Sure, there are more stories in this article but the two biggest stories of the week in the whole “goof-up” department go to ParisHilton who thinks a myspace petition or a Governor pardon will get her out of serving 45 days in a jail…t...
First famous for being famous, blonde ParisHilton is growing her body of work beyond what's on the Internet. The hotel heiress is in final talks to join the cast of Dark Castle's HOUSE OF WAX remake. If she closes her deal Hilton will join 24's Elisha Cu...
ParisHilton has joined the upcoming horror musical, REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. This film is being created by the same creators of the SAW series, Lionsgate & Twisted Pictures. Director Bousman himself has directed three...
...d heiress ParisHilton. Perhaps the only way Cruise might have lost this competition is if "All of the Above" had been offered as a voting option. In the annual categories that have been part of The RAZZIES® sine 1980, G.R.A.F. voters proved that Acade...
...op story, ParisHilton, gets off with not even a slap on the wrist. Or does she?
Meanwhile, Joe Francis, has different law enforcement agencies actually fighting over his body and where he should be in custody. One has to wonder what fellow ce...
...ersion of ParisHilton?
Rumor: It seems that celebrity ParisHilton could be the next blonde to get a comic book based treatment and Stan Lee could be helping her get it adapted.
Source: Perez Hilton
Mania Verdict: TRUE---As much...
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ParisHilton may have said she found God once again and will serve out her 45 day sentence without appeals but that’s not stopping the circus or fallout from continuing on everything else in regards to the fiasco.
Her agent, Mi...
...g reason. ParisHilton, Lindsay Lohan and Miss USA battle it out online blog style. A very powerful man dies & another very powerful fictional character might be leaving the airwaves much to my own disappointment.
Jailbirds,...
...?
“ParisHilton deserves to go to jail for 45 days” says LA Prosecutor:
Probation and constant fine paying doesn’t seem to be registering to that blond head of hers so perhaps this method of discipline will…Who really knows t...
... known as ParisHilton. She just can’t stay out of the news so the news itself has tried giving her the whole cold shoulder technique. Never mind the journalistic questions of this failed adventure, it’s the fact that a wire news service...
Genre:Horror/Remake.Studio:Warner Bros.Production Company:Dark Castle Entertainment/Village Roadshow.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Chad Michael Murray; Elisha Cuthbert; ParisHilton; Brian Van Holt; Jon Abrahams; Damon Herriman.Who's Making It:Jaume ...
If you`re too Gothic for Milan, New York, and Japan, you`ll be right at home in Paris. First of all, if you wear all black, no one will assume you`re a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia; Parisians themselves wear black a lot because it`s chic, and they also ...
... be like ParisHilton!?! Granted, the girl has money (or should I say, the girl has her parents’ money), but at the end of the day you’re still ParisHilton. I don’t know if there is enough money in the world to make that worthwhi...
...l heiress ParisHilton was not on the set when the fire broke out; she has already completed her scenes and has returned to America.The production was filming some of the final scenes for the movie when the fire occurred. As investigators sift through ...
...ed Whore" ParisHilton episode, but I still marvel at the things this show gets away with. It warms the heart.DRAWN TOGETHER (9:30 PM CST, Comedy Central) "The One Wherein There is a Big Twist." The roommates mutiny in an animated manner.NICK & JES...
...ntain and ParisHilton jokes, fellas?) and some of the overabundant sex jokes (I lost count of the double entendres during the blow dart segment). For all the jokes that don't work, there are a lot that do though, especially the self-referential stuff...
...ndal a la ParisHilton or Pamela Anderson. You could call it commentary, or an excuse to show the very luscious Black Widow in a few compromising positions – I’m not sure why else the team would watch the tape on a big screen televisio...
...ony Head, ParisHilton, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega and Kevin Ogilvie.
Plot Concept: Centers on an epidemic of organ failures that devastates the planet, killing tens of millions. As scientists feverishly make plans for a massive organ har...
On May 10th, Varese Sarabande will release John Ottman's score to the Joel Silver-produced remake of HOUSE OF WAX, which was itself a remake of MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM. The new version stars ParisHilton in the role Vincent Price made famous in the 1953...
...unny what ParisHilton is to talent (and I realize that may confuse some of our younger readers since they've removed the analogy section from the SATs).And it's a shame, because in the moments that are free of these nuggets of enforced wackiness, DAD ...
...including ParisHilton, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, even Sanjaya from American Idol…in other words, just about every irritating celebrity on the planet. The art on the cards is outstanding, ev...
...er, Moby, ParisHilton and even famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
This Week’s Top Picks: Joe Haldeman’s Marsbound, Karl Schroeder’s Pirate Sun, Don Bassingthwaite’s Doom of Kings & Ben Bova’s Mars ...
... have the ParisHilton album that gives you all the motivation you need. All and all, this is Captain Gordon signing off.
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? CaptainGordonEdward@Gmail.com
...asy about ParisHilton and super glue, but I don't think it's quite the same as yours.Amazing Spider-Man Second Ptg Variant #525 $2.50Al: Wait, so this is seriously a second printing and a variant at the same time? Be still my heart.Kurt: FLYING ELVES!...
...ale role, ParisHilton gives an entirely acceptable performance. Brian Van Holt manages the very tricky business of playing a hard-to-stop killer who talks without making the character either unscary or absurd. The new HOUSE OF WAX has practically noth...
...is while ParisHilton is still a ditz; she stayed out of the news this week (much to the AP’s surprise I bet). Of course, we have her “friend” Lohan making the watercooler talk so that’s at least something. ...
...ance with ParisHilton in that she's someone in the public eye and is forced to be in a situation that's completely foreign to her. That's what Jennifer Tree is going through, so it is timely now. Her struggle to survive in that. I find that really biz...
...ay"; ParisHilton, whose debut album Paris was released in 2006 and reached #6 on the Billboard album chart, along with Bill Moseley, who in addition to his well known horror roles in House of a 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects, is also a membe...
...rities as ParisHilton, Pam Anderson, Rob Zombie, Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, Robert Downey Jr., Heath Ledger, Josh Hartnett, Milla Jovovich, Peter Fonda, David Arquette and Tim Burton.
The episodes in the series are entitled: “W...
...ew years. ParisHilton has herself another driving citation in her record. She’s going for the Guiness Record Book, folks.
The girl who was never good was pulled over late Tuesday night( 11 pm) supposedly on a DVD run after pulling out o...
...l it the "ParisHilton Factor." (Series premiere)HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (7:30 PM CST, Cinemax) I actually counted only 997 corpses. Rob Zombie should fire his accountant.FAMILY GUY (8 PM CST, FOX) "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter." Peter...
This month’s extra-long, 49th issue of Wolverine presents a box-standard, yet passably entertaining Christmas yarn set in New York department store. While shopping on behalf of Kitty Pryde, Logan bumps into a ParisHilton clone named Toulo...
...l Murray, ParisHilton, Jon Abrahams and Damon Herriman round out the cast.Filming is happening right now in Australia. The movie is scheduled for an October release.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
HOLLYWOODLAND - Tragedy struck the world of genre television last week when TRU CALLING was run down and killed by a cross-town bus driven by ParisHilton and Nicole Richie.This week should have marked the airing of the last filmed episode of TRU CALLING....
...ion stars ParisHilton in the role Vincent Price made famous in the 1953 classic. Ottman's gothic horror score comes complete with choir and organ, along with a full symphony orchestra. The Warner Bros. film will open nationwide on May 6. The same day,...
...Vincent), ParisHilton (Paige Edwards), Jared Padalecki (Wade), Jon Abrahams (Dalton Chapman), Robert Ri'chard (Blake), Damon Herriman (Roadkill Driver), Joel Silver (Producer), Susan Levin (Producer), Jaume Collet-Serra (Director), Chad Hayes and Care...
... hours of ParisHilton and Nicole Ritchie travelling around the country! Happy happy joy joy! (Repeats)CSI (9 PM, CBS) "Grissom Versus the Volcano". When a man's severed head is discovered by a dog, Grissom travels to the small town to investigate the ...
...ion stars ParisHilton in the role Vincent Price made famous in the 1953 classic. Ottman’s gothic horror score comes complete with choir and organ, along with a full symphony orchestra. The Warner Bros. film will open nationwide on May 6. The same day,...
...emake has ParisHilton and Elisha Cuthbert. Draw your own conclusions. TRU CALLING (8 PM CST, Fox) "The Last Good Day." It's cats and dogs living together when Jack gets called on to help a doomed soul instead of Tru. CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (8 ...
...alentless ParisHilton. Yawn. Standard and “naughty” editions include Making-Of. (O) NEZULLA THE RAT MONSTER (Media Blasters) J-horror with a bacteriological menace – plus a mutant rat monster! (O)  ...
What They SayAn unseen evil lurks in the streets of Paris, and unless something is done, the darkness will unleash its destruction and consume all that is good. The City of Love will be lost to her people forever. All hope rests within the hearts of five ...
...rama with ParisHilton's Jewish half-uncle, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, in another movie glorifying worthless drug-dealing street gangs. (O) THE ELLEN SHOW Complete Series (Sony) Just to clarify: this is not the groundbreaking ELLEN sitcom, nor the hit EL...
Two weeks ago, it was Celebrities vs The Law. This week, it seems more like celebrities beating the Law (in Paris’s case), a dash of the Law fighting each other for the rights of the living body of one celebrity (in GGW Joe Francis case) or the Law ...
Caution: Spoilers ahead!The upcoming Voyager episode `Shattered,` which filmed last week at Paramount, promises to be a treat for long-time series fans. Visitors to the Paramount lot last week noticed Kazon, Vidiians and other species long gone from the s...
Adding another title from the ever popular franchise to their library, we\'ve got a look at the 08/30/2005 release of Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris from FUNimation.
Warning! Spoilers ahead!This week my Source Who Is Often Though Not Always Right said he`d heard intimations of some of the rumors I reported a few weeks ago from the Voyager`s Delights web page, which I had dismissed as outrageous. I still find them hard...
Last week during a visit to Paramount Studios, I got a few rumors confirmed, but a few others muddled even further. While giving a tour of the Gower Theatre on the lot, one of the guides mentioned that Robert Duncan McNeill and Roxann Dawson had just film...
Our first Paris office was located just behind the notorious church of Saint Sulpice. After laboriously commuting between recording projects in London and the continent for several years, we finally decided to bite the bullet and go for a permanent base i...
Even though NBC’s Emmy-winning hit The West Wing was last Wednesday night’s ratings champion by a huge margin, the fall debut of Star Trek: Voyager brought in more young male viewers than any episode of the past three years. Average viewership was up over...
Okay, so this is how I ended up at Mania. After solving the internet quest by decoding the clues in the paintings devised in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, I went underground. But I didn't stay off the internet completely, as the police had advised.
Oc...
As a film, TROY is uneven to the point of being weird. Just when it seems to be sliding into pure camp, it will do something inventive, insightful and maybe even moving, and just when it seems to be achieving real dramatic momentum, it gets silly. Screenw...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:You HiguriTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayFlorian Rochefort is the heir to a once-wealthy aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. One way to save the family's fortune would be to sell the Flame of Mughal, a...
What They SayRemi is a boy living happily with his mother in the French countryside. Unfortunately, everything changes when his estranged father comes home and, in desperate need of money, reveals that Remi is adopted, and sells him! Heartbroken, Remi end...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ninomiya TomokoTranslated by:David & Eriko WalshAdapted by:David & Eriko WalshWhat They SayLook out, Paris! Nodame and Shinichi have arrived in the City of Light to study music. Unfortunately, Nodame focused so much on passing...
Paris, FRANCE, April 8, 2008 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies and The Licensing Machine, a new division of Panini UK, engaged in TV, Home Vide...
What They SayBorn into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They travel to Luna, which is on the surface of the moon, and meet a very wealthy man named The Count...
Pascal Bonnet to Head Up Licensing & Brand Management Isabelle Aghina to Oversee TV & DVD Sales and Distribution
Paris, France, July 8, 2007 " VIZ Media Europe (VME), the Paris-based subsidiary of VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), is pleased to announce the ...
By the time Soph and I got to Chartres Cathedral, we were getting the hang of navigating through increasingly labyrinthine layers of reality. On the external level, we had decided to spend a few days in Chartres to look at a potential property to move the...
...e), & ParisHilton is in the news again (sorta).
Time to get jiggy with it, celebrity style.
Snoop Dogg barred from Britain:
British authorities have denied the rapper from receiving a visa into the...
Please find enclosed a copy of the Priory of Sion’s Dossiers Secrets, as referred to by Dan Brown in his intro to The Da Vinci Code, along with a reproduction of the Serpent Rouge. Although Brown claimed to have independently researched the historic...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Perseverance Records have released a very pleasing pair of soundtracks comprising David Williams’ scores for The Prophecy (1995) and its sequel, The Prophecy II (1995). Like the similar Warlock seri...
As Star Trek: Voyager heads toward the end of its final season, Roxann Dawson has been busy both in front of and behind the camera. The writer-producers of the show finally decided that her character, B’Elanna Torres, and Robert Duncan McNeill’s characte...
What They SayIn a world where no one is what they seem, faith and trust become the key objectives and ultimate goal. Driven by the machinations of the mysterious Chloe, Altena and an all new crime family, Kirika and Mireille must fight for their lives bo...
What They SayBide your time, and hold out hope.
The final revenge of the Count of Monte Cristo is at hand. Danglars\' financial empire is ruined, Villefort is irrevocably disgraced, and Morcerf, revealed as Mondego, has been cast out of Paris. What is le...
What They SayWhile Lupin and his gang aim to steal money from every bank in Paris, a beautiful detective vows to take revenge on Lupin for her grandfather. And Fujiko betrays Lupin again to get information on a piece of ?floating equipment? that Lupin in...
What They SayThe amazing Taichi Keaton works on cases around the globe that always lead to adventure! He combines his arsenal of multidisciplinary expertise in investigation, archeology, and survival with his experience as a professor, a Falklands Conflic...
What They SayRemi is a boy living happily with his mother in the French countryside. Unfortunately, everything changes when his estranged father comes home and, in desperate need of money, reveals that Remi is adopted, and sells him! Heartbroken, Remi end...
The Review!I think this is best summed up in the words of my roommate, after I tried to explain the show to him: \"Wow, so even with the infinite possibilities of animation, they still couldn\'t make this interesting?\" Pretty much right on the money.
Au...
THQ Inc. announced plans to bring Ratatouille, based on the summer 2007 film from Disney/Pixar, to gamers of all ages around the world. The game is in development across 11 systems, including Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo Wii, Nint...
Meanwhile, Sophia poured us another glass of Corbieres rouge. Her daughter is on the computer in my office reading pithy comments by the Maniacs about the relative merits of their virility. We crank up the volume so that Kate Bush's tribute to Joan of Arc...
Volume 3 of Ubukata and Yumeji's Le Chevalier D'Eon continues its grand tradition of cross-dressing warriors, exploiting the Kabbalah for the sake of depth and making storybook figures out of historical characters for the purpose of putting them where the...
As Star Trek: Voyager has wrapped its first episode of the season and moved on to the second, more rumors have leaked out about the plots of the early installments (Warning: Potential spoilers ahead! Skip down to avoid them!). We know from the official si...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!Startrek.com has updated the official synopsis information once again, giving us the schedule for Star Trek: Voyager for the rest of 2000 and some hints about what we can expect in the new year. Several episodes have already been m...
The second day of the Highlander Worldwide Workshop begins with a Q&A session with HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES post-production supervisor Don Paonessa. He muses that as the series was set in an unnamed North American city, with flashbacks and plots that took t...
The newest trailer for the upcoming Pixar animated film, Ratatouille, has made it's way online!You can view it below.In the film, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a deci...
Michael Praed is quite proud of himself, for reasons only a parent would understand. He had just returned to his home in England to see his son and daughter in their local school`s Nativity play. `They were fantastic!` the proud father beams, just begging...
What They SayOne by one classmates begin to disappear, ghosts emerge out of nowhere and poor little Jama-P is kidnapped by the devil Sandra! In comes the Love Angels to battle devil after devil sent down to Earth by the wicked queen Lady Raindevila. Will ...
What They Say\"Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They travel to Luna, which is on the surface of the moon, and meet a very wealthy man named The Co...
I have to admit that I threw a bit of a wobbly in the car when Sophia broke it to me that we were booked into a Best Western chain hotel in the ancient cathedral town of Chartres. Suddenly it felt more like my old rock'n'roll days on tour with the sound c...
What They SayRemi is a boy living happily with his mother in the French countryside. Unfortunately, everything changes when his estranged father comes home and, in desperate need of money, reveals that Remi is adopted, and sells him! Heartbroken, Remi end...
Five years after it ceased production, HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES remains like its Immortal characters something that will not die. Davis-Panzer Productions released full seasons of the six-year run Highlander in videotape years before this was the norm, th...
What They SayAs it becomes increasingly obvious that the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, battle lines are drawn in anticipation of what can only be described as \"the war to end all wars.\" Emotions run high as Show and the others learn more about...
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ParisHilton will be in jail by Tuesday
I’m happy to hear it too. It translates into no more news about her doing something goofy for a good month of time.
On or before 11:59 p.m. (PT) on Tuesday, Hilton must turn hers...
Poor Michael Paris. All he wanted to do in Raven's Hollow was sell the property he inherited from his grandfather, but as things are wont to become complicated, it's not as easy a task as he might have thought. As it turns out, this property is Raven's Ho...
The highest rated story in the 26 year history of the original run of DOCTOR WHO, THE CITY OF DEATH a perennial fan favorite. Written by Douglas Adams (THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY) and Graham Williams and featuring Catherine Schell of Space 1999...
My Anonymous Source Who Is Very Close To Several Star Trek: Voyager Actors said this week that Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill and everyone else involved with the Tom Paris/B’Elanna Torres marriage still claim it will take place in the episode `Drive...
Warning–Spoilers Ahead!As Star Trek: Voyager enters the home stretch, the writers and actors have become more vocal about what they expect—and what they would like—to see on the series before it concludes. Last week, co-producer Bryan Fuller chatted with ...
Everyone can now breathe a sigh of relief, not only because Voyager was on the air this week in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando, Portland and Baltimore, but because people in those cities will still have many months of ...
What They SayThe best of the best compete at the International Circus Festival in Paris. Sora wants to win it, just like Layla did three years ago. The festival itself is a cruel place. Sora must endure betrayal and doubt. Worse, to make her dream com...
So, where were we? Ah, yes... in the weeks immediately after I solved the dodgy internet quest by decoding the clues in the paintings in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, everyone completely ignored me. But, out in the real world, I carried on snooping with...
All of the hype and excitement from the American press surrounding KISS OF THE DRAGON (KOD for short) is focused on the coincidence that Tcheky Karyo, who plays the lead villain, was in Luc Besson's LA FEMME NIKITA(1991), while co-star Bridget Fonda playe...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!Next week’s Star Trek: Voyager installment `Inside Man` serves yet another warning about the dangers of trusting Reginald Barclay’s holograms. I’m sure most people remember that we met Reginald Barclay on Star Trek: The Next Genera...
Originally released for the PC back in 1999, MIDTOWN MADNESS offered checkpoint style racing in huge, open cities that were modeled after the real-life ones. While the first two games were developed by Angel Studios, who recently developed MIDNIGHT CLUB f...
Paramount issued a press release this week promising a `Trekker`s Biggest Dream`--a walk-on role in the finale of Star Trek: Voyager--as the grand prize in a contest to introduce the new Voyager section of the official startrek.com Website. `UPN and Param...
Superman Homepage has posted an interview with SUPERMAN producer Ilya Salkind. It's note that "after the first Musketeers film's success, Salkind joined his father for dinner in Paris to discuss their next project. A few days before that meeting, Salkind ...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!The upcoming Voyager episode `Shattered` keeps looking more and more interesting. First we learned that it would bring Seska back. Now startrek.com`s production site indicates via the cast list that we will meet Naomi Wildman and I...
It's unfair to call KISS OF THE DRAGON Jet Li's third American film. In LETHAL WEAPON 4, he was little more than a Special Guest Villain. ROMEO MUST DIE threw him into a hip-hop urban gangster drama with Shakespearean pretensions. KISS, though distributed...
STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry often attributed the success of the series to the fact that it showed man transcending his intolerance for his fellow man; it said that we, as a species, would move beyond our petty differences, which have for so long se...
What They SayRemi is a boy living happily with his mother in the French countryside. Unfortunately, everything changes when his estranged father comes home and, in desperate need of money, reveals that Remi is adopted, and sells him! Heartbroken, Remi end...
By all reports, fans had a very exciting time at the Slanted Fedora convention in Philadelphia this weekend, where they had to brave a bomb threat and an influx of young Republicans waiting for the political party convention to start. Armin Shimerman, Ren...
For people lucky enough to receive UPN`s regular broadcasts, Star Trek: Voyager returns for its seventh and final season on Wednesday, Oct. 4. The network has been airing a new preview for `Unimatrix Zero, Part Two` showing a battle-scarred Voyager, which...
As promised, Sophia and I entered the church of Saint Sulpice de Paris shortly before midday on the Vernal Equinox. Then, traveling from west to east, we worked our way through the stanzas of the Priory of Sion's poem, Le Serpent Rouge, which corresponded...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the 59th Golden Globe Awards on January 20, 2002 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This yearly event honors talent from both the television and motion picture industries, and never disappoints with its star-stu...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the 59th Golden Globe Awards on January 20, 2002 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This yearly event honors talent from both the television and motion picture industries, and never disappoints with its star-stu...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the 59th Golden Globe Awards on January 20, 2002 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This yearly event honors talent from both the television and motion picture industries, and never disappoints with its star-stu...
MOULIN ROUGE by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Sat 02-16-2002)
Baz Luhrmann, the brash young Australian director/writer, had put forth his muscle to produce one of the most eagerly anticipated musicals of the last two decades. Actually, it may be the only eagerly anticipated musical of the last two decades (nobody kn...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the 59th Golden Globe Awards on January 20, 2002 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This yearly event honors talent from both the television and motion picture industries, and never disappoints with its star-stu...
Making good movies about any kind of filmmaking is a tricky business. Logic suggests that filmmakers should be conversant with the subject matter of their own field, but often the topic leads to self-consciousness or preciousness.Happily, this is not the ...
If there are times while videogaming that stand out above all others to me, it'd be while I was playing a really good game with friends. I love games like THE LEGEND OF ZELDA, RESIDENT EVIL, and ETERNAL DARKNESS that are a one-on-one experience. Sometimes...
The comic book world encompasses a wide range of material, from the familiar four-color fantasies that send superheroes to the stars and right next door to the more esoteric collections that concentrate on technique and subtlety of storytelling. Below, we...
In BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (LE PACTE DE LOUPS), veteran genre actor Mark Dacascos plays Mani a contemplative, physically adroit Native American far from his home. He is the spiritual brother of scientist Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), the man inv...
THE GREAT RACE is one of those movies that's a little hard to explain to anyone under the age of thirty. It's part of a wave of wacky period racing farces from the '60s that included AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY ...
I think Fred and Gunn on ANGEL are my pick for the lamest couple on network TV.Can I get an Amen?All their stupid baby talk and moony-eyed looks at each other just make me want to puke, or worse, change the channel. They're so lovey-dovey with their hands...
In the mid-1950s, director Riccardo Freda – who had gained something of a reputation for his lush costume dramas – got it into his head that he wanted to direct a horror film. Freda got his studio interested with his scenario, which he recorded on audio t...
French actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz set out to accomplish only one thing when shooting his latest feature CRIMSON RIVERS: make a good 'ol fashioned American action movie. Influenced by cinematic persuasions ranging from David Fincher's SE7EN to Hong K...
Described as the French equivalent to "SE7EN meets THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS," THE CRIMSON RIVERS is perhaps better pitched as "LETHAL WEAPON meets THE SOUND OF MUSIC." Set atop a breathtaking European backdrop, French actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz fuse...
Radley Metzger is considered by many to be the premier director of erotica, and I've found that this proves to be the case. Metzger is not without controversy, having crossed the boundary into graphic sex in a fair number of his '70s movies, most directed...
I’m baaaaack! Risen from the pixel graveyard that was once Fandom.com, here is the latest reincarnation of Vidiocy, and you are present for the grand event. Don’t you feel honored? Our aim is to be the best video column on the net. We will be taking a wee...
Mark Wahlberg may have spoken too soon when he accepted the lead role in director Tim Burton's revised PLANET OF THE APES. After all, the actor hadn't even thought about the big shoes he'd have to fill taking on a part inspired by the one Charlton Heston ...
Recently at the Beverly Hilton Hotel the Casting Society of America held their 17th Annual Artios Award for excellence in casting in l5 categories. Bernie Brillstein received the Career Achievement Award. If you are not familiar with Bernie his company Br...
Constant Abeels is a florist who believes in progress! This is why he's turned his back on natural plants - pesky things tend to die, you know - and filled his shop up instead with the plastic variety they last forever. On the day before he opens his new...
The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention was held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, marking the 15th year of the existence of HIGHLANDER. Both onscreen and behind-the-scenes talent from the various HIGHLANDER shows and movies attended this year,...
Despite previous word that SHREK scribes Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were set to write the film's sequel, DreamWorks has announced the hiring of writers David Stem and David Weiss to handle the second film's script.While talking to Variety, Weiss gave hi...
Although it was a terrible year for film, there are still a few delights to be mined among the disasters that littered the 2001 film scene. Here are the highlights:1) AMELIE - Jean-Pierre Jeunet's stunningly beautiful fable of Paris and true love. Forget ...
The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony was held Monday, October 20th at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Awards were chosen by voting online at the Yahoo Movies and Entertainment Tonight websites. And the winners are:The Hollywood Actor of the Year...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSDon Coscarelli's highly inventive comedic horror film, BUBBA HO-TEP, has garnered a thoroughly wonderful score from Brian Tyler. The film, based on a laudable Joe R. Lansdale short story, has to do with Elvis, alive and well and...
Not too long ago, I acknowledged the sad untimely passing of filmmaker and former Cinescape columnist John Thonen. Well, the story gets sadder, as John’s widow is a cancer patient left with overwhelming bills. To help out, friends from the Kansas City fil...
The next time you're visiting the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, don't pull a Kane and look into the alien egg.The Smithsonian Institute has added an egg from James Cameron's ALIENS to its collection of movie memorabilia, as well as a ...
A great collection of DVDs is nice to have, but even better if you can enjoy them with a friend around the house, whether that friend has two legs or four. Try tying a DVD on a string and dangling it a couple feet off the ground – your cat will go nuts! A...
It was tough to be a video store customer or late night cable TV viewer during a certain period without often coming across the work of Andy Sidaris. At first glance, one might take his films as indistinguishable from any other direct-to-video exploitatio...
At a recent convention held at the Burbank Airport Hilton in Burbank, California, Anthony Ferrante, CINESCAPE'S Editor-In-Chief, presented his new horror film BOO along with the girls of BOO Trish Coren, Nicole Rayburn and Rachel Melvin. He was join...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSLast week came the latest musical installment in the Harry Potter cinema series -- John Williams' score to HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Warner Bros 83711-2). Unlike the second film, CHAMBER OF SECRETS, where other c...
Remembering David RaksinDavid Raksin, composer of the classic film noir mystery/romance LAURA, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, and dozens of other notable film scores including such low-budget horror/sci fi films as THE UNDYING MONSTER and DR. RENAULT'S SECRE...
We've now entered August and have one month to go until the networks start to roll out their fall television programming and it shows in this week's TV Wasteland. Love 'em or hate 'em, reality TV dominates the fresh programming airing on networks right no...
Salutations, denizens of the TV Wasteland! As Andrew Hershberger saddles off to ride away into a picture perfect sunset, it falls upon myself to mount up and become your new host for CINESCAPE's weekly television column, TV Wasteland. My name's Patrick Sa...
THE GODFATHER of cinema has died. Marlon Brando, one of the 20th century's most celebrated actors and a two-time Academy Award winner, died yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Brando's passing was relayed to the media by his attorney.First gaining ...
In a report carried by Trekweb.com, at a convention in Chicago over the weekend, Robert Duncan McNeill (VOYAGER’s Tom Paris) said his sources in Paramount were telling him Kate Mulgrew is set for a cameo as Captain Janeway in the latest STAR TREK film, no...
We interrupt our usual festival of grumpiness that’s been opening this column of late for a reminder that we don’t forget the joy a good movie can bring, especially when things are tough. Here’s a link to Movies For Free, www.moviesforfree.org/, a group t...
VARIETY covers a new wrinkle in the unfolding Vivendi Universal mess, a corporate scandal in France that parallels American accounting and finance scandals from spring 2002. Vivendi Universal owns a wide range of entertainment properties including the Sci...
VARIETY very briefly notes that Christopher Lee will be made an officer of the French Academy of Arts and Letters in Paris on Tuesday.Monday saw the overseas premiere of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, also in Paris.Questions? Comments? Let us know...
DC Comics unveiled several Vertigo projects over the weekend at Comic-Con International, including a period piece with the Creeper and a Lady Constantine mini-series. Following is a rundown: * BEWARE THE CREEPER is a five-issue mini-series, written by J...
REX MUNDI #0 by Arnold T. Blumberg (Fri 08-02-2002)
It's 1933 Paris and one man holds a terrifying secret - secret texts, that is, hidden in the depths of a church. When one of these scrolls goes missing, Father Marin suspects foul play - magical foul play at that - and the only one who can help him may be...
Paramount Pictures' STAR TREK: NEMESIS may have opened in theaters this past Friday, but the world premiere was held December 9th at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. and CINESCAPE was there to catch THE NEXT GENERATION era cast as they beame...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
Wolfgang Petersen has picked the face that toppled an empire. The director of TROY has selected German-born actress Diane Kruger to play the Queen of Sparta in the Warner Bros. movie set to begin filming on April 22.Kruger has been a rising star in Franc...
Van Helsing by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 08-02-2004)
Genre:Action/Horror.Studio:Universal Pictures.Production Company:The Sommers Company/Carpathian Pictures/Stillking Pictures/Universal Pictures.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Hugh Jackman (Gabriel Van Helsing); Richard Roxburgh (Dracula); Kate Beckin...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
The film industry is a world where one is judged almost wholly by the success of one's work - an attitude which extends even beyond the grave. Take the recent passing of Albert Band, a producer, director and writer who spent nearly fifty years in the movi...
Last weekend, fans from around North America and elsewhere convened for the excellent annual Toronto Trek convention. I attended as a panelist, moderating discussions on everything from real-world science to space romances to intolerance of gay fans to pr...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tomoko NinomiyaTranslated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:Ikoi HiroeWhat They SayCRASH AND BURN
Nodame and Chiaki are spending Christmas in Paris . . . but not together. Nodame is performing in a nativity play while Chiaki is alone, ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tou Ubukata / Kio Shimoku Translated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:Ikoi HiroeWhat They SayThe prophecy is coming true. It was predicted that France would fall in a terrible revolution... and now the streets of Paris are running red ...
The Review!Originally released in theaters on 16 December 1978, Lupin the Third or as it is known for this release Secret of Mamo is fast approaching its 25th anniversary. An initial release from Streamline Pictures & Image in the early days of DVD q...
The Review!Audio:
For my primary viewing, I listened to the Japanese audio track. The action is primarily concentrated in the center channel. Dialogue, sound effects, and music were all sharp and balanced very well.
The english dub track received a toke...
Usually our convention year is limited to one convention down in Baltimore. This year, due to a new local one in our area, we bumped up to two. And then due to some events in the region, we ended up with three.
Anime Next, normally in New Jersey, shifted...
Woo, February snuck up on me and gave me a big present in the form of Ashita no Nadja! It's kind of like Secret of Cerulean Sands in its timeframe and general feel, but Nadja seems quite different compared to Jean.
Our story starts out at an orphanage i...
Death Note and Fullmetal Alchemist leads head an impressive group
Boston – Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in New England, announced its second round of guests today. Guests include voice actors Colleen Clinkenbeard, Aaron Dismuke, Todd ...
"TMS Presents: Anime Classics" to premiere June 5, 2007 on iaTV
New York, April 16, 2007 - ImaginAsian TV (iaTV), America's first 24-hour Asian American television network, announced today that it will launch a new anime block called "TMS Presents: Anim...
BOSTON, Mass. - February 26, 2004 - The New England Anime Society is pleased to announce that voice actors Johnny Yong Bosch, Melissa Fahn, Cynthia Martinez, and Chris Patton will be Guests of Honor at Anime Boston 2005, New England's largest anime conven...
Recorded at: Anime Central '05
Caitlin Glass may be relatively new to anime dubbing, but she's already played some fantastic characters. She's probably best known for her role as Winry in Fullmetal Alchemist. Her other characters include Hiyono in Spiral...
The Review!This review comes as a result of Castle of Cagliostro, the recently released Miyazaki that has received (deserved) universal acclaim. I was scanning DVD Express and found, surprise, another Lupin movie on DVD! Hmm. Well, if it's anything like C...
What They SayCreated by Tow Ubukata (Pilgrim Jager) and produced by Production I.G. (Otogi Zoshi, Ghost In The Shell), the supernatural anime series Le Chevalier D\'Eon is a masterful fictionalization of the real life Charles d\'Eon de Beaumont, a diploma...
What They SayAs Tsukushi grows fonder of Rui - Shizuka, Rui’s first love, returns to Paris! Although her beauty intimidates Tsukushi, Shizuka helps her to become the prettiest girl at Tsukasa’s yacht party. But, instead of getting closer to Ru...
What They SayThis is the Brazillian release.The Review!At last, the first Brazilian anime DVD. Or should I say the first Pokémon DVD to be released on Brazil? It\'s a fact that Pokémon, like Akira, lives on it\'s own, as stand out products that will sell ...
What They SayThe World\'s Fair, Paris, 1889: a young inventor crosses paths with an enigmatic girl and her pet lion.
Suddenly they find themselves pursued by a villainous trio intent upon stealing the magical Blue Water. Thus begins an epic adventure ins...
OPINION: You may have noticed a larger than usual number of graphic novels from Europe on the shelves these last few months. It's not because your comics shop owner has suddenly become more enlightened in his/her thinking and gone all "citizen of the worl...
What They SayTsukushi gets invited to Shizuka\'s birthday party. On top of being overwhelmed by the appearance of celebrities and gourmet hors d\'oeuvres, she hears shocking news - Shizuka is going back to Paris, never to return. Tsukushi wonders - what w...
What They SayAs Kai explores the mysterious Russian abbey, he realizes he was trained there as a child. Boris, the leader of the abbey?s secret Beyblade facility, entices Kai to return and join the Demolition Boys, the abbey?s specially trained uber-team...
What They SayWhen Tsukushi finally accepts her true feelings and faces reality, life at Eitoku returns to normal with a few changes – The Terrible Trio is out of Tsukushi’s hair, the F4 is now the F3 with Rui gone to Paris, and Tsukasa is gett...
What They SayThe Shizuma Drive has launched humanity into a golden age of prosperity. In the shadows, Big Fire, a secret brotherhood, adopts one goal: directing the world towards chaos! The Experts of Justice, a team of operatives, aim to stop this disast...
What They SayAll is well at the Sakuraba mansion as summer approaches. Kaoru is talked into going on a date with Mayu, whose nervousness makes for a hilarious time! At school, however, Kaoru is in a bind! He must finish his report if he wants a summer vac...
What They SayTsukushi never expected a confession of love from Tsukasa. As her feelings slowly turn towards him, Rui suddenly comes back from Paris with a different attitude - flirting with everyone! Not knowing what is going on in Rui\'s mind, Tsukushi\'...
It?s a match made in tengoku! Pop Japan Travel and Japan L.A. are combining forces
to create the Japan L.A. Super Mega Fun Tokyo Trip. The tour is one week in Tokyo,
June 18 to 25, and it?s going to be a cute Japanese toy overload. Sanrio Puroland,
the Gh...
24 Hour Complimentary Shuttle Service for Hotel Attendees
Anaheim, California (April 10, 2008) ‹ Attendees registered as guests within the official Anime Expo® 2008 Hotel Room Blocks will be able to access the 24-hour complimentary shuttle service wh...
So there I was, participating in this silly little `meet the authors` event last Friday night at a suburban shopping mall. It was organized by the alumni association of my alma mater, to give exposure (whatever that means) to those of us who (A) admit we ...
This television season, Rudolf Martin has offered two distinct takes on a single `character`, essaying the role of Count Dracula as well as Bram Stoker`s real-life inspiration for the fictional count, Vlad the Impaler. Let`s face it, the man simply can`t ...
Bite MeWhile we`re still in a Hallowe`en mood, I thought we`d start the nonfiction segment of our rant (what`s with the royal we all of a sudden, DD?) with more seasonal material. Check out this brand new title: The Dracula Cookbook: Authentic Recipes fro...
Ken Biller had a busy week chatting with online sites about what we can expect on Voyager this season. Scifi.com, the official Trek site at startrek.com, and Fandom`s own Anna Kaplan all posted interviews with Voyager`s current exec. Like Rick Berman, Bil...
Robert Duncan McNeill is, once again, having a busy season this last year of Star Trek: Voyager. He’s already directed his fourth episode, `Body and Soul,` for November sweeps. Like the show McNeill directed during Voyager’s fifth season, `Someone To Watc...
In September 1980, the then Disney-free ABC launched another show by the then non-Turner owned Hanna-Barbera Studios called Captain Caveman. It was typical of the dreck that was the mainstay of Saturday morning cartoons at that time; terrible animation co...
Captain Janeway, a role that Kate Mulgrew had to fight for, that first went to Genevieve Bujold, has come to define a large part of her adult life. Despite long hours, contractual disputes and rumors of tension between herself and co-star Jeri Ryan, who p...
Hollywood should be thankful for genre entertainment, as that’s what drew in the ticket buyers during the long Thanksgiving weekend. Fantasy and science fiction films ruled the box office, taking seven out of the Top Ten positions, and all of the Top Five...
Prize Patrol Completely Out of ControlSo many book prizes to announce this time I don`t know where to start. Ray Bradbury was given the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation on Nov. 15. This is a lifetime...
Robert Duncan McNeill is, once again, having a busy season this last year of Star Trek: Voyager. He’s already directed his fourth episode, `Body and Soul,` for November sweeps. Like the show McNeill directed during Voyager’s fifth season, `Someone To Watc...
`It’s the last season, and hopefully it will be the best season. That’s certainly our goal,` says Voyager executive producer Kenneth Biller. `We’ve got a great line up of stuff, I think, and it’s going to be fun.` Biller has firmly taken the reigns of th...