When LakePlacid came out in 1999 it was a bit of a surprise hit and better than it had a right to be, partly because it was a campy ode to monster movies of the 1950’s. Still, it was not a film that I thought would have been worthy of generati...
LAKEPLACID (coming out on video this week) is the next step in the evolutionary process that led from JAWS to ANACONDA. The unlikely but amusing story has a JURASSIC-size Salt Water Crocodile showing up in an isolated lake not too far from the Easter Coa...
Prepare for gory, gruesome action as four 30-foot, bloodthirsty, prehistoric crocodiles terrorize residents of a remote lakefront town in the sequel LakePlacid 2, debuting on DVD January 29, 2008 from Fox Home Entertainment. In an all out battle betwee...
...mb at the LakePlacid Winter Olympics.For you Jimmy Kimmel fans, McClammy was the man who directed the "I'm F**king Matt Damon" and "I'm F**king Ben Affleck" videos, which I'll place below for your viewing pleasure. This will be the...
The trailer for MIRACLE, the upcoming movie about the 1980 LakePlacid Olympic hockey game that led to an American gold medal victory, is now online. Kurt Russell stars as Team USA coach Herb Brooks, the man who led the underdog American hockey team to vi...
...I were in LakePlacid
with Ray Harryhausen because one of the ideas we had didn't work because Mr.
Harryhausen is against violence and Hellboy does kick a lot of monster ass. But
the way we conceived the picture is as the way when we were children w...
...man (ID4, LakePlacid ) and Bill Paxton (Mighty Joe Young, Aliens) is a 1990 adaptation of a script from frequent Twilight Zone writer, Charles Beaumont, and is one of the more bizarre films to emerge from the Corman factory. This is an early entry in ...
Comic-to-film
fans should plan on attending the 2002 LakePlacid Film Forum next month. The
event will take place from Thursday, June 6 thru Sunday, June 9. attendees are
presented with an exciting series of Workshops, Panel Discussions and Master
Cla...
...or Steve (LAKEPLACID) Miner, producer Cunningham, writer Ethan Wiley and star William Katt. HOUSE 2: THE SECOND STORY is the first of (technically anyway) three follow-ups to the original film, and it's amazing the series went any further after this l...
...HANDS and LAKEPLACID hit theaters. The moviegoers who flocked to THE SIXTH SENSE and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT were looking to horror for more than just some amusement park styled thrills. The approaching turn of the century seemed to have brought a re...
...l movies (LakePlacid 2 and Sands of Oblivion being the two most recent on DVD) for two reasons: Brian Krause and its Land of the Lost quality.
Brian Krause as the orphaned son and Cryptozoologist brought a believability to the role. As cheesy as...
...et Fonda (LAKEPLACID), Whoopi Goldberg (GHOST), and Chris Kattan (HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) co-star. Selick hit big with TIM BURTON`S A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, then choked with JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. Fraser can draw in the audience (THE MUMMY) or...
...School on LakePlacid has the worst bully of all-a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school's summer con...
...se at the LakePlacid Film Festival. SATURDAY, MAY 14STAR WARS: CLONE WARS (6 PM CST, Cartoon Network) A marathon of the first 25 eps to get you primed for EPISODE III.ALIEN PLANET (7 PM CST, Discovery) A faux documentary tracks a voyage to the distant...
...WEEN H20, LAKEPLACID, SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR, INCOGNITO, and APT PUPIL. Of note, however, is the first ever release of music from his score for the re-incarnated FANTASY ISLAND television show. RCA will release, at long last, a CD containing G...
Although it turns on a fantasy plot element, THE LAKE HOUSE mostly feels like a regular romance, minus the dopey misunderstandings that almost always keep the lovers apart. Here, what's separating our soul mates is time he's in 2004, she's in 2006. If th...
Remember when video box sets were big, bulky affairs that took up half the space on any video shelf? Well, the video labels and retailers didn't like them any more than you did, what with the extra cost of manufacture, storage and shipping. When Cinescape...
FRIDAY THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER apparently ended the killing spree of Jason Voorhees, chopped to bits with his own machete by crafty little Tommy Jarvis. To some, this signaled the end of the slasher genre and perhaps horror cinema altogether, as box o...
In a television season that boasts shows about a crime-fighting man dressed as a tick and the teenage Superman, a show would have to be pretty strange to earn the title of "most far-fetched."But WOLF LAKE has done just that. You see, WOLF LAKE is about wo...
Actress Mia Kirshner (EXOTIC) has been tapped to join the cast of CBS's coming WOLF LAKE TV series.The TWIN PEAKS - meets - werwolves series stars Lou Diamond Phillips, and tells the story of a sheriff who comes to the small town of Wolf Lake to investiga...
When Lionsgate announced that it had “8 Films to Die For” I thought, “yeah right”. I was taken back by Lake Dead because in all honestly it may actually kill you. Several years ago, Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven gave a ...
Stouffer Entertainment has signed Sanoe Lake, Devon Sawa, Matthew Lawrence to star in the sci-fi horror film HUNTER'S MOON. They join a cast that already includes Fernanda Romero, Dan White, Siena Goines, Kevin Alejandro, Jennifer Howie and Ryan Judd.The ...
According to Variety, Reese Witherspoon abruptly dropped out of the upcoming film, Bunny Lake is Missing, five weeks before production was to begin. The move has left the studio scrambling to find an actress to take the role, which might cause them to pu...
Sideshow Collectibles has announced the upcoming release of the limited edition book, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th. The book written by Peter Bracke, with a foreward by franchise creator Sean S. Cunningham, includes over ...
Sara Douglass’ The Wayfarer Redemption series chugs ahead with another volume, Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files gets another action-packed installment, and science fiction anthologies run amok in this week’s Book Buzz.
Happy Tue...
While appearing at the TCA gathering in Los Angeles to promote the show, which stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Graham Greene and Tim Matheson, Gansa revealed that there have been "substantial stylistic changes" made to clean up the seeming chaos depicted in t...
CBS' hopes to get a BUFFY-like audience for their new WOLF LAKE TV series looks to be gradually working. Though the program's overall ratings have declined since the series' debut, each week's episode has cultivated and built each week's number of viewers...
The suits at Paramount have always looked down their noses at their moneymaking slasher series. There must've been cigars all around when they sold the rotting franchise off to New Line. Well, now that Ronny Yu has hit a home run with FREDDY VS. JASON (an...
Broadly speaking, reports of strange creatures that are said to secretly live among us – in the mountains, the forests and the waters of our world – fall into several distinct categories.
There’s the classic giant hairy-...
The CBS TV network has pulled their werewolf TV series WOLF LAKE off of their schedule, placing the program in the limbo state known as hiatus.This action is immediate, with word that the network is now looking to fill the void left by the series. CITIZEN...
Sharon Lawrence (NYPD BLUE) is the latest addition to the cast of CBS' still evolving WOLF LAKE TV series.Lawrence will take on the role of Vanessa Cates, the wife of the small town's powerful industrialist. Her husband also happens to be one of the burg'...
...INAL CUT, LAKEPLACID) is reportedly set to score X-2, the sequel to X-MEN, for a 2003 release. For more info on Ottman see his newly updated web page at www.johnottman.com.Joel McNeely's score for Disney's Peter Pan sequel, RETURN TO NEVERLAND, has be...
With After Dark Horrorfest releasing their 8 Films To Die For festival in theaters this Friday, there will be no shortage of horror in select theaters across the country. These horror films will differ in story concepts ranging from serious slas...
Next month, ADV is releasing the first volume of a new series called Air Gear, about kids who zip around the streets on motorized skates. But you can catch a peek at the entire first episode, in English, on the IGN website. Just tune your browser in h...
John Ottman is unique in the world of filmmaking in that he has, at various times, served as a composer of film music (LAKEPLACID, SNOW WHITE, HALLOWEEN: H20), a film editor (THE USUAL SUSPECTS), and a director (URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT). He recently ret...
San Francisco, CA (August 9, 2008) ‹New York-based anime and live action DVD distributor, Media Blasters, partners with online media distribution giant, Crunchyroll, to provide streaming, subscription and download-to-own of the company¹s...
What They SayLazy and selfish Taro loves to eat and sleep, and wrestle with the animals. With no direction in his life, a wizard appears that gives him a special potion. With this potion, he gains the strength of a hundred men. But the catch is he can onl...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kazusa TakashimaTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayMeet Emba and Yuuen, two very different heirs to two very different warring clans. When they meet, it's love at first sight...and a wild romantic odyssey is about to unf...
What They SayYuri, a new Demon King in the alternate world, sets to search for Morgif, a legendary sword which only Demon King can touch. After Yuri and his search team arrive Van Da Via Island, they learn from the shop\'s proprietress about a strange inc...
What They SayIt ain\'t gonna be pretty!
Strange deeds are afoot in the country of Ohfun. On the western border an army has begun to gather in secret. Whispers of names from an old conflict keep getting louder, not to mention rumours of monsters and of a ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Iwahara YujiTranslated by:Jonathan TarboxAdapted by:Jonathan TarboxWhat They SayThis final volume brings the enchanting, modern fairy tale and critically acclaimed series to a close. A shadowy figure combs the lake looking for...
What They SayThe Getter Robo chases the enemy into a mysterious dark cloud in the sky. As the Getter One breaks through the whirlwind, Ryoma finds himself alone in an alternative Heian-era Japan where modern technology has been applied to the ancient weap...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Natsuki TakayaTranslated by:Alethea Nibley and Athena NibleyAdapted by:What They SayThe Sohma household takes to the lake for a vacation at their summerhouse. However, the peaceful silence is deafening, as Yuki and Kyo are onc...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kara / Woo Soo JungTranslated by:HyeYoung ImAdapted by:J. TorriesWhat They SayWith the help of Eun-Gyo and No-Ah, the \"princess\" Nak-Rang escapes her captors. But just when they think they\'re out of the woods, the...
Quadrilogy by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-29-2008)
... Two-Fer
LakePlacid 2 (Unrated) Check out Tim Janson’s Review
LakePlacid 2 (Rated)
LakePlacid 2 Pack
Punk Rock Holocaust 2
Shadow Hours
Tragic Ceremony
The Unknown Trilogy
SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY
Automatons
The Invasion
The Inva...
One question I occasionally get asked when I’m lecturing at conferences is: “How do I become a monster hunter?” Well, I say, that’s a damned good question.
For those of you who may want to take your interest in strange cre...
Mercedes Lackey hits the shelves today with continuations of both her Elemental Masters and The Dragon Jousters series, Koji Suzuki's final installment of the Ring trilogy gets its stateside paperback debut, and Dietz releases his new hard SF thriller fre...
What They SayA BITE TO REMEMBER
Max takes a particular liking to a Poochyena, but will he see it evolve before they move on?
THE LOTAD LOWDOWN
Team Rocket is on the hunt for the Lotad bunch in the lake. What will Brock and his quirky Lotad friend do t...
Now that Jason Voorhees has returned to the big screen after a nine-year absence, slasher movie fans can rest easy. While JASON X, the tenth film (duh!) in the never-ending FRIDAY THE 13TH series, didn't make the huge splash at the box office on its openi...
When you get right down to it, there's only a couple of things to look forward to when watching the bulk of the FRIDAY THE 13TH sequels. Aside from occasional bits of gratuitous sex and nuditywhich somehow aren't as titillating as they were when you were ...
What They SayEpisode 13: Deborah vs. Mecha-Deborah
When a mechanical Deb assembled by Mint is mistaken by everyone at school for the real one, blood runs cold and Deborah?s temper runs hot.
Episode 14: The Monster of Lake Micro-Grand
It?s chaos under th...
What They SayAs Kai explores the mysterious Russian abbey, he realizes he was trained there as a child. Boris, the leader of the abbey?s secret Beyblade facility, entices Kai to return and join the Demolition Boys, the abbey?s specially trained uber-team...
The latest Best Selling lists have been released from most of the news publications for this past week. It looks like author James Patterson is leading the way on most of the lists from his latest novel, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. Here's a look at the Best Selle...
What They SayBelieving Inuyasha responsible for the death of her kin, Sango, the Demon Slayer, launches an attack against Inuyasha and the others. Eventually convinced of Naraku?s duplicity, Sango returns to the Village of the Slayer for healing, her inju...
YAHOO! AP News covers Wednesday's announcement of a site selection for a planned Dracula theme park, to be constructed in Romania near the traditional burial place of medieval Romanian prince Vlad Dracul, known as the Impaler and the basis for the legend ...
How does one describe a game like MY STREET? We hadn't heard much about the title until Sony's Gamers' Day back in August (wow, that seems like ages ago). Oddly, the game was mysteriously (and covertly) replaced by Sony PR reps during the gaming lounge ti...
A solitary figure walks on barren earth. A voiceover laced with the crust of a wise sage (God perhaps) tells us the story of Big Lake, Texas, a land where an outsider had a dream that only a couple of Catholic nuns shared. The dream was that beneath the s...
Unless your childhood was completely finished by 1967, you've never had kids of your own, you grew up in a Disney-hating household and/or you spent your formative years away from Western culture, it is almost a certainty that at some point, you've encount...
An ancient evil lurks in Black Spirit Lake, endangering the inhabitants of a nearby lodge - the architecture of which suggests a fortress. Wonder Woman is being slowly changed into one of the creatures, Superman has been poisoned by them, and their only w...
Greetings Cinescapers! I hate to start the column off with an angry, bloodshot eyes, clenched teeth, gnarled paws, ears flat against the side of head, and finger waving attitude, but I've been informed by a reader, oddly enough named M E (but not me, you ...
When brought together in one book, the names "Chris Claremont" and "X-Men" cause one of two reactions: either outright joy that someone's finally back to do the mutants right, or grim mutterings about overblown continuity rearing its ugly head once again....
It's July 18th, a month before the NCAA football season gets underway. Already the preseason magazine are filling grocery store aisles, new jerseys are hitting the department stores, and tickets are being printed and mailed out to their owners. In additio...
Reprising the role of Crystal Lake's notorious killer Jason Voorhees in the new film JASON X is Kane Hodder, who has played Jason in all the latter movies starting with FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD. Widely known as the definitive Jason, the ac...
Never say never again.David Duchovny will reprise his role as Fox Mulder in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES on May 19.Wow, that almost makes me want to watch the show again. Almost.X-FILES creator Chris Carter promises to wrap up the whole mytho...
VIDEO NEWSOver the [IMG3R]past year, HBO has been broadcasting a series of moderately budgeted remakes of some trash classics from the '50s and '60s that were originally produced by American International Pictures, or AIP. The remakes were the brainchild ...
CINESCAPE contributing editor Paul Zimmerman concludes his "diary" of events seen and heard at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.DAY FIVEThe fest is humming along now with a nice buzz. Sure, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting Don Johnson, Mariah Car...
When I listened to RIVER GOD, Smith's epic about ancient Egypt, I hoped he would continue the story. And he did, with WARLOCK. Even the reader, Dick Hill, is the same, so I quickly fell into the familiarity of the characters and their voices as Hill portr...
While chatting with CINESCAPE Managing Editor Scott Collura about the upcoming JASON X, the first FRIDAY THE 13TH film in almost 10 years, director Jim Isaac talked about coming up with the idea for the latest installment. He also filled us in on another ...
The season champ, C.S.I., again took and bettered all comers with THE SIMPSONS coming closest to knocking it off the top spot... and by closest we mean less than half the viewers.WOLF LAKE, the onetime CBS werewolf show crept into the top ten on new netwo...
STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES delivers on every cinematic promise George Lucas has made. In his years of directing and producing, Lucas has been putting his spin on nearly every genre in Hollywood's pantheon. He reordered the way a generati...
Director Bill Rebane's 1975 giant spider flick, appropriately called THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION, is making its debut on DVD this week courtesy of Retromedia. Today we continue our chat with Rebane about the origins of the entertaining and well-remembered f...
The 19 theaters set to digitally show STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES have been announced. Here, short and sweet, we bring the info to you: They are: Harkins Arrowhead Cinemas 18 in Peoria, ArizonaAMC Media Center 6 in Burbank, CaliforniaEdward...
Genre:Comedy/Drama.Studio:Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks SKG.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Post-production.Who's In It:Ewan McGregor; Albert Finney; Billy Crudup; Jessica Lange; Danny DeVito; Helena Bonham Carter; Steve Buscemi; Robert Guillaume;...
...LOVER and LAKEPLACID) have been sleek, atmospheric and sometimes slyly humorous, but for Ellory Elkayem's EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS Ottman has tackled perhaps the first action comedy about giant spiders."I was called in to have a meeting on a film called AR...
The Hanging Lake tunnels in Glenwood Canyon will be used as a shooting location for MR. AND MRS. SMITH, the upcoming Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie action/romantic comedy/thriller movie. According to a report issued by the Associated Press, scenes for the movie...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Varese Sarabande has released the score to CONSTANTINE (302 066 636 2), a commanding combination of atmosphere and rhythmic pulse. Studio tampering resulted in the inclusion of Klaus Badelt, a first-rate composer (K-19, PIRATES...
In the mid-1980s, suddenly there were ninjas everywhere. For some reason, these ancient Japanese assassins were popular icons, and many birthday cakes were decorated with little plastic ninja figures. Though based on the historic entities, these were fant...
Jerry Bruckheimer's production KING ARTHUR purports to tell the "true" story of the legendary founder of the British Empire. As the opening text puts it, "Recently discovered archeological evidence sheds light on his true identity." Well, what the evidenc...
Boldly Going? by David Michael Wharton (Mon 12-06-2004)
We're well into the fourth season of ENTERPRISE, a season under the guidance of new show runner Manny Coto. Nine episodes in, how does ENTERPRISE's bold, new direction stack up against the legacy of the TREKs that came before, not to mention other SF gian...
I'm really not trying to turn my repeatedly delaying this STAR WARS/STAR TREK column into a running joke, I swear. I fully intended to delve into that rich subject material this week, after finally closing out George Lucas' franchise last Friday night. ...
All evidence suggests that the smelly, hairy, unidentified bipeds reported to be roaming remote areas of the Earth are at worst defensive, and at best benign. That might be good for a few kiddie shows, but it doesn't really sell tickets, so most of the mo...
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...
Any Yoko Ishida fans in da house? The popular Japanese singer known to many anime fans as the voice delivering theme songs for AI YORI AOSHI, PRETEAR, SAILOR MOON R, AH! MY GODDESS, TEXHNOLYZE and other top series. Fluent in English, Ishida has been makin...
Just got my prerelease copy of THE SIMPSONS Season 6 and couldn't help sharing something with you. The first five season releases have been an excellent expel of how to honor and preserve a cherished series: beautiful designs, first rate uncut transfers, ...
Welcome to Summer! Our friends at Sinister Cinema have notified us of the return of their Drive-In Double Features sale this Summer. These tapes and now discs have been a favorite of mine for many years, and though I've had trouble getting some of their...
Rupert Wainwright has been hired to direct the remake of THE FOG for Revolution Studios. The British born Wainwright last feature credit was for 1999's STIGMATA but he also helmed an episode of UPN's short-lived werewolf thriller WOLF LAKE. Other feature ...
More and more horror "B-movies" are receiving deluxe treatment on DVD, but for every cult classic being reborn on disc there are dozens of less worthy titles sitting in the vaults. Some are worth seeing, but just not as sought after, or else pristine elem...
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...
OPINION: I knew I should have stayed out of the Thor/Superman conflict. Several of you had quite strong responses to last week's column, and in the last week I've been labeled both a Superman-hater and a Thor-hater (neither of which is true, by the way). ...
Paramount Pictures recently held the World Premiere of SCHOOL OF ROCK at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. This film which stars Jack Black as Dewey Finn, a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur who gets kicked out of his band. So what does he d...
After hearing rumors that Owen Wilson (SHANGHAI KNIGHTS) and Josh Lucas (HULK) were the frontrunners for the role, a decision has finally been announced as to who will play the police detective ally for CATWOMAN. Actor Benjamin Bratt has won the part of D...
You may never of heard of him, but Rodney Bingenheimer has been a fixture on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood for over a decade and years ago was dubbed THE MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP. As a matter of fact I've known Rodney since the late sixties and he, like most...
Soundtrax is sorry to report the untimely death of Oscar- and Emmy-winning composer, music teacher, and noted author Fred Karlin, who died of cancer on March 26 in Culver City, California at the age of 67. Over three decades, Karlin composed more than two...
Filming has begun on CRUEL WORLD, a thriller about a rejected reality television star that kidnaps nine college students to star in his own version of the ultimate reality gameshow. Whenever one of the nine are voted off the program, they're killed by the...
The tagline on KING ARTHUR reads, "The untold true story that inspired the legend." How true this actually is will be anybody's guess, but there's no denying that this is a version of Arthurian lore that has never been committed to film before.For one thi...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Last week's list of the "worst" television shows as voted by Cinescape readers produced the usual amount of grumbling and discontent such dubious lists are wont to create. No surprise there, so let's ...
With the announcement this week of Christian Bale playing Batman (full details right here), things are heating up now for Warner Bros. to get the new Bats movie greenlighted and going.We've heard from a source who likes to be called "The Other Mr. Voorhee...
GarfieldMovie
- The movie's official website with trailers, photos, games, wallpaper and
more!
Garfield.com
- The character's official website with comic strips, games and more.
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From the Marvel Universe of the world's most popular Super Heroes comes the $234.6 million worldwide summer hit that fans have been waiting for as THE INCREDIBLE HULK blasts onto DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def from Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Marvel ...
Although John Scalzi’s original Old Man’s War novel got served by Robert Wilson’s Spin in the 2006 Hugo competition for Best Novel, the online blogger turned sci-fi master snagged his first silver rocket as 2008’s Best Fan Writer, ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ADV FILMS ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE FOR GAMERA: ATTACK OF LEGION
HE?S TOUGH. HE?S TALL. HE?S A 200-FOOT FLYING TURTLE! SECOND FEATURE-LENGTH VOLUME OF LEGENDARY GAMERA TRILOGY TO BE AVAILABLE 19th JANUARY 2004
LONDON, UK, 15th Decemb...
ADV Films is proud to announce the upcoming DVD conclusion to one of the
greatest anime series to come out of Japan, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040.
Like a multi-headed serpent, the branches of the Dragon Line become the arms
with which Galatea seeks to cru...
While it stumbles at times, Best Student Council is a wonderful series that lives up to its name.
What They Say
At first glance, Miyagami Gakuen seems like a typical all-girls' school. But beneath its placid surface, a highly-disciplined student council...
"When this
[hair] doesn't have two cans of hairspray in it, I look like Moe from the
Three Stooges. It's all just exactly the same length,"
explains Hugh Jackman, X-Men 2's Wolverine, in an interview
published by MTV.com.
...
Black Curtain Screenings posted on their MySpace Site that members of said site will have the chance to view a preview Screening of Spider-Man 3 on April 30 and in a location to be determined by the MySpace Spidey fans. The cities nominated are:
Clevela...
"I'm just hoping I fall out of a building or something," says Sam Huntington of his sequel dreams. Huntington plays Jimmy Olsen in the new 'Superman Returns' franchise. "Something where he has to catch me and pick me up."
Tristan Lake Leabu, who plays...
Adapted from Neil Gaiman's best-selling fantasy novel, 'Stardust' features a glittering cast of Tinseltown royalty like Peter O'Toole, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, not to mention the first foray into moviedom by The Office funnyman Ricky Gervais....
Bantam Spectra has provided Cinescape with an excerpt from George R. R. Martin's upcoming A Feast for Crows. The novel will be released on November 8, 2005. THE PROPHET The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was...
Well, it's been a few weeks, so it's about time for another installment of everyone's favorite Dub Column, Lost in Translation. (Well, it's my favorite Dub Column, so that makes it all right.) Now that summer is here, many of you are probably making you...
Whee, it's .hack in SD! I think the atmosphere, OP, and story of this one all combine to make the new .hack series cuter and therefore more enjoyable!
The story starts out with some weird monsters attacking a player after he arrives to find an entire la...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ken AkamatsuTranslated by:Douglas VarenasAdapted by:What They SayKnowledge Can Be Dangerous! For ten-year-old teacher Negi Springfield and his all-girl class, it's time for final exams! If his students manage not to end up wit...
The Review!The End of Evangelion, one of my favourite animes, has finally been released on DVD. Has the DVD been worth its 3 year wait? Yes, it has.
This review assumes you have seen the TV series to at least Episode 24 or Death.
Audio: For this featur...
The Review!After watching another seventy-five minutes of Escaflowne, I'm back to bring you another review installment.
The tarot card based menus still continue to impress and stun me, even though they are identical to the menus that are used on the fi...
The Review!Onto volume 5 and still going.
On the first episode of the disc, Sakura is at a beach camp with the school. And like any camp outing, there are lots of fun things going on. When the school held its Test of Courage at a cave beach, Sakura start...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuri NarushimaTranslated by:Gabi BlumbergAdapted by:What They SayI see the tarot cards in my dreams. I turn them over in hopes of finding all the answers - Who am I? Where do I come from? Why are these people after me? But whe...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Takeshi KonomiTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayFresh from winning four consecutive U.S. Junior tournaments, The Prince of Tennis Ryoma Echizen has enrolled at Seishun Academy. With undeniable skill and talent-...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuki UrushibaraTranslated by:William FlannaganAdapted by:William FlannaganWhat They SayThey live on the shadowy border between the possible and the impossible: ancient life-forms known as mushi. Rare is the individual who can ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ariyoshi KyokoTranslated by:Maya PerryAdapted by:Maya PerryWhat They SayAspiring 16-year-old ballet dancer Masumi moves closer to achieving her dreams! She has leapt ahead of her mentor and friend Sayoko, and now the pressure ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:I-HuanTranslated by:Yun ZhaoAdapted by:What They SayIt is the end of the great Tang Dynasty. China is in violent chaos due to the infamous Jin Kang Rebellion. Fearing the inevitable destruction, Concubine Liu tearfully entrust...
Welcome to the latest installment
of the DCG Flashback. Once again, we hope you'll join us as we take a look into
the hidden depths of the C2F vaults and unearth some of the classic art of
yesteryear.
The Danger Room by Marcelo G...
The horror movie genre has gained incredible speed in recent years, with many modern films taking notes from their classic counterparts of yesteryear. But while filmmakers conjure up the next new plot twist or horrid character to make you jump out...
Only a handful of directors are equally talented as composers, and one of them has turned out a compelling soundtrack for his new film THE OTHERS. We’ll look at that this time out, recap new scoring assignments and forthcoming soundtracks, and take a look...
GameStop, the online site for several gaming retail chains, began taking order for the XBox system, games and peripherals today. Even though Microsoft hasn't released a list of titles that will be available at launch, GameStop posted a list of titles that...
It seems that in today's day-and-age, you can't go anywhere without being touched by the "Celtic Revival." RIVERDANCE is always presenting its "last performance" on Broadway and all of the elevators now play Enja and Loreena McKennit. New Age mysticism se...
THE LADY IS THE LINKThe story continues in THE LADY OF AVALON (1997), the novel that bridges the gap between the Ancient Britain of the first century and the Arthurian legends of the eighth. Constructed in three sections and time periods, THE LADY OF AVAL...
Infogrames sent us some new info on its upcoming Playstation 2 water racing game, SPLASHDOWN.Developed by Rainbow Studios, SPLASHDOWN features eight different characters and eighteen tracks ranging from real-world locations such as Hawaii, to the cit...
Yesterday's series of tragic events placed entertainment related projects on the back burner of importance, with massive shut downs in respect of the victims. In addition, these terrible events are having further effects on coming projects. Here's a rundo...
Jason Yungbluth may be one of the sickest individuals out therebut he's also one of the funniest, if DEEP FRIED #4 is anything to go by. This issue is a special tribute to superheroes, but it's the sort of "tribute" that we used to see in celebrity roasts...
It wouldn’t have taken much to make a good FRIDAY THE 13TH movie since the series was largely a bust from day one. However, writer-director Tom McLoughlin took on the challenge of FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART VI: JASON LIVES with ease back in 1986. Why, after fi...
The season opening two-hour episode of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER on UPN did very well for the network, though in overall broadcast genre programming, it still turned up in the 6th slot tied with a SIMPSONS repeat. Though tied according to Nielsen...
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...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. That’s how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
Fifteen years before The X-Files made government conspiracy a way of life, there was Capricorn One. Born from post-Watergate angst and television’s increasing technological versatility, the film remains an effective thriller and adventure story, tightly-...
The 20th Century closed with a bang, film music wise, with a plethora of big budget, bombastically scored genre films whose music did much to accentuate the larger-than-life, stronger-than-death emphasis of their films. The continued mix of new score CDs...
...dators to LAKEPLACID’s killer crocs (which resembled rejects from JURASSIC PARK more than anything else), the majority of this year’s big movies featured effects that were both mindless and a mess. In this age of awesome technology, such shoddy showma...
You`d be hard pressed to separate Bernard Herrmann`s score for PSYCHO from the movie itself, but because the scores of silent films are not etched in people`s memories--few original scores exist and fewer are performed--musicians have a relatively open fi...
Months of acrimony between Viacom, Inc. and Chris-Craft, who jointly owned UPN until Viacom forced Chris-Craft to sell earlier in the year, came to a head this week when Chris-Craft shocked Viacom by revealing a deal with another media giant, Rupert Murdo...
...music for LakePlacid, a previous horror film from Phoenix Pictures, the company behind Urban Legends, so it was only natural that he should make his directing debut on the sequel.Below is an edited transcript of Fandom’s video interview with Ottman, w...
The problem with doing a track-by-track rundown of an album is that one’s reactions to the individual pieces may not give an adequate indication of one’s reaction to the collection as a whole. Thus, many of the rare tracks on The Goblin Collection are onl...
Yeah, I`m old enough to remember Goblin, the Italian progressive rock group whose work helped define a certain sound and style of film scoring back in the 1970s and 1980s. But age really has little to do with it, since few people from that era remember th...
When we catche up with veteran low-budget filmmaker JR Bookwalter, he has just returned from the set of one movie, has recently been scouting locations for a different movie, is part way through post-production on another and in pre-production on yet anot...
Big things were happening over on the Paramount Lot a few weeks back when the CG animated feature film JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS premiered. But first...JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS tells a simple story. A Boy and his robot dog battle evil, rescue his parents...
FEARnet, the world’s premiere horror and thriller website and video on demand service, continues to break new ground in original web programming with the November 2nd debut of the chilling, new interactive daily web series event BURIED ALIVE. Runn...
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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...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mori KotaroTranslated by:Misato SakamotoAdapted by:Ailen LujoWhat They SayPam and the other devil interns have exams coming up, which means crunch time for Pam who\'s still having \"flying\" difficulties. In order to step clos...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hideki KakinumaTranslated by:Gretchen KernAdapted by:What They SayThe Junk Force saga continues, with more post-apocalyptic comedy adventures inspired by the manga. The hunt to shut down the mysterious and heavily-armored Z.P....
Last week, I had a unique opportunity. It all started about a month ago when I wrote an email to Andrew Nelson, the PR Manager over at ADV Films. The email discussed an upcoming article series that I was planning for one of the websites I write for. In th...
San Jose, CA - October 29, 2002 - ComicsOne, announced today that they will be publishing the comic book based off of the popular Japanese Anime hit Onegai Teacher (Please! Teacher). Volume One of Onegai Teacher is set to hit shelves in January 2003.
Ba...
HOUSTON, November 9, 2006 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announce five titles heading your way on January 9. Prepare yourself for the first volume of Best Student Council, the fifth volume of Mic...
HOUSTON, October 2, 2006 "ADV Films, the #1 producer-distributor of anime in the U.S., announced today it has acquired exclusive home video and broadcast rights in North America for Best Student Council, a new series by J.C. Staff (Excel Saga, Maburaho). ...
Mainstream Tour Demonstrates Rapidly Growing Popularity Of Anime In U.S.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Geneon Entertainment, a leader in introducing anime to the United States, announced today that it is partnering with Musicland to produce the Anime Fusio...
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ADV ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE FOR RAHXEPHON-ORCHESTRATION 7: CRESCENDO
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES COMES TO AN END WITH THE DECEMBER 2, 2003 RELEASE OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE TITLE
HOUSTON, October 13, 2003-ADV Films today offi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:CLAMPTranslated by:William FlanaganAdapted by:What They SayYoung Syaoran embarks on a worlds-spanning adventure to restore the memory of the most important person in his life, the princess Sakura - even though he knows that sh...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Soda MasahitoTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayFirefighter Daigo Asahina and fellow Medaka-ga-hama teammate Taira find themselves beneath an inferno when they barge into a burning auditorium alongside Chuo Resc...
What They SayGinta Toramizu is your average eighth grader - maybe even less than average. But his luck is about to change. Every night, he dreams about a fairy-tale land where he finally gets a chance to be a hero, and when one day a gate appears before h...
What They SayAt first glance, Miyagami Private Academy seems like a typical all-girls\' school. But beneath its placid surface is a highly-disciplined student council engaged in an unceasing struggle to keep Miyagami Private Academy safe from the outside ...
What They SayIn order to separate Yuri from Wolfram, Stoffel introduces an eligible girl for Yuri to marry! But the bride-to-be shocks everyone by claiming she is really Wolfram\'s fiancee and she challenges Yuri to a duel. Then, Dunheely Weller\'s past i...
What They SayIt all comes down to this...Leon pushes Sora to new extremes as he continues her special training to perfect the Angel's Maneuver. After experiencing new lows, she soars to new heights. Just when it seems that Sora's dream will finally becom...
What They SayAs a last resort, Cou reacts with Viro, but this new bond creates mixed emotions for Ren. While the group contiues to wonders about Viro\'s intentions, they must also find answers to Chaos Choir\'s intentions in order to survive. When the gro...
The final revelations are at hand, with the true nature of Griffith’s ambition revealed, and it doesn’t spell good news for the rest of the Hawks.
What They SayWhen Guts first joined Griffith and the Band Of The Hawk, the wheels of fate were ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yu WataseTranslated by:Lillian Olson/Gary LeachAdapted by:What They SayHorror, Comedy and Romance Made in Heaven. Yu Watase, the immensely popular writer/artist of the shoujo (girls') fantasy smash Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious...
The Review!Menu:
It starts off with a series of animation clips of each of the players in the anime, then settles into a static screen with music playing. The animation only runs the first time when you put the disc in. Fast access times, and generally ...
What They SayAfter 7 years abroad, Yuuchi reconnects with his cute cousin... but my, how she\'s grown!The Review!Shiori's situation begins to progress in a bad way while Ayu's past is slowly beginning to reveal itself.
Audio:
ADV Films has presented a g...
It looks like it's safe to go into the waters for the next six months or so. Ryan Rotten is reporting the upcoming remake of Piranha 3-D has been postponed from its shoot schedule and won't go under the lens until at least March or April 2009. The origina...
Some new set behind-the-scene set photos have popped up online for Friday the 13th courtesy of HorrorBid.com. The photos show some close ups of Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) in a setting the character knows very well, the woods around Crystal Lake. The fil...
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After Sony's proactive policy of
revealing information on the Spider-Man production, fans may have to
adjust regarding Bryan Singer's famously tight-lipped production of the X-Men
franchise. Just like the original, X-Men 2 has been shrouded in
myster...
As any and every fan of horror movies will be acutely aware, Hollywood has had a long-standing fascination with those shape-shifting creatures of the night known as werewolves. In 1941, Universal Pictures released its classic movie The Wolf Man starring L...
Nothing from the 80s belongs in today's world. The themes we cared about then are sad reminders of how naive we once were, and the fashion trends that interested us are even sadder reminders of how idiotic we were.
Which makes it all the more ridiculous ...
Someone got a look at the 'Elektra' trailer: "Theres [sic] some 'Kill Bill' and 'Punisher' style action going on in the trailer, with kimonos and swords a plenty, and Elektra apparently training in a white outfit on an oriental stage next to a lake, but i...
"We've been shooting ['X-Men 3'] for over two months now, and the film is going extremely well. The performances have been incredible," says screenwriter Simon Kinberg. "The actors are all at the top of their game. Brett's been great at protecting the ton...
It's Halloween. As much as I'd like to avoid the idea of a requisite Michael Myers Halloween piece, I can't shake the urge to write about John Carpenter's Halloween. It started when I looked up Halloween--the tradition, not the film--on Wikipedia ...
With just a handful of credits to his name, young Justin Hartley has become an almost overnight sensation since his recent appearances as Oliver Queen, the bow-slinging Green Arrow, on Smallville. Justin was lucky that Smallville creator and executive pro...
The Planet's gossip columnist, Linda Lake (Tori Spelling), makes life miserable for Lana, Lex, Chloe and Clark; Lois begins to suspect a connection between Oliver and the Green Arrow; and Lex drops a bombshell on Clark.
Warner Bros. Intl. has crossed the $1 billion mark in foreign grosses for the sixth year in a row, despite less-than-stellar performances by its summer tentpoles.
Studio announced Thursday it had hit the milestone, led by "Superman Returns" ($191 milli...
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With great power comes great responsibility. Yesterday Blockbuster Inc.
announced it used Spider-Man's power to entertain to f...
'Superman Returns' was among the many comic-based movies and TV shows populating the list of nominees for the 33rd annual Saturn Awards. Here are the noteworthy comic-to-film nods:
Best Science Fiction Film: V For Vendetta and X-Men: The Last Stand
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"In this conception of Aquaman, sort of like we did with the Flash last year, he's a marine biology student/environmental activist at the University of Miami. Lex is up to no good at Crater Lake and [Aquaman] has come to find out what's going on. His agen...
Pixel Magicbased in Toluca Lake, California, spans two generations of expertise in the creation of visual effects for film and television. Services include compositing, 3D & character animation, wire & rig removal, film & hi-def restoration, matte paintin...
We knew High School Musical 3: Senior Year would win this box office weekend due to pre-sales and the teen-focused hype machine coming out of Disney so the film launching into theaters with $42.0 million isn’t surprising. In fact, a lot of p...
The week of Halloween is when all things scary take center stage, oh and there's candy too! With that in mind, it seems like a great time to pick five must see shows that couldn’t be more appropriate for Halloween that are available on DVD! ...
Just days after IGN Film Force reviewed the script for the new Catwoman movie, the site reports that casting is underway.
FilmForce reports that reliable sources have informed them that Owen Wilson has been offered the lead male role in the film, to sta...
Declassified Production Records Reveal Covert Casting of Popular Japanese Animated Series
New York, NY, September 26, 2008 – As New York Anime Festival kicks off today, top ranking officials at the secretive U.S. anime house FUN...
So, it's Black Friday today. Time to get out to the stores, if you dare. While you are there, why not pick up a nice new dub? To help you decide, I have put together some thoughts on seve