What They SayIn our society, there are creatures with paranormal power known as Witches. For years, a secret organisation known as \"Solomon\" has been hunting them down. This organisation, based in Italy and run by priests, has a branch in Japan - the S...
Mercedes Lackey hits the shelves today with continuations of both her Elemental Masters and The Dragon Jousters series, Koji Suzuki's final installment of the Ring trilogy gets its stateside paperback debut, and Dietz releases his new hard SF thriller fre...
Warner Bros. has set Jack Black to star in MAN-WITCH. Todd Phillips will direct.
The comedy fantasy being written by Jay Reiss, based on a pitch by Josh Stolberg and Bob Florsheim, centers on a schoolteacher who suddenly discovers he has witchlike abilit...
For centuries man has despised and feared the witch, but hey, don’t take my word for it: watch the 8-minute-plus prologue to THE NAKED WITCH during which an ominous narrator explains, in glorious pseudo history, the story of witchcraft. Pretty scholastic ...
What They SayIn our society, there are creatures with paranormal power known as Witches. For years, a secret organisation known as \"Solomon\" has been hunting them down. This organisation, based in Italy and run by priests, has a branch in Japan - the ST...
Warner Bros. has purchased the comedy pitch MAN-WITCH by Josh Stolberg and Bobby Florsheim. The story centers on a male schoolteacher who abruptly discovers he's got witchlike abilities that lead him to be taken in by a coven of real witches. They send hi...
What They SayRobin?s ?normal? life is about to end. After another seemingly routine investigation of a Witch-related murder, a strange old woman appears and speaks to Robin. She claims to know the truth about Witches, about the Craft, and even about Robin...
What They SayIn a world where witches abuse their supernatural powers, a special team is tasked with hunting this new threat to society. This organization is known as the STN and comprises of several highly skilled craft users and experts in covert operat...
What They SayIn our society, there are creatures with paranormal power known as Witches. For years, a secret organisation known as \"Solomon\" has been hunting them down. This organisation, based in Italy and run by priests, has a branch in Japan - the ST...
There’s a lot to cover this week, so I’ll dispense with the usual smart-ass comments and get right to it. The major new release for the week is New Line Home Video’s, The Cell. When the film opened theatrically, a handful of critics praised it as a vis...
What They SayIn a world where witches abuse their supernatural powers, a special team is tasked with hunting this new threat to society. This organization is known as the STN and comprises of several highly skilled craft users and experts in covert operat...
`In May 1941, a hermit named Rustin Parr told police he murdered seven children in Burkittsville, Md. But the night before he was hanged, Parr told his priest an entirely different story. Now—nearly sixty years later—the details of Rustin Parr’s final con...
Spider-Man 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
Genre:Action/Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker/"Spider-Man"); Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson); Alfred Molina (Dr. Otto Octavius/"Doc...
What They SayAfter the attack on Robin, Michael and the others convince her to stay at headquarters. While they believe she would safe there, the group slowly begins to wonder if the attacks were orchestrated from inside the STN-J. But the mystery thicken...
While the first BLAIR WITCH PROJECT contained no music (except for a bit of eerieness over the end titles), the newly opened sequel, BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 contains a prominent and highly inventive score by Carter Burwell (GODS & MONSTERS, BEING J...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ogiwara Momoko / Momokawa HaruhikoTranslated by:Adrienne BeckAdapted by:Barbara Randall KeselWhat They SayFriel is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, the astronomer Professor Dee, and their servants, the Holys....
Vampires have come a long way from the putrid, re-animated corpses of yore. Thanks to the pen of Bram Stoker, his contemporaries, and thousands of subsequent writers, the once demonic mass of decaying flesh has been transformed into a suave gentleman with...
The world created by Erik Lensherr Magneto to keep the X-Men and the Avengers from executing Wanda Maximoff his daughter, the Scarlet Witch gives each hero what they want most, all in a world where mutants dominate and humanity dwindles. The fantasy w...
It's Halloween, which means it's time to start thinking about you holiday gift shopping. Right?
OK, maybe starting the holiday consumer frenzy early is too depressing a thought, but we've got some images of upcoming Marvel action figure offerings from Ha...
There`s an old formula in Hollywood: `If something`s successful, do it again.` That can be applied to the creative team behind Fox Kids` new hit series ACTION MAN. It all goes back to BEAST MACHINES: TRANSFORMERS, which means it all goes back to Hasbro. H...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ryo Mizuno & Yochihiko OchiTranslated by:Laura Jackson and Yoko KobayashiAdapted by:What They SayIn this climactic final battle, Parn and his battle-hardened companions challenge Karla, the Grey Witch! Can they awaken the youn...
There`s a certain breed of fantasy reader for whom the word `Shannara` is sufficient to send them screaming to the horizon. Please excuse yourselves while I delve into back-story for the benefit of the uninitiated. Right, now that they`re gone, let me exp...
Spider-Man 3 opened on Friday to mixed, yet mostly positive reviews. It also opened to record-breaking box office receipts, making it the biggest opening weekend in history. Effectively, more people saw Spider-Man 3 in a single weekend than any ...
Last week's column on the industry's reliance on old characters and the need for new blood garnered a lot of mail. Some weeks COMICSCAPE really resonates with people and my inbox groans under the weight of responses, criticism, praise, and the occasional ...
Marvel Comics will be the first to admit that comics have hit on hard times in recent years. Some of the company`s key titles have lost their once impenetrable foothold in the marketplace, and marquee characters such as Spider-Man have lost their stature ...
The review contains some minor spoilers.
I should start by saying that I'm a huge fan of the first two 'Spider-Man' movies. I should also add that I've been a big fan of Sam Raimi's ever since I saw "Evil Dead" at the Roseville Theater the first summer...
Spidey cast his web and captured more box office cash this weekend with a 60.0 million box office take here in the States. I’d have to say though there was no doubt whom I would be writing about this weekend. No, it was never a question of if Spider...
We present this guest DVD review from James Harvey at The World's Finest Online
Everyone knew this movie would be a hit when it hit theaters this past May, but no one expect how big of a hit it would be. Grossing almost $100 million dollars in its first ...
"Hey let's do less," Laura Ziskin, one of the Producers on 'Spider-Man 3' jokes when asked whether it was important to make a bigger Spider-Man movie the third time around. "We did consciously say we had to top ourselves (on both 'Spider-Man 2' and '3')...
In case you work on Saturday mornings, don’t watch the CW or don’t have kids you might not have known that Spider-Man has returned, in the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon. Sony has released a full length animated adventure called Spectacular Sp...
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...
I thought my crossover critique in last week's COMICSCAPE would garner mail a plenty, but to no avail. My rant about the FANTASTIC FOUR movie must've driven away my readership or something. Fortunately, I received a few thoughtful, lengthy letters that co...
Shake that vodka martini, break out the anchovy olives, grab yourself a cocktail napkin and seat yourself down for two of the most delectably demented motion pictures ever made. MONSTER A – GO GO! and PSYCHED BY THE 4D WITCH are so out of this world man, ...
Whenever there are big budget blockbuster films coming out you can bet that there will be an avalanche of media tie-in material from toys and clothing to calendars and books…A film like Spider-Man 3 is going to generate even more than the usual mas...
I don't make toys for a living, but even I can tell you that it's pretty damned hard to make an action figure in a little sewn polyester costume look like a superhero in a skintight supersuit. This has been a given ever since Mego launched a line of 8" su...
In Comics2Film's never ending endeavor to
provide the best in-depth coverage of comic related media adaptations, this site
will now offer coverage of "Comcs2Digital," if you will. Comic
books have a long history with video games, going at least as far...
What They SayComputer engineer Otaku is an average young man, dressed in unstylish clothes and dorky glasses. But as luck would have it, he encounters a pretty young woman on a commuter train and saves her from a lecherous molester, falling in love with h...
Last time, we examined Spider-Man's universal appeal through the eyes of his many creators. Now the really fun part - we ask these talented guys to pick their favorite Spidey issues ever! Every Spider-fan has his or her own list of their favorite moments ...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
From a press release:
Hasbro, Inc. reveals its exciting new product offerings at New York's annual American International Toy Fair with innovation in a wide range of entertainment categories.
Among the traditional toy and game categories, highlights inc...
Last Updated: July 17, 2006Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, ThrillerProduction Company: Columbia Pictures, Marvel Enterprises, Laura Ziskin ProductionsDistributors: Sony PicturesProject Phase: Post-ProductionBudget: 300,000,000 [IMDB]Who's In It...
The Union Weekly needed to get the inside scoop on Spider-Man 3, and in order to do so they contacted an old friend of theirs, Dave Lowery. Dave's worked on Spider-Man 2 and 3, all three Jurassic Park movies, and even the upcoming Iron Man movie.
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OPINION: I'm back, and it's about time. (Wasn't that someone else's tag line a couple of years back?) After spending a relaxing two weeks' vacation first in Texas and then at home with the family (and realizing why I moved from the frozen wastes of Michig...
Note: This review is entirely free of major spoilers, though some very minor story details may be mentioned.
It seemed nearly impossible that Sam Raimi would be able to outdo the first Spider-Man film, a summer blockbuster that outdid every other mov...
Review by: Harlan Lovestone
Overall Rating: 3.5 stars
Spoilers: Minor (nothing you wouldn't get from the trailers)
Harlan Lovestone is a
multimedia artist, curator,
and freelance writer from D...
User your cell phone to "Veek" answers to question What are you most looking forward to seeing in Spider-Man 3, get a Spider-Man 3 wallpaper frame which surrounds your personal cell phone pictures. Visit the mobile site now to find out more.
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Paramount Home Entertainment has set September 30, 2008 as "Iron Day" with the smash hit Marvel movie 'Iron Man' coming home to DVD in three editions.
Press Release Follows
$315 Million Box Office Smash Debuts September 30, 2008 in Ultimate Ed...
For those not old enough to have experienced the series of Spider-Man Saturday morning cartoons that debuted in the fall of 1967, or even the syndicated reruns that came later, all the fuss over the release of this DVD collection may be perplexing. After ...
None of us ever had the character to ourselves - not really. From early in his illustrious crime-fighting career, there was a steadily increasing number of avid fans thrilling to his tragedy-tinged adventures. But sometimes, sitting alone with a stack of ...
With two incredibly successful Spider-Man movies under his belt, Director Sam Raimi comes back better than ever with 'Spider-Man 3'. His cast and the Producing team praise his talent and he has spearheaded a franchise worth billions of dollars. So what ...
The Blair Witch Files: The Drowning Ghost is the third in this Young Adult series, supposedly written by Heather Donahue`s obsessed, seventeen-year-old cousin, Cade Merrill. So far, the previous books have dealt with Elly Kedward and Rustin Parr, the two ...
Comics2Film's head is still reeling from the biggest Comic-Con ever. One of the highlights was definitively talking with Jon Favreau in a one-on-one interview about 'Iron Man'. Naturally, with so much going on, we started off talking about the hot, humid ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hitori NakanoTranslated by:Bonnie ElliottAdapted by:What They SayAn instant bestseller when it was first published in Japan, Train Man became a multimedia sensation, generating a smash-hit TV series, a blockbuster film, and mu...
Marvel Studios released the long-in-the-making cinematic adaptation of Iron Man this weekend. Thus far, it has garnered both rave reviews and over $100 million in box office grosses. Despite a few minor flaws, the film resets the standard for Ma...
Namco Hometek has begun shipping Pac-Man World 3 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PC. The game will also be available on Nintendo DS and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system in December. The 25-year o...
From a press release
NEW YORK, NY, December 4, 2007 -- The latest adaptation of Marvel¹s ever-popular Spider-Man continues to cast a web over the licensing industry as Spider-Man Merchandising L.P. the limited partnership between Sony Pictures...
Updated December 17th
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"I am a total comic book geek," says Topher Grace. Grace plays probably one of the most popular villains in Spider-Man, Venom. So for an admitted comic book geek it was quite a thrill for Grace to take on the role. "I'm the geekiest guy to ever be in a fi...
Actor Terrence Howard sat down with the press to talk about playing Jim "Rhodie" Rhodes in the upcoming 'Iron Man' movie. The normally reserved actor surprised the press by how much of a fanboy he is, and revealed his emotional connection to the...
Welcome to another fun-filled week at COMICSCAPE! Last week I asked you to write in with your thoughts regarding Marvel's hiring of Orson Scott Card to write ULTIMATE IRON MAN. The problem, according to many gay and lesbian comics fans, is that Card has w...
One of the biggest films of 2007, Spider-Man 3, hits DVD this Tuesday so it’s time to take a second look at the film, and the wide range of extras on the two disc special edition. Have you noticed how the directors of superhero films cannot res...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hidenori HaraTranslated by:Cindy YamauchiAdapted by:Mark GiambrunoWhat They SayThe geek, a.k.a. \"Train_man,\" has managed to go on several dates with the girl of his dreams, but he still can\'t go beyond that \"more than just...
Once upon a time, there was a Little Movie That Could, called The Blair Witch Project. It was a lot like other little movies you might see at an art house theatre—so good that you wished it would reach a wider audience. Thanks to a brilliant marketing cam...
"He's a superhero who is just a man," Robert Downey jr. tells the Telegraph. "Not that I wouldn't play a guy who got bit by a spider or who has some freaky connection with bats, but I think this is a little more accessible.
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Hey Spidey fans, Spider-Man is coming to New York and the city is throwing him a homecoming celebration -- an entire week of Spidey-themed events, talent appearances and giveaways throughout the 5 boroughs from April 30th-May 6th. Check this space on Mond...
It was never going to get an "A" from me. I'm way too close to it. I have too much emotional investment in the character from my childhood to be completely won over by anything they could have put on screen, not with the compromises that would inevitably ...
IESB.net has confirmed that Bryan Singer will, indeed, sit in the director's chair for the 'Superman: The Man of Steel' movie. According to their sources, 'Transformers' writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are considering the project.
Universal Pictures has set actor Benicio Del Toro to star in the remake of THE WOLF MAN.The story will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy m...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another crash-course Comicscape! Before we dive into this week’s interview, I want to acknowledge the passing of Steve Gerber, who died from complications related to pulmonary fibrosis this past Sunday. G...
Be sure to check out these Spider-Man cast appearances this week:
Monday
- Kirsten Dunst on The Late Show with David Letterman
Tuesday
- Entire cast on MTV TRL
- Tobey Maguire on Live with Regis and Kelly
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Do you know Mega Man? Little blue robot dude who shoots bullets out of his arm to bring down the plans of the nefarious scientist Dr Wily? Fights other killer robots? Well, he turns 20 this year.
If you've ever owned any game system of any kind...
We're back yet again for another look at those zany dubbed cartoons called anime. ADV Films has released Nurse Witch Komugi, an entertaining show with a lot to talk about from a dub fan's perspective. This show draws most of its characters from a series c...
ToonZone reports that fans shopping for 'Iron Man' at Wal-Mart will receive an extra DVD containing the pilot episode for the upcoming 'Iron Man: Armored Adventures' animated series, debuting in 2009 on Nicktoons Network.
Spider-Man 2, which will air on FX will feature approximately five minutes of extra content, including a never-before-seen preview of Spider-Man 3, created exclusively for the FX broadcast and more...
When you hear that an animated film has been made from Ernest Hemingway`s novel The Old Man and the Sea, you almost expect that it would be a Disney-like take on the story: with fishing pole in hand, the Old Man belts out a ballad about how much he has to...
Al Gough is featured in the latest October Issue of "Sound & Vision." He talks about Smallville, DVD commentaries, and his other projects such as Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man.
It’s an announcement sure to send a shiver up the spine of Spider-Man fans everywhere and set their spider-sense a-tingling. Stan "The Man" Lee, one of the living legends of the medium and the mind behind Peter Parker and his arachnid alter ego, will hims...
Hello Maniacs, and welcome back to another edition of the All-New, All-Different Comicscape. This week, rather than give you a long-winded rant on one subject, I’m going to take a look at a several different news items that have interested me over ...
James Franco who plays Harry Osborn in 'Spider-Man' and '2' is back for vengeance in 'Spider-Man 3'. So what was it like coming back for a third time? "Until I actually saw it I didn't realize how special these movies are and the heart Sam (Raimi) would i...
The trailer for The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series will be available on the exclusive Wal-mart Spider-Man 3 DVD release, on sale next week.
Spider-Man 3 by Captain Gordon Edward (Mon 05-07-2007)
Well another Spider-man release indicates that we have another Spider-man game on the shelves to eat up like candy. In the third movie we see Spider-man dealing with Venom, Harry Osborn / Green Goblin 2, and Sandman. Since this is a game base on the movie...
If there's one thing 'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau has learned in recent years, it's how to work the comic book fans. Coming off a less than stellar screening of clips from 'Zathura' just two years earlier, Favreau has used the Internet and Comic-Con to...
OPINION: Wow, talk about varied opinions! After my extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2 a couple of weeks back, I got people agreeing with me, people disagreeing with me, people kinda disagreeing with me, and people strongly disagreeing with me. (I even got on...
OPINION: I knew I should have stayed out of the Thor/Superman conflict. Several of you had quite strong responses to last week's column, and in the last week I've been labeled both a Superman-hater and a Thor-hater (neither of which is true, by the way). ...
Sitting on a United Airlines flight on the way back from an Activision event, I'm watching/listening to the new Dashboard Confessional music video, Vidnicated, the big song to come out of the new feature film, SPIDER-MAN 2. The event in San Francisco gave...
From the DVD cover:Past and present collide in this epic adventure that reveals the origin of Iron Man. While raising the ruins of a long buried Chinese kingdom, billionaire inventor Tony Stark digs up far more than he bargained for. He unleashes an age...
Due out this November from the Marvel Comics Spider-Man line: SPIDER-GIRL #40Cover by Pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonWritten by Tom Defalco; art by pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonIt's time for "A Death in the Family," as a member of our colorful cast ends up ...
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...
Quirky Romantic Tale Of An Otaku Who Finds Love To Make North American Debut On DVD and As A New Manga Series
San Francisco, CA, June 28, 2006 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing...
BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF WITCHHUNTERONLINE.COM HOME ENTERTAINMENT WEBSITE
Cypress, CA (August 18, 2003) - Bandai Entertainment announced today the launch of www.witchhunteronline.com in conjunction with its upcoming DVD home video rel...
From the final moments after the credits in the film Iron Man, director Jon Favreau lit a fire under all of us. That fire being a burning desire for more Iron Man. So where does one turn? In the current Marvel Universe Iron Man is the director of S.H.I.E....
Sideshow Toy has been a classic horror fan's dream come true, thanks to their phenomenal line of Universal Studios Classic Monsters action figures. Of course, when you have a successful product line like that (was there any way these could not be successf...
Although it's
not based on a comic book He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
is favorite of Comics2Film readers. Cartoon Network announced earlier
this week that the toy-based hero concept...
At Marvel Studios' panel on Saturday, Feige -- joined by studiomates Avi Arad and Ari Arad -- introduced directors of three of Marvel's first independently produced films: Ant-Man's Edgar Wright, The Incredible Hulk's Louis Leterrier and Iron Man's Jon Fa...
Chronicle Books is one of the best publishing companies out there, and they've been churning out some beautiful volumes covering all areas of pop culture history naturally this includes superhero comics. Handsome hardcover tomes on Superman and Batman ha...
Updated May 9th
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Updated November 22nd
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I love Wednesdays. Every single week, I feel childlike anticipation as I watch the clock at work until lunch. At 12:30, I drive to More Fun Comics on Oak Street like a kid running downstairs on Christmas morning. Then, I see the total at the register and ...
L.A. Times hosted a live chat with director Jon Favreau yesterday in which fans quizzed him about the 'Iron Man' franchise and the much-anticipated 'Avengers' movie. Here are some of the highlights from the chat. Some of Favreau's comments have been edite...
Updated January 10th
It's no surprise that the 'Spider-Man 3 On Demand' giveaway saw our biggest turnout yet. We wish we could give this swell prize to each and every contestant, but there can be only one winner of the Grand Prize...
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Walt Disney has unleashed their first teaser trailer for Race to Witch Mountain, a revisit to their 70's franchise which included Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975 and Return From Witch Mountain in 1978. You can check out the new teaser trailer below and i...
The impossible has happened. Marvel has seen several of its major properties adapted in some solidly entertaining motion pictures, and now, after decades of waiting and wondering, we are about to see the flagship hero of the Marvel Universe swinging his w...
OPINION: Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day and that, if you weren't out remembering those who have fought and died for our freedom, you were at least enjoying the fruits (and nicely grilled meats) of that freedom at the park or campgrounds of your cho...
ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 hit store shelves and the hot little hands of fan boys yesterday. The film stands as the second in Marvel's campaign of straight-to-DVD animated movies produced by Lion's Gate. And, fortunately for both Marvel and comic fans, this en...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and Merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, and have a spectacular holiday-of-some-other-obscure-nation-or-alternative-religion. If I don’t say that part, someone will remind me about Yule or something. Anyway, i...
From a press release
NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicktoons Network, Nickelodeon's 24-hour animation channel, has joined forces with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. NYSE: MVL, to bring iconic heroes Wolverine and Iron Man from the page and big screen ...
With big screen fantasy making a big comeback courtesy of LORD OF THE RINGS, it's the perfect time to go back and revisit Ridley Scott's LEGEND, one of the most visually luxuriant, sumptuously scored and, ultimately, most problematic fantasy films ever ma...
From a press release
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (June 30, 2008) – The web-slinging super hero returns in an all-new-to-DVD, full length animated adventure 'The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard'!, arriving on DVD September 9 from Sony Pictures ...
When I first saw 'Spider-Man' I
compared my excitement to that of a 17-year old girl on prom night. I now sit
here at this computer, after having seen 'Spider-Man 2,' with the wonder of a
14-year old boy who has just discovered that Dad hides the Pla...
Updated November 15th
Congratulations to SAMMYG2323
Don't spoil it for your son, but Santa's bringing him the DVD and the Thinkway Remote Control Spider-Man figure!
And for those of you who didn't win, remember we put another one up yesterday. Th...
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The two-disc DVD
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The Review!To be perfectly honest, when I heard AnimeVillage was about to start pushing out DVDs, two titles immediately came to mind: Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star.
While I enjoy both of the above, I wanted to see one of my favorite shows on DVD: Eat-M...
After Hugh Jackman was forced to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, Focus Features is said to be considering another superhero star, Daredevil's Ben Affleck, to portray George Reeves.
At the recent Comic-Con International in San Diego, Comics2Film had a chance to sit down with Marvel Studios President Production Kevin Feige during roundtable interviews to talk about the big story at the show: 'Iron Man' and the footage they unveiled ...
Acclaim comics
fans are still waiting for the movie version of Shadow Man to move
forward. There was a bit of good news to that end last month when the trades
announced that Dimension had renewed their movie option on that deal.
In the mean time
Ac...
To be fair to writer/director Neil LaBute, he had nothing to do with PULSE. However, between that poor remake of a decent Japanese horror film and now LaBute's notably inferior reimagining of 1973's classic THE WICKER MAN, genre fans may understandably fe...
Marvel Comics and Gotham Entertainment Group have announced plans to release a new comic book series that takes one of America's most-recognized crimefighters and transplants him to become an Indian superhero.SPIDER-MAN INDIA will be released to stores to...
Being the daughter of Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard could be considered Hollywood royalty, but you would never know it. In person she is probably one of the most down to earth people you could ever meet. Howard, who plays Gwen Stacy in 'Spider-Man 3',...
The first Marvel Adventures Animated AdverVideos series comes to an explosive finale as Hulk joins Iron Man and Spider-Man in their battle against robotic villainy
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From a press release:
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2008 - Ready your repulsor rays because Iron Man is coming to mobile! Hands-On Mobile, Inc., the world's leading developer of connected games and applications, and Marvel Entertainment, Inc., today ann...
Updated May 7th
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To no one’s surprise, the sleeper success horror hit of the summer, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Artisan, 7/99, 1:27, R), has gone on to great success on home video: people not only want to rent the film for an evening`s fright fest around Halloween; they wan...
What They SayIn our society, there are creatures with paranormal power known as Witches. For years, a secret organisation known as \"Solomon\" has been hunting them down. This organisation, based in Italy and run by priests, has a branch in Japan - the ...
Jennifer Coyle has literally worn her love of Spider-Man for much of her adolescent and adult life – she went so far as to paint a huge Spidey on the back of her motorcycle jacket in her days growing up in Rolling Hills and at Cal State Long Beach...
Updated January 4th
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Updated December 28th
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Updated December 26th
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As Dreamworks and Paramount gear up to resurrect a franchise this Independence Day, Random House Publishing Group is capitalizing on the hype by printing the official prequel novel to the live-action film.
Hello everyone and welcome to this Tues...
Let no man call me unwilling to raise the dead. Last week, I hesitated to write yet another critique of Burton's Batman films. Surprisingly, you all wrote an interesting, worthy batch of mail. Seeing as how it was also Halloween weekend, I had every inten...
What They SayFists fly, heads explode. It\'s fast and furious deadly martial arts action pushed to the limits ? and beyond. Never before have so many been killed so quickly by just one man. Ken\'s quest to save the post-nuclear world from his arch-rival S...
Greetings, and welcome to another edition of Mania.com’s Comicscape. Before reading this week’s column about Marvel’s Secret Invasion, know that the issue is spoiled down to the last detail. If you haven’t read it yet, th...
Quirky Romantic Tale Of An Otaku Who Finds Love
San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2006 " VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media LLC, the leading U.S. publisher of Japanese animation and comics that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, has a...
What They SayThe year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as The Laughing Man swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, and corporate espionage leaving no known susp...
When it came time for Marvel to issue a "definitive statement" set within the Marvel Universe addressing the terrorist attacks on the United States that took place on September 11, 2001, the choice of title should have been fairly obvious to any fan, and ...
Mega Man ZX by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Wed 09-20-2006)
Another Mega Man game has been released, as its series library continues to flourish. I have personally enjoyed and enjoyed again the older Mega Man games with the collections released for the consoles, or originally on the old cartridges. It seems that e...
Sitting in Stage 27 on the Sony lot, a webshoot away from the actors and filmmakers of the upcoming Spider-Man film, I`ve been continually humming to myself that jazzy song from the 1967-1970 animated TV series Spider-Man. `Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does w...
From its opening credits to its final frame, Rolfe Kanefsky’s Nightmare Man is a great throwback to eighties horror. Unfortunately the eighties staples are obvious and the effort is uneven.
A young woman, Ellen (Blythe Metz), purchases a...
It's just over a week away: Comic-Con
International in San Diego! Hollywood will be coming to the show, and
Comics2Film aims to help Hollywood find the good stuff.
Today comic-creator and
activist Alonzo Washington pitches his comic "Omega Ma...
Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing resurrects three different characters and concepts. Dead of Night was one of those fantastic Marvel Comics horror anthologies of the 1970’s. Because these titles were always low-sellers, Marvel’s edi...
Updated January 9th
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You win the Spidey 2 DVD! NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRANTS
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When Kirstin Dunst walks into a room you notice. It's not merely the dimpled cheeks or her blonde tresses, but what makes Dunst stand out is her grace and smile. When she greets you, as she enters the room, she is genuinely happy you are there to speak ...
I've just spent an entire day sitting in a room with pizza, chips, brownies, Mountain Dew and a copy of SPIDER-MAN 2 for the Xbox. While it's somewhat disappointing to have spoiled the movie story for myself, the gameplay may be the closest any game has e...
Every great hero has that one villain who stands above all the rest, that archenemy who isn’t a cartoonish `bad guy,` but a dark, disturbingly close reflection of the hero himself. Batman has the Joker, Wolverine has Sabretooth and Reed Richards has Docto...
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I wish I could say I'm thankful for all the responses I got regarding last week's question, but because of the snafu that afflicted last week's column the one from the previous week went out first, along with a blank templ...
Penguin Group USA unveils a powerful new anthology on hardcover featuring fantasy’s most prestigious character archetypes: the almighty, all-ass-kicking wizard. Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Orson Scott Card, and many other established fantasy authors ro...
Inside a makeshift, Wrestle-Mania, steel death cage, a giant `Spider-Man` banner dangles above 9 empty chairs. On the hardwood floor, lies the insignia `NYWL,` surrounded by a single thread of tattooed barbed wire. The anxious, pastry-totting media rep...
Paul Verhoeven is a very talented, intelligent director, but on the basis of many of his films, you might not know it. Sure, he’s made great ones like THE FOURTH MAN, ROBOCOP, and STARSHIP TROOPERS, but even some of his relatively entertaining work (TOTAL...
If one was to philosophically understand what Paul Verhoeven is trying to accomplish with the much anticipated Hollow Man, perhaps you could sum it up as, `The art of invisibility without being invisible.` Hollywood is again revisiting the past by re-inve...
Iron Man arrives in theaters this weekend. Prepare for the onslaught of Iron Man products. Toys, video games, comics and soundtracks will, of course, be on our collective radars. Let’s face it guys (and gals), the days of little action fi...
25-year-old Jeevan Kang is living one of his dreams: he gets to create a new spin on one of his beloved childhood characters, Spider-Man. Kang is the writer/artist working on SPIDER-MAN INDIA, the Indian counterpart to Marvel's Manhattan-based wall-crawle...
OPINION: Though not that many people seemed to disagree with my Top Ten Best Comics of 2003 list from last week, a few people did write in asking why I didn't include this title or that title. In at least one case, my answer is this: 1) I didn't include c...
If you're a comic book fan, videogame fan, or movie buff you know that the third Spider-Man movie is coming to theaters this May. Along with it is Activision and Treyarch's "third" Spider-Man game (technically it's the sixth Activision Spider-Man game), S...
While a sequel to the ultra-successful The Blair Witch Project was inevitable, it was perhaps equally inevitable that any such sequel would pale in comparison to the original “indie” horror flick. For while the Blair Witch was a truly innovative, low budg...
Bantam Spectra has provided Cinescape with an excerpt from George R. R. Martin's upcoming A Feast for Crows. The novel will be released on November 8, 2005. THE PROPHET The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was...
The nice thing about anime fandom is how dependable it can be. Anime enthusiasts are often video game enthusiasts, and vice versa. Many of us got our earliest exposure to Japanese animation through the monster and character designs found in early Nintendo...
The MEGA MAN series to me will always remind me of the time I picked up a copy of MEGA MAN 2 at a flea market, and found myself brought into a whole new world of videogames. Since then, I've played the majority of the MEGA MAN titles, from the original se...
It's good to be the king.
Or rather, it's good to be Tony Stark. He's got a hot car, a cool house, the best scotch, and he always gets the girl. If he can't buy it, he'll engineer it.
'Iron Man' features Robert Downey Jr. as Stark, a media darling and b...
We already knew this week would already be all about Spider-Man 3. With the anticipation so high, the presales from Fandango.com and Movietickets.com being in the upper stratosphere and news everywhere on Spider-Man 3 the past few weeks, the question wasn...
You may notice something different down at the bottom of the Shopping List from now on. We're going to give Universal Media Discs their own little section. I've been listing UMDs since they started selling them, but up to now I've only given them token me...
Marvel announced its first quarter earnings today. As is typical the comics publisher and movie studio gave forward looking statements about it's upcoming film, TV and DVD plans.
Highlights include firm announcements for 'Iron Man 2' and 'Thor', along wi...
Updated May 5th
Congratulations to Binaryan!
You're pumped for the movie and soon you'll be pumping up your Nerf Blaster!
Those of you who didn't win: Remember we have another NRF 425 Blaster here, as well as other cool prizes from 'Iron Man'! N...
Updated May 8th
Congratulations to Tyguy2021
You'll be darting like a...er...a thing that darts a LOT with this baby! You win!
Those of you who didn't win: We've got one last Iron Man Mask/Gauntlet set up for giveaway! NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRAN...
In the recent media blitz Spider-Man has turned up almost everywhere, and in
light of the financial ramifications, the business trades have been no
exception. This week, BusinessWeek.com
ran a story about the winding and tangled path Spidey has taken ...
The reaction to Activision and Treyarch's Spider-Man 3 game trailer has been less than stellar. "It's Spider-Man 2 with better graphics," fanboys have screamed across the Internet, but after a day in the Activision offices and some hands-on time with the ...
This was, without a doubt, the biggest panel at Comic-Con 2007. No fewer than ten movies were previewed/featured at this thing, and several big surprises were revealed as well. But of course, the biggest reveal was the premiere of the 'Iron Man' trail...
Genre:Comic Book Adaptation/Horror.Studio:Artisan Entertainment.Production Company:Fierce Entertainment.Project Phase:Post-production.Who's In It:Jack Thompson; Rawiri Paratene; Matt Le Nevez; Rachel Taylor; Steve Bastoni.Who's Making It:Brett Leonard (Di...
Nearly 20 years after the heroic He-Man was first introduced to the youth of America, Mattel, Inc. is bringing back an updated version of the warrior from Eternia, along with several other Masters of the Universe, for a new generation of fans.Premiering a...
Spider-Man nuts around the world still have two long months to wait before their favorite wall-crawler officially arrives on the big screen in May, but one famous fan of ol' Webhead is already giving director Sam Raimi's take on the character the thumbs-u...
Danny Elfman’s score is just about the only thing that hasn’t been unanimously praised about Sam Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN movie. Early reviews on the Internet slammed it as “tuneless” with one reviewer going so far as to state, “There is literally NO THEME!” We...
As had widely been expected in the wake of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’s blockbuster success, distributor Artisan Entertainment is trying to spin the film off into a profitable franchise, with plans firmly in place for not only a sequel but a prequel as well....
Witches for Dummies!
El Cerrito, CA – September 7th, 2004 Today, Infinity Studios LLC announces they will be publishing Witch Class, a truly unique and hilarious love comedy by Lee Ru.
Whether it be owning a pet pony, becoming a princess, or marr...
Remember that CGI animated 'Spider-Man' series that aired on MTV a while back. I started some time after the first movie came out.
Well, now you can relive the glory of that show as it's set to broadcast via Kabillion, the multi-platform kids' entertainm...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
OPINION: Before getting onto the topic of this week's column, I'd like to thank everyone who wrote in expressing their condolences on the death of my cat and who gave me their vote of confidence regarding the way I handled the mean-spirited e-mail from a ...
Last week's admittedly meandering column about sex and women in popular comics didn't garner much mail, but it lit the comment section on fire. I thought that a column about everybody's favorite subject (or at least mine and Al's) would at least get me a ...
What They SayIt\'s Harlock! Renowned Manga author Matsumoto Leiji?s greatest creation, Captain Harlock, comes to the big screen in this magnificent film.
When aliens conquer earth and enslave the human race, all hope for freedom is abandoned. But one ma...
Greetings, fellow fiends, and welcome to another week of brilliant banter, witty rhetoric, and cataclysmic commentary about the state of the comics industry. Before we dive headlong into this pit of barbed wire and broken glass: I'll run your letters next...
The New Year looms on the horizon yet again, and I find myself lacking inspiration for a column in between the twin drinking binges of Christmas and New Year's Eve. As such, you'll have to make due with my ramblings about the state of the comic industry i...
Comic Continuum reports that Toy Biz has announced plans to release a second series of Spider-Man Classic action figures this spring, around March. The figure list for the second series this time around includes Classic Spider-Man, Battle Ravaged Spider-M...
A mystery/thriller/musical with horror overtones, The Wicker Man stands as one of the best British films ever! Well at least they think so: it’s number 96 on the BFI 100 favorite list. After hearing praise like that, one can only expect the actual viewing...
Hello fellow Maniacs. Normally, I’m restricted to the weekend content but since it’s the summer, I’ll be trying to update everyone on current activities and updates of the industry. My weekly box office report is sometimes not accurate a...
What They SayBeing a Witch Hunter is anything but normal. Robin has begun settling into her new life at the STNJ, practicing with her supernatural powers and making some extraordinary progress. The arrival of her beloved Vespa has given Robin independence...