As a director of imaginative, whimsical fantasy films edged with darkness, Tim Burton has developed a reputation as one of the premier visual stylists of his generation. His latest effort, SLEEPYHOLLOW, displays the trademark Burton style we’ve come to ...
...at sense, SLEEPYHOLLOW must be counted a rousing success. Working with a top production team, Burton has coordinated the efforts of cinematographer, production designer, art director, wardrobe maker, and make up artist, in order to fashion a landscape...
...eights in SLEEPYHOLLOW, the Gothic fairy tale horror-chiller from Tim Burton. For an extended flashback, Burton lifts a whole sequence from Corman’s PIT AND THE PENDULUM, showing a young boy horrified by seeing his father torture his mother to death. ...
...f terror, SLEEPYHOLLOW. The film is a re-telling of Washington Irving`s classic short story, `The Legend of SleepyHollow,` about a legendary Headless Horseman, roaming the countryside looking for his lost head. In the film version, constable Ichabo...
Long before Tim Burton paved his revisionist path through the haunted trails of Washington Irving’s `The Legend of SleepyHollow,` Walt Disney and his team of animators produced their own take on the prolific author’s age-old folktale of schoolteacher Ich...
Tim Burton`s elaborate horror film, derived loosely from Washington Irving`s `The Legend of SleepyHollow,` may have some problems in the storytelling and exposition departments, but no one would deny the effective visual scheme that creates a fairy tale ...
... Burton’s SleepyHollow clearly led the pack with 11 nominations, including best horror picture, best actor (Johnny Depp), best actress (Christina Ricci) and best director categories. Other horror flicks to receive best picture nominations were: The Bl...
...ion about SLEEPYHOLLOW.When you watch SLEEPYHOLLOW, the look is very reminiscent of Hammer`s early films, particularly the works of Jack Asher, who was the director of photography for Lee`s HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) and CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957). ...
...Burton on SLEEPYHOLLOW (1999), Elfman composed one of his finest scores, a richly exotic work full of haunting filigrees, ghostly vocals, and ferocious, head-chopping dissonances. `I had a theme for a boy’s solo voice which I originally was going to ...
... worth it.SLEEPYHOLLOW ACTION FIGURES: No Christmas connection here, but these action figures from McFarlane are truly amazing in their detail and artistry—kids love them, and so will you! The SleepyHollow set includes three figures: Ichabod Crane, t...
...about it: SLEEPYHOLLOW is the one and only real contender in this category. It truly created a fairy tale-type world of the imagination, where we could believe in the existence of the Headless Horseman.CINEMATOGRAPHYAnother obvious choice for SLEEPY H...
...ourth was SLEEPYHOLLOW, with an even $9-million, down 51%.The remaining films lagged considerably behind. THE BONE COLLECTOR was #5, with $3.1-million, droppng 44%.POKEMON took in $2.2-million for sixth place. The film`s 69% drop is probably attributa...
... ahead of SLEEPYHOLLOW, which had a slightly shorter 48% drop to $4.6-million for sixth place.Another gap separates the reast of the Top Ten, none of which broke the $2-million mark. THE BONE COLLECTOR fell 47% to to seventh place with $1.7-million. D...
...TROOPERS, SLEEPYHOLLOW), Natasha Gregson Wagner (LOST HIGHWAY), Rod Steiger (ON THE WATERFRONT, MARS ATTACKS!) Kim Cattral (STAR TREK 6: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY), and Udo Kier (BLOOD FOR DRACULA, known in this country as ANDY WARHOL`S DRACULA). Despi...
...ylings in SLEEPYHOLLOW. Utilizing interior sets even for exterior locations and production design with a slight sense of cartoony unreality, Minkoff tries to give a much-need fantasy feel to the proceedings, but the result works only in the small-scal...
...ribed as "SleepyHollow meets X-men". Spooky super heroes with a pulp/crime edge.
Q: Why do you think NOCTURNALS would translate to film/TV/animation?
DB: Its ripe for an action franchise - the characters and setting are magnetic, it has a Hallow...
...n’s SLEEPYHOLLOW and utterly forgettable in TARZAN AND THE LOST CITY, Casper Van Dien may not be the most talented thespian out there, but he is Johnny Rico: a no-bullshit, wise-ahead-of-his-years Mobile Infantrymen who’ll kill you himself...
...e goes to SleepyHollow and faces the Headless Horseman. Originally broadcast on ABC Family, this includes added footage to earn an R rating. (O) HOUSE OF VOICES (Universal) Haunted abandoned orphanage chiller staring Virginie Ledoyen. Goos scary stuff...
...ovies and SLEEPYHOLLOW also fall prey to this instinct." I agree that PLANET OF THE APES fell flat, but I thoroughly enjoyed SLEEPYHOLLOW. Given the brevity of the original story, there wasn't much of a movie to be had there. I won't argue that he se...
...atman and SleepyHollow. When you heard that director Tim Burton was re-imagining Roald Dahl's famous children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it's one of the few times you didn't hear a groan echoing throughout the global collective consciou...
... Burton's SLEEPYHOLLOW, and your ridiculous Halloween party ideas, be sure to brush up on your werewolf, vampire, and witch knowledge with Nigel Suckling's eerily informative yet downright entertaining hardback briefs on everything that used to freak ...
...ramount`s SLEEPYHOLLOW, which took the #8 position with $3-million, down 35% from the previous weekend.Falling 39% was Universal`s END OF DAYS, which took the #9 slot with $2.9-million.Rounding out the Top Ten was Universal`s THE BONE COLLECTOR, which...
...Legend of SleepyHollow, Casey At Bat, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Darlin' Clementine and Pecos Bill. Available separately. (O) THE TEASER / FRANKIE & JOHNNIE WERE LOVERS (Image) Something Weird Video presents two sleazy '70s skin ...
...itle like SleepyHollow can\'t clear 300 preorders for LD, the format is
dead. He said LD became unviable for anime a year and a half ago. At this
point Mr. Crank asked why not release on SVHS - and the entite room laughed at
him.&...
...his films SleepyHollow and Sweeney Todd. Both of which are clearly stylized after Hammer Films. Warner Brothers has released multiple copies of Hammer Films on DVD and has even collected many of them in a box set called the Hammer Classics Collection....
...n Walker (SleepyHollow). However, a re-write has been done by David Self (Road to Perdition). The cast will consist of Benicio Del Toro (Lawrence Talbot), Emily Blunt (Gwen Conliffe), Hugo Weaving (Det. Aberline) and Anthony Hopkins (Sir John Talbot)....
...bruary in SleepyHollow, New York.
Krueger told C2F
that he aims to show both movies at the upcoming, summer comic book conventions.
In the mean
time, fans can look for his new comic book, The Clock Maker, in
stores this month.
...habit his sleepyhollow really don't have the knack! Solution? Why not crib an idea from the Martians in SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS and kidnap the fat bastard. Lots of songs, plenty of black humor lite and the fact that this might be too ghoulis...
...to direct SLEEPYHOLLOW, a poorly plotted horror story that survives on the strength of Burton’s visual flair.And of course horror came back to life with SCREAM, which led to sequels and rip-offs, all based on the idea of replaying old clichés for easy...
...sphere of SLEEPYHOLLOW earned one award for Rich Heinrichs and Peter Young in the Art Directin category.Stretching a point, some talented people who’ve made contributions to science fiction, horror, and fantasy in the past walked away with awards. Joh...
...ATMAN and SLEEPYHOLLOW for Burton, first tipped his hand with this score, and never looked back, becoming the most inventive genre composer since Herrmann. While Elfman was crafting over-the-top music for Beetlejuice and Batman, Christopher Young cam...
...Burton`s] SLEEPYHOLLOW is that it isn`t really a remake of anything specific (a Jeff Goldblum TV movie? half a Disney cartoon?). I`m less sure of what could be done with PLANET OF THE APES (which I liked a lot as a kid), especially now that the twist ...
... Burton’s SLEEPYHOLLOW (Hollywood Records HR-62262-2), making the most out of eerie synths, wailing choruses, and powerful strokes of orchestration and texture. Instead of playing the period, he generated the soul of its characters and its story with...
...ings like SLEEPYHOLLOW and END OF DAYS, but we don`t seem to have any other ones coming in to Christmas, so we should be able to play through the Christmas holiday. If we do that, we`ll have a good return.PIERCE SAYS HE`D LIKE TO STEP BACK AND TAKE A ...
...NOUGH and SLEEPYHOLLOW nearly equaled their opening weekend box office, but in order to calculate a film`s staying power, three-day totals (from Friday to Saturday) are used. Eight of the top ten films were either fantasy, horror, or science fiction e...
...chardson (SLEEPYHOLLOW) head the voice cast. This could be the biggest thing for stop-motion since NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.Anticipation scale: 9. Box office: perhaps the first stop-motion film to suprass $100-million.DINOSAUR (Disney): So you`re ti...
...film; and SLEEPYHOLLOW seems poised to pass $100-million within the next few weeks (Tim Burton`s first film to do so since BATMAN RETURNS).Below are the genre films ranked at the box office for the Super Bowl Weekend. As always, totals are given in mi...
...ies, were SLEEPYHOLLOW and STAR WARS, EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM MENACE. SLEEPY earned its nods for Art Direction (production designer, Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration, Peter Young), Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), and Costuming (Colleen Atwood). PHAN...
...Legend of SleepyHollow. Who would ever think that a short musical cartoon starring Bing Crosby would terrify audiences. Equally as appropriate for Halloween is Tim Burton’s SleepyHollow. The Headless Horsemen figure (played by Ray Park) emerges...
...LEGEND OF SLEEPYHOLLOW, and Lee shared his thoughts on Burton and lead actor Johnny Depp, garnished with some advice for any up and coming actors. He also brushed upon JINNAH and GORMENGHAST as well as a few words about Michael Gough, who has appeare...
...n Italian SleepyHollow. The town fathers have decided to sacrifice their young to Ursula's gang of vampires, headed by Lord Florian. But if Vittorio has his way, he will end this child sacrifice, remembering the night his family was slaughtered like s...
...kiness of SLEEPYHOLLOW. And of course, all of them were topped by the convincing drama and spirituality of THE SIXTH SENSE. Another interest facet of this year’s box office hits is that many of them were actually good, innovative movies. Sure, there w...
...lendor of SLEEPYHOLLOW. Director Tim Burton`s homage to Hammer horror, Roger Corman, and Barbara Steele is spooky in an intentionally old-fashioned way, reviving the kind of fairy tale chills long absent from the screen. Unlike many hyperactive younge...
Perhaps one of the most engaging actors in the history of film is the resplendent Christopher Lee. He has that uncanny ability to hold your attention with a mere glare of his eye, a guttural growl, of his voice or as we most recently saw in SLEEPY HOLLO...
...screens), SLEEPYHOLLOW jumped from 46th place up to 23rd. Its take of $564,229 represented a 636% increase over the previous weekend, increasing the total to $99.17-million; another weekend could take it past the $100-million mark.The box office for t...
... of note, SLEEPYHOLLOW earned an additional $400,168, bringing its total to $99.86-million; the film will easily pass the $100-million mark this week.Below is a complete list of this week’s genre films to make the box office chart. Totals are given in...
...EAD ZONE, SLEEPYHOLLOW, PULP FICTION, or others of his 50 odd (and odd they are) roles, knows that few actors so command the screen the way he does. Working with such an actor could be a challenge to lesser performers, but Spano, a 20-year veteran per...
...d to film SLEEPYHOLLOW. `I had been working on the project for a year, and it didn`t happen,` says Burton. `I basically worked very hard. I made the movie; we just forgot to film it.` The rumor at the time was that part of the problem was the casti...
...OMBAT and SLEEPYHOLLOW (as the Headless Horseman).FANDOM: IN `X-MEN` ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE YOU?PARK: Oh yes.I`VE READ YOU WEAR LENSES IN YOUR EYES?Yes, but that`s all; you can tell it`s me.LOT OF EXCITEMENT BREWING OVER THE FILM.Yes, ...
As a film`s success grows, so does our thirst for information on those associated with it. With Ray Park, we`re now talking about three successful franchises (Mortal Kombat, Star Wars, X-Men) and a one-hit wonder (SLEEPYHOLLOW). In Part One of my inter...
...y seen in SLEEPYHOLLOW) plays Flay, the desiccated manservant of the Earl of Gormenghast.The Gormenghast saga is often seen as an allegory for the decline of the British empire and the rise of fascism. Although Terry Gilliam expressed an interest in f...
...lion. And SLEEPYHOLLOW took in $27-million for fourth.The remaining films lagged far behind. In fifth was POKEMON with $9.1-million. In sixth was THE BONE COLLECTOR with $7.3-million. DOGMA landed in seventh with $4.9-million. Rounding out the top ten...
...r-winning SLEEPYHOLLOW passed the $100-million mark in domestic release, generally considered to be the demarcation line denoting blockbuster status. This is the first Tim Burton-directed film to do so since BATMAN RETURNS in 1992.Otherwise, the news ...
...mark, and SLEEPYHOLLOW continues its trek toward $100-million. Listed below are the science fiction, fantasy, and horror films that ranked at the box office this weekend. Totals are given in millions of dollars, preceded by the film`s overall ranking....
... Burton`s SLEEPYHOLLOW. The Paramount production took in $30.5-million according to the studio. The per screen average was $9,961 in 3,062 engagements.The rest of the Top Five films were also genre efforts. Last weekend`s winner, POKEMON: THE FIRST MO...
James Bond fell slightly short of estimates for its opening weekend box office take. MGM`s THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH took in $35.5-million in its first three days, easily taking the Number 1 spot. The weekend`s other wide debut, Paramount`s SLEEPYHOLLOW, r...
...kiness of SLEEPYHOLLOW. And of course, all of them were topped by the convincing drama and spirituality of THE SIXTH SENSE.Another interesting facet of this year’s box office hits is that many of them were actually good, innovative movies. Sure, there...
In reference to your `Hollow Man` article: I felt the need to correct a glaring mistake concerning the visual effects facility credited with creating these fx scenes. Sony Pictures Imageworks is the main digital house, not ILM. We`ve worked long and str...
Listening to a horror film score on CD, apart from the visuals of the cinema screen, can be an awkward and oftentimes dissassociative experience. The raging dissonances, broodingly developing mysteriosos, and wild cacophonic terror tonalities that worked...
Kevin Bacon has been in films as diverse as FOOTLOOSE and JFK, but there are also a fair number of genre pics in his filmography, including TREMORS, FLATLINERS, the upcoming THE HOLLOW MAN—and he starred in one of last year’s most under-appreciated effort...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Madeleine RoscaTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayLittle Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver\'s A...
Paul Verhoeven is a very talented, intelligent director, but on the basis of many of his films, you might not know it. Sure, he’s made great ones like THE FOURTH MAN, ROBOCOP, and STARSHIP TROOPERS, but even some of his relatively entertaining work (TOTAL...
Liz has left the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to find the legendary monastery of Agartha. Hellboy has gone on a leave of absence after some disturbing revelations about the Bureau, and now Abe and Roger are considering leaving. But before th...
In Hollow Man, an updating of the classic invisible man premise, directed by Paul Verhoeven, actor Kevin Bacon stars a brilliant and arrogant scientist named Sebastian Caine, whose work at a top secret experimental laboratory renders him invisible. Unable...
One thing you would never call Paul Verhoeven as a director is `subtle.` Even his early European films like THE FOURTH MAN contained their share of graphic imagery gouged eyeballs, to site one example) meant to shock you out of the complacency often produ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Madeleine RoscaTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayOnce thought to be a shoo-in for detention, recent transfer student Lucy Snow has come into her own at Hollow Fields thanks to Doctor Bleak - a mysterious box-like art...
What They SayIchigo and Rukia continue their work as Soul Reapers, protecting spirits and the living. But they are not the only ones with power to defeat the evil Hollows. A rival called a Quincy appears with fearsome powers of his own " and a grudge a...
In part one of our interview with Kevin Bacon on the making of Hollow Man,, the star described some of the difficulties caused by wearing make-up that allowed Sony Pictures ImageWorks to remove him digitally from the frame, thus creating the illusion of i...
If one was to philosophically understand what Paul Verhoeven is trying to accomplish with the much anticipated Hollow Man, perhaps you could sum it up as, `The art of invisibility without being invisible.` Hollywood is again revisiting the past by re-inve...
Motion-control—words that strike fear and loathing in even the most seasoned film crews. The process traditionally takes longer than normal camera setups, and has suffers from a higher degree of Murphy’s Law, despite the superior accuracy one gets from co...
Moviehole is reporting that Peter Facinelli has signed on to co-star in HOLLOW MAN 2. He joins a cast that already includes Christian Slater, Laura Regan and William MacDonald.As previously reported on Cinescape, the story centers on a volunteer soldier/...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tite KuboTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayIchigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper an...
Welcome to the second day of 2001: A Space Vidiocy. The new video selections are slim this week, but, with the holidays behind us, better days loom just ahead. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at the third misfire in a row from one time genre master, Paul V...
What They SayAfter her Soul Reaper powers are transferred to Ichigo, Rukia Kuchiki, becomes disguised as a transfer student, and she must help Ichigo to use his newly acquired powers to destroy soul-devouring Hollows. As if Ichigo didn't have enough trou...
What They SayWith hordes of soul-eating Hollows descending on the human world, Soul Reaper Ichigo and his rival Uryu have their hands more than full! A Hollow that can control humans attacks the school, and in the struggle to save her friends, Ichigo's c...
In Part One of my interview with the polemical Paul Verhoeven, we talked about the effect of Elisabeth Shue’s injury on the shoot, and the directing difficulties incurred due to the invisibility special effects, how that affected Kevin Bacon’s performance...
Sony Pictures is pushing ahead with the sequels I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER 3, HOLLOW MAN 2, and ROAD HOUSE 2. It has not been determined yet whether Columbia Pictures or Screen gems will release them theatrically or whether any or all will go directl...
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...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tite KuboTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayIchigo Kurosaki was a little boy when his mother passed away. One rainy day, Ichigo, who's ability to see the undead is a blessing and a curse, frantically tried to st...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tite KuboTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayImmediately after checking into the Kurosaki Clinic with a mysterious scar on his back, the muscle-bound Chad goes AWOL. Accompanying Chad is a talking parakeet imbued...
Last time I went on and on about the fact that Kevin Smith had created a virtual "Green Arrow Family," similar to the old Batman and Superman families, in the new GREEN ARROW series. Sadly, it looks like he's abandoning that family just when it needs some...
...ntary for SleepyHollow). He sets the tone immediately, by using the word `tone` a half dozen times in the first couple minutes, but then proceeds to tell stories and amusing anecdotes that enhance the film and give a greater understanding of why the p...
GATE Mail by David Michael Wharton (Mon 08-08-2005)
It's been a long week, but I am finally back within the warm embrace of high-speed internet access, and so back to the TVW grind I go. Back before Mr. Davis' side-trip into the world of TV on DVD, we were talking STARGATE, specifically this season's addi...
Author Don Bassingthwaite concluded his The Dragon Below Trilogy late last year with the release of The Killing Song through Wizards of the Coast Publishing.
Before I delved into the third installment I wanted to get a true sense of what this s...
Duo of popular manga titles to debut as SHONEN JUMP graphic novels
beginning spring of 2004.
San Francisco, Calif, February 10, 2004 - VIZ, LLC, one of the leading
publishers and distributors of manga comics and anime content for North
American audiences...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tite KuboTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayIchigo Kurosaki may not know this, but the world he lives in is one predicated on balance-between the living and the dead, between everyday life and the Soul Society. ...
There are many classic Christmas movies to choose from as you gather the whole family together holiday season. But let’s say you hate Christmas, you hate your family, and you pretty much hate everything else. And let’s say you’d like to ruin Christmas for...
What They SayRukia the Soul Reaper knows she is on borrowed time, staying in the world of the living longer than allowed. Having transferred her powers to Ichigo, she is in big trouble when two enforcers from the Soul Society come after her. Now Ichigo wi...
Awww yeea it’s Tuesday everyone and Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Unfortunately we don’t have an extensive list of new releases hitting the shelves this week but there are still a couple of choice morsels coming out on hardcover ...
What They SayWith hordes of soul-eating Hollows descending on the human world, Soul Reaper Ichigo and his rival Uryu have their hands more than full! A Hollow that can turn humans into zombies attacks the school, and in the struggle to save her friends, I...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tite KuboTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayA new reality-show craze is sweeping the nation, garnering legions of screaming fans (the majority of them being teenaged girls). But this program comes with a superna...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tite KuboTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayIchigo Kurosaki thought that Soul Reapers were the only ones hunting Hollows, but he was wrong. Enter Uryu Ishida, a Quincy, and possibly the last member of a powerful...
Genre:Horror/Remake.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Revolution Studios.Project Phase:Script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Cooper Layne (Screenwriter); John Carpenter, Debra Hill, David Foster (Producers); a remake of the 1980 film...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSBy far the most impressive soundtrack release of the week – if not the season – is Decca’s Nov 2nd release of Jan A.P. Kaczmarek’s score for Marc Forster’s imaginative fictional retelling of the creation of Peter Pan, FINDING NE...
OPINION: REMINDER: DUE TO THE LABOR DAY HOLIDAY, COMICS ARRIVE IN STORES ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9A woman is raped, after which her husband's co-workers brainwash him. Another woman, after being raped, is cut into hundreds of cubed 3D jigsaw puzzle pieces...
...LEGEND OF SLEEPYHOLLOW graphic novel for $7.95; a new printing of the MIDNIGHT NATION trade paperback for $24.99; the MYTH WARRIORS graphic novel for $9.99; two covers' worth of NOBLE CAUSES #4, each for $3.50; NYC MECH #6 ($2.95); PVP #10 ($2.95); SA...
Some people say that living in a big city will help a man become a more social creature and learn certain intricacies about human culture that simple folk will never pick up on. Is that really true? I was born and raised in a small Bavarian village. In th...
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...
If you still hold a place in your heart for 80s big hair, progressive rock songs and the two Coreys, Warner Home Video has plans for you. The company just announced plans to release a special edition DVD of Joel Schumacher's 1988 film THE LOST BOYS this c...
IGN FilmForce has unveiled the second teaser poster for THE RING 2, scheduled for release on March 18, 2005. Naomi Watts reprises her role as terrified investigative reporter Rachel Keller and David Dorfman is her son Aidan, the only two survivors of the ...
More and more horror "B-movies" are receiving deluxe treatment on DVD, but for every cult classic being reborn on disc there are dozens of less worthy titles sitting in the vaults. Some are worth seeing, but just not as sought after, or else pristine elem...
There's no reason that movies about moviemaking can't be as insightful, enjoyable, funny and/or even scary (BLAIR WITCH, anyone?) as any other sort of film. The genre of filmic self-reference, however, comes not only with the usual danger of self-consciou...
With big screen fantasy making a big comeback courtesy of LORD OF THE RINGS, it's the perfect time to go back and revisit Ridley Scott's LEGEND, one of the most visually luxuriant, sumptuously scored and, ultimately, most problematic fantasy films ever ma...
In an unpublished review written not long after September 11, I lambasted the recent issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA because the patriotic homilies Cap was often fond of spouting in that incarnation rang so hollow in the wake of the horror we'd all witnessed. Ca...
...st movie, SLEEPYHOLLOW HIGH bad. Second movie, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - still damn good, but catch the recent Elite "Millennium" re-release of it instead.INDECENT PROPOSAL is yet another re-release of a film that was something of a sensation in the...
With his acting cred firmly established after films like ED WOOD, SLEEPYHOLLOW and DONNIE BRASCO, it looks like Johnny Depp is going to do what so many other fine actors have done before: let Jerry Bruckheimer turn them into action heroes. Depp is in tal...
Based on a story by Philip K. Dick (whose work previously inspired BLADE RUNNER and TOTAL RECALL), with AAA-list star Tom Cruise's name above the title and reigning Hollywood emperor Steven Spielberg in the director's chair, MINORITY REPORT has genre flic...
MGM has launched the official website for the new Denzel Washington thriller OUT OF TIME, out in theaters on October 3.Washington plays Matt Lee Whitlock, the well-liked chief of police for a sleepy Florida town. When a double murder shocks the community,...
OSCAR-WINNING FANTASY SHORT TOOK A CHANCE ON MUSICChance Thomas, the award-winning composer most widely known for his innovative work in interactive games, created the music for "The Chubbchubbs" which has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Fil...
DEAD AND BREAKFAST, Matthew Leutwyler’s take on the “un-dead” genre, is headed to DVD on September 6th from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film will also be available day-and-date on the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) ...
I'm writing this week's column with a bad head cold, and my blocked sinuses make me feel like watching movies with a lot of head trauma (decapitation, shotgun explosion, screwdriver to the temple, etc.). Luckily, here's something made to order. SPOTLIGHT ...
Howdy all, welcome back to another action-packed week of obscure references and questionable wit. Got plenty of new show previews to cover this week, and I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of the SURFACE pilot (thanks NBC!), so we'd best get rig...
Whether or not you enjoyed the rather hollow cinematic translation of Eragon this past December, there’s no denying that Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Trilogy has legs. Ever since the first book’s film adaptation release, the seco...
Conspiracy theories and claims of the paranormal are natural attractors for kooks. Kooks tend to rant louder and sound crazier than those who are seriously pursuing research into these outré areas. California filmmaker Craig Baldwin knows this a...
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...
...hands and SleepyHollow.Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will partner with Richard Zanuck and John Logan to produce the screenplay adaptation which was written by Logan. Production is planned to begin early next year for a late 2007 release. Paramoun...
Inon Zur has scored the all new original CBS webisode series Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side. Based on the successful CBS-TV series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, the webisode series was created for the CBS TV set site by Sander/Moses Produc...
Fumi Yoshinaga is renowned for the quality of her yaoi titles, so it's a mystery why she'd curse Lovers in the Night with a name worthy of a paperback on a drug store shelf. Self-parody is a possibility; Lovers in the Night offers any excuse for its tw...
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz, where information on tomorrow’s batch of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror lit are brought to light today. In a slow week of genre releases Dr. Who hardcovers and a couple original tales of speculative fic...
With its release surrounded by dubious price wars, online leak conspiracies, and even direct chastisement by a foreign Trade and Industry Minister, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows shook the foundations of the publishing industry this past weekend and...
...d (1994)
SleepyHollow (1999)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corpse Bride (2005)
They’re both working together right now on Sweeney Todd (2007).
By the way, he ended up adopting that horse (Golden Eye) from Sleep Ho...
Melissa George will star opposite Josh Hartnett in the upcoming film 30 DAYS OF NIGHT for Sony.Based on a Steve Niles graphic novel, the story is set in a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutiv...
We continue our examination of Mill Creek's 4-disc, 20-movie collection of roadshow shockers from the first half of the 20th century. Disc Two: COCAINE FIENDS (1935, 61m, aka THE PACE THAT KILLS) A remake of producer Willis Kent and director William A. O...
30 DAYS OF NIGHT, a three-issue mini-series written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Ben Templesmith, is set to begin in June from IDW Publishing.Here's how the book is described:"Have you imagined living in total darkness? They have... In the sleepy, se...
Film Score Monthly reports that Paul (HOLLOW MAN, TOTAL RECALL, ROBOCOP, STARSHIP TROOPERS, FLESH+BLOOD) Verhoeven's long absence from film directing is about to end with the production of his upcoming film, BLACK BOOK, which began shooting last week in t...
Columbia Pictures' 1985 spirited western SILVERADO stars Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, and Danny Glover as four unwitting heroes who cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Silverado a town run by a corrupt sheriff and mu...
What do 24, THE SHIELD, LOST and recently STARGATE: SG-1 have in common? I guess the question really should be--what don't they have in common? The answer is a classic television title sequence. Sure, a brief shot of the logo and credits superimposed o...
...unt) (O) SLEEPYHOLLOW (Paramount) (O) TOMB RAIDER (Paramount) UMD CORNER (O) THE BENCHWARMERS (Sony) And be sure to check back next weekand every weekfor CINESCAPE's DVD Shopping List! And don't forget Anime Avalanche every Saturday!DVD Shopping ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Hans Zimmer's score to Ron Howard's THE DA VINCI CODE is a somber, affecting, and sobering composition. Set for release by Decca on May 9th, the music is beautifully arcane and tragically sumptuous. It's an attractive and very ...
Welcome to another week of Grind Your Axe at COMICSCAPE. I'm your host and all-around nice guy, Kurt Amacker. This week, we took some time at the Home Office to tear open some of your letters about that swinging new flick, V FOR VENDETTA. As most of our v...
As we reported a few weeks ago, Matthew Leutwyler's DEAD AND BREAKFAST will arrive on DVD on September 6th. For those of you who missed the earlier article, the story centers on what happens when a seemingly innocent road trip goes awry. Six friends on th...
In parts one and two of CINESCAPE's coverage of Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors convention, we looked at the many independent filmmakers who visited the event in hopes of promoting their home-made horror films. Today in the final part of our report, we reco...
Whatever the difficulties of working in the large screen format, writer-director Mark Osborne also found himself the beneficiary of several donations, including a motion-control rig. `The year that I got to Cal Arts as a teacher, I went back to some profe...
...27-millionSleepyHollow (6) 4.72-million/81.36-millionThe Bone Collector (7) 1.71-million/60.83-millionDogma (8) 1.12-million/26.39-millionPokemon: The First Movie (9) 1.18-million/82.37-millionBeing John Malkovich (10) .963-million/15.29-millionThe Si...
"Happily, ['V for Vendetta'] almost is entirely free of the hollow pomposity that marred the Wachowskis' last two 'Matrix' films. Here, Alan Moore's graphic novel and the history of real-world oppressive governments is more than enough, leaving no need fo...
With the opening of the 35th annual San Diego Comic-Con Intl. today, what was once a sleepy affair for fans buying and selling comicbooks has become the pop-culture event of the year for sci-fi and superhero aficionados. And with the grosses for 'Spider-M...
With the STAR TREK II writer/director’s bible having been written, producer Harold Livingston began contacting writers and agents in an effort to get the first thirteen scripts in motion. `I wanted to make STAR TREK more universal,` explains Livingston m...
...3.04/57.90SleepyHollow (9) 3.02/85.92The Bone Collector (10) .979/62.41Being John Malkovich (12) .751/16.49Dogma (12).711/27.68Pokemon: The First Movie (13) .537/83.13American Beauty (14) .527/69.30The Sixth Sense .491/275.18House on Haunted Hill (18)...
...703/123.56SleepyHollow (24) .547/96.66American Beauty (26) .431/73.32Being John Malkovich (30) .302/20.16Pokemon: The First Movie (33) .251/85.12The Sixth Sense (34) .247/277.71The Bone Collector (35) .222/65.13End of Days (37) .206/65.52Dogma (39) .1...
....23/122.65SleepyHollow (20) .868/95.95American Beauty (22) .598/72.75Being Jon Malkovich (24) .509/19.74Pokemon: The First Movie (25) .492/84.80The Sixth Sense (27) .415/277.40End of Days (29) .392/65.23The Bone Collector (30) .351/64.82Dogma (32) .21...
....71/111.28SleepyHollow (12) 1.50/89.31End of Days (13) 1.31/60.71American Beauty (16) .322/70.04Being John Malkovich (18) .302/17.30The Bone Collector (19) .247/63.12The Sixth Sense (23) .213/275.72Dogma (24) 213/28.46House on Haunted Hill (30) .124/4...
From a press release:
Culver City, CA (12/17/07) – From producers Sam Raimi (director, Spider-Man trilogy, producer, The Grudge) and Robert Tapert (producer, The Evil Dead series) and director David Slade (Hard Candy), comes '30 Days of Night', ava...
Young Noriko finds herself on the galactic stage when space monsters come to eradicate humanity from existence.
What They Say
As humanity sets out for distant space, a Machine Weapon squadron is created to combat the onrushing opposition of the Space Mo...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mine YoshizakiTranslated by:Yuko FukamiAdapted by:Carol FoxWhat They SayThe first three volumes of the intergalactic bestseller—collected in one toad-ally awesome volume!
Sgt. Keroro, commanding officer of Planet Keron\...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mera HakamadaTranslated by:Nancy Barron, Ben ApplegateAdapted by:Shannon Fay, Janet HouckWhat They SayEach girl at Tsubakigaoka Girls\' Dorm is paired with a roommate. Tsumugi with Beniko, and Ai with Fuuko. Yet the girls each...
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Well, here I am reviewing the newest Star Wars movie. And let me get one thing straight from the get go. I am a huge Star Wars fan. I am also a huge film fan in general, and I am able to be both at the same time. Is this an easy task... well for s...
Although the title of this column implies that it deals exclusively with anime dubs, I'd like to discuss a dubbed live-action movie today. Specifically, this installment is going to focus on Conduct Zero, a Korean movie released by ADV Films and dubbed by...
Every comic book fan knows the sensation—that queasy mixture of outrage and dread when a big-time Hollywood superhero movie makes changes. Adjustments. Little alterations in the character's background, appearance or abilities that differ from what i...
Action Packed Supernatural Adventure Of A Teen Who Sees Ghosts
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Settled by alchemists, the town of Wisteria has the reputation of being an idyllic retreat. But what Alponse and Edward find ...
....251/21.42SleepyHollow (33) .215/97.99The Bone Collector (35) .193/65.99End of Days (38) .188/66.37Titus (47) .107/1.01Pokemon: The First Movie (51) .086/85.61Dogma (58) .068/30.39American Beauty (59) .064/74.77
Love their films or loathe them, it's frightening to think how much more generic the American cinematic landscape of the last decade and a half would have been without Joel and Ethan Coen, the dark-witted jesters behind such sharp stabs in the eye of conv...
Basically, BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE is, as director Monte Hellman describes it, KEY LARGO with a monster in it. Hellman has a cult following these days for his later pictures like TWO LANE BLACKTOP and THE SHOOTING, but back in the late 1950s he was one of...
Matrix must quash her creeping hatred for the humans that she cares for as one of the Amenlee, especially Linda Danvers, whose soul is in danger of damnation. As she debates with Zauriel whether the incorrigibles, as she calls them, truly have a shot at s...
...ective in SLEEPYHOLLOW, Depp adds another engagingly unconventional, flawed hero to his rapidly growing resume. His name above a title may not be an absolute guarantee of quality, but viewers can expect to see some adventurous risks taken those are p...
Poor Michael Paris. All he wanted to do in Raven's Hollow was sell the property he inherited from his grandfather, but as things are wont to become complicated, it's not as easy a task as he might have thought. As it turns out, this property is Raven's Ho...
It's hardly surprising that 2001 hasn't produced a wealth of great film music given that the actual output of movies themselves has been so incredibly disappointing. We've become accustomed to the idea that "important" movies don't get released until some...
The new Richard Gere starrer THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES combines the aspects of a supernatural thriller with those of a "true-life story," based on a 1975 book by scientist-turned-paranormal investigator John A. Keel. Today director Mark Pellington continues ...
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
FRITZ THE CAT by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Sat 12-29-2001)
Popcorn, sleeping bags, coca-cola - the big all-nighter was a go. Me and my fellow eight-year-old buddies were gathered round the television set watching cartoons and looking forward to the comical antics of grandpa’s favorite cartoon character, FELIX THE...
SUPERMAN #175 by Arnold T. Blumberg (Sat 10-13-2001)
While the graphic design elements at the top of this issue's cover would have you believe that this is another in a series of tie-ins to the current "Joker: Last Laugh" crossover event, it barely qualifies as such when you read the story itself. True, the...
... WOOD and SLEEPYHOLLOW. Armed with an uncanny ability to create completely different worlds thanks to the help of long time Set Designer Rick Heinrichs in each of his films, Burton strives to bring to life unforeseen visionary masterpieces that entr...
...BBER, and SLEEPYHOLLOW. And it emanates from the creative mind of composer Danny Elfman, the redheaded maverick of modern movie music.Danny is one of the rare handful of popular musicians who has succeeded in the complex world of film music. Many pop...
When it comes to Mel Brooks, there`s two kinds of people: those who love him, and those who don`t. So before you read this review, you should be well aware that the only Mel Brooks film I really like is Young Frankenstein. As much as I can appreciate his ...
... Burton’s SleepyHollow, which, like most of its director’s films, falls just short of being great, but is certainly damn good.I have to stretch the definition of the fantastic genre to include Columbia/Tri Star’s 5/23 release of American Movie, a Sund...
Sometimes you don’t always get what you want. As a long-standing Highlander fan, I really wanted to like this movie. And while there are definitely some enjoyable moments in the film, especially for fans, in the end the film has too many problems to over...
The big secret about Unbreakable is that it’s really a comic book superhero movie.Yes, you read that right.The explanation offered by Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) for David’s miraculous escape from the train wreck is that David (Bruce Willis) is the real-li...
When Tim Burton first announced that his version of PLANET OF THE APES would be a "re-imagining" and not a remake of the 1968 classic, many fans were outraged. I imagine now that we've seen the results of that "re-imagining," they're even more upset the ...
...the film, SLEEPYHOLLOW came out in France and I went to see it and I had this problem with [Tim Burton] explaining [every] scene. In SLEEPYHOLLOW, which is very complicated, he has like a 10-minute scene with [Christina Ricci] explaining everything t...
...nnel airs SLEEPYHOLLOW, Tim Burton's striking adaptation of the classic horror legend. Then, at 11:00 p.m. on USA, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. get a message: I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.SATURDAY, July 14
The T-Rex attac...
Never say never again.David Duchovny will reprise his role as Fox Mulder in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES on May 19.Wow, that almost makes me want to watch the show again. Almost.X-FILES creator Chris Carter promises to wrap up the whole mytho...
What They SayThe Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, is given his first assignment. He is to inspect the coalmines of Youswell, a task he believes to be Mustang’s attempt to deter his search for the Philosopher’s Stone. Ignoring direct orders E...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Baek HyeKyungTranslated by:Eugeng Chung/Sunny KimAdapted by:What They SayTomboy Miha is an extremely active and competitive girl who hates to lose. She's such a tomboy that boys fear her - exactly the way her evil brother want...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Sakurano MineneTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayWhat would you do if you were blessed with a cute and magical guardian angel?
According to a 4000-year-old legend, there is a miraculous angelic ring known as the Shiten...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Togashi YoshiroTranslated by:Lillian OlsenAdapted by:What They SayLONESOME GHOSTS
A few weeks ago, Yusuke Urameshi was the toughest 8th-grader in his junior high; now, he's taking the toughest test of his life, the test to see...