With two Award nominations for her speculative poetry, a batch of current projects in the works, and her first novel having debuted earlier this summer, longtime writer, first time publishee MarsheilaRockwell is taking her fantasy writing career into ful...
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has grabbed the distribution rights in all English-speaking territories for Liberty Films' sci-fi thriller Moon, which stars Sam Rockwell. This is the directorial debut of Duncan Jones, who also penned the ...
The crucial role of Chuck Barris in the coming CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND has been cast. Sam Rockwell (THE GREEN MILE, GALAXY QUEST, CHARLIE'S ANGELS) has been tapped to play game show creator Chuck Barris in a story based on Barris' mock autobiograp...
Face it, as fun as trick-or-treating is, your just too old to do it anymore-- you'll creep people out if you start stalking around the neighborhood in a costume. And, with Halloween on a weekday, the good parties will all have happened the previous weeken...
Welcome to another edition of Superficial Slobber. This week has much the same of any other week in which Paris Hilton is still an idiot and Rosie O’Donnell is still an annoying crack job. Yes, all in all, it’s always those same celebs that...
It's no industry secret that most crime films suffer from a lack of creative storytelling, pouring on the flashy stylism in an attempt to distract viewers from what usually boils down to a painfully formulaic narrative. Writer-director David Mamet's HEIST...
Sitting down to interview Michael Clarke Duncan who stars alongside Tom Hanks in The Green Mile, the first thing I notice is his jovial, garrulous manner. He`s friendly, open, and extremely happy to talk about the biggest role of his acting career. Big. T...
Rutger Hauer's next two films with have the actor working for George Clooney and getting to know a legendary bloodsucker.According to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Hauer was invited by Clooney to take the role of an East German hitman who mentors Chu...
A reel life, much like a real one, is full of peaks and valleys. For veteran actor Martin Landau early peaks would be appearing in films like North By Northwest and Cleopatra and playing on television in classic genre series Mission: Impossible and Space:...
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND opens December 31 in Los Angeles and New York before heading to wide distribution on January 17. The film is based on GONG SHOW impresario Chuck Barris' "unauthorized autobiography", in which he reminisces about his televis...
Julia Roberts is joining the cast of George Clooney's CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND.According to Variety, Roberts will play an unspecified smaller part in the coming film, which will star Guy Rockwell, Drew Barrymore and Clooney. The project is based on...
A challenging casting task involving look-alikes is under way for Warner Bros.' "Watchmen" adaptation of Alan Moore's 1980s graphic novel set in an alternative universe's United States. Names include Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman, Ted Kopp...
The JSA and the JLA get together for Thanksgiving dinner. Um, that's it.Seriously, though, there's little more that happens in this issue than two superhero teams who, in the post-CRISIS DC Universe, have little of the camaradie they once enjoyed getting ...
1999 was a notably strong year for fantastic genre films at the box office, but much of that success came from a horror offshoot that hasn`t typically enjoyed a lot of audience acceptance: the ghost story. The mega-hit THE SIXTH SENSE, the critically wel...
The world of David Lynch is an acquired taste, something that served him well when he was considered a cult director (ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET) but tended to backfire when he experimented with the mainstream (DUNE). It wasn't until 1990's TV phenomenon TWI...
Drew Barrymore has signed on to play the female lead role in George Clooney's CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, based on Chuck Barris' faux autobiography. That same role was previously reported to have been Nicole Kidman's. Clooney will direct and appear i...
The Review!Well, the first volume of the DVD release of the series, which many of you have wanted above all other anime, is finally here. Actually, the Evangelion DVD has been out for about a month, but it took me a long time to write this review! This re...
Rumors abount on the 'Batman Begins' sequel as a source deemed "trusted" tells Batman-on-Film.com that Philip Seymour Hoffman is a potential Penguin and Sam Rockwell may be a Joker...
Welcome to the latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight.
Our interviewee today is the 2004 DCG Award winner for Best Artist,
and one of the all-time greats of the C2F/HM community: Harald Stricker,
better known as Android.
Comics2Film (C2F):
What is y...
Top Cow President of Production Spike Seldin told Comics2Film that new screenwriters have
signed on to the adaptation of J. Michael Straczynski's comic Rising
Stars.
Anthony and Joe
Russo are officially on board to do a rewrite of Straczynski's scri...
The Review!Anyone who frequents the forum on a regular basis has come across, at one time or another, my moaning at Dan Rockwell about the delays in even announcing a date for this title. If you've seen those posts, you know that ADV's announcement of thi...
The LA Daily News reported today that Warner Bros is having trouble getting some "casting" done for their upcoming adaptation of Alan Moore's WATCHMEN. The film being helmed by Zach Snyder( 300, DAWN OF THE DEAD) certainly has a large cast of lo...
One of three titles (soon to be four) set in the new Eberron: The Inquisitives series, MarsheilaRockwell’s Legacy of Wolves makes a splash in Forgotten Realm’s freshest universe. A juicy tale of conspiracy, werewolves, and good ole-fashioned ...
A few weeks
back, rumors began to surface on the Internet about about possible creative
directions for Spider-Man 3. The stories you may have heard
included mention of actors like Vin Diesel, The Rock and Sam Rockwell cast as
characters like Venom a...
Amazon.com is debuting the trailer for the HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY on their website. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, and John Malkovich, and opens April 29, 2005, in theaters everywhere.Click he...
Actor John Malkovich has joined the cast of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY movie. Unlike the earlier casting announcements, Malkovich is playing a character not seen in Douglas Adams' novel but one created for the film (at the instruction of the nov...
Joshua is a thriller focusing on that most unnerving of antagonists, a young child who seems the picture of innocence. This premise sometimes works brilliantly (the original Bad Seed, The Other, The Exorcist) and sometimes less so (the recent remake of Th...
The idea for GALAXY QUEST did not sound particularly promising: take a bunch of actors from a cheesy sci-fi show and thrust them into a real outer space adventure. After all, a not dissimilar idea had been attempted in THREE AMIGOS, with mixed results: pa...
For anyone doubting the impact Christopher Reeve had on audiences in his interpretation of Superman, they need look no farther than the world's reaction to his tragic horse-riding accident four years ago. The love and support demonstrated spoke volumes an...
Charlie Kaufman has made his reputation on screenplays that blend reality with fiction in ways where you don't know which is which. His first screenplay, Being John Malkovich, brought us into the mind and life of the title actor (or rather, a strange, alt...
The title of MATCHSTICK MEN, as we learn during the proceedings, is yet another colorful synonym for grifters, scammers, con artists. The term handily describes partners in crime Roy (Nicolas Cage) and Frank (Sam Rockwell), who at present are perpetrating...
Actors are trained to deliver a wide range of emotions on command anger, joy, sadness but what does one do with a script that calls for being scared silly in the opening minutes of a film, and only growing more and more terrified for the next hour and a...
It's possible that nobody except Chuck Barris himself knows how much of his putative autobiography CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND is for real. Well, that's not entirely correct there's definitely a consensus that Barris thought up those bellwethers of '...
Although not always successful (some one-liners just lay there, and director Dean Parisot doesn`t always seem to know how to direct a scene to fulfill its comedic possibilities) Galaxy Quest is an excellent SF comedy, able to usually move very well from h...
Before September 11th, the most dramatic news out of The Toronto Film Festival was that Matthew McConaughey had saved a woman who'd fainted while waiting in line for a movie. Before September 11th, the most shocking thing around town was how Joaquin Phoen...
Mandate Pictures has acquired the rights to the upcoming dark supernatural thriller 27 TIMES.The story was written by Thomas Thonson and follows a paranoid, overprotective young man caring for his shut-in teenage brother, who is tortured by precognitive v...
As the old saying goes when it rains it pours and this week’s schedule, being positively drenched with new releases from top genre publishers Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast, is no exception. But perhaps the most interesting release on this editi...
Brother can you spare a week or two? That’s about how long it’s going to take you to get through this massive 12 disc boxed set, the first of three volumes showcasing the adventures of Young Indiana Jones. This show, originally broad...
Sam Rockwell, star of CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND and known to science fiction fans as Guy the security guy in GALAXY QUEST, will be sipping Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters shortly because the actor has been cast as Zaphod Beeblebrox in the HITCHHIKER'S ...
In last week’s column, I put out an offer to sell my credibility in exchange for new electronics equipment. Well, no DVD player manufacturers or retailers have responded to my offer (which still stands), but I’m gonna tell you how you can get a DVD player...
Don't let that Norman Rockwell-based cover or the blurb from WIZARD MAGAZINE bombastically declaring this "Best Comic, 2001" put you off?JSA #32 is exactly where you need to start if you want to test those Golden Age waters. If you're already a fan, then ...
VIDIOCY NEWS LORD OF THE RINGS information is starting to come out regarding the DVD release of the film on August 6th. First up will be a two-disc "Theatrical Edition" with disc one offering the film as seen during its highly successful theatrical run. D...
Publisher Larry Young has announced that AiT/Planet Lar's September offerings will include ABEL, by William Harms and Mark Bloodworth. AiT/Planet Lar book designer and cover artist Brian Wood works his 11th AiT cover for ABEL. "Abel's a hard book to cla...