Composer Sir MalcolmArnold has died in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84. Sir Malcolm, who won an Oscar for the musical score to the BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI film in 1958 - was suffering from a chest infection. While renowned as a classical...
...poser Sir MalcolmArnold has died in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84. While renowned as a classical composer, Arnold is most famous for his 132 film scores, including BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND, and HOBSON'S CHOICE....
... Bennett, MalcolmArnold, Georges Auric, Arthur Bliss, William Alwyn, classical composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Italy's Nino Rota. www.chandos.netREAD ALL ABOUT FILM MUSIC Columbia University Press (www.columbia.edu/cu/cup) ...
...olumes of MalcolmArnold, William Alwyn, Richard Addinsell, proving the label doesn’t only release CDs from film composers whose surnames begin with "A." A forthcoming release that has me very excited is the first collection of the film scores of Clift...
By rights, I-SPY ought to not work at all. First of all, it's one of those movie adaptations of a TV series that cannibalizes its source material for names and retains little or nothing of value from the original, which is a form of false advertising. In ...
On Thursday, June 21, at 7:30pm, the American Cinematheque kicked off its four-day series, "Outside Looking In: A Tribute to Malcolm McDowell," with a Thirtieth Anniversary screening of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, one of the actor's most memorable and controversi...
While waiting to start shooting TRUE LIES 2 with James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, comedian Tom Arnold has signed onto Joel Silver's (DIE HARD, DEMOLITION MAN, LETHAL WEAPON, THE MATRIX) new action production, CRADLE TO GRAVE. Arnold finds himself ...
Last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger came out and gave his take on the delay of his COLLATERAL DAMAGE flick.While appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor program on Thursday night, Arnold revealed that he had no qualms at all about the film being pulled out of...
Speaking at his annual golf tournament, The Arnold Classic, actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger let slip how his new Terminator character travels back from the future. According to the big man himself, the new T-850 Terminator (notice it's...
Flying over the cranberry capitol of Canada, I`m gawking out the plane window staring at the magnificent Frazier River. I`m thinking that in about 12 hours, I`ll be on the set of Arnold Schwarzeneggar`s latest film THE 6TH DAY, a science fiction thriller...
Arnold Schwarzenegger versus the Devil? From the moment it was announced, END OF DAYS sound too preposterous to be a true project. How on earth would Mr. Terminator take on the forces of Satan? In the film, the actor portrays ex-cop Jericho Cane, who bare...
Hold on to your hats people: I just got back from a 2-day trip to Canada, hanging out on the set of Arnold Schwarzenegger`s latest sci-fi thriller THE SIXTH DAY, which co-stars Robert Duvall and Michael Rooker. In the film, produced by ROBOCOP’s Jon Davi...
David Arnold (TOMORROW NEVER DIES, GODZILLA, INDEPENDENCE DAY, STARGATE) will compose an original score for Stephen Woolley's THE WILD AND WYCKED WORLD OF BRIAN JONES, the film about Rolling Stones guitarist and co-founder. Arnold will also score the new ...
A write up in
this week's Entertainment Weekly detailing
Arnold Schwarzenegger's reemergence at the box office gives a few tidbits about King
Conan: Crown of Iron.
Executive
producer Jon Jashni told EW that writer/director John Milius will use
Arn...
According to ComingSoon, Malcolm McDowell has signed on to join the cast of the upcoming action thriller, Doomsday.The film, written and directed by Neil Marshall, finds McDowell playing Kane, the brilliant scientist who is the only true expert on the let...
Let the speculation continue on whether the Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger will make an appearance in the Terminator Salvation trilogy! For months, there's been a bit of back-and-forth on whether he's set to appear or not in this new trilogy of a franch...
Based on exit polls, TV news networks announced soon after polls closed at 8 p.m. (PDT) that voters had ousted Gov. Gray Davis, approving a recall of the Democrat and selecting Schwarzenegger as his replacement.
Should the final count support the exit ...
According to TERMINATOR 4 co-writer Michael Ferris, don't expect to see Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming TERMINATOR film."'Terminator 3' kind of closed the book on Schwarzenegger, as did his gubernatorial career," said Ferris in an interview with Ent...
Cinescape
recently caught up with Arnold Schwarzenegger who talked about his upcoming
projects like Terminator 3 and King Conan. The movie
is set to be written and directed by John Milius, who was responsible for the
original. Larry and Andy ...
IGN FilmForce checked with its own trusty Conan source who refuted the reports of Schwarzenegger's rekindled interest in the project. Word has it that Arnold is seriously mulling another run for office. Our insider, however, did advise us that the Conan r...
Today's Variety
reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger is "solidifying plans" to star in
the new Conan The Barbarian sequel currently in development. The
word comes as part of a deal between Warner Bros. and the action star.
Few details
about the actor...
While promoting after-school programs last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his guess on when his delayed COLLATERAL DAMAGE may finally get theatrically released.In an appearance on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles last Wednesday, Arnold guessed as to the fate of D...
If you`ve got terrorists threatening the world`s oil supply, you call on James Bond. If you`ve got Satan threatening the human race with extinction, you turn to Arnold. After a two year absence from the big-screen, Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a dramatic r...
During yesterday's taping of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, Arnold Schwarzenegger made it official and announced that he will be running as a candidate to replace California governor Gray Davis in the upcoming fall election. Previous to the annoucement i...
Anyone else almost slip into a coma last week due to excessive amounts of turkey and the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER marathon on FX? O.K. then, maybe it was just me.I'm not saying BUFFY is boring and that's why I almost slipped into a coma. It was a feeling ...
Adam Rifkin has cast David Carradine, Ali Larter, Tom Arnold, Talia Shire and Hayes MacArthur to star in HOMO ERECTUS: A CAVEMAN COMEDY. The film centers on Ishbo (Rifkin), a philosophical caveman who loves Fardart (Larter), but she only has eyes for Ish...
That's what producer Moritz Borman has hinted at in the latest issue of Empire Magazine. The producer opened the doors officially on Arnold popping up in the two subsequent sequels after TERMINATOR SALVATION:THE FUTURE BEGINS. Borman also explained that t...
Superstar Arnold
Schwarzenegger made a surprise appearance at Saturday's Warner Bros.
presentation at Comic-Con International. The actor was on hand to present clips
for the currently-in-production Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
During th...
According to Virgin.net, Arnold Schwarzenegger may be returning to the movies, yet.James Cameron is said to be "waiting" for Arnold before he begins work on the movie Battle Angel Alita because he wants Schwarzenegger to play 'Ido' in the film.H...
Big anime news! Though usually competitors, anime importers Manga and Bandai are teaming up to present a new project based on one of the most beloved animated films of all time. They’ve got Production I.G. (KILL BILL, BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE) working on GH...
Have I mentioned recently how much I love the TV-on-DVD phenomenon? A lot, that's how much.What got me thinking about this was perusing the always-useful tvshowsondvd.com this past week and finding two announcements that, despite the glut of unlikely (and...
Child star Frankie Muniz (AGENT CODY BANKS) will provide the lead character's voice in RACING STRIPES, a CGI/live-action family film. Muniz will play Stripes, a young zebra who is raised on a Kentucky farm and grows up believing he's a race horse. Thank...
VIDEO NEWSWhile many video companies are scaling back on the release of extras laden classic film DVD special editions, Warner Home Video recently announced five new ones coming this September. The announcement includes three Academy Award Winners: AMADEU...
Tonight's
post-Super Bowl, one-hour special presentation of Malcolm In The Middle
is sponsored by Sony's Spider-Man. At the first commercial break
Fox aired the now-familiar Spider-Man trailer that first aired
during Temptation Island last December.
...
On this holiday weekend, where everyone is traveling here or jetting off there, one lesser known vacation alternative also happens to be one of the coolest: that ever-enticing sci-fi trope, time travel. With it come the eternal questions that speak to the...
Universal pictures recently announced three upcoming titles that will soon be appearing on DVD with loads of extras, while looming on the horizon is a special edition release of one of the most important anime features ever made.THE MUMMY RETURNS release ...
The 20th Century closed with a bang, film music wise, with a plethora of big budget, bombastically scored genre films whose music did much to accentuate the larger-than-life, stronger-than-death emphasis of their films. The continued mix of new score CDs...
Never say never again.David Duchovny will reprise his role as Fox Mulder in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES on May 19.Wow, that almost makes me want to watch the show again. Almost.X-FILES creator Chris Carter promises to wrap up the whole mytho...
Staggering up the cordoned-off stairways toward the sky-high rooftop set of the The Sixth Day, which is being filmed aloft Vancouver`s Canada Post Office, I hear an ear-deafening noise. Peering through a steel meshed dividing wall, I see a mountainous s...
David Arnold’s fourth time behind the baton on a James Bond score, Casino Royale, is another masterful romantic action adventure mixing the distinguishing flavors of John Barry’s traditional 007 sound with the modern textures and vitality o...
The James Bond phenomenon gets a new lease of life – in the form of the new Bond, Daniel Craig – in director Martin Campbell's Casino Royale, for which composer David Arnold returns with an exciting original score. Exclusively to iTunes, So...
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Paramount Pictures.Production Company:Walden Media/Paramount Pictures.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Jackie Chan (Passepartout); Steve Coogan (Phileas Fogg); Jim Broadbent (Lord Kelvin); Johnny Knoxville; Cecile de Fran...
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom France comes the first ever original soundtrack release of the full score from 1976's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Record Makers 7243 593241 2 8). The movie was John Carpenter's sophomore directorial effort, a kind of RIO BRAVO ...
The World Is Not Enough, the 19th official James Bond film, scored big at the box office when it was released late last year, but it was hardly the breakthrough film its makers would have us believe. This special edition DVD presents the film with a beaut...
After he completes scoring the new James Bond film, CASINO ROYALE, for director Martin Campbell, David Arnold (who perfectly replicated and expanded the classic John Barry 007 sound for TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and DIE ANOTHER DAY), w...
It must have seemed like a good idea during the pitch session: genre hybrids have yielded successful results in the past, so why not combine supernatural horror with explosive action? After all, ALIENS, PREDATOR, and SPECIES proved that you could sell tic...
Hollywood is a slaughterhouse where cool movie ideas go to die. Here are ten films that were tragically cut down before their time, simply because they were just too friggin' awesome. #10. Peter Jackson's Halo Fans of the popular video game wept tears of ...
If rumors are correct, Arnold Schwarzenegger still has a fighting chance to come back big time with John Milius' 'King Conan' and a rumored James action film - a new film Cameron is writing for Arnold.
That epic film Jim Cameron is writing for Arnold ...
Arnold, from Warner Bros say, "All the talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger being in two more CONAN films is premature at this point. First, Governor Schwarzenegger has to finish off his term and then he can announce what his plans are. The only thing I can t...
HD DVD Outselling Blu-ray 3:1:: Last week the North American HD DVD Promotional Group, the organization responsible for touting HD DVDs as you could probably guess from the name, issued a press release where they quoted the Nielsen VideoScan DVD sell-thr...
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Guy Davis'
period graphic novel The Marquis is the latest Oni Press property
to shepherded to the big screen, Comics2Film learned last week. A movie
version of the comic is currently in development with C...
From comic books, cartoons, TV shows, films, and rock stars—nearly everything has been made into an action figure. But what about the licenses that have yet been given their justice and made into an action figure? This at week, we take a look at ...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Dario Marianelli has followed up his notable scores for The Brothers Grimm and, especially, V For Vendetta, with a straightforward horror composition for Asif Kapadia’s moody ghost story, The Return, starr...
The Arnold Fans.com continues to publish reports about a possible deal for Arnold Schwarzenegger to reprise his role as Conan.In a note from a Warner Bros., an executive (presumably Alan Horn) stated, "The only thing I can tell you at this time is that th...
For Part One of my conversation with Roger Spottiswoode, I ventured out onto rooftops of Canada, where the , director of The Sixth Day was setting up one of the many action sequences in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film. At that time, he demurred when asked ...
Paramount issued a press release this week promising a `Trekker`s Biggest Dream`--a walk-on role in the finale of Star Trek: Voyager--as the grand prize in a contest to introduce the new Voyager section of the official startrek.com Website. `UPN and Param...
In the first part of CINESCAPE's Arnold Schwarzenegger profile, the actor explained how the attacks of September 11th affected his new terrorist-themed action film, COLLATERAL DAMAGE. Today, Schwarzenegger continues the discussion.
A captured Arnold...
Earlier this year, Sony release three of Stop-Motion animation genius Ray Harryhausen’s films on special edition DVDs. Now these three classics, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth, ...
THE SCHWARZENEGGER COLLECTION will be coming to shelves in June of 2006. The DVD box-set will contain three classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movies: PREDATOR, COMMANDO & TRUE LIES.Features on each include:PREDATOR- Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger , Carl Weather...
In a tragic case of life imitating art, the Warner Bros. action pic COLLATERAL DAMAGE (directed by Andrew Davis) was pushed back from its original September release due to the Osama bin Laden led terrorist attacks that crippled both New York City and Wash...
Thanks to a reader named "Valaryc", we've got some amazing snapshots from last weekend's TERMINATOR 3 panel and display held at the Los Angeles Comic Book Convention. Among the attendees on the T3 panel were stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kristinna Loken an...
Eliza Dushku is perhaps best known to genre fans as that other slayer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Dushku's slayer Faith was a counterpoint to Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy for a good part of the show's third season, a tough-fighting, hard-living, take-no...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONHans Zimmer, who produced Klaus Badelt's masterful score for the original PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (but who, as Badelt's immediate protégé, was also believed to have had more than a slight hand in its co...
I just can't believe it took so long, but at last Baltimore has its very own comic book convention...and it looks like it's here to stay. Organized by Marc Nathan, owner of a local comic book shop in Reisterstown (that won't mean anything to those of you ...
2006 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECAP
By far the best soundtrack release of 2007 was certainly the majestic, 3-CD release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Complete Recording – but that’s a revived archival score, and we&...
A famous Hollywood producer once said that there are only two reasons to make a sequel: 1) There's more story to be told, or 2) There's more money to be made. Sadly, the producers of FIRESTARTER: REKINDLED don't have more story to tell.Stephen King's nove...
Although director Andrew Davis' COLLATERAL DAMAGE was pushed back from its original fall release after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11, the filmmaker maintains that his moviewhich stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a fireman o...
One of 1999`s most heavily promoted, and ultimately disappointing, releases, was director Peter Hyam’s countdown-to-the-millennium thriller of Days, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film, which finds a faithless and suicidal cop out to save a young w...
It’s one week before Halloween, a holiday that has become almost synonymous (probably thanks to John Carpenter) with the viewing of scary movies at theaters or at home. The deluge of new, classic, obscure and frequently crappy titles that has filled thes...
Creation Convention’s eighth Grand Slam STAR TREK and Sci-Fi convention, held the weekend of March 31st through April 2nd, 2000, offered something for everyone. In the main auditorium, actors from every incarnation of TREK appeared. This included VOYAGE...
It’s getting to the point where a DVD release that contains only a movie is unthinkable. At the very least there has to be a trailer or two, maybe some excised footage, and preferably an audio commentary. In effect, DVD has become the choice of collectors...
To discuss J. K. Rowling`s Harry Potter books is to do more than just review them; it`s a job that also encompasses explicating a phenomenon. Because the Harry Potter books--three of a planned series of seven have now been published--comprise a publishing...
You`d be hard pressed to separate Bernard Herrmann`s score for PSYCHO from the movie itself, but because the scores of silent films are not etched in people`s memories--few original scores exist and fewer are performed--musicians have a relatively open fi...
To start this review, I must tell you that this special-edition DVD makes a sensational first impression: When you plop this disc into your player, be sure to crank up that home-theater sound, because the first thing you’ll see is a THX promo created spec...
In Part One of my story about the 40th Anniversary Celebration Screening of H.G. Wells` THE TIME MACHINE, I discussed the beauty of downtown LA`s Orpheum Theatre and how the LA Conservancy runs an Annual Last Remaining Seats Film Festival to widen awarene...
Michael G. Wilson has been a part of the James Bond franchise since with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME in 1977. Not only has he produced ten of the films; he also worked on scripts for five of them. Working first under the auspices of producer Albert Broccoli (who...
Devin Grayson had one goal when she started writing comic books three years ago: to tell stories about Batman. Period. Unlike most comics creators, Grayson wasn’t into funnybooks as a child, so superheroes never really held any interest for her as a write...
Ken Biller had a busy week chatting with online sites about what we can expect on Voyager this season. Scifi.com, the official Trek site at startrek.com, and Fandom`s own Anna Kaplan all posted interviews with Voyager`s current exec. Like Rick Berman, Bil...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
To prepare for this summer`s X-Men movie, Marvel Comics has released three X-Men movie prequel comics: X-Men Movie Prequel: Magneto, X-Men Movie Prequel: Rogue and X-Men Movie Prequel: Wolverine. And who can blame them? If all goes well, the movie could f...
One of the biggest behemoths of blockbuster proportions in recent memory, INDEPENDENCE DAY arrives on DVD today in a special edition featuring numerous bells and whistles. The double-disc set, loaded with supplemental materials, supposedly contains five-a...
Los Angeles-based Profiles in History opens the bidding in an auction of Hollywood memorabilia on Thursday with some 360 items for sale from the Superman costume George Reeves wore in the 1950s TV show of the same name to the gloves Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
Brigitte Nielsen, as Conan creator Robert E. Howard's female warrior Red Sonja, gets an assist from Arnold Schwarzenegger in this enjoyably campy, Italian-lensed sword & sorcery adventure...
Separately, Tony Millionaire and Eric Kaplan are great successes. Millionaire is the writer and artist of the award-winning weekly comic strip Maakies and the writer and illustrator of a number of books for children of all ages including The Adventures ...
Spider-Man
webbed up a few awards this week, with accolades going this time to the music
from the movie. The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences have
announced the final nominations list for the 45th Annual Grammy
Awards and the web-sl...
Jason Priestly
goes psycho on Luke Perry in "And the Ground...Sown with Salt," this
Friday's encore episode of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah (Perry)
and Kurdy (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) come u...
IGN FilmForce has learned who is poised to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger as the title character in the long-in-development King Conan: Crown of Iron. Confirming rumors first reported last fall, Warner Brothers and writer-director John Milius have indeed s...
Big-budget Hollywood movies can be a great format for taking on serious themes and dealing with them within the confines of popular entertainment. The treatment can be larger-than-life, almost operatic in a way; and, as in opera, if the subtext isn’t hand...
Last year Running Press gave comic book fans the very cool Marvel Vault, a “Museum in a Book” as they refer to it. This year Running Press is back with the DC Vault. If you haven’t seen the Marvel Vault these books are ...
Last year Running Press gave comic book fans the very cool Marvel Vault, a “Museum in a Book” as they refer to it. This year Running Press is back with the DC Vault. If you haven’t seen the Marvel Vault these books are part history boo...
Here's today's round up of new from around the internet:
Guggenheim on GREEN LANTERN
Newsarama.com chats up Marc Guggenheim, famed comics writer and creator of the TV show 'Eli Stone', who also happens to be one of the screenwriters on the 'Green L...
IESB.net is reporting that two major villains in the 'G.I.Joe' movie have been cast.
According to their sources, Arnold Vosloo, who fans best remember as the sorcerer Imhotep in 'The Mummy', is set to play Zartan in the film.
Even bigger news is the cas...
The second season of Aaron McGruder's series, The Boondocks will premiere Monday, Oct. 8 at 11:30 p.m. (ET/ PT) on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late-night sister network showcasing animation and live action for adults. Fifteen new episodes of the Peabody...
Jurassic Park may soon be upon us. Well, maybe not Jurassic Park, but possibly Pleistocene Park.
Scientists have been able to examine the DNA of a woolly mammoth though preserved keratin samples (hair, hooves, fingernails, feathers, et al...
From video game to major motion picture, TOMB RAIDER brings the buxom Lara Croft to cinematic life via Angelina Jolie. It was a complicated process, but CINESCAPE managed to hook up with Jolie and the behind-the-scenes talent to discuss the making of the ...
VIDEO NEWSEVOLUTION proved Darwin wrong when it comes to movies, since director Ivan Reitman's work has de-evolved from the high of GHOSTBUSTERS to the low of this unfunny and derivative title. However, bad big budget movies don't become extinct, they jus...
Marvel Comics has released book-by-book details for its Marvel Mangaverse event in January, which puts a manga twist on its characters.Following is a rundown of the titles, with synopses from Marvel.MARVEL MANGAVERSE: NEW DAWN #1Written, art and wraparoun...
Though it isn't by any means a done deal yet, it looks like the Fox TV network is strongly favored to end up finalizing an agreement to remake Irwin Allen's 60s sci-fi series THE TIME TUNNEL. As part of the deal, Fox is said to be willing to place a put p...
In this volume, Diane Carey's normally ham-fisted writing is somewhat tempered by the strong story that she adapts. ENTERPRISE: BROKEN BOW follows almost exactly the script from the series. In some ways the plot plays out better in print than it does on t...
A revival of Irwin Allen's 1966 science fiction TV series THE TIME TUNNEL is happening, with ABC and Fox battling it out to get it.The project, which is being quickly developed under the auspices of Regency Television and 20th Century Fox Television, has ...
In part one of our RAPTOR profile, director Jim Wynorski explained how his latest direct-to-video dinosaur fest is a "Hardware Film"a picture that utilizes footage from other films, in this case John Buechler's animatronic dinos from the CARNOSAUR movies....
Two months after it was pulled from its original release window, Arnold Schwarzenegger's COLLATERAL DAMAGE finally has a solid release date.Warner Bros. has chosen to release the film on February 8th, on the Presidents Day holiday weekend. Previously, MGM...
VIDEO NEWSMedia Blasters, an indie label best known for anime fare, has been making encroachments into Anchor Bay territory lately with periodic releases of some Euro horror goodies. Continuing that trend, the company recently announced their upcoming rel...
Variety
reports that actress Joanne Kelly will be joining the cast of Jeremiah
for season two. Kelly is described as a newcomer, although she's appeared on
syndicated shows like Mutant X with a recurring part on Tracker.
Kelly is the
second new cas...
A number of disparate elements for the coming TERMINATOR 3 movie project are said to be nearly jelling.Contrary to previous reports that every major element was etched in stone, word has it that star Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Jonathan Mostow's in...
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Brandywine.Project Phase: Movies Rumored.Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet, but both Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) and Winona Ryder (Call) have voiced their interest to retur...
Director Andrew Davis has been talking about his newly rescheduled COLLATERAL DAMAGE, which Warner Bros. abruptly pulled off its first release date due to the tragic events of September 11th.While talking to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Davis spoke ...
Disney has chosen to postpone the Touchstone comedy-action film BAD COMPANY, starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, due to its terrorist-related elements.The company issued a statement on their decision, saying, "Due to the national tragedy that occurre...
Yesterday's series of tragic events placed entertainment related projects on the back burner of importance, with massive shut downs in respect of the victims. In addition, these terrible events are having further effects on coming projects. Here's a rundo...
(Additional Reporting by ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG)Just about every major comic book hero has at one time or another had his or her origin told, retold, expanded, re-interpreted, re-imagined or otherwise manipulated by countless writers looking to make their mar...
Stanley Kubrick's take on the Anthony Burgess novel is a strangely overwhelming experience--at time contemptible, and yet always valid in its sardonic outlook. We're forced to identify with a young, violent droog, Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) as he ra...
The '90s saw numerous classic movie monsters remade as effects- and/or star-filled extravaganzas, often with little resemblance to the originals and not always with great levels of success. 1992 gave us Bram Stoker's Dracula, a ridiculously romanticized t...
The genre’s two big nationwide releases, Paramount’s What Women Want and Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove saw widely divergent results during their debut weekend. The fantasy comedy starring Mel Gibson as a male chauvinist pig who suddenly finds himself ...
While speaking to the Popcorn Website [Popcorn.uk.co] about his new film The Sixth Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger fielded a few questions about the sequels to two of his most popular genre films, Total Recall and Terminator.`Terminator 3 is being written as w...
John Brancato and Michael Ferris have been tapped by legendary genre producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna to rework the script for TERMINATOR 3. The film, which will reunite T2 actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong (though not Linda Hamil...
Once again, the DVD proves the perfect tool with which a director can defend his/her rather lackluster film. When a movie hits theaters, the filmmaker has no choice but to succumb to audience and media response after all, in the dog-eat-dog world of Holl...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz) Back in July, the UPN network was already thrilled with the acquisition of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. The frosting on top of their 2001-2002 programming season cake had to be the good buzz already generating by th...
Hermann Huppen's JEREMIAH series of graphic novels will be the basis for a coming original TV series to appear on the Showtime cable network.Luke Perry (BEVERLY HILLS, 90210) will star in the series in the title role. Malcolm-Jamal Warner (THE COSBY SHOW)...
Whenever TERMINATOR 3 gets up and rolling, it may well be Shaquille O'Neal who Arnold Schwarzenegger must contend with.While appearing on the syndicated ACCESS HOLLYWOOD Hollywood program, Shaq revealed that he may join the long in the works project, thou...
Universal's Golden Age Of Horror will soon be coming our way when Universal Studios unleashes a host of DVD double-features sure to whet the cinematic appetite of any classic-era horror movie fan. Not wanting to miss out on the interest generated by their...
Hollywood should be thankful for genre entertainment, as that’s what drew in the ticket buyers during the long Thanksgiving weekend. Fantasy and science fiction films ruled the box office, taking seven out of the Top Ten positions, and all of the Top Five...
Tom Hanks is no stranger to producing WWII thrillers with Band of Brothers and the upcoming sequel Pacific under his belt. Variety is reporting the Oscar winning thespian will be grabbing another producing credit for a WWII spy film called AGENT ZIGZAG. T...
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...
Universal Pictures is looking to remake one of its most beloved monster films, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.Gary Ross' Larger Than Life Prods. shingle will handle the film, which will be produced by helmer Gary Ross with his father, Arthur A. Ross. The ...
Five actual movie clips of Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN have popped online courtesy of Dimension Films & Shock Til You Drop. The clips are not very long but they give the viewer a glimpse of what's coming in the re-imagination of John Carpenter's classic fi...
It's been a slow news night thus far. Even the big boy trade magazines have nothing to show in the last two hours. So, I'll just put this up for all your horror fans. The first tv spot for next month's HALLOWEEN, directed by Rob Zombie, has appeared onlin...
It was announced just a few short months ago that an Arnold-free TERMINATOR 4 was on the horizon by new financial partners (producer Moritz Borman and Halcyon Co. principals Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson) with MGM. Acccording to The Hollywoo...
A reminder for you genre fanatics around the Los Angeles metroplex. After 15 years of success in Paris, France, the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival will be held in L.A this December. The event will feature quite a lot of honorees and panels for you fa...
Sir Ben Kingsley has joined the cast for Martin Scorsese's upcoming SHUTTER ISLAND, based on the Dennis Lehane novel. Variety reports the actor joining Leonardo Dicaprio and Mark Ruffalo in the period thriller. Scorsese will be helming the film from a scr...
Update: Third time is the charm, right? As expected, the trades did follow up this morning and confirmed that Channing Tatum is indeed the new "Duke" for the upcoming adaptation. They also say that Sam Worthington was originally set to star as t...
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers is pure 1950’s B movie fare. The plot and acting are campy, the budget is minuscule, and it’s filled with 50’s sci-fi clichés, but the film had one thing going for it, and that was the stop-motion...
Producer James Middleton has shared a few bits about Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins with Sci-Fi Wire. In the brief interview, he confirmed that John Connor (Christian Bale) will be a central focus in the 2nd and 3rd films in the new trilogy. He a...
You ever wonder what the hell a writer/director thinks about or experiences while on the set of their films? In today's blogging age, there are plenty of examples so you probably have already found out their personal quirky details, especially i...
As part of Universal's 2008 Preview, we're getting our first "official" look at their upcoming DOOMSDAY. Neil Marshall penned the screenplay and directed. It stars Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Alexander Siddig and Adrian Lest...
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...
The final trailer for The Simpsons Movie has hit the World Wide Web courtesy of 20th Century Fox and Yahoo Movies. The trailer expands on all the film's worldy themes...Themes like beer, Homer chasing Bart, fishing, donuts, the Governator Arnold in the Wh...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Nicely coinciding with the release of the second season DVD from the revived Doctor Who TV series is this soundtrack CD from Silva Screen, featuring Murray Gold’s wonderful music from the first two season...
Let me start by repeating that cast list from the info box: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, Marisa Tomei. If this list of names has you excited to see this picture in 2007, then this review isn’t going to d...
Taken on its own terms as a standalone, Hannibal Rising is a decent, baroque revenge thriller with a sense of icy rage to it – the recipients of the main character’s wrath are so heinous that most viewers this side of Gandhi will feel some ...
The members of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) have announced their nominees for the 3rd IFMCA Awards, honoring achievements in film and television music in 2006.
The nominees are: A - FILM SCORE OF THE YE...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures is in negotiations with Rob Cohen to direct the upcoming film Mummy 3.The previous two installments of the action-adventure franchise starred Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz as early 20th century adv...
A recent article posted on CHUD bashes NBC's show Heroes and then gives away some spoilers regarding upcoming episodes.Read at your own risk:The clip they showed was actually surprisingly spoiler-filled – it picks up with Nathan “Flying Brothe...
Not long ago we published my interview with the Film Crew, a revival of sorts of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in which final cast members Kevin Murphy, Mike Nelson and Paul Corbett would riff on obnoxious psychotronic flicks in a series of DVDs. The g...
The official website for Rob Zombie's remake of HALLOWEEN has been launched.
The movie stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Daeg Faerch, Pat Skipper, Dee Wallace Stone, and William Forsythe.
The film from MG...
Amidst the flurry of studio inquiries which have flooded the Tolkien estate since The Children of Húrin hit the shelves last month, Houghton Mifflin is rolling out the stops to release a deluxe hardcover edition of the novel complete with brand new...
Major and Minor cons this week.
Sci-Finding The Capital
The biggest thing in the UK this week is the sixth annual Sci-Fi London festival, taking place at the Apollo West End from 2-6 May. The event has made a name for itself by screening...
The music of Film and Television features in a couple of categories at the Ivor Novello Awards, the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters’ annual celebration of British music talent. This year is the 50th such ceremony and, as usual, it takes...
The heroes of G.I Joe may have a new President to work alongside, reports Latino Review. The site says that Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) has been cast to play the US President in the upcoming adaptation of the Hasbro property. While t...
Two new video clips featuring restricted content for Doomsday appeared online courtesy of Universal's official website. The upcoming action-thriller by director Neil Marshall stars Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig and Malcolm McDo...
When Luke Perry
steps into the future that is Jeremiah he'll be visited by fellow Beverly
Hills 90210 resident Jason Priestly according to a recent write-up on SCI
FI Wire. The news comes from Jeremiah co-star Malcolm-Jamal
Warner speaking at a scre...
Comic book super
heroes influence the characters of Jeremiah in this week's episode
entitled "Man of Iron, Woman Under Glass".
In a recent
posting on the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated newsgroup,
showrunner J. Michael Straczynski provided this s...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its RoboCop franchise. Aronofsky, the director of The Fountain, and Self, the writer of Road to Perdition, make a formidable creative te...
(LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2007) " Anime Expo 2007 (June 29-July 2) in Long Beach is almost upon us and Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce its upcoming convention plans.
SEVEN SEAS BOOTH
Booth No. 1021, 1120, 1122
You like sexy maids? How abo...
(Los Angeles, January 17, 2006) – Seven Seas Entertainment has unveiled what fandom thought they’d never see: the first of MediaWorks’ fully-animated Boogiepop commercials subtitled in English and available for free online.
In Japan, B...
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Jake Busey (Starship
Troopers, Contact) guest star's on "The Bag," this
week's episode of Jeremiah.
Medical secrets
are revealed when Jeremiah (Luke Perry) and Kurdy (Malcolm-Jamal Wa...
Can faith
survive in a world where so much of the population has been wiped out? That's
the question in "Journeys End," the next Jeremiah, as
Jeremiah and Kurdy encounter a group that's waiting for a miracle to happen.
It's a thought-provoking episo...
Comics2Film's
Jason Lethert chatted with Jeremiah star Malcolm-Jamal Warner this
week about his experiences working on the hit cable show. During the
conversation Warner let slip that Showtime has just renewed the comic based sci-fi
program for a se...
Showtime's hit
series Jeremiah came to it's climactic season finale last Friday.
For those of you who missed the boat on the show the first time around, you'll
get a second chance this w...
Anime fans may
want to start bugging their local cable outlets to make sure they'll have access
to the upcoming relaunch of ACTION channel. The cable station is set to return
with a line up of the top Anime films of all time.
Starting July 5,
every...
In the world
after the Big Death, knowledge is power -- but there are some people who believe
knowledge is evil, thinking that's what caused the Big D in the f...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story by Adam Arnold / Art by Shiei Translated by:Adapted by:What They SayHaving narrowly lost the Dance Dance Revolution showdown for control of Aoi House, Alex finds himself in over his head as he\'s forced to endure an awkw...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Koge-DonboTranslated by:Nan RymerAdapted by:What They SayA Lonely Lad, an Adorable Angel, and Hyperactive Hijinks... It's a hard life for Kotarou. His father is always away on business, and his mother recently passed away. He ...
SuperHeroHype have posted a new image of the character Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) from the upcoming live action feature film G.I. JOE.
His real name is Lamont A. Morris of Chicago, Illinois. He serves as the G.I. Joe Team’s heavy or...
The wait is over. Conan the Barbarian will finally have his own series of action figures. NECAonline has just released two different sculpts of Conan in the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the classic film Conan the Barbarian.
I saw this Con...
USA Today revealed the "Snake Eyes" look a few weeks back and now, Joblo is revealing the first look of Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara, to be played by actress Rachel Nichols. The Stephen Sommers-directed flick will hit theaters August 7, 200...
Back in the hay day of Saturday morning cartoons one could sit from 6:30 a.m. all the way to noon and be entertained. Watching Dungeons and Dragons, Thundarr the Barbarian, Blackstar, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, and Pac Man were weekly ritual...
Anton Yelchin (Charlie Bartlett) is in negotiations to star as post-apocalyptic warrior Kyle Reese in director McG's new Terminator movie, says The Hollywood Reporter. David Campbell Wilson, John Brancato and Michael Ferris wrote the screenplay though scr...
The blogging of production updates has worked well for Cohen (Mummy 3), Lexi Alexander (Punisher), Del Toro (Hellboy II) and Snyder (Watchmen). So, now, Warner Bros and McG are launching a new official blog for their upcoming Terminator Salvation trilogy....
Season 3 of the Incredible Hulk went out with a whimper. David Banner (Bill Bixby) got mixed up with some forest fire fighters and a crazy fire bug. The plot was mundane and your standard throw away episode of the series. The ideas of cliffhanger season f...
The Review!This review will be different from my "Tenchi in Tokyo" reviews. When I write my "Tenchi in Tokyo" reviews, it's within a few hours of seeing the episodes for the first time, so I'm recording my initial impressions. I first saw the "Tenchi Muyo...
Thomas Arnold has an article up at Home Media Retailing today which has some comments from Sony\'s president, Benjamin Feingold, who has been relatively quiet about things lately in the camp. A lot of questions have been raised between the scaling back of...
According to Time\'s Andrew Arnold in his Time.comix column that highlights books to look forward to in 2005, he lists both Dr. Slump and Full Metal Alchemist as titles to be on the watch for from Viz. Thanks to Megan for the heads-up.
Several weeks ago I attended a baseball game and was handed a limited edition bobble head figurine as I entered the gate. Everyone in attendance was guaranteed a bobble head that night and the attendance was well over 45,000. Many people collect bobble he...
In the world
after the Big Death, knowledge is power -- but there are some people who believe
knowledge is evil, thinking that's what caused the Big D in the f...
ABCNEWS.go.com covers the building buzz around the possibility that the California Republican Party will look to Arnold Schwarzenegger as their next gubernatorial candidate in the golden bear state.The plus-sized thespian's backing of a successful $550m e...
Remembering David RaksinDavid Raksin, composer of the classic film noir mystery/romance LAURA, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, and dozens of other notable film scores including such low-budget horror/sci fi films as THE UNDYING MONSTER and DR. RENAULT'S SECRE...
TV writer/producer Brent Forrester has landed the job of adapting the childrens novel THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES into a screenplay. Forrester, who wrote episodes for THE SIMPSONS, THE BEN STILLER SHOW and the Tom Arnold feature film THE STUPIDS, is adaptin...
After facing Arnold Schwarzenegger in last summer's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, blonde beauty Kristanna Loken has agreed to take the part of BLOODRAYNE in the feature film based on Majesco's video game franchise. Slated to begin filming this month...
Released last year, the original CT SPECIAL FORCES was a wonderful shoot âem up game that came out of nowhere. CT borrowed heavily from the classic series METAL SLUG, as the characters, weapons and even some elements of the gameplay could easily fool game...
Even though it hasn't been published yet, Jonathan Vankin and Arnold Pander's forthcoming graphic novel TASTY BULLET has attracted the interest of Hollywood. Anonymous Content, a film development company, has optioned the rights to the illustrated story b...
IGN FilmForce is reporting that director John Milius has successfully acquired full financing for his proposed film, KING CONAN: CROWN OF IRON. While the film has remained in development hell, trying to secure an A-list actor to raise its profile and rece...