About a decade ago, television networks began absorbing and/or tying up independent animation studios. The payoff is it`s now much harder for independent animation studios to survive. Networks that used to be interested in buying new series from them are ...
As sequels go, MENINBLACK II is a very good one. After an amusing prologue that both sets up and sends up the plot we'll be seeing, it hits the ground running or rather, hits the underground slithering, as our hero Agent Jay (Will Smith) must subdue a ...
On Wednesday June 26, at the Mann Village Bruin theaters in Westwood, Columbia Pictures held the premiere for MENINBLACK II. The film reunites Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as agents who offer the first and only line of defense against a sinister seduc...
One of the most overlooked aspects of writer Chris Claremont’s original run on the Uncanny X-Men was his ability to create endless, completely believable worlds for his heroes to visit. Whether the X-Men visited the Japanese underworld, the Scottish coast...
One of the most overlooked aspects of writer Chris Claremont’s original run on the Uncanny X-Men was his ability to create endless, completely believable worlds for his heroes to visit. Whether the X-Men visited the Japanese underworld, the Scottish coast...
With Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith reportedly looking for $20 million each to do MENINBLACK2, this new series of novels by sci-fi author Dean Wesley Smith (STAR TREK, SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, ALIENS, PREDATOR, SHADOW WARRIOR, etc) might be as close as we ge...
Creepy, bloody, psychological and utterly enthralling – welcome back to Black Lagoon.What They SayFilled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is Action Incarnate! A recent string of murders is the talk of the town. Not that murder is anythi...
In an interview with CINESCAPE's own Eric Moro, MENINBLACK2 director Barry Sonnenfeld lamented the difficulty of producing a sequel to one of the most popular genre films of the last ten years. While talking about the struggle to top 1997's MENIN BLAC...
Based on an Lowell Cunnigham's obscure comic book and released in 1997 'MeninBlack' become a major summer hit. It solidified Will Smith's status as an A-list movie star and Mr. Fourth-of-July. It was also the most successful comic adaptation of all time...
Pay attention, because this'll take some explaining: Kasper Cole, a former narcotics office, has "borrowed" an old Black Panther costume from T'Challa's old friend Tork, who has since been shot to death. Now Kasper is trying to get free of Sal Anthony, th...
Well, for X-Men fans, the dream has finally come true: a multi-million dollar, star-studded movie version of their favorite comic book characters. I’ll leave it to those fans to debate whether this is a worthy adaptation of the source material. As for the...
Before you read the first issue of Ultimate X-Men, you’ve got to do one important thing: Forget everything you know about Professor Charles Xavier’s merry band of mutants.Forget the heroes you love. Forget the villains you hate. Forget the costumes. Forge...
'MeninBlack' producer Walter Parkes reveals that discussions about resurrecting the franchise have taken place. "There's been some conversations, just recently actually, because I don't think we did the best possible job on the second one. It would be g...
...r-Man and MeninBlack2 at the box office. Sony also cited a slowdown in sales of its PlayStation 2 game consoles, although it reported improvement in sales of DVD recorders and flat-panel TV sets.
Scooper who claims to have spoken with producer Walter Parkes (doing press on 'The Island'). Parkes told anonymous reporter, "that a third 'MenInBlack' project was in the 'planning phase' and they hope to have both Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones to retu...
It seems that ever since UFO phenomena entered the public consciousness, researchers have had a sideline mystery to puzzle them. Witnesses describe strangers that arrive where UFOs have been sighted, asking a lot of questions and not offering any in retur...
When I first heard of the new animated series based on the Marvel`s X-Men, what didn`t impress me was the subject matter. I`ll be honest and say the last series on Fox Kids left me cold with its over-dramatic, if not darn right soap-operatic, tone and hon...
What They SayA desperate man is plagued by a tumor shaped like a human face. When the tumor begins to talk and think, renegade surgeon Black Jack is the one man who can free the victim from its grotesque tyranny. Meanwhile, a serial murderer is on the pro...
The X-Men travel to Hong Kong, where they investigate a black market trade in mutant organs, organs which will be used by U-Men mutant wannabes. The trail leads them to Ao Jun, a mutant with one of the worst mutant gifts ever, and the mutant he's guarded...
If you think Wolverine`s creator enjoyed the great outdoors and beauty of the backwood trails of Canada while growing up, you`re wrong. Len Wein was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, attended college out on Long Island, Farmingdale specifical...
After over a year of delays, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier will hit comic shops next Wednesday, November 14th. The Black Dossier has been the source of controversy and speculation ...
Men of Valor by Uros "2Lions" Jojic (Wed 10-27-2004)
Since 2015 revolutionized the military-based first person shooter genre, you can't swing a dead cat in a videogame store without knocking over piles of WWII and Vietnam based shooter games. For those of you not in the know, let's hop in the Action...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
What They SayFilled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is action incarnate! Dirty jobs are a part of life for the Black Lagoon but things seem to be getting worse by the minute. Their latest problem is a maid from Columbia. She\'s a killing mac...
One of the biggest movies of the summer, MENINBLACK2, has set a date to come home. The film, the sequel to MENINBLACK which has seen at least three DVD versions, does not have its list of extras yet, but will be released in widescreen and full screen...
As has become standard practice with major Hollywood releases, MENINBLACK II has been released on DVD in a two-disc special edition (fullscreen and widescreen available separately), even though no one-disc standard edition exists.Roughly equal to the fi...
MENINBLACK is coming to DVD... for the third time. Columbia Home Video has announced a new MENINBLACK Deluxe Edition, a two disc treatment of the film coming out just in time to get fans excited for MENINBLACK2 this summer. Not only will the discs ...
What They SayFilled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is Action Incarnate!
Dirty jobs are a part of life for the Black Lagoon but things seem to be getting worse by the minute. Their latest problem is a maid from Columbia. She\'s a killing m...
Sony has slapped up the great new trailer for MENINBLACK2 on the film's official website. For those of you who want to catch the trailer for the film, which hits this summer, in a real life theater, go see SPIDER-MAN this Friday. For your own gawk at t...
MENINBLACK was, without a doubt, one of the best movies that came out in 1997. With any great movie comes action figures, animated series, and, of course, video games. The newest MENINBLACK game is based on the animated series that airs on The WB netw...
The teaser trailer for the coming MENINBLACK2 can now be found online.The film's official website has the trailer available to view in a number of formats. Check it out for yourself by clicking on the source link above and following directions when you...
Genre: Crime/Suspense/Drama.Studio: Columbia Pictures.Production Company: Unknown.Project Phase: In Development.Who's In It: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Hartnett; Scarlett Johansson (Kay).Who's Making It: Brian De Palma (Director); Josh Friedman (Screenwriter); b...
Marvel Comics on Monday released a preview of SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO #1. The four-part mini-series is written by Kevin Smith, with art by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "The mysterious disapp...
The beat 'em up is a genre that has quietly faded to the side and hasn't had many revolutions on the consoles in recent years. X-MEN LEGENDS takes that style of gameplay, adds a ton of depth to it, four-player support and quite frankly is one of the best ...
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...
What They SayFilled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is Action Incarnate!
Dirty jobs are a part of life for the Black Lagoon but things seem to be getting worse by the minute. Their latest problem is a maid from Columbia. She\'s a killing m...
As reported Tuesday, MenInBlack II is due out
later this year with a plethora of features. Today, online vendors or soliciting
the movie for a November 26th release.
The DVD will include a never-before-seen alternate ending,
blooper reel, and al...
The modern postal employee has achieved a measure of infamy most commonly reserved for the odd and unsociable an idiosyncrasy of the American workforce. What Kevin Brown (a.k.a. a neuralized MiB Agent K) doesn't realize, however, is that there is more tr...
In a dimly lit distillery turned seedy Canadian redneck trucker bar, something`s about to go down. An enraged and hulking patron with a sharp knife suddenly lunges at a stranger sporting a distinctive pointy hairstyle, a leather jacket, and lumberjack shi...
What They SayAn erotic camping trip takes a turn for the wild when Seiya discovers a mystery mansion in the woods. Excitement turns to thrills of terror as her friends begin to disappear. Too late, they realize they are trapped in the clutches of the Blac...
Plot: It's rumored that this sequel will involve an intergalactic battle happening above Mother Earth.Players: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Patrick Warburton, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario DawsonDirector: Barry SonnenfeldStatus: Post product...
When the eagerly anticipated X-Men movie reached theatres this summer, it turned out to be a rarity: a big-budget Hollywood adaptation of a comic book that pleased both fans and newcomers. The result paid off handsomely for distributor 20th Century Fox; n...
ChubbChubbs
are invading the Earth and the MenInBlack are helping them! At
least that's the story The Hollywood
Reporter is telling.
According to the
trade publication the computer-animated short The ChubbChubbs will
appear as bonus materi...
To prepare for this summer`s X-Men movie, Marvel Comics has released three X-Men movie prequel comics: X-Men Movie Prequel: Magneto, X-Men Movie Prequel: Rogue and X-Men Movie Prequel: Wolverine. And who can blame them? If all goes well, the movie could f...
Sony and Amblin have announced that they will now be changing the end of their coming MENINBLACK2.Word has it that the film's climax also involved the twin towers, which, understandably, the studio wants removed from the film.A spokesperson for the stu...
Mere weeks after it was released to huge crowds in movie theaters, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has announced the DVD of XXX will be rolled out sometime this fall. That news comes on the heels of the MENINBLACK2 release just announced for Novemb...
A plethora of rumors online are now confirmed with solid word that Michael Jackson will be appearing in the coming MENINBLACK2. And, despite the visual joke in the first MIB, the singer will not be playing an alien.While talking to Variety columnist Mi...
Leave it to the comics industry to drop about three things at once in around one week, all worthy of discussion in this week’s Comicscape. DC’s Countdown reached its half-way point last week, World War Hulk wrapped today, and Marvel very ...
The Xavier Institute is about to get a little more crowded. When the second season of Kids' WB!'s X-MEN: EVOLUTION which takes the bulk of Marvel's mutant characters and turns them into teenagers for a Saturday morning audience gets underway on Sept. 29...
Will Smith has an idea for the next MENINBLACK movie, but there's still a long way to go before we see a trailer for it on a movie screen.Smith approached director Barry Sonnenfeld and pitched him an idea he had for a third MIB movie. Apparently Sonnen...
After finishing season two of FARSCAPE, Claudia Black, who plays Aeryn Sun, along with the rest of her fellow actors flew to Southern California for the first official FARSCAPE convention. Black plays the strong but beautiful ex-Peacekeeper Aeryn, pullin...
The X-Men animated series on Fox ran for over three years and adapted some of the best comics of both the Claremont/Byrne and Lobdell-Nicieza runs, and in the process improved the plots to the point where they actually made sense, not an inconsiderable ac...
MenInBlack II has invaded the rest of the world in a big way according to
today's Variety. The film reportedly took
in $24 million on an estimated 4,000 screens in28 markets. It debuted in
Germany on 1,165 screens generating $10.8 million in tick...
The X-Men film may not be out until July 14, but Christopher Golden is already excited. After all, the paperback version of his X-Men novel, X-MEN: CODE NAME WOLVERINE, will be out May 1. `Of all the media tie-in stuff I`ve done, it`s one of the books I`m...
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Weekly was given an X2 Exclusive with the publication
of seven new publicity shots from the movie, and an additional eight
images as online exclusives. Here is a samp...
TOMB RAIDER helmer Simon West's next project may well be a pirate film called BLACK FLAG.According to Variety, West is already attached to the developing picture which was a spec script purchased by Warner Bros. The script was written by Christian Gudegas...
What They SayThe band is back! Oji recruits the former members of Black Heaven into helping him to defeat the aliens! Unfortunately, even though they are busy saving the galaxy, they can t tell their wives and bosses why they need to disappear at random t...
What They SayGerun Fortress - a coastal stronghold along the Mediterranean Sea. Here, two-hundred Monastic Knights make their final stand against a league of 20,000 Middle Eastern soldiers led by Gerneal Jamial Jan. Called the "beardless" by som, "shamele...
X-MEN scribe David Hayter is continuing his Hollywood love affair with superheroes by signing to direct a feature film version of Marvel's BLACK WIDOW. Hayter is also writing the screenplay that the movie will be based on. As with all other recent Marvel ...
Collider.com presents a video interview with screenwriter Zak Penn, who talks about a few things comics-to-filmic.
With regards to the 'Young X-Men' project, Penn said, "Theoretically that still will happen. They're waiting until Wolverine comes out...
Beware of the black cat whether it be fat or not! For those who doubt the wisdom of those words they only need look at this latest Something Weird Video offering to be set straight. Featuring two lost "Cat-ssics" dredged out of cinema's litter box, this m...
Amazon.com is hosting a new 'X2: X-Men United' sweepstakes. One grand-prize winner will receive a prop from the 'X2' movie in the form of a clear storage container that includes the personal effects of the character Magneto as seen in several prison scene...
I really, really tried to like this book. I love Stephen King's writing; I love most of what Peter Straub writes. I'd read THE TALISMAN (the prequel to this book) years ago and loved it. So I was eagerly awaiting BLACK HOUSE. All I could think of was, "Fi...
Greetings Maniacs, and welcome to another edition of The No-Fly Zone. Hopefully, everyone had a fantastic (and filling) Thanksgiving. By all rights, we should run something about all of the things we’re thankful for. But, this column is a contrar...
MEN OF HONOR is inspired by the true-life story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American to reach the rank of Master Chief Diver in the U.S. Navy. In a stirring performance, Cuba Gooding, Jr. embodies Brashear as a man who overcame great adversity to ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Dall-Young LimTranslated by:Sung-Woo ParkAdapted by:Christine SchillingWhat They SayWending his way home after a bender one evening, master moocher and game programmer Keita Ibuki decides to satisfy a craving for ramen at a no...
A behind-the-scenes look at ''X-Men: The Last Stand'': With a new director, new characters, and all sorts of new pressures, can the comic-book franchise stay in the black?
In the midst of a conflict, the Iron Maiden receives a call to come to the Savage Land a telepathic call that she shouldn't be receiving, since all the telepaths on Earth were killed. She and Jade Dragon find a city which was built by Magneto out of the ...
Matt Wagner`s Grendel: Black, White & Red gives us a tour through the world of master assassin and best-selling author Hunter Rose, also known as Grendel. The trade paperback collects short stories, each of them written by Wagner and drawn by a different ...
As if our favorite mutants didn't have enough to deal with... Not only are they hated by humanity and hunted by U-Men mutant wannabes who want to harvest their organs, they're also being gunned for by a new baddie, a mysterious being calling himself the S...
As much as I enjoy some aspects of Kevin Smith's fanboy-inspired humor, I have to say that his excessively juvenile attitude can occasionally rub me the wrong way. It becomes especially grating when it seems to demean characters and events that deserve a ...
Jack Black is ready to take on the title role in20th Century Fox's contemporary reimagining of the classic Jonathan Swift tale Gulliver's Travels, reports Variety. Fox is moving forward for the latest big screen adaptation of the tale with Rob Letterman ...
On the set of X-Men2, Comics2Film attended the press conference where the stars
almost outnumbered journalists on October 18. In a somewhat chaotic, humorous
environment, questions that ranged from the personal to the political were
fielded by the ...
After rejecting initial treatments developed by Gene Roddenberry, Paramount studio`s search for the proper vehicle to launch the first STAR TREK film began The writers approached included science fiction veteran Robert Silverberg; famed author Harlan Elli...
Behind the opening titles, we're invited to be voyeurs as a blind masseur (Ezio Marano) massages the beautiful nude body of model Maria Zani (Barbara Bouchet). After she has an argument with her husband Paolo (Silvano Tranquilli) in which he confronts her...
What They SayThe prequel to one of the most graphic titles in Kitty Media History!
Long before Minase revived the Magic Club with his sex magic, the original club was run by Miss Takashiro. When she was a student alongside the future school nurse, Miss ...
Anonymous scooper claims, "I also had the luck of literally walking into Kelsey Grammer with his Beast head on, T-Shirt and shorts...The face is jet black and huge and builds up on his squarish features. Just at the side the skin turns a deep blue with a ...
What They SayBringing new meaning to Back inBlack! Time has past since the Night of Walpurgis, and the girls of the Witchcraft Club have all graduated and made their way in the world. Imari has become a police woman, who serves as a psychic investigator...
Marvel Comics has released the cover to the first issue of SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO. The mini-series is written by Kevin Smith, with art and covers by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson. It begins in June. Here's how Marvel describes the mi...
Filmmaker/comics writer Kevin Smith says that his new Marvel Comics mini-series will be called SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO. As announced by Marvel last week, the mini-series didn't have Black Cat in the title. Smith says th...
What They SayAs all attempt to hide and heal, Train\'s conscience grows deep... Deep enough to make the decision to leave Chronos for good. Unfortunately for him, the life he has left proves unwilling to let him go. Sought by both the Chronos Numbers and ...
Perhaps I'm not the best person to review a comic based on DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Playing D&D brings back bad memories of sitting around a table with a bunch of geeks who felt they were better than other geeks because they didn't wear their geekiness on thei...
Last week's admittedly meandering column about sex and womenin popular comics didn't garner much mail, but it lit the comment section on fire. I thought that a column about everybody's favorite subject (or at least mine and Al's) would at least get me a ...
Crime novelist Victor Gischler pens a vicious Punisher one-shot with Little Black Book, in which the line between sex and violence becomes perilously blurred. After buying the services of Vette, a high-end prostitute, for a few sessions, Frank Castle...
"You have voted; we have tallied the results; and come October and November, we will reveal to you the 100 GREATEST MARVEL COMICS OF ALL TIME, celebrating Marvel's 40-year history," said Director of Editorial Operations Bob Greenberger to a packed Comic-C...
Black Eyed Peas rapper Will.i.am continues to bowl us over with his enthusiasm for 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' in which he plays a supporting role as a product of the Weapon X program.
"I'm a teleporter. ... I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. Boom,...
A group of US commandos make their way through the Colombian jungles, with a the cocaine mafia on their trail and a group of Colombian children in tow. It seems like a hopeless situation, but help comes in an unexpected form as Captain America arrives on ...
OPINIONAmazing, the amount of responses that including a single controversial quote in a column can garner! I got a record amount of letters responding to last week's column about the ULTIMATES's Nick Fury, an African-American character. The responses wer...
The follow-up to Monstrous Movie Music’s first pair of releases (two self-titled compilations of classic horror movie music) carries on the tradition of the label’s genesis: providing faithful and full-blooded new recordings of hitherto unreleased classic...
With Kevin Smith set to appear on NBC'S THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO on June 24 to promote his upcoming Marvel mini-series, SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, more art is coming out from the books. "I'm as proud of my work in comics as I am of...
Universal Pictures is looking to remake one of its most beloved monster films, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.Gary Ross' Larger Than Life Prods. shingle will handle the film, which will be produced by helmer Gary Ross with his father, Arthur A. Ross. The ...
Genre: Comic Book Adaptation/Action/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Marvel Entertainment.Project Phase: Pre-production.Who's In It:Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Eric Dane.Who'...
Tom Berg has been tattooing for nearly 11 years, primarily providing custom work to his clients. He excels inblack and grey and while working well in color. His work contains images on the darker side.He has worked on Fox's hit Prison Break and the upcom...
If you're
eager to see MenInBlack2 when it opens today you may want to check out TheChrisBrown's
review which we posted yesterday. While the sarcastic commentator found some
things to laugh at, he also takes the MiB agents to task for falling back...
Hollywood can't
resist a good sequel and even a lackluster retread like MeninBlack II
can get studio suits talking if the box office is big enough. Now TV
Guide Online reports that Sony is interested in doing a MeninBlack
III.
"The studio
...
Director John Singleton has two different comic adaptations on the way, LUKE CAGE and THE BLACK PANTHER. According to Reelz Channel, he may now have leading stars for both films. It's already been widely known that he has Tyrese Gibson to head up "Lu...
Jeffrey Sams is proving the voice of Black Panther in Ultimate Avengers 2, the direct-to-DVD animated film from Marvel and Lionsgate.
Check out the first look at the back cover packaging for X-Men: Evolution -- The Complete Third Season, due from Warn...
Well, it has taken almost 40 years, but finally, X-MEN has come to town. In the beginning it was Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Marvel Girl, Iceman, and The Angel donned in blue and gold and sporting the familiar X insignia versus Magneto, Mastermind, Toad...
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...
ReelzChannel.com adds fuel to talk of a 'Black Panther' movie helmed by John Singleton (who also has his eye on 'Luke Cage'). In a recent interview with the site Singleton told them that he likes Chiwetel Ejiofor for the crime-fighting king of Wakanda. Ej...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND generated a small truckload of mail. The reactions ranged from complete agreement with my review, to total disagreement from fans that thought the film met or exceeded the previous two. Regardless, t...
FilmForce has learned that 'X-Men' and 'Watchmen' screenwriter David Hayter is in the early stages of negotiations to write and direct the espionage thriller based on Marvel's 'Black Widow.'
OPINION: While it's too soon to say whether the X-Men "ReLoad" event will be a success, it's equally true that it's too soon to say (to paraphrase Douglas Adams) it has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Reactions to M...
In 1987, the 20th Century Fox thriller BLACK WIDOW hit the screens, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell. A deadly seductress marries a series of wealthy men, murders them, collects their estates, and gets away with her crimes thanks to her assumptio...
It's been a long time coming five years, to be exact but fans of director Barry Sonnenfeld's 1997 hit MENINBLACK have finally gotten a sequel. And judging by the film's holiday weekend opening gross to the tune of almost $90 million it would seem th...
Writer and BET TV President Reggie Hudlin was just supposed to pen a six-issue miniseries returning the Black Panther to the forefront of the Marvel Comics Universe, but the response to the first few issues was so overwhelming that the House of Ideas ...
Mike Chang wakes up on a street corner in someone else's suit and lipstick on his face. Or rather, he doesn't wake uphe's simply there, and he can't remember who he is. Whenever he tries to go for help, to the police or to the hospital, he starts to babbl...
Di Gi Charat Theater - Dejiko's Summer Vacation
Street date: November 18, 2003
Please pre-book by October 13, 2003.
Shipping: 1st week of November
Di Gi Charat Theater - Dejiko's Summer Vacation
What happens when an alien hybrid cat-eared girl with asp...
What They Say2015 AD. Tokyo is apparently the last city remaining on the otherwise devastated Earth. But high school student Ayato Kamina is caught up in a devastating attack on the city, from fighters that must have come from outside. Emerging from the r...
Radica Games Ltd. (NASDAQ: RADA)
announced yesterday that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Sony
Pictures Consumer Products to produce MenInBlack II branded video game
accessories.
Under terms of the agreement, Radica, under its...
The characters of Di Gi Charat first captured the fascination of anime fans as the very cute and equally mean mean mascots for Gamers, an anime and game hobby store in Japan.
Broccoli Books is proud to present the best of Di Gi Charat's adventures - Di G...
Hollywood long ago drew the commercial skull-and-crossbones sign over any movie involving pirates, and the public's stubborn lack of interest in such modern-day spins as the 1995 Renny Harlin/Geena Davis vehicle CUTTHROAT ISLAND and last year's Disney pir...
What They SayJimmy Kudo is a cocky teenage detective, known far and wide for his crime solving skills. While working a particularly gruesome case, Kudo is attacked in the darkness by two strange men and force-fed an experimental drug. The strong poison re...
OPINIONHonestly, I'm starting to think I should just head this column with "Mea Culpa" in big bold letters every week, the amount of apologizing I end up doing. It seems that not only did I completely get the JLA's current minority line-up wrong (John Ste...
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...
What They SayWithin the high stakes world of police work exists a surplus of capable detectives. These detectives work with police to uncover the clues needed to track down and apprehend the most vile criminals. Jimmy Kudo is just such a detective. But th...
Zak Penn, writer on 'X2: X-Men United', 'X-Men 3' and 'Elektra' is also expected to develop a film at the studio to direct, possibly a spinoff of the 'X-Men' franchise. The movie would not be the either of the currently in-development 'Wolverine' or 'Magn...
Highlighting this week’s new releases is Two to the Fifth the latest Xanth novel from Piers Anthony, the thirty-second book in the long-running fantasy series. You can read an excerpt by visiting here: Two to the Fifth Excerpt.
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What They SayFrom Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Metropolis, Astro Boy, and Kimba!
Episode 5:
While on vactation, Black Jack comes across a young man haunted by the vision of a woman who beckons him to return to a town he\'s never visited. He also has vi...
There is a good test for measuring whether a television series will make it past its debut. It involves three simple questions, none of which can be asked until the second episode has aired. They are:1) Does the second episode deepen and/or flesh out elem...
Volume 1 of Black Lagoon is a must-read for mature action manga fans.
Creative Talent:Writer/Artist: Rei HiroeTranslated By: Dan KanemitsuAdapted By: Dan Kanemitsu
What They Say:
Lock 'n' load with the baddest soldiers of fortune ever to hit the high s...
What They SayThe Final Flight of the Osiris
Written by Andy and Larry Wachowski; Directed by Andy Jones
Animation and production design by Square USA, Inc.
The crew of the hovercraft Osiris must get a message back to Zion, a message of vital importance....
Black and White are Japanese monsters, as inexplicable and accepted by those that fear them as Gamera and Godzilla. Inseparable since birth, Black is the embodiment of chaos, darkness, uncontrolled rage and hatred, while White is the embodiment of good, l...
MeninBlack2
Director Barry Sonnenfeld confided in Cinescape's
Eric Moro that he is a little worried about the film.
He said, "What's interesting
is oftentimes, and Back to the Future may be the exception, one of the
things that ma...
What They Say2015 AD. Tokyo is apparently the last city remaining on the otherwise devastated Earth. But high school student Ayato Kamina is caught up in a devastating attack on the city, from fighters that must have come from outside. Emerging from the r...
The New Year looms on the horizon yet again, and I find myself lacking inspiration for a column in between the twin drinking binges of Christmas and New Year's Eve. As such, you'll have to make due with my ramblings about the state of the comic industry i...
What They SayRapid changes in the new century have brought forth a dangerous power capable of good or evil.
Harnessing the psychic abilities of its residents, the government has turned its most gifted citizens into New Age guinea pigs, drained of their ...
The Review!Black Lion. Yet another Go Nagai classic.
Audio: Pretty standard. It\'s not 5.1 like ADV\'s recent titles, but both tracks sound good. I\'m not complaining.
Video: Given the age and budget of the anime, Black Lion looks pretty good. It didn\'...
Below are the solutions to Comics2Film's Facebook/Flixter Movie Quiz #1!
Take the quiz first, then learn the story behind the answers...
Who played Hank McCoy in 'X2: X-Men United'?
Ah hah! Starting off with a trick question! (Yeah...it...
Comics2Film's
Jim Harvey caught up with Craig Kyle, one of the head producers for X-Men:
Evolution, to talk about not only his work on the hit animated Kids'WB!
series, but how he got into animation and what attracted him to doing X-Men:
Evolution. An...
What They SayBusty Beauties Battle It Out!
Variable Geo continues! This time, it\'s the buxom, blonde Diane Ryan versus the beautiful and reserved Ayumi Okamoto! The winner of this match will advance to the semi-finals but watching what happens to the lo...
OPINIONFinally...consensus! Even though many of you may have disagreed with the choices I and your fellow COMISCAPE readers made for the Ten Best Comic Book Movies, and even the Bottom Five of the Ten Worst, you all seemed to have no trouble agreeing on w...