It seems the new trend for the studios is to release TV “event” episodes as single DVDs despite the same episode being released in box set later down the line. It must be profitable because SouthPark has been doing it for a while and lon...
Sure, SOUTHPARK is the best show on television, but who could have guessed that Trey Parker and Matt Stone would be able to expand their Comedy Central hit into the best apocalyptic-action-adventure-fantasy movie of this summer? That’s right: this isn’t...
... familiar SOUTHPARK style of animation is on display, it is also mixed with some impressive computer-generated animation work for several key sequences, including numerous glimpses of Heaven and Hell. The juxtaposition of those flat, static SOUTHPARK...
Mezco Toyz, renowned creators of action figures and collectibles, have teamed up with Best Buy stores, North America's number-one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, to offer two iconic figures from the award winning SouthPark series. The first f...
Mezco has released a look at the upcoming 6th series of SouthPark figures.The series includes Ming Wa Cartman, Nurse Gollum, Mr. Slave and Starvin' Marvin.The figures, which are listed to ship this August, can be pre-ordered over here.
In its season premiere, as promised in weeks of promos, the producers of SOUTHPARK did something only seen on... other cable channels. They broke the sh*t barrier in language by having Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle say that four letter curse word.....
"Cojoined Fetus Lady". "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson". "Underwear Gnomes". These are some of the episode titles from the second season of SOUTHPARK, and they're not even the naughtiest ones. Arriving today in fine retail stores across the land is t...
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the two creators behind Comedy Central's hit animated series SOUTHPARK, have a new target in sight: puppets.The duo and writing partner Pam Brady are making TEAM AMERICA, a feature-length send-up of today's action and superher...
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have set two live-action films at Paramount Pictures. The first project will be a high school comedy MY ALL-AMERICAN written by Jeff Roda. They plan to follow AMERICAN with GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK JAPAN!, which was written by J.F....
This week the jurors for television's prestigious Peabody Awards honored SOUTHPARK with a Peabody.The award is given out by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications to honor the best in TV. The awards director said,...
It's a little sad when the highest hopes you can have for a movie sequel sound something like, "Well, maybe it won't be as bad as the last one." For most fans of the Michael Crichton novel JURASSIC PARK, Steven Spielberg's big screen adaptation was someth...
Everyone's favorite foul-mouthed parka-wearing grade schoolers will have more opportunities to tickle our funny bones now that Comedy Central has renewed SOUTHPARK for two more seasons. The animated comedy series, already in its seventh season, has rece...
Comedy Central has signed a deal for the Emmy nominated SOUTHPARK to stay on the air through 2008.Trey Parker and Matt Stone will continue to produce, direct, & write three more seasons (42 episodes) of the series.Comedy Central's Doug Herzog described t...
According to a new study put out by the Parents Television Council, SOUTHPARK has sunk television to new lows. The study of cable and broadcast programming found PARK was the most "offensive series" on the air. The study also found, on average, 126...
Film festivals are very odd about hype. It’s amazing how some films get hyped to the hills but by the time the closing credits roll, the movie is mediocre at best and completely terrible at worst. At the Nashville Film Festival a few features were h...
More info is coming out about the decision by SOUTHPARK creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker to kill off, once and for all, Kenny. For the uninitiated, since the show first aired in 1997, Kenny, the little pal of series stars Stan, Kyle and Cartman, died ...
Englewood, CO Continuing to expand programming content for its growing Asian American audience, International Channel has signed licensing agreements with Mirovision for nine Korean films and Central Park Media for seven anime titles. Both the films and ...
It seems after six seasons of killing and reincarnating the mumble-mouthed scamp Kenny on Comedy Central's hit SOUTHPARK, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have ended the boy for good."I think a lot of people probably haven't noticed," Stone told TV GU...
...e`ve seen SOUTHPARK, IRON GIANT, TOY STORY 2, DINOSAUR and now CHICKEN RUN. These are all incredibly diverse films, and that`s the way it should be. This says that animation isn`t just a specialist ghetto. It`s a branch of filmmaking that has room ...
I’ve been a giant fan of theme park building simulators ever since the original THEME PARK came out, so I’ve been eagerly anticipating JURASSIC PARK III: PARK BUILDER since I first heard about it. Finally, a portable THEME PARK! It was only appropriate th...
...mine.
8. SouthPark - Let's Fighting Love
"Hey, that's not!--"
Yeah, I know. SouthPark ain't anime. SouthPark is … well, hard to describe, but it's certainly its own thing. Still, I couldn't in good conscience exclude the...
...n there’s SOUTHPARK, that stand-alone masterwork that has closed minds confused and simple minds laughing their asses off even if they don’t get what’s really going on with this most brilliant program. Of course you realize that there is more to t...
...akes. (O) SOUTHPARK Complete Sixth Season (Comedy Central/Paramount) Professor Chaos returns! All 17 episodes, plus commentraks. (O) SOUTHPARK: When Technology Attacks (Comedy Central/Paramount) UMD (O) STELLVIA Foundation VII (Geneon) The Foundation...
...score for SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT ineligible; instead, a single song, `Blame Canada,` was nominated in the Song category. Other song-oriented scores to win include THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) and PINNOCHIO (1940); both films also took home statu...
...score for SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT ineligible; instead, a single song, `Blame Canada,` was nominated in the Song category. Other song-oriented scores to win include THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) and PINNOCHIO (1940); both films also took home statu...
...X-Files). SOUTHPARK: THE COMPLETE FIRST FIVE SEASONS (Paramount Home Entertainment) Suggested Retail Price: $194.95 What is it: All five complete seasons of SouthPark in one, very expensive box set. It's vulgar, it's obscene, but it's some of the fun...
...isodes of SouthPark) for the school festival, complete with costumes, a swastika-shaped light fixture, and an authentic Panther tank. Mendou's scientific analysis (using the range of said Panther tank) of the nature of the world that they find themsel...
One year of columns. Yes, Anime Avalanche has been on Cinescape.com for 52 consecutive Saturdays. *** Wassup, Chef? Last week I wrote about the brouhaha over Isaac "Chef" Hayes' resignation from his gig as a voice actor on SOUTHPARK. This week, Comedy Ce...
FLCL Vol. #3 by Christopher Homer (Mon 07-21-2008)
...;and even SouthPark. Yes, you read that right. It flows so wonderfully despite the many techniques that it has to set a standard for video format and animation for years to come. Wonderful.
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... is, with SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT phased out because the Academy deleted the song score category.ORIGINALEven though it’s not the best song from SOUTHPARK, `Blame Canada` should win as a consolation for not having the entire score nominated...
A lot of voices in the news the past week. Isaac Hayes, the voice of "Chef", has decided to quit the cast of SOUTHPARK over a recent episode criticizing Hayes' chosen religion, the Church of Scientology. When the episode, which goes into detail about the...
... room for SOUTHPARK, JOHNNY BRAVO, THE POWERPUFF GIRLS, KING OF THE HILL and a number of others. Even when I`m pushed against the wall, I`d have to split my vote between THE PJ`S and FUTURAMA. But I have no problems with any of the shows in this categ...
...ramount`s SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, DreamWorks` ROAD TO EL DORADO and the Anime hit, PRINCESS MONONOKE showed that a variety of storytelling techniques work in the medium. More expansion looks to be on the horizon. This December, Disney wi...
...where the SouthPark crew have already pushed the language barrier many times - the pilot definitely dampened the dialogue usually seen in the original Eltingville strips. Dorkin however, doesn't agree with the notion that the language is an integral p...
...7 p.m.The SouthPark media showers attention on a family with quintuplets that moves into the area, and Cartman befriends one of the new residents in tonight's SOUTHPARK (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.).Do you have BBC America? Well you'll wish you did when ...
...mpsons," "SouthPark" and "Family Guy," but even those are meant to be lighthearted comedic fare. Serious drama is reserved for actors and sets on American television, not paint and pencil. When anime did hit the American mainstream, it did so by way...
Conflict Zone by Branislav "Bane" Babovic (Mon 06-11-2001)
...ded me of SouthPark). The camera can be zoomed in until it seems you are standing in the middle of the battlefield, and zoomed out to above the clouds. OK, the engine is definitely not as good as in Black & White, but it's not at all too shabby. T...
...ada` from SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT. After that showstopping moment, I bet many Academy regreted casting votes that gave the award to Phil Collins for `You’ll Be in My Heart` from Disney’s TARZAN.
...its. Only SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT managed to do something truly different with the medium in America, and the Japanese import PRINCESS MONONOKE showed how weak are American attempts at infusing the form with serious drama. TOY STORY 2, ob...
...em making SouthPark look like Noddy. The Natural Born Kittens website is one of the UK?s most visited anime sites, with more than half a million hits a year. Scripts will be written in the UK and the US, while the rest of the production will be handle...
...ife. (O) SOUTHPARK: The Hits Volume 1 (Comedy Central/Paramount) Favorite episodes from each season of the toon classic. Plus four other non-favorites and the original "Spirit of Christmas" short. (O) STRAWBERRY MARSHMALLOW Volume 3: Winter Adventur...
...ENTRAL's "SouthPark," FUNimation's "Afro Samurai" and "Witchblade," MTV's "The Hills," NBC's "The Office," "Heroes" and "30 Rock," Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants," SCI FI Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" and "Eureka," Starz's "Ghost in the Shell...
...rls meets SouthPark meets Ren and Stimpy
- on peyote. (Oh, and I said that YES, Pioneer should pick it up NOW!) I mean,
really, I cannot describe it adequately - it is some seriously differently
twisted stuff.
Oh, and they showed trailers f...
...he end of SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT is a much more moving cinematic experience. Trey Parker and Matt Stone had the courage to be rude and crude in a way that was refreshingly brilliant and hilarious. Compromised by foolish rewriting of an e...
...tar Trek, SouthPark and The Simpsons have all proved it can indeed work.
Curiosity and the lack of any new shows, thanks to the writer strike, made many of us tune in and see Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I was pleasantly surprise...
...t Stone’s SOUTHPARK and Seth MacFarland’s THE FAMILY GUY, animation truly grew up in the latter tenth of the 20th Century. The birth of the Cartoon Network, which some saw as the opening of the seventh seal, continued John Krisfalusi’s new view of ani...
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SouthPark: The Complete Eleventh Season
Tru Calling: The Complete Series
TV Commercials: The Ultimate Collection
The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season
What They SayIt\'s Super Explosive Pervy Ninja Insanity in Right Stuf International\'s latest release: NINJA NONSENSE DVD 2: PSYCHEDELIC SUMMER!
Take the comedy of SOUTHPARK, combine it with one totally cute (and naive) ninja-girl trainee, a horde of ni...
...touts ala SouthPark. That\'s not a slight either as I think they did some really great work here, particularly in the area of the boats and the city sequences, but the character animation just likes that something that gives it a real life.
While the...
...season of SouthPark has more smooth animation to it.
But, this is what I’ve come to expect from the Secret Anima series. With this release, we get two tales that are family based and completely unrelated. The opening episode has a young man nam...
...Sort of a SouthPark Syndrome.
With the exception of the aforementioned titles, only two full length shows have made it to the U.S. that contain in their entirety SD characters.
The Super-Deformed Double Feature was released by Animeigo and contained...
...comedy of SOUTHPARK, combine it with one totally cute (and naive) ninja-girl trainee, a horde of ninjas under the perverse tutelage of her
headmaster: a strange, yellow, spherical, pudgy... creature... named Onsokumaru, and you get the craziest, mo...
...on't like SouthPark beware of one of these outtakes...
Also included are some production sketches of the four boys. Finally, the last extra on here are voice actor bios. Most people groan when they hear this, particularly if it's a dub group they don...
It’s interesting just how many of the most visionary writers working in science fiction and animation these days are also so heavily into writing musicals. Seth McFarlane is always looking for a reason to write some music in Family Guy and South Par...
...se of the SouthPark method of animation as we see Amarao going into that mode as well as other characters during a few early scenes. It becomes a touch more subtle in the same area when we have regular anime style back but you have Naota pulling his h...
...season of SouthPark has more smooth animation to it.
But, this is what I’ve come to expect from the Secret Anima series. With this release, we get two tales that are family based and completely unrelated. The opening episode has a young man nam...
...nimation (SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut). Shaiman is primarily a composer and lyricist, but has also enjoyed success as an arranger, record producer, music supervisor and actor. Past recipients of the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award, w...
One of my all time favorite toy companies is Mezco. They have the licenses for some of the best shows and moves out there: Southpark, Family guy, Edward Scissorhands, Animal House, and more. They also have great original series as well.&n...
...ke ‘SouthPark: Bigger Longer & Uncut’ did. Where were the bigger and crazier laughs and moments that made this worth seeing on the big screen (now on Video)? There weren’t any moments like that. Bart naked a...
...er than a SouthPark 2D cutout. But it also works in this respect as watching it move through the city evokes some laughter.
The remaining episodes all focused on various aspects of the characters and how they fit into their odd little world. One of t...
... infamous SouthPark episode, it was fairly close to most Hollywood action movies. And I personally don’t find that being true to the source material.
Barring that, especially if you only watch with the Japanese language track, you’ll be t...
... Japanese SouthPark of sorts. There’s the same insanity, though a bit more grounded in reality, with eighth graders instead of fourth graders. Toss in a few more culturalisms and some different broadcast standards, and you do get something eeril...
...isodes of SOUTHPARK and DRAWN TOGETHER. The following for DRAWN TOGETHER has increased so much since its obscure debut that it's spinning off online for a 6-part mini-series featuring JUDGE FUDGE on ComedyCentral.com, This bodes well for the new toon ...
...kids from SouthPark, it\'s a sticky situation.
The two episode show is focused around the relatively young doctor Sugiara who has been working his way through the medical profession at different places with a hidden agenda. Through flashbacks intersp...
...ada` from SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Music and Lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman; `When She Loved Me` from TOY STORY 2 (Buena Vista) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman; and `You`ll Be In My Heart` from TARZAN (Bue...
... again.2. SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER, & UNCUT went way beyond the expected foul-mouth comedy and reached the level of brilliant satire. Clever, witty, and rude, the film seems endlessly inventive, and the decision to turn it into a full-blown musical w...
... it. From SouthPark Parodies to Guitar Swinging Vixins this show has everything an Anime Need plus some extra stuff that will blow your mind.
DONT MISS THIS ANIME. I DONT CARE IF U WATCH IT AND HATE JUST WATCH IT! it will change your life ;)
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...ada` from SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT. Rather than limiting ourselves to the nominations as given to us by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, our polls asked `If Fans ran the Oscars, who would win…?` and included nominees represent...
... America, SouthPark, and Anastasia). Meanwhile, Fox`s Titan A.E., sinking almost as fast as Battlefield Earth, will be lucky to get much past $20-million. This represents a tremendous disappointment for 20th Century Fox, which had tried to postion the...
Summer's Gone by Andrew Hershberger (Mon 09-08-2003)
...'s blamed.SOUTHPARK (9:30 pm, COM) A fireworks ban in SouthPark results in the creation of a giant snake whose uncontrollable ashen body kills millions. (Repeat)WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10ENTERPRISE (8 pm, UPN) Yes, it's season premiere time, and as the ...
...tt Stone (SOUTHPARK), LA Lakers player Rick Fox and the stars of the original version, Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison. That program is scheduled to hit the tube on Wednesday, July 25 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
...d series. SOUTHPARK is still as fresh, funny and wickedly satirical as ever, sometimes delivering satire on current events with an astonishing immediacy. Of course, the syndicated reruns don't have quite the same flavor. In its second season, DRAWN TO...
...ERICA and SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER, & UNCUT. Combing the trends of blockbuster animation and computer-generated imagery, John Lasseter’s Pixar company, in tandem with Disney, served up TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2, not to mention A BUG’S LIFE. This also...
...y Guy and SouthPark, with the idea of developing an alternative news source such as The Daily Show or certain blogs?’” said Frank Cooper, VP of portfolio brands, Pepsi-Cola North America. “Adam immediately understood the ...
...ared with SouthPark, the Ping Pong Club is a show that makes you simply sit there and wonder why it was made, who thought it up and who funded it. Then you wonder who watches it. Then you watch more episodes. Then you stop wondering and just keep laug...
...r, before SouthPark got all preachy and libertarian. Their paths nearly intersected in a way that could have made, yes, we'll say it, Poop Joke History. Forget about the terrifyingly bad film that did get made, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd....
...tion that SOUTHPARK is in the middle of another great season right now, this new DVD series has a concept too wacky to ignore. (O) KYO KARA MOAH: God(?) Save Our King! Volume 1 (Geneon) When a teen is dragged into a toilet by bullies for a swirlie, he...
...ovies and SouthPark. Yes, SouthPark. The insanity is fast and furious and frankly I was completely taken by surprise by how this episode shaped itself. The humor is fast and furious too as, among other things, Kamon continues to try to \"score\" with...
...sicology. SOUTHPARK (9:30 pm, COM) Cartman buys an amusement park and denies everybody admission. Concurrently Cartman's success prompts Kyle to doubt the existence of God. (Repeat)WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24ENTERPRISE (8 pm, UPN) Archer and crew contract...
...ouse with SouthPark!
Audio:
The only track on this release is the 2.0 English dub which won't blow the house down with its activity, but this is a dialogue-heavy show that features little call for layered effects or directionality. All in all, the...
... Parker's SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, and Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman's ROJA. Get your first listen to more than twenty minutes of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's score for BATMAN BEGINS at the Japanese website Cinemart. The score ...
...from the "SouthPark" movie soundtrack; if you catch my drift.) Surprisingly enough, Tsugaru seems to have some interest in Ayeka in these episodes! He shows Ayeka that Tenchi and Sakuya are now lovers, he gives Ayeka some glass-thing (I don't know wha...
...f a Sugar/SouthPark crossover, I’m sorry). A lot of focus is given over to mothers during these episodes, with Sugar talking on and on about her mother and how great she is. This causes Saga to think more of her own departed mother, which provid...
...ke taking SouthPark down to just its gag moments, giving enough of a setup for it and calling each gag an episode. It works here very well, but makes it difficult to convey, at least for me. Quite a lot of the show though simply comes down to men star...
...om Lupin, SouthPark, and Doriman...to list just a few.
The story arc is really a simple one. Sexy alien girl comes to Earth to free her love. Alien seduces the young boy, and he allows her to use his head as a portal for weapons and mecha. Alien...
What They SayIt\'s Super Explosive Pervy Ninja Insanity! Take the comedy of SouthPark, combine it with one totally cute (and naive) ninja-girl trainee, a horde of ninjas under the perverse tutelage of her headmaster: a strange, yellow, spherically pudgy....
...pisode of SOUTHPARK that inspires some complaint over the portrayal of religious figures like Jesus or Tom Cruise, but we generally expect that things will be kept in perspective. Tuesday's DVD Shopping List column will list the title JESUS CHRIST SER...
What They SayTake the comedy of SOUTHPARK, combine it with one totally cute (and naive) ninja-girl trainee, a horde of ninjas under the perverse tutelage of her headmaster: a strange, yellow, spherical, pudgy... creature... named Onsokumaru, and you get ...
...ar beyond SouthPark. It’s sick in many areas, disturbing in others, but almost always funny. Provided you’re as sick and twisted as I apparently am for enjoying this.FeaturesJapanese Language,English Language,English Subtitles,How to Play ...
...ically on SouthPark. That was the one area that looked like it was still being done as it was in the late 90\'s as opposed to some of the very smooth moving pieces that are more common today. A lot of the other cg in here looks really good, again the ...
...tt Stone (SouthPark Episode 166: “Guitar Queer-o”), but by god these games are actually fun. When a buddy of mine told me he dropped the $170 to get Harmonix’s ROCK BAND, I thought he was crazy. Then I became the bassist in “Sl...
...en. (O) SOUTHPARK Complete Eighth Season (Paramount) The 2004-2005 season finds the creators still at the top of their game, cranking out incredibly topical, funny and controversial episodes with amazing speed. Fourteen episodes on 3 discs. (O) TAL...
...er almost SouthPark-like piece where the number of frames drops even further and it looks like they were drawn up on school report paper. To me, this is an interesting way to present the characters lives, especially with the relevance of school paper ...
...mily Guy, SouthPark, Animal House, Blues Brothers, Scarface, Under Dog, King Kong, The Goonies, and EdwardScissorhands, as well as in-house creations including the incredibly popular Living Dead Dolls and Gangsta Babies.About NBC: NBC Universal is one...
...s that of SOUTHPARK, meaning that some of the meanest barbs fall flat because they're out of date. Is it funny to make fun of Lindsay Lohan's unnatural weight loss a year after she decided to deal with the problem? Less polished but just as promising ...
... Kenny in SouthPark?). Seeing the massive library of shoujo owned by Tenchi\'s father was hilarious, and watching the quiet confident sequences of Ryoko was something different than the norm as well.
The episode, which almost felt like a filler of s...
...give it a SouthPark feel that they seem to be trying for. The back cover lists the various features pretty clearly and provides a shot summary of some of the episodes included. The reverse side of the cover provides some black and white pictures as we...
Remember when you were a kid and you were too scared to try out the roller coasters? And then when you finally get the guts to go through with it, you just can't get enough and you want to take the ride a hundred more times. Well, Sim Coaster is kinda...
The Prize Closet is throbbing so let's get right to it! Geneon Entertainment has provided us with 5-packs of their recent releases to give away to five lucky readers. Send an email to psycho@psychotronic.info with your mailing address and "GENEON 5" in th...
New York, NY (September 19, 2005) - Central Park Media announced an online contest letting fans cast the lead roles in CPM's upcoming release of the anime cult hit Outlanders. As this has been an often requested title, CPM wanted to make a DVD that will ...
CPM and the NEAS Ring in the New Year from Boston's Hynes Convention Center
BOSTON, MA (December 23, 2005) - Boston is home to America's longest running First Night celebration, and for the past two years, the city's New England Anime Society has proudly...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayWelcome to IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK where the miniskirts are short and the trendy guys and girls mix it up all night long. Makoto knows he's gonna rule N...
For years, The Video Beat (www.thevideobeat.com) has been providing rare '50s and '60s era videos to fans and collectors, and they now join the List with their own high quality DVD-R titles that include menus and specially selected extras.SPOTLIGHT OF THE...
"Oath to Love and Passion 1" and "Full House 5" to be available in July and to be priced at $9.99 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (June 20, 2007) î º Central Park Media announced today that the OATH TO LOVE AND PASSION 1 graphic novel will be available in July. The ...
Ali T. Kokmen joins CPM from stint at HarperCollins
NEW YORK, NY (November 14, 2005) Central Park Media (CPM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ali T. Kokmen as Director of Book Sales. Mr. Kokmen was formerly the Sales & Marketing Manager for H...
-- Properties to debut as programming and part of new movie block on FUNimation's 24/7 digital anime channel --
FORT WORTH, TX - April 10, 2007 -- FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation and the market share leader for...
Stan Winston Studio has had a busy year. Their makeup effects artistry can already be seen in PEARL HARBOR, and they have two other summer blockbusters coming out in the next few weeks, JURASSIC PARK III and A.I. So Stan Winston should have a lot to talk ...
New York, NY (September 13, 2006) " In response to the growing demand for anime programming, Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, and Central Park Media, a pioneer in the distribution of anime in the United States, will make anime availabl...
CPM and the NEAS Ring in the New Year from Boston's Hynes Convention Center
BOSTON, MA (December 23, 2005) - Boston is home to America's longest running First Night celebration, and for the past two years, the city's New England Anime Society has proudly...
Up until now, most anime companies have considered DVD as something not very important in their quest to be number one in the industry. But some companies are seeing the anime DVD market as ground yet to be claimed... ground that hasn't been sought after ...
The South Korean government has apparently canceled their plans to open their marketplace to video game systems, such as the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast, because Japan would not agree to revise their history textbooks. The government of South Korea's prob...
If you check out our official Mania blog section, you will have noticed Maniac, Fallensbane, spreading the word on an upcoming horror comic adaptation, TRAILER PARK OF TERROR. The official trailer has hit online so I'll just write it up here and plug it f...
With the release date of JURASSIC PARK 3 drawing near, PARK star Sam Neill is up on the film, promising it will out-wow THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. In an interview with SciFi Wire Neill, who is returning to his JURASSIC PARK 1 role for eight years late...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayIn IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK, chaos is still the name of the game. Lucky Makoto meets the beautiful and mysterious Asumi, and "actress" with a glamorous d...
Today's the day Vivendi Universal Games releases JURASSIC PARK: OPERATION GENESIS for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC platforms. Unlike previous JP games, OPERATION GENESIS finally allows players the opportunity to design their own dinosaur kingdoms in ad...
Author J.K Rowling has given her permission and blessings for a Harry Potter theme park to be built in Orlando, Florida.
The joint venture between Warner Bros Entertainment and Universal Orlando Resort will be called The Wizarding World of Harry Po...
While promoting the soon-to-be-released Kubrick/Spielberg sci-fi feature A.I., producer Kathleen Kennedy took a moment to express her enthusiasm for her upcoming JURASSIC PARK III.'I'm very happy it,' says Kennedy of the third installment in the din...
Warner Bros. has grabbed the rights of an untitled pitch for a fantasy set in Central Park, reports Variety. Bryan Schulz and Neil Uliano will write the script. Dan Lin will produce through his WB-based Lin Pictures, and Jon Silk will co-produce. The ide...
One of the biggest dilemmas the JURASSIC PARK toy line has had over the years is having poor-selling human figures. Finally Hasbro has remedied that problem by providing each figure represented from the feature film (four in all) coming with their very ow...
The release of the JURASSIC PARK III sounds like it will appease fans of the film in a big way.The DVD, which will hit store shelves on December 11, will feature 10 hours of extras. Among that material will be:* A featurette entitled A VISIT TO ILM which ...
When news of a third JURASSIC PARK movie was announced, expectations naturally weren’t all that high. After all, not even Steven Spielberg could make a decent follow-up with the first sequel THE LOST WORLD, so how could someone else step in and do any bet...
The Game Boy Advance is home to a lot of things: Mario, racecars, and now the dinosaurs from JURASSIC PARK. Konami’s first of III… err, three JURASSIC PARK III games for the Game Boy Advance, DNA FACTOR, sells itself as a "fun and unique mix of side-scrol...
New York, NY (June 10, 2005) – Central Park Media has announced that it will express its gratitude to its loyal Patlabor fans for their continued enthusiasm and support of the Patlabor: The Mobile Police TV series throughout its long-running release...
Ray Park seems to be making a living out of playing villains cloaked in makeup. This is true of his latest role, that of Toad in X-Men, but the character allowed him to break the mold at least a little bit: although still covered in green greasepaint, his...
SCIFI.COM reported yesterday that actor Ray Park (STAR WARS: EPISODE I), confirmed his involvement with the film adaptation of Marvel Comics' IRON FIST series, but that the project was still in the early stages of development."We're looking at starting," ...
Some new stills have appeared for the upcoming horror film TRAILER PARK OF TERROR, an adaptation of the Imperium Comic series which was directed by Steven Goldmann and written by Timothy Dolan. It stars Nichole Hiltz (as Norma, the "Tr...
3-Disc Box Set to be Priced at $29.95 SRP and Single Discs to be Priced From $9.95 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (November 21, 2006) î º Central Park Media announced today that it will kick off the new year with the re-release and re-pricing of Black Jack DVD Collec...
CENTRAL PARK MEDIA SET TO RELEASE
The Heroic Legend of Arlsan, Gall Force: Earth Chapter, Revolutionary Girl
Utena: Finale, Revolutionary Girl Utena: Apocalypse Saga DVD Collection,
And Zero Woman: The Hunted
Titles Slated For Release On November 11...
Despite the critical thrashing which attended the release of last year's JURASSIC PARK 3, and maybe keying off on the fact the film made boxcars of money anyway, Steven Spielberg is high on the prospects for a fourth film. By way of some history, remember...
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...
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 (SLEEPY HOLLOW). In Part One of my inter...
New York, NY (June 10, 2005) – Central Park Media has announced that it will express its gratitude to its loyal Patlabor fans for their continued enthusiasm and support of the Patlabor: The Mobile Police TV series throughout its long-running release...
Along with the recent announcement that Artisan Entertainment was bringing a new version of THE PUNISHER to the big screen came an update on the long-ago announced IRON FIST. According to VARIETY, Ray Park (Darth Maul in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM M...
We know William H. Macy wasn't, initially, pleased that JURASSIC PARK III seemed to be missing a full script when the production started. Now it's director Joe Johnston's turn to talk about it.While talking to the New York Post, Johnston suggested that at...
Last we heard about Jurassic Park 4 was that Joe Johnston would direct from a script by William Monahan. Yesterday, the LA Daily News caught up with Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park 1 and 3, and he had this to say:"I know nothing about it. I ha...
Ed Chavez is looking at yet another title that doesn\'t seem to reach the top layer of the buzz circuit when it comes to manga coming out these days with something that more people may want to look into. Released in November 2004 from Digital Manga Publis...
Loads of pictures from the fast approaching JURASSIC PARK III arrived at the CINESCAPE doorstep over the weekend. You can check 'em out for yourself by clicking on the thumbnails below to see the larger versions. Be warned, though, that by doing so, you m...
Central Park Media has unleashed their 2004 Catalog on their site and there\'s some noteworthy things to mention:Armored Trooper VOTOMS is returning, in a series of \"stages\" box sets. The Uoodo City Collection will be out this fall, no price, with a run...
*Note: Slight Spoilers*Grace Park talked to Sci Fi Wire about the upcoming third season finale of Battlestar Galactica, disclosing some information about the plot and what we can expect to happen."We are going to see the resolution of the trial of Ba...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Scheduled for release on September 5th from Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack to JET LI'S FEARLESS is a massive action/adventure score from the composer of HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and Kar Wai Wong luxurious drama, 2046, Shigeru...
Ed Chavez is checking another volume of a series being released in its larger size format with the March 2005 release of Ikebukuro West Gate Park Vol. #3 (of 4) from Digital Manga Publishing.
Last Monday, we ran a brief excerpt of Tyler Mane`s question-and-answer session with X-Men fans at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. Here are some more of his comments regarding playing the role of Sabretooth and working with the ...
It’s been a while since there has been a traditional, old fashioned monster movie, the kind where an aberration is produced or awakened by mankind’s science can only be destroyed by the heroic actions of a few individuals making use of the ...
...TTHEAD or SOUTHPARK. (O) REN & STIMPY SHOW Season 3½-ish (Paramount) A stupid red cat and an angry Chihuahua suffer through life. 17 episodes from the original run on Nickelodeon on 3 discs, plus commentraks by creator John Kricfalusi. NEW DVD REL...
What They SayFull of exciting adventure and great passion, this animated Japanese favorite tells the legendary tale of the mythological hero Hermes. The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beautiful ...
Although he retired from writing fiction back in 1997, the literary world felt the blow of Kurt Vonnegut’s passing last Wednesday. Heralded as the Mark Twain of our generation, Vonnegut was an invaluable genre writer and continued his sharp polit...
Remember that old joke which asks where a 500 lb. Gorilla sleeps? Why, anywhere it wants to, of course! A variation on that question came to mind as I began to hammer out this week’s column. Where does a hit movie and its hit sequel, which claim a comb...
JURASSIC PARK III's mid-week opening day looks to have been very successful. The estimated tally for the film's opening gross is said to be in the $19M range. If it stays on track, the weekend to come to should see the film raking in the big bucks. Of cou...
We\'ve been so inundated with new reviews to write of early releases the last couple of weeks that we haven\'t had a chance to really get to these like we wanted to, but let\'s see if we can get things rolling again by taking a look at Central Park Media ...
According to Collider.com, Laura Dern has confirmed that Jurassic Park 4 is moving forward and that her character, Ellie Sattler, will be featured in the film."I'm told it's happening and I'm told they're calling me. I'm told that Ellie Sattler is in...
Moviehole talked to WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT's director Nick Park, who offered an update on what he/or the studio are up to next. Though he says a WALLACE & GROMIT 2 is a ways off - he has got an idea for a sequel to CHICKEN RUN. P...
The Central Park Media site has updated with their June offerings or at least their initial batch of offerings as they have updated in the past with more:Shadow Star Narutaru Vol. #2 (of 4) - 75 minutes - $29.98 - 06/14/2005While that is their only new of...
July 22, 2003
Start your engines.....It's another industry first for CPM that is sure to generate 4th quarter sales for you and excitement for your customers. The Central Park Media Anime Test Drive is ready to hit the road! This fall your custome...
The release month for July looks a bit slim from Central Park Media as listed on their site today:Shadowstar Naruratu Collection - 325 minutes - $49.98 - 07/25/2006
ITV.COM presents an item concerning the impending opening of STAR TREK: THE ADVENTURE in London's Hyde Park on December 18. The $47 million exhibition will tour the world for five years after the opening, with stops set for the U. S., Europe, and Australi...
Central Park Media, which distributes the domestic DVD releases of classic anime titles like RECORD OF THE LODOSS WAR, PROJECT A-KO and ROUJIN Z, has announced the re-release of GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. A Japanese anime feature film, FIREFLIES has been ref...
Going into 2003, Central Park Media looks to have had a set plan of catching up on a number of remasters to bring some of their outsourced titles back into their library proper, fix a few older mistakes or releases that were used as experiments back in ...
John,
I would like to once again extend my thanks for your time in answering these burning questions of the faithful anime fan.
This format has brought about somewhat of a new breed of fan, if the emails I get are any evidence. Many are becoming quite k...
In order to ensure maximum sales potential this Holiday Season, Central Park Media is pleased to announce that there will be a price reduction on the following Box Sets effective
September 2, 2003.
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Central Park Media/ Be Beautiful panel hosted John O'Donnell, Masumi O'Donnell and Peter Tatara
John started out with what CPM has released this year. Blackjack was the first title presented. Shadow Star Narutaru
was the next Japanese title mentioned. ...
GOSFORD PARK is a curious mixture of meticulous observation of English social class structure and customs in the 1930s and a desultory murder mystery that follows the outer form of an Agatha Christie whodunit/whydunit. The former, with its passion for det...
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...
Sometimes the word \"cut\" can be used in a good way. According to the December release update list from Central Park Media, they have a new round of titles being reduced in price:The Maze OVA release is dropping to 9.95 while the 4 disc box set of the TV...
Martial arts expert and upcoming Snake Eye player Ray Park sat down with the fellow geeks over at Geekscape and talked a bit about everything. From the upcoming G.I Joe to his inspiration growing up, as well as eventually landing an iconic character in a ...
August 18, 2003
Dear Central Park Media Customer:
This November, Central Park Media will add two more graphic novel releases to its $9.99 line and will re-release an all new version of Record of Lodoss War: The Lady of Pharis Collector's Edition: Book ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayThe streets of IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK are notoriously crazy, but when the drug underworld brings Makoto face-to-face with a girl from his past, things ...
Emily Rossum (Phantom of the Opera), Eriko Tamura (Heroes) and Joon Park have been cast in the upcoming live-action DRAGON BALL Z, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The trio will be joining Justin Chatwin, James Marsters and Jami Chung. ...
Confirming rumors that have been circulating since last week, Artisan Entertainment has signed Ray Park (Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace and Toad in X-Men) to play the title role in the upcoming filmization of Iron Fist, which will...