MegaManZX by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Wed 09-20-2006)
... for. For MegaManZX, hundreds of years have passed between the epic war between Reploids and humanity. The fierce war finally transcended into an era of peace, where both groups were able to establish co-operative nations within the universe. However...
...ed by the MegaManZX series on the Nintendo DS.
Though this information is pretty exciting for advanced fans of the series (so to speak), the hundreds of thousands of former NES owners are probably wondering what this means for the original incarnati...
...Man Zero, MegaManZX, MegaMan Legends, MegaMan Battle Network … There, I think I listed them all.
Oh yeah, MegaMan Starforce. Coming soon to a Nintendo DS near you.
Of course, any video game character who's been around as ...
The MEGAMAN series to me will always remind me of the time I picked up a copy of MEGAMAN 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 MEGAMAN titles, from the original se...
Plot:
A spin-off of the MegaMan Battle Network franchise, this game brings the franchise back with similar RPG gameplay but with an all-new MegaMan character and storyline to play through. This action RPG blends exploration with fast-paced battles, ...
Double Dose by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Thu 09-14-2006)
With each week that passes I become more and more excited for the pending console releases. With Sony having issues with how many consoles that they will be able to sell this winter, and shutting out the European market till next year, it does not seem li...
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...
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...
Spinning out of the mega-success of Sam Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN movie came a new collaboration from MTV, Sony Pictures and Mainframe Entertainment: a new 3D SPIDER-MAN animated series with a look that hasn’t been seen before. While the use of computer graphics...
The Review!I bought this on a pretty much "What the hell" basis. I was already getting Trigun and Cowboy Bebop, and I didn't know anything about what this series was about or if it was any good. All I knew was the lure of getting a whole series for such ...
Movie premieres don't always follow the usual script.
Sometimes, the venue is so unorthodox, the concept so ambitious, the movie itself such a draw that the night becomes one of those you-had-to-be-there spectacles.
Monday night's U.S. preem of "Spi...
I'm not quite sure if this is news you folks will want to appear or not but I'll pass it along. MTV is confirming that Hillary Swank will appear in the new IRON MAN movie with Robert Downey Jr (Tony Stark/Iron Man). Here's the details from MTV;
Marvel St...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
It's quite a year for special effects. And while author Salman Rushdie's observation that most movies are, strictly speaking, "cartoons" now - i.e., they have as much, or more, animation (even if digital) in them than live action elements - this year,...
The screenplay credit for Columbia’s SPIDER-MAN has gone to the Writers Guild of America for arbitration, in order to determine whose name or names will appear on the final film. When Columbia-TriStar submitted its suggestion for the credit to the WGA ear...
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...
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...
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...
Superman Returns by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 04-22-2005)
Genre:Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Action.Studio:Warner Brothers.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Brandon Routh (Clark Kent/Kal-El/"Superman"); Kevin Spacey (Lex Luthor); Kate Bosworth (Lois Lane); Hugh Laurie (Perry ...
THE PRISONER is one of the must-see television series from the ’60s, a short-lived but unforgettable tour de force of TV conceived by and starring Patrick McGoohan, formerly of the spy show SECRET AGENT (aka DANGER MAN). THE PRISONER took the spy genre an...
Welcome to another edition of Top Maniacal Rumors of the Week!
For this week’s list, Mania does its best fly on the wall routine to get updates on the mega-hyped Justice League movie, the final Harry Potter production and a couple of Marve...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Welcome to a brand new year and what better way to start off that brand new year with a shiny spanking new controversy brewing in the world of comics? A little while ago, Marvel announced that Orson Scott Card, Hugo Award-winning writer of such works as ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
"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.
More...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another Comicscape adventure at the movies! I rarely see movies in the theater these days. Between the incessant chatter, the rising ticket prices, the ridiculous levels of air conditioning, and the overpriced ...
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...
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
More...
Greetings Maniacs, and welcome to another calamitous Comicscape adventure, where we crack wise about comics and I insult movies everyone else likes. Last week’s admittedly merciless review of Ghost Rider garnered very little mail – n...
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...
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...
I got a great batch of mail from last week's column about Marvel's Ultimate and DC's All-Star imprints. But before we get to your letters, a couple of things happened in the comic world upon which I must opine. The X3 trailer hit the web on Monday. You ca...
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 ...
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). ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
During the 1966-69 run of STAR TREK, writer-producer Gene Roddenberry had explored important issues under the guise of science fiction; Roddenberry was forced to couch his statements in allegorical tales taking place in deep space and involving alien bein...
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 ...
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...
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...
Industry Leader In Anime To Have Notable Presence With More Than A Dozen Properties In Booth 4505
New York, NY, June 19, 2007 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and l...
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....
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...
It has been 20 years since Bruce Wayne donned the Bat Suit, and 40 years since the Jokers’ apparent demise. In the new day and age, Terry McGinnis is the new Batman, tutored by the aged Bruce Wayne. Now after all these years, the Joker has returned and ...
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...
Updated November 22nd
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The 1980s are looked upon fondly by those who grew up in the era. There was big hair, funny clothes and songs that went on forever as if every artist believed God was delivering some grand message exclusively through their synthesizer. And...
Toronto, ON " May 29 2007 " What is Korean Manhwa? Combine unique storytelling techniques and manga-influenced artwork with the rich and diverse culture of Korea and you'll end up with the latest craze in Asian comics! UDON Entertainment has partnered w...
Industry Leader in Japanese Animation To Wow the Show from Booth #A012
San Francisco, April 17, 2007 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, arriv...
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',...
Updated May 7th
Congratulations to jmw2
You shall have the Iron Mask and Gauntlet.
Those of you who didn't win: Remember we other cool 'Iron Man' prizes here, and here! NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRANTS
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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...
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 ...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Updated May 9th
Congratulations brettshaw!
You win the mask and gauntlet! No sharing required. NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRANTS
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Updated December 28th
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THWIP! I webbed you. You got the DVD! NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRANTS
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Updated January 9th
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You win the Spidey 2 DVD! NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRANTS
If you're entering the contests make sure that:
The email address you registered the site with is a valid working address (otherwise ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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the Spider-Man Collector's Program.
Available
exclusively at select specialty and comic book outlets and on the web at www.sony.com/Spider-Man
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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...
In the months leading to both INFINITE CRISIS and HOUSE OF M, we complained a lot about crossovers, continuity issues, and the awkward situation in which they place both publishers and readers. Oh hell, we complain about them every time Marvel or DC annou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
In a quiet Connecticut town, two children, a girl and a boy, run from their house in the middle of the night. Their parents have been slain before their eyes, and now they run, without thinking, to the grounds of their elementary school. Their parents’ ki...
MTV recently caught up with Jon Favreau, the director of the upcoming film IRON MAN. Below are the quotes I found most relevant, you can view the full interview on MTV's website here."It's the first movie Marvel is self-financing," he said of a new deal ...
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...
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...
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...
For a guy who's married to Lara Croft, Billy Bob Thornton doesn't seem to have the highest opinion of today's mainstream Hollywood cineplex fare. "Movies have become two-hour rock videos made by a marketing machine," drawls the Arkansas-born actor, writer...
Straight from a smash summer run at the box office (where it still remains in the top ten), Columbia TriStar Home Video has announced a November 30 release date for SPIDER-MAN 2 on VHS and a two-disc DVD -- but you'll have to choose from five different D...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mick TakeuchiTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:Brynne ChandlerWhat They SayMiharu hasn\'t been having a good year. Her mother died, leaving her only a single ring to remember her by, and her father went bankrupt - le...
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...
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 ...
What They SayYorn gazes up at two massive cities floating in the sky and dreams of discovering their mysteries. Without warning, those mysteries come looking for him! Edenic assassins murder his father and Yorn is next on the hit list. Only a nameless ...
Spiraling out of the events of BRAVE NEW WORLD, Steve Niles's THE CREEPER retells the origins of Steve Ditko's grinning yellow antihero. Last issue, gadfly television reporter Jack Ryder a liberal take on Bill O'Reilly broke into Dr. Vincent Yatz's lab...
Spider-Man has the hot hand in Hollywood
- he's been spotted everywhere. The town loves a sure thing and has been
hopping on the webhead's bandwagon in droves. The character's presence can
be felt in sitcoms, talk shows, and even on the architecture....
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 ...
After last week’s insanity over the scheduling change that wasn’t, no one responded to my column about 52. I don’t really blame you, given the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the move. But, rest assured, dear readers: ...
The man hailed as the father of cyberpunk is back on the bookshelves with a follow-up to 2003’s Pattern Recognition, a novel Publisher’s Weekly named one of the best books of the year.
Good start of the work week to all of you Maniac ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another journey into the unknown with Comicscape! I, your host, will drive this stolen school bus into a dark realm of comic shop philosophy, as we deconstruct, reconstruct, post-modernize, re-modernize, de-realize,...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting episode of Comicscape, where we offer you, the reader, new and innovative excuses to spend yet more money on comics. For instance, next time you’re considering overspending your comics bu...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another long look into the dark heart of Comicscape! I thought about devoting another week to complaining about that recent Spider-Man catastrophe One More Day, especially given that the first issue of the new post-...
Most people know Glenn Danzig through his 30-year musical career. From the Misfits to Samhain to Danzig, he has remained a pioneering force in dark rock. His discography includes everything from cacophonous, yet catchy hardcore punk to 1950&rsqu...
Jon Favreau talked with IESB.net from the set of the new movie 'I Love You Man', where he's wearing his actor hat. Favreau was willing to talk to the press about the success of 'Iron Man' and plans for 'Iron Man 2'.
In between takes on this film, the act...
Amazing Spider-Man #546, the first issue of Marvel’s controversial Brand New Day has finally landed. You likely know the story by now – Peter Parker reset his world and sacrificed his marriage to save dear Aunt May, with whom he now lives...
Nothing too shocking there since he's said it many times since SPIDER-MAN 3 hit theaters. Still, Sam Raimi gave his take on the development of SPIDER-MAN 4 while talking to our good friends over at Wizard Entertainment. He confirms that developing the fir...
What They SayBolt Crank is a mercenary, but he\'s no ordinary man. He\'s gifted with the ability to eat metal objects. Later, he can produce these items from his right hand, as the need arises. Bolt is the strong silent type-he doesn\'t say much and prefe...
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...
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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...
Kevin Bacon has been in films as diverse as FOOTLOOSE and JFK, but there are also a fair number of genre pics in his filmography, including TREMORS, FLATLINERS, the upcoming THE HOLLOW MAN—and he starred in one of last year’s most under-appreciated effort...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films handed out their 31st Annual Saturn Awards on May 3 and two films dominated the accolades for the evening: SPIDER-MAN 2 and KILL BILL: VOL. 2 SPIDER-MAN 2 walked away with a total of five Saturn ...
SPIDER-MAN 2 is a hit. That surprise to no one was obvious from the weekend box office ticket receipts; Sony's $200 million dollar budgeted sequel ignited theater screens and took in an impressive $115 M over the Friday to Monday Independence Day long wee...
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...
The Spider-Man handbook won’t give you super powers or make you a hero, but it is a fun, quirky read (appropriate since it is from Quirk Books) that does have several bits of practical information for the hero wannabe. The book is part fantasy,...
While promoting '30 Days of Night', producer and 'Spider-Man' director Sam Raimi fielded questions about the fate of the 'Spider-Man' franchise. Collider.com has the scoop:
[Raimi said they] have had a number of screenwriters coming in and pitching ide...
THE QUIET MAN by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Thu 11-14-2002)
While millions of moviegoers, or at least home video watchers, are eagerly snatching up DVD copies of Steve Spielberg’s classic E.T., why not take a cue from the little bugger and check out Artisan’s wonderful collector’s issue DVD of THE QUIET MAN. Yes, ...
For the longest time, it seemed as though IRON MAN had lost its way. In storylines that dealt with alternate armors, stolen Stark technology, and ghosts in the machine, the title centered more on the "iron" and less on the "man." On those occasions when i...
William B. Davis is making an argument, laying out his analysis. He`s comparing his own character on Fox` The X-Files, the minimally-named Cigarette Smoking Man (or `CSM,`) to David Duchovny`s hero, Fox Mulder. `Let`s start with outcomes,` he says, hands ...
Just when I thought Ron Zimmerman's writing couldn't get any more obnoxious, repulsive, or dumb, SPIDER-MAN: SWEET CHARITY comes along and shows that, given enough ballast, even the lowest can sink even lower. Rarely have I come across such a complete cro...
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...
OPINION: A brief warning before we start: I had so many varied and intelligent responses to the question of how you'd characterize the main differences between Marvel and DC that I'm having to make this column extra-long. Do not try to adjust your televis...
Who do you trust? Whose side are you on? What would you do with one more day? This summer, everything will change. Do you even care anymore? Public Enemy once said “Don’t believe the hype,” Maniacs. I’...
Hey! It's Al Brown, filling in for Kurt Amacker this week. I'm filling in because Kurt lived in New Orleans. He'll live there again, but right now he doesn't because New Orleans got the Aquaman treatment.Hey, listen, I ain't rich. You ain't either. If you...
You probably noticed that my colleague of questionable esteem, Al Brown, wrote last week's column. I had to return to New Orleans for a few days to help my parents with their house (hurricane, flooding), so I called Al and told him I'd turn over more evid...
Greetings, and welcome to another week of COMICSCAPE, where I make sequential art matter. Last week, I expounded upon the relative merits (and lack thereof) of Marvel and DC's new plan to accept advertiser money for ostensibly discreet product placement i...
Few actors are well acclaimed yet hardly known to the public. Brian Cox is the epitome of that actor. Cox has received endless award nominations, including for the 2000 TNT Original Film NUREMBERG, as well as for his work in various stage productions such...
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...
The DVD Age has brought a number of rare and "lost" films into the hands of genre film fans, from the 1910 FRANKENSTEIN to the restoration of 1925 THE LOST WORLD. However, budget label Alpha Video has released a relatively unknown gem of the silent era on...
Did you think Disturbia winning 1st place last week with only 13 mil in receipts was something hardly worth talking about? Well, it’s worse this week. The winner, Disturbia, doesn’t even in pull in 10 mil. Yep, you heard me. In a box office...
Global Online Media Distribution Giant Partners with Canada-Based Publisher to Launch Weekly Digital Manga and Comic Digest San Francisco, CA (July 23, 2008) ‹Canada-based publisher UDON Entertainment partners with online media distribut...
NEW FROM DC DIRECT:
At the New York Comic Con this year DC Direct unveiled their very first series of Watchmen movie figures (see pictures here). The first series included the modern versions of the Silk Spectre, The Nite Owl, an Ozymandias figure and, o...