...it them.
ResidentEvil:Extinction’s 94 minutes virtually flies by…In part because it is filled with action from beginning to end, but also because there isn’t a whole lot of time spent on character or plot. We know that Alice,...
ResidentEvil:Extinction is the third film in a series based on a videogame. This isn’t necessarily the most promising of origins, but this time around, the filmmakers do an extraordinarily good job of making a rousing horror/sci-fi movie. There ar...
Arguably a much better game series than a movie franchise, RESIDENT EVIL is back with the novelization of the third film, ResidentEvil:Extinction due out in theatres this fall. G’day all you Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz. We’ve got ...
The trailer for the upcoming Screen Gems film, ResidentEvil:Extinction, has found it's way online via Yahoo!.You can find the trailer here.Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti, Chris Egan, Spencer Locke, Jason O'Mara and Mike Epps s...
Sony has set the release date for the upcoming film RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION as September 7, 2007.In RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice (Milla Jovovich) ...
Ali Larter, singer Ashanti, and Chris Egan have all officially signed on to the third installment of the Resident Evil series. They will be joining returning cast members Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Sienna Guillory, Mike Epps and Iain Glen who will be rep...
It seems that Sony/Screen Gems wants to give away a lot of information pertaining to the story of RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION. This latest clip they've released gives away a spoiler plot detail but the studio has released it to MSN Video in any case, the 7t...
While attending the premiere of RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION, Ryan Rotten has posed the question of the franchise going onward even if the Alice storyline seems to be wrapping up. Actress Ali Larter has hinted that's definitely a possibility from what ...
It seems that one tradition is about to end within the Resident Evil franchise out of Capcom Japan. You RE fans will know that in order to save on their titles, you need to find that elusive typewriter scattered throughout the games.Well, not anymore. EGM...
I had a chance this weekend to take in the latest RESIDENT EVIL film, APOCALYPSE, and compare it to my experiences playing through the RESIDENT EVIL franchise of games as it falls squarely in the realm of RESIDENT EVIL 2/3.I was a pretty big fan of the fi...
RESIDENT EVIL series creator Shinji Mikami recently had an interview in Weekly Famitsu, in which he discussed the series' new home on the Nintendo GameCube.According to him, the only complete remake of a RESIDENT EVIL game will be the first game. The othe...
Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 4 will be released on the Nintendo Wii with a Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition. It is scheduled for a summer release.The Wii Edition will use the system's motion-sensing controller for functions like aiming and sho...
Plot:
Seemingly returns to the previous zombie styled thriller the games have played, it features an abandoned town that is soon over run by the undead.
Platform:
X-Box 360
Company:
Capcom
Status:
In development
Latest Rumors:
It seems that it...
NECA has released information regarding the upcoming second series of Anniversary figures for Resident Evil.The figures are scheduled to hit stores in late August of 2007.TyrantFirst seen at the Feb. Toy Fair.Almost 10" tallBall-jointed neck, torso, ...
NECA has been hiding something from us:There is a special "Chase" or variant figure in Resident Evil Series 2 that we have managed to keep secret from everyone (except employees of NECA and Capcom of course) The figure is packed randomly at a ratio of abo...
...nest with ResidentEvil:Extinction. See the world premiere of the new trailer and meet the stars of this third and final installment of the Resident Evil saga, based on the wildly popular video game series. Alice (Milla Jovovich), now in hiding in the...
Capcom held a press conference in Japan and announced that the RESIDENT EVIL series will be completely remade for the Nintendo GameCube, and that the franchise is now exclusive to Nintendo's console.The surprise announcement came on the eve of the GameCub...
The trailer for RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE is now online at Yahoo Movies. Picking up directly after the conclusion of the first film, Alice (Milla Jovovich) now wanders the deserted streets of Raccoon City in search of survivors to the deadly virus that ca...
...score for RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION, the third Hollywood film based on the popular video games. Milla Jovovich returns in the lead and other cast members include Ali Larter, Christopher Egan and Ashanti. The film, which is helmed by HIGHLANDER director...
The RESIDENT EVIL series is regarded as the best action-horror games on the market today. Nearly all of the games are viewed with good reflections on them, except for possibly one: RESIDENT EVIL SURVIVOR. The game, which was played in first person, was an...
As one of two female leads in the new film RESIDENT EVIL, which opens today nationwide, Michelle Rodriguez is in the unique position of being a woman carrying (along with her co-star Milla Jovovich) a medium budgeted, action/horror/sci-fi movie that also ...
RESIDENT EVIL by Anthony C. Ferrante (Fri 03-15-2002)
Twenty years ago, the concept of a $40 million dollar zombie movie would have been laughed at. Zombie movies by nature are these renegade little chillers that are homegrown, bloody as hell and oftentimes contain hidden social commentaries. George A. Romer...
John Eric Bentley will join the cast of the upcoming RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION to be directed by Russell Mulcahy.Bently will play an executive from the Umbrella Corporation who is trying to track down Milla Jovovich's character, Alice.RESIDENTEVIL: EXTIN...
The box office numbers improved over the last two reports with a headline franchise hitting theaters over the weekend. The executives at Screen Gems won this weekend with their third installment ResidentEvil:Extinction pulling in 24.0 million in 2,828 p...
Novels and comics are difficult enough to adapt to a screenplay, but how do you adapt a video game for the movies? The very idea was once laughable, as if you could possibly craft a film from PONG or DIG DUG. However, as games have evolved to the point wh...
Video games can be highly entertaining. However, for people with lousy hand/eye coordination, they can be a massive bummer, as the onscreen alter ego dies and the game refuses to progress to the next level. RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE poses one solution to ...
Evil Reborn by Captain Gordon Edward (Sat 06-16-2007)
Welcome to another edition of the Countdown, where it may be raining outside but there is always sunshine located in your gaming console. This week was pretty good, release wise, as not only was there quite a few games but also a few of the upper-tier gam...
...ris Egan (ResidentEvil:Extinction), Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager), Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl), and Allison Miller (Seventeen Again). Room 6B 11:00-12:00 The Disney Animation Story Process—Nathan Greno (head of story, Bolt), Don Hall ...
Capcom has announced that it will release a demo of the highly anticipated RESIDENT EVIL 0, for the GameCube, this August.RESIDENT EVIL 0 follows the storyline of Rebecca Chambers, along with ex-naval officer Billy Cohen before the events of RESIDENT EVIL...
One of the first bona-fide hits on the Playstation was a little game called RESIDENT EVIL. The game pioneered the "Survival Horror" genre and was one of the scariest videogames to ever be released. Fast forward to the next generation of game consoles the...
The FilmJerk website has published a script review of RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE. Inside Chris Faile's assessment of Paul Anderson's story is a wealth of information (and spoilers) about the film's characters and their story arcs, as well as general breakd...
According to Moviehole, Chris Durand (Halloween H20) will play a role in the upcoming sequel RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION.The site says Durand will play one of the film's foremost villains and "will be a hard peach to squash."Moviehole also reported that Jen...
Remember our scoop about when to expect to see a teaser trailer for RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE? The source we call "The Magic 8-Ball" told us to keep our eyes on UNDERWORLD for our first look at more zombie mayhem created by the Umbrella Corporation. Now we...
NECA will soon be offering a Verdugo action figure, from the RESIDENT EVIL 4 Series 1. The figure will be over 9" tall and feature a 10" bendable tail. Verdugo will come with jointed shoulders, torso, thumbs, and knees. It will also have swivel biceps, ...
NECA has released an image of the new Ada Wong action figure from the Resident Evil 4: Series One. Ada comes packed with two different guns - pistol and high powered rifle.Other figures in the series include Leon S. Kennedy, Chainsaw Ganado, and Verdugo.
The Hollywood Reporter mentions that second unit director Alexander Witt is going to get his chance calling all the shots on RESIDENT EVIL 2, scheduled to begin filming in August in Toronto, Canada. Milla Jovovich will reprise her role as Alice, the lone...
It’s hard to believe, but when I was a kid, there weren’t any zombie movies – at least not the way we think of them now. Sure, there were a few old flicks in which a voodoo master raised the dead to create some slaves for himself, but a human being was in...
THE MUMMY RETURNS's Oded Fehr and THE TIME MACHINE's Sienna Guillory have been added to the cast of RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE.Guillory's character is Jill Valentine, familiar to fans of Capcom's RESIDENT EVIL video game series; however, unlike the game hi...
NECA has released an image of the Garador action figure, which is part of Resident Evil Series 2.The figure comes with shiny claws that adorn both hands, along with a gladiator style mask.
...he set of ResidentEvil:Extinction here, which Anderson wrote. "[Death Race] would be a remake of Death Race 2000, with Paramount and us producing it with Cruise/Wagner, Tom Cruise's production company."The original 1975 movie starred David Carradine ...
The game is still most definitely on for Screen Gems' RESIDENT EVIL film franchise. RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE, the second movie in the series, had a strong debut for its opening weekend taking in an estimated $23.7 million dollars in three days. The first...
After experiencing a delay that pushed its release back six months, Capcom's RESIDENT EVIL 4 has finally arrived. While the latest chapter in the survival horror franchise is set outside the walls of Raccoon City in a small European town, the main charact...
Now that the teaser trailer for RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE is running with UNDERWORLD, Sony Pictures has opened the film's official website and made the trailer available for download. There are also a couple of new photos to look at including the first st...
It appears that the filmmakers working on RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE are borrowing a trick originated by THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. A website has sprouted at www.insideresidentevil.com that purports to be an outlet for an investigator researching the APOCALY...
The five finalists in Screen Gems' RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE poster design contest are now up and seeking votes. The studio wants fans to vote on which poster design they like the best, with the winner getting a cool RESIDENT EVIL prize pack which consists...
The great thing about the E3 Summit every year is the roll out of all the trailers for future games. This year's convention has already leaked out some good trailers so far. Today, Capcom unveiled the look and feel of their RESIDENT EVIL 5 game which shou...
This isn't really breaking news but I'll pass it along to you fellow Maniacs. Since executive producer Paul W.S Anderson and Sony Screen Gems always kept their budgets low for the trilogy of Resident Evil, there is some discussions underway between them a...
PlayStation 2 owners have been waiting for the day when they could enter Raccoon City and blast away zombies just like their Nintendo brethern. Today is the day that Capcom's RESIDENT EVIL OUTBREAK hits store shelves in North America, the first in the sur...
No sooner than after netting nearly $24 million in its opening weekend talk has already begun of a third RESIDENT EVIL movie. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, screenwriter and first EVIL director Paul W.S. Anderson always had in mind a tril...
The team behind Screen Gems' RESIDENT EVIL movie are lending their talents to a new movie based on a video game property, this time for Atari Games' DRIVER franchise. Director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt will produce a DRIVER film w...
Japanese publication Famitsu Magazine has revealed that Capcom is developing a special re-release of RESIDENT EVIL for the Nintendo GameCube. This special version of RESIDENT EVIL will feature updated graphics that rival those of the Playstation 2 ti...
VARIETY reported today that director Paul W.S. Anderson (SOLDIER, EVENT HORIZON) will write and produce the second installment of the video game-based movie, RESIDENT EVIL. Anderson wrote, directed and produced RESIDENT EVIL, last summer's box office hit....
Interactive Evil by James Stevenson and Troy Roberts (Wed 07-03-2002)
Since the release of the first RESIDENT EVIL on the Sony PlayStation, horror has been one of the hottest genres of video games. Computer chillers like SILENT HILL, EVIL DEAD and HOUSE OF THE DEAD are big sellers, while some of the most demanded sequels ar...
...s such as ResidentEvil:Extinction? Even more importantly: how will this effect how and which videogames are brought across to film, especially with such big title announcements such as Gears of War and Halo?
My two cents is that if they eve...
It seems that Capcom and Sony are partnering up for a new RESIDENT EVIL that will stand seperate from the Screen Gems franchise of RE films. It will be done in the same vein as the Square-Enix adapted Final Fantasy: Advent Children film, a full-lengt...
Music From the Movies reports that composer Jeff Danna will score RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE. It is the biggest profile project for the up-and-coming Canadian composer after scoring THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, O and THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE.The first RESIDENT ...
The premiere for RESIDENT EVIL was held on March 12th in the upstairs theater of the famous Mann's Chinese Theatre -- that's the new Hollywood Highland complex which houses the recently inaugurated home of the Academy Awards, the Kodak Theatre, for those ...
Marilyn Manson has been talking about the music he's been writing for the coming RESIDENT EVIL movie.While talking to Kerrang! magazine (via NME.com), Manson revealed that the music will be electronic rather than in his usual style.Regarding writing music...
Plot:Leon explores a town and runs into a bunch of new zombies that are smart and work together. Camera system changed, game more action oriented.Platform:GameCubeCompany:CapcomStatus:In DevelopmentLatest Rumors:RESIDENT EVIL will never be the same again ...
Footage from the trailer for the coming RESIDENT EVIL movie can now be seen online.CANAL +'s DE CINEMA TV show covers a number of films in an online extended Real Video presentation. About 2 minutes and 40 seconds in, clips are shown culled from what will...
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ResidentEvil:Extinction [Blu-ray]
Solstice
TV LAND
Seaquest DSV: Season Two
The Tudors - The Complete First Season
Weird Science - The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
BOX SETS
ResidentEvil: Extinct...
I have been having some seriously whacked-out dreams of late. I attribute these nocturnal mind trips to an overabundance of Taco Bell’s big beef burrito and one too many episodes of Charmed.
No longer does my subconscious wander through ...
Even before RESIDENT EVIL is released in theaters, Paul W.S. Anderson has signed on to write and direct the next film in the series. According to the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, the next film will be called RESIDENTEVIL: NEMESIS, but you can bet the house that n...
Actor Jared Harris has been cast in RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE. Harris plays a wheelchair-bound scientist named Dr. Ashford who helped create a formula that turns regular humans into superpowered humans. Naturally, the formula falls into the wrong hands an...
Constantin Film and Impact Pictures have signed Oded Fehr to reprise his role in RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION. He will join a cast that already includes Milla Jovovich, Mike Epps, Iain Glen and Sienna Guillory.This third installment in the series revolves ar...
NBC and Screen Gems have combined to bring you a new video clip of RESIDENTEVIL:EXTINCTION as it will appear in theaters on September 21, 2007. The third installment in the RE franchise is directed by Russell Mulcahy and scribed by Paul W.S. Anderson. I...
With the opening of Quarantine, we're delivered yet another zombie flick where the symptoms of an unknown virus look, at first, remarkably like a bad cold and, at last, remarkably like a rotting, red-eyed, flesh-eating creature who's strength and ...
David Jaffe, one of the few designers to receive legendary status based on one game, God of War, recently asked if a video game could make you cry. This thought isn’t new. Will Wright and other softies posed the same question years ago, but you ...
Yes, another edition of The Evil Dead on DVD. This time Anchor Bay is releasing the “Ultimate Edition”. Now many of you, like me, have the “Special Edition” (circa 1999) or the “Book Of The Dead Limited Edition&rdqu...
Reading and enjoying epic genre literature requires, unfortunately, a great deal of patience. Though we love our favorite authors for their mind-expanding work, their creation of new worlds and imaginative storytelling ability, we can be the first to bran...
With the horror-action picture RESIDENT EVIL raking in $17 million in its opening weekend, both videogame fans and zombie movie fanatics have something to be happy aboutas does writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson, the man responsible for the film. Anderson...
Hands down absolutely one of the greatest achievements in the horror genre—ever. Evil Dead 2 is literally one of those films that have to be seen to be believed—it’s outrageous, over-the-top, and beyond what you could possibly imagine, if you haven’t alre...
Maintaining the steroid-like effect on the box office of recent CGI animated films, ICE AGE set a March record by pulling in $47.8 million its first weekend in release. A distant, distant second is the semi-adaptation of the popular video game series RESI...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSJohn Van Tongeran has written a first-rate score for the animated short, VAN HELSING: THE LONDON ASSIGNMENT, released this week on CD by Decca (B0002757-02). The film is a preface to the VAN HELSING feature film in kind of the s...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS UK film composer David Julyan, noted for his moody scores for Christopher Nolan's FOLLOWING, MEMENTO, and INSOMNIA (the latter two scores issues on Thrive and Varese Sarabande CDs, respectively) has taken a dark swing into horr...
We've had little to nothing to report for Capcom's upcoming sequel Resident Evil 5 since last summer's E3 teaser trailer but that halt of information is no more. In the latest issue of Famitsu, we got some new developer video footage of the process behind...
... Mulcahy (ResidentEvil:Extinction, Highlander) and stars Michael Copon (pictured, "Beyond the Break," Bring It On: In It to Win It) as the young hero Mathayus, Simon Quarterman ("Murder Rooms: The Patient's Eyes") as the wily Ari,...
GOOD VS. EVIL gets a new name and a new home, starting March 10, 2000. The critically acclaimed, quirky mix of action, comedy and demon-chasers aired its first eleven episodes on USA Network under the title GvsE. Eleven new installments will begin on USA...
San Francisco, CA (August 9, 2008) ‹New York-based anime and live action DVD distributor, Media Blasters, partners with online media distribution giant, Crunchyroll, to provide streaming, subscription and download-to-own of the company¹s...
The exciting thing about the time just before new consoles are released, is that games come out like mad. Not only that, but they seem to be at a much lower price point than say six months ago. I guess it goes to show that even though the games can be pl...
Welcome to another Countdown, where you can look outside and see how pretty it has become but stay inside to play fantastic games. Do not worry... I will not judge you... Unless you are a videogame. Anyways game releases this week have picked up over last...
...mbie, and ResidentEvil:Extinction. He recently completed work on 300, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and also has the score for Rob Zombie’s The Haunted World of El Superbeasto coming up. (See Mania’s interview with Bates a...
Last week, I wrote about several series that are either returning or coming back over the next few months. There were some that I didn’t mention because I didn’t have confirmation that they were returning and when. One of those is Su...
For all of you out there complaining about having to buy RESIDENT EVIL CODE: VERONICA X to get the special WESKER'S REPORT DVD, get ready to thank Capcom. It appears that they are releasing the special edition DVD for sale on their website.For those of yo...
Dead Rising by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Tue 08-29-2006)
There has been one fascination that I have kept over the years, and that is about zombies. It did not matter which movie, or which game came out, I had to be part of it some how. That being said I am a huge fan of all things zombie, even including little ...
Ask a toy fan if he’s heard of Palisades a few years ago and you’d probably get more than your fair share of blank stares. But ask an action figure fan the same question today, and you’ll get an all-together different stare. One that sports a collector-fr...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSZhang Yimou's film, HERO, released in Asia in 2002 but debuting in America this summer, is a spectacular visual experience. The film is richly textured in both its color pallet and its sound design. Using spectacular aerobic swo...
I’m afraid I’m going to start the column off on a bit of a down note. This will be my last installment of High Def Revue. I’ve had a great time writing for Mania.com and I’ve met many new cyber-friends while I’...
Another gaming convention has come to a close with Capcom's Captivate 08 wrapping up last week, the newly titled event formerly known as their "Gamer's Day". With it coming to a close, a slew of new footage and trailers have hit the net and I'll...
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 ...
Today being Halloween and all, we decided that we'd keep with tradition and make this week's Gamers' Thumb centered around Halloween, more importantly, scary stuff. So, this week, our columnists tackle the Halloween tradition of scares and frights by talk...
ResidentEvil:Extinction came out on top on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, after the film pullled in 50.7 mil in its domestic theatrical run. War came in at No. 2 but topped Home Media Magazine's video rental chart with estimate...
...ed “ResidentEvil:Extinction” will be up for bid with proceeds to benefit the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
Additionally, movie-themed pinball machines and classic arcade games inspired by memorable films including “The...
Capcom has had an illustrious history when it comes to videogames. They have established many different franchises, from Breath of Fire to Megaman. From Street Fighter to Devil May Cry. There is also the Resident Evil and Ghosts and Ghouls franchise th...
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Touch The Dead by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Mon 02-19-2007)
Plot:
This game is for anyone who loves games about ... dead things. Not quite Resident Evil, not quite Zombie Revenge or Dead Rising either, but an interesting possibly new take on games about dead things which makes good use of the DS stylus.
Platf...
The second full trailer for Sony Pictures and Capcom's upcoming CGI-created ResidentEvil: Degeneration has popped up online courtesy of Game Trailers. You can check out the new trailer below. The film, co-produced by Capcom, features the voices of Alyson...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS RCA of Italy has released a splendid 2-CD compilation entitled The Genius of Riz Ortolani (82876664332-2), a 36-track compendium of music from composer Ortolani, whose efforts have spanned fifty years and more than 200 film sco...
The US based game rental service Gamefly has released their latest numbers and the Xbox360 game DARKNESS continues to lead the charts in videogame rentals. This is the second week in a row it has lead the pack. They've also released the top 5 rentals for ...
Even at a quick glance, the VHS box for Full Moon Video`s latest release--the evocatively titled THE DEAD HATE THE LIVING--makes it obvious that this is different from that company`s standard fare. The usual photo-realistic artwork, which has graced the c...
The nearly forgotten DEATH RACE 3000 project isn't dead.While talking to Fangoria, director Paul Anderson (RESIDENT EVIL) revealed that the project may be in a limbo state, but it isn't dead. He said, "It's still with Paramount and Tom Cruise."He adds, "A...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
Mike Smith, the stunt coordinator for the upcoming movie Ultraviolet, told SCI FI Wire that he was in the unique position to have trained with both Christian Bale, who went on to play Batman, and Milla Jovovich, who played Alice in Resident Evil and stars...
Anyone who writes about science fiction, fantasy and horror films for a (probably meager) living these days owes Bill Warren a debt of gratitude. Warren, along with Don Glut and a handful of other writers, was one of the first people to elevate genre-movi...
Somewhere in this Anime world...a Rose Bride is missing. Rumour has it she took off with Utena to get married in Las Vegas last week, and hasn't been seen since. End of the World is not impressed, because they now have all these postage-ready letters writ...
From a press release
LOS ANGELES, CA August 19, 2008 -- Seizing an opportunity to leverage the current wave of popularity and notoriety surrounding the new digital graphic novel sensation, 'The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore', MGM Domestic Television Distrib...
ANIME
AIR MASTER VOLUME 3 DVD
ANGELIUM DVD
1ANIMEPLAY: ISHIKA & HONORI INTERACTIVE DVD
ARC THE LAD VOLUME 2 DVD
ASTRO BOY: THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD
BEYBLADE SEASON 3 VOLUME 6: SAME OLD DIRTY TRICKS DVD UNCUT
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS VOLUME 2 DVD
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Sony Pictures will release 'XXX,' 'Hellboy,' 'Resident Evil 2' and 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' for the PSP, the portable game system sister company Sony Computer Entertainment America debuts in March.
Company previously said it would bundle 'Spider-Ma...
Russell Mulcahy (coming off his recent success of ResidentEvil:Extinction) now has the task of directing ZEN IN THE ART OF SLAYING VAMPIRES, says Variety. The director will be adapting the horror novel by author Steven Elliot-Altman with CP Prods. ...
Reprinted with permission by the author
Racking up $6 billion in US software sales in 2000 and promoting a new console cycle, the video game industry is running on all cylinders. The size of its main annual show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), r...
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Trigun and Vampire Princess Miyu lead new line
LOS ANGELES - 5/17/2001 - TOKYOPOP® Soundtrax is proud to announce the creation of its new line of anime soundtracks with the upcoming releases of three new collections from ...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…a group of college kids are out on a road trip, traveling down a stretch of desert highway when their car breaks down and strands them. They then find themselves hunted down by a maniacal killer.&n...
Welcome back! In part II of our Comic-Con interview with director Paul W.S. Anderson we discuss the pitfalls of futuristic movies, the nature of modern action film editing and the Castlevania movie!
Q: Why do we never see the audience that’...
Columbia Pictures' big screen version of the old action show, S.W.A.T. , is close to getting Michele Rodriguez (RESIDENT EVIL, GIRLFIGHT) to join the ranks, along side Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell (MINORITY REPORT, TIGERLAND).The film, an update of...
One of the best-selling franchises among the crime noir genre of video games, Infogrames' Atari division was targeting the holiday 2003 season for the release of DRIVER 3, the next installment in the DRIVER series. Plans have now changed and the game's d...
Atari Games has announced that it has hired a number of Hollywood actors to provide voices for DRIV3R, the third game in its popular DRIVER franchise. Michelle Rodriguez (RESIDENT EVIL), Ving Rhames (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), Michael Madsen (KILL BILL) and Mi...
As we move toward the holiday shopping season, more studios are announcing tentative release dates for new DVD titles. We've compiled a list of the major releases from various studios and their announced release dates; in many of these cases the artwork a...
ICE AGE blew away all expectation by setting a March record with a $46.3 million box office take in just three days. This, the same weekend TIME MACHINE tumbled a hard 52 percent from its opening just seven days back. The update of the H.G. Wells classic ...
What They SayNewport City, 2010 ? an overcrowded, urban sprawl, choking from the pollution of unregulated technology. In a desperate attempt to stop the swelling tide of rampant crime and urban terrorism plaguing the city, the government forms a special t...
Hot new Gonzo series is latest addition to TOKYOPOP® Anime line; TOKYOPOP®
Manga continues licensing rampage with Ragnarok and Kare Kano
SAN DIEGO-7/19/01-Stuart Levy, CEO of TOKYOPOP, was joined by Koji Miyajima
of Pony Canyon for the contract s...
[Cue an SD Dark Schnieder stomping onto the rant with evidently no regard for the opening musical segment!]
SD Dark Schnieder-chan: [grrrr!] "So Mister Beveridge *wants* a 26 episode Kishin Corps series?! Lemme at him! Lemme at him!"
SD Chaos-chan: o.O ...
Computer role-playing games have evolved over the years - D&D games in particular. The basic D&D rule set has been updated, modified, and tweaked time and again, ultimately progressing to today's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 rule set. These regulat...
The Sony Corp has announced that it will release four movies in April 19th on a new disc format (Universal Media Disc or UMD format) designed for Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld video game device. The films will be "XXX," "Hellboy," "Resident Evil 2"...
Director Corey Yuen will helm the DEAD OR ALIVE movie after he's finished working on the sequel to THE TRANSPORTER. Yuen should be starting to film the live-action version of the Tecmo fighting game around the end of the year. The DOA movie is a collabora...
A new action-thriller spec titled Man and Wife---written by Alan McElroy---has been picked up by Fox, reports Variety. McElroy's previous screenwriter credits include; Resident Evil, Left Behind: The Movie, Spawn and Three. Ralph Winter, who produced the...
Like me and many others, Peter Jackson claims 1933's KING KONG as his all time favorite movie. But while most KONG fans never get as far with their remake ambitions as a reel of 8mm film shot in a garage, Jackson persevered, and backed by the overwhelming...
Like its zombies, Night of the Living Dead just seems to keep coming back from the grave. The latest DVD release of the classic is a 40th anniversary edition that comes with an outstanding set of extras. There’s no doubt that Night of the Living Dea...
The Review!5 episodes on a disc. Even that's not enough for a show that can go by real quick and soon I was begging for more.
The first episode starts where we left off in the previous episode. Nene and a bunch of AD Police execs are stuck in the AD Poli...
...ng Sony's ResidentEvil:Extinction, in its second week of release, by a margin of 4-to-1. Also new to the First Alert top 10 are three new releases: Sony's Dragon Wars at No. 4 and from 20th Century Fox Death Sentence at No. 5 and Sunshine at No. 9.On...
Resident Evil leading star Milla Jovovich will star in Gold Circle Films' thriller The 4th Kind. Olatunde Osunsanmi, a former assistant to filmmaker Joe Carnahan, is making his directorial debut on the film, which he also wrote. Production is set to begin...
...ooting 2. ResidentEvil:Extinction 3. Bigger, Faster, Stronger: The Undead Evolve4. Vegas Visual Effects: MiniaturesA Blu-ray edition will also be available for $38.96. This will include all of the above, along with a picture in picture feature, and B...
Greetings again my friends, and with a new week, it is time for the Countdown. It feels like this is a week to remember too, which is great to say. This week seems to have given us some great games for the ending half of the summer. I finally have gotten ...
Capcom's Gamer's Day event has officially closed in London and the embargoes (for press coverage) on providing news for it ended this morning. On Monday, we heard that BIONIC COMMANDO was returning to this generation of consoles after takin...
It used to be a movie would get released on home video and then when a new medium hit collector's shops (like laserdisc) a brand new print and reissue would surface. With DVD all bets are off. Multiple packages of the same movie can exist on store shelves...
Once again, life proves it can never a simple thing. I mean, one can understand if some naughty Boomer runs amok in downtown Tokyo and decides to blow up everything in sight. That's a normal thing.
Likewise it's understandable if some sort of pesky demon...
So, you walk into your local video superstore this week and find the new-release wall covered with twenty copies of some snore-fest, and maybe fifty copies of some pretentious waste of time. Then, you realize you've seen every other major new release. Now...
What They SayA Princess of the Underworld - Defeated ... Degraded ... Deflowered
The Underworld princess Sheliss has been defeated by her archenemy Gilva. Forced to wear sexy lingerie, she is \'taken\' by the inferior humans as they swarm around her bod...
What They SayThe countdown to extinction begins when the evil shape-shifting monsters known as the Aragami make their grand play to gain control of the Earth. Humanity's only chance for survival rests on the shoulders of Momiji, a young girl carrying an ...
What They Sayfter chasing the evil Gilva into the human world, Sheliss, the Underworld princess, and the demon killer Akane Kido move in on their enemy\'s hide-out, but are defeated by the aquatic magician Meduna. Sheliss\' dress is ripped off during a he...
What They SaySheliss Elleness Zurbach suddenly appears out of the blue in modern-day Tokyo. Destiny has brought her to the human world - destiny in the form of an evil adversary named Gilva. Needing help in tracking down her enemy, she enlists a sexy demo...
No matter what holiday you celebrate there’s always one constant during the winter season: terrible gifts. Because of a schedule / travel conflict with the fam I happened to celebrate Christmas early this year. Did I get Subterranean Press’ li...
What They SayThe Sorcerer Hunters are five extraordinary humans charged by the powerful entity Big Momma with the task of traveling the land in secrecy and hunting down evil Sorcerers who use powerful and forbidden magic to enslave the helpless masses. So...
As Dreamworks and Paramount gear up to resurrect a franchise this Independence Day, Random House Publishing Group is capitalizing on the hype by printing the official prequel novel to the live-action film.
Hello everyone and welcome to this Tues...
They say that your favorite Doctor from the BBC’s famous Dr. Who program depends on which actor you first saw in the role. Well, mine was Tom Baker and, as much as I’ve enjoyed other actors before and after, he is my favorite Doctor for some very specific...
To me, the Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons supplements fall into one of four classifications:
Core Books which are required for play
Books which are not core, but are so well designed as to be essentially core.
Non-c...
Electronic Arts and Fox Interactive have shipped their latest chapter in the cosmic brawn between species, ALIENS VS PREDATOR EXTINCTION, for the Sony PlayStation 2. The Microsoft Xbox version will ship to stores on August 5.With 21 missions to go through...
Video game distributor THQ has announced the release of EVIL DEAD: A FISTFUL OF BOOMSTICK for the PlayStation 2. Developed with EVIL DEAD's director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell, A FISTFUL OF BOOMSTICK serves as a semi-sequel...
Monica Bellucci has been cast as the evil queen of the forest in Terry Gilliam's BROTHERS GRIMM movie. Bellucci's character is a sorceress who kidnaps virgins to harvest their blood so she can stay forever young and beautiful. Most guys (myself included) ...
Sony Pictures, the parent company of Screen Gems, has announced the winning entry in their RESIDENTEVIL: APOCALYPSE poster design contest. With over 15,000 votes received from visitors that picked their favorite of the five finalists, the winning poster ...
NECA will soon be offering figures based on the characters in RESIDENT EVIL 4. The figures will be released in clamshell packaging and will become available in October. Here are the full details of each figure that is part of Series 1: Leon S. Kennedy in ...
At first the idea of remaking a well-known horror film was slow to catch on, even if a superior second film was the end result. In 1979 we saw a new version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, followed by 1982's version of John Carpenter's THE THING. In 19...
The first expansion pack for DOOM 3 has been announced by Activision and id Software, the game's distributor and developer, respectively. Called DOOM 3: RESURRECTION OF EVIL, the pack will pick up the game's storyline directly after the conclusion of the ...
This Week's RecommendationJoseph LoDuca the creative soul behind the eclectic and compelling music for XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, not to mention its companion show HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS, not to mention the music for Sam Raimi's engagingly over-th...
Last November, Comics2Film was among the outlets invited to visit the set of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'. This is the first in a series of articles from that visit.
Talking to Don Payne, screenwriter of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silve...
What They SayFull of exciting adventure and great passion, this animated Japanese favorite tells the legendary tale of the mythological hero Hermes. The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beautiful ...
Hilarious. Last Wednesday, a Boston resident called the police to report something suspicious, namely a lighted object under a bridge of a cartoon character flipping the bird. It turns out that the suspicious object was a “Throwie” – ...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
What They SayTokyo. A wave of mysterious deaths ripples throughout the city. Corpses of the un-dead, controlled by monstrous creatures, scour the urban underworld at the bidding of their dark master, seeking a power that could bring about the final apoc...
The Review!Tenchi in Tokyo: A New Friend is the second domestically released volume of the Shin Tenchi Muyo TV series which aired on Japanese TV in 1997
Episode 5 is "Money, Money, Money." My all-time favorite Tenchi episode is episode #6 of the first TV...
It’s with a heavy heart that I must inform you, the Mania readership, that this 111th edition of the Weekly Book Buzz will be my last as columnist. Due to a decrease in free time and one of those unfortunate things called a regular job I can no long...
Following up on the 18+ manga release, we\'re going to start our new year off on the DVD side much the same as we look at the 12/19/2007 release of The Night When Evil Falls Vol. #1 (of 3) from Adult Source Media.
Plot: Fresh from defeating unnatural evil in the middle ages, Ash returns to the present to find his problems with creepy ghouls still exist.Stars: Bruce CampbellDirector: Sam Raimi (unconfirmed)Status: LimboLatest Buzz: In an odd way, the success of Ra...
What They SayFrom the character designer of Silent Mobius and Detonator Orgun!
Mild-mannered Masato was genetically engineered to be the perfect pilot of the Zeorymer robot. But when he is thrust into the cockpit, a new personality emerges from Masato...
We\'ve got a few adult releases in the mix this week and we\'re going to kick it all off with a look at the 02/05/2008 release of The Night When Evil Falls Vol. #2 (of 3) from Adult Source Media.
Gerard Butler and manager Alan Siegel have created a new production shingle called Evil Twins and the first project out of the gate looks to be psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen, reports Variety. The two will produce alongside Mark Gill, Neil Sac...
New Line has bought the rights for the 2005 illustrated novel, THE PLUCKER, with a plan to bring it to the big screen. Variety is reporting that Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce the dark look at forgotten toys alongside Terry Thoren. The book was...
Bringing this rather fun if incomplete little adult series to a close, we\'ve got a look at the 03/04/2008 title Night When Evil Falls Vol. #3 (of 3) from Adult Source Media this morning.
What They SayDarkness is his destiny…
A young mystic without a past, Kujaku was born under a dark omen possessed of incredible supernatural powers. Raised by priests, he has learned to use these powers for good. But the evil Siegfried von Mittgard ...
Myth Adventures author Robert Asprin unveils a collection of SF war novels, Manfredi’s The Last Legion leaps onto the audiobook format, and an F. Paul Wilson’s classic gets the collector’s rendition in this edition of the Weekly Book...
Mania's recent contest, a giveaway of the latest Keri Arthur novel, Tempting Evil, is now over.The winners are:LauraWardlowKuttlesSatanMichaelThe book is set in a world of sorcery and seduction, the nights bring out the beautiful, the damned, and the desi...
Mania is happy to announce our latest contest, a giveaway of the latest Keri Arthur novel, Tempting Evil.The book is set in a world of sorcery and seduction, the nights bring out the beautiful, the damned, and the desired. Here, Riley Jenson is on her own...
Director Jay Woelfel's UNSEEN EVIL stars Richard Hatch (Apollo from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) and Tim Thomerson (Jack Deth himself) in a pleasantly surprising, low budget, direct-to-video little chiller. Today we continue our profile of Woelfel and his partic...
Though both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell have repeatedly declared that there are no plans for another EVIL DEAD movie, the persistent rumor has risen again due to producer Robert Tapert.According to Fangoria, while appearing at a recent screening of EVIL ...