...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
The late cinematographer-cum-director Mario Bava helmed a number of Italian horrors in the 1960s & `70s, but none approached this macabre majesty of his 1960 masterpiece. Filmed in gorgeous black-&-white, the story interpolates medieval deviltry and a war...
Starting today Cinescape Online will be publishing reviews of musical works of interest to genre fans. Whether the reviews will be for television or movie soundtracks old or new, or for albums from artists that we think you'd be interested in, our reviews...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION John Ottman's score to SUPERMAN RETURNS, which will be released on June 27th by Rhino Records, merges the bombastic resplendency of late '70s John Williams with the mid 2000's sensibility of John Ottman. Williams' stalwart, swa...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
Colliding Reactions by Randall D. Larson (Interview transcription by Kelsey J. Larson) (Thu 01-05-2006)
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
No GAG Order by Randall D. Larson (Thu 08-17-2006)
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
Amazing, Too by Randall D. Larson (Thu 08-31-2006)
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
...magazine, RandallLarson was for many years senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine and a film music columnist for Cinefantastique magazine. He is the author of Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (Scarecrow, 1984) and Mus...
Four people (a psychic, a ghost hunter, a filmmaker and a historian), all trained in the art of paranormal phenomena and loaded with three cameras, are flown to Louisiana to investigate the ghoulish goings-on in a notorious haunted house, plagued by the s...
This title kicks off Crash Cinema’s new subsidiary label Mondo Crash, which is dedicated to preserving forgotten psychotronic trash flicks in digital format, so that future generations can harshly misjudge us. INVADERS makes for a fine choice as a premier...
Now available in record stores is Alan Silvestri's score for VAN HELSING. Released by Decca Records, Silvestri's soundtrack for Stephen Sommers' action/horror adventure will probably appeal to those who enjoy powerful orchestral machinations in their movi...
Knight Rider by Corona's Coming Attractions (Wed 06-02-2004)
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Revolution Studios.Project Phase:Script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:David Elliott, Paul Lovett (Screenwriters); Glen A. Larson (Screenwriter); Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Glen A. Larson ...
Last week's column on the industry's reliance on old characters and the need for new blood garnered a lot of mail. Some weeks COMICSCAPE really resonates with people and my inbox groans under the weight of responses, criticism, praise, and the occasional ...
In part one of CINESCAPE's profile of the actors behind the voices in Pixar's latest hit movie, MONSTERS, INC., Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi discussed their involvement in the CGI animated film, and what it's like to work in the medium of...
You think your life sucks. You think your job sucks. It feels like it will never end. But for Dave Miller, it’s all true. Dave is a vampire, but he owes his allegiance to Lord Radu Arisztidescu, the vampire owner of the Last Stop convenience store i...
"The Aztecs" is one of those DOCTOR WHO stories that gets most often compared to Shakespeare, though that's really a bit of an overstatement. "The Aztecs" is arguably one of the series' best historical stories, but it's not quite RICHARD III, despite the ...
The Immortal Iron Fist evolves the titular character from one created in the Bronze Age to cash in on the martial arts movie craze into one that explores the present’s duty to the past. At the start of the series, Danny Rand – the current...
It`s been over 20 years since ABC canceled Universal Studios` TV series, BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA. The show told the adventures of a band of intergalactic wanderers, survivors of a decimated outer space civilization, battling the evil, robotic cylons while ...
Last Wednesday, Judge Stephen G. Larson of the United States District Court, Central District of California handed down an historic ruling in the legal battle over Superman. As of right now, the heirs of Jerry Siegel—his widow Joanne Siegel and daug...
You probably noticed that my colleague of questionable esteem, Al Brown, wrote last week's column. I had to return to New Orleans for a few days to help my parents with their house (hurricane, flooding), so I called Al and told him I'd turn over more evid...
The main agenda of most Seduction Cinema titles is naked lesbian vampires. Here, writer/director Don Glut (DINOSAUR VALLEY GIRLS) hits that target less than two minutes in - and there's plenty more later on. Glut not only delivers on this primary requirem...
VIDEO NEWSOver the [IMG3R]past year, HBO has been broadcasting a series of moderately budgeted remakes of some trash classics from the '50s and '60s that were originally produced by American International Pictures, or AIP. The remakes were the brainchild ...
It took 10 painful years for America to disentangle itself from its tragic misadventure in Vietnam, and ever since then directors such as Michael Cimino (THE DEER HUNTER), Francis Ford Coppola (APOCALYPSE NOW), Oliver Stone (PLATOON), Stanley Kubrick (FUL...
From the evidence in WE WERE SOLDIERS, director/screenwriter Randall Wallace knows much more about how men die than how they live. In this drama based on the nonfiction book We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Gall...
Plot: A remake of the 1973 cult film. A police officer investigates a missing person in an island community, which he learns is occupied by pagans looking to guarantee their next year is fruitful by sacrificing someone -- literally.Players: Nicolas Cage (...
Among screenwriters, it's an open secret. In Hollywood, a town that makes sport of putting roadblocks before the very creators on whose visions the entertainment industry makes its money, writers for animated films have a special advantage.After reading t...
WE WERE SOLDIERS, a Vietnam War drama set against the backdrop of the first major battle between the United States and North Vietnamese forces, wrapped principal photography on locations in Georgia, and California.More specifically, the film's story is se...
No, it wasn't a studio hype job, at least according to the man himself. Simon Wells, great-grandson of H.G. himself and director of the new Dreamworks adaptation of THE TIME MACHINE, campaigned for the project."I pursued it," says Wells. "I read about it ...
Scribe Jonathan Hensleigh, who had once been looking to helm Universal's INCREDIBLE HULK movie, will be making his directing debut on a project he also wrote called BOUNTY KILLER.The film, which will be produced by Gale Ann Hurd, Randall Emmett and George...
While talking to reporters after taking home an Oscar for their visual effects work on THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, FX leaders Randall William Cook, Jim Rygiel, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson teased that FELLOWSHIP was "just a warmu...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONIf you’ve never seen or heard of a 1990 made-for-TV movie called THE DREAMER OF OZ, you’re not alone. I hadn’t either when I was assigned to write the booklet notes for this premiere CD release of the soundtrack music, composed a...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONBig news for film music fans is the first ever, legitimate release of the oft-requested soundtrack to PREDATOR (VCL 0803 1022), John McTiernan's 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger Rambo-Meets-Alien monster thriller. The music never ...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom Belgium comes the first ever release of any of the music from John Barry’s melancholy and exciting action/adventure score for J. Lee Thompson’s mad buffalo western saga, THE WHITE BUFFALO (Prometheus PCR 518). Immediately f...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONPulsing with bombastic horns and rhythmic string patterns, rife with high-end brass piping and driven by percussive energy, the main theme from Trevor Jones' score for THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (Varese Sarabande 302 0...
It is, as leading man/ladies' man/man's man/man-about-town Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) might say, the darnedest thing. DOWN WITH LOVE starts out as a parody of those impossibly bright-colored, improbably plotted Doris Day/Rock Hudson '60s romantic comed...
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...
The AMPAS announced Oscar nominees today and the leader is CHICAGO with 13 nominations. Other notable contenders included GANGS OF NEW YORK, with 10, and THE HOURS, nine; THE PIANIST, seven; and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS with six.THE TWO TOWER...
Revolution Studios has tapped producers Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray (THE ROOKIE) to bring the 1980s camp classic KNIGHT RIDER to the big screen in a big way. According to trade reports, the studio is intent on modernizing the story of the show, which cent...
It seems that 100 titles is not enough to honor all the great films that have been made in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. At least, that’s the way some of our contributors felt, when they saw that several of their favorites had failed...
Even though we passed along a photo of the new K.I.T.T last month, it's worth passing along again because as fellow Maniac TheCollector writes in his Mania blog, this new set of pictures reveals the car polished and ready to roll for produc...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another colossal Comicscape creation! This week, I’m writing something of a eulogy for a series cancelled long before its time – Steven Seagle and Becky Cloonan’s American Virgin, which ended last ...
Bryan Singer’s film ‘Superman Returns’ has come and gone. The marketing sensation of Superman has returned to its fortress of solitude. When Jake Rossen’s book, “Superman vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devio...
Plot details have emerged for THE ARCANUM, reports Bloody Disgusting. Director-writer Randall Wallace will be adapting the Thomas Wheeler novel of the same name to the big screen with Wheeler prepping the screenplay version of his work. Gold Circle's Scot...
Jalopnik has published what they believe (according to inside sources) to be the next K.I.T.T car for the upcoming KNIGHT RIDER. Their source confirmedt that the laser-lit hood aspect of it is indeed photoshopped for now because "it wasn't working at...
Randall Wallace (writer-turned-director) will be directing the next fantasy adventure, THE ARCANUM, says the Hollywood Reporter. The director will be adapting the Thomas Wheeler novel of the same name to the big screen with Wheeler prepping the screenplay...
Actor Henry Thomas has been set to star in the upcoming A&E drama-pilot UNDER, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The series production being handled by Fox Television has also signed Charles S. Dutton to handle the directing duties for this mob-related ...
For reasons unknown, the Dragonball movie has been delayed. The film has been shooting for sometime now and yet 20th Century Fox is pushing the big screen adaptation from August 15, 2008 to April 3, 2009. When the studio gives a specific reason, we'll pas...
Actress Emmy Rossum has once again updated her Myspace, letting the fans know that director James Wong has finished principal photography on Dragonball, an adaptation of the famous anime for 20th Century Fox. In the film, she's starring alongside Justin C...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kozue AmanoTranslated by:Alethea & Athena NibleyAdapted by:Barbara Randall KeselWhat They SayAfter 150 years of terraforming, Aqua, the planet formerly known as Mars, now has over 90% of its surface now covered by water. A you...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Barbara Randall Kesel, Heidi Arnhold and Max KimTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayThe Dark Crystal told the story of Jen and Kira, the last of their kind living in a fractured world precariously balanced between the forces...
Animation in the U.S., especially feature-film animation, has too often been relegated to family fare, so it`s nice to see Fox Animation trying something a little different with TITAN A.E., which aims to be a sort of young adult alternative to the familia...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuana KazumiTranslated by:Alethea & Athena NibleyAdapted by:Barbara Randall KeselWhat They SayWhen friends and loved ones begin to disappear, his sense of reality begins to crumble--until the day he runs into a mysterious figu...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ogiwara Momoko / Momokawa HaruhikoTranslated by:Adrienne BeckAdapted by:Barbara Randall KeselWhat They SayFriel is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, the astronomer Professor Dee, and their servants, the Holys....
Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Sharon Stone, Dylan McDermott and Brian Presley will lead a new action-drama called Streets of Blood, reports Variety. Nu Image/Millennium's project has Charles Winkler, son of Irwin Winkler, directing and Winkler, Avi Lerner and Rand...
What They SayThe Review!The story is typical for City Hunter : Ryo Saeba (Nicky Larson in French !) has been engaged by a president-to-be to protect his daughter who is herself a secret service agent who is to protect the president (his father) understood...
Today, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas comes out in a `Special Edition` DVD filled with extras and supplemental material that should make fans of the film drool. I haven’t seen the disc yet, but I should be able to give you a pretty good idea ...
Author Steven Pressfield is set to have a third novel adapted into a screenplay. With The Legend of Baggar Vance released in 2000 and Universal still developing his novel Gates of Fire (the Spartan tale of Thermopylae), Variety reports that Disney and pro...
Bruce Davison, Wayne Kasserman and Greg Ellis round out the cast of NBC's upcoming two-hour movie/pilot KNIGHT RIDER, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Trade says that Davison will be playing Charles while Ellis will play one of the villains looking to...
Braveheart is one of my favorite films of the 90’s but I had never purchased it on DVD because the original release was so skimpy in terms of extras. It had only a commentary track and a 30-minute making of feature. Paramount has finally b...
Six years ago, Robert Weiner set out to conquer the Marvel Universe—or at least to read as much of it as he could. Being both a fan of Marvel and a librarian and instructor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, he combined his passions to create...
The newest entry in Universal's DVD Originals offerings, The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, commenced principal photography in Capetown, South Africa on October 1, 2007. Universal Studios Home Entertainment Family Productions is co-producing with Fi...
There have been 5 actresses whom took up the role of Jane Moneypenny in the Bond franchise of films (both affiliated and non-affiliated) but none portrayed the character longer then thespian Lois Maxwell who began the role with 1962's Dr. No and ended her...
Millennium Films & Emmett/Furla Films have set Robert De Niro and Al Pacino to star in RIGHTEOUS KILL. This will be only their second time on screen together -- HEAT was there first.
The actors will play cops chaings a...
Alright Maniacs, now that most of you wiped clean the thoughts "Who doesnt want Rosario Dawson in a porno?" or "That perv Kevin Smith!", I can carry on with the latest news. It seems that Kevin Smith has told MTV that he wrote his late...
Seven new additions have hopped aboard Werner Herzog's upcoming remake of the 1992 cult classic Bad Lieutenant, says The Hollywood Reporter. Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit are join...
What They SayDoes \"back to normal\" have to mean...back to being broke?
Finally, they\'re out of the Limitless Fortress and back to doing what they do best: finding stuff that\'s lost. And never getting paid! After hunting down a boy genius bent on dest...
Director John Carpenter and Nic Cage are set for a little prison experience in the very near future. HR is reporting that Carpenter is heading back behind the camera to direct a new prison thriller called Scared Straight, which will star Nicolas Cage. The...
Could this be why Angelina Jolie was spotted looking for tight black outfits, something which caused media outlets to spin rumors of Angelina Jolie in a future Batman film? Well, it could be totally unrelated but the latest update reports Angelina Jolie r...
Remember that "Pre-Strike Priority List" we discussed last month? It had a laundry list of high profiles films which the studios wanted in production prior to the impending June 2008 strike. Well, it seems as time has rolled onward since Septemb...
Moeyo Ken TV " the sorta sequel to Moeyo Ken the OAV. In a Meiji Era that (thankfully) never was, monsters and demons and other mystical beasts roam the streets of Kyoto. Thankfully, the Mobile Shinsengumi are there too, ready to fight any problem beasti...
Dub fans live a strange existence, even for anime fans. We listen for ever-changing voices that speak for animated faces that change with each series. It's a fandom with the substance of a dream and the press of a whisper. One of the thorniest problems du...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Noriko Ogiwara / Haruhiko MomokawaTranslated by:Adrienne BeckAdapted by:Barbara Randall KeselWhat They SayWhen strange cloaked men come barging into the castle to capture Firiel and Rune, Firiel\'s mysterious background is slo...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shiki SatoshiTranslated by:Ray YoshimotoAdapted by:Barbara Randall KeselWhat They SayDahpne in the Brilliant Blue take place in a near future in which the remaining population lives in underwater cities, with waterways as stre...
I don’t know what it is about the word ‘ultimate’ and franchise guides, but there’s no doubt that DK Publishing is one of the best in the business for in-depth and aesthetic guides on your favorite media series. This week Tom De...
Warren Ellis’s newuniversal stands as the culmination of Marvel’s reintroduction of its failed New Universe imprint from 1986 to 1989. Over the past year, Marvel has released a series of Untold Tales of the New Universe one-shots, al...
You may never of heard of him, but Rodney Bingenheimer has been a fixture on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood for over a decade and years ago was dubbed THE MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP. As a matter of fact I've known Rodney since the late sixties and he, like most...
Instead of the check being picked up by Warner Bros., the Sony-based production company Revolution Studios will now shoulder the cost of making the big screen version of RENT. Chris Columbus (HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE) remains attached to dire...
Modern American society is both appalled and fascinated by serial killers, from Henry Lee Lucas to Ted Bundy. However, the first known example of this breed so classified in United States history has been largely ignored. H.H. Holmes murdered at least nin...
Why does everyone have a great big plasma HDTV but me? Well, not really, but that's the impression you get if you flip through a few nights of network television lately. Manufacturers of high end entertainment electronics are doing their best to place pro...
Music's Kiss by Randall D. Larson (Thu 10-16-2003)
The music is as creepy as anything you’ve ever heard. Shimmering violins and percussion dust off ancient sarcophaguses, buried deep in hidden chambers. Deep, sepuchral cello bespeak ancient mysteries while an onslaught of relentless chords echo the coming...
It takes my old computer about five minutes to restart, so it's no surprise that it took the Wachowski brothers a few years to reload THE MATRIX. They've spent their time well, producing a sequel that feels more like a continuation of the original film th...
THE MATRIX RELOADED was released on DVD October 14th, but on Wednesday, October 8th at Morton's restaurant in West Hollywood Warner Home Video held a release party.Seen walking the green carpet were stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith...
Film Score Monthly continues its unprecedented release of television soundtracks with KNIGHT RIDER, the hit NBC series that ran from 1982 to 1986. The memorable and groundbreaking main title theme was composed by Stu Phillips and series creator/producer G...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS John Williams' music for Spielberg's retake on WAR OF THE WORLDS is a tremendous score, and viciously aggressive. Released on Decca (B0004568-02), the album retains the opening and closing narration, spoken by Morgan Freeman, r...
FSM continues its CDs of soundtracks to the films of George Pal (ATLANTIS: THE LOST CONTINENT/THE POWER, THE TIME MACHINE) with a beloved fantasy score: 7 FACES OF DR. LAO (1964) composed by Leigh Harline. 7 FACES OF DR. LAO starred Tony Randall in multi...
The KNIGHT RIDER poster has made it's way online via hollywoodnorthreport.com, you can view it above.In the film, based on the 1982 series of the same name, a lone crime fighter battles the forces of evil with the help of his indestructible and artificial...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Danny Elfman's first orchestral composition written for the concert hall, Serenada Schizophrenia, has been released this week by Sony Classical. The piece received its world premiere on February 23, 2005 at New York's famed C...
Universal Pictures has set Rawson Marshall Thurber to write and direct the big-screen version of MAGNUM P.I. Thurber will adapt from the popular CBS series created by Glen Larson and Don Bellisario.The show centered on Thomas Magnum a Navy intelligence of...
Here's a concise little article on the one-two punch that's killing Blockbuster Video: http://www.slate.com/id/2133995/ SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK This week, our spotlight falls on the Man of Steel. (O) THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN Complete Second Season ...
Cinescape soundtrack columnist RandallLarson's interview with Tyler Bates on his score for Rod Zombie's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, has been posted at the iF Magazine web site. Bates, who started out a few years ago scoring such low-budget sci-fi thrillers as P...
Day of the Dead (Horror/Remake)Current stage: DevelopmentDescription: The original centered on a group of scientists and military personnel holed up in an underground bunker because the world above is overrun with zombies. The lumbering flesheaters eve...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...
Composer Marco Beltrami started out writing Hollywood film scores in 1994, but it was in 1996, with his score for the phenomenally successful teen horror film SCREAM, that the Italian composer really hit his stride. SCREAM was quickly followed with a crit...
Gary Sinise's near-future fugitive in IMPOSTOR and Mel Gibson's U.S. Army commander in the upcoming Vietnam war flick WE WERE SOLDIERS are very different men caught up in very different battles, but they have at least one thing in common: loving wives pla...
On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the eight candidates that will vie for the three available f/x Oscar nominee slots.The films and their lead f/x artists in the running are:A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Dennis Mure...
Writer-director Randall Wallace's (THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK) new Vietnam War film WE WERE SOLDIERS is based on the true-life memoir WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE... AND YOUNG by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and journalist Joseph L. Galloway. The film jettisons the po...
Randall Wallace is talking about how he shot the upcoming Mel Gibson starring WE WERE SOLDIERS.While talking to New York Daily News columnist Rush and Molloy, Wallace set the stage talking about the real battle that inspired the book WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...
Perhaps the last piece of vintage sci-fi to withstand the recent barrage of big budget remakes, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA will soon be making its triumphant return to the small screen thanks to the collaborative efforts of Tom DeSanto, Bryan Singer, Dan Angel ...
LAPUTA, THE FLYING CASTLE, or CASTLE IN THE SKY, as Buena Vista renamed LAPUTA--oops, pardon my Spanish. (Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki borrowed the name from GULLIVER`S TRAVELS, but missed Swift`s satiric joke). Whichever, this is an extraordinary anime...
By the time you read this, Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOR will have already made $100 million. Worse yet, due to what can only be considered collusion by the American news and entertainment media, PEARL HARBOR will have been enshrined as a memorial to the 60t...
Like most Baby Boomers, Mel Gibson grew up with the Vietnam War on TV every night. In particular he remembers the reaction his father, a veteran of World War II's bloody Guadalcanal campaign, had to the United States' deepening involvement in the Southeas...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced its nominations for the 28TH annual Saturn Awards to be held this summer in Los Angeles. The ceremony honors the best in genre entertainment from 2001.What follows is a complete list of ...
There's another step forward to report today for the KNIGHT RIDER feature film in development. Variety states that David Elliott and Paul Lovett have been hired to write the script which, the trade magazine reports, is being given the CHARLIE'S ANGELS ap...
Last week it was reported that director Dario Piana was in talks to helm his first featuure, the sci-fi/action SNAKESKIN, and now The Hollywood Reporter states Piana's closed his deal."We are very excited about SNAKESKIN, and we believe Dario's enthusiasm...
Warner Bros. wants to turn the 80s TV series THE FALL GUY into a feature film, reports today's edition of The Hollywood Reporter. The trade states that Warners won the movie rights after a heated bidding war broke out between the studio and Paramount Pict...
CINESCAPE and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. Leading the pack in the feature film category with a whopping 10 nominations each are THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO T...
Disney has released this smash hit fourth Pixar computer animated feature film on a fully-packed double-disc monster DVD set that nearly buries the viewer in an overkill of available detail so much that it requires a special booklet to diagram it all.The...
Robin Williams is on fire. Dark fire. He's supposed to be promoting the new black comedy DEATH TO SMOOCHY, but while speaking to a room full of reporters in Los Angeles, Calif. the actor/comedian keeps getting off track. He's slipping into voices, cursing...
Amanda Conner returns as new regular cover artist of Harris Comics' VAMPIRELLA beginning with #15. Conner's association with the title character goes back into the late 1990s when she illustrated, along with her regular inker Jimmy Palmiotti, a series ...
Take me to your Deconstructionist On a recent trip to the book store, I noticed a stack of litcrit books stacked in the same display with the newest Rowling veri-table extravaganz-o (as the late, great Jim Varney would have said). Just seeing a liter...
While there is really no big, new, genre release for this week, there is ample cause for rejoicing amongst collectors. As happened several years ago, when music companies discovered that re-releasing older records in box sets could draw new sales, it woul...
Variety reports that the widow and daughter of Jerome Siegel, originator of the comicbook series SUPERBOY, is suing the WB over SMALLVILLE.A federal judge in Los Angeles has found that WB's show may be infringing on the copyrights held on the Superboy cha...
It may have been the cult movie archivists at Something Weird Video who first identified the fact that, while only a relatively small group of western fans would take interest in their huge library of old public domain oaters, horror and sci-fi fans might...
Hello, and thanks for coming back for another examination of English dubbed anime. This time around I'll take a look at Moeyo Ken, released by ADV Films and dubbed by Monster Island Studios. This title is good example of a show that tries to be a little o...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONBrian Tyler visits the neighborhood of horror in TERROR TRACT, a 2000 horror-comedy-anthology format film directed by Lance W. Dressen and Clint Hutchison (the latter also scripted), about a real estate agent who spooks a couple ...
Word first broke last evening at Comic Book Resources that Jim Valentino, the Publisher of Image Comics, had been replaced by SAVAGE DRAGON creator Erik Larson. Larson spoke with CBR and told them that the report was true. "I'm taking over as the publishe...
Acting with only your voice has its advantages. "You don't have to shave," laughs John Goodman, who voices the furry and lovable monster Sulley in Disney's new animated film MONSTERS, INC. currently enjoying its second week at the top of the box office. ...
If you're still looking for something to give the person who has everything for Christmas, maybe you've found it with THE COMPLETE FAR SIDE collection. This mammoth two-volume tome assembles every FAR SIDE panel created by cartoonist Gary Larson during th...
The Sci-Fi Channel added a new original program to its lineup on Sunday July 16th. SCIOGRAPHY, a behind-the-scenes look at classic science fiction television shows aired its first installment, an examination of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. This hour of program...
Marc Blucas (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) has been talking about what it was like working in Randall Wallace's coming action-drama, WE WERE SOLDIERS, which stars Mel Gibson. In particular, the actor touches upon interacting with the Vietnam vets who lived th...
Thomas `TJ` Randall is a popular children`s author who is about to have his STRANGEWOOD stories made into a film. As he discusses this with his agent, he is struck by the idea that maybe the film should be live-action instead of animated, for the characte...
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...
Animation in the U.S., especially feature-film animation, has too often been relegated to family fare, so it`s nice to see Fox Animation trying something a little different with TITAN A.E., which aims to be a sort of young adult alternative to the familia...
A lone figure, decked out in the gothic regalia and make-up of The Crow, crouched next to a makeshift Columbine High School memorial of flowers, teddy bears and notes placed against a chain link fence. A newscast found him there a day or two after the inf...
...ble terms.RandallLarson was a senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine(www.soundtrackmag.com), former publisher of CinemaScore, a long time film music writer for Cinefantastique and author of several books including Music from the House of Hammer.
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS It's here! Sony Classical has released John Williams' soundtrack to the highly-anticipated final STAR WARS film, EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH (SK94220) in a sparkling 2-disc package that includes 70+ minutes of score on CD ...
Superman Homepage's Steve Younis had an opportunity to chat with Jack Larson, who had flown to Sydney to be in Bryan Singer's SUPERMAN RETURNS. Larson played Jimmy Olsen on the original Superman TV show. He will be playing the part of Bibbo, "a friend o...
With the rise of the internet a new wave of digital pirating has also been created: bootleg movies of Hollywood blockbusters available for download, and in some cases weeks before the films are out in theaters. The most recent case involved a copy of Ang ...
This Week’s RecommendationSHarry Gregson-Williams pulls a Howard Shore and emerges from the rhythm-action field of PHONE BOOTH, ENEMY OF THE STATE (with Trevor Rabin), SPY GAMES and THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS with a thoroughgoing orchestral swashbuckler, the...
The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Saturday, February 5th at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and aired the same night on TNT. The words on the red carpet that kept radiating were... "It's a thrill and an honor to be nominated by ...
We may have issues with the quality (and source) of their transfers. We may not review their titles due to their refusal to send screeners. But everyone has to agree that Alpha Video has some of the most eye catching covers on their DVDs. In fact, they're...
After the three-hour epic premiere, "Saga of a Star World," writers Glen Larson and Donald Bellisario took the crew of the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA to explore the mysteries of their ancestral home world of Kobol. On the long-lost planet, Commander A...
After creating sonic images for such bands as Korn, Meat Loaf, Sisqo and P. Diddy, commercial and music video director Martin Weisz will make his feature film debut with the action/thriller SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL. To be produced by Family Room Entertainme...
No matter what your views of the film or of its subject matter, taken on its own merits, the film score to THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST is a remarkable composition. John (THE RELIC, END OF DAYS, SPY KIDS, THE PRINCESS DIARIES, etc) Debney has crafted an inte...
Dragonball by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Thu 07-01-2004)
Release Date: April 3, 2009Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: James Wong Screenwriter: James Wong Cast: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson
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Today at the "Breaking Boundaries" Vertigo panel it was announced that writer Steven T. Seagle (SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATER, THE CRUSADES) will be adapting the Warner Bros. film CONSTANTINE for comics. The movie, which itself is based on the Vertigo series HE...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS The Sci Fi Channel's new incarnation of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, based on and with the participation of BG creator Glen A. Larson is a far cry from the cloned STAR WARS space opera of the original show. As new series exec producer...