Comic author SteveNiles talked at the Festival of Fear event about the on-going process of adapting his mini-series, CRIMINAL MACABRE, to the big screen. Niles, who has 30 DAYS OF NIGHT hitting the big screen in October and 30 DAYS OF NIGH...
IDW published SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith’s vampire miniseries, 30 Days of Night, in 2002. Launched with little fanfare, the book turned into a sleeper hit with sequels, spin-offs, and word of a film adaptation following shortly thereafter....
SteveNiles, author of the graphic novel 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, has dropped by Mania to do a bit of guest blogging!His first blog went live on Friday afternoon, you can find it over here, and he will post another four blogs next week before we fina...
SteveNiles, author of the graphic novel 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, has dropped by Mania to do a bit of guest blogging!So far three blogs have been posted. You can find them at the following links:First BlogSecond BlogThird Blog28 Days Later: The After...
Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes (responsible for the 'Chainsaw' remake) is also at work to bring a fresh interpretation of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde to the screen with SteveNiles creatively connected to the project.
Creature Corner has an exclusive first loo...
Just back from the premiere of '30 Days of Night,' SteveNiles took a few minutes to speak with us about how happy he is with the film adaptation and what else he's working on.
C2F: Where did the original idea for '30 Days of Night' come from?
St...
You can see graphic novelist SteveNiles (30 DAYS OF NIGHT) and Thomas Jane (THE PUNISHER) posing for the camera here at the 2005 Comic Con. Well, Scifi Wire has published their upcoming slate for the new programming lineup and inside, they gave some deta...
SteveNiles' new comic book, FUSED!, will launch in March from Image Comics.Niles, whose writing credits include HELLSPAWN, SPAWN: THE DARK AGES and the SPAWN movie sequel, will be teaming with previous collaborators on the book, including penciler Nat Jo...
SteveNiles recently updated his blog with various information on his upcoming projects which include 30 Days of Night.Niles writes, "I've spent a great deal of the last few months playing catch-up on deadlines and I'm happy to report that I'm not on...
SteveNiles talked to CBR about his upcoming movie and comics projects. "'Thirty Days of Night' has a new screenplay being written right now by Stuart Beatty and we're that much closer with Sam [Raimi] being done with 'Spider-Man 2,'" said Niles. He also ...
MTV Movies blog heard from SteveNiles that his youth-oriented Frankenstein update 'Wake the Dead' seems to be moving forward fast with director Jay Russell and F/X house WETA.
"Right now, we're scouting locations," Niles said. "Jay wants ...
Variety reports that SteveNiles' 'Frankenstein' redo 'Wake the Dead' took a huge step forward this week. Holding pictures has picked up the film rights to the project for 'Water Horse' director Jay Russell to helm. 'Sahara' scribe James V. Hart will pen ...
SteveNiles, who's latest job was to pen the second SPAWN film with legendary creator Todd McFarlane, recently let fly with some hopeful news on the long-in-development sequel. "What SPAWN 2 is about is here's this guy who's been dead and gone for over 10...
Spawn.com
recently published a brief Q & A with comic creator and screenwriter SteveNiles. Niles talked about things like his upcoming title Fused and
his other comic works, but he also dropped a few hints about Spawn 2,
which he's writing the scre...
A day after the announcement Sam Raimi would be directing the big screen version of SteveNiles' vampire tale, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, Niles contacted our own Editor-In-Chief Anthony C. Ferrante about his joy at the developments. "I couldn't be more thrilled," ...
SteveNiles recently sat down with The Pulse to discuss, amongst other things, the film adaptation of his best selling
30 Days of Night.
Niles is writing the screen play for the project which some may recall was optioned by
Sam Raimi (Spider-...
When reading the works of writer SteveNiles, you really have to expect the unexpected. At any point you might cross paths with throat-slashing vampires (like in the graphic novel 30 DAYS OF NIGHT), flesh-absorbing exoskeletons (like in the comic FUSED) o...
Writer/director/musician Rob Zombie (HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES) and comic book writer SteveNiles (30 DAYS OF NIGHT) have joined forces to create Creep Entertainment International, a production company that specializes in horror entertainment. The company wil...
Another comic adaptation of author SteveNiles will soon be hitting theaters soon and they have a director picked out, reports Shock Til You Drop. The site is reporting that Jay Russell (Ladder 49, The Water Horse) is set to lead Niles' Wake the Dead comi...
Lions Gate Films has acquired the rights to some of SteveNiles graphic novels for THE PUNISHER's Thoman Jane to star in. Adaptations will include THE LURKERS, IN THE BLOOD and THE DARK COUNTRY. Tab Murphy will adapt THE DARK COUNTRY.Jane will star in al...
...view with SteveNiles.Prior to interviewing Steve, I was incredibly nervous. I'm still coming to grips with the fact that writing this column means I can actually bug comic writers, artists, and companies and not be forced to talk to someone's recepti...
...e awards. SteveNiles and Tom Jane were kind enough to subject themselves to one of my interviews in between signings and appearances. As the three of us gathered at Tim Bradstreet's table, we considered where best to discuss the launch of their produc...
Criminal Macabre by Corona's Coming Attractions (Tue 08-10-2004)
p> Genre:Horror/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:MGM.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Bragi Schut, SteveNiles (Screenwriters); based on the comic book series Criminal Macabre created by SteveNiles and...
30 DAYS OF NIGHT creator SteveNiles continues to sell new projects to Hollywood. His latest sale is for his update on the Frankenstein's Monster tale titled WAKE THE DEAD published by IDW Publishing. The five-part mini-series debuts in stores next month....
...or-master SteveNiles. A reprint of the first issue and the new second issue both hit the stands today. Tom not only runs Raw Entertainment and writes comics, but he has plans to direct a thriller movie called Dark Country. And, yes...
...ght—SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith's vampire noir epic horror/thriller reaches the big screen under the banner of Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures. On hand to show clips and answer questions will be director David Slade, producer Rob Tapert, cre...
...nd writer SteveNiles, and artist Kody Chamberlain (30 DAYS OF NIGHT: BLOODSUCKER TALES). I asked them the most common questions and concerns about submissions, breaking in, talking to publishers, and how to not make an ass out of yourself at conventi...
...ok writer SteveNiles in the adaptation of his horror title 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.RICHARDSON: 30 DAYS OF NIGHT was a comic that SteveNiles brought me and I immediately took it to Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. I first showed it to Rob and said, "We've got to ge...
SteveNiles is destined for literary distinction. If you don't read comics, you may not have heard his name before, but you're going to hear it a lot in the future. Niles will be the next cult horror novelist. SAVAGE MEMBRANE proves that.SAVAGE MEMBRANE c...
...irector), SteveNiles (Comic), Stuart Beattie (Screenplay), Brian Nelson (Screenplay), Sam Raimi (Producer), Robert G. Tapert (Producer)Release Date: October 19, 2007Premise: Based on a SteveNiles graphic novel, the story is set in a sleepy, secluded ...
SteveNiles and co-writer Kelly Sue DeConnick fill in a chapter of the 30 Days of Night saga that lands squarely between the second miniseries, Dark Days, and a later sequel, Return to Barrow. At the end of Dark Days, Stella Olemaun attempted to resu...
Mania is happy to announce our latest contest, a giveaway of the SteveNiles graphic Novel, 28 Days Later: The Aftermath.28 Days Later: The Aftermath features four original, inter-connected stories all written by Steve, with art by Dennis Calero, Diego Ol...
SteveNiles, the hardboiled hipster of the horror set, proves that his exceptional first novel, SAVAGE MEMBRANE, wasn't just a fluke. Niles, already well-known to fans for his intense comic book writing, presents a book that exists somewhere between the f...
According to a
recent press release from IDW Publishing, SteveNiles' 30 Days of Night
is scoring as a hit on several fronts.
As readers at
this site know well, the movie garnered almost instantaneous interest from
Hollywood with the motion picture...
SteveNiles has a side that only comes out every so often, probably during lunar eclipses or something. In sharp contrast to his grisly mature readers material in 30 DAYS OF NIGHT or CRIMINAL MACABRE, he also writes children's horror stories. In fact mu...
SteveNiles and Scott Hampton continue their saga of Gotham City’s other late-night protector. Simon Dark lives underground and periodically emerges to protect the innocent with unrestrained violence. Batman leaves criminals tied up for th...
... Jane and SteveNiles] so far have given me my pick of things to do, if I want to do covers or interiors or whatever. I am in the very lucky position to pick and choose what I want to be involved in. I have no plans at the present to do any sequential,...
In BATMAN: GOTHAM COUNTY LINE, SteveNiles boldly takes the Dark Knight where he's never gone before: the suburbs. I never thought I'd see it either. But, as long as Bats doesn't trade in the Batmobile for an Excursion to drop the Outsiders off at socce...
...lessed by SteveNiles. It seems Niles is not only an acclaimed comic-book and film writer (30 Days of Night) but also, apparently, is recognized by the Online Ministers of America as “Reverend SteveNiles.”
Many of the screenwriter...
Horror comic scribe SteveNiles has sold another property to Hollywood, this tome to Paramount Pictures. ALEISTER ARCANE is the stage name of a host of late-night horror movies for an Oklahoma television station. But all's not well in TV land: after a wav...
...tand that SteveNiles was originally slated to write this series. How did you come to work on it? Was the transition between writers smooth?
JO: A lot of synchronicity played into this one. Nat Jones and I have been friends for y...
It seems that FEARnet, Columbia Pictures & Graphic Novelist SteveNiles are joining forces to bring all you horror fans something in connection with their upcoming release, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. The vampire tale is based off of Niles creation and centers ...
...lents of
SteveNiles, Dan Taylor, Tony Moore, Benito Cereno, and more.
Q: Describe 'Western Tales
of Terror" in two sentences or less.
Fialkov: Horror the way
it was meant to be told. In the Old West.
Q: If you were to compare
'Western Tales of ...
An inside source allegedly informed FreezeDriedMovies.com at the San Diego Comic-Con that Joel Schumacher has signed on to Dimension's 'Wake the Dead' based on the comic by SteveNiles which updates the Frankenstein story.
Paramount Pictures has scared up "Aleister Arcane," purchasing feature rights to SteveNiles' horror comicbook and setting up the project with Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris to produce at their Penn Station shingle. Studio has tapped the scripting tea...
Dimension Films has acquired film rights to SteveNiles' "Hyde," a comic book proposal that re-imagines the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde horror story, in a deal worth mid-six figures. Mike Fleiss is producing. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hy...
SteveNiles allegedly reported that screenwriter Stuart Beattie has just turned in a final draft of the script for '30 Days of Night'. In other developments, the prolific comic writer may be teaming with Thomas Jane on a movie version of 'Lurkers'.
Mor...
Josh Hartnett, star of the upcoming 30 Days of Night, joins producer Sam Raimi to talk about the vampire movie, which is based on SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith's graphic novel
...ritten by SteveNiles and drawn by Nat Jones, both from SPAWN: THE DARK AGES. It's a post-modern melange of man and machine, but the book has not yet been scheduled. Finally, Rick Veitch's graphic novel BRAT PACK will be reprinted for a tentative March...
Seven clips, behind the scenes footage and a new featurette from the upcoming horror film "30 Days of Night" starring Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Ben Foster and Danny Huston, based on the comic-book by SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith.
...ck before SteveNiles could stop us!
Hey, we're not greedy. We know there are a lot of '30 Days of Night' fans out there, so we're giving away not one, not two but three copies of the comic! That's right! This giveaway will have three winners!
How ...
Website states that Rogue Pictures has optioned the SteveNiles/Rob Zombie, IDW Publishing comic book "Bigfoot" for a big screen adaptation and names the author's own website, steveniles.com, as the source. However, no mention of this is readily found on ...
...This is a SteveNiles comic that you can give to your kids.
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Ben: Further proof that all the good names are taken.
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Ben: Further proof tha...
... from the SteveNiles comic as accurate as possible (Which should please fans of the comic.) and what it was like filming a genre horror film so soon after wrapping up HARD CANDY in 2005.
Shock: The comic book has such a great ending, and I'm gl...
If you haven't seen SAW III yet and you do not wish to be "spoiled", I'd advise you stop reading this article right now. There are spoilers in the plot synopsis for SAW IV. If you don't care about being spoiled, read onward. Alright, now that th...
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Kurt: SteveNiles’s miniseries wraps. This series finally turned on the gas in the last issue, so this should be decent.
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After four middle-of-the-road issues, SteveNiles finally puts The Creeper in gear with a damn entertaining issue full of action and answers. Last issue, television journalist and all-around gadfly, Jack Ryder, learned that the very Dr. Yatz he ...
... based on SteveNiles comic creation, pulled in another 6.7 million over the weekend in 2,859 theaters. The film dropped 58.0% from it debut weekend, setting this film up as a slightly-above-average release. With a budget of 30 mil, it has pulled in 27...
...nt of the SteveNiles vampire comic would do well when it debuted on Halloween. In fact, there was so much confidence of it doing well, there was already talk of a sequel getting greenlit before the first installment even hit theaters. Things didn&rsqu...
...s – SteveNiles created the concept – own admission, each of the characters draws inspiration from other famous monster hunters of film, television, and literature – namely, Carl Kolchak, Buffy Summers, Ash Williams, Fox Mulder, and A...
IDW Publishing and writing SteveNiles are teaming to release another adventure for Cal McDonald, "the world's great paranormal detective." HAIRBALL: A CAL MCDONALD MYSTERY will be published by IDW Publishing in September. Cal McDonald is the star of th...
While no specifics were given on DVD extras, Sony Home Entertainment has announced a shipping date for 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. The horror film will be hitting standard DVD and Blu-Ray on February 19, 2008. The film, based on the SteveNiles graphic novel, opene...
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Kurt: By SteveNiles!
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Ben:It sounds like a Hardy Boys novel.
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Ben:Replace Kurt Amacker with Diana Prince and you&rsquo...
Hail and well met, COMICSCAPE faithful. Welcome to another week in which I provide you, my loyal readers and constant detractors, with a half-hour of free, advertiser-supported comic commentary. And this week, CINESCAPE gives you twice the goodness with...
"I don't know if any of you guys picked this up, but there's '30 Days of Night' article inside with a first time interview with Director David Slade and the first picture of Eben and Stella from the film," writes SteveNiles in his MySpace blog.
He als...
Josh Hartnett, who once starred in '40 Days and 40 Nights', is now in final talks to topline '30 Days of Night' for Columbia Pictures.
The film is based on the SteveNiles graphic novel, illustrated by Ben Templesmith and published by IDW. David Slade ...
Creature Corner has learned that 'X2: X-Men United' co-writer Michael Dougherty looks to have come aboard to pen the Dimension Films adaptation of SteveNiles' comic book, 'Wake the Dead.'
...ck before SteveNiles could stop us!
Hey, we're not greedy. We know there are a lot of '30 Days of Night' fans out there, so we're giving away not one, not two, not just three but our four final copies of the comic! That's right! This giveaway will ha...
David Slade, director of the upcoming vampire movie 30 Days of Night, told reporters at a special preview screening that the movie appealed to him because it made bloodsuckers scary again. The movie, based on SteveNiles' graphic novel of the same name, t...
...r love to SteveNiles and Eric Powell. Buy this.Marvel Select Flip Magazine #9 $3.99Marvel Tales Flip Magazine #8 $3.99Marvel Zombies #3 (of 5) $2.99Al: Whee! Silver Surfer v. zombies!Kurt: Man, it would suck being a zombie trying to eat that guy. It'd...
...ibes like SteveNiles (30 Days of Night), Joe Haldeman (The Forever War), and Neal Asher (Gridlinked). The concept is to use eight to 10 of these shorts in a single movie with each segment helmed by a different director (Fincher is on deck to direct on...
'30 Days of Night', based on the IDW Publishing graphic novel by SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith, was #1 at the box office this weekend. The film took in an estimated $16 million in 2,855 theaters.
This marks the sixth comic-based film to hold the #1 s...
...or Master SteveNiles! As for movies, my 'Crisis' graphic novel is in development with Rebel Films and set to star John Leguizamo. I also have about seven solid ideas cooking for future independent movies and full-length animated features. I'm going ...
...f"), SteveNiles (30 Days of Night), Don Mancini ("Child's Play" series), Mark Swift (Friday the 13th), Mike Mendez (The Gravedancers), Brad Keene (The Grudge 3), David J. Schow, Dan Farrands, David Hayter, Drew McWeeny, Scott Swan, Eric...
Melissa George will star opposite Josh Hartnett in the upcoming film 30 DAYS OF NIGHT for Sony.Based on a SteveNiles 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...
...nster man SteveNiles has moved his tale of cannibal horror, LONG PIG from Boom! to Image. I've been waiting for that one for a while, but you probably figured that. I'm also really damn excited about William Harms's upcoming IMPALER series, featurin...
Tonight, the official website for the upcoming horror, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, was launched. The movie (based off graphic novelist SteveNiles' comic series) is showcased tomorrow at Comic Con in Sony's presentation. The site has wallpapers to download, informa...
...liar with SteveNiles original work, after seeing the trailer this past weekend (and learning that Ben Foster is in the cast) I’ll be there on October 19th.
Subterranean Press, an imprint noted for its lettered & autographed tomes of...
...ane! SteveNiles! F—king aliens!
Bomb Queen IV #3 (Of 4) (MR) $3.50
Ben: I hate this one.
Casanova #11 (MR) $1.99
Ben: The comic about me continues.
Kurt: That’s funny. My comic, The Prince of Darkness Wi...
...e of this SteveNiles adaptation. In fact, it comes in 3rd place in the average per showing behind Tyler Perry’s latest effort and Tim Burton’s re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Still, it’s not altogether a fai...
Based on the first in what has become a series of graphic novels by SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith, 30 Days of Night is the story of what happens when a band of vampires invades a tiny town in northernmost Alaska, where the sun goes down for a month in m...
...ritten by SteveNiles (co-writer on the SPAWN 2 movie script) with art by Ben Templesmith. Set in the frozen, shadowy town of Barrow, Alaska during the time of year when the sun never rises for one month, the story follows a marauding pack of vampires...
A fan reports from the Dallas Comic Con.
'30 Days of Night' creator SteveNiles allegedly told fans that Columbia Pictures has put a rush on his vampire movie in the wake of the recent wave of successful horror movies.
'Punisher' star Thom Jane repo...
SteveNiles is quickly starting to pop up all over the place writing all sorts of horror film adaptations and television series episodes. He most recently penned the first draft of the film adaptation of his comic book series 30 Days of Night. Someone fin...
... Monster, SteveNiles (Boom Studios)
The ultimate giant monster story from SteveNiles, the writer-creator of the smash-hit vampire epic 30 DAYS OF NIGHT! The year is 2013. Astronaut Don Maggert's first space flight swallows him alive in the grip of a...
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Kurt: SteveNiles, Bernie Wrightson, and goddamn vampires. Get it.
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Evil Dead #2 (Of 4) $2.99
Kurt: This would be shameless if the art weren’t amazing.
Goon #21 $2.99
Indiana Jone...
...ster man, SteveNiles. It's really dark stuff, but it has a charming Golden Age flavor mixed in with the scary stuff. Birds Of Prey #99 $2.99Al: Heating up for #100, which will feature some sort of team shakeup. Birds Of Prey The Battle Within TP ...
Confirmation that Joel Schumacher ('The Lost Boys') is attached to helm Dimension Films' adaptation of Steve Nile's modern Frankenstein tale, 'Wake the Dead' comes from Niles himself. "It's true and I couldn't be happier." Niles told Creature Corner. More...
Ask the average filmgoer to name the worst film they've ever seen, and it's even money they'll name one of the last ten movies they've seen (by the way, the same goes for the best they've ever seen). The more learned cinéaste may name something from the o...
Summary: SteveNiles described the story as follows: "Basically WAKE THE DEAD is a re-telling of all the Frankenstein stories I have ever read or watched. I wanted to capture the essence of the original book as far as the youth of the characters and ...
Here's some proof that writing comic books can make you decent money: MGM has ponied up somewhere in the mid-six figures for the rights to SteveNiles new comic book mini-series CRIMINAL MACABRE. If the movie gets greenlit Niles stands to make more than a...
SteveNiles is talking about the progress he and SPAWN creator Todd McFarlane have made on the new SPAWN 2 script, and he's indicating a movie quite different from the first."SPAWN 2 is coming along great," Niles said in an interview with the Comics...
SAVAGE MEMBRANE, a graphic novel created by SteveNiles, will be published by Idea + Design Works in March. Ashley Wood will provide art for the 200-page book.Here's how the graphic novel is described:"He's a detective who hunts monsters. He's a drunk and...
...ly called SteveNiles and asked if he'd like to chime in on his favorite subject. He agreed, and his thoughts appear further down. Hence, on this week's COMISCAPE, I present one of them there head-scratchin'-book-learnin'-college-boy columns, wherein...
BLOODSUCKER TALES is the newest title in IDW's wildly successful 30 DAYS OF NIGHT series (or "series of miniseries," I suppose). The brainchild of horror maven SteveNiles, the first series was released in 2002 and it depicted the invasion of Barrow, Alas...
SteveNiles refashions Frankenstein, combines it with a bit of Tim Burton, and adds some urban legend mystique to create Simon Dark – his newest ongoing with DC and another collaboration with artist Scott Hampton (Batman: Gotham County Line). N...
A new tv spot and a ton of images have hit the net for the upcoming vampire horror, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, courtesy of Shock Til You Drop & iKlipz. The horror thriller is based off SteveNiles graphic novel of the same name and is set for an October 1...
...ks today, SteveNiles. Niles is the dude behind 30 DAYS OF NIGHT as well as the Frankenstein homage WAKE THE DEAD. Now that he's also got a spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde yarn, can a werewolf story be long in coming from Niles' word p...
...ny Finn), SteveNiles (Giant Monster, Fused Tales), Mark Waid (Zombie Tales), and more, Boom delivered more awesome comics in 2005 than some indie publishers release in a lifetime!" Boom! Studios launched in 2005 with an eye to becoming a boutique publ...
...d Cards), SteveNiles (Savage Membrane), and Martin H. Greenberg (My Favorite Horror Story).
Mark Wolverton’s 2002 expose on the superhuman powers of Superman gets a paperback facelift with the re-release of The Science of Superman while...
...a"), SteveNiles ("30 Days of Night"), Dan Knauf ("Carnivale," "Supernatural"), Lem Dobbs ("The Score"), Matt Venne ("White Noise 2: The Light"), Richard Chizmar & Johnathan Schaech ("Mast...
Freeze Dried Movies was the first to publish the story that director Joel Schmacher (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA) had come on to direct WAKE THE DEAD, the film adaptation of SteveNiles' horror comic book. FDM's source slipped them this unconfirmed rumor at ...
...ritten by SteveNiles (author, '30 Days of Night'), Stuart Beattie (Collateral), Brian Nelson (Hard Candy) and Ben Templesmith (author, '30 Days of Night'), and stars Josh Hartnett, Ben Foster, Danny Huston and Melissa George (The Amityville Horror).
...
When I was told I was invited to a screening of '30 Days of Night' I certainly did not expect to be scared nor did I expect to actually enjoy this adaptation of the graphic novel written by SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith.
I was wrong.
Within th...
Dimension Films has picked up the screen rights to SteveNiles (30 DAYS OF NIGHT) HYDE comic book series. As was the case with Niles' earlier horror comics, HYDE takes a familiar monster (in this case the brutish alter-ego of Dr. Jekyll) and reimagines th...
...or writer SteveNiles and wanna-be writer Rob Zombie's collaboration on THE NAIL #2 (Of 4); a new miniseries celebrating Shi's 10th anniversary with the company entitled SHI: JU-NEN #1; and the TRIGUN VOL 1 trade paperback for $14.95. How can you not b...
...ne Colan, SteveNiles, Gerard Jones, Richard Corben and the legendary Oz illustrator Eric Shanower. Most of these stories have never before seen print!
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A stunning artifact holds the ...
...aughn and SteveNiles, Mike Carey's X-Men run begins and at least three books feature zombies.You must be this high to read...The Spinner Rack! Kurt: Or, you can just Google "hot lonely milfs" and check out Al's mom's rack! I do! DARK HORSE COMICS Es...
...r maestro SteveNiles and Tom Jane of THE PUNISHER movie from 2003. Fortunately, I can comfortably report that this first issue lives up the hype. BAD PLANET begins when a couple of slacker alien truckers (or the space equivalent thereof) lose the bulb...
...;Based on SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith’s IDW miniseries of the same name, it tells the story of a group of vampires that decimate the town of Barrow, Alaska during the extended darkness that overtakes it every winter. Sheriff Eben Oleson ...
The adaptation of SteveNiles' breakout graphic novel '30 Days of Night' dropped to #3 on the weekend box office. The film took in another $6.7 million in its second week of release, representing about a 58% loss of audience.
It ranked behind horror fr...
...series by SteveNiles and Scott Hampton is excellent. Dark Knight as detective, with a splash of the supernatural.Batman Strikes Vol 2 In Darkest Knight TP $6.99Blood Of The Demon #8 $2.50Detective Comics #812 $2.50Gotham Central #36 $2.50JLA Vol 11 Th...
...view with SteveNiles, I fell into the sweet embrace of Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey. Unfortunately, the rum didn't dent my anxiety and I watched the clock until 6:30 p.m. Dark Horse asked me if I'd interview Bruce over the phone on Tuesday. I immediate...
... Vaughan, SteveNiles, Warren Ellis, and Garth Ennis are all writing some of the best comics ever written right now. Support the art, but don't support the gimmicks.NEW THIS WEEKBy Al Brown and Kurt AmackerDARK HORSECONAN #14$2.99In this issue, Conan ...
...nd scribe SteveNiles is attached. The news comes one day after New Line shed production president and chief operating officer Michael De Luca, the trade said. De Luca had been Spawn’s patron at New Line. Expect a more horror based script than the orig...
Apparently, there was a horror film in the 1970s made about Bigfoot. This was in the same vein as THE HILLS HAVE EYES, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, and others like them. Except no one has seen it except for SteveNiles, Rob Zombie, and Richard Corben. ...
...t’s SteveNiles and Bernie Wrightson. How can you go wrong?
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This is a manga about a couple of girls that own a gun store and also work as bounty hunters. I hope you’re as excited about...
...rote with SteveNiles and Thomas Jane, Alien Pig Farm 3000 opens with a chase through the cosmos that culminates in a crash-landing on Earth millions of years in the past. When the large, multi-eyed creatures open the downed ship of the grays (you...
Last Friday, five years after Sam Raimi’s Ghost House purchased the film rights to SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith’s three-issue IDW miniseries, 30 Days of Night, the movie hit theaters and destroyed its box office competition. With a tal...
...on of the SteveNiles' (check out his Mania blog when you grab a chance) comic book, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Ben Foster and Danny Huston. It was produced by Sam Raimi and directed by David Slade based on a screen...
30 DAYS OF NIGHT, a mini-series by SteveNiles and Ben Templesmith, will be collected into a trade paperback by IDW Publishing in January.Even though it was overprinted by 100 percent, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT #1 sold out within two weeks and the second printing ...
...n of this SteveNiles comic has been in development hell for five years but that’s the case. Back on this day in Mania history, rights for his graphic novel Wake the Dead was acquired by Dimension Films.
Progress is finally happening for the pro...
Rob Tapert, who is producing the film adaptation of SteveNiles' supernatural graphic novel '30 Days of Night,' told SCI FI Wire that the author has read the script and was pleased with its faithfulness to the original story. "Steve has read [screenwriter...
...! writer SteveNiles says. "They're like firemen in that they spend a lot of time waiting for the alarm to send them on their next mission. They work under strict jurisdictional restrictions. These heroes don't do bank robberies, they don't go out on ...
30 DAYS OF NIGHT, a three-issue mini-series written by SteveNiles 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...
Scribe SteveNiles has been talking about what's up with the slowly developing SPAWN 2 for Columbia. Niles, who is collaborating with Todd McFarlane on the script spoke to the Comics Continuum giving the latest word on the project, saying, "I've done an i...
It's 3:45 a.m. where Steve Irwin is atop the mountainous Great Dividing Range that runs along Australia's eastern coast - but the self-styled environmental crusader, TV documentary host and now movie star is already up and running around with his usual i...
Epic Records has announced a June 26th release for Sound Theories Vol 1 & 2, a double-live CD capturing legendary guitarist Steve Vai’s electrifying collaboration with the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra. The two-disc set spotlights rare materia...
The late Steve Irwin, also known as the Crocodile Hunter, will be immortalized in a new action figure designed in his likeness. The talking Irwin figure, which has been approved his family, will be unveiled at the International Toy Fair in New York Cit...
Steve Jablonsky continues to be the composer of choice for Hollywood remakes, following the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films and The Amityville Horror, not to mention The Island. Jablonsky’s latest score is The Hitcher, composed for a new version of th...
SoundtrackNet has posted a report on Steve Jablonsky's recording session for the new Michael Bay science fiction/action thriller about cloning, THE ISLAND. Jablonsky, noted for scoring the 2003 remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, TV's DESPERATE HOUSEWI...
Doug Liman will not be directing the new update of the tech car K.I.T.T due to a busy schedule with upcoming feature films, says the Hollywood Reporter. Instead, he will still executive produce the backdoor 2 hour pilot for NBC while Steve Shill will hand...
Wizard Magazine, in their latest issue, claims that 'The Jerk' himself, Steve Martin is close to landing the role of Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White in the upcoming 'Superman' movie.
Steve Carr has been announced as the director for the Marvel Comics film 'Iron Fist,' but he is planning to make other projects first. It's not that he's not excited about it, it's just that Marvel is kind of busy.
"I'd love it to be kind of dark and a...
Batman-On-Film.com interviewed 70s "Detective Comics" writer Steve Englehart. On of the topics covered was his involvement in what became the movie "Batman (1989).
"...for the next ten years they had screenwriters try to adapt it [Batman]. Finally, th...
Marvel's webcast conference reveals details about Punisher 2, Spider-Man 2, Elektra, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider and Blade Trinity.
SteveNiles told The Comics Continuum that Stuart Beattie, a writer of 'Pirates of the Caribbean', has been brought aboard...
Jim Carrey and Steve Carell have both signed on to voice characters in the upcoming Dr. Seuss CGI animated feature film, Horton Hears a Who, for 20th Century Fox.Carrey will voice Horton while Carell voces the mayor of Who-ville.The film will center on an...
Writer Bragi Schut has been hired to fashion SteveNiles' CRIMINAL MACABRE comic book into a feature film. In development at MGM, the horror property would mark the movie debut of Niles' Cal McDonald character, a private gumshoe that specializes in solvin...
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Kurt: SteveNiles and Bernie Wrightson team-up. I know what I’m doing this weekend. That’s right – drinking! And then, I’m reading City of Others.
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Spiraling out of the events of BRAVE NEW WORLD, SteveNiles's THE CREEPER retells the origins of Steve Ditko's grinning yellow antihero. Last issue, gadfly television reporter Jack Ryder a liberal take on Bill O'Reilly broke into Dr. Vincent Yatz's lab...
Paul Lee will now be the artist for FUSED!, a bi-monthly Image Comics series from writer/creator SteveNiles.Nat Jones was named in the original solicitation as artist, but, according to Image, "A creative team change was made from the original solicitati...
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Ben: A giant guitar case for hiding bazookas.
Kurt: I’m going to ask Steve about that, because it can’t be legal.
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Steve Jablonsky has been commissioned to compose the original score for the action film D-WAR, directed by Korean filmmaker Hyung-rae Shim (2001 Yonggary). Produced by LA-based YGA Entertainment and starring Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster and E...
Steve Reeves, who appeared as Hercules in a series of Italian adventure films during the `50s and `60s, passed away May 1 at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California. The former bodybuilder died of complications from lymphoma. Born in Glasgow, Mont...
Think you know everything there is to know about Superman? Guess again. Just when you think Superman couldn’t possibly go through any more permutations--even in terms of `imaginary` stories, a.k.a. `Elseworlds` in the DC Universe--along comes veteran comi...
The performing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has announced that legendary songwriter and recording artist Steve Winwood will be honored as a BMI Icon at the company's annual London Awards. The gala ceremony and dinner will be held Novemb...
With movies, much of the drama lies on the screen. Such is certainly the case with What Lies Beneath, the suspenseful new thriller from acclaimed director Robert Zemeckis, which scared up $29.7 million and the number one seat in its opening weekend. But a...
Normally, I leave the toy reviews to other writers, but this Christmas I got some pretty cool stuff that should appeal to other people like me: i.e., those who don’t necessarily collect action figures but don’t mind owning them if they relate to some of t...
SteveVP Hello. We`re going to be chatting today with Patricia Tallman and Jeffrey Willerth, of the television series BABLYLON 5. Before throwing the conversation open to visitors, I would like to start the chat by repeating a question I posed to Jerry Doy...
"You want to come back to the basic tenants of what the movie is about - what would you do for love? That's what the movie is about," says Mark Steven Johnson of 'Ghost Rider'. "Would you sell your soul for love? Would you ride through hell for love? What...
When Steven Niles launched '30 Days of Night' at IDW Publishing in 2002, it became an instant sensation. Six years later, the franchise has continued as a feature film, in numerous comics and graphic novels, and also as a series of original "webisode...
While running down the press releases and announcements of upcoming DVDs this week, several new collections of public domain horror titles popped up, and I got to thinking. What is the most popular title on DVD? By that I don't mean which title is the fav...
When '30 Days of Night' debuted as a comic, it featured a startling cover by co-creator Ben Templesmith, dominated by a bloody mouth filled with jagged, razor-sharp teeth. Two weeks ago those teeth bit into moviegoers across the country as the film vers...
Plot: After making one wicked deal with the devil, onetime assassin Al Simmons must try to right the wrongs of his past while subverting Satan's hold on him.Stars: TBDWriter/Producers: Todd McFarlane, SteveNilesStatus: Developing at some unknown rate.Lat...
...of writer SteveNiles’s Cal McDonald stories, but Coogan has things a bit nastier. He doesn’t live in a world populated by zombies and monsters, so the very idea of waking up in a pool of his own entrails comes as a bit of a shock.&nbs...
Being that this is my first regular column for Comicscape, I've decided to devote an entire column to my favorite subject: me. That's right this column is all about yours truly. Settle in while I recount my earliest memories of sitting in a hospital wi...
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...
Comic creator Mike Oeming has taken his first foray into filmmaking with a short movie based on his recent one-shot comic book "Six". Oeming is well known to comic fans as the artist on "Powers", but has more-recently taken on writing chores of his book...
Opening Ceremonies
Hosted by: Adam Ferraro
The opening ceremonies for Anime Boston took place in a grand theatre room. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling and an upper level let some special guest sit from above and watch the people who were seate...