You probably won't have heard of MaryMagdalene Smith yet, but I can tell you that it's only a matter of time before she becomes a household name.
MaryMagdalene is our dear Sophia's daughter, the fruit of her marriage to the Z-list failed pop star ex-h...
...nected to MaryMagdalene in the South of France.
This infamous Egyptian Sekhmet statuette was given to me by a well-known French prankster, whom we shall henceforth refer to by his "magical" name of The Wolf, as a token of gratitude after h...
...shrine of MaryMagdalene at Saint-Maximin la Saint-Baume to light a candle (as I am wont to do). Tradition had it that MaryMagdalene had lived out the remainder of her life here in a cave after escaping to France from the Holy Land in a rudderless boa...
...llucci as MaryMagdalene. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST is a vivid depiction of the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth on earth, including his dramatic trial and death. It was adapted from a composite account of The Passion assembled from the f...
...s married MaryMagdalene and they had a child, and that blood line survives to this day. The earlier book set out the notion that Christ did not die on the cross but lived later in France," notes AP.
Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights to Top Cow's comicbook, MAGDALENA. Screenwriter Kevin Taft will adapt.The story centers on a young woman named Patience who discovers she is part of a lineage of female warriors descended from MaryMagdalene. Sh...
...d’s MaryMagdalene myth into the lyrics of a pop album. And, before I knew it, I was hooked.
It was around this time that I decided to hire Sophia. Up until the separation, the Ex and I shared a secretary but now that we were spending time on d...
...Jesus and MaryMagdalene, which then simmered for another twenty years, resurfacing in a flurry of artforms ignited by the internet during the mid-90s, before finally bursting into full-blown popular culture in the form of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brow...
...ence that MaryMagdalene married Jesus Christ and fled to France with his children after the crucifixion.
Now, any self-respecting member of the Ordre du Hareng Rouge knows full well that the Priory of Sion doesn't actually exist, except maybe as a...
...arried to MaryMagdalene, and they had a child; their descendants became the 5th-8th century Merovingian kings of France; and after the Merovingians were replaced by the Carolingians (Charlemagne's dynasty) the sacred bloodline of Jesus and the Magdale...
...rdquo; of MaryMagdalene, more to be mischievous than anything else, but also for reasons that will become clear as our saga continues. It took a good seven years for anyone to realize what we had done.
And this is exactly what we're doing with this ...
According to Marvel Comics, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #50 will be a major issue in the relationship between Peter Parker and his wife Mary Jane.In an announcement released this week, Marvel said:"The creative team of J. Michael Straczynski and penciler John Romi...
HNR visited the set of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA had a chance to talk with Mary McDonnell about her role as President Laura Roslin on the series.In terms of what some people consider a rather grim and a pessimistic worldview on the show, McDonnell responded, "...
Mary McCormack has signed on to start in Dimension Films' upcoming horror film 1408. She will take over the role which was to be played by Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy) who was forced to exit due to scheduling conflicts with her ABC/Touchstone TV series.Mc...
DC Comics has now released an image of the Mary variant figure for the upcoming DC Direct wave of Shazam figures.Each figure features multiple points of articulation and a base.You can see the image to the left. Figures will be available on November...
Actress Winona Ryder is reuniting with her HEATHERS helmer Michael Lehmann on the new low budget comedy MARY WARNER. The dark-haired leading lady will play a struggling actress that, after accidentally eating a batch of marijuana-laced brownies that her s...
Bowen Designs has posted images of their upcoming Mary Jane Statue.The figure, which was sculpted by Tony Cipriano, stands approximately 12" tall. It's painted and ready to display.It will be available in June 2006 and is priced at $150.00.
Variety is reporting that Daniel Gilles has won the role of Mary-Jane Watson's new boyfriend in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, a.k.a. SPIDER-MAN 2. But for those of us familiar with the litany of Spider-Man's supporting cast members, the name of MJ's new beau w...
Mania is happy to announce our latest contest, a DVD contest for the upcoming horror film Bloody Mary.In the film, when a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary, a supposed urban myth, the slaughter begins. First, a young nu...
Sources for FilmForce are reporting that model Natassia Malthe has landed the part of Typhoid Mary in the ELEKTRA movie. Malthe, 26, began her professional career as a fashion model and has made the leap to feature films, appearing in such pictures as 40 ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another dive into the shallow end of Comicscape! Last week’s none-too-scientific analysis of the many 1990s throwbacks plaguing the industry generated a lot of comments, but little mail. I intended to run...
Mania's recent Bloody Mary DVD contest has ended and we are happy to announce the winners:KuttlesJerryJaredScottJasonIn the film, when a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary, a supposed urban myth, the slaughter begins. Fi...
Sometimes a form of entertainment can become so bad that it transcends badness and becomes something new and wonderful. The world of newspaper comic strips is a gold mine for this, where strips that were built on a shaky premise to begin with run for deca...
Here's how a normal book signing goes: Everyone stands in a nice orderly line while the latest hot author mechanically autographs one volume after another, smiling thinly at the parade of readers who march passed.Now here's how a Robert J Sawyer book sign...
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 ...
Elektra by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 11-05-2004)
Genre:Action/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:Regency Enterprises.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Jennifer Garner (Elektra Natchios/"Elektra"); Terence Stamp (Stick); Goran Visnjic (Mark Miller); Kirsten Prout (Abby Mill...
The latest Best Selling lists have been released from most of the news publications for this past week. It looks like author James Patterson is leading the way on most of the lists from his latest novel, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. Here's a look at the Best Selle...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of cutthroat Comicscape action! Late as usual, I realize the furious spell of controversy over the statue of Mary Jane Watson-Parker leaning over a laundry hamper wound down last month, but the storm ov...
There's never been a more potent, more dazzling moment in the memory of Spider-fans than that first amazing meeting between Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson. When John Romita's curvy creation crooked her hand and uttered the immortal words, "Face it Tige...
MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING: There's simply no easy way to review this watershed issue of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN without discussing the last few pages, so if you don't want to know the events of this installment, STOP READING NOW!All right then. We've waxed eloq...
Marvel Comics has released the first three covers and solicitation information for SPIDER-MAN: BLUE, the Marvel Knights mini-series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. "The title's not blue like the color -- it's blue as in sad, as in jazz music, as blue in love,...
Peter Parker and his lovely wife, Mary Jane Watson-Parker, stand at the bedside of Aunt May, as she slowly expires from a sniper’s bullet. The Kingpin sent the sniper to kill Peter, but the hitman accidentally shot May. Now, having dissoci...
Jim Butcher propels the Dresden Files, Janine Cross’s dark fantasy series reaches its conclusion, and entertainment journalist Edward Gross takes a stab at chronicling the development of all things Harry Potter in a very weighted edition of this ...
New Line Cinema has put out some new images from FINAL DESTINATION 3, the third installment in the series. The film stars Ryan Merriman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The story is set six years after the events of FINAL DESTINATION, Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Wi...
The ABC Family Channel has come up with one of the cooler SPIDER-MAN tie-in events with a three-day marathon of the best episodes of the four animated SPIDER-MAN cartoon series. The series, which at various times have run from the 1960s all the way until ...
Each December, I feel obligated to write one of these wretched “year in review” columns that gives you, the reader, my perfunctory thoughts on comic books through the last 12 months. These things hardly satisfy anyone, least of all me...
Those who have come to expect a lot of goodies on their DOCTOR WHO discs may be a tad disappointed with the KEY TO TIME boxed set, a series of six discs with the six stories from the series' sixteenth season. (Try saying that five times fast.) Having all ...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to the second part of the Comicscape’s 2007: The Year-in Review. Last week, I touched on five of the biggest stories in comics from the past year. This week, we’ve got a few more. Thankfully, the ...
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz, where information on tomorrow’s batch of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror lit are brought to light today. In a slow week of genre releases Dr. Who hardcovers and a couple original tales of speculative fic...
Generally speaking, I've enjoyed the recent glut of comic book adaptations that Hollywood has been bringing us. There've been a a few I didn't really care for, like BLADE: TRINITY and CONSTANTINE. But, even those were fairly entertaining in their own righ...
With Timur Bekmambetov’s latest Night Watch film adaptation smashing box office records in Russia (yet again) and the film still fresh in the states from its US debut this past June, author Sergei Lukyanenko has officially put Russia on the map for ...
Mary Maxwell's not your typical student. She reads comic books and longs for an exciting, action-filled life, something she's not likely to get while living with her boring scientist dad. But you know what they say: "Be careful what you wish for..." Soon,...
You ever see that Bruce Campbell movie Bubba Ho-Tep? It's about how Elvis and JFK are alive and well (okay, sortof well) in a Texas nursing home. And JFK is black. So then they fight a mummy. It's not, actually, as good as its premise - but then I'm fairl...
SPIDER-MAN 2 is one of those happy sequels (for the audience the characters are as angst-ridden as ever) that builds on rather than merely repeats the original. 2002's SPIDER-MAN was a very good and spiritually faithful adaptation of the Marvel comic boo...
Somewhere deep in the bowels of Cinescape City, the vast metropolis built in the late 21st century to house all genre entertainment artifacts after the great Pop Culture Wars of 2077, there lies a machine unlike any other. Sitting patiently under a dusty ...
Part one of CINESCAPE's profile on SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi delved into Raimi's vision for the eagerly anticipated comic book adaptation and the director's choice of actor Tobey Maguire to play Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Part two chronicles the directo...
The Battle of the Sexes leaves no battleground bloodless. This week's Comicscape column references two fairly hot topics that has set the comics fandom aflame: The cover of Heroes for Hire #13, and a certain collectable statuette of Mary Jane, Spider-Man'...
For decades, Spider-Man fans have waited not-so-patiently to see a movie based on their beloved webhead's adventures waited through lawsuits, bankruptcy, endless script development and director switches, until it seemed the project was doomed never to ha...
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...
On June 26th, DEAD SILENCE will be released on DVD and HD DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell's film centers on a young man caught up in a terrifying supernatural nightmare. Ever...
In the world of film, the phrase "B movie" seems to automatically make a film the equivalent of Rodney Dangerfield. It just can't get any respect. It's a sad state of things really, since many past Bs are today acknowledged classics and plenty of today's ...
In 2001 the Dabel Brothers founded a publishing company in search of a niche. Under the name “Roaring Studios” Ernst, Les, Pascal and David Dabel took their love of comics and fantasy to a new height, capitalizing on the vacancy of book-to-com...
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 ...
While Tom Hanks is presently busy starring in the cinematic adaptation of the childrens book THE POLAR EXPRESS, he's also struck a deal to adapt another kids book to the silver screen. Hanks and business partner Gary Goetzman have inked a deal with Unive...
Release Date: July 2, 2008 Studio: Columbia Pictures Director: Peter Berg Screenwriter: Vy Vincent Ngo, Vince Gilligan Cast: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan Genre: Action, Comedy Official Website: Hancockmovie.com Plot ...
The official website for the new version of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has been given a makeover. Photos from the upcoming Sci-Fi Channel mini-series have finally been posted including shots of Edward James Olmos as Commander Adama and Mary McDonnell as Presid...
OPINIONI know I promised a column on the best and worst movie adaptations, but I'm going to delay it for a week for two reasons: 1) I've not seen THE HULK yet, and I want to include it; and 2) I have something to get off my chest - namely, my thoughts on ...
Originally aired on CBS in 1991, the animated BACK TO THE FUTURE TV series is returning to the airwaves, this time as a part of Fox's Saturday morning lineup. The series will premiere on Fox at 8:30 AM (ET/PT) on March 22.The Emmy-award winning cartoon s...
I have to hand it to Straczynski the man single-handedly rescued the webslinger from years of aimless storytelling and abysmal misfires (Clone Saga...no more need be said there). And to top it all off, a few months ago he finally wrote an end to our long...
In today's Variety there's a quick mention that Columbia Pictures plans on releasing the first trailer for SPIDER-MAN 2 this coming November. No info was given as to which film(s) the SPIDEY 2 trailer may run with or when in November we'll get to see it. ...
Arrving on comic book store shelves in July is the first issue of TROUBLE, published by Marvel Comics. Written by Mark Millar (THE ULTIMATES) and with art by Terry and Rachel Dodson (SPIDER-MAN: BLACK CAT), the comic book is also the debut book from Marv...
Radley Metzger is considered by many to be the premier director of erotica, and I've found that this proves to be the case. Metzger is not without controversy, having crossed the boundary into graphic sex in a fair number of his '70s movies, most directed...
In part one of CINESCAPE's profile on SPIDER-MAN co-star Willem Dafoe, the actor discussed his interest in playing Spidey's archenemy the Green Goblin. In part two he describes the challenge of performing in a full-faced Goblin mask and the film's elabora...
As the young man cast in the title role of the highly anticipated SPIDER-MAN, Tobey Maguire is set to enter super-stardom. Today we continue our chat with the web-spinning actor.Maguire campaigned for the role even though his background on the character w...
Parts one and two of CINESCAPE's profile on SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi delved into Raimi's vision for the eagerly anticipated comic book adaptation and the director's choices of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst to play Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Mary J...
Beginning an in-depth chat with SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi, CINESCAPE cuts directly to the chase and asks the question already burning in the minds of the web-slinger's legions of fans: What's going on with SPIDER-MAN 2? "Sony has asked me to direct nu...
OPINIONI finally got to see THE HULK yesterday, and now I see why it's gotten such mixed reviews. It's a nicely thought-out movie, and it tells Bruce Banner's story in the only plausible way that it could be told in 2003. On the other hand, it takes a lot...
VIDEO NEWSHELLRAISER: HELLSEEKER, which reunites stars Doug Bradley and Ashley Laurence from the first film in the series, will hit video stores this October. But FANGORIA.COM recently reported that a sequel to that sequel is already in the works. Apparen...
VARIETY reports that producer Robert Kosberg (COMMANDO, TWELVE MONKEYS) will produce three movies for Bungalow 78 Productions, one of which will be SURRENDER DOROTHY, a sequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ for Warner Bros., Atlas Entertainment and Flower Films. Dre...
Woohoo! Now we're talkin'! Spidey in pitched battle with not one, but two deadly Doctors Octopus! (And yes, that's correct grammar.) The original Doc Ock is finally - finally - regaining some of his former glory after years of being played for laughs or a...
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 ...
Man, I am so sick and tired of all these reality dating shows.They're just so freakin' terrible. THE BACHELOR, THE BACHELOR 2, THE BACHELORETTE, BACHELORETTES IN ALASKA, JOE MILLIONAIRE and so on and so on: All of them are evil shows.First of all, the peo...
Standing there amidst the bales of hay and corn stalks at the Los Angeles premiere of JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood you expected any second for someone to jump out at you dressed as the Creeper. JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 has quite a lar...
Plot:18 eligible bachelors fight for the love of a leather-wrapped ball. It's highstakes drama at its best here folks. Check back next week to see if Mary accepts Timmy's marriage proposal, or if she leaves him for Tom the garbage truck driver.Platform:PS...
Actor Jared Harris has joined the cast of the HBO movie THE BALLAD OF BETTIE PAGE. He will play photographer John Willie, the man who brought Page to fame through his sexy photos of the dark-haired pin-up queen. Gretchen Mol (THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR) is play...
OPINION: First of all, a point of clarification: a certain web site which shall remain nameless felt the need to link to last week's column with the headline CINESCAPE BLASTS HELLBLAZER'S CONSTANTINE, with a "synopsis" line reading "Who needs to see a mov...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Last week we asked who would win in a fight, Mick Jagger or Dean Martin and let me tell you, it was no contest. Dean "Dino" Martin killed Mick Jagger. As they say in the funny papers, blood everywhere...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! I was watching VH1 the other day and they had one of those "worst songs of all time" shows on and by the end when such abominations as "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," "Achy Breaky Heart," and "We Built ...
For Kirsten Dunst, the hardest part about playing William Randolph Hearst's mistress Marion Davis in the new murder mystery THE CAT'S MEOW wasn't the period clothes, the permed hair or cradling a bloodied murder victim in her arms. It was kissing 58-year-...
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...
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...
MAD MAX director George Miller has attached himself to two projects in development at Warner Bros. The one that has been kicking around the longest is THE SPARROW, a tale of the disasterous first contact between a representative of humanity and an alien r...
FilmJerk has released info on the storyline and characters in the ELEKTRA movie, now slated to start filming May 3 in Vancouver, Canada. The site has posted an overview of the plot for this DAREDEVIL spinoff vehicle that will star Jennifer Garner as the m...
After two official screen adaptations -- a 1976 theatrical version starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and a 1995 TV movie -- plus a bunch of suspiciously similar variations, FREAKY FRIDAY is back in a new edition. Mary Rodgers' comedy/fantasy novel...
May and Mary are two teenaged girls headed for the Hamptons for a fun-filled summer...waiting tables at the local posh resort. They're hoping to meet some hot guys to make the summer even warmer, but the resort has a strict policy against fraternization. ...
Last Friday at the San Diego Comic-Con The Sci-Fi Channel hosted a panel promoting their upcoming relaunch of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, a four-hour mini-series starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. In attendance were stars Jamie Bamber (Apollo), Kat...
Christopher Chance is dead, killed in the fire that burned off the face of Hollywood producer Frank White, who is now living happily with his wife Mary after extensive reconstructive surgery. Problem is, he's also being stalked by a man threatening him (i...
Katherine Heigl (ROSWELL) will co-star in THE RINGER, the Johnny Knoxville-led movie now shooting in Austin, Texas. Executive produced by the Farrelly brothers (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY), written by Ricky Blitt and directed by Barry Blaustein, THE RIN...
Horror novelist Dean Koontz, honored filmmaker Martin Scorsese, rising star Marcus Nispel and television producer Tony Krantz are joining forces to create a weekly FRANKENSTEIN TV series. The USA Network has given the go-ahead for a two-hour pilot plus fo...
Submitted for your approval this Wednesday morning: an Australian reader of the Sunday Telegraph found a story in the newspaper concerning SPIDER-MAN 2. What caught the attention of the scooper were the three photos accompaning the story as well as two st...
Peter is nearly killed during a fight with a peculiar cat burglar (a far more gorgeous one than he's used to dealing with, however), and the whole encounter makes him reconsider the crime-fighting biz. Mary's all in favor of the career change, but she's g...
Looking to past genre literature for its future projects, Hallmark Entertainment will produce new versions of the classic novels FRANKENSTEIN and KING SOLOMON'S MINES for television. The pair of shows, both to be made as four-hour mini-series, will likely...
Everyone knows that the truth is out there, but this summer the truth will really be out there thanks to Sci-Fi Channel's new hour-long weekly series, THE CHRONICLE a giddy hybrid of horror, science-fiction, and comedy set at a tabloid newspaper that has...
Sharon Lawrence (NYPD BLUE) is the latest addition to the cast of CBS' still evolving WOLF LAKE TV series.Lawrence will take on the role of Vanessa Cates, the wife of the small town's powerful industrialist. Her husband also happens to be one of the burg'...
Matt Dillon has got a hate on for punchbuggys. After playing a memorable snake in the grass in THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, Dillion will again be a villain in HERBIE: FULLY LOADED. The actor will play a professional NASCAR driver named Trip who's got a d...
Sam Raimi has been talking about what he knows regarding the posibility of further SPIDER-MAN movies, though he, as yet, is not involved in them.While talking to Spider-Man Hype, Raimi spoke of what he knew about potential sequels, saying, "I assume and I...
Quite a few names are close to or have signed on to star in Steven Soderbergh's HOW TO SURVIVE A HOTEL ROOM FIRE project.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Duchovny as well as Blair Underwood and Mary McCormack are all close to sealing a deal to join Ju...
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...
It wasn't about the illustrious adventures, the daring heroes, the dastardly villains. It wasn't about the cosmic scope, the human moments, the eternal struggle of good vs. evil. No, when it comes to all the early Stan scripts that shaped the Marvel Unive...
Sobini Films has acquired the film rights to Graham Joyce's horror novel DARK SISTER. The book told the story of a woman who finds what she belives to be a herbalist's journal while cleaning her house's chimney. She soon realizes that the book of arcane r...
Hard as it is to imagine a time before television, forgetting all of the sensationalism that comes standard with a TV set, there nonetheless have been plenty of frothing-at-the-mouth media frenzies that pre-date the boob tube. One of the most notorious of...
For many fans of the Silver Age of comics and Spider-Man in particular, there is no more memorable artist than John Romita Sr., a man who brought his distinctive romantic touch to every title he illustrated. Beautifying the surreal world of Peter Parker f...
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...
A few months ago I titled a DVD Shopping Bag column: “Precursor”. It dealt with the Warner Brothers re-release of Omega Man coinciding with the theatrical release of I am Legend. This, of course, was not, nor will it ever be, an isol...
A new viral marketing website has popped up online for Columbia Pictures' upcoming Will Smith vehicle Hancock. The new site can be found at HancockWasHere.com which is run by Hancock (Smith) by the looks of it. Also, some new pics for the upcoming comedic...
When last we left the crew of the Battlestar Galactica, at the end of season two, their settlement on New Caprica was being invaded by the Cylons. Both Admiral Adama (Edward James Olmos) and Commander Adama (Jamie Bamber) decide to jump away from New...
By the time Soph and I got to Chartres Cathedral, we were getting the hang of navigating through increasingly labyrinthine layers of reality. On the external level, we had decided to spend a few days in Chartres to look at a potential property to move the...
Last Tuesday BBC released footage of a rare colony of flying penguins, Locus Magazine announced that George R.R. Martin’s final A Song of Ice and Fire tome would clock in at under 90 pages, and, in perhaps one of the more elaborate gags of 2008&rsqu...
The gothic soap opera that refuses to die resurfaces in a new series of novels from HarperCollins. (Ah ha! The dreaded Collins name works its evil spell yet again!) Late 1998 saw the publication of DARK SHADOWS: ANGELIQUE`S DESCENT, written by actress Lar...
Paramount wasn't the only studio releasing a new trailer for a major tent pole (Indy IV) today. Columbia Pictures has also unleashed their latest full trailer for Hancock, which stars Will Smith, Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron. Peter Berg directed the ...
We've known for sometime that director Guillermo del Toro was the person in line for the two upcoming Hobbit films but the deal has finally been negotiated and it's set in stone, reports Variety. The director has signed on the dotted line and the contract...
Let us start by accentuating the positive. If you're a fan of Kevin Spacey, you have to see this movie he is indeed the star, but it's not just for reasons of screen time. That charming, droll, lightly snide side is on display in full force here, minus t...
Under the guidance of the Supreme Intelligence, Jenis goes into the Negative Zone with Una-Rogg to retrieve a special type of radiation that will reverse Rick Jones' premature aging. Now, we all know our Negative Zone denizens, and we know Peter David's w...
SCI FI Wire reports that Neil Patrick Harris (STARSHIP TROOPERS) and singer Lisa Loeb have been chosen to voice Peter Parker and Mary Jane in MTV's upcoming animated SPIDER-MAN series.SPIDER-MAN executive producer, Brian Michael Bendis had high praise for...
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TEAM-UP will go on a month long hiatus this May in favor of the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN SPECIAL, a project writer Brian Michael Bendis says has been in development for six months and is "an all-new star-studded Spidey story like you've nev...
It's been a little while since the Marvel Comics myth-makers have attempted to jump-start a whole new alternate reality. In recent years, they've experienced the dismal failure of the MC2 line and the success of the ULTIMATE reimaginings. Now they've draf...
Here's one for all you LOOK WHO'S TALKING fans...This week, CBS is premiering a sitcom about a talking baby, which makes it official: CBS has run out of ideas.Come on CBS! Talking babies?! That is soooo '89.I wish I were joking about this. Unfortunately I...
As a general rule, movie-based action figures blow. Maybe they're rushed, designed before the film's even started or the budget was just exhausted on licensing. Who knows? But for whatever the reason, movie toys are usually boring, cookie-cutter designs w...
With the biggest film of her career just a few weeks away, Kirsten Dunst the child star is a thing of the past. Though she first made her mark at age 11 alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, and then segued into lightweight roles...
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...
Plot: The ultimate origin story of how Peter Parker (Maguire) went from nerdy high school photographer to web-spinning crime fighter facing off against the father of his best pal (Franko), otherwise known as the Green Goblin (Defoe). Then there's the litt...
OK, so we all agree that Straczynski's arrival on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was indisputably one of the highlights of the comics year 2001. His scripting revitalized a character most of us never expected would languish as much as he did. With a fresh and clever ...
Dan Jolley is writing a SABRETOOTH mini-series is targeted to start in May."The story is called 'Mary Shelley Overdrive,' referring to the group of guys Creed finds himself in conflict with, because they've modified themselves in such a way that it's a li...
Harvey Keitel has signed on board Dino de Laurentiis' remake of RED DRAGON, with more actors currently in negotiations to join in as well.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Keitel will take of the role of veteran FBI agent Crawford, who is a mentor to t...
Last time, we followed the career of the Legion up to the DC CRISIS event that eliminated Superboy and necessitated a major rethinking of Legion lore. Now, back to the 30th century...Luckily, the first Legion "reboot" didn't necessitate starting from scra...
"Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts, Covens of witches with all of their hosts, You may think they scare me, you're probably right, Black cats and goblins on Halloween night. Trick-or-treat!"poem as quoted in John Carpenter's HALLOWEENYes, ...
Plot: Set prior to the events of Silence of the Lambs, FBI profiler Will Graham comes out of early retirement to catch a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy." Along the way, he must consult with the man who brought about that retirement, Hannibal Lecter...
Ralph Fiennes has signed on board Dino de Laurentiis' remake of Thomas Harris' RED DRAGON.Fiennes will take on the film's crucial role of serial killer Francis Dollarhyde, who is given the tag of "The Tooth Fairy," though he thinks of himself as being a "...
SCARY MOVIE 2 by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Sat 01-05-2002)
Lying awake at Christmas camp, I tapped the upper bunk and awoke a fellow councilor. "Hey Greg, you know I was just thinking. That movie SCARY MOVIE 2, it had some funny moments. In fact, I think it might be Chris Elliott's finest hour." Greg, awoken, jum...
VIDEO NEWSJanuary 22nd will bring Fox's release of VENOMOUS, the latest in the ongoing horde of snake and lizard movies unleashed by the box office hit ANACONDA. This latest snake-tacular stars Treat Williams and Mary Page Keller under the direction of th...
As Q once said to Picard, all good things must come to an end (yes, I know it was a quote! Honestly...), and so here we are at the end of ULTIMATE MARVEL TEAM-UP. It's been a lot of fun seeing the new Spidey meeting intriguing alternate versions of some o...
October draws nigh, COMICSCAPE faithful. Sure, it's a few days away. But, like a kid sneaking downstairs on Christmas morning, I celebrate my favorite holiday early. And, if the skeletons and jack-o-lanterns all over Target and Wal-Mart didn't already ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of Comicscape calamity! All you aspiring creators raise your hopes and put the coffee on, because DC Comics will open the golden gates to comic book professionalism in October. On Monday, The New Y...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
In the weeks leading up to the first Die Hard movie in twelve years, star Bruce Willis has been interviewed just about everywhere (including Second Life), saying that Live Free or Die Hard is the best film in the revered action franchise since the first o...
Ever since its explosion onto the global screen in 1995, the Ghost in the Shell series has provided viewers with a profoundly philosophical, yet innovatively stylized look into a near future world where the lines between man and machine finally blur. Thro...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting journey into the darkest reaches of Comicscape. I, your stalwart and steady captain, will take us careening into one of the greatest mysteries to plague the comic industry as we ask, “Whatever...
You think you know Gene Simmons. You know Kiss and the Demon with the extraordinary tongue, the actor, and the writer. Now, in his effort to enter every medium imaginable, Simmons has branched into comic book publishing with his IDW imprint, Sim...
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
There is a Spoiler detail inside this press release from Fox. A return of a major character, readers. Alright, now that I've warned you, it's time to bring on the press release from Fox.
The innovative, addictive, Emmy Award-winning television serie...
Fox Reality has given the go ahead for the new reality TV show THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT ELVIRA.
The Mistress of the Dark, played by Cassandra Peterson, will help host the series which will feature thirteen constestants who will be picked from a casting ca...
Every week, it seems like a new celebrity is getting busted for something and it’s starting to tally up for some to the point where they will be serving time. Look at Tom Sizemore for a clear example of it.
Sure, celebrities have a habit o...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Grindhouse, the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez pastiche of 1970s era exploitation flix, features a soundtrack that similarly draws on the many influences that have driven the film’s conceptualiz...
Scholastic, Inc. has released the image of the the cover of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.The wraparound cover was designed by illustrator Mary GrandPre. Harry is featured on the front and on the...
Happy Wednesday, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting installment of Comicscape, where I’ll drag you through the soul-wrenching depths of moral inquiry and sequential art psychoanalysis. This week, I want to revisit an issue I touched ...
Famed film lobbyist Jack Valenti passed away in his home yesterday at the age of 85. He is believed to have died from complications of a stroke he suffered last month.Valenti has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is widely credited for ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another riveting episode of Comicscape, where I alternately bring you hard-hitting editorials and utter fluff. Some weeks, we talk about a threat to graphic novels in public libraries. Other weeks, we just me...
This is a reminder to any and all that tonight at 9pm (ET/PT), The History Channel premieres STAR WARS: THE LEGACY REVEALED, a 2-hour special exploring why the emotional impact of the Star Wars Saga remains as relevant as ever. Through interviews wi...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another weekly web of Comicscape wonder. For the past couple of weeks, we talked about Spider-Man 3 in lieu of discussing the end of DC’s weekly maxiseries, 52. The film came out the same week as the final issue of...
Laurence Fishburne has been set to star in TORTURED, along with Cole Hauser.
The crime thriller centers on an undercover FBI agent (Hauser) who infiltrates the world's most powerful crime syndicate. When he cracks the inner circle, he's assigned the task...
FEARnet, the world’s premiere horror and thriller website and video on demand service, will celebrate Halloween all October long as it scares up a daily dose of chilling programming every day of the month. The ultimate Halloween destination, FEARnet...
For the past month, casting auditions have been going for the upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA film by Warner Bros. Well, the Hollywood Reporter has indicated a list of these young thespians who have tried out for Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, ...
Many of us, as we grow older; have become cynical with Disney movies. Princesses, magic and a villain wrapped in a few clever songs are tough to digest. Disney attacks our cynicism with Enchanted by parodying all the great Disney films that have...
The good souls at Graphic Classics have kindly graced me with a very advance copy of their forthcoming Graphic Classics: Special Edition that will hit shops on Free Comic Book Day, May 3rd. But that’s no reason not to review it now, because it&...
After helping Hobbits in Lord of the Rings, fighting mankind in The Matrix and stirring revolution in V for Vendetta, actor Hugh Weaving is ready to take on The Wolfman, reports Variety. The thespian has been cast as Detective Aberline in t...
To the publisher’s credit, Marvel continues to expand its genre repertoire beyond superheroes. Though the company endures a great deal of oft-deserved criticism, it has understood an essential requirement for attracting new readers. If...
Steve Niles and Scott Hampton continue their saga of Gotham City’s other late-night protector. Simon Dark lives underground and periodically emerges to protect the innocent with unrestrained violence. Batman leaves criminals tied up for th...
Tokyopop's Spy Goddess is an Original English Language (OEL) manga adaptation of the novel series written by Michael P Spradlin. Both tack a bunch of “girly” traits on the main character in hopes that the female fanbase will find find somethin...
Columbia Pictures unleashed a new featurette clip for their upcoming superhero-gone-drunk tale Hancock during last night's broadcast of "American Idol". You can check out the clip below. The film stars Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman ...
One bidding war later between four studios, Universal has acquired the rights to a new upcoming sci-fi adventure titled Earth vs. Moon, says the Hollywood Reporter. The spec was penned by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese and the trade says their deal is in th...
In the often enchanting and very enjoyable kid-friendly fantasy The Spiderwick Chronicles, creatures that look like Brian Froud drawings do energetic, messy battle with three children who come to realize that their new house is surrounded by fairies, gobl...
Universal Pictures said a few days ago that they would have a new director locked up for The Wolfman and they weren't kidding around. Nearly a week after Mark Romanek exited due to "creative differences", director Joe Johnston (Hidalgo, Jurassic...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another Comicscape cavalcade of calamitous commentary! It’s Halloween! It’s my favorite holiday, and it also means I’ve been in the middle of a rush of parties, concerts, and family and friend...
Reading and enjoying epic genre literature requires, unfortunately, a great deal of patience. Though we love our favorite authors for their mind-expanding work, their creation of new worlds and imaginative storytelling ability, we can be the first to bran...
The first JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA casting announcement has appeared online, courtesy of Clint Morris at Moviehole. They received word that Teresa Palmer has landed the role of Wonder Woman for the upcoming project.&nbs...
So, those of you who read my early review of Journeyman know that I’m not surprised to see the series getting the axe and that I’m not terribly disappointed about it. I do have sympathy for fans of the show though. I’ve seen ma...
There’s not really a hell of lot going down this morning in the way of genre news and I’m not all that shocked at that particular development. Monday mornings tend to be slow anyway but the WGA effect (as I like to call it.) is beginning to co...
The Screen Actors Guild Awards just went off the air a few minutes ago and the winners are...
Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role George Clooney, Michael Clayton Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Gir...
FEARnet, the world’s premier horror and thriller website and video on demand service, will look to ring in the New Year with screams and shrieks as it launches a bone-chilling, week-long New FEAR’s Day programming event. The festivities w...
This particular award show may end up ultimately being the award show for 2007 films and television shows. As you know, the WGA denied requests for waivers to the Globes and Oscars. In fact, the WGA plans to picket the Globes, which has a lot of insi...
Happy Wednesday, Maniacs, and welcome to another sequential art escape, courtesy of Comicscape. Last week’s column about the death of Captain America and the successful release of 300 at the movies garnered a respectable amount of mail &nd...
There are a couple of gimmicks in Dead Silence that, at first glance, seem promising. One is to have a horror film built around ventriloquist dummies, which give plenty of people the heebie-jeebies in real life. This actually works to an extent. The o...
Has there been a better time to be a TV-on-DVD fan? As I was sliding my newly purchased DVD set of David Greenwalt's short-lived PROFIT onto my shelf a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that they really do seem determined to put every damn show in history...
This hasn't been the greatest season for pilots. Don't get me wrong: there have been several that I think will develop into worthwhile shows, assuming they survive long enough to do so. We've seen a bumper crop of high-concepts (PRISON BREAK) and genre ...
The wondrous and fantastical score for Emma Thompson's NANNY McPHEE, an expressive family fantasy-comedy, has been composed by Patrick Doyle and performed by the world-famous London Symphony Orchestra. A soundtrack CD will be released by Varese Sarabande ...
Hot on the heels of executive producer David Eick who scripted last year's "Home", director Michael Rymer sets pen to paper to deliver the teleplay for "Resurrection Ship, Part 1." Rymer's no stranger to screenwriting having penned his directorial debut,...
Greetings and welcome to yet another edition of COMICSCAPE, where I give you something to read in your cubicle when the boss isn't looking. This week, rather than delving into the metaphysical implications of the influence of Thelema upon the inner-workin...
First, let me tell you about Kudos. My first run-in with this British production company came with A&E's airing of MI-5. Known as SPOOKS in the UK, the series was the UK's answer to 24 and ALIAS, a sort of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE with accents. The neat thi...
FINAL DESTINATION 3 takes the premise and two of the key creative staff though none of the same characters introduced in 2000's FINAL DESTINATION. The notion, introduced by Jeffrey Reddick's story in the original, is that when a psychic teen has a visio...
LOST makes a triumphant return to the airwaves with an episode titled after what must be the most quoted verse of religious scripture in film and television. The script for "The 23rd Psalm" aims high with rich thematic underpinnings of brotherhood and s...
Universal Pictures will pay Joss Whedon seven figures for his fantasy thriller script GONER. Whedon will also direct the film. Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will produce.The story centers on "a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror an...
Alter Ego Comics is currently taking pre-orders for Weta Collectibles' KING KONG chess set.As described on their site, "the primal savagery of Skull Island clashes against the urban sophistication of 1933 New York as man and monster battle for supremacy o...
Giving Thanks by David Michael Wharton (Mon 11-22-2004)
So this is the time of year when we're all supposed to spend time dwelling on the things we're thankful for. Given the state of the world -- with famine, disease, poverty, and war rampant -- probably the most arrogant, myopic thing I could possibly do is ...
By the time this column appears on the web site, America will either have a new President or will have re-elected a previous one. In either case, the proverbial fecal matter is probably already hitting the fan, as I don't expect either one, even the one I...
We've been sent a follow-up scoop to the one we published last week concerning what's happening with the development of BASIC INSTINCT 2. Unlike last week's report which revealed that Sharon Stone was courting Ashton Kutcher to come star alongside her in ...
Everyone knows the story of PETER PAN, the boy who wouldn't grown up. Although most of us are familiar with Disney's version, one of my favorite actors, Johnny Depp, has now brought the story of J.M. Barrie to life and what led him to write this children'...
Reader response to last week's column was strong and I got a good mix of responses. Some vehemently agreed and others felt that my love of HELLBLAZER colored my opinion of the film CONSTANTINE. I also got some compliments on my headline ("Into My Pants ...
Another Con come and gone, at least for me. As always, it's been a hoot and a half, but it has in some ways been an uneventful Con, with not as many earth-shaking revelations or presentations as in previous years. As I'm submitting this through a haze o...
Happy Wednesday to all of you for comic readers, every Wednesday is a holiday. That is, of course, unless you're married then every Wednesday is an exercise in shame and deceit and brings you one step closer to an episode of DIVORCE COURT or whatever it...
New Line has hired actors Mary Winstead and Ryan Merriman to star in "Cheating Death: Final Destination 3." The creators of the "Final Destination" series, James Wong and Glen Morgan, are back once again. Wong will direct from a script he wrote with Morg...
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, my seething minions, and welcome to another week of COMICSCAPE brilliance. This will likely sound boring at first, but I promise it gets better: last week, The Wall Street Journal published a disturbing little story about product placement dea...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATION
Patrick Doyle has composed a graceful and beautifully-postured symphonic score for Eragon, which was released on CD by RCA last week. Doyle, who has crafted such meticulous and evocative scores as Secondha...
Most of our classic movie monsters were drawn from some literary touchstone. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein pretty much created both the horror and science fiction genres as soon as it was published. Dracula is the undisputed king of vampire novels...
Baseball is killing a lot of stuff this week but PRISON BREAK is back and LOST, JERICHO, and HEROES are all new as well. These series are actually my recommendations for the week along with, of course BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. There are also a lot of oppor...
Mordred maneuvers for power in Douglas Clegg’s darkly reimagined Arthurian saga, Stephen Baxter unleashes his new time-shifting alternate history thriller with Emperor, and Pamela Sargent’s beloved Ship is back to sow the seeds of humanity&...
Universal Pictures has announced the release date for the supernatural thriller Dead Silence as March 23, 2007. The film, directed by James Wan (Saw), tells the story of newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen, who have established a new life for themselves ...
I’ve been browsing through the box office lists lately, and I’m finding a few surprises in the rift between fact and perception. For example, Snakes on a Plane is commonly considered to be one of last year’s big failures. But did you...
Rhino continues to release episodes of this still popular cult favorite in more economically acceptable 4-disc sets, rather than their initial practice of serving them up one show at a time. Unfortunately, since this series incorporated the screening ...
Diamond Select has announced a new licensing agreement which will allow them to make action figures and ships based on the hit series Battlestar Galactica.The press release:Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles, LLC (DST) is proud to announce a licensing...
I’ve devoted this week’s COMICSCAPE to a few topics that hardly merit an entire column. Or, if they do, the inspiration has failed to strike me for more than a few paltry lines. Call it stream of consciousness, call it laziness, or call it ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Martin Short and Joan Plowright are all in negotiations to join Paramount's upcoming film THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES.The film, to be directed by Mack Waters, is based on the best-selling ...
Recently Marvel Comics started a new ongoing series for everyone's favorite cowl-wearing, gadget-wielding crime-fighting billionaire vigilante of the night (ok, second favorite). In the spirit of the series, Marvel Select has just released their latest hi...
Universal Pictures upcoming film HALO, based on the popular video game, has a new writer lending his pen to the project.DB Weiss told Game Set Watch, "I write for film now, mostly appropriately enough, I'm currently adapting Halo for producers Mary Paren...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Hans Zimmer's score to Ron Howard's THE DA VINCI CODE is a somber, affecting, and sobering composition. Set for release by Decca on May 9th, the music is beautifully arcane and tragically sumptuous. It's an attractive and very ...
The SCI FI Channel and its sister NBC Universal networks will air a one-hour recap special of the original series Battlestar Galactica in advance of the show's October third-season premiere. It will incorporate footage from the original SCI FI miniseries ...
Marisol Nichols has signed on for a recurring role in Fox's 24.The actress will play the role of Natalie, the boss of Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and the right-hand woman to Bill (James Morrison) at CTU.
The official cause of the Dark Knight star's death has been issued by the NYC Medical Examiner. Here's the official AP report:
Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drug...
OPINION: First of all, thanks for the continued responses to the extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2. As I figured, the strongly held opinions of our first pack of readers led to the expression of other strongly held opinions, and were I to print them all, w...
Mania is happy to announce our latest contest, a giveaway of the DVD Black Christmas.The film is a remake of the 1974 slasher classic about a psycho terrorizing a sorority house during the holiday season.Black Christmas was directed by Glen Morgan and sta...
Sand is awakened by Icicle from a dream reality into a reality he wishes were only a nightmare. The Ultra-Humanite, using Johnny Thunder's body, has stolen the Thunderbolt and used its power to take over the world. All of the meta-humans have been stored ...
Super Poseable Spider-Man (with gargoyle base)Spidey, Mary Jane and the Green GoblinClick here to check out page 5 of the photos from the Toy Biz showroom.Click here to return to the main Toy Fair page.
You see it at some point on every film nowadays. "A So and So Film," "A Film by So and So." Auteur-styled directorial credit, once reserved for only the top directors, has become so commonplace that one almost expects to see it on infomercials. However, s...
