came out last year in #137, being nearly ...
In an age when all kinds of things are going very wrong in the world, one silver lining for science-fiction/fantasy fans is the variety of fare available. There was an era, not so long ago, when anyone thirsting for an alien fish-out-of-water story had on...
Coming from its B-movie origins, THE TERMINATOR seemed an unlikely super-success in 1984. But that’s exactly what it wound up being—in the long run if not the immediate short term. Sure, it made plenty of money, but the real success of the sci-fi/action f...
After letting the rest of the world think she's dead so that she can find herself, Selina Kyle discovers she's still uncertain as to who she really is. But as she dons the mask of the Catwoman again, she finds she may not have a lot of time to consider he...
When archaeologist Len Lewis goes into darkest Africa in search of the mythical Tree of Life, he gets caught up in the plans of another searcher for the Tree, the evil Reverend Dominic Darrk. But after Darrk's henchmen attempt to murder Lewis, the Tree re...
The Xavier Institute is about to get a little more crowded. When the second season of Kids' WB!'s X-MEN: EVOLUTION which takes the bulk of Marvel's mutant characters and turns them into teenagers for a Saturday morning audience gets underway on Sept. 29...
Plot:As opposed the previous entries in this series, you won't be playing as Kyle Katarn. Instead you'll be playing as a character who has learned the ways of the Force from Katarn and Luke Skywalker.Platform:PC, XboxCompany:LucasArtsStatus:Announced on A...
OPINION: First, a brief rant: Marvel has one of the worst websites in the comics world in terms of up-to-date info. Last week, the site was promoting (and is still promoting as of this writing, October 26, by the way) X-STATIX #13 as the first part of the...
The FilmJerk website has published character descriptions for two new recurring characters slated to appear in the next season of STARGATE SG-1. Filming on the eighth season of the popular Sci-Fi Channel is set to commence in February 2004.According to Fi...
OPINION: Before we get started, two plugs: one, an invitation to visit CINESCAPE's comic book message forum in addition to sending e-mail to yours truly, so that you don't have to wait for me to reprint your letter before others can respond to it; and two...
Well, I axed for it. A few weeks back I inquired whether you readers had any favorite TV series that had yet to be "seasoned", and you let me know. While popular mainstream sitcom SEINFELD was the early favorite, most of you were more creative in your req...
Before he joins Mark Millar on Marvel's ULTIMATES title, artist Bryan Hitch will have one last AUTHORITY story.Hitch is drawing - and writing - the lead story for THE AUTHORITY: WIDESCREEN special, a 48-page one-shot which arrives in November from WildSto...
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...
"Cojoined Fetus Lady". "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson". "Underwear Gnomes". These are some of the episode titles from the second season of SOUTH PARK, and they're not even the naughtiest ones. Arriving today in fine retail stores across the land is t...
It must be Tuesday because of all the new DVDs hitting store shelves. Among the titles being offered today is a direct-to-video werewolf movie distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment known as DARKWOLF.The biggest name in DARKWOLF horror fans w...
Since the release of the new STAR WARS role-playing game its producer Wizards of the Coast has come out with well laid out, beautifully produced supplements and books...all done in the aftermath of the beloved West End Games version. After West End ceased...
So, I'm this close to not watching CSI: MIAMI anymore.I'm thinking I might start watching the news instead. I hear this country might be going to war or something. Or maybe I'll watch SIMPSONS reruns. Who knows? All I know is CSI: MIAMI just isn't doing i...
We all know the tale in the darkest days of the 20th century, America was preparing for war. Choosing a young man to undergo an experimental augmentation procedure, the government engineered a "super solider" for the purpose of creating a new kind of sup...
Paramount Pictures' STAR TREK: NEMESIS may have opened in theaters this past Friday, but the world premiere was held December 9th at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. and CINESCAPE was there to catch THE NEXT GENERATION era cast as they beame...
It appears that CAPTAIN MARVEL won the "U Decide" competition. No surprise there - ULTIMATE ADVENTURES, while not as execrable as Ron Zimmerman's other work, never had a feeling of permanence; and MARVILLE only convinced us how little respect Marvel has f...
Yeah, so, I know all you guys want to talk about last week's ANGEL, but here's the thing: I didn't watch it.That's right. I said it. I didn't watch it.Now wait, before you shoot off an email summarizing the whole episode for me, I already got a synopsis.Y...
Captain America's super-soldier serum the result of shady science? Say it ain't so! In a series which editor Alex Alonso has described as plausible "for anyone who's ever heard of Tuskegee," VIBE editor Robert Morales and Eisner Award nominee Kyle Baker t...
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...
Over five years after its last episode, Birds of Prey: The Complete Series, is available on DVD. The show premiered on the WB Network just one year after Smallville, and certainly Warner Bros. was hoping for a similar success story. Alas, the sh...
Host: Hiroe Tsukamoto (Aniplex)
Panelists: Toshi Yoshida (BEI)Yosuke Kodaka (Aniplex)Shin Nomura (Aniplex)Tony Oliver
Hiroe greeted everyone at the panel and mentioned they would indeed be announcing the Gurren Lagann dub cast. Before that, she showed tr...
This Sunday on Fox Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles will return to television. Surviving both the writers strike and a network notorious for canceling genre and fan favorite shows Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will see their cast grow. Al...
The KryptonSite has posted a slew of interesting news concerning the proposed Birds of Prey Pilot episode, created by the same people behind WB's hit show, Smallville.
The pilot stars Birds of Prey regulars Barbara Gordon (former-Batgirl tu...
Warner Home Video have released seven new images from 'Justice League: The New Frontier' along with the official announcement of the film:
From a press release
BURBANK, CA, (November 27, 2007) Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animat...
The Birds of Prey
cast graces another cover; this time on Satellite Direct
magazine's October 2002 issue. Inside you'll find interviews with
some cast and crew members and a web guide that includes Gotham Clock
Tower and The Clock Tower!
Gotham Cl...
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...
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...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuriko NishiyamaTranslated by:Shirley KuboAdapted by:What They SayIn the thick of the game, Kobayashi sinks another two pointer and puts the Jonan team back in the running against the favorites from Okinawa. But the Okinawa te...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuriko NishiyamaTranslated by:Shirley KuboAdapted by:What They SayThe continuing adventures of Nate Torres, a teenager who always thought of himself as a quitter - until he entered the world of street basketball.
Sapporo has...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuriko NishiyamaTranslated by:Shirley KuboAdapted by:What They SayJohnan High got through the first round, but now they're up against their archrivals, Tsukuba High. But before plunging into the second round, there are some un...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuriko NishiyamaTranslated by:Shirley KuboAdapted by:What They SayJohnan has never been more ready to take on Tskuba, the very team that knocked them out of the finals in the first round last year. They've trained, they've hus...
Step 1: Be late for a deadline and start writing with no clear goal.
Step 2: Bring along soapbox.
Well, it pretty much was that easy. I didn't have a clear topic to go with last week, so I just wrote from the heart so to speak. It sparked about 2 days...
OPINION: Yes, you read it correctly: Tony's Ten Best Comics of 2003. Hate me if you must, but after forcing all of you to come up with a Top Five Best and Worst Comics, I realized that it's an almost impossible task. I also got several e-mails asking "Wha...
"Yowza: this hot fudge sundae on legs (Halle Berry) is not my father's Catwoman. Come to think of it, she's not even my Catwoman. My father's Catwoman made her debut in 1940 in the first "Batman" comic as the Cat, Selina Kyle."
You can’t keep a good hero down. Take former Green Lantern Hal Jordan, for instance. You’d think that going insane, slaughtering those nearest and dearest to you, and darn near ending all of existence would pretty much send you straight to hell for all of...
Since the success of THE TERMINATOR, which featured Linda Hamilton’s transformation from incompetent waitress to self-sufficient warrior, the tough-girl bad-ass chick has become as much a science fiction cliché as the cowering scream queen that she replac...
If you were one of the many turned off by last year`s over-hyped `The Blair Witch Project,` you`re in for a pleasant surprise with Showtime`s The Burkittsville 7. That is, if you’re willing to make the return trip to the Blair Witch universe. Therein lies...
Victims of the YearLots of people feel sorry for themselves around the holidays, but hey, does anyone out there truly care about Robert Downey, Jr`s problems? Well, if not, there are plenty of other folks to feel sorry for. U.S. News and World Report repo...
Summer has arrived, and with it comes a whole spate of genre movies: the very successful SHREK and the less-than-exceptional EVOLUTION, ATLANTIS for the kids and TOMB RAIDER for the grownups, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS for teen-agers and DR. DOLITTLE 2 for ...
(Additional Reporting by ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG)Just about every major comic book hero has at one time or another had his or her origin told, retold, expanded, re-interpreted, re-imagined or otherwise manipulated by countless writers looking to make their mar...
This excellent feature film, the sleeper success of last summer, is now available on DVD as part of Paramount’s Widescreen Collection. One might wonder whether the simple, cutout style of animation really benefits from the high-tech presentation: is the p...
Welcome to the latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is Temporal Dave.
Comics2Film (C2F):
How and why did you start drawing? How about manipping?
Temporal Dave (TD):
My dad has always told the story that I was born with pen...
Tomorrow THE PULSE is taking part in a conference call to discuss the upcoming Animated Fantastic Four television series. Craig Kyle from Marvel West is supposed to be on hand to answer questions from all in attendance. If you had the chance to ask him a ...
Smallville Magazine Editor Richard Matthews talks to DTS and chats about upcoming issues with interviews with Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang), John Glover (Lionel Luthor) and also their special tribute to Christopher Reeve. He also mentions Margot Kidder and Ky...
The Green Arrow, the Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg try to destroy LuthorCorp's secret laboratory, but the Flash (Kyle Gallner) is captured and tortured by Lex, prompting the formation of the Justice League to rescue him. Green Arrow: Justin Hartley. Aquaman: ...
Kyle MacLachlan is providing the voice of Superman in Justice League: The New Frontier, the direct-to-video animated movie based on Darwyn Cooke's DC Comics series.
And Alan Burnett, executive producer of Kids' WB!'s The Batman, revealed that this Sat...
A year ago, Jeremy Sisto was starring as a private investigator with deep psychological scars in 'Kidnapped.' This season, Sisto joined the 'Law & Order' legacy of actors as a detective with a haunted past.
It's seem only natural that his next star...
Jervis Tetch, AKA the Mad Hatter, is using nanotechnology to cause Gotham's boys (and girls) in blue to go insane for two reasons: 1) to trap Batman, and 2) for the hell of it. In the meantime, Bruce Wayne's bodyguard Sasha Bordeaux has to come to grips w...
We first encounter superheroes as children. Before we can read, we watch them in cartoons and movies. We play with their toys long before we ever learn about "mint condition" and the importance of leaving action figures in their original packaging. Thi...
What They SayWhen Keisuke Takahashi of the infamous RedSuns racing team accidentally witnesses normal, everyday tofu delivery boy Takumi Fujiwara\'s expert drift technique, Takumi\'s life shifts into high gear. Keisuke challenges him to a racing battle an...
The full schedule for this year's Comic Con has been released here but as always, we're going to sift through the press releases and give you the panels covering Movies, DVD and TV events. You can check out the first two days below.Wednesday, July 23, PRE...
The Review!You might remember seeing the original Vampire Hunter D back in 1985 from Streamline Pictures. Even though the animation was poor and did little to explain the world of Vampire Hunter D, it became a hit. And now the #1 gothic hero of them all i...
Studio: IS&M
Director: Kyle Jones
Saint Seiya takes place in the not-so-distant future after an unnamed catastrophe disrupts the world's governments. The Graude Foundation has gathered orphens from all over the world and trained them in martial arts. The...
Venus Versus Virus
Located in a non-descript part of the city is Venus Vanguard, a small shop that deals in antiques, mostly vintage clothing and jewelry. At least, that's what it does on the surface. For if you can read the special writing on one of thei...
Blue Gender Vol 1 contains the first 3 episodes in this 24 episode series created by AIC in Japan. AIC is known for its work with the Tenchi Muyo series as well as El Hazard. Blue Gender shows AIC's characteristic animation techniques and character desi...
The first teaser trailer for The Day the Earth Stood Still has premiered online tonight courtesy of 20th Century Fox and Apple. The remake of the 50's sci-fi classic stars Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connolly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm and...
When Warner Brothers canceled “Justice League Unlimited” I wondered how long it would take for the League to return. It certainly didn’t take too long. Based on Darwyn Cooke's award-winning graphic novel, ‘Justice League ...
One of the first things I wrote about for TV Wasteland last year was that a new Babylon 5 series of direct to DVD films were in the works. Now, finally 10 years after the original series ended the next tales of Babylon 5 will begin on July 31st with ...
Lionsgate is in talks with director Jieho Lee to helm the feature adaptaion of the videogame KANE AND LYNCH from Eidos Interactive.
The action film will center on Mercenary Kane and medicated psychopath Lynch who meet while being transported to death row...
A lot of important stuff happened this week, it’s an all main story arc kind of episode, my favorite kind. It’s sort of like in the old days of the X-Files when after a few minutes of an episode you’d realize that this wasn’t to be...
Three more actors have joined star, Virginia Madsen, in the Lionsgate horror, THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, says Hollywood Reporter. Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan and Kyle Gallner have boarded the film about a family running into supernatural forces after m...
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...
Happy Wednesday, Maniacs, and welcome to another fantastic foray into the heart of sequential art with this week’s Comicscape! I, your loyal columnist, will lead this journey into the dark digital future as we examine Marvel’s newest onli...
KANON
Yuichi Aizawa doesn’t expect much from his sudden move up north. After all, this is the town he spent summers in as a child. He’s staying with his aunt and cousin. And high school is high school no matter where you go. But things aren...
While the bulk of attention at Comic-Con went to big upcoming releases like Wolverine, The Watchmen and Terminator: Salvation, the convention also showcased one of the largest growing media phenomena—the web series or webisode. Viacom, Warner Brothe...
"I think Bart helps Clark out," actor Kyle Gallner said about his version of the Flash who appeared on 'Smallville.' "In the sense that he accepts his powers. He goes with it, and doesn't think that they are a curse. Clark always seems to think that they ...
Each has possessed the femininity, strength and intelligence to secure the role of Catwoman, also known as Selina Kyle, the a beautiful cat burglar who first appeared in a 1940 Batman comic book. 'BIOGRAPHY: Catwoman' traces the subtle transformation from...
"This is something the fans have said they wanted for a long time," says Marvel Enterprises VP of Creative Development Craig Kyle of 'Ultimate Aventers'. "They wanted a story and piece of animation that is much more focused on what the books created versu...
The CW New Mexico has an exclusive Behind the Scenes video from "Justice" featuring interviews with Smallville star Tom Welling, guest stars Justin Hartley, Alan Richtson, Lee Thompson Young and Kyle Gallner.
The Avengers Reborn (formerly the Teen Avengers) story takes place several decades in the future where Ultron is defeating all the superheroes in the Age of Heroes and the children now have to battle the enemy that cut down their parents. Tony Stark is th...
BuddyTV.com runs down casting on the upcoming direct-to-video movie 'Justice League: The New Frontier'.
'How I met your Mother' scene-stealer Neil Patrick Harris (formerly 'Doogie Howser' and 'Spider-Man') is set to voice The Flash, who is one of three...
Kyle Hebert called Ellen Pasternack, Public Relations for ILM. "I asked her if the rumor was true; if ILM was brought on board to provide the special effects for the 'Dragonball/Z' live action movie. Ms. Pasternack's reply was that it had been mentioned, ...
Last week I was given a copy of
the script for "Batman Begins." There is no draft number, no date,
merely a note about having been transferred to PDF by someone who calls himself
Ubu with an association to Ra's Al Ghul. Okay, geeks will be ...
New Online Outlet Features Clips From Acclaimed Documentary And Opportunity To Purchase The DVD
Burbank, CA, August 6, 2008 – Bang Zoom! Entertainment, a leading full-service audio post production company and producer of original entertainm...
Commercial/music video director Sam Bayer has signed on to direct the action-thriller Fiasco Heights, says The Hollywood Reporter. Universal Pictures is handling distribution while Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing via their Platinum ...
This sixth issue of the most recent incarnation of Marvel’s X-Force concludes the series’s first arc. Under Wolverine’s leadership, the X-Men’s black ops team has waged a war against the anti-mutant cult the Purifiers. Af...
One of the
most anticipated comic based TV shows in quite some time debuts next week. The
Batman legacy lives on in the series premiere of Birds of Prey!
The Batman
legend takes an unexpected turn when the Caped Crusader vanishes from the
crime-rid...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate has purchased the film rights to the Alias Entertainment comic book title 'Deal With the Devil'
According to the Alias website, 'Deal with the Devil' is "the tale of a man who once had it all; family, f...
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FilmForce reports that Catwoman will begin filming later this spring or in early summer for a 2004 release.
As reported earlier, French filmmaker Pitof will helm Catwoman's big-screen solo adventure with Ashley Judd in the title role with ...
According to Variety, Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the upcoming thriller, Fiasco Heights.The film, which will be produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes from a script by Kyle Ward, occurs in a stylized hyper-real noir environment akin to...
Last week’s column on the some of the moral quandaries in recent superhero comics generated a couple of interesting e-mails that merit printed responses. I asked readers to consider the mind-wiping fiasco from DC’s Identity Crisis, To...
I come not to praise TRU CALLING but to bury it.In case you hadn't heard, former Slayer Eliza Dushku's GROUNDHOG DAY/RUN LOLA RUN hybrid went down for the big dirt nap a while back. I can't imagine that even the cast and crew were terribly surprised: the ...
Hi there, have we met? We're three weeks in, so I suppose I should introduce myself. Name's Dave, and I'm tending bar in this little corner of Cinescape these days. Meant to do this before now, but the first two weeks of the column have been a bit hectic ...
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 ...
By any measure, Alexander the Great was an extraordinary individual. He conquered 90 percent of the world known to him at that time, forging a vast empire (albeit one that broke into a number of pieces after his death at age 32). There's no question that ...
After selling out of the first issue of X-23, Marvel Comics will release a new printing of the comic featuring a variant cover by artist Billy Tan. The reprint of X-23 #1 will arrive on store shelves February 23, the same day that X-23 #3 goes on sale."Go...
2005 will be a year that will bring the addition of eight new ongoing titles to the Marvel Universe as a part of the company's "Marvel Next" launch. Announced today by the comic book publisher, the Marvel Next event is organized to introduce readers to ne...
OPINION: REMINDER: DUE TO THE LABOR DAY HOLIDAY, COMICS ARRIVE IN STORES ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9A woman is raped, after which her husband's co-workers brainwash him. Another woman, after being raped, is cut into hundreds of cubed 3D jigsaw puzzle pieces...
A quiet evening at home at Chez Plas is shattered (or rather, stretched all out of proportion) when a woman claiming to be his wife and a child with stretching abilities claiming to be his son Luke show up at the door. In the midst of the fracas, a time p...
Recently Revolution Studios' and Columbia Pictures held the premiere of 13 GOING ON 30 at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.13 GOING ON 30 is the story of Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) who just wants to be pretty and popular. On the eve of h...
OPINION: It seems that I made a mistake while writing last week's column which has led to several helpful e-mails correcting me about something I already knew. At one point, I wrote "Eventually I'll be doing a column on which comics should be made into on...
Twice in as many days, the Batman has to fight against Gotham hoodlums hopped up on some drug he has never seen the effects of before, and both incidents end badly. But he's as yet unaware that the deaths are the result of an unholy alliance between the P...
A Harvard professor has filed a lawsuit against THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW director Roland Emmerich, accusing the helmer of stealing the idea for his picture from a novel written by the teacher.The professor, Ubaldo DiBenedetto, has filed a lawsuit in Germany...
DC Direct, the collectible/action figure imprint of DC Comics, has announced plans for a new line of collectibles inspired by KINGDOM COME's Planet Krypton, the faux chain of restaurants that appeared in the comic book mini-series. In the same way that Pl...
Colin Hanks and Kyle Chandler have landed roles in Peter Jackson's KING KONG. Hanks, the son of you-know-who, will play a production assistant to Carl Denham, Jack Black's character. This will mark the second time Hanks and Black have been partnered toget...
Ominous news for funniest-show-on-television ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT this week: Fox has trimmed this season's episode order from 22 to 18. Combined with the show's continued and frustrating lack ratings, as well as Fox's plans to drop AMERICAN DAD into AD's ...
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 ...
The Review!Yay! The 2nd box set of Robotech is here (and er, has been for months before I got around to reviewing it) to bring us more cheesy goodness of what, to many, was their first exposure to Japanese animation (atleast insofar as the animation itsel...
All right, I can finally stop buying INFINITE CRISIS books. It's over. Yes, there's the BRAVE NEW WORLD special, AFTERMATH, ONE YEAR LATER, and 52, but the event itself has finally concluded. This week in COMICSCAPE, I'm going to offer some of my thoughts...
ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 hit store shelves and the hot little hands of fan boys yesterday. The film stands as the second in Marvel's campaign of straight-to-DVD animated movies produced by Lion's Gate. And, fortunately for both Marvel and comic fans, this en...
SQUADRON SUPREME occupies a unique place in Marvel's publishing slate. It began with the mature readers title, SUPREME POWER before rebooting in its current, profanity-and-breast-free incarnation. It occurs in its own continuity. And, it re-imagines Ma...
Check On In by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Mon 01-22-2007)
Welcome to the Countdown, where the weeks keep coming, but the future never arrives. This week I had the pleasure of visiting Vancouver trying to get a few interviews for the site... But that can be a bit difficult at times, if you do not tell them in ...
Mark Mothersbaugh has been signed to score the upcoming comedy FANBOYS, about a bunch of STAR WARS enthusiasts who travel across the country to go to a preview show of STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. The film is directed by Kyle New...
The Weinstein Co. and Trigger Street are in talks with Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel, Chris Marquette and Sam Huntington to star in FANBOYS. They would join Dan Fogler, who has already been cast. As previously reported, the story follows four STAR WARS fans ...
Let it be said upfront that there is no way a remake, or indeed much of anything else, can surpass the impact of the original 1933 KING KONG. The movie world was relatively new then; concepts and indeed whole genres were being invented, rather than extend...
GATE Mail by David Michael Wharton (Mon 08-08-2005)
It's been a long week, but I am finally back within the warm embrace of high-speed internet access, and so back to the TVW grind I go. Back before Mr. Davis' side-trip into the world of TV on DVD, we were talking STARGATE, specifically this season's addi...
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...
Vanguard Films has picked up the fantasy comedy GNOMES! by Micah Herman and Kyle Newman.The story centers on a boy who discovers that the garden gnomes in his backyard actually are alive. When he starts to suspect that his mom's new suitor is a gnome-eati...
The Weinstein Co. is closing a deal to pick up Adam F. Goldberg and Ernest Cline's FANBOYS.The comedy will center on a group of young, hardcore "Star Wars" fans from the Midwest determined to take their dying friend to Skywalker Ranch so that he can see t...
In the months leading to both INFINITE CRISIS and HOUSE OF M, we complained a lot about crossovers, continuity issues, and the awkward situation in which they place both publishers and readers. Oh hell, we complain about them every time Marvel or DC annou...
OPINION: A warning: this is likely to be the most random and unorganized column you've ever read here at COMICSCAPE. If you don't like it, you could always go over to the COMIC BOOK RESOURCES site and read randomly organized columns there - except the dif...
With his intense orchestral score for the Michael Madsen action thriller Chasing Ghosts, Scott Glasgow has emerged as one of the most exciting new composers scoring films in Los Angeles. MovieScore Media presents this score as an online album featurin...
Scribe John Rogers (MAGE) has revealed that there will be some major changes in the Catwoman in the upcoming potential movie featuring the character and played by Ashley Judd.First of all, it won't be Selina Kyle, but instead Patience Price, a name used f...
In its season premiere, as promised in weeks of promos, the producers of SOUTH PARK did something only seen on... other cable channels. They broke the sh*t barrier in language by having Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle say that four letter curse word.....
The UPN TV network has released info on the upcoming October 16th episode of ROSWELL, titled "Michael, the Guys and the Great Snapple Caper."In the episode, Michael asserts a new responsibility for himself - and his earth-bound life - when he gets a secon...
Nostalgia, when faced with reality, is almost always disappointing. When I was a kid I couldn’t wait for Saturday afternoon to come. Every weekend they played those cheesy B movie, animal horror films like SWARM, THE BIRDS and H.G. WELLS’ EMPIRE OF THE AN...
BABYLON 5: THE GATHERING / IN THE BEGINNING was our first, best hope for BABYLON 5 on DVD. It failed. The fault isn't in the source material, of course, though B5 fans unfamiliar with the pilot might be majorly surprised by "The Gathering," and sci-fi fan...
Catwoman by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 06-03-2004)
Genre:Comic Book Adaptation/Action.Studio:Warner Bros.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Halle Berry (Patience Price/"Catwoman"); Sharon Stone (Laurel Hedare); Benjamin Bratt (Detective Tom Lone); Lambert Wilson (Georges Hedare)...
When the comic book awards are handed out next year, this brilliant hardcover collection deserves to win every category for which it qualifies. BIZARRO COMICS! is a tour de force by some of the best and brightest in the so-called "alternative comics" scen...
Let me start this out by saying I never was a fan of The Pretender when it was on NBC. You remember, it was a series about a guy named Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) who`s some sort of super-genius, with the ability to master any skill or profession and assume ...
What They SayAfter battling their way back to Earth, the crew of the SDF-1 must learn to cope with a new set of rules imposed by a bureaucracy with little understanding of the grave threat that faces the entire world.
Eventually, the horrors of war are ...
And they're off! Warner Bros. has passed along a press release saying that production has officially launched for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, the first installment of a new trilogy starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. Bale is central ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuriko NishiyamaTranslated by:Shirley KuboAdapted by:What They SayIt's finally here: the big game against Nango Daitsukuba High School in Ibaraki ... the team that knocked Johnan out of the tournament in the first round last y...
September 18, 2008 (Cypress, CA) –Bandai Entertainment Inc. announced its New York Anime Festival schedule today and welcomes fans to attend the many exciting events at this year’s convention.
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It took 13 long months for Batman to catch the Hang Man, the mysterious serial killer who’s 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 ...