If you grew up with a fondness for classic animation, you should still remember one story in particular: When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain, and the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain…
She's in the s...
Paul Walker wants to become THE LASTAPOSTLE. That's the title of a new science fiction/action project in development at Columbia Pictures, under the supervision of producer Mark Gordon. Being described as THE MATRIX meets THE CROW, the film's script will...
What They SayThe final contest has begun now that Radium Lavans has emerged to make the brutal intentions of Mars fully known. There\'s only one power in the universe mighty enough to stop the destruction and mayhem that this insurrection will cause: Meta...
What They SayJapan\'s top anime creators bring a richly romantic action/adventure fantasy in an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of a young and heroic air pilot duo --- C...
What They SayAt the Yokata Air Force Base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam war. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatch...
What They SayJapan\'s top anime creators bring a richly romantic action/adventure fantasy in an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of a young and heroic air pilot duo --- C...
As part of the Licensing International Expo 2008 conference, director M. Night Shyamalan, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies were on hand to preview their next high profile team effort, an adaptation of The Last Airbender. Nickelodeon sent media ou...
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
What They SayWith Lucciola\'s help, Claus, Alvis and Dio escape the Guild ship while Delphine continues to hold Alex Row hostage and tortures him. Anatoray and Disith continue to wage an all-out war against the Guild and many sacrifice their lives in the...
To no one`s surprise, the most successful horror video release this Halloween was THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, which racked up tape sales in the millions and easily dominated the rental charts. However, the most interesting chiller to hit the video superstore...
By the end of his life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reportedly hated his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle's friend and fellow writer P.G. Wodehouse (creator of the hilarious Jeeves the Butler stories) recalled that he could get Doyle to pontificate ...
What They SayThe movie uses the full spectrum of digital animation which is said to have impressed even James Cameron. Japan\'s top creators gathered to make the show, which was shown in theaters using the HDCAM24P format which George Lucas will also be u...
People who have no idea what DISCWORLD is have a rather hard time breaking into the series. They aren't written or released in any kind of logical order, which is very interesting for fans, but makes potential new recruits balk at picking one of the books...
The Review!A good idea, implemented averagely.
::Audio::
When watching the show, I listened to the original Japanese seiyuu (voice actors). The talking, ambient sounds, and background music made good use of the two, built-in, TV speakers. The English t...
You and Jeri Ryan are the last two people on Earth. What do you do? As soon as fanboys around the world stop hyperventilating easy, fellas... long, slow breaths let us explain how this not completely disagreeable scenario sets up the plot of indie filmm...
Like his last work, SOMETHING SO FAMILIAR, Alex Cahill manages to walk the fine line between complex and intentionally obscure in THE LAST ISLAND. And like that last work, Cahill works with very little dialogue and relies on images to convey the story. As...
What They SayClaus and Tatiana are thrown together to fly a vanship to defend the Silvana from a massive attack orchestrated by Anatoray and Tatiana begins to confide in Claus when the two make an emergency landing. Sophia, who is revealed to be of roya...
What They SayClaus and Dio return to Silvana from their vanship expedition to search for the Exile, only to find that Silvana had been hijacked by the Guild. Delphine holds Alvis, Claus and Alex Row hostage and takes them to the Guild ship. Delphine atte...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND generated a small truckload of mail. The reactions ranged from complete agreement with my review, to total disagreement from fans that thought the film met or exceeded the previous two. Regardless, t...
THE LAST CASTLE is one of those movies that doesn't promote post-screening argument over its themes, as discussions as to which aspect of the story is least believable will take the forefront. The film is watchable owing to a punchy pace and some fine act...
Dan Abnett releases a slew of Warhammer novels, Jeffrey Thomas continues the bizarre tales of the inter-dimensional Punktown, and alternate historical fiction runs rampant in this edition of the Weekly Book Buzz.
Greetings Maniac readers and wel...
Last week in COMICSCAPE, I somehow accidentally characterized FABLES: THE LAST CASTLE as yet another collected edition of previously published issues. More fool me. Turns out that THE LAST CASTLE is a one-off issue telling a completely new story from the ...
What They SayJapan\'s top anime creators bring a richly romantic action/adventure fantasy in an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of a young and heroic air pilot duo --- C...
Coming Attractions at Cinescape has learned that the hit science fiction comic book series Y: THE LAST MAN has been optioned by New Line Cinema as a feature film. Created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, this ongoing series debuted last ...
“Wow,” you might say, “a film with Jeff Fahey and Ernie Hudson, I’ve so got to get this for the dorm.” Yes, you might say that, even though you’re 47 years old and still live in your parents’ garage – guess that Masters degree in Art History really paid o...
What They SayAt the Yokota base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a mysteriou...
What They SayThe winds of revolution howl through Kyoto as the Tokugawa era comes to a violent close. Will Kaede, Kikyoo, and Ayame follow the ninja code of honor and face their vicious destiny, or escape to another world? Will their love for each other a...
Former SWAMP THING writer Brian K. Vaughan returns to Vertigo territory with Y THE LAST MAN, a new series that begins in July from DC Comics. Here's the series' set-up: "When a mysterious plague suddenly kills every living creature on the planet with a...
Last Week by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-22-2008)
Last week was my first real chance to escape the confines of work and go shopping. I know it sounds girly but this last quarter of 2007 was brutal. All the running around, deadlines and holidays made it one giant nightmare. I like to shop, ...
In her latest novel, author Patricia Cornwell continues the adventures of coroner Kay Scarpetta, picking up where BLACK NOTICE left off. This time, Scarpetta finds herself the target of a criminal investigation, accused of killing a professional rival and...
With his last film hitting DVD just last week, THE LAST SAMURAI director Ed Zwick is currently in talks to take over DreamWorks' long stalled epic fantasy film THE TALISMAN. If Zwick's signature on the contract is dry he'll be taking over from Vadim Perel...
Barrel Entertainment has just announced that they will be releasing the 1970s grindhouse classic THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET on DVD. Known as “the most vile and disgusting film ever made,” LAST HOUSE was made in 1972 by Roger Watkins (under the pseu...
Hey look kids, it's an entirely unnecessary company crossover event with the Joker causing all kinds of mayhem! Buy them all!Yes, I'm cynical, but when the publishers feed into my healthy distrust of all things, it only makes it worse. Fresh off the summe...
If you're a Marvel fan at all, and certainly if you still have fond memories of Peter David's superb run on the INCREDIBLE HULK comic book series from #331 in May 1987 to #467 in August 1998, you simply must pick up this astonishing one-shot, the first in...
All right, the headline's exaggerating the book's one girl-on-girl scene a bit much, but there is a scene with two women kissing (you'll have to read it to find out which ones), but in world with only two men (Yorrick and the astronauts' baby), I don't su...
A dash of "Paul is dead" mystique, a hint of ALMOST FAMOUS, and some great performances by the regular and guest cast combine to make "The Last Goodbye" every bit as good as last week's wonderful episode. This season's taken its time in hitting its strid...
Mizuki’s life sucks. First, her mother commits suicide when she is just a child, when her mother finds out that her father is cheating on her. Then she has a boyfriend who regularly cheats on her, then begs for forgiveness and a second chance. Th...
Warner Home Video has targeted a May 4 release date for the two-disc DVD of THE LAST SAMURAI, last year's Tom Cruise vehicle. A commentary by director Ed Zwick will be included with the movie on disc one.Disc two will contain Zwick's video journal chronic...
Shia LaBeouf is a busy young actor. He's currently at work on 'Indiana Jones 4' and anchors the blockbuster franchise 'Transformers 2'. He's also rumored to be the front runner to appear in the filmed adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn's 'Y: The Last Man'.
In...
"Well, it seems to be the last of the series," Ratner said of the eyebrow-raising title for the third film, "X-Men: The Last Stand," due May 26. "We wanted to make sure the audiences knew that this was a trilogy. Even though they weren't made together lik...
After a record-setting first weekend, X-Men: The Last Stand took a big plunge and placed second over the weekend.
Dropping 67 percent from its first weekend, X-Men: The Last Stand brought in $34.4 million. "I'm not shocked at that drop," 20th Century ...
As the Fall season rapidly approaches, one of fiction’s most popular manifestations of the Other is lurking from the shadows and sizing up your jugular in a slew of new horror, fantasy, and even science fiction literature.
Hello Maniac read...
Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter of the film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn's 'Y: The Last Man' sat down to talk with Wizard Universe about the movie.
Ellsworth he admits he wasn't a fan of the comic, or comics in general, before taking on the project. "...
What They SayClaus and Lavie\'s fathers died attempting to cross the Grand Stream to deliver a message from Anatoray to Disith. Empress Sophia obtains a copy of the original message and discovers it suggested the two empires join forces to defeat the Guil...
DC Comics has announced that it will be releasing Y THE LAST MAN DOUBLE FEATURE edition on October 2. The 64-page, $5.95 book will collect the first two issues of the Vertigo series. According to DC, the second issue has joined the first issue in sellin...
To no one's surprise THE LAST SAMURAI cut its way to the top of the chart this week at the box office; nevertheless, Warner Bros. was expecting Tom Cruise's latest adventure to earn more moolah in its opening weekend. The snowstorm that struck the east co...
What They SayClaus and Lavie deliver Alvis to airship Silvana?s captain, Alex Row. But much to Claus? anger, Alex Row accepts Alvis inhumanely into Silvana and leaves the duo and their damaged ship behind. Claus and Lavie fly to Silvana to retrieve Alvis,...
The most terrifying part of the first issue of Y: THE LAST MAN is not the nail-biting countdown to the release of the male-dominating plague, or even the scenes of every man but one suddenly vomiting blood and bleeding from the eyes as a result. No, indee...
Following up on our exclusive report that New Line Cinema is developing a movie based on the Vertigo/DC Comics comic book Y: THE LAST MAN, a source relays to us the latest developments on this project.According to our inside source, New Line Cinema execut...
According to Variety, 20th Century Fox is opening The Last Stand at 3,688 theaters, slightly less than the 3,741 for X2. There are no other new major releases this weekend, and The Last Stand's only major competition will come from the second weekend of T...
Warner Bros. Pictures THE LAST SAMURAI opened last Friday in theaters and on December 1st the U.S. Premiere was held at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.THE LAST SAMURAI was the first of the premieres that were to be held this December and...
Last Day in Vietnam is about warriors at relative rest.An American GI sits at a cafe in Saigon. He has bandages on his face, a cast on his arm, a cane for his busted leg. He sits and smokes, and thinks of the beautiful local girl he picked up. In his mind...
Myth Adventures author Robert Asprin unveils a collection of SF war novels, Manfredi’s The Last Legion leaps onto the audiobook format, and an F. Paul Wilson’s classic gets the collector’s rendition in this edition of the Weekly Book...
Discover the beginning of the legend of King Arthur when the epic-action adventure The Last Legion rides onto DVD December 18th from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company. As ancient Rome crumbles, the only hope lies with the Roman Emperor...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yamada YugiTranslated by:Melanie SchoenAdapted by:Melanie SchoenWhat They SayWhat would you do if your crush of many years suddenly got married?! After attending his beloved Saitoh\'s wedding, broken-hearted Nagai gets a littl...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mamoru Oshii / Katsuya TeradaTranslated by:Camella NiehAdapted by:What They SayAt Yokota Base in Japan, American soldiers stand guard at the brink of the Vietnam War. Although they fear the enemy outside their base, an even mo...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another entry into the Comicscape canon! Last week, I had to pick between two important subjects – the return of Captain America – temporary or not – and the conclusion of DC/Vertigo’s fantas...
What They SayAt the Yokota Air Force base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists with the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a m...
What They SayLAST EXILE has completely blown away fans and critics alike with breathtaking visuals, captivating storylines, and sensational music. Don the headphones and experience the majestic sense of aerial exhilaration effortlessly combined with aural...
What They SayClaus and Lavie participate in an eight-hour endurance vanship race, and are joined by Dio Eraclea who tries to befriend Claus. Tatiana also participates in the race, but she is actually on a secret mission under Alex Row\'s direction.
In t...
What They SayAt the Yokota Air Force base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists with the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a m...
I can never praise Y: THE LAST MAN enough. Each month, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra (usually) deliver a funny and intriguing episode in their epic of a world with only one man left alive. As of this 44th issue, Yorick Brown's sister, Hero, and, Beth, t...
What They SayClaus and Tatiana are thrown together to fly a Vanship to defend the Silvana from a massive attack orchestrated by Anatoray and Tatiana begins to confide in Claus when the two make an emergency landing. Sophia, who is revealed to be of royal ...
Column News: With the switch over to the new site design, I thought I’d make a couple of minor changes in High Def Revue. The most notable one is that the Blu-ray discs will be listed first in the Upcoming Discs section from now on. ...
What They SayWith Lucciola's help, Claus, Alvis and Dio escape the Guild ship while Delphine continues to hold Alex Row hostage and tortures him. Anatoray and Disith continue to wage an all-out war against the Guild and many sacrifice their lives in their...
Welcome to today's column. This time I'll be taking a look at Last Exile volume three, released by Geneon Entertainment. This is a show that has sported a quality dub in its previous volumes, and this volume continues to uphold the standard of work establ...
What They SayFor pure escapism into the wild blue yonder, it doesn\'t get any better than the LAST EXILE Original Soundtrack, which delivers mesmerizing vocals and highly evocative instrumentals that will entrall and please those who love the grand sense ...
Hey you. Yeah, the person who clicked on this article, not because they were interested in the latest, hottest and coolest things out there for the holidays, but rather because you're like many last minute shoppers who haven't even stepped into the mall s...
In The Last Mimzy, the title character is something that appears to be a toy stuffed animal bunny – but is really something quite different. Just what Mimzy really is, and what the objects found with her do, becomes a matter of increasing fascina...
The Review!It's a good thing that they named this movie "The Last Vampire", otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what was going on... no wait, I still didn't have a clue what was going on.
I'll get to the technical end of things here. The video in Blood ...
Hey, Happy All Saints Day/Day of the Dead! Hope everybody had a fabulous scary (but not TOO scary) Halloween. Speaking of scary stuff, I didn't list them in the column, but last week Triumph Marketing released a series of DVDs that I find truly frightenin...
Strieber works his usual prose magic in this imaginative follow-up to THE HUNGER. His rich, realistic dialogue plays beautifully against the complex and believable vampire world that he creates.Vampires, in this world, call themselves "Keepers." Once upon...
What They SayClaus and Lavie\'s fathers died attempting to cross the Grand Stream to deliver a message from Anatoray to Disith. Empress Sophia obtains a copy of the original message and discovers it suggested the two empires join forces to defeat the Guil...
Shekhar Kapur, the director of ELIZABETH, is in talks to helm THE LAST FULL MEASURE for New Line Cinema. MEASURE is a military drama about a idealistic officer in the Pentagon who battles with his superiors hoping that a Medal of Honor can be awarded to a...
Rebecca Romijn, who is playing Mystique for the third time, said she went through the makeup process some 20 times for X-Men: The Last Stand.
"It's been the same four women for all three movies," Romijn said during an appearance on the syndicated Liv...
"General Trask is the head of Homeland Security. He's the President's right hand man and he has the responsibility of advising the president in terms of everything, every action," says actor Bill Duke, who plays the character in 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
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You may not be too familiar with the name Aaron Stanford, but maybe his alter ego Pyro might ring a bell; that's right, he's the star of the upcoming film, X-Men: The Last Stand. During his press day for his new movie The Hills Have Eyes, The IESB snagged...
"I do have to take lessons in two different things. But I can't say because I would give it all away," says actress Kirsten Dunst of her preparation work for 'Spider-Man 3', which may be her last turn as Mary Jane.
She said she won't be returning to th...
For director Brett Ratner, one of the key creative objectives for X-Men: The Last Stand is the movie's tone. "It's been very important for me to stick to the tone," says Ratner. "I feel so reverential to the first two [movies], I'm not reinventing anythin...
Natalie Portman, who stars in the upcoming V for Vendetta film, said she is awaiting the reaction of the comic-book commmunity to the film.
Longtime X-Men writer Chris Claremont told The Continuum he had "great fun" filming a cameo for X-Men: The Last...
A commercial airing during Tuesday night's episode of 'American Idol' showed clips from 'X-Men: The Last Stand' and indicates the the next trailer will air during Monday night's episode of '24'.
20th Century Fox has given official confirmation that the new trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand will appear before V for Vendetta in theaters, and will go up in high-definition on Apple next Monday.
Publisher's Weekly chats up Brian K. Vaughn about the wrap up to his critically acclaimed comics series 'Y: The Last Man'. Naturally they asked him about the planned movie of the book, but Vaughn says the book is the thing as far as he's concerned:
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The only book on the creation of the blockbuster movie, THE ART OF X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (Newmarket Press, 160 pages, $19.95 paperback/$29.95 hardcover) is a fascinating visual companion presenting an exclusive look into the preparation and production of ...
"We need to find a director that loves the comic book. Once we do, it's fine. If you love the comic book, you get it immediately," says producer David Goyer on the 'Y: The Last Man' movie project. "I think that will translate to a mainstream audience, but...
Alicia Keys as 355 in the Y: The Last Man movie? That’s one of producer JC Spink’s top choices. Asked about the Shia LaBeouf rumor, he nodded and said, “We’re trying.” Concerning the casting of Dr. Mann he said, “an un...
'Freddy vs. Jason' director Ronnie Yu talked to Moviehole.net about his upcoming slate of projects. Next up, says the director, is a feature film version of anime/manga classic 'Blood: The Last Vampire.'
"It's about this highschool girl who carries this ...
"I was used to it, but this time I had to do a lot of spinning which I had never done and I got a lot of sick. I sprayed the crew with vomit sick," admits actress Halle Berry, who had to do a lot of wire work as Storm in 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
The ac...
The young mutants from X-Men do not take the back seat in this installment of blockbuster franchise. The IESB sat down alongside Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Anna Paquin, Ben Foster and Dania Ramirez as we discussed The Last Stand...
The Bone Marrow Donor Institute would like to offer you the exclusive opportunity to view 'X-Men: The Last Stand' at preview screenings in Melbourne and Sydney prior to the films general release.
"Why does The Last Stand feel driven to dumb itself down, as if embarrassed by its own ideas? There is no time for reflection in this overstuffed sequel — civil war, special effects involving the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, volcanic emotions be...
7-Eleven has begun its X-Men: The Last Stand promotion, offering four different Slurpee cups.
Each 22-ounce cup features two characters: Magneto and Callisto; Mystique and Juggernaut; Wolverine and Angel; and Storm and Beast.
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Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino has signed on to star in "The Last Templar," reports Variety. The new NBC mini-series will be based on the bestselling novel from Raymond Khoury. Sorvino will join Victor Garber ("Eli Stone," "Al...
Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned French children's book "The Last Giants" by Francois Place.Set in the mid-1800s, the story revolves around a paleontologist who discovers what appears to be an enormous human tooth inscribed with a map. He sets off on a ...
I KNOW WHAT YOU QUOTED LAST SUMMER is the massively dumb title of a massively interesting film quiz book. I KNOW, which was complied by the author of the WHAT'S THAT FROM ? movie quote book, sets up two levels to the quiz.First, the book presents series o...
Not that it was unexpected, but the Sci-Fi Channel has sagely renewed Ronald D. Moore's updated BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. So, those still reeling from the shocking final moments of the finale can breathe a sigh of relief. With an elegant first part, "Kobol's ...
Rogue Pictures has signed a deal to remake Wes Craven's THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.Craven, who wrote and directed the original, will produce the remake with longtime partner Marianne Maddalena and Sean S. Cunningham. The latter produced the original. Crav...
According to Reuters, the last film made by the late Anna Nicole Smith, a sci fi comedy titled Illegal Aliens, will be released onto DVD this May. The film stars Smith as one of three aliens who transform themselves into super-hot babes and arrive to p...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, M. Night Shyamalan will write, direct and produce the live-action big-screen adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.Avatar is set in a world balanced on four nations -- Water, Earth, Fire and Air. In each society, th...
Y: The Last Man by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 01-26-2007)
Premise: After a mysterious plague has wiped out every male mammal with a Y chromosome on the planet save for a twentysomething amateur escape artist and a monkey he was training, Yorick Brown and Ampersand become the two most wanted individuals in ...
October 10th marks the first day of principal photography for the upcoming Edward Zwick period epic starring Tom Cruise, THE LAST SAMURAI. Cruise plays an American military adviser retained by the Emperor of Japan to modernize the country's military.Zwick...
As Brian K. Vaughn's critically hailed comics series 'Y: The Last Man' comes to its planned finale in comic shops this week, USA Today queries director D.J. Caruso, who has long been attached to the film version of the project.
Caruso revealed that a fil...
Warner Home Video have announced the region one release of Superman: Last Son of Krypton which kicked off the 1996 animated Superman series. This feature length animated adventure will be available to own from the 3rd February next year and should set you...
Though there's no real end in site Nancy Cartwright is on a personal crusade to keep THE SIMPSONS on the air forever. Cartwright, the voice of insufferable scamp Bart Simpson, is hoping that while some rumblings have been heard recently about the show com...
THE LAST SAMURAI is coming together in casting and is set to star shooting in a few months. The latest evidence: Billy Connolly (TIMELINE, MRS. BROWN), Tony Goldwyn (THE 6TH DAY, TARZAN) and Timothy Spall (VANILLA SKY) have all signed to join Tom Cruise i...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER has announced that John Travolta (SWORDFISH, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE) is in negotiations to star in Intermedia Films' JOE'S LAST CHANCE. Andrew Bergman (STRIPTEASE, HONEYMOON IN VEGAS) will direct. Following in the ANALYZE THIS vein, L...
Wes Craven has hired Adam Alleca to write and Dennis Iliadis to direct the remake of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.
The story will center on killers who inadvertently seek refuge with the parents of one of their victims. The remake will aim f...
It looks like Santa is dropping the presents, grabbing the guns and taking on zombies in THE LAST CHRISTMAS, says Hollywood Reporter. The comic book, created by Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan, is getting adapted to the big screen in the near fut...
Our adult pile has grown again a bit recently so we\'ve got a look today at the 09/12/2006 release of The Last Kunoichi Vol. #1 from Adult Source Media.
Paul\'s checking in from the UK this morning by closing out one of his series with a last look at the 12/26/2005 release of Last Exile Vol. #7 (of 7) from ADV Films UK.
What They SayYusuke is a young, orphaned, high-school student who just happened to be late for class one day. Little did he know that his tardiness would consequently put him in the right place at the right time…soaking in the middle of a muddy pudd...
The Review!The anime that has already become popular when shown at an anime convention in Canada finally makes it's way here. It took about a year, but it's finally on DVD to own. And it is well worth checking out.
Audio: Okay, here's the layout. When yo...
CHATSWORTH, CA (September 11, 2006) " Adult Source Media, the fastest growing distributor of Japanese Adult Anime, has announced the release of the popular Japanese title, The Last Kunoichi. A world of mystery, suspense and sex unfolds in this battle of ...
Congrats to Don Zimmerman this morning who has scored a copy of Dokkoida?! Vol. #2 from us. Today is the last day of the contest and we\'ve got a copy of Tsukihime Vol. #1 up for grabs, so get your entry in and try to end the year with a win!
Congrats to Craig Ramirez for winning the Mini-Goddesses #4 prize this afternoon! Up for our last one today is Saber Marionette J to X Vol. #3 from Bandai Entertainment!
While we still don't have one official released trailer for The Incredible Hulk, we've had plenty of coverage for Iron Man. Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios has revealed the latest (and likely last) poster for the upcoming Jon Favreau-directed advent...
January is a cold, pale month that's made blearier by the post-Christmas blahs. The early days of 2008 have been a little more cheerful, however, because a mysterious movie called Cloverfield has initiated enough speculation and discussion to help us forg...
Lionsgate has stepped up to make screen scribe Stuart Gibbs' debut novel, The Last Equation, reports Variety. Production will be overseen for the studio by vice president Jim Miller. Plot Concept: An action-thriller, the contemporary story pivots on gove...
With direct M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming supernatural thriller The Happening hitting theaters this Friday, the media has a chance to approach him a couple of subjects in his field of vision. One such project is the upcoming adaptation of The Last Airbend...
Well, that may be a bit subjective, but in a sizeable change from most of their recent series that have been done in letterbox format but not anamorphic, the Japanese DVD release of the first volume of Last Exile just came out and it breaks the bad trend ...
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"Overall the story of Y the Last Man is kept very intact from the comic book, perhaps too intact. That's not to say it will translate into a bad film, its just to say that the writing here seems as if Vaughan worked from his comic book scripts to the scr...
"To say that X Men: The Last Stand doesn't rely on special effects and CGI would be wrong. But what sets X3 apart from other comic book movies is that it also manages to deliver a credible story. The X-Men trilogy has dealt with the underlying themes of a...
A behind-the-scenes look at ''X-Men: The Last Stand'': With a new director, new characters, and all sorts of new pressures, can the comic-book franchise stay in the black?
"Not exactly going out with a whimper, 'X-Men: The Last Stand,' the closing installment of the commercially and critically successful Marvel movie franchise, still fails to generate the satisfying bang created by the first and, particularly, the second ed...
The Sentinel head that was shown during Hugh Jackman's appearance on NBC's The Tonight Show on Friday was not a special effect.
"It's practical," X-Men: The Last Stand special effects supervisor John Bruno told The Continuum during a visit to the set ...
20th Century Fox has released a new image from X-Men: The Last Stand, featuring Famke Janssen as Jean Grey and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
In other X-Men news, Rebecca Romijn, who returns as Mystique, was a guest on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday.
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SciFi Hobby has updated the list of signers for the 'X-Men: The Last Stand' trading cards to include Omahyra Garcia, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Michael Murphy, Olivia Williams, Bryce Hodgson, Haley Ramm and Desiree Zurowski.
Marvel and Del Ray have provided an exclusive look at cover artwork and a summary for the official X-Men: The Last Stand novelization, due out May 16th.
Rittenhouse Archives have added previews for nine of their autograph cards from the X-Men: The Last Stand set. Among the previews you will find autographs for eight of the main stars of the movie, along with the director Brett Ratner.
"Singer's absence is felt but not fatal. By adding too much new blood Ratner loses some of the original DNA, but with its nifty set-pieces and a few nasty surprises, X3's still a worthy enough sequel to ensure it's no Last Stand."
"Neither the exhilarating franchise sign-off that Bryan Singer would have likely delivered, nor the deformed mess that banshee-like 'net boys have been wailing was the only feasible outcome after Fox handed the reins to 'comic-book Anti-Christ' (his words...
Brian K. Vaughn chats up About Comics regarding the movie version of his acclaimed series 'Y: The Last Man':
"Everything's in carbonite freeze right now because of the WGA strike," reports Vaughn. "New Line was nice enough to let me take a...
Check out the concept art by Production artist James Clyne which he created for X-Men: The Last Stand. featuring some visuals scenes that didn't make the final cut of the movie.
Variety reports that 'Last Blood' is the latest comic set for adaptation by prolific comic-to-film shingle Benderspink.
The comic by Bobby Crosby (who co-created it with Chris Crosby) features a band of vampires in a future world dedicated to preserving ...
Variety reports that Universal has purchased the film rights to Vasilis Lolos' Oni Press graphic novel 'The Last Call'.
The book centers on two teens on a joyride who get hit by a train -- an interdimensional soul carrier -- and find themselves on a ques...
'Eagle Eye' director D.J. Caruso talked to UGO Movie Blog about his new film, but also provided copious commentary on his planned adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn's acclaimed comic 'Y: The Last Man'.
Caruso said they'd just turned in a new draft of the scre...
"It's not in development hell. It's in development heck."
Brian K. Vaughan, spotlighted in his own panel at New York Comic Con on Sunday, was talking about the Y: The Last Man movie that is set up at New Line Cinema.
"I finished the screenplay a few...
Don Murphy has posted on his message boards that yesterday was the last day of main filming while "next week a reduced unit with very few actors will head to different cities and pick up some establishing shots."
"The film is basically done today boys ...
Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand, said he will have a personally made behind-the-scenes look as part of the film's DVD release.
"I have a two-hour documentary on the making of the movie that I shot," Ratner said. "It wasn't like EPK (el...
"While X-Men: The Last Stand was largely fun and engaging, it never quite came together as a satisfying whole. Like the trilogy itself, the film got more right than it did wrong but grew overwrought and overstuffed, managing to both thrill and vex this X-...
Hell-bent on bolstering its reputation as the most aggressive cable-network buyer of theatrical pics, FX has ponied up about $90 million to buy nine titles from 20th Century Fox, led by the blockbuster sequels "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Ice Age: The Mel...
In a recent interview, director Ronny Yu ("Freddy vs. Jason") says filming on 'Blood: The Last Vampire' will probably start in October or November.
"I think I want to try reinvent this genre... You know, every time you talk about vampire or whatever, ...
Pictures from last night's CW launch party in Burbank, California have started to emerge and the cast of Smallville - Tom Welling, 29, Kristin Kreuk, 23, Erica Durance, 28, Justin Hartley, 29, and Aaron Ashmore, 26 - were present.
The season premiere,...
"I just spoke to Brett just now, Brett Ratner. I've got to do another ['X-Men'] scene in London on Sunday. And I was up in Canada last Friday night to do anotherr scene up there. They're just sort of tie-ins, tying one thing to another," says actor Vinnie...
SciFiHobby has updated their products page to include more details on the X-Men: The Last Stand collectible card set. Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Daniel Cudmore, Vinnie Jones and Shawn Ashmore have been confirmed for autograph cards
Warner Bros. has provided The Continuum with three new images from Superman Returns.
Hugh Jackman, who is playing Wolverine for the third time in X-Men: The Last Stand, will kick off what's sure to be numerous talk-show appearances on The Tonight Show ...
Rocketsports Racing has provided The Comics Continuum with images of the X-Men: The Last Stand-theme car that competed in the Crown Royal Grand American Challenge of Long Beach on Saturday.
David Goyer says Hollywood isn't quite ready for his idiosyncratic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 'Murder Mysteries'.
"As a director, [I need] a blockbuster before I'll have the clout to be able to pull it off, and I'm hoping Blade Trinity will be the one...
Paul Dini says he, Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Glen Murakami, the 'Superman' directors will also appear on a 'Superman Animated' compilation set to be released later this year.
He also says his last script for 'Justice League Unlimited' is back from the ...
Smallville's Michael Rosenbaum (Lex) is a scheduled guest on Last Call With Carson Daly on Feb. 2. Don't be surprised if he brings Smallville preview clips with him.
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg hints that the full trailer for 'X-Men: The Last Stand' will appear with a "fanboy" favorite in March, which could be 'V For Vendetta', opening on the 17th...
Rittenhouse Archives has officially announced that they will be producing the trading card series for X-Men: The Last Stand. Each box in this series is tentatively planned to contain one autograph card from the starring cast.
"Did 'X-Men: The Last Stand' succeed? Yes. If you can forgive about 30 percent of the film, the product as a whole really works, and is a fitting chapter in the X-Men saga. It's better than the first X-Men, and is mostly on par with X2."
Director Brett Ratner say the box office success of 'X-Men: The Last Stand' is not what gives him warm fuzzies.
"[The X-Men franchise already] had a huge core audience, [so] the movie was going to be successful. The thing that I was personally excited ...
Rebecca Romijn told reporters she wrapped her filming on 'X-Men 3' over a month ago and discussed the differences between Brett Ratner and Bryan Singer.
The acress also said 'X3' would likely be her last turn as Mystique. She will not be in the 'Punish...
Legions of Gotham has learned that a new 4-pack of action figures is being shipped to Toys R' Us stores across the nation. This may represent the last of the old Batman animated style action figures for quite some time, due to the upcoming re-launch carto...
In 'X-Men The Last Stand', the final chapter in the "X-Men" motion picture trilogy, a "cure" for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, o...