LucyLawless didn't just cool her heels after the end of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS. She's now jumping on board another TV franchise: THE X-FILES.At this point, Lawless has been signed for a multi-episode engagement, the specifics of which are being kept unde...
Though Xena: Warrior Princess> the series comes to a close this May, LucyLawless is well aware that, for her, Xena: Warrior Princess the experience will never end.`I know for the rest of my life I`ll be like Barbara Eden [of I Dream of Jeannie fame]. It ...
When the ninth season of THE X-FILES starts up next month, not only will the series be minus David Duchovny, but ex-XENA LucyLawless will be making the first of two scheduled guest appearances. While talking to Ian Spelling's Inside Trek & Sci Fi syn...
In case you were wondering about how ex-XENA LucyLawless got hooked up to THE X-FILES, executive producer Frank Spotnitz has been explaining it all.While talking to the New York Post, the producer explained, saying, "She and [Chris Carter] met in the pas...
Though it was hinted that her two-episode guest stint on THE X-FILES might become a recurring character, LucyLawless says she won't be coming back any time soon.While talking to TV Guide, Lawless addressed the possibility of her return on the series, say...
Actress LucyLawless has said in an interview that she will be voicing Wonder Woman for a yet unknown Justice League DVD: "Besides playing a warrior princess, the 38-year-old actor was recently in the studio voicing the character of Wonder Woman for a Jus...
LucyLawless will guest-star in an upcoming episode of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. The episode will air September 9th.Lawless guest-stars in Final Cut, where she will play a reporter who gets unlimited access to film aboard Galactica and documents the stress o...
YAHOO! Entertainment News notes the weekend's XENA CONVENTION in Pasadena, reported to have attracted 5,000 fans. Also in attendance Saturday night were the show's leads, LucyLawless and Renee O'Connor, who portrayed the eponymous XENA, WARRIOR PRINCESS ...
"Final Cut" takes the seasoned concept of a documentary being produced inside a drama and serves up an excellent hour of TV drama. Skillful handling of the military/journalist relationship coupled with LucyLawless guesting as journalist D'anna Biers and ...
... Majere), LucyLawless (Goldmoon)Who's Making It: Will Meugniot (Director), Tracy Hickman (Novel), George Strayton (Screenplay), Margaret Weis (Novel), Arthur Cohen (Producer), Steven Stabler (Producer)Release Date: Autumn 2007Premise: A barbarian wom...
...ust likes LucyLawless in leather, the series finale of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS is a must-see for genre aficionados. The syndicated show airs at different times all over the country -- some stations have chosen to run the two hour-long parts of "A Frien...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)On Tuesday, June 19th, the cast of XENA gathered at the Museum Of Television and Radio in Los Angeles for the West Coast Premiere screening of the final episode of the series.
Renee O'Connor, Robert Tapert, and L...
...taries by LucyLawless (Xena), Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle), Hudson Leick (Callisto) and Ted Raimi (Joxer).Included on the third season of XENA are: interviews with actors LucyLawless, Renee O’Connor, Hudson Leick, and Ted Raimi plus executive producer ...
...hile star LucyLawless was pregnant in real life and her impending motherhood was woven into the show, the effect it had on the individual episodes was hit or miss. Sometimes it seems that Xena’s pregnancy bears too much weight on the drama and you lon...
...petitive. LucyLawless has a cameo as his mother. The writers have devised a cleverly organic origin for their Boogeyman, which is given to us visually rather than verbally. BOOGEYMAN adds perhaps one flourish too many with a late introduction of a cha...
...g in over LucyLawless' narration is a testament to the power of music to stir emotion and memory. I've always thought that the striking, martial theme from the original series is one of the finest bits of genre music ever composed, even if it was atta...
...odriguez, LucyLawless, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jerry O'Connell, Christoper Lloyd, Adrien Brody, and many others.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
...Reiniger, LucyLawless, Avi Arad, Crista Campbell, Robert Englund, Ann Robinson, Tom DeSanto, Hal Linden, Ken Foree, Stephen J. Cannell, Robert Hayes, Fred Willard, Laura Ziskin, Robert Picardo, Brannon Braga, Ron Perlman, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, J...
LucyLawless, the Warrior Princess we all know as Xena, will star in the horror flick BOOGEYMAN, now shooting in New Zealand. The film is being produced by Ghost House Pictures, the partnership formed by XENA creators Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, Screen G...
...uest star LucyLawless). Reyes continues the battle back at the FBI, while keeping an eye on the potentially double-dealing Assistant Director Follmer (guest star Cary Elwes), as some questions get answered and new ones alarmingly rise to the surface.
...Damon and LucyLawless? Yep, BERNIE MAC (Fox, 8 p.m.) is a repeat.A deadly radioactive storm threatens the crew in tonight's ENTERPRISE (UPN, 8 p.m.).Van and Deaq get involved in a gunrunning case that involves another undercover cop who's fallen in lo...
...chor Bay) LucyLawless' immortal heroine, digitized for your pleasure in this 7-disc box set.[ ] X-MEN: The Legend of Wolverine (Buena Vista) This special edition of an arc from the animated series tells the origin of Wolverine, along with commentrak b...
...chor Bay) LucyLawless and Greg Gunberg star in a tale of an escaped mental patient who helps a boy who suspects his stepfather is evil. The latest from the Room 6 team of Michael Hurst and Mark A. Altman, with commentrak and featurette. (O)&n...
...taries by LucyLawless, Renee O’Connor and Robert Tapert.ANIME ADDITIONSAnd finally, we close off each weekly list with a rundown of the constant stream of anime from around the world:(O) BANNER OF THE STARS 2: Volume 3 - Return...
... although LucyLawless plays the role in that film. A live action version of the character would appear in the 'Justice League' feature film, which may or may be greenlit this week.
...e Flash), LucyLawless (Wonder Woman), Kyra Sedgwick (Lois Lane), Brooke Shields (Carol Ferris), Miguel Ferrer (Martian Manhunter) and Phil Morris (King Faraday). The film will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on February 26, 2008. The HD DVD editio...
...erman and LucyLawless as Wonder Woman. Keith David is perfect as the ominous voice of THE CENTRE, but Jeremy Sisto, who is a great actor, didn't work as Batman.
'The New Frontier' is available as a single DVD, a two-disc special edition, and on HD ...
...Chyna and LucyLawless as contenders this is pure dreamcasting brought on by the
public musings of the actress.
Furthermore our source told us that recent internet rumors
that Wonder Woman has been greenlit by Warner Bros. are also
false. Our sourc...
...er Woman (LucyLawless) and the Flash (Neil Patrick Harris) all play important roles. Besides the Flash their roles are reduced in size compared to Darwyn Cooke's original story. In all honesty it was a great change of pace to have Batman be ...
...tars like LucyLawless, Dean Stockwell and Battlestar Galactica veteran Richard Hatch, this impressive cast steals the show and delivers rock-solid performances week after week.This new licensing agreement expands upon Art Asylum’s previous arran...
...ng Tanis. LucyLawless is Goldmoon. The official site is at http://www.dragonlance-movie.com. Last time I looked they had some concept art up.
I know this is a bit like asking you to pick a favorite child, but what specific work or works u...
...XENA star LucyLawless had also signed on to the program at least for the season's first two episodes. Lawless may also be returning for later episodes.
... talented LucyLawless is. No one's going to say that the material she's given is Shakespeare but for the lead character in a TV show, she's got the chops and smarts to know when to play it serious and when to have fun with it. Look at an episode like ...
...played by LucyLawless) in three episodes and understand how she came to reform her evil ways. The TV movies have a slightly different feel, as should be expected, from the series, with Herc’s family, rotating sidekicks (who do surface in later episode...
The Fox TV network has released images from the coming ninth season opener of THE X-FILES. The two parter's story, titled "Nothing Important" and "Nothing Happening", guest stars LucyLawless as Shannon McMahon. As the ninth season begins, the miracle of ...
...ews with: LucyLawless & Renee O'Connor, Liz Friedman, Katherine Fugate, Robert Field, Rob Tapert, Jane Holland, Josephine Davison, Rick Jacobson, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee, Ted Raimi, Adam Armus, Kay Foster, Hudson Leick, RJ Stewart,...
...Carter or LucyLawless, though both ladies take part, but the true tale of the women that doubled for these actresses whenever the going got rough. Jeannie Epper had already been doing stunts for movies and TV for decades when she was hired to double f...
...s season. LucyLawless and Cary Elwes will both be joining the series. Elwes will be a recurring character, while Lawless is set to appear in the first two episodeswith more a possibility down the stretch."One of the first things we knew we wanted to d...
...ided that LucyLawless and Renee O`Connor felt likewise, but eroded ratings have led the sponsors and the studio to cut the budgets. If you still want to join the petition, for what it`s worth, click here. And if you want to read the latest on Lucy Law...
...ith stars LucyLawless, Renee O'Connor and producer Robert Tapert on three episodes as well as a 30-minute interview with the trio, photo galleries, "Xena Chronicles" trivia and actor/director biographies.You can also help support a worthwhile cause wh...
... Clip 3 - LucyLawless and Renee O'Connor on Joxer's costume and character:-- Low bandwidth-- High bandwidthClip 4 - Renee and Lucy re-live Gabrielle's loss of "innocence":-- Low bandwidth-- High bandwidthGot a scoop? Know something that you need to t...
... Shields, LucyLawless, Neil Patrick Harris, Miguel Ferrer, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeremy Sisto and Kyle MacLachlan and will be available on DVD for $19.98 SRP. There will also be a 2 disc Special Edition DVD available for $24.98 SRP which contains additional ...
... and the LucyLawless Cylon to take a battalion of Centurions down to the planet’s surface and take the eye. By the end of the episode Starbuck has been shot out of the sky and her husband and Lee are at odds over whether to find her or...
Before I dig into what happened in the spring premiere I have to comment on the poor ad campaign running for the series. The ads are like a schmaltzy Smallville rip off with some horrible pop balad that just makes the series appear flaccid and s...
...view, but LucyLawless, Richard Hatch, and Dean Stockwell are all returning to reprise their roles.The pre-Christmas episodes are expected to run with the second season of DOCTOR WHO, while the second half of the season should run with STARGATE.
...ule Hill, LucyLawless, Ken Watanabe, Kerr Smith, Bruce Campbell and many others.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
XENA star LucyLawless is returning to television. She'll play Kathleen Clayton in The WB's new TARZAN series, serving as the surrogate mother to young Jack Clayton. X-FILES star Mitch Pileggi will play Richard Clayton, the acting head of Greystoke Indust...
...raks from LucyLawless and Renee O’Connor.ANIME ADDITIONSAnd finally, we close off each weekly list with a rundown of the constant stream of anime from around the world:(O) BLACK JACK: INFECTION (Central Park Media) The continuing adventures of an outl...
In honor of Wednesday's "Lucy" episode of Smallville, KryptonSite's Russ Dimino takes a look at the various actresses who have portrayed Lois Lane's little sister on the screen.
Justin Theroux (MULHOLLAND DRIVE) and Julie Delpy (BEFORE SUNSET) will star in the supernatural thriller THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES. The actors will play the parents of a little girl who disappears under mysterious circumstances shortly after they move into...
Lois Lane's sister Lucy (guest actress Peyton List) comes to Smallville and KryptonSite is on hand with hi-res trailer caps from the March 2 episode. Click to see over two dozen of them.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, New Line Cinema has preemptively acquired GOD, THE DEVIL, AND LUCY, a comedy from David Hubbard.The story follows God and the Devil who, tired of eternally fighting for human souls, decide to settle things once and for...
What They SayThe mysterious organization protecting humanity from the deadly power of the Diclonius is faced with the devil\'s bargain. Will they unleash #35, the deadliest mutant yet, to hunt Lucy down? Or will they risk letting the notorious killer slip...
CHARLIE'S ANGELS co-star Lucy Liu is in talks to join the cast of LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN, the gangster flick with Josh Hartnett topping. WICKER PARK helmer Paul McGuigan will film the movie beginning next month.Liu's character is a coroner named Linda who fa...
What They SayNyu is a babe in the woods. Washed up on the shore, unable to communicate, she's discovered by a pair of college students " Kohta and Yuka "and counts on them for everything.
Lucy is a vicious killer. Equipped with a battery of deadly psyc...
One of Charlie's Angels has been hired to play a digital Mom in UPN's new series GAME OVER. Lucy Liu will provide the voice of Raquel, a suburban housewife who's also a secret agent (aren't they all?) The show will be the first computer generated series p...
First Lois Lane comes to Smallville, now it's her younger sister Lucy's turn to come to town, as the WB has released three images from the Feb. 23 'Smallville.' Click to see...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shohei ManabeTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:What They SayShirou's ordinary life as a poor construction worker gets turned upside down when he comes across a naked girl, Lucy, who's fallen out of the sky! Her stran...
What They SayImprisoned under tight military security, Lucy, a genetically-altered human known as a Diclonius, escapes her confines in a wave of bloody violence and brutality. Now lost, alone, and stricken with amnesia, she wanders into a kindly family th...
Vital Info:
Director: Jin Chung
Translator: Masako Ollivier
ADR Script: David Harrison
Studio: ADV Studios
SUMMARY:
Lucy is a Diclonius, isolated from the world and being researched by the government. One day something happens at the facility where she i...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Madeleine RoscaTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayLittle Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver\'s A...
What They SayAt the core of a conspiracy for a new world order lives a mutant girl who’s made an army’s worth of enemies. Protected only by a couple of college kids, Kohta and Yuka, the horn-headed Nyu is pursued by those who would destroy he...
Hello, and welcome back for another look at dubs from the future. This time I'll take a look at the first three episodes of a new show released by ADV Films and dubbed by ADV Studios called Elfen Lied (pronounced as per the German, so closer to "leed" tha...
Antonio Banderas, the father of the SPY KIDS, is excited to be working on his new film ECKS VS SEVER with co-star Lucy Liu. Recently, during a visit to the film's set in Vancouver, Banderas filled CINESCAPE in on the details of his latest explosive action...
The offerings of the shonen manga genre are pretty straightforward: Boob jokes, goofy characters, lots of fights and plenty of humour. Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail doesn't deviate from the well-beaten path, but it's entertaining enough to remain readable, an...
Contrary to what the headline of this review might indicate, you're not getting two different versions of NOSFERATU with this double disc set from Anchor Bay. Well, not really anyhow.German director Werner Herzog's 1979 NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE was a remake ...
Writers C.S. Lewis, who created the NARNIA series, and J.R.R. Tolkien, known for LORD OF THE RINGS, were contemporaries and friends. Their respective literary epics both involved vast conflicts in magical lands, but where Tolkien became invested in the in...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Madeleine RoscaTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayOnce thought to be a shoo-in for detention, recent transfer student Lucy Snow has come into her own at Hollow Fields thanks to Doctor Bleak - a mysterious box-like art...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hiro MashimaTranslated by:William FlannaganAdapted by:William FlannaganWhat They SayLucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards, but her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of dangerous pir...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hiro MashimaTranslated by:William FlannaganAdapted by:William FlannaganWhat They SayNow that Lucy\'s joined the prestigious magician\'s guild, will she really get along with the others mages? A life of magical adventuring may ...
And once again, it comes time for us to bid the good Doctor farewell for another year. While season three of the regenerated Doctor Who has been the strongest since the show's return, the finale, fittingly titled 'Last of the Time Lords' was sadly disappo...
“Things never happen the same way twice.”
That's what Aslan, the mighty lion king of Narnia, says to Lucy, the youngest of the Pevensie siblings, when they are reunited in Prince Caspian—the second big screen fantasy based on C.S. Lewis...
Volume one of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail was a pretty typical journey full of friendship and shonen powers. Not surprisingly, volume two doesn't knock the manga's lusty storyline off its path, though it still presents a moment or two that are worth a few s...
What They SayAt the core of a conspiracy for a new world order lives a mutant girl who's made an army's worth of enemies. Protected only by a couple of college kids, Kohta and Yuka, the horn-headed Nyu is pursued by those who would destroy her and those w...
Tor Books unloads a handful of new science fiction and fantasy, Wizards of the Coast debuts a new series, and Robert A. Heinlein gets a hardcover rendition of one of his classics in this week's book buzz. Tor's James VanderMeer offers a well-rounded, epil...
With Timur Bekmambetov’s latest Night Watch film adaptation smashing box office records in Russia (yet again) and the film still fresh in the states from its US debut this past June, author Sergei Lukyanenko has officially put Russia on the map for ...
What They SayA secret research facility has been doing "experiments" on mutants called diclonius. These mutants have extremely powerful, invisible arms that can literally rip people in half. As a result of these torturous experiments, they are extremely...
Ed Brubaker’s Criminal remains one of the best comics from Marvel in print, as well as one of the best ongoing series of any company. This arc, entitled “Lawless” moves away from Leo, the career-thief-with-a-heart from the last stor...
What They SayDoes time heal all wounds? Or are some cuts so profound that the passing of the years only makes them deeper? No one knows better than Lucy, the horn-headed outcast forced to kill by genetics and circumstance, and Nana, dismembered by Lucy ...
Genre:Crime.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Josh Hartnett (Sleven); Lucy Liu (Linda); Ben Kingsley ("The Rabbi"); Bruce Willis; Morgan Freeman.Who's Making It:Paul McGuigan (Director); Jason Smilovic (Sc...
Genre:Supernatural.Studio:Dimension Films.Production Company:Impact Pictures.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Vincenzo Natali (Director); Paul W. S. Anderson (Screenwriter); Jeremy Bolt (Producer).Premise:A ghost story with...
Miramax Films' KILL BILL VOL. 1 is the number one movie at the box-office this week. KILL BILL which opened last Friday had the Los Angeles premiere screening on September 29th at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.Whereas THE MATRIX trilogy was t...
Quentin Tarantino's fourth film as writer/director finds him in familiar territory - that is, familiar territory for fans of psychotronic film. A glorious homage to all the exploitation flicks that have inspired him throughout his life, KILL BILL is a rel...
Bookended by the horrors of 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS and the upcoming LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE, the summer of unwanted sequels to bad movies continues with the low-aiming CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE, a dumb follow-up to the dumb flick adapte...
Director/writer Quentin Tarantino brings his loving, epic homage to/recreation of low-budget exploitation movies of yore to a suitably sweeping climax in KILL BILL VOL. 2. After all the frenetic, deliberately over the top action of KILL BILL VOL. 1, it's ...
Recently Revolution Studios' and Columbia Pictures held the premiere of 13 GOING ON 30 at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.13 GOING ON 30 is the story of Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) who just wants to be pretty and popular. On the eve of h...
There are a lot of bad post-apocalyptic/totalitarian future society movies out there, but some stand out from the pack. EQUILIBRIUM may be one of these, partly because it has a startlingly adept (and big-name) cast, partly because it has some strikingly g...
Lucy Liu, currently on screen as Agent Sever in the new film BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER, is a self-described klutz who's amazed at her status as an action star."It's so funny," says Liu. "My friends who knew me from before just laugh. In real life I'm so m...
A world of sadistic pain, torment and bleak atmosphere is what viewers are presented with in the world of TEXHNOLYZE, another series from the creators of SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN. Like LAIN, TEXHNOLYZE is a darker series with a rich and mysterious storylin...
While covering the recent Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, CINESCAPE photographer Sue Schneider caught up with actor Michael Pare', self-proclaimed Hollywood hermit and star of the syndicated television series STARHUNTER. Perhaps bes...
Welcome back! Hope you had a great holiday. As of today CINESCAPE online resumes our regular publication schedule. However, there were some stories that we found interesting, while we were eating our holiday candy, and it's our pleasure to pass some along...
Warner Bros. Pictures in Association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, a Silver Pictures production presented the Los Angeles Premiere of THE MATRIX RELOADED on Wednesday, May 7th in Westwood at The Mann Village Theater. And what a pre...
Video games publisher and developer Namco Hometek has announced SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON, a new aerial-based action adventure game starring Peanuts' Snoopy and a cast of classic characters. While taking a nap atop his doghouse, Snoopy has a magical dream ...
Namco Hometek Inc. and GDH K.K. announced this week that GDH has granted Namco the exclusive interactive entertainment rights to AFRO SAMURAI, the manga series created by Takashi Okazaki. The agreement gives Namco rights to publish two different AFRO SAMU...
I've got some letters in the mailbag commenting on the giveaway for the XENA anniversary box sets we announced last week, and TV Best-Of collections in general. The issue is whether these DVDs are even necessary when the entire run of a series is already ...
Buena Vista Games brings gamers and Narnia fans an unforgettable adventure with video games inspired by THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. The video games are now available at retail outlets in North America for the PlayStatio...
Anybody who goes to a movie called BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER expecting subtle character development and profound observations about the human condition doesn't know his or her action flicks, and they probably deserve what they get. But even veteran genre ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
Some fans of Japanese anime may tune into this column and wonder what Gumby is doing here. Maybe I should clarify a point. "Anime" is the Japanese word for animated cartoons, wherever they come from. To me, that includes everything. "Anime" just rolls off...
VCDs are almost unknown in the USA, but they've been a hot item in South Asia over the past decade mainly because they're cheap and easy to bootleg. Basically they're a poor video encoding format for discs. They play on most players, but the video quality...
Ben Kingsley has joined the cast of LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN, the gangster film being directed by WICKER PARK's Paul McGuigan. Kingsley joins Josh Hartnett and Lucy Liu in the film, with production scheduled to commence in December.Kingsley's character is the ...
After his win as Best Male Breathrough Performance at this year's MTV Movie Awards, X-MEN's Iceman continues to grow his Hollywood star power. The 25-year-old actor has now taken over a part originally given to Scott Speedman (UNDERWORLD) in an independen...
Some of you have expressed some confusion over the new small format discs I've been listing in this column. Well, I'm confused, too, so I've put together this little glossary. They're basically all about using the high capacity of the DVD format, but putt...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS John (THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST) Debney's 1995 symphonic score for Renny Harlin's swashbuckling adventure film, CUTTHROAT ISLAND, is one of the most invigorating and dynamically exciting film scores of the last ten years, a bre...
SHAUN OF THE DEAD is notable for several reasons. Firstly, it's an uncommonly funny and smart parody of flesh-eating zombie movies, something that's surprisingly hard to get right. Secondly, and even more surprising, SHAUN succeeds in being a flesh-eating...
Who the hell is Bob Burns? Well, if you're reading this review or just checking out this website, Bob Burns is both you and me. Bob Burns is also famous for wearing a gorilla suit, but that's another story. We're here to discuss Bob Burns, the Protean Sci...
Genre TV shows have always had trouble winning the big awards, not to mention mere nominations, at the Emmys, so it`s a pleasant surprise to see some of the newest as well as some of the most recognizable names in sci-fi and fantasy television get nominat...
The competition for September 2008 in the ADR Awards witnessed the slow but steady return to relative stability juxtaposed against the locomotive rush of a popular old ghost of the contest. Delayed Geneon titles continued to trickle in from FUNimation's n...
Returned by Anubis for Insufficient PostageWell, they removed one of my least-vital organs (no, not my heart; that went years ago) and returned me from the Land of the Dead (now called the Land of the Ventilator) to torture you all for another year. It`s ...
Hallmark Entertainment and the Robert Halmi’s (Sr. and Jr.) have created plenty of fodder for the Odyssey Channel, which Hallmark owns in association with Jim Henson Productions: THE ODYSSEY, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, EARTHQUAKE IN NEW YORK...
From the desert communities of California`s heartland to the crumbling infrastructure of New York City, the settings of Douglas Clegg`s horror fiction reflect his own wanderlust. But no matter how far from his origins Clegg travels, he always comes back t...
They are like familiar guests that visit every holiday season only they are not as obnoxious as family members and they don’t overstay their welcome. Warner Home Video has released The Peanuts Holiday Collection, a three DVD boxed set ...
Spike TV's critically-acclaimed, funktastic anime series "Afro Samurai" returns with an original movie event set to premiere on the network in January 2009. "Afro Samurai: Resurrection" stars Academy Award®-nominated actor Samuel L...
Plus the Tokyo International Anime Fair, Kawaii Kon & Sakura-Con, contests & more in episode 64!
GRIMES, IA, April 11, 2008 - Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer Right Stuf, Inc. is pleased to welcome Gonzalo Ferreyra - the vice president of sal...
When Tobey Maguire was a kid he never thought he would grow up to be an action figure, but tell that to the children clamoring to take their picture with Spider-Man right before this interview. In the latest and quite possibly the greatest Spider-Man fi...
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GODZILLA PVC FIGURES (Bandai)Well, after over a year of watching merchandise languish from 1998`s travesty that posed as a Godzilla film, I was overjoyed to learn that figures from the Japanese films (the only true Godzilla movies!) were at long last avai...
You remember her from Alex Proyas` incredible The Crow. You noticed her has Dr. Loveless` (Kenneth Branagh`s) assistant in the otherwise awful Wild Wild West. And if you were one of the dozen or so people who actually saw Anna and the King, you saw her do...
When Scarlett Johansson was a mere child, her mother would feed her a steady diet of things like ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN and THE CRAWLING EYE. When she got into the acting business, her first jobs of any consequence were in t...
While everyone involved with CHARLIE'S ANGELS said the buzz and rumors of strife between members of the creative team (Lucy Liu?) and Bill Murray, it seems Murray can't be lured back to reprise his role as Bosley in CHARLIE'S ANGELS 2: HALO. With that new...
Director Kaos's new film, the Antonio Banderas/Lucy Liu spy actioner BALLISTIC: EKS VS. SEVER, has yet to even hit screens, but he's already planning his next action outing. Kaos, who made his name in music videos, has signed on to produce and direct an a...
Two genre films have shifted their release dates, so here we are to tell you. The spy thriller BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu has been moved up a week, and will now hit screens September 20. The other film, the sequel to...
It's a cold, gray winter morning in Vancouver, and Antonio Banderas is freezing his butt off."Oh yeah, the temperature is low, low, low," says the actor, nodding and seeing his own breath in the frigid air. "But what do I care? I get to be a secret agent!...
Lucy Liu is taking on a role which might rankle the more politically correct it Hollywood, but as probably the most visible Asian-American actress, what are they going to tell her? What's this hot-button project? The reviving of the CHARLIE CHAN film seri...
There's nothing worse than a reviewer pronouncing that he's "seen the future of filmmaking" in the work of a particular director - so for your sake (and mine), I'll resist that temptation. I will go so far as to say that Christopher Nolan, director and wr...
The Historian (Horror/Action)Current stage: DevelopmentDescription: Set amid ruined castles and moonlit crypts, a young woman travels through Europe looking for her father who went missing while trying to find the grave of Vlad the Impaler. In the proc...
Director John McTiernan's hard-rocking, helmet-cracking update of ROLLERBALL wants to turn movie storytelling into an extreme sport. The results are extreme, all right but not extremely engaging. Set in the present-day ruins of the old Soviet empire in C...
Kevin Smith (the actor, not filmmaker) died tragically last Friday in a film shoot in Hong Kong. Smith made a name for himself with American audiences as Ares, the God of War on XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS opposite fellow New Zelander LucyLawless.Smith was fa...
MUSIC FOR ELEVATORS may have a title that’s a little too hip for some rooms – I mentioned to a friend of mine that I was going to give the album a listen and she sympathized, assuming it was a CD of Muzak. In reality, there’s nothing elevator-like about a...
In an interview with CINESCAPE's own Chris Wyatt in the latest print issue of this magazine, BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER producer Chris Lee is talking about his hopes for the film's vaunted action scenes, what inspired the cast and crew, and how he hopes fo...
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Hello, and welcome to another exciting foray into dubbed anime. Today I'll be taking a close look at Azumanga Daioh, volume three, released by ADV Films. The cast for this show has made significant improvements to an already respectable dub. As a result, ...
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Jazz agers, flower children, lost generation, beatniks,
rockers, punks, nerds, hackers, lovers, Generation X - whatever the
designation, there have always ...
Broadcast Premiere and DVD Release Coming Early 2009
FLOWER MOUND, TX, July 24, 2008 – FUNimation® Entertainment has acquired the home video, master toy and merchandising rights to AFRO SAMURAI: RESURRECTION from GDH K.K., the second installme...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yu YagamiTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:What They SayIn Earth\'s distant future, geomagnetic abnormalities take mankind\'s struggle for survival to a whole new level! Ordinary everyday appliances are going haywire...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shirow MasamuneTranslated by:Dana Lewis & Toren Smith [with Duane Johnson]Adapted by:Dana Lewis & Toren Smith [with Duane Johnson]What They SayWorld War III is over, and nomad soldier Duenan Knute and her cyborg partner Briare...
The Review!How can one show have so many cliches packed into it? Teenager with special powers, teenager with extrodinary abilities, mecha, high school, and even the forlorn girl in the school uniform walking amongst the cherry blossoms in the first episod...
What They SayOn the planet of Endless Illusion, a lone man adorned in a tuxedo roams the wild and lawless frontier... Armed with a shape-shifting sword and a powerful Armor, Van\'s sole purpose in life is to find the mysterious clawed man who had murdered...
The Review!I was initially interested in this series when I learned it featured the directorial talents of Shinchiro Watanabe, whose work on Cowboy Bebop I enjoyed greatly, and the artistic vision of Kazuto Nakazawa, whose work intrigued me in the excepti...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Takahashi HiroshiTranslated by:Namoi Kokubo and Steven HoffmanAdapted by:What They SayWho wants to be the tough guy at school?
Well that's what the bad boys of Suzuran High School are going to find out at the Freshman's Battle...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Inoue KazurouTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayMidori? Jealous? Of course! And poor Seiji: No action for seventeen years and now he\'s got Takako, Lucy and Shiori after him all at once?
Plus, more trouble with creepy, ...
It’s time for another edition of Mania’s Most Maniacal Rumors, where we blow the lid off the week’s juiciest gossip and hush-hush industry whispers.
If you have a rumor you want to contribute, we’re all ears. Just send it to jarro...
The
Hollywood Reporter tells us that martial arts star Ray Park will next go
before the cameras in Ecks Vs. Sever and not Marvel's Iron
Fist as fans had hoped. In EvS Park will play a British
covert operative/martial arts master who gets in the midd...
The revolutionary anime is back with more gore, gadgets and all-out-action
GDH K.K. (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Shinichiro Ishikawa, Securities Code: TSE Mothers 3755, hereinafter GDH) will present an exclusive trailer premiere of its latest a...
Smallville was featured on Extra tonight and went behind the scenes of "Lucy." Host Dayna Devon was filming her cameo appearance for the episode. Watch the clip at DTS...
There are a few major areas of exploration in the realm of sci-fi cinema: space, technology, biology and the environment (climate, geology, et al). Many times these themes intersect. Many times they don't. Certainly, there are derivations of each, and cer...
Bill Murray is in negotiations to reprise his role as the voice of Garfield in 20th Century Fox's sequel "Garfield 2," while Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt have signed on to return, though Hewitt's role will be greatly reduced because she is filmi...
'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...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Eiji Otsuka / Sho-U TajimaTranslated by:Kumar SivasubramanianAdapted by:What They SayMultiple-personality detective Kazuhiko Amamiya is on a new case - one which will result in even more personalities emerging inside his confu...
In an overloaded release schedule of sci-fi, horror and fantasy book debuts a few reduxes by renowned authors George R.R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and Naomi Novik stand out amongst dozens of new titles.
The month of July has se...
Gotham
Clock Tower reports Lady Shiva has been cast, for an upcoming Birds Of
Prey episode. Sung Hi Lee will play Shiva in the episode titled
"Lady Shiva" airing sometime in December. The character is based on
the DC character of the same name, who ...
Filmmaker and
comic creator Peter Lenkov tells Comics2Film that there's been Hollywood
interest in his new Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained comic series
from Dark Horse comics.
The comic
features the fictitious exploits of Charles Fort, a real-life...
From a press release
Go, Speed Racer, Go! This May, start your engines and feel the need for speed as Lionsgate releases 'Speed Racer The Next Generation: The Beginning', the first-ever movie for the new Speed Racer brand on DVD.
After 4...
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...
Enchanted's director Kevin Lima is taking on another princess in the live-action take of Tom Thumb, reports Variety. Warner Bros. and Red Wagon hired Lima to adapt the character's origins to the big screen, based on a screenplay by Robert Rodat (Saving Pr...
What They SayThe wait is finally over! Class is in session for the long-awaited comedy series Azumanga Daioh! Join charming Chiyo-chan, closet softie Sakaki, rambunctious Tomo, studious Yomi, bashful Kaorin, and oblivious Osaka as they brave instructors a...
What They Say20 years ago, a cataclysmic earthquake destroyed the prefecture of Kanagawa and detached it from the rest of Japan. The region was known as the \'Lost Ground\'. It was later realized that part of the population born in this region had the a...
While the Japanese anime industry is suffering from overproduction, currently producing about two thirds of the world’s new animation, the glut found an outlet at this weekend’s Tokyo Anime Fair. Foreign buyers poured in to snap up rights t...
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. ...
In our Prize Closet this week, we have two copies of The Hunt, courtesy of Image. To enter, just send an email to which includes your name and address DVD Shopping List, and in the subject line put the words “BE VEWY QUIET”.
Not to be out...
In the weeks leading up to the first Die Hard movie in twelve years, star Bruce Willis has been interviewed just about everywhere (including Second Life), saying that Live Free or Die Hard is the best film in the revered action franchise since the first o...
Filming has been taking place for the second installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series, titled PRINCE CASPIAN. They just finished shooting over at the Barrandov Studios located in Prague, Czech Republic. Here's a press release about the filming...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATION
MovieScore Media has released its fifteenth soundtrack of the year – like the others, exclusively online and available through iTunes or the label’s web site. Frostbite (aka Frostbitten) is the...