Latest Releases Continue To Drive Tremendous Momentum Behind The Hottest Anime And Manga Property In North America
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What They SayNaruto and the others arrive at the Village Hidden in the Waterfall on an escort mission for Shibuki, the young leader of the village. Things seem peaceful until Kakashi leaves on urgent business and the village is attacked by Suien, a former...
Property Continues To Be A Success And Demonstrates Broad Audience Appeal
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Ancient powers surface that threaten the stability of the world as Naruto discovers while trying to rescue… a ferret?What They SayNaruto, Shikamaru and Sakura are in the middle of returning a lost ferret to its owner - the easiest mission ever. Or ...
What They SayNaruto Uzumaki is a lonesome young boy from the Hidden Leaf Village, a town with several young ninja-in-training who aspires to reach the village\'s one-of-a-kind highest ninja rank, the Hokage.
Featuring episodes 27 to 39!
The Review!The ch...
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Complete Seasons of Action-Packed NARUTO And BLEACH And All 37 Episodes Of DEATH NOTE Available on iTunes
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What They SayMany years ago the ninja village of Konoha came under attack by a ferocious demon fox. After a great many casualties the creature was defeated by the Forth Hokage and imprisoned within a human body. Thus the boy, Naruto, was born. With a misc...
Three New Volumes Of Smash Hit Series To Be Published Each Month Beginning In September To Catch Up To Japanese Release Schedule
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What They SayUzumaki Naruto is a lonesome young boy from the Hidden Leaf Village, a town with several young ninjas-in-training who aspire to reach the village\'s one-of-a-kind highest ninja rank, the Hokage. Naruto is treated as an outcast by the rest of ...
What They SayNaruto and Jiraiya\'s journey climaxes in all-out war with Orochimaru and his skilled right-hand man, Kabuto. Naruto must perfect the Rasengan in time to save the future Hokage, but when Naruto himself needs saving, Tsunade must overcome her ...
What They SayWith the final round of the Chunin Exam only a month away, Naruto receives some special training from Jiraiya, one of the three legendary Sannin, to summon and master the chakra of the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit within him. Can Naruto turn this d...
Most Elaborate Manga Box Set Ever Published In North America Bundles Host Of Extras With 27 Volumes Of Smash Hit Ninja Series
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What They SayUzumaki Naruto is a lonesome young boy from the Hidden Leaf Village, a town with several young ninjas-in-training who aspire to reach the village\'s one-of-a-kind highest ninja rank, the Hokage. Naruto is treated as an outcast by the rest of ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:KaishakuTranslated by:Gretchen KernAdapted by:Ailen LujoWhat They SayAruto Kirihara is a student who spends his free time reading the book about ALICE, and is even writing his own sequel. After meeting a girl who bears a stri...
Sasuke finally comes out of the barrel and sets off to find Orochimaru so he can gain more power, but not before he and Naruto have a few words about friendship.
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Naruto's pursuit of Sasuke is halted by the most fearsome of the Sound ninj...
What They SayDeep within the Hidden Leaf Village, sharp and cunning Ninja carry an ultimate power while Naruto Uzumaki carries inside the ultimate secret. Twelve years ago, the fourth Hokage sacrificed himself and saved the village by sealing the Nine-tai...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Masashi KishimotoTranslated by:Katy BridgesAdapted by:What They SayIn another world, ninjas are the ultimate power - and in the village of Konohagakure live the stealthiest ninja in the world. But 12 years ago Konohagakure was...
Once upon a time there was a ninja who wore orange; created by a man named Kishimoto. Like a lot of popular ninjas that come from Japan, this ninja made his way to the U.S. and became even more popular; the new millennium’s equivalent to the m...
What They SaySasuke returns at last to face Gaara in the final round of the Chunin Exam with his powerful new jutsu, Chidori. But the match is interrupted when Orochimaru\'s scheme to bring down the Hidden Leaf Village is put into motion. While the Third ...
This week, I've decided to shake things up a bit. Lost in Translation, as a column, has slowly evolved into quite a lot of things. Initially a forum for reviewing English soundtracks for Anime, Lost in Translation has become something of an answering ho...
What They SayAfter barely making it out of the Forest of Death, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura proceed to the next stage of the Chunin Exam: a one-on-one sudden death elimination battle! Pitted against each other in individual combat, an assortment of young, b...
What They SayNaruto is thestory of Uzumaki Naruto, a lonesome young boy from the Hidden Leaf Village, a town with several young ninjas-in-training who aspire to reach the village\'s one-of-a-kind highest ninja rank, the Hokage. Naruto is treated as an ou...
Highly Anticipated Debut of DEATH NOTE Via Download To Own And New DVD Releases For NARUTO and MÄR Drew Fan Accolades
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What They SayThe squad mates face their deadliest challenge yet as the Chunin Exam continues. Deep in the Forest of Death, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura must battle their rival genin to collect the scrolls of Heaven and Earth. It\'s no easy task, but is ther...
What They SayNaruto Uzumaki is a lonesome young boy from the Hidden Leaf Village, a town with several young ninja-in-training who aspires to reach the village\'s one-of-a-kind highest ninja rank, the Hokage.
Featuring episodes 27 to 39!
The Review!The ch...
If you believe manga should stick to the strictest sense of its definition--Japanese comics by Japanese writers and artists--now would be the time to jump off the bandwagon. Make sure to tuck in your chin and roll as you hit the ground.
If you'...
What They SaySasuke\'s match against Gaara finally begins! Sasuke\'s only hope of winning lies within the move Kakashi taught him... Chidori. But, how will Gaara react when Sasuke causes him to bleed?
Meanwhile, a battle of kings has begun as one of the ...
What They SayMillie Nocturne has one great goal in life: to be the best in the universe.. at absolutely everything! But when she tries her hand at being the \"best detective,\" she ends up an unwilling partner with two people who will change her life fore...
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What They SayAs Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura struggle in battle in the Land of Waves, they must come to terms with the often-painful reality of being a ninja. A little bit older, wiser and stronger, the three return to the Hidden Leaf Village only to face t...
(Additional Reporting by ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG)Just about every major comic book hero has at one time or another had his or her origin told, retold, expanded, re-interpreted, re-imagined or otherwise manipulated by countless writers looking to make their mar...
Premiere Event For North American Comic and Manga Fans Set The Stage For Announcements Of More Than Twenty New Titles For 2008
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What They SayWatch as Kain, Canal, and Millie continue their zany adventures. While the Universal Guardians handle most of the peacekeeping in the galaxy, trouble contractor Kain and his crew aboard the Swordbreaker always seem to get stuck with the assig...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kaname ItsukiTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayOne evening, a boy named \"Air\" suddenly appears at Mizuki's window, forcibly transporting him to Neverland. Having grown up most of his life without his own father, Mizuk...
Highly Anticipated New Manga Story Arc Launches Featuring A Teenage Naruto And Offers New Volumes Every Two Months
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TV TOKYO Corporation And Shueisha Inc. Appoint ShoPro Entertainment To Represent TV, Home Video And Merchandising Rights In North America And Latin America For Much Anticipated Ninja Hit, Naruto
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Steve Jablonsky reprises his dark ambiances from the 2003 remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with an equally brooding and disconsolate score for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman (DA...
Typically, when I hear the name Disney, I flinch. To me, the brand is synonymous with `all-powerful, way-too-influential, money-grubbing conglomerate.` (I flinch the same way when I hear the name Blockbuster.) Dont get me wrong: Disneys animation team i...
ABC is already bracing for the huge cotton candy waste of space AMERICAN IDOL. No offense to those that watch it, I just think it’s a bit stale. But the series continues to beat out whatever other series comes up against it, so in pr...
LOST never ceases to surprise. "Do No Harm" manages to be the exception to that rule but upholds the rule while defying it. For once, what appears to be the case, actually is. This is the third Jack Shepard-centric story, but whereas the two previous inst...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Osamu TezukaTranslated by:Kumar SivasubramanianAdapted by:What They SayFrom the creator of Astro Boy comes Lost World, the first of Osamu Tezuka's cycle of groundbreaking science-fiction graphic novels - including Metropolis a...
I am grateful to Adam Sternbergh of nymag.com for saying a lot of the things about Lost that were starting to bug me as well. In his article Never-Ending Stories: How to fix shows like “Lost’’ (http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/23763/...
Naruto Volume 27 begins with the first 3 chapters as the conclusion of part one of the series. These final chapters catch up with everyone after the Sasuke Retrieval arc to lead into where these characters will be in the years between now and the nex...
One of the things that saved this series from its first six episode run this season is that the writers understood that there should be a balance between the Others, or individual stories, and the beach. This episode definitely lost, no pun intended,...
It's probably no surprise that ATLANTIS: THELOST EMPIRE isn't very good. For a Walt Disney Picture, there isn't any dancing tea cups or pumas breaking out into song to make up for an awkward story. In fact, the very adult nature of the film which tries ...
Website For Popular Ninja Series Features Comprehensive Episode Guide, New Artwork, Character Details And Online Games
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I’ll be honest with you, when I heard this was to be a Claire-centric episode I wasn’t so excited. I like her well enough but she just isn’t figured that centrally into the series for me since the others took her baby, which was...
Do you ever look at something and think, "Has no one else noticed this?" That's exactly what I did when I sat down to watch THE PRISONER in a marathon session earlier this week. Think about it. You have an isolated location honeycombed with strange bun...
Latest Feature Length Animated Adventure Has World's Favorite Ninja In Training Battling A Mysterious New Threat
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From the beginning of LOST Locke was easily one of the most interesting characters. He started out as a super hero almost, ready to run and hunt and build, whatever had to be done to save the castaways. As the series progressed we learned ...
Every week it’s inevitable that someone will tell me, well I liked LOST, but it’s no Heroes. I like both shows, and I’ve been as vocal as anyone about how the first 3rd of season 3 was such a failure. What I’m tired...
Feature Film Based On Popular Anime And Manga Series Debuts At Number 25 On Nielsen VideoScan
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Disney and McFarlane toys are planning to unveil a new line of action figures based on ABC's hit TV show LOST.The figures will be unveiled at the Toys "R" Us International Flagship store in New York on November 6.McFarlane Toys' Lost Series 1 figures will...
Not every episode can progress at full throttle, but that doesn’t mean it has to be less intriguing. This episode was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I found some of it interesting and other parts felt just a little padded. The zi...
Yes, I know, it's been a whole two weeks since my last column. I have a good excuse, really! Wait a second here... I'm actually writing another column fairly soon after my previous one. Well, this won't last long, so enjoy it while you can!
This week ...
Well I’ll be, if it’s not Rose and Bernard! I’ve been wondering about these two for a long time. I think it’s a mistake for the show creators to not at least include them in the background here and there even if they aren...
I like being cleverly tricked by a book, movie, or TV series, but for that to happen “cleverly” it has to have weight, there has to be a plot centric reason for the trick. What we got in this episode was a trick just for the sake of a tri...
With the end of the year almost upon us, its time for Lost in Translation to begin looking back at the year. Well, I'm not really going to look back at the whole year, just try to catch up on a few things I've missed thanks to a busy schedule filled with...
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...
If you are foolish enough to pay hard earned money to see this movie instead of The Exorcist this weekend, then all I can say is that youll get what you deserve: a movie so bad that there is almost nothing good to say about it; a boring mess that drowns ...
Yes, I know, it's been quite a while since I managed to squeak out a Lost in Translation column. This week's episode is called "The Long Road Back" simply because it has been quite a journey to reach this point. The how and why an English language track...
Konnichiwa!
Welcome to the first in a series of columns focusing on everyone's favorite subject, English dubbing of Anime. Wait, I can already see you pulling out your ropes and torches to chase me down, but hear me out. Think back to your first exposure...
One of the comments last week complained about not being about to get invested in much of the drama of LOST because you can’t take very much of what happens in the series at face value. I’ve been thinking about that a good bit this week a...
What They SayBased off of the Naoki prize winning story by novelist Miyuki Miyabe! He\'s of average strength and below average courage! But the thoughts of this eleven-year-old boy are about to launch him into the adventure of his lifetime!The Review!The ...
It's actually been a while since a column I wrote sparked conversation on the English Track, the dub lover's sanctuary on Anime on DVD. While I would like to think it was my witty writing, and unique insights into the world of dubbing, I know it was all ...
Variety reports that ABC has agreed to let the producers of LOST end the series in 2010. The show will now wrap after the production of 48 additional episodes. The 48 will be broken up into three sets of 16-episode arcs...
After four weeks of anticipation, LOST once again confounds desire by skulking around the side of a pressing plot point. Picking up shortly after the preceding episode, "The Greater Good" is an uneven installment that provides dramatic highs between Lock...
This is part one of the three hour season finale and it’s obvious why the producers wanted three hours to tie up the season – a lot is happening and a lot more is on the way. The episode opens with the Oceanic Six arriving home together. ...
Due to a combination of a hard drive crash followed closely by tornadoes, I was unable to get a review for the season premiere of LOST posted last week. I thought the episode deserved discussion though so this week this extensive article will look at...
Lurid poster art featuring scantily clad females leaning over bed posts, cars colliding head on, a man strangling another, and cops with their guns drawn firing on unknown assailants all this might lead the uninitiated to believe that these things occur...
This Kate-centric episode continues the strong psychological emphasis begun with Jack in "Do No Harm" by examining the fugitive's seemingly ingrained imperative to flee. Kate is shown to be someone who's done a lot of running, and the personal aspects of...
It’s been a long time, I mean a really long time coming but the new episode of LOST is finally behind us. I think I’ve made my thoughts on the first half of this season fairly clear, as have most fans here on the ol' interweb. ...
Ah, there's nothing like having a week where news just pops out at you. The big story on everyone's lips is the announcement that Bang Zoom will be handling the dub for Pioneer's release of the second Card Captor Sakura movie. The first movie was the la...
Partnership With Leading Broadcaster Brings Popular Action Series To The Largest Market In South America
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Agreement Brings Popular Action Series To One Of The Top Latin American Markets
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McFarlane Toys will release six characters from the series as 6-inch figures in late fall. Each 6-inch Lost figure will have a detailed base and photographic backdrop, capturing an episode-specific moment in the character's story. In addition, each packa...
Part Duex: Everything starts from a question.
All right, I've been enough of a bad boy this week, so its back to what you guys love: English Dubs. But first, a question!
Hi my name is Paul, I am like so many others a huge anime fan. I enjoy both Sub a...
I’m normally not a huge fan of filler, I in fact complain about it a lot but as demonstrated by the most recent BSG episode filler can be entertaining is its clever and it at least further develops some of the characters in the series. Some...
LOST has been on a stellar run lately with last week’s Locke specific episode being a real capper and really raising the bar for the series. The word is that there is going to be one last season of LOST, and if that’s the case then w...
It's often astonishing what a network will green light when it's got nothing left to lose, and LOST seems to following a similar trajectory to another risk ABC took fifteen years ago. Luckily for LOST, it's got a little more time to develop than TWIN PEAK...
What we have here is a mostly filler episode. I say mostly because the end of the episode ties into Desmond’s story arc, and to a cliffhanger from season two that we’re finally getting back too. These are the kinds of filler epi...
The 57th Annual Emmy awards were held last night at the Shrine Auditorium and genre shows reaped many of the honors. ABC's LOST won for best drama series. The network led all broadcast networks with 16 Emmys overall. In addition to best drama, serie...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Tomohiro Chiba & Bandai Games Inc. / Artist: Masato NatsumotoTranslated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:What They SayThe One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon has begun--and the newest Mobil...
OK, this is a miniseries that I’ve really been looking forward to for some time. Sci-Fi Channel has been on such a good run lately with series such as BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and EUREKA I had high hopes for this one. The more I found ou...
Director John Moore (THE OMEN-2006 remake) has been tapped to direct THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS. The dark fantasy story is based off author John Connolly's novel of the same name and it was published last year.
Story Premise: It centers on a 12-year-old Eng...
After the release of the OAV on 3 discs, Magic User's Club switched to a more standard release format for the following TV series. I Wanna Do More contains the first 4 episodes of the TV series picking up where the OVA series left off. The dub of the TV s...
Together and separately, they've written some of the most fondly remembered comics of the last thirty years, from SWAMP THING and TOMB OF DRACULA to TEEN TITANS and THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Now, Marv Wolfman and Len Wein are about to embark on an entirely ...
Juliet is one of the few newer character added to LOST that fans actually cared about. Other than her being attractive, she has more depth than most of the other newer characters and her personality is unpredictable and intriguing. There’s...
After twelve months of being lost, and another six months of being found, it's official: the Legion of Super-Heroes is back in a single new monthly title. Writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, however, feel like they've never been away. The two writers hav...
Six New Series Deliver Unique Mix Of Historical Drama, Science Fiction, Award-Winning Comedic Romance and Supernatural Action
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Industry Leader in Manga Publishing To Have Notable Presence In Booth 3833
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What They SayNaruto joins Lee, Neji, and Tenten on a mission to save a gold-mining town from a group of thugs, but just when they think the battle's over, one of the enemy ninja comes back to life! Back in the Leaf Village, Naruto leads Konohamaru and his...
There aren't many games on the market today that are new and innovative, but every once in a while a title stands out with its originality and storyline. THELOST looks to do just that."THELOST is actually a very cool experiment," says the game's produce...
There’s a pattern forming on LOST and I must admit I like it. See, it goes like this, let’s get Hurley to mess with Sawyer. On the beach, Hurley approached Sawyer and told him that the castaways are having a vote the next day on...
For me, one of the greatest joys in life is going back to something I've loved and re-experiencing it with new eyes. In this respect, BABYLON 5 never disappoints. Though the series has its week moments and the machinery of the five-year arc sometimes sl...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hajime KanzakaTranslated by:Shoko YoshinakaAdapted by:What They SayTrouble seems to follow Lina Inverse wherever she goes. After being hired to find and capture a troublesome thief, Lina runs into a mysterious figure from her ...
I've collected comics in one form or another since 1982. It started with a weekly trip to the local Magic Mart and later moved to a little comic book specialty store called Gulf Coast Comics. I think it's safe to say I have a bit of an affinity for the ...
In parts one and two of CINESCAPE's coverage of Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors convention, we looked at the many independent filmmakers who visited the event in hopes of promoting their home-made horror films. Today in the final part of our report, we reco...
I’ve been complaining lately that the marketing campaign for Heroes over-hyped the episodes to a degree that while the episodes were good, they were underwhelming due to the promises of the promotions. Well, now Heroes and LOST have anothe...
Special Cross-Promotion Will Coincide With DVD Release Of NARUTO THE
MOVIE: NINJA CLASH IN THE LAND OF SNOW
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What They SayThe Izu Dancer by Kawabata Yasunari
A young student falls in love with a traveling dancer, but societal differences may tear them apart.
The Dancing Girl by Mori Ohgai
A Japanese man working in turn of the century Berlin fathers a child wi...
What They SayCurses never die, but people do.
In the Edo era of Japan, when cultural arts flourished and the samurai code of \"bushido\" emerged, humanity\'s fear of the supernatural was very real! Desiring to wed Lady Oiwa, an ambitious and calculating ...
So, it finally came, the season finale of LOST. So, would we be disappointed? What would be this season’s cliffhanger? These questions plagued me as I sat down in high anticipation in front of my television for the two hour finale.&nb...
This has really been a great season so far. Week to week, LOST hasn’t disappointed pushing the series back to the top of my list of best shows on TV. This week we get a flash forward for Kate, a look at small town living in the barracks, a...
DVD has truly changed the landscape of home video, and this weeks mixed bag is a fine example. Major studio releases hit the shelves alongside direct-to-video nonsense, and even the dregs of Asian martial arts trash cinema are preserved in digital format...
Last Tuesday, Warner Home Video released 'Lost Boys: The Tribe' on DVD. The movie is a direct-to-DVD follow up to the much loved vampire movie of the 1980s which make Keifer Sutherland and instant success and launched The Coreys (Mr. Feldman and Mr. Haim)...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Alan Menken hasn't entirely dropped out of site since scoring a run of successful Disney animated features from THE LITTLE MERMAID through HERCULES. He did some TV work, scored Disney's humdrum animated HOME ON THE RANGE as wel...
Now we’re back to what LOST has really been doing right this season, answering old questions and asking new ones. Back in season one, we were introduced to the letter that Sawyer wrote to his namesake, the man who conned his mother and indirect...
New Releases By Company's VIZ FICTION Imprint Include Novels For The Popular RUROUNI KENSHIN And The Award-Winning NARUTO
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What They SayFeatures character designs by Kenichi Sonoda (Gunsmith Cats and Bubblegum Crisis)!
Created by Hideki Kakinuma (Megazone 23)
War rages in deep space between a race of warriors and a ruthless bio-mechanical civilization. Fighter pilot Lufy an...
This week I’m most looking forward to Lost, mainly to see if this episode makes up for the lackluster season so far. We were promised in ads that the last two episodes of the fall season would change everything. Last week we saw SPOI...
The first issue of Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs begins a four-part miniseries that bridges the 1987 vampire film, Lost Boys, and its upcoming direct-to-DVD sequel, The Tribe. It follows the adventures of the vampire-slaying Frog brothers, Edgar and Alan...
Lindelof and Cuse are, without doubt, the most sadistic producers working in television today. They've purveyed a season of set-up capped with a finale where things get terribly interesting only to go on vacation leaving the viewers on the edge of their ...
In the good seasons of LOSTthere were two types of episodes, the fast past high action sort, and the complex mind numbing episodes. Last week’s episode and now this week's are a real return to form for the series. First, we get fast...
Wow, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, writers of this episode and producers of the series are really trying to pay fans back fro the heaping helping of blandness we were served last fall. This episode offers a solid balance of drama, humor, and ...
If only Sayid had the same cultural heritage as his American companions, he might have noticed that Henry Gale travelling from a distant land via hot air balloon had a little more in common with L. Frank Baum than English millionaire Richard Branson. Aft...
Now I'm not one to throw superlatives around without a little green palming, but doggone it, if you didn't attend Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in New York a couple of weeks ago, you missed out on a humdinger of an event. Why, all sorts of horror and sci-...
OK, things are heating up and answers are being given, this is what I’ve been waiting for! If you stopped watching LOST, you messed up! So, everyone is finally back together when Jack, Sayid, Kate, and the new tenant Juliet return to...
This final episode of Season Four of Lost was quite the emotional rollercoaster ride with death and romance, action adventure, and plenty of mystery all rolled into the epic two hours. The episode didn’t pull any punches. It re-established a series ...
EW.com talked with LOST executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse about the decision to end the series in 2010.
When asked why announcing the end date was a positive Cuse noted, "I think it's a good thing because now, people who are ...
When Ana Lucia first appeared in "Exodus," I mused to former TV Wasteland writer Dave Wharton that a truly mind-blowing second season would abandon Jack and company in favor of following the survivors of the tail section for an entire season before unitin...
It's the holiday season, and while people are taking some time off from work, and beginning to look back at the past year, fans can walk away confident that 2003 produced a large amount of quality shows. 2003 ends on a high note of over 700 titles releas...
It seems that the quality of a LOST episode is oftentimes tied to the uniqueness of the character whose backstory appears in that installment. While TV audiences have had any number of Jack Shepards over the years, John Locke and Hugo Reyes are the sorts ...
Yeah--I can see why Kate's mum was a bit ticked off when last we saw her. After seemingly wandering around the periphery of Kate's backstory for a year and a half, the writers of LOST have finally revealed the island cutie's crime. Though I've often criti...
In part one of CINESCAPE's coverage of Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors convention, our intrepid correspondent detailed his visit to the event, which took place at New York's Brooklyn Marriott Hotel on January 5th and 6th. Today we continue to explore the da...
Here are the prize winners in our ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 giveaway: Stacey Allen and Aaron Essig proved to have superior email ninja skills, and will be receiving their prizes shortly. All others can just sit in the crying corner until they get their emoti...
In the first of two such potential projects, NBC is going forward into the past with remakes of CARRIE and LOST IN SPACE as potential back door pilots to new regular series.NBC and 20th Century Fox are teaming up to recreate Irwin Allen's 1960s LOST IN SP...
Melissa George (30 Days of Night) is in final negotiations to lead the supernatural thriller Triangle, says the Hollywood Reporter. Christopher Smith (Severance) is directing. Jason Newmark and Chris Brown are producing the film, set to begin sh...
Milan Records will follow up its release of the critically acclaimed score for Pan’s Labyrinth, written by Spanish composer Javier Navarrete, with another big orchestral fantasy score: Island of Lost Souls. This is a Danish epic adventure produc...
Brian K. Vaughn’s name is sadly absent from the list of writers that worked on this episode of Lost. That doesn’t promise a bad episode, but Vaughn has done some of his best work ever on the series, so not seeing his name is disappointing.&nbs...
Associated Press has repored ABC will launch a global interactive game based on their TV series LOST. TheLOST EXPERIENCE will be Internet-based and will feature a parallel story line that is not part of the TV show. The game will begin May 3rd in the U....
We know the shortened season 4 (8 episodes) of "Lost" is only a week away and we know that ABC likes to show a special, which updates the fans to "current time" within the show's story. This year, they're going to re-air last year's fi...
Editing.
One simple word, but a word that speaks volumes. Some accept it, some curse it, some profit by it. It can be simple and innocuous as calling a rice cake a cookie to extreme and detestable as cutting large portions of video out and changing the ...
It seems like such a long wait until the premiere of the final season of Battlestar Galactica. The SCIFI Channel is giving us a two hour movie in November called Razor that tells a side story from the second Cylon attack. If you’re like me...
After a successful run with indie publisher Shooting Star Press, Tom Waltz and Casey Malone's CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE has found a new home in trade paperback form at IDW. The black and white miniseries tells the chilling story of a black ops squad of only ...
Three Of The Hottest Animated Action Series Sweeping North America Offered With Convenience, Flexibility And DVD Quality
San Francisco, CA, January 25, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and compr...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hajime Kanzaka / Shoko YoshinakaTranslated by:Laura Jackson and Yoko KobayashiAdapted by:What They SayAll Lina Inverse wanted to do was take a nice relaxing bath at the local hot springs. The next thing she knows, she's attack...
John Locke is one of the most intriguing characters on the series and any time an episode focuses on him, it’s not a disappointment. He gets one of the few flashbacks of the season and it goes further back than any flashback we’ve seen before....
SoundtrackNet reported on the April 18th recording sessions for TV's LOST and ALIAS, composed by THE INCREDIBLES' composer Michael Giacchino: "Today, at the O'Henry scoring stage in Burbank, composer Michael Giacchino had a double-session for two of telev...
Comingsoon has posted highlights from theLOST Comic Con presentation. They list a bunch of Season 3 scoops, none of which are too spoilerish.Describing the presentation, Comingsoon writes, "co-creator/executive producer Damon Lindelof, executive produce...
Short story collections in manga and manhwa are a rare thing and a collection by the talented Hee Jung Park should especially be celebrated.
Creative Talent:Writer/Artist: Hee Jung ParkTranslator: Woo Sok ParkAdaptation: Jamie S. Rich
What They Say:From...
Anime Expo: New property announcements, preview of 20th Anniversary Year
GRIMES, IA, June 30, 2007 " Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc. kicked off its 20th anniversary year a few weeks early with a trio of announcements during its June 30t...
This is the big week, the return of the one time unstoppable hit series LOST. The series faltered the first half of this third season and the creators have apparently listened to the fans and decided not to follow network wishes and keep draggin...
What They SayEpisode 7: Trunks, the Bride
The Saiyans arrive on a peaceful planet with one very large problem. The monster Zoonama has the incredible ability to produce earthquakes by merely shaking his gigantic whiskers! Now the monster is demanding a b...
If there was one shows this season that had to be the most anticipated, I'd have to say that it was Tsukihime. I managed to make the anime my first real exposure to the series (okay I played the<