Here is the poster for the upcoming film ROCKYBALBOA.The next installment of Rocky will be headed back to theaters on December 22, 2006. The movie will be titled ROCKYBALBOA and stars Sylvester Stallone as Rocky.In the film, RockyBalboa (Sylvester Stal...
E! ONLINE reports that RockyBalboa will be returning to the ring for a sixth time, if actor Sylvester Stallone's negotiations with MGM conclude successfully. The last film came out in 1990 and was the least financially successful of the series.Stallone i...
...ure film, ROCKYBALBOA. JAKKS' Boys Action division plans to develop collectible action figures, play sets, accessories, role-play items and sports toys based on Rocky and the popular characters from the films, to coincide with the 30-year Anniversary ...
...eption of RockyBalboa which fell off by 6.6%. Still, Rocky has made almost $50 million to date on a budget of only $25 million and it's still got a lot more money to earn, so nothing to worry about there.The fantasy war film Pan's Labyrinth also...
... his last RockyBalboa movie in February, he was caught by customs officials in Australia with 48 vials of the hormone. This is against Australia law so he was busted at the time and now apparently, it’s been explained though it’s still...
... RockyRockyBalboa 12 Inch Figure
Spider-Man 3 Red Spider-Man Statue (Sideshow)
Spider-Man 3 Black Spider-Man Statue (Sideshow)
Blade Sword of the Daywalker
Wolverine Legendary Scale Bust
Star Wars Buboicullar Creature...
... underdog RockyBalboa managing approximately $12.5 million in it's first weekend for total of over $22 million thus far. For a film that was made on a budget of only $25 million, the gross is solid and should translate to a very profitable box o...
JAKKS Pacific has had an enormous amount of success with the WWE license and early last year they acquired the license of the Rocky film franchise. Capitalizing on the film’s sixth release RockyBalboa an action figure line was planned with each ...
Sometimes you enter a film rooting for its success. You want it to be good. It even is in many respects, or at least gives the sense of being good. But sometimes, unfortunately, it just falls short. Such is the case with The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwi...
With 25 years of packed midnight screenings, and a worldwide cult following that spans generations, there`s no way to review The Rocky Horror Picture Show as just a movie without also reviewing the phenomenon. A campy spoof of horror, sci-fi, comic books,...
It has long been pondered, "Were Rocky and Bullwinkle created for man or was man created for Rocky and Bullwinkle?" Well, low I.Q.ers, isn't it obvious? Man was created for Rocky and Bullwinkle, for without Rocky and Bullwinkle life is meaningless.What is...
Years after creating what he calls the unsuccessful cinematic spin-off SHOCK TREATMENT, ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW creator Richard O’Brien is revealing that he’s half finished on a direct sequel to his musical stage play and subsequent cult movie. While ta...
One of the main games that stood out to us at E3 was Rage Entertainment's ROCKY. And that really had nothing to do with us being able to interview the spokesperson of the game, Clubber Lang himself, Mr. T. "Well, I was just minding my own business, and I ...
Film licenses are dangerous things. Sometimes the game is good, but more likely it is an excuse to make a bad game. When a relatively unknown development group, Rage, gave us a call to tell us about the new game based on ROCKY, all sorts of alarms we...
The next installment of Rocky will be headed back to theaters on December 22, 2006. The movie will be titled RockyBalboa and stars Sylvester Stallone as Rocky.The movie is being produced via a three-way deal between Revolution Studios, Sony Pictures Ent...
While there are no casting announcements and we don't know who's directing, the latest report is that MTV will be remaking cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, says Variety. The original film's executive producer Lou Adler is teaming up with Berma...
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced his annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry. This group of titles brings the total number of films placed on the Registry to 425. Under the terms of the Natio...
Millennium Films, Emmett/Furla Films and Equity Pictures have announced that Sylvester Stallone is returning as John Rambo for RAMBO IV.The story centers on former Vietnam vet John Rambo, who is living a reclusive life back home in the U.S. But when a gir...
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RockyBalboa may have dropped 40% in it’s third week but considering it’s budget is 25 million and it’s total take is now at 60.8 mil, I doubt MGM is upset about it’s continuing profit marging growing in this film&rsqu...
Several years ago, cable channel American Movie Classics acquired the broadcast rights to Universal's library of classic monster films for Halloween. While this was a sad day for local TV horror hosts, who then had to rake through the lower dregs for horr...
The extended July 4 weekend was swept away by THE PERFECT STORM, while patriotism was in relatively short supply: even by jumping the gun and opening on Wednesday instead of Friday, THE PATRIOT could not match STORM’s numbers. Genre holdover CHICKEN RUN p...
Directors Nick Park and Peter Lord want everyone to know that stop-motion animation is alive and well, and living in the 21st-century, thank you very much. In a summer that has seen the computer generated, high-tech thrills of Disney`s DINOSAUR and TITAN...
The word "psychotronic," through its adoption into popular culture, has come to indicate the strange, bizarre and outré, especially when we're talking about movies. However, it was originally a scientific term used to describe areas of study combining ele...
Genre:Adventure/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:1492 Pictures.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/"Mr. Fantastic"); Michael Chiklis (Benjamin J. Grimm/"The Thing"); Jessica Alba (Susan "Sue" Sto...
VCDs are almost unknown in the USA, but they've been a hot item in South Asia over the past decade mainly because they're cheap and easy to bootleg. Basically they're a poor video encoding format for discs. They play on most players, but the video quality...
This is a great introduction for audiences unfamiliar with the wonderful work of Aardman Animation. It has all the familiar elements (the quirky British humor, the amusingly wide-mouthed stop-motion characters, the outlandish action escapades) that mark t...
VIDEO NEWSOne of the next big titles coming to home video will be this summer’s hit, MEN IN BLACK II. The current word on the DVD release is that it will be a 2-disc set. Disc one will feature the film in either anamorphic or full screen image along with ...
We've got the latest images for the "Ray Ray" episode of FOX's FASTLANE.When Van (Peter Facinelli) asks his incarcerated father, Ray Ray (Robert Forster) for help on a case, he quickly finds that working with dear old dad might be more than what he bargai...
Yesterday we began coverage on Konami's newest extreme sports titles, EVOLUTION SKATEBOARDING, and today we're continuing that coverage with EVOLUTION SNOWBOARDING."EVOLUTION SNOWBOARDING is a little bit different," says Justin Kubiak, Product Manager for...
The Doctor receives a postcard from an old friend at UNIT who's worried about strange goings-on at the Alzheimers care facility where her mother is being treated. There's also something else the Doctor refuses to tell Ace about, and it's putting a strain ...
In part one of CINESCAPE's George Lucas interview, the filmmaker discussed his rocky relationship with the press after the critical lashing he received for THE PHANTOM MENACE. In this installment, the director explains why exactly he returned for a preque...
While many may recoil in disgust at the idea of enduring a musical, there always seems to be that one that slips through and becomes a favorite. Standing in line at the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW dressed as Brad I leaned over to my Janet and mentioned that...
Making its U.S. debut on the Saturday morning line-up of ABC-TV in 1994, REBOOT was seen as a gimmick. As the first television series produced entirely in 3-D computer animation, it didn't have to be much else - perhaps it may have made more sense as a ti...
Sylvester Stallone has been named the Action Star of the Millennium by the Video Software Dealers Association, the trade group from home video businesses. The group will award Stallone (ROCKY, RAMBO) with a trophy at their annual trade show in Las Vegas, ...
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...
There’s been an explosion of vintage martial arts titles on the DVD market the past few years, with quality varying from digitally remastered transfers made direct from original negatives down to flicks that were recorded straight from local TV broadcasts...
Ben Grimm should know better than to go back to Yancy Street, the tough little area of town where he grew up. After all, as FF fans well know, the Yancy Streeters don't care how many world-eaters and aliens and armor-wearing power-crazed nutcases he's fou...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! It's a sad week here in the Wasteland. Now, what I'm about to say is in no way intended to be brutal sarcasm, but alas, I'm aware that most of what I say is brutal sarcasm. So when I tell you that I a...
This is one dead week, folks. Seriously, unless you've been eagerly awaiting the return of FATHER OF THE PRIDE, your best bet is riffling through the barrage of Christmas-related programming to find the few gems (which I, your humble servant, have taken t...
This reviewer must confess that, despite much praising of the series from adult friends, she had never seen an episode of the series SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS before watching THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE. It can now be reported that a) it's not necessary t...
In the 1980s, the sword & sorcery genre was quick to morph into knock-offs of MAD MAX and Indiana Jones movies, leaving us with a big pile of cheesy cinema curds to enjoy twenty years later. It seems inevitable that Europe’s exploitation king Jess Franco ...
Conflict Zone by Branislav "Bane" Babovic (Mon 06-11-2001)
After a number of decent strategies that came form Russia, we finally got to see a Western European title in this genre. Conflict Zone (previously known as project Peacemakers) has been developed by the French MASA and published by Ubisoft.The game focuse...
Though today's unending parade of movie "special editions," "expanded versions" and "director's cuts" almost always prove unwarrantedand unwantedthere is one exception to the rule: Robert Wise's STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE.Originally intended as a two-h...
If you missed the Tuesday broadcast of Entertainment Tonight and the on the set preview of FANTASTIC FOUR, the internet is coming to your rescue. The segment is being hosted as a video file on a website, though for how long that will last we're unsure. Th...
Tsukiko Izumisawa (Mami Nakamura) learns that a quiet young man has moved into the apartment below hers, but she doesn’t know that he’s Tsukiko’s old boyfriend Tanabe (Kenji Mizuhashi), and that he’s keeping an odd pet in a wicker basket (likely a deliber...
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...
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD helmer George Romero is finally going to be filming more dead folk...except it's not going to be for the fourth DEAD film, DEAD RECKONING, at least not right now. Romero has been hired to direct DIAMOND DEAD, a dark comedy/musical...
Diamond Dead by Coming Attractions (Tue 11-25-2003)
Genre:Musical/Comedy/Horror.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:George Romero (Director); Brian Cooper, George Romero (Screenwriters); Richard Hartley (Producer).Premise:On the verge o...
The official website for STAR WARS has revealed a new game set in George Lucas' space fantasy universe. Titled STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT, the game will let players recreate battles from both the classic and prequel eras of the STAR WARS films. Players can cho...
Hollywood North Report has published four great snaps of The Rock filming a scene of WALKING TALL in Vancouver, Canada. The WWE superstar is seen playing a game of touch football along with co-star Johnny Knoxville (JACKASS THE MOVIE). Click here to see t...
For the seventh straight week, a genre film took the #1 position at the box office, in this case The Cell, which wound up with a debut of $17.52-million when the final tallies were in. Also of note, Chicken Run, the critically praised stop-motion film fro...
The three-day weekend frame leading up to the Fourth of July got off with a bang at the box office, but the expected battle between Warner Bros.` The Perfect Storm and Columbia`s The Patriot failed to occur. Although final results will not be known until ...
Although figures fell slightly short of Monday’s estimates, it was still a good weekend at the box office for science fiction, horror and fantasy films. As predicted, What Lies Beneath was on top, with $29.70-million, about $400,000 shy of expectations. X...
Science fiction, horror, and fantasy films dominated the box office once again. Seven of the Top Ten films were genre titles, and of the thirteen films to earn over $1-milllion at the box office, ten were genre items. As expected, Hollow Man came in at #1...
The Devil Rides Out (1968, originally released in the U.S. as The Devil’s Bride) was the last gasp of the classic Hammer Horror style. The studio would certainly go on to produce a handful of good, even great, films over the next few years, but the old id...
They`ve been promising it for years, but we kept getting familiar fairy tales, action-figure ready characters, and Broadway ballad after Broadway ballad. This summer, however, it seems as if animation is breaking down boundaries and pushing the proverbia...
Back in the ‘80s, when horror had succumbed to the formula of stalk-and-slash psychos chasing hapless teenager, along came a film that truly revitalized the genre: REANIMATOR. Amidst the film’s over-the-top horror, the performance of Jeffrey Combs brought...
The Phantasm film series has always been a somewhat unsettling for a few reasons…First, Angus Scrimm as the sinister “Tall Man” is one of horror’s more interesting villains. He doesn’t need a butcher knife or an axe to...
The "Iron Man" animated series is better than most people think. After a rocky first season, the second season became possibly Marvel's best animated series. Extensive media is included in each review.
Now that 300 has wrapped, it's up to post houses including Montreal's Meteor Studios to make all that studio footage of green screens and near-empty sets look like rocky mountains and sun-blasted Mediterranean city-states.Meteor (Fantastic Four, Final Des...
I recently got called back to the studios by Michael Bay to voice more material to be utilized in editing the Transformers movie to be released during the summer. Michael was again in great form and having a lot of fun with the characters of the Autobots....
Who do you think is the ideal mentor, Count Dooku or Mace Windu? Well, that's precisely what you're about to find out while playing Star Wars Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns. Aside from the add-ons in terms of a whole bunch of brand new units and t...
The genre’s domination of the summer box office came to an end with the release of Bring It On and The Art of War this weekend. The Cell dropped to third place with $9.68-million dollars; the film’s total now stands at $33.75-million. Space Cowboys descen...
Hot on the heels of this summer’s blockbuster releases, soundtrack CDs will surely follow, giving film fans and film music aficionados plenty to choose from. Two huge John Williams scores will be heard during Summer and Fall, as will new material from Gr...
It’s not easy to ascertain why certain movies become cult phenomena, while others are forgotten. There is, however, a third group, wherein a select few films find a home in between fan worship and anonymity - a pop-art limbo where a film is fondly remembe...
Is this supposed to be a "grim 'n' gritty" take on the venerable Fantastic Four, a sort of backhanded celebration of their 40th anniversary meant to pay tribute to the team by dirtying them up a bit? That's how it appears, and as darker superhero stories ...
Yet another genre property with a powerful fan following gets the "new beginning" treatment. First, STAR TREK got a shot in the arm with its "back to basics" approach to the prequel series ENTERPRISE. Next, BUFFY promised to raise its titular heroine back...
This series of highly detailed figures, based on characters from several of renowned fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta`s popular paintings, is quite a boon to fantasy figure collectors. However, they aren`t `action figures` in the truest sense of the ter...
If You`re an 800 Year Old Vampire, Why Are You Still in High School?That`s a bumper sticker I saw at Hot Topic, and it seems to fit with the first book I mention this time...ah, the wonderful world of romance novels! All those heaving bosoms...and those a...
For many films, the Labor Day boost was not quite as big as expected, with several films falling short of yesterday’s studio estimates. Universal’s Bring It On retained the #1 position with $14.17-million, about $300,000 shy of predictions. In 2nd place, ...
Typically, Tuesday’s final box office figures fell just short of Monday’s studio estimates, but there were no big surprises. Remember the Titans was well out in front with $20.91-million, followed by The Exorcist in 2nd place. The horror classic took in $...
One of the frustrating things about growing up is that many of the movies and TV shows you were weaned on lose their luster. For fans of sci-fi and horror, this generally means that the special effects, shock value and overall net entertainment worth of t...
Current CD Soundtrack ReleasesA big disappointment is the first soundtrack release of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (ISC 490765). Of the CD’s 76:51 minutes, less than 45 contain James Horner’s rousing and playful orchestral music. As expected in today’...
It wasn't about the illustrious adventures, the daring heroes, the dastardly villains. It wasn't about the cosmic scope, the human moments, the eternal struggle of good vs. evil. No, when it comes to all the early Stan scripts that shaped the Marvel Unive...
His Rambo character has certainly dealt out death on many occasions, including the upcoming fourth film, but it looks like he may be handling a DEATH WISH as well. Variety reports that Sylvester Stallone is in talks to direct and star in the MGM...
The Review!Oh my. This series is long. You really need to be patient to appreciate it. And this volume is no exception.
Audio: Bandai's best 2.0 which all hold dear. Bless you Bandai.
Video: Poor animation, good transfer. Rocky rating.
Packaging: Nice ...
The Review!Audio:
For this review, we listened to the original Japanese language track. Dialogue is clear throughout. Music and sound effects are used freely and effectively in the series to aid the viewer in understanding the often-hilarious events on-...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Takami Koushun and Taguchi MasayukiTranslated by:Tomo IwoAdapted by:What They SayOne class, 42 students, forced to fight to the death. As Shuuya and Noriko learn Shogo's shocking secret, other students take center stage in thi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Lee RuTranslated by:Je-wa JeongAdapted by:What They SayThe ReviewThe ReviewPackaging:
Slightly smaller than the tall B6s that we are used to, Witch Class is presented in a left to right format. On the front cover is an image o...
What They SayVol. 03 Conspiracy of Honor
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The Review!Focusing on design and engineering intrigue, Moonlight Mile builds up a bit m...
What They SayVampires, robots, sorcery... and that\'s all before gym class! Welcome to Mahora Academy, an all-girls school where the impossible and the enchanting are a part of the curriculum. It\'s the start of the new school year and emotions run rampan...
What They SayNo one knows where it came from. No one knows who sent it. It chooses who lives and who dies...
The last thing Kei remembers is the train running over his own body. Now he is in a room filled with strangers, all resurrected by the featureles...
What They SayIt’s been a year since psychic schoolgirl Yumemi’s life turned upside down with the arrival of Magical King Munto. When he first appeared and demanded her help to save his world, she refused out of fear…and has regretted her...
What They SayWhen negotiations erupt into all-out war, one man\'s resolution becomes a matter of life and death.
Yugo\'s negotiations in Pakistan are off to a rocky start as he is captured by the anti-government dacoits as a prisoner, rather than receive...
What They SayHaruka, Takayuki, Mitsuki and Shinji are four high school friends. Life\'s promise shines brightly on them until an accident leaves Haruka in a coma and her boyfriend, Takayuki, can\'t forgive himself. Mitsuki dedicates her life to helping th...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ken AkamatsuTranslated by:David UryAdapted by:What They SayBehind every great man is a great artificial intelligence. Hitoshi Kobe is a poor student, a bad athlete and may be the unluckiest man alive... though he does have a k...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yukiru SugisakiTranslated by:Alethea and Athena NibleyAdapted by:What They SayYen Ragun, who tries very hard to be the smartest boy in the entire district, is constantly tied with Ayato Housui. He comes home from school one da...
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Well it's been some time since the last philosophy was mulled over, before you blinked numerous times and feared that the government was being too lenient with their 'get out of the padded cell free' cards. This is natu...
NEW YORK, NY (November 12, 2007) – Yen Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA that is dedicated to graphic novels, will publish its first BL (Boys Love) romances that feature adult males starting in Fall 2008. Obtained from the Japanese publis...
film ick reports that the BBC are set to make a TV series called 'Phoo Action' based on a comic strip by Jamie Hewlett ('Gorillaz'), originally titled 'Get the Freebies'.
The show would star Eddie Shin and Jaime Winstone as the title characters Terry P...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shioko MizukiTranslated by:Kathy SchillingAdapted by:Brynne ChandlerWhat They SayThe climax is at hand! The emotional storms battering the Toda household come to a head when Rumiko\'s meddling forces Taro and Natsu into a viol...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:KananTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayWhen Milfeulle suddenly falls out of contact with the Rune Angel Troupe, it\'s up to them to get to the bottom of things, but they\'ve got problems of their own. Nano-Nano and Brave H...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shiuko KanoTranslated by:Melanie SchoenAdapted by:What They SaySelling one\'s body
at Japan\'s most popular Host Club comes naturally for Junsuke Aki. In fact, he is the club\'s top performer (and earner!) and is easily the m...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Suzuki TanakaTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayKotori is an average high school boy burdened with an exceptional older sibling. Being brought up under the same roof as his legendary drop-dead-gorgeous brother, Kujaku (a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:KaishakuTranslated by:Gretchen KernAdapted by:Ailen LujoWhat They SayAruto Kirihara is a student who spends his free time reading the book about ALICE, and is even writing his own sequel. After meeting a girl who bears a stri...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Satomi YamagataTranslated by:Andrew MarshallAdapted by:What They Say\"When I was a junior in high school, I always thought about kissing someone. 15-year-old boys always pretend like that, right? One Valentine\'s Day, I receiv...
What They SayChise is a cute and delicate teenage girl who was transformed into the Ultimate Weapon, even though she wants nothing more than to be a normal girl in love. As the war escalates, we see more of the fearsome destruction inflicted by her on bot...
What They SayEven though Ippo\'s right fist is healed, the psychological damage has been done. His fear of damaging the fist again prevents him from throwing had punches. Sendo is not the opponent Ippo can defeat with weak punches. Takamura suggests tha...
Early this past January Mania took a look at Full Moon Rising, the first book of Keri Arthur’s new paranormal romance Riley Jensen Guardian series. Arthur dishes out the second installment, Kissing Sin, as a precursor to Tempting Evil’s re...
An FBI agent harvests the souls of the dead in a quest for power and vengeance, Edgar Allen Poe travels through time in a haunting conspiracy thriller, and the first four books of the original Star Trek: The Bloodwing Voyages gets a facelift.
T...
I’ve complained about BSG filler episodes before, but there’s a difference between basic “filler” and the creators actually taking time to expand upon characters in interesting ways. In the end, yes, this was a filler epis...
Now we’re talking, stuff’s starting to happen. Christopher is back on the booze and drugs. Tony may not know that’s the case but Tony has known for some time that Christopher is the weak link in the Soprano crew. This week, Tony finally ...
So, it finally came, the season finale of LOST. So, would we be disappointed? What would be this season’s cliffhanger? These questions plagued me as I sat down in high anticipation in front of my television for the two hour finale.&nb...
There's a lot of talk about gender roles these days. Some people believe humans should be free to openly explore sexuality, even if it's sometimes a rocky path. Others think men should stick to wrestling bears for their woman to cook before...
STAR TREK in High Definition: Good and bad news for STAR TREK fans. Paramount has confirmed that it gearing up to release the TREK franchise again, this time in high definition. The studio is remastering the original series in HD (and rumors claim that...
The last thing Rob Zombie thought he would be doing was a House of 1000 Corpses sequel. Instead of fighting it, he embraced it and ended up with The Devil's Rejects a movie he feels is a traditional follow-up in spirit but can also hold together as its o...
With the recent release of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY on DVD, Cincescape thought it would be fun to look at a real life Charly, who runs his own factory."The Best Ice Cream in the World" has converted Hollywood's elite into fans of Charly Temmel's ...
Afraid I'm going to have to come out swinging this week. Last week's column of course highlighted the DVD release of KING KONG, and as always seems to happen when you bring up this movie, a few readers jumped on the boards to chime in with their opinions....
It was convention time again this weekend, as the University of Leicester played host to the second bi-annual Amecon event. After the first Amecon was held in 2004, incidentally becoming the largest anime and manga convention ever held in the UK, expectat...
The DVD shopping bag keeps getting heavier and heavier as the list of new releases and special editions keeps growing. The Ultimate Edition of the ‘Battleship Potemkin’ is definitely in the bag. Sergei M. Eisenstein’s film is a...
One of the nice things about watching anime is that viewers can pick and choose between many different shows. Some shows are powerful and touching stories that remind people about the importance of being vulnerable and reaching out to one's fellow man. Ot...
What They SayThe year 2062. The world is sent into a state of chaos after the explosion of a bomb which oscillates the dimension, causing a mass of parallel worlds to become one. But what is ?The peculiar point?? This is where Kei?s adventure begins!!
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What They SayA Day in Waiting
The drama of the first round behind them, Yusuke’s team tries to regroup. But as they soon realize, not even the quiet moments are safe on Hanging Neck Island. Preoccupied by the discovery that his Spirit Gun won’...
What They SayUnbeknownst to the general population, an alien force opened an inter-dimensional gate in Antarctica over 30 years ago in an attempt to invade the Earth. The unified forces of Earth formed an elite military unit under command of the United Na...
What They SayAnime\'s answer to the spaghetti western!
A man with a sixty billion dollar bounty on his head is a man that few would care to tangle with! Vash the Stampede understands this because whole towns evacuate at the mere rumour of his arrival. St...
The American Film Institute (AFI) has once again updated their Top 10 Lists of all the major movie categories and sent them to media outlets. You can check them out below. What do you think? Agree? No? Share your thoughts.The American Film Institute (AFI)...
The last big writer's strike was credited with the success of smaller cable networks that weren’t effected by the strike at that time. We’ve discussed here before the possibility of this year’s writer’s strike helping create a larg...
20the Century Fox has just released a big-screen version of the Dr. Seuss classic Horton Hears a Who, but did you know the story actually made its debut on the small screen nearly 40 years ago? In 1970 the story came to TV in a half-hour animated spe...
In 2001 the Dabel Brothers founded a publishing company in search of a niche. Under the name “Roaring Studios” Ernst, Les, Pascal and David Dabel took their love of comics and fantasy to a new height, capitalizing on the vacancy of book-to-com...
The May sweeps officially started last Thursday and some of our favorite series came back from hiatus that night. Smallville and Lost both came back to the same average numbers they had been getting for the past season while another series, Supernatural a...
As summer draws closer, the sun's heat warms the earth and soon we're overrun with more flowers and movies than anyone can count. It's a life-affirming event, but it's also hard on our allergies and pocketbooks.
We can close the window to plant pollen, b...
What happens when we find life outside our own planet? Discovery Channel brings viewers on a virtual mission of the future. Right now, the search for planets with "life signatures" goes on. These efforts are global, and experts tell us on camera how this ...
What They SayIt\'s been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new breed of monsters bearing an infectious bite, set the streets ablaze under the reign of their king. Humanity had never witnessed su...
For the second weekend in a row, science fiction, horror, and fantasy films took the top four positions at the box office. Even more impressive, eight of the top ten slots were occupied by genre films. As usual, there were slight variations between what s...
The many effects shots in Jason and the Argonauts were refinements and elaborations on those Ray Harryhausen had created for previous films. As with the novelty of 7th Voyage of Sinbad, no one had ever paired the techniques of stop-motion animation to th...
When the final tallies came in, Hollow Man held on to the #1 position, but just barely. The invisibility thriller took in $13.05-million (racking its total up to $50.3-million), while Space Cowboys landed just short, with $13.02-million (bringing its tota...
As predicted, Urban Legends: Final Cut slashed its way to #1 over the slow weekend. The gross of $8.51-million was about $300,000 short of Monday’s estimates, but that still put it ahead of The Exorcist. The re-release of the 1973 film earned $8.16-millio...
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...
In Part One of our interview with the unrivalled horror icon Christopher Lee, the actor recalled his early years in the horror genre and explained his abhorrence for the phrase `horror film.` In Part Two, we learned why he decided to get involved in Tim ...
Somebody at the WB had a nifty idea when it was decided to set an SF/suspense series at a Roswell high school. Since most teen-agers are alienated anyway, it seemed like a cool idea to make some of them the descendants of aliens from that New Mexico even...
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror are big business. If there were any doubt, the box office grosses of last year`s genre films put it to rest. So the major Hollywood studios, along with the mini-majors and the independents, will be offering up a slew o...
After the shoot, DEATH RACE found itself on the rocky road of executive prerogative with an impassable detour in the shape of Roger Corman. Bartel says the producer’s uncertainty of what exactly the film should be, either a comical action film or a pure a...
Veteran actor Charles Gray passed away on Tuesday at the age of 71, according to his agent. The actor specialized in smooth, suave, but dangerous characters. He was perhaps most well known to genre fans for his work as the Criminologist in THE ROCKY HORRO...
In a way, George Lucas is a film student's dream of what a filmmaker should be, an auteur, a man who makes films with a distinctive, personal imprint all his own. Or let's put it another way: a wide, mainstream audience regards him in much the same way th...
You think FUTURAMA's has it bad relegated to the death time slot of 7:00 pm on Sunday nights. To the contrary in the annals of animation history, it doesn't get harder than for Fox's FAMILY GUY. The Seth McFarlane created series premiered three years ago...
Vampires, apes and ghosts, oh my!No, the aforementioned weren't the cast of the latest monster movie spoof, but part of the guest list at FANGORIA's 15th annual Weekend of Horrors convention, held in conjunction with Creation Entertainment August 11-12 in...
Just curious – I wonder how many people watch DVDs on a video game system? I first watched DVDs on my computer, but always considered that a compromise until I could afford to buy a ‘real’ DVD player. Nowadays you can probably buy coffee makers that play ...
Genre:Action/Adventure/Video Game Adaptation.Studio:Universal Studios.Production Company:Daybreak Productions/Prime Universe Productions.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Alec Sects).Who's Making It:John Woo (Director); M...
With his latest movie opening in theaters today, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Universal Pictures are thinking past THE RUNDOWN and on a longterm relationship. The WWE wrestler-turned-action star had already been attached to the proposed SPY HUNTER movie ...
According to Variety, the people who are making the sequel to GET SHORTY, BE COOL, have their mind set on hiring The Rock to play one of the movie's roles. If they can arrange it, Rocky would portray the bodyguard of an up-and-coming music star's manager ...
VIDEO NEWSProof, as if any was needed, that direct-to-video horror producers have no shame is the recent report (from CREATURE CORNER) of a sequel to the dreadful BLOODY MURDER. That film was an unexpected video hit, probably due to its cover art of a cha...
The gothic poetry of Regent St. Claire, collected in the recent volume GLAMOUR AND DAMNATION, has its roots in dark fantasy and horror. Yet the visions he expresses are uniquely modern and urban, with a hint of cyberpunk cool. While the gifted St. Claire ...
While journalists continue to write about the death and resurrection of Buffy on a new network this season (UPN), it's not surprising that the BUFFY spin-off series ANGEL would be going through growing pains of its own.Entering its third season, the show ...
For viewers who will be checking out BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER for the first time on its new network UPN, there's good news and bad news. Fans of the show expect that traditionally the season openers tend to be a little on the expository side as they try t...
VIDEO NEWSDavid DeCoteau, who spoke with the Vidiot a few months ago, has recently announced the latest films under production by his Rapid Heart banner, all destined for direct-to-video release in the near future. Never one to let a trend (such as LORD O...
I am so mad at the Fox Network right now. I just wanna bust down their door and start crackin' skulls.Why, you ask? Here's why: first, the network cancels THE TICK. And now, there may not be much of a future for FUTURAMA.While saying that they have not ou...
Preproduction for DEATH RACE proved to be an intense experience. Getting the cars was easy enough; five junkers were bought, and designs by James Powers were turned into customized killing machines by Dean Jeffries (of Jeffries Auto Stylings, also respons...
Let’s go back to the beginning for Moore, to get a history lesson as well as an idea about what about VOYAGER upset him so much. He remembers, `When I came aboard in the third season, NEXT GEN was very much the new kid on the block. There was a lot of sta...
Warner Home Video and Amazon.com have announced the wionners of their "DVD Decision" promotion for 2006. The 10 movies that received the most online votes will be released by Warner Home Video in two waves. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN, PR...
I’ve heard many hardcore fans of film/TV say that the Emmys, the Golden Globes, and The Academy Awards are like their Super Bowls. Many years ago, I would have agreed but nowadays I don’t, to be honest, I just don’t care about these...
What They SayEverybody says that making it as a band takes massive luck, but for Koyuki Tanaka, it feels like much more of a fate-type thing. It has to be fate when a rock star reaches down and lifts you up onto the stage! That fever dream placing you amo...
It was a scary weekend for the competition thanks to the release of Dimension Film’s Scary Movie, which screamed all the way to the bank with an opening return of $42.5-million, according to studio estimates. Thanks to this hefty sum, over half the money ...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Well folks it looks like STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE is in danger of being cancelled and let me tell you people are already starting to dance in the streets. Of course there are some that want the show to s...
This is the third in a series by Cussler and Kemprecos starring Kurt Austin and his trusty sidekick, Joe Zavala. Yes, there are similarities to Dirk Pitt and Al Giordano in Cussler's original series, but Cussler and Kemprecos shake it up enough so that yo...
In case any of you out there are wondering why we provide two box office reports each week (which, admittedly, looks redundant on the face of things), here is the reason: Every Monday, we post studio estimates of what the Top Ten films have earned over th...
When the final totals came in, X-Men did great business, but was not the record-setter predicted yesterday. The film fell short of Monday’s estimates by about $3-million, earning $54.47-million. That debut ranks as #8 for all time, #4 for a three-day (non...
Out of the curious depths of Brian De Palma’s resume comes PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, an interesting and original send-up of both the rock opera and the horror genres. Made in 1974, right after SISTERS but before OBSESSION and CARRIE, the film is a gaudy re...
This is agony.I'm so tired of waiting for the return of ANGEL on April 15. That crappy show GLORY DAYS is absolutely no substitute. I'd rather watch reruns of ANGEL than new episodes of that "show."Honestly, GLORY DAYS is so uninteresting to me that I'd r...
It’s always a sad sign when more care is put into a movie’s soundtrack than the actual movie itself. JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS sounded like a doomed project from the moment it got greenlit. Like THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, I only suspected the w...
Currently appearing in ROAD TO PERDITION, Hollywood icon Paul Newman plays 1931 Irish mob boss John Rooney who finds himself torn between a biological son (Daniel Craig) and the one whom he grew to love as a son (Tom Hanks). Today we continue our talk wit...
What They SaySpike and Vicious conclude their reunion with a deadly duel. And after that, more mayhem and hilarity await as the crew of t Bebop continues to try and make a living as bounty hunters. As they travel, they will meet a feisty space trucker, ...
Man, this movie was so bad that I didn’t even bother to review it when it came out. After all, we already had plenty of other coverage on the movie, and anybody could tell from the trailer that it was going to suck big time. So I figured why waste my brai...
`Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the net/All the fanboys were chatting, ‘bout the presents they did get./There were Buffy dolls with figures that filled out her dress,/A Seven Of Nine doll, whose clothing hugs every inch of her flesh./There ...
`They say there`s no devil, Jim, but there is, right out of hell -- I saw it,` Commodore Matt Decker told Captain James T. Kirk in the classic episode `The Doomsday Machine.` The titular devil, a massive weapon that powered itself by destroying planets, w...
What They SayThings are never easy for Orphen and his friends. When Cleao wants to find a little relaxation at the local hot springs, the group ends up finding a lot more than warm water. Why has a young woman been trailing them for months? Who is the ...
What They SayWhen Guts first joined Griffith and the Band of the Hawk, the wheels of fate were set in motion. Since that time, Guts has learned the lessons of the battlefield and embraced his own path. Griffith has tasted ultimate victory and ultimate d...
With filming well underway on 20th Century Fox's FANTASTIC FOUR movie, our network of spies have been hard at work digging up whatever facts we can land about the production. We were the first to tell you about a set that was to be constructed at a parkin...
RAMBO by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Sun 01-27-2008)
...e, ‘RockyBalboa’ and got the fourth Rambo film green lighted. Taking a gamble on the other character that has made him famous the world over. Stallone with his headband tightened and giant knife in hand took us out for one action...
Over the weekend, we had our first look at the new Abomination character (played by Tim Roth) by way of a toy snapshot. Now, it seems as if we're getting our first report of actual footage shown at Germany's Nuremberg Toy Fair from AICN:
It was great to ...
TruTV, formerly CourtTV, has filled it’s schedule with various kinds of investigative series that aren’t surprising from the network. You know shows where cops investigate crime or series where criminals are followed into jail, those type...
Genre: Action/Comedy/Sequel.Studio: MGM.Production Company: Jersey Films.Project Phase: Released.Who's In It: John Travolta (Chili Palmer); Uma Thurman (Edie); Vince Vaughn; Danny DeVito (Martin Weir); James Gandolfini (Bear); Joe Pesci; Dwayne "The Rock"...
Jonesing for a fix of paranormal investigation by a pair of FBI agents? Then you better have a PlayStation 2 because a brand new X-FILES game has just arrived in stores as of yesterday.THE X-FILES: RESIST OR SERVE is a third-person action adventure game t...
What They SaySection 9\'s investigations have started to become a little too successful and the truths they uncover hit too close to home for some of the higher-ranking officials in the Japanese government. Yet, despite the increasing political backlash t...
What They SayWhen negotiations erupt into all-out war, one man's resolution becomes a matter of life and death! Yugo's negotiations in Pakistan are off to a rocky start, as he is captured by the anti-government dacoits as a prisoner rather than received ...
What They SayIn the future, mankind will venture to the far reaches of the cosmos using technologically advanced trains, perhaps the least likely method of intergalactic travel. The fleet of Galaxy Railways transports countless galactic citizens from one ...
What They Say\"I\'m going to pursue the mystery of the Blade Children.\" With these words Kiyotaka Narumi vanished without a trace. Two years later, Kiyotaka\'s disappearance still haunts his younger brother Ayumu.
The wheel of fate turned when Kiyotaka ...
What They SayTorn apart by their supposed protectors, Cou and Ren\'s paths have split, and Cou desperately chases after Ren only to encounter past enemies. Ren, meanwhile, continues her journey solo, and despite making new friends, misses Cou terribly. Wi...
What They SayAs the final match of the Eastern Japan Rookie Championship tournament takes place, Ippo faces Mashiba with his damaged right fist and a vow to keep the promise he made with Miyata. Mashiba draws his \"flickers\" incessantly; Ippo decides not...
What They SayG.O.T.T. Secretary Chevalier d’Autriche has the fate of the planet Aineias resting in the palm of his hand. Can anything be done to stop him from unleashing the incredible power of the Atlas-class intergalactic spaceship Deucalion? Ecla...
What They SayThe souls of ancient Inca warriors have been reincarnated in the modern world to do battle with each other. On one side is Tate, whose twisted ideal of creating a perfect world means the destruction of all humanity. On the other side is Kyoji...
What They SayHina Mitsurugi never imagined her life would end up like her favorite battle game! Even after piloting the monolithic robot Dangaizer, Hina can’t seem to remember what her true purpose is or why Goma is trying to kill her. While Reika a...
What They SayA perverted pirate plunders the seven seas, armed with a torture chamber and his depraved imagination! He seizes wenches and plunders booty without mercy. The plank is raised, and nothing is off limits in this bizarre excursion into a world o...
What They SayFam and Ihrie are willing to do almost anything to make a buck. So when these debt-driven damsels discover the potential profits to be had in recovering a particularly dangerous mystical object, it means mortal peril for an entire civilizatio...
What They SayBeyond the veil of midnight lies a website, Hellcorrespondence.com. Type in the name of one upon which you desire retribution... and it will be served.
If you truly desire to take revenge upon those who have wronged you, just untie the scarl...
When you need to generate a little cash, what better way to do it than to bring out a title with the word “Ninja” in the title?
What They SayGet ready for a nightmarish journey through faith and betrayal as the infamous Jubei Yagyu wi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Haruka FukushimaTranslated by:Michelle KobayashiAdapted by:Jamie S. RichWhat They SayKonatsu is the manager of the boys\' basketball team, and has a crush on her senpai, who oversees the team - and is a real jerk. But as Konat...