According to the Hollywood Reporter, LeslieBibb has signed on to join the upcoming Paramount film, Iron Man.Bibb will join a cast that features Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Shaun Toub. She will reportedly pl...
Actress LeslieBibb has landed a role in Marvel Studios' "Iron Man."
She joins Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow in the Jon Favreau-helmed comic book adaptation. She will play a fast-talking reporter.
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...aun Toub, LeslieBibb, Bill Smitrovich and Nazanin Boniadi . Jon Favreau helmed the project for Paramount & Marvel Studios.
Check out the new spot here. You can also check out their official new website, which has pictures, downloads and vid...
...nto You), LeslieBibb (Talladega Nights, Iron Man), Vinnie Jones (Snatch, X-Men The Last Stand) and Tony Award Winner Roger Bart (Hostel, Desperate Housewives). It was written by Jeff Buhler, based on Clive Barker’s short story “Midnig...
Director Michael Dougherty's TRICK 'R TREAT will kick off the Screamfest Horror Film Fest on October 10th.
The horror comedy is a tale of gore and mayhem set in a small town on Halloween night. Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker, LeslieBibb, Lauren Lee Smi...
A new image of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) building his suit has emerged online for Iron Man, courtesy of Movie-Infos. The upcoming adaptation of the Marvel hero stars Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Lesli...
Iron Man by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Wed 11-01-2006)
Release Date: May 2, 2008 Studio: Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios Director: Jon Favreau Screenwriter: Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Leslie Bi...
Two new images for Iron Man have appeared online courtesy of Marvel.com, which you can see by clicking on the Marvel link.. The film stars Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, LeslieBibb, Bill Smitrovich and Naza...
...ie Jones, LeslieBibb, Roger Bart, Peter Jacobson and Barbara Eve Harris. Ryuhei Kitamura made his American directorial debut, based on a screenplay by Jeff Buhler. You can watch the trailer down below. Plot Summary: Next stop...death. When Leon Kaufma...
...tars were LeslieBibb (The D.A.), Adrienne Frantz, Djimon Hounson, Rick Gonzalez, Masiela Lusha (THE GEORGE LOPEZ SHOW), George Stults (7TH HEAVEN), Angelina's brother James Haven and date Rachel, Brad Rowe and Melanie Griffith.Angelina who loves her f...
THE GREAT RACE is one of those movies that's a little hard to explain to anyone under the age of thirty. It's part of a wave of wacky period racing farces from the '60s that included AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY ...
For anyone doubting the impact Christopher Reeve had on audiences in his interpretation of Superman, they need look no farther than the world's reaction to his tragic horse-riding accident four years ago. The love and support demonstrated spoke volumes an...
Bridge to Terabithia is based on a beloved children’s book by Katherine Paterson. The film is a bit of a family affair, as David Paterson – who wrote the screenplay with Jeff Stockwell – is the novelist’s son. It’s a sensi...
Here is a list of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Oscar Winners. Included are both obvious genre films and borderline efforts perhaps more commonly thought of as dramas (e.g., HAMLET, SONG OF BERNADETTE). Inevitably, this kind of judgment call leaves...
Although Superman: The Movie was a monumental cinematic undertaking and one of the most talked-about creative battles between director and producers, Richard Donner fully expected to complete the filming of Superman II, which he had begun shooting simulta...
Yesterday Comics2Film reporter Leslie Morgan received a package from the Clown Prince of Crime himself, which included a cryptic invitation and sealed evidence bag. We resume her story in progress...
What happened once I opened the evidence? Well, consid...
Straight continuity. That`s the way director Richard Lester describes the genesis of Superman III, a sequel that had to be produced given the worldwide success of the first two entries in the series. The question, however, was where to take the Man of Ste...
At the age of 72, Dominic Frontiere still composes music in his home in Santa Fe, although he is far from Hollywood and far from the thriving career he had in Hollywood during the 1960s as a composer and producer for the cutting-edge science fiction TV sh...
When you are working opposite Leslie Nielsen, best known for his work in the Naked Gun movies, chances are you won't be able to keep a straight face. However, Sara Paxton, who plays Jill Johnson in 'Superhero Movie', could definitely hold her own. At on...
After two official screen adaptations -- a 1976 theatrical version starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and a 1995 TV movie -- plus a bunch of suspiciously similar variations, FREAKY FRIDAY is back in a new edition. Mary Rodgers' comedy/fantasy novel...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONBig news for film music fans is the first ever, legitimate release of the oft-requested soundtrack to PREDATOR (VCL 0803 1022), John McTiernan's 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger Rambo-Meets-Alien monster thriller. The music never ...
During the commentary for the fourth episode of "Carnival of Monsters," producer-director Barry Letts mentions SURVIVOR and BIG BROTHER, equating the Miniscope peepshow, which allows paying customers the chance to watch trapped living creatures in their n...
Alamo, The by Corona's Coming Attractions (Wed 10-29-2003)
Genre: Historical/Drama.Studio: Touchstone Pictures.Production Company: Imagine Entertainment.Project Phase: In the Can.Who's In It: Dennis Quaid (Sam Houston); Jason Patric (Jim Bowie); Billy Bob Thornton (Davy Crockett); Patrick Wilson (Colonel William ...
And you thought you had a hard day at the office...Jack Bauer, head of the LA division of the Counter Terrorist Unit, is having a rough day. After being called in to prevent the assassination of Senator David Palmer, the first African-American with a shot...
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 2002-2003 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards, for programs and individual achievements, at the 55th Annual Emmy Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on Saturday, September 13. Highlights of the pr...
The world of Selina Kyle isn't the most stable at the moment. She's still dealing with what happened to her sister, which made her push away everyone around her. Karon is battling her own demons, most of which live in a pill bottle. And Slam is having to ...
Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a troubled young woman fresh out of a six-month term in a mental hospital, but not long after she gets home her mother's overprotectiveness and her father's drinking make her turn once again to her habit of cutting hers...
The battle of the Alamo in 1836 is one of the most legendary incidents in American history, with less than 200 men holding down the fort for 13 days against thousands of troops under the command of Mexican General Santa Anna. It has been written about, fi...
DVDs are popping up all over, so I shouldn’t have been surprised on a recent visit to the supermarket to find them in the groceries. Boxes of Total® Raisin Bran and Oatmeal Crisp have been issued containing four different sitcom DVDs from Sony. The discs ...
A few weeks back I was getting all mushy about drive-ins, but for those of you who can’t get to one, there’s often an urban alternative. Many cities and universities sponsor outdoor summer movie programs in parks and other outdoor venues. You might have t...
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is setting sail once again.THE PERFECT STORM director Wolfgang Petersen and television producer Mike Fleiss are teaming up to remake the 1972 disaster film using state-of-the-art technology. The picture is set up at Warner Bros. and...
The fate of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE still remains unknown. Unfortunately for fans of the UPN series, the news that is both coming through official and unofficial channels isn't good.First, let's look at what the facts are. Last week CBS chairman Leslie Moon...
Sometimes you see a film and are impressed by it and go through the years counting it among your favorites. Then, the chance to see it again comes your way and you discover the years haven’t been kind to it and you can’t imagine what you ever saw in it. T...
The Hollywood Reporter is stating that the title for the third CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION series is CSI: NEW YORK, ending months of speculation about where the locale would be. The trio behind the hit franchise, Anthony Zuiker, Ann Donahue and Carol Mendel...
It was a hot and sunny day at The Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles as I took my place in one of the photographer pens on the red carpet. Fans were in bleachers and screamed for their favorite television stars as they walked down the red carpet to...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
In an article mentioning the success that Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Senator International have had with the first release from their Ghost House Pictures company (specifically THE GRUDGE), Variety reveals a new horror project in development at the prod...
I have a modest proposal for Dimension Films. I would like to shoot a movie of me taking an 86-minute dump and distribute it on 2,000 screens across America. It will cost under $80 million and will look better and be about as funny as SCARY MOVIE 2.Now if...
An addendum to our list of Greatest Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films: Among the finalists were several titles that failed to receive high votes across the board despite being highly regarded by almost all the voters. The reason was not any doubt ...
With this classic, director James Whale created many of the mad scientist characteristics that the genre still clings to today. Loosely adapted from both Mary Shelley`s novel and a play by Peggy Webling, this tale of Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), a me...
Looks like the remake of the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet is coming out development hell. Writer J. Michael Straczynski has been tasked by Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver to pen a modern update of the 1956 classic. Straczynski, better known for h...
Too frequently in Hollywood, giving respect to the written word is a constant battle. The writer demands it. The producer withholds it. And now, Harlan Ellison, one of our best contemporary writers, has got it. After a long, tumultuous history of encounte...
SUPERMAN III by Andrew Hershberger (Tue 07-24-2001)
SUPERMAN III is not a bad movie, in fact it’s somewhat good. A major component in its lackluster approval ratio is the two films that preceded it - the superb SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, and the good for its day but horribly dated now SUPERMAN II - and the inclu...
The long in the works remake of the classic 1956 science fiction film FORBIDDEN PLANET is moving forward once again, thanks to DreamWorks' Michael de Luca.The project had previously been in development at New Line Cinema, where it had been in development ...
VIDEO NEWSBuena Vista recently announced that they would be releasing Tim Burton's wonderful ED WOOD on DVD this summer on August 13. Burton's film is in glorious black and white and boasts a pair of top of the line performances from Johnny Depp as talen...
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...
VIDEO NEWSScrappy independent [IMG4R]video distributor Synapse recently announced two upcoming titles which, while lacking in cinematic "name" value, give evidence why the label needs to be paid attention to. INVASION USA is a 1953 no-budgeter wherein the...
Oh, the humanity! What do those editors at DC think they're doing anyway? Now that we've slogged our way through twelve installments of the "Bruce Wayne, Murderer?" crossover (thirteen, if you count BATMAN: THE 10 CENT ADVENTURE), we get to the last insta...
CBS is dealing with a quandary. What do they do with a Chuck Norris starring TV movie called THE PRESIDENT'S MAN: GROUND ZERO, in which the action actor takes on a character based on Osama Bin Laden? Norris has no doubts. He wants it aired.According to Va...
VIDEO NEWSIf you happened to catch a trailer for Columbia's 2001: A SPACE TRAVESTY not long before Christmas, you'll be happy to know you can save a few bucks on the Leslie Nielson spoof. Columbia has just announced the film which features the NAKED GUN ...
It looks like Jack Bauer's wife is dead after all. When fans of the show 24 saw Mrs. Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope) shot in the last moments of the show's finale hour, many hoped to find she'd merely been gravely wounded and would pull through. Unfortunately, t...
Buysoundtrax has just announced a limited (1000 copies) release of the soundtrack to the sci-fi musical comedy The Creature Wasn't Nice (aka Spaceship).
The film stars Leslie Nielsen as Captain Jameson of the spaceship Vertigo, whose crew expl...
Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann and James Spader will star in Warner Bros.' family fantasy comedy adventure Shorts, reports Variety. The four join fellow cast members Jimmy Bennett, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Leo Howard, Devon Gearhart, R...
On November 13th, Comics2Film's intrepid reporter Leslie Morgan traveled to ABQ Studios in Albuquerque New Mexico to visit the set of 'Will Eisner's The Spirit'. Directed by Frank Miller ('Sin City') and starting Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Ev...
We've met the Spartans. Now get ready for the Spidey send-up 'Superhero Movie'.
Below is the the trailer presented by star and Peter-Parker-Wannabe Drake Bell from his MySpace page. View it here or head over to Superhero-Movie.net for a higher-quality...
Writer-director Craig Mazin had a burgeoning career as a comedy screenwriter in the late ‘90s when he found himself in a room with David Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun!), bandying about ideas. Their collaboration led to series redeemers Scary Movie...
"The Saint" is coming back to TV via a contemporary take on Leslie Charteris' books, with James Purefoy("Rome") in talks to topline as the debonair international thief Simon Templar, says The Hollywood Reporter. Producers Barry Levinso...
Famed producer David Zucker sat down with USA Today and discussed a brief bit about the upcoming Superhero Movie, a spoof on the latest batch of superhero movies we've seen in theaters as of late. A new photo featuring stars Drake Bell and Christopher McD...
Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie Jaws, died Sunday. He was 75. Scheider died at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robi...
The latest 'Batman Begins' sequel rumors have Karl Urban up for the role of Roman Sionis a.k.a. Black Mask and Vanessa Redgrave for that of a person close to Bruce Wayne and Alfred. Leslie Thompkins?
Collector’s Editions, box sets and complete series are all the rage during the holiday season. This week there is a Maniac worthy Collector’s Edition to hit the DVD shelf and unfortunately it falls completely flat. 300 (Limited Collect...
Most known for his role in the tween hit television show 'Drake and Josh' on Nickelodeon, Drake Bell is no stranger to the screen. One of his earliest roles was starring opposite Tom Cruise in 'Jerry Maguire' and now Bell is a leading man and the star o...
Today's The Hollywood Reporter indicates that 20th Century Fox has thrown the first punch in a legal dust-up with Warner Bros. over the rights to the 'Watchmen' movie.
Fox claims exclusive copyrights and contract rights to the movie, a claim stemming fro...
From a press release
SANTA MONICA, CA - Stripping the spandex trade down to its skivvies, 'Superhero Movie' exposes the hilarity of the comic book genre when an Extended Version of the film arrives on DVD on July 8th from Genius Products and The Weinstei...
Marion Ross has been acting in Hollywood since the early 1950's. Best known for her role as Mrs. Cunningham (or Mrs. C) in 'Happy Days', which ran for eleven years on ABC. Ross now co-stars opposite Drake Bell and Leslie Nielsen in 'Superhero Movie'...
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! ...
Craig Mazin who wrote, produced and directed 'Superhero Movie' is pretty much a guy's guy. He walks into a room and greets everyone with a handshake and a smile, cracking jokes; he's a guy I would want to go have a beer with while watching a college...
Since Meet the Spartans won last weekend at the box office against Rambo (see my Sunday box office report for more), it's only fitting that a trailer has popped up online for another spoof. This latest one is called SUPERHERO MOVIE, written/dire...
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...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Kirk Jones' NANNY McPHEE is the latest enchanting children's-oriented fantasy, following in the tradition of such young-kids-left-with-foreboding-relatives storylines as MATHILDA, LEMONY SNICKETT'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENT...
Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with songs such as "Israelites," has died, his manager said Friday. He was 64. Dekker, who lived in England, collapsed from an apparent heart attack at his home on Thursday, manager...
According to MovieHole.net, Naomi Watts has been offered the lead role in the upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror classic THE BIRDS.The film follows a wealthy San Francisco socialite who follows a potential boyfriend to a small Northern Cali...
The weird tales of Howard Phillips Lovecraft are among the most potent horror stories of the last century. Told through a careful and precise narrative ambiance, H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the undying manifestations of monstrous, cosmic evil and arcane sor...
Did you ever wonder what happened to the Sawyer family following THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE? I mean, the sequel shows us certain members of the psychotic cannibal clan set up in another location with a few new relatives thrown in, but we're not sure exa...
A drunken bridesmaid at a friend's wedding, Fong Chi-ching (Angelica Lee of THE EYE) stumbles into a hotel room and finds a bloody naked woman lying on the floor, blood spilling out of an incision in her side. This is the latest victim of a criminal who h...
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...
Another Xmas Peeve! Every year about this time, folks get the urge to see all those classic Christmas movies like A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation. You’d think that with warehouses full of these titles that you could just grab the last editi...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
Week after week, it tends to be same people putting the spotlight on themselves. It’s becoming a favorite past time (move over Baseball) for the celebrities to do things which have them laughed at, ridiculed or even landed behind bars. I guess it ca...
This reviewer is not a pushover for movie musicals – don’t lynch me, but not only didn’t I like The Producers, I didn’t like Grease. However, Hairspray – which, like The Producers, has the pedigree of being a non-musical film...
Every week, it seems like a new celebrity is getting busted for something and it’s starting to tally up for some to the point where they will be serving time. Look at Tom Sizemore for a clear example of it.
Sure, celebrities have a habit o...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Sweden’s new film label, Fin de Siècle Media, has released a real treasure of late 70’s Eurohorror film music – Luciano Michelini’s provocative score for L’Isola Degli Uomini...
...quin, and LeslieBibb.
Set in a small suburban town, Trick 'r Treat explores Halloween traditions of the past and present while following a group of people trying to survive the most terrifying night of the year. From a serial killer who spe...
From a Press Release:
Dystopian Dick Lance Barnes is now one step closer to the silver screen.
Rick Friedberg director of "Spy Hard" has officially optioned the award winning screenplay by Stefan Petrucha based on his original comic book for an advance ...
Giving Thanks by David Michael Wharton (Mon 11-22-2004)
So this is the time of year when we're all supposed to spend time dwelling on the things we're thankful for. Given the state of the world -- with famine, disease, poverty, and war rampant -- probably the most arrogant, myopic thing I could possibly do is ...
Has the DVD marketplace reached a saturation point? With the two Hi-Def DVD formats struggling to make their way into your homes, it’s no wonder they’re having trouble making progress. We’re already swimming in product! Labels are p...
Actor Leslie Phillips has been talking, briefly, about his coming gig as the voice of the Sorting Hat, in the coming HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE... and how it will be depicted.While talking to Empire Online, Phillips revealed, "I've already reco...
Since its inception a few years ago when it released styrene recasts of some of Aurora Plastic's most popular model kits of the 1960s, Tom Lowe's company Playing Mantis (and its cheekily-named model kit arm, Polar Lights) has thrilled baby-boomers by esse...
As part of the recent release of several of their second and third string Classic Monster movies, Universal Home Video has debuted the four mummy sequels to the original 1932 Boris Karloff classic on double feature DVDs. Here we look at the last two films...
As shooting on their Superman project dragged on, producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind put more and more pressure on director Richard Donner to speed up production, knowing that they could bring in their old pal Richard Lester, who had directed their THRE...
It's old enough to seem quaint in this digital age, but SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (as the ads billed it) is still regarded by many as the best comic-book adaptation ever - a title that is happily being challenged as time goes by. Producers Alexander and Ilya Sa...
Director Ronnie Yu`s beautifully made tale is based on cult martial arts novelist Jin Yong`s famous Chinese fable about rival Ming Dynasty clans and a forbidden love affair between a swordsman and a `wolf girl` who possesses supernatural powers. In order...
To many Western viewers, this movie (the first of a trilogy) opened the magical window to the fantastic and bizarre world of Hong Kong`s Fant-Asia film. Based loosely on the adaptation of the classic novels by Pu Song Ling (a collection known as `Fantasti...
THE SAINT isn’t a show all that well known to modern American audiences, though it seems instantly familiar to many because of the presence of a young Roger Moore in the title role. Also known as Simon Templar, The Saint is a wealthy, debonair rogue with ...
The Fox TV network has released details on the coming opening episode of their real-time TV series, 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland.In 24, the entire season takes place in one day, with each of the 24 episodes covering one hour, told in real time. No soone...
There's a killer on the loose, and his preferred target is the prostitutes of Gotham. Batman's not so keen on helping out, so Selena decides to do what she can on her own. After getting some information from Oracle via her friend Leslie Thompkins, Selena ...
Kevin Costner's new film DRAGONFLY premiered in Hollywood recently, and CINESCAPE was there. It's the story of a doctor who is convinced his dead wife is trying to communicate with him through his patients. The film also stars Ron Rifkin (ALIA...
Mike Mendez's THE CONVENT opens with a sequence so bold, perfectly realized and utterly twisted that it had me almost giddy with anticipation. A title informs us it's 1960 as a car rolls up in front of The St Francis Boarding School. Leslie Gore's pre-Wom...
In part one of CINESCAPE's profile on Gene Hackman, the veteran actor described breaking in as a film actor and his many portrayals of military characters. In part two, he describes working with his BEHIND ENEMY LINES co-star Owen Wilson in the Wilson-co-...
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Castle Rock Entertainment.Project Phase:Development Hell.Who's In It:Arnold Schwarzenegger (Doc Savage, attached).Who's Making It:Brett Hill, David Johnson (Screenwriters); Frank Darabont, Chuck Rus...
Although it is not listed anywhere in the credits, Mark Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT is pretty clearly the jumping-off point for BLACK KNIGHT. Martin Lawrence stars as Jamal Walker, a Los Angeles medieval theme park employee who div...
By now, almost everyone has heard the urban legend that Pink Floyd’s 1972 progressive rock album DARK SIDE OF THE MOON is a sort of substitute soundtrack for MGM’s classic film THE WIZARD OF OZ. There’s even been talk that Floyd’s follow-up recording, WIS...
They say that your favorite Doctor from the BBC’s famous Dr. Who program depends on which actor you first saw in the role. Well, mine was Tom Baker and, as much as I’ve enjoyed other actors before and after, he is my favorite Doctor for some very specific...
This weekend I plan on going to the movies. Yes, I know I go to the movies almost every weekend, and quite a few weekends as well, and maybeyou do, too. But this weekend I'm going to the movies for 24 hours! That's right, on Friday B-Fest returns for it's...
According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 1977 Best Picture nominee Star Wars will be screened as the first feature of the fourth installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Great To Be Nominated" ser...
With less than two months left to hype the release of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Artisan Entertainment has joined forces with publishing giant Random House to launch The Blair Witch Files, a series of Goosebumps-styled novels centering around the fic...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Sumthing Else (SE-2017-2) has released Jack Wall's rich score to the xbox video game, Jade Empire, on CD. The score, an impressive intermingling of orchestral samples and acoustic Chinese instruments, layers a pleasing pattern ...
For a while it seemed like the "Bruce Wayne, Fugitive" crossover was going to be just as tedious and slow-moving as the "Bruce Wayne, Murderer?" crossover that preceded it, despite the impressive kickoff in BATMAN #600. Afterwards, most of the Bat-titles ...
`There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission...` Is anyone out there not familiar with these words, which were first enunciated with kaledioscopic black and white test patterns, s...
When people think of Yancy Butler, or `YB` as her fans call her, one can`t help but think of her in action-adventure roles, such as her star turn as the titular character in TNT’s Witchblade, which debuts this weekend. Study Butler’s life, however, and yo...
The ever-lovin' ONION A. V. CLUB gets down and dirty this week with STAR TREK's Wil Wheaton on his blog, being a child actor, young Wesley Crusher, and the sad fate of Chunky A.Among many amusing comments, Wheaton notes that TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES auteur D...
A refreshing vacation from BULLET IN THE HEAD - John Woo’s epic action drama of friendship and terror during the Viet Nam War – this follow-up is a lightweight heist adventure, which reunites the director with his favorite leading man Chow Yun-fat.A team ...
What They SayFrom Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Metropolis, Astro Boy, and Kimba!
Episode 5:
While on vactation, Black Jack comes across a young man haunted by the vision of a woman who beckons him to return to a town he\'s never visited. He also has vi...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was uncharacteristically generous to genre films this morning, when announcing the Year 2000 Academy Award Nominees. Among those eligible to win an Oscar on March 26, there are at least thirty-one nomination...
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 ...
Halle Berry is in the news everyday now it seems (about as much as Anna Nicole Smith), from suicide attempts over a decade ago to shooting down rumors of Catwoman that doesn’t even exist! Anything in the name of the celebrity publicity, right? S...
The SF films of the 50's are often dismissed on whole as low budget drive-in fodder made by the likes of Roger Corman to turn a quick buck. While that is true to a large extent it isn't entirely accurate. There were a handful of excellent S...
Before Manny Coto took over as head writer of Enterprise in the fourth season, he had his own SF show on the air. Odyssey 5 was Coto's brain child, and it was an intriguing program that lasted for only one season on Showtime. (Less actually...
The World Premiere for the new SHOWTIME original Sci-fi series ODYSSEY 5 was held Tuesday night June 18th at the Director's Guild of America in Hollywood.The series follows the lives of five astronauts who, while on a space mission for NASA, witness the m...
The producers of 24, seeing how they killed off counter terrorism agent Jack Bauer's wife in the season one finale, were in need of a new female lead. Now they have found her. Sarah Wynter has been cast as the new romantic lead playing opposite Bauer (Kei...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bob Hoskins has joined the cast of Neil Marshall's Doomsday.The film, written and directed by Hoskins, revolves around attempts to quarantine a lethal virus. Hoskins will play a policeman who monitors the progres...
You may note, as I have, that todays list contains an inordinate number of double, triple, quadruple and quintuple feature sets. I can only assume that this represents an effort on the part of the studios to get gift-ready bargain sets into stores in ...
Hard to believe this horror comedy series began in 2000 mainly with a belated send-up of SCREAM. As it grew into a franchise, the writers began throwing in as many more parodies of recent horror films as they could fit in the running time no matter wheth...
There's so much cruddy sketch parody around today that it's easy to forget that sometimes it rises to an art form. While not many people are going to consider any part of the SCARY MOVIE franchise as art, director/writer David Zucker and writer Jim Abraha...
The 23rd Annual Ohio Science Fiction Film Festival kicks off another 24 hours of the best in new and classic sci-fi movies on Saturday, Aprill 22 at 12:00 noon at the Drexel Gateway Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. This year's Marathon will include the Midwest ...
The same team behind SCARY MOVIE 4 (Dimension Films, producer David Zucker & director Craig Mazin) has picked their cast for an upcoming spoof on the world of Superhero films titled simply SUPERHERO, says Variety. Leslie Nielsen, Brent Spine...
Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga are set to lead the horror film ORPHAN, reports Variety. Jaume Collet-Serra will direct the flick for Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment, the two previously teaming up for House of Wax. The screenplay ...
What They SayWhat They Say: Devious little clay puppets. Sadistic nurses in sexy skirts. A family of zombies. A cute chef with a serious case of the shakes. And a pervy cop picking up a very hot lawbreaker in tight shorts and a lowcut top. It's time for a...
After converting the bulk of our DVD collection to thinpaks in order to conserve space, we ended up with a huge stack of empty art boxes. Rather than just have them laying around here or being put in storage...
Shia LaBeouf has signed on to star in Universal's techno thriller Dark Fields, reports Variety. Leslie Dixon is penning the screenplay and Neil Burger (The Illusionist) will direct the film, which is based on Alan Glynn's 2002 novel "The Dark Fields....
The Walt Disney Studios unveiled a diverse and ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through the year 2012 at a New York press conference held today by Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt ...
As expected, the WGA has denied temporary interim agreements for its writers to pen for The Academy Awards and The Golden Globe ceremonies. The Associated Press says the guild released a letter on Monday evening explaining to the Hollywood Foreign Press A...
Penelope has ostensibly only one actual fantasy element, though this propels the plot – the Wilherns, an old and rich British family, has been cursed so that the daughter born to the line will have the face of a pig, a curse that can only be broken ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Alan Menken hasn't entirely dropped out of site since scoring a run of successful Disney animated features from THE LITTLE MERMAID through HERCULES. He did some TV work, scored Disney's humdrum animated HOME ON THE RANGE as wel...
Leslie Felperin has reviewed V FOR VENDETTA for Variety, after seeing the movie at the Berlin Film Festival.The film is described as "often visually striking" but though "undercoated by a compelling sci-fi concept, graphic-novel adaptation V FOR VENDETTA ...
Nothing lasts forever. In my younger days as an avid comic-book collector, I eventually had to face the fact that despite every effort to keep them in a protected, hazard-free environment, pulp paper periodicals were a fragile medium at best and would ine...
Last week we were groaning about DVDs that force you to sit through opening clips such as the FBI warning, advertising, and other bits. This subject has haunted me the last couple weeks as I sat down to review the DVD release of Takashi Miike’s HAPPINESS ...
Got a lot of DVDs? So many that it's starting to be difficult to keep them organized? Me, too. For years I've been looking for some decent software to help out, but all the ones I've tried either don't have the features I want or are all-inclusive databas...
YAHOO! Entertainment News covers the Disney announcement of a hiring freeze at the entertainment giant's Florida resort park, Walt Disney World.In the announcement, Disney spokesperson Leslie Goodman says, "Recent events, specifically uncertainty about wa...
On Thursday, Nov. 21, the Sci-Fi Channel and genre giant Steven Spielberg co-hosted the Los Angeles premiere of TAKEN at the Writer's Guild of America in Beverly Hills, Calif.Set to debut on December 2, TAKEN is a 20-hour miniseries that weaves together t...
Sad shall be the soul who is lured into this depressing double feature by the alluring promise of a curvaceous and substantially misleading promo poster. For neither HITCH HIKE TO HELL nor KIDNAPPED COED are anywhere near the action packed, cops lying dea...
THE OUTER LIMITS came on the heels of the success of Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE and for almost forty years has existed in the shadow of Serling's fantasy anthology series. Both programs explored the world of horror and science fiction, but Serling's ...
Creature Corner has broken an exclusive story that a remake of the 1980 slasher movie PROM NIGHT, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen, is in active development. The site reports that screenwriters Brad Keene and Chris Skinner are penning the...
I just got a sneak peak at the Networks new Fall schedules and there’s good news. Some great shows have left the air, good shows have been cancelled, and from the descriptions of the new shows premiering, I’ll have PLENTY of time to catch up on my DVD wat...
There were a lot of great entries, but Stephen Smith's defense of MALLRATS was judged to be the most concise, to the point, and in keeping with the Essence of Smith. Plus, his name is Smith, thereby fuelling several conspiracy theories if I pick him, so h...
Dimension Films has hired Carmen Electra, Leslie Nielsen and Simon Rex to star in SCARY MOVIE 4. They join a cast that already includes Anna Faris and Regina Hall.The film will parody M. Night's THE VILLAGE and will also take on superhero as well as other...
JUST LIKE HEAVEN feels a bit like one of those '30s/'40s fantasy comedy romances, like TOPPER or THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR. In this instance, the deeply depressed David (Mark Ruffalo) moves into a fabulous apartment in San Francisco the gorgeousness of his...
So our massive sci-fi TV giveaways from last week have left the ol' prize closet totally exhausted. The prize winners should've been notified by now, and there will never be another giveaway in this column again. Aaaah I should know that I can't fool you...
A trailer and a five-page preview for Jason Henderson's upcoming SYLVIA FAUST comic book mini-series has gone online at the SWORD OF DRACULA website. Described as being a "Magical Romantic Comedy", Henderson's tale follows what happens when a mysterious w...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSEdward Shearmur’s score for Kerry Conran’s delightfully retro SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, released this week on Sony Classical SK 92932, conveys the sound and feel of Hollywood’s golden-age composers, although most co...
The latest spoof from the producers of the Scary Movie and Naked Gun film takes on superhero franchises and while it lampoons many recent films its primary influence is the first Spider-Man film. Rick Riker (Bell) is a high school nerd and loser with...