A scooper deemed "trustworthy" claims that actress Kate Bosworth is in the running to play SueStorm aka The Invisible Girl in 'Fantastic Four'. More...
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Jessica Alba, who reprises the role of SueStorm/The Invisible Woman in the upcoming sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, told SCI FI Wire that both the character and the film's story are more mature the second time aroun...
...hards wed SueStorm, even the Beatles could be spotted in the aisles inside the church.A Fantastic Four movie has been a long-time coming. A 1992 low-budget version was done for Roger Corman's film division; the rights to the property were held by Neue...
...ts to see SueStorm with a bouffant hairdo anyway? The only exception is Johnny Storm who looks like he belongs in a Dragon Ball Z cartoon rather than the Fantastic Fantastic Four. Ughh! Just horrible! It doesn’t end with John...
...sworth as SueStorm, and then they dropped Chris Evans (CELLULAR) name as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch into the mix; Ioan Gruffodd (KING ARTHUR) hinted that he may be a player for Reed Richards; and Rachel McAdams (THE NOTEBOOK) said she had a copy of ...
...Richards, SueStorm, Johnny Storm, or Ben Grimm in the same way they could as, say, Patrick Stewart for Professor X. It's the sort of problem that leads people like Alex Hyde-White and Jay Underwood to be cast in the first place. But there's a way aro...
...ffud) and SueStorm (Jessica Alba) want desperately to wed, but the business of saving the world has delayed their nuptials repeatedly. Shortly before their latest attempt, the military approaches Reed Richards about a flying object from space tha...
...d role of SueStorm in the feature film adaptation of the Marvel comic book FANTASTIC FOUR, which arrives on DVD on December 6th."When I had dark hair, every time I would walk in a room, everyone would think I was ready to beat somebody down," says Alb...
...scientist SueStorm (Jessica Alba), Sue's hotshot pilot brother Johnny (Chris Evans) and Victor are all aboard the Von Doom space station, the astral storm catches them not entirely prepared. In the days that follow, Johnny discovers he can burst into ...
...being for SueStorm/"The Invisible Woman" and Victor Von Damme/"Doctor Doom". Interestingly, this week's rumor published in the comic gossip column Lying in the Gutters stated that Elisha Cuthbert had landed the SueStorm part. If that were indeed the ...
Marvel Studios' Avi Arad talked to Empire Online about the adaptation of Marvel's first family, the casting of Jessica Alba as SueStorm, and how Dr. Doom will transfer on the big screen.
Jessica Alba—who will play Invisible Girl SueStorm in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie—told SCI FI Wire that she was concerned about the reaction of the fans when she was cast, but she couldn't pass on the chance to play the iconic character. "Honestly,...
...ows until SueStorm (Jessica Alba) intervenes between the pair. Fans of the comic book will know that the Torch and the Thing have a well established antagonistic relationship and it looks like the movie is including that in its storyline. There are ma...
...pace with SueStorm, her brother Johnny and pilot Ben Grimm. The four adventurers were bombarded by cosmic rays, developed superpowers and became the Fantastic Four. Back on Earth, Victor was injured through one of his experiments and was horribly scar...
A scooper for Latino Review has dropped off word that actress Kate Bosworth (BLUE CRUSH) is also up for the role of the Invisible Woman in Fox's FANTASTIC FOUR film. That now makes it three actresses rumored by movie websites to be in the running to play ...
With three of the FANTASTIC FOUR's quartet signed, sealed and delivered, all that remains is the announcement as to which actress will play the part of SueStorm, a.k.a. The Invisible Woman. Names have been swirling around for weeks, but this past weekend...
...irlfriend SueStorm and her hotheaded brother Johnny, left the Earth for a date with destiny. Plummeting back to the surface in that first issue back in 1961, the four adventurers found themselves altered forever by cosmic rays, and naturally their fir...
...who plays SueStorm/The Invisible Woman, said during a July 6 press conference in support of the film. "Because when you see the final product, you're like ... "
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...n cast as SueStorm, a.k.a The Invisible Woman, in Fox's live-action FANTASTIC FOUR film. Don't believe me? Superhero Hype's heard the same thing!No official word has been issued by Fox or Marvel about Simpson's supposed involvement with this Marvel mo...
We all have our guilty pleasures: series or movies we take joy in but are hesitant to tell even other fans about. Some people have tapes of the complete series of MISFITS OF SCIENCE hidden away in their homes. Others can't get through a week without tunin...
At a press day promoting "The Notebook" yesterday, "Mean Girls" star Rachel McAdams revealed that she is reading the script for "Fantastic Four," presumably for the role of SueStorm. More...
...nting her SueStorm character as a mother in the 3rd FF film.
CS/SHH!: How long until we get "Fantastic Four 3"?Alba: I have no idea. I know the writers strike and the impending actors strike has kind of put a wrench in everything produ...
...irl named SueStorm came along...) But apart from that, NAMOR is a book that reads beautifully, looks marvelous, and captures the imagination in a way that few stories written about the Sub-Mariner have ever managed to do. Dive into it.Questions? Comme...
...lace that SueStorm dared not venture into back then - she'd probably clean up the place all by herself now), don't they? Well, NAMOR #11 has nothing to do with that - I just didn't have anything else I could say about it, what with the Marvel web site...
...hards and SueStorm, born a mutant)Cerebro (Mutant tracking device created by Professor Xavier and Magneto)There are other X2 "easter eggs" contained in Stryker's computer files that will only become apparent when we're able to slow down th...
Although the internet rumor mill seems to have settled on Rachel McAdams ('The Notebook') playing SueStorm/Invisible Woman in 'Fantastic Four', Rich Johnston at CBR tosses another name into the hat this week. Rich says he's hearing that it'll be Elisha C...
"Oops! I broke the car!" shrieked Jessica Alba (a.k.a. SueStorm) as she climbs a ladder into one of the 'Fantastic Four 2' vehicle's four seats and strikes her character's force-field pose, banging loose a piece of Plexiglass with her elbow. The crew is ...
... Staab as SueStorm (`Invisible Girl`), Michael Bailey Smith as Ben Grimm (`The Thing`) and Joseph Culp as Victor Von Doom (`Doctor Doom`). In his reply, Corman gave his perspective of that affair. `A German filmmaker named Bernd Eichinger [of Neue Con...
USA Today has published the first look of a member of the FANTASTIC FOUR in their superhero costumes. Jessica Alba, a.k.a. SueStorm/The Invisible Woman, is the heroine featured in the newspaper's exclusive image. The costume that Alba is wearing is simil...
...rl friend SueStorm, her brother Johnny Storm and pilot Ben Grimm test out an experimental rocket that Reed designed, they end up being pelted by cosmic rays. This affects the ship's instruments and causes the group to crash land. They emerge from th...
...d what of SueStorm Richards, the oft-maligned wife of team leader Reed Richards (and occasional leader herself), who has at times been perceived as either an underpowered "fourth wheel" or a twisted male version of a dark feminist stereotype in her Ma...
The Fantastic Four are back, and so is Tim Story. Tim directed the surprise hit film Fantastic Four and Fox rewarded him with the reins to the upcoming sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In the second go-round, it's up to SueStorm/Invisib...
...unch with SueStorm and Carol Danvers. The latter felt Jessica would do well to talk to another superhero parent, so they have a long, extra-super-Bendisy talking head session at an outdoor café. If you hate decompression and long dialogue passages, ...
...a Alba as SueStorm/The Invisible Woman and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/The Thing.Menounos will also appear on an episode of UPN's ONE ON ONE later this month as well as a future story arc on The WB's ONE TREE HILL.Got a scoop? Know something that yo...
...d series. SueStorm a.k.a Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm a.k.a. Human Torch, Ben Grimm a.k.a. The Thing, and Reed Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic are not only super heroes but also, and most importantly, best friends. With their great and unique powers in...
Another day, another pair of FANTASTIC FOUR casting rumors to add to the pile. Yesterday we broke the scoop that Christina Milian was one of the rumored actresses up for consideration for the role of SueStorm/The Invisible Woman. Today another FF castin...
...um Dugan, SueStorm of the Fantastic Four, Hank Pym, and Edwin Jarvis—the Avengers’ butler. When a Skrull ship crash-lands in the Savage Land, the rogue Secret Avengers highjack their legitimate counterparts’ Quinjet to investiga...
...hards and SueStorm. They've got issues. She ditched him because he's the kind of guy who would see her killer body in skin-tight outfit, yet only notice the composition of the suit's material. To him she is (can you guess) invisible.
But for all th...
...ohnny and SueStorm, Aunt Alice laughed at my ignorance."Having not been born in 1961, I never realized that THE FANTASTIC FOUR series was based on the lives of actual people! As often is the case, real life was as astonishing as fiction. Eight years a...
...udd), and SueStorm, aka the Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), are trying to prepare for their wedding, despite the extreme demands constantly made of them as superheroes. Sue’s publicity-happy brother Johnny, aka the Human Torch (Chris Evans) and ...
...sons from SueStorm as "Learning a new skill can be difficult but it can also be fun!" my amusement shouldn't register as a complaint. It's for kids, so I don't expect to see Daredevil carving in Bullseye's forehead with a piece of glass or Frank Cas...
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Q: And SueStorm as an invisible person? How do you treat that in this film as opposed to the previous film?
SS: Well, we're going to, once again, start with what you could do in the first one, but in this one she may be making other things invis...
Continuing the coverage of the recent 'X-Men: The Last Stand' press event, today we present Comics2film's thechrisbrown's chat with Halle Berry.
The Academy Award winning actress entered the room like a siren. Charming, in good spirits. She had much ...
Writer and BET TV President Reggie Hudlin was just supposed to pen a six-issue miniseries returning the Black Panther to the forefront of the Marvel Comics Universe, but the response to the first few issues was so overwhelming that the House of Ideas ...
Debut issues of WildStorm Productions' "Eye of the Storm" mature readers titles will reach comic book stores with variant covers. The newly added variant covers will be by the same artists who provide each title's originally announced covers, with the ex...
George Lucas might be the man behind the legendary Star Wars movies, but in plastic he's just a lowly Storm Trooper. Hasbro, the maker of Star Wars toys, is paying tribute to Lucas with a limited-edition action figure fully decked out in Storm Trooper att...
Ubisoft and the United States Army have announced that Red Storm Entertainment, in collaboration with the Army, will launch America's Army: True Soldiers, exclusively for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in ...
Sue Grafton wound up a tour to promote her most recent Kinsey Milhone mystery, P IS FOR PERIL, with stops in Southern California, including one at Vroman's Museum Collection in Pasadena. Addressing a standing-room-only crowd, predominantly middle-aged and...
Hooray for Halle-wood! Following her Golden Globe Award-winning performance in HBO`s Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry helped X-Men set box-office records with its $54.5 million take last weekend. At the film’s world premiere last week at Ellis I...
Bantam Spectra has provided Cinescape with an excerpt from George R. R. Martin's upcoming A Feast for Crows. The novel will be released on November 8, 2005. THE PROPHET The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was...
Wo Nellie, this is certainly a fine pair from the good ol’ boys at Something Weird. Yes’n you can have yo’ high falutin big city movies with them fancy sets and bone thin lady stars, for I got’s me two of the finest, I say the finest, movies ever done mad...
(additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)June 4th saw the premiere of the action suspense thriller SWORDFISH, starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Tom Welling. The big event was held at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood. Here's the nitty g...
With the upcoming release of STAR WARS: EPISODE 2 - ATTACK OF THE CLONES, the expected rush of hype and merchandise has begun to flow toward ravenous fans. One of these releases is veteran sci-fi writer Alan Dean Foster's EPISODE 2 tie-in, THE APPROACHING...
AIR FORCE DELTA STORM is the newest arcade style flight simulator from Konami, and the first for the Microsoft Xbox. Closely compared to Namco's ACE COMBAT 4: SHATTERED SKIES for the Playstation 2, DELTA STORM offers over 50 challenging missions and over ...
Sources at 20th Century Fox are apparently saying that Halle Berry's character Storm will appear in 'X-Men 3' with or without the Oscar-winning actress. Click for additional rumors about the future of the X-franchise and potential spin-offs.
MTV.com confirms both that Halle Berry's Storm character will have a larger role and that many mutants including Beast and Gambit will be featured during a montage scene in next summer's X-Men 2.
Speaking with a spokesperson at 20th Century Fox, MTV....
Recently Paramount Television and Sony Electronics Broadcast Inc. had a special screening of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE's season premiere episode, "Storm Front Part II". What was so special about this screening was the fact that it was shot entirely with Sony'...
X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner told SCI FI Wire that she's juggling several related projects, including the upcoming third X-Men movie and possible spinoffs centered on Hugh Jackman's Wolverine character and Halle Berry's Storm. She also confirmed sp...
"I was used to it, but this time I had to do a lot of spinning which I had never done and I got a lot of sick. I sprayed the crew with vomit sick," admits actress Halle Berry, who had to do a lot of wire work as Storm in 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
The ac...
According to Empire Magazine, Halle Berry has rebuffed claims that she would sign on to star in a Storm X-Men spin-off film."That absolutely is not true and will never happen. Not with me anyway," said Berry. Berry starred as Storm in all three ...
The current issue of 360 Gamer offers a rundown of the official X-Men movie game due to hit stands in just a few short weeks. Although no new details about the game are released with their article, it is accompanied by a new photo of Storm on Alcatraz wit...
"There was a whole sequence at the beginning of the last film that showed the origins of her character in Africa, and it got cut simply because there are 14 characters to service. But 'X3' has a couple of big twists, and Storm is right in the center of th...
The roles of "Storm Shadow" and "Scarlett" have been cast in G.I JOE, reports Latino Review. Kellvin says that Korean-born star Byung-Hun Lee will be playing Tommy S. Arashikage (aka Storm Shadow) while Rachel Nichols has bee...
Don't you just get sick of the run up to Christmas (or Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or insert-festival-here?) The pressure to buy ever more extravagant gifts year on year, the ceaseless commercialism of the season, the inescapable torrent of advertising? The fac...
They deserved so much better.The Fantastic Four's fortieth anniversary has been celebrated in a variety of ways this year, ranging from the overblown and confusing (FANTASTIC FOUR 1234) to the overblown and amazingly entertaining (FANTASTIC FOUR: THE WORL...
On her personal website 'Punisher: War Zone' director Lexi Alexander has added actor T.J. Storm to the growing cast list for the film. Storm will play Maginty in the film.
Maginty was a brutal, Irish crime-lord who appeared in Ennis' second leg of his ...
OPINION: Though not that many people seemed to disagree with my Top Ten Best Comics of 2003 list from last week, a few people did write in asking why I didn't include this title or that title. In at least one case, my answer is this: 1) I didn't include c...
Diamond Select Toys has announced a 2006 San Diego Comic Con exclusive A Storm bust featuring the X-Man's classic punk-styled mohawk!Based on her appearance during Chris Claremont and John Byrne's famous Uncanny X-Men run, this all-new exclusive Storm bu...
Back in the early days of the N64, Nintendo released a little gem of a title called WAVE RACE. The game was astounding at the time for its incredible graphics, top-notch racing and awesome water physics. Now that we're in the early days of the GameCube, N...
In an interview with blackfilm.com, Halle Berry dropped a few interesting comments regarding X-Men and future comic book films.A short recap goes something like this: Never doing a Storm spin off, never playing another superhero, she thinks Fox would do ...
What They SayThe largest alien mass ever seen is headed towards Earth and humanity seems powerless to stop it. In desperation, an attempt to turn the Ulysses into a giant thermonuclear bomb is conceived with the remaining members of Funeral returning home...
The extended July 4 weekend was swept away by THE PERFECT STORM, while patriotism was in relatively short supply: even by jumping the gun and opening on Wednesday instead of Friday, THE PATRIOT could not match STORM’s numbers. Genre holdover CHICKEN RUN p...
Although American publishers have no problem churning out movie novelizations on time and en masse, some great genre literature is falling through the cracks, getting too little publicity or attention to garner the widespread praise it rightfully dese...
Let`s face facts. It`s hard enough to track of all of Marvel`s merry mutants, let alone recall the exact issue in which Rogue joins the X-Men, the specifics of her initial meeting with Colossus at the X-mansion`s doorstep, or her being belted into outer s...
While visiting the set of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer', Comics2Film was part of a press conference hosted by the film's four principal actors Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Jessica Alba (Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman), Chris...
A couple of weeks ago, a COMICSCAPE reader asked me to do a column about breaking into comics. Here, I present the first of a couple of columns on the subject. Many comics professionals began their career in self-publishing they created their own books, ...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful. This is my last column before San Diego Comic Con. After the con, I'll have a lot to write about, depending on what I catch while there. Most of the time, I'll talk to publishers about my own proposed miniseries (IMMORTALS)...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuzuha OugiTranslated by:C PellikkaAdapted by:What They SayReona is a college student, working hard at the Kaizaki family's Tokyo castle. Ruling over this castle is the young master, Kaizaki-sama. Amidst chores and strict obed...
Remember playing WAVE RACE on the N64? The long awaited sequel has arrived, even though it is for the GameCube. WAVE RACE BLUE STORM has some of the most incredible graphics and once again will have you wondering why you aren't soaked.Same basic principle...
As usual, there looks to be a lot of good things and surprises at E3 this year. I think the biggest thing that I am anticipating so far is Sega's big announcement that they will have during the show. Not much information has been leaked so far, but here's...
"I don't think I'll do this again or a spin-off because I do want to focus on other aspects of my career, and there are other things I want to work on," Berry said at the X-Men: The Last Stand junket.
On its first day of release this past Tuesday THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW sold a whopping 2.6 million combined DVD and VHS copies throughout North America, earning Fox Home Entertainment a nice sum of $47 million dollars to add to its savings accounts. When in...
Rolling Stone reports that the Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are bringing a suit against Marvel alleging “substantial excerpts” of their songs “Best of You” and “Free Me” as the music for the trailer of the new animat...
The three-day weekend frame leading up to the Fourth of July got off with a bang at the box office, but the expected battle between Warner Bros.` The Perfect Storm and Columbia`s The Patriot failed to occur. Although final results will not be known until ...
The series opener for the Draconic Prophecies sequence, Storm Dragon takes us on an action-packed adventure that, although a little late in ripening, provides a solid base for an exciting new saga.
The first hardcover debut in Wizards’ Eber...
Detailed article on the new CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie featuring voices from Sarah Michelle Gellar, who has signed on as the voice of April, the human researcher who serves as the Turtles' tech-services worker and mother figure. Fantastic Four...
MTV is offering UK X-Men fans the chance to fly to New York for a special screening of X-Men: The Last Stand on May 22nd with Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman. Included in the prize are flights, your stay in a posh hotel and even some spending money for your ...
What They SayYusuke\'s adversary in the third round of the Dark Tournament wants to prove he is more that hot air; his name is Jin, commander of the furious power of wind! At another time, in another place, these rivals could be the closest of allies. But...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting journey into the darkest reaches of Comicscape. I, your stalwart and steady captain, will take us careening into one of the greatest mysteries to plague the comic industry as we ask, “Whatever...
Dimension Films has acquired all North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to the horror film STORM WARNING. The story centers on a husband and wife who go on a fishing trip that turns very wrong. When they're captur...
Korean actor Byung-hun Lee has joined the cast of 'G.I. Joe'. Lee is 27 years old and currently starring in 'The Good, The Bad and The Weird.'
The news is deemed solid by reporting site and the say to expect an official announcement soon.
IESB is also r...
When I first started writing about the comic book industry, one of the first people in the industry that I became fast friends with was colorist Laura Martin. She was working with the online magazine, Sequential Tart and coloring a multitude of proj...
Happy Wednesday, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting installment of Comicscape, where I’ll drag you through the soul-wrenching depths of moral inquiry and sequential art psychoanalysis. This week, I want to revisit an issue I touched ...
So, anyone else sick to death of Dawn on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER?I really don't like her very much. She's all whiny and "what about me" all the time. So boring.Buffy is the Slayer, always saving the world, you'd think that Dawn would cut her big sis a li...
It seems only fitting to talk about Stephen King in the first Book Buzz column of October. Turned 60 last month, the American horror guru has written over 50 bestselling novels and won countless literary awards. His patented brand of disturbing, psycholog...
Studio has signed Michael Chiklis to play Ben Grimm/the Thing, Iaon Gruffudd as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic and Chris Evans as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch. And Jessica Alba (news), currently shooting Dimension's "Sin City," has emerged as most likely to ...
If there's one thing Stan Lee knew, it was how to create cool, interesting characters that would last for decades and become classic superheroes. And that's a relief, since it's arguable this is in fact the only thing Stan Lee knew, judging by the nonsens...
Digital video or film? Platters or conventional projectors? Newspaper ads or TV? These were the burning questions at last week's 2002 ShoWest theater owner and distributor's convention in Las Vegas, and you probably could care less. What you want to know ...
Julie\'s checking in with us this morning on the manga side with the first of several reviews coming in the next week as she\'s got a look at the November 2005 release of Rising Storm from DramaQueen LLC.
Director Lexi Alexander certainly knows how to keep the online media up to speed with her upcoming PUNISHER:WAR ZONE sequel. She's updated her blog once again with a new casting addition for the film with a new side-by-side comparison of the comic charact...
Director Peter Jackson's production company sued over being shortchanged on profits, including revenue from DVD sales, for THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. Then in 2005, New Line settled out of court with producer Saul Zaentz, who claimed he was...
YAHOO! Entertainment News runs an AP update on the Friday decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a lawsuit concerning the depiction of two fishermen in the film THE PERFECT STORM.The families of the two sailors, Captain Frank Will...
Joyride Studios has shipped the third wave of its popular action figures based on the Microsoft video game HALO. Four figures and one vehicle are added to the HALO lineup with this latest wave assortment including a blue armor Master Chief, two UNSC Marin...
After a season's worth of kryptonite-inspired monsters-of-the-week, Clark Kent (a.k.a. Superboy but don't let The WB know I said that) tackles perhaps the one force (aside from those green glowing meteor fragments) that he is powerless against and no, I...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Saturday, February 5th at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and aired the same night on TNT. The words on the red carpet that kept radiating were... "It's a thrill and an honor to be nominated by ...
If you think Wolverine`s creator enjoyed the great outdoors and beauty of the backwood trails of Canada while growing up, you`re wrong. Len Wein was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, attended college out on Long Island, Farmingdale specifical...
I stared at the sporadic Uptown traffic on Oak Street through the open, boarded-up door of More Fun Comics that overcast Sunday afternoon. Two months ago Hurricane Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast, leaving hundreds dead and even more homeless, displaced, ...
Well, it has taken almost 40 years, but finally, X-MEN has come to town. In the beginning it was Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Marvel Girl, Iceman, and The Angel donned in blue and gold and sporting the familiar X insignia versus Magneto, Mastermind, Toad...
Metropolis has a new hero: Mr. Majestic, a strange new visitor from a neighboring dimension who looks like Superman (except for the costume), sounds like Superman, and acts like Superman. But the time storm which may have brought him to our universe in th...
Genre: Comic Book Adaptation/Action/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Marvel Entertainment.Project Phase: Pre-production.Who's In It:Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Eric Dane.Who'...
Vampires, apes and ghosts, oh my!No, the aforementioned weren't the cast of the latest monster movie spoof, but part of the guest list at FANGORIA's 15th annual Weekend of Horrors convention, held in conjunction with Creation Entertainment August 11-12 in...
The red carpet premiere of the latest STAR TREK series could have easily been dampened by the mood at the studio. Earlier in the afternoon, Paramount received a bomb threat by someone claiming to be an ally of the terrorists that attacked the World Trade ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story: Dall-Young Lim / Art: Soo-Hyon LeeTranslated by:Je-Wa JeongAdapted by:What They SayA young man finds and returns a lost wallet and cell phone to a beautiful young woman, thus begins the destined relationship between...
While studying corn-pest predators in Illinois, I was once in the middle of `flat` nowhere, when suddenly the skies darkened and a tornado ominously swooped down and weaved a destructive path through a field I had just been in. The next thing I knew, my c...
One might think from the title and ad campaign even under its alternate titles TERROR STORM and TORNADO that CYCLONE would be a typical disaster flick about bad weather ala AIRPORT or TIDAL WAVE. Well, you'd only be partially right. CYCLONE begins in t...
What They SayThe rage in the cage continues for Ikki's storm riders but who will emerge from the Sewer Coliseum as the true king? It seems Agito has set up his teammates and all the storm riders for a big-time bust, just so he can get his ferocious fangs...
The second season of what can affectionately be referred to as "The Young Superman Chronicles," a.k.a. SMALLVILLE, kicked off with a proverbial bang last night with the natural disaster inspired "Vortex." Picking up where the cliffhanger season one finale...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)Though the movie has been doing very well at the box office, it's the fact that both Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise attended the premiere event of THE OTHERS last month on August 7th, seperately, that still has Hollywood...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz) Back in July, the UPN network was already thrilled with the acquisition of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. The frosting on top of their 2001-2002 programming season cake had to be the good buzz already generating by th...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz) During last month's Television Critics Association press gathering in Pasadena, CA, the broadcast networks went face to face with the press to promote their coming fall shows.
Katherine Heigl promoting ROSWELL a...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND generated a small truckload of mail. The reactions ranged from complete agreement with my review, to total disagreement from fans that thought the film met or exceeded the previous two. Regardless, t...
Sue Grafton wound up a tour to promote her most recent Kinsey Milhone mystery, P IS FOR PERIL, with stops in Southern California, including one at Vroman's Museum Collection in Pasadena. Addressing a standing-room-only crowd, predominantly middle-aged and...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)On June 11, 2001, Paramount Pictures and Mutual Film Company presented the premiere of the Simon West's big screen version of the TOMB RAIDER video game, starring Angelina Jolie. The event was held at Mann Village and ...
Happy Hanukkah to those so inclined, and a Merry Christmas to everyone else! (Yes, I know that Christmas isn't until next Saturday, but we're doing something different for the last two weeks of 2004, so I've got to get the holiday wishes out of the way no...
What They SayIkki has formed a team of Storm Riders with the help of some new friends and old allies. With their first victory in the bag, they have begun their journey to the top of the ranks. Unfortunately for Ikki, Rika, eldest of the Sleeping Forest s...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)On June 8th, the cast and crew of Ivan Reitman's EVOLUTION gathered for the film's gala premiere. The opening of the film was held at the Mann National Theater Westwood. Here are some of those who arrived:Julianne Moor...
OPINION: Before I embark on this column, I want to indulge in a bit of CYA: the ideas herein are not all that original, nor are they all my own. Firstly, I am not the first (nor will I be the last) comics critic to note that death is a far more mutable co...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hideki KakinumaTranslated by:Gretchen KernAdapted by:What They SayDelve deeper into the Junk Force universe with the first novelization of the hard hitting sci/fi manga! Follow the trials and tribulations of Liza, Wooty, Mill...
OPINION: I had hoped to do a column this week on Free Comics Day or on SPIDER-MAN 2 - both of which I experienced yesterday (Saturday, July 3) but you had so much to say about last week's column on the Revolving Door of Death that instead I'm turning the...
UNSTABLE MOLECULES sets out what may be one of the most interesting FANTASTIC FOUR-based premises to date: what if Marvel's First Family were based on a real family whom creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby happened to meet back in the 60s? Not a superpowered...
What They SayWelcome to the world of Storm Riders, where motor-powered inline skates called \"Air Treks\" take extreme sports to a whole new level. Those who dare to ride with these high tech devices risk life and limb in a struggle for fame, power and wi...
In a dimly lit distillery turned seedy Canadian redneck trucker bar, something`s about to go down. An enraged and hulking patron with a sharp knife suddenly lunges at a stranger sporting a distinctive pointy hairstyle, a leather jacket, and lumberjack shi...
Tor Books' Sara Douglass wraps up The Crucible series with the mass market paperback release of The Crippled Angel while Games Workshop's David Bishop concludes his Fiends of the Eastern Front series with a climactic, WWII-style bloodbath of German soldie...
I love Wednesdays. Every single week, I feel childlike anticipation as I watch the clock at work until lunch. At 12:30, I drive to More Fun Comics on Oak Street like a kid running downstairs on Christmas morning. Then, I see the total at the register and ...
Random thoughts alert!You know what? Tuesday nights are too crowded, TVwise. There's BUFFY, GILMORE GIRLS, 24, AMERICAN IDOL (please forgive me, I can't help myself), SMALLVILLE, KINGPIN, THE SHIELD, and to a lesser extent - A.U.S.A. and LESS THAN PERFEC...
Universal Pictures is assembling its own team to take on EVEREST. The movie may possibly be directed by Stephen Daldry (THE HOURS) while the script has been written by Michael Cristofer (THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK). Working Title Films is also onboard as the...
Watching the marriage of Hank and Janet Pym disintegrate back in the 1970s was pretty traumatic for those of us of a certain age. Since the 1940s, we'd been shown that marriages involving superheroes could and did work (look at Jay and Joan Garrick, Ralph...
Thick, gray sheets of rain and images half-seen behind battered village shutters and doors, and behind: beauty and horror, alien and old and hysterical.Dagon is one of my favorite horror films, and I saw it first last week. Now in limited release and head...
It's been a long time coming five years, to be exact but fans of director Barry Sonnenfeld's 1997 hit MEN IN BLACK have finally gotten a sequel. And judging by the film's holiday weekend opening gross to the tune of almost $90 million it would seem th...
Today's class: How To Make A Monster Movie. Today's instructor: Dean Devlin."The opening of the movie is: Here comes the toxic waste truck, swerve to avoid the bunny, the waste spills, the spiders turn big... Done! No need for anything else. Let's move on...
With the release date of POINT BLANK #1 on Aug. 14, DC Comics is providing to retailers a free 50 percent overship of the issue. POINT BLANK, a five-issue Eye of the Storm mini-series, is by writer Ed Brubaker and European comics artist Colin Wilson, and...
Genre:Fantasy/Romance/Adventure.Studio:Fox 2000.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Script stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Elizabeth Allen (Director); John Quaintance (Screenwriter); based on the novel Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman.Premise:A...
OPINION: For a publishing company that's always touted itself as the House of Ideas, Marvel sure has a nasty habit of quashing some of its better ones before they even get off the ground. The latest victim is the recently published EPIC ANTHOLOGY, the fi...
Director Rob Bowman's newest big-screen offering, REIGN OF FIRE, is being touted as the fusion of a medieval past with a kill-or-be-killed post-apocalyptic future. The film tells the story of what happens to the world when a young boy, Quinn, inadvertentl...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSAustralian émigré Graeme Revell steps aside from sci-fi and horror scoring (THE CROW, RED PLANET, DUNE, PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, DAREDEVIL, FREDDY VS JASON, etc) to derive a very likable and rhythmic score for Carl Franklin's c...
OPINION: Yes, you heard me right: "Part One." The response to my question about why there aren't enough female superheroes in their own books and what should be done about that problem was tremendous - and I finally got a goodly number of responses from f...
Greetings Cinescapers! With the fall season looming ahead, I have decided to jump the gun a bit and start indulging in preparation now. What this entails is reading a lot of press releases and asking (read: begging) for pre-season screeners. While press r...
Recently I’ve had a few DVDs that didn’t play well in my dependable machine. It was among the first DVD player models sold in this country, as I rushed to enjoy the new technology in my living room that I had so far only been able to see on my computer. T...
OPINIONBefore I start off the list of the most painful comic book-related movies, a few points of business. First, Mike Yaremko asks me to remind everyone of a movie that often gets forgotten (including by myself, apparently), THE ROCKETEER, which he feel...
A recent suicide in Milwaukee has been "linked" to the popular online multiplayer game, EVERQUEST. With the suicide, and the mother of the boy planning to sue Sony Online Entertainment, the question has been brought up on whether or not "addictive games" ...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)Back on Tuesday, July 31st, MGM held the world premiere event of their suspense thriller ORIGINAL SIN, starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas. The event was held at the DGA Theater on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles....
In 912 AD, a Viking elder tells two young boys the story of the one storm that dared to rebel against the Thunder God. As he casts the runes, he sees into the past, when Thor was but a young god and still learning his powers, and into the future, when Tho...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. That’s how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
This is a tale of two Big Towns. Fantastic Four: Big Town, the much-talked about four-issue mini-series, tells the story of a world where the advanced technology of Marvel’s superheroes has filtered down to the street-level everyday society. But in recent...
As Valeria Von Doom, Franklin Richards, Saturnyne, and Roma watch, the Fantastic Four work in four different universes to find the location of the Ultimate Nullifier, locked in the mind of each world's Johnny Storm. The weapon which once stopped Galactus ...
Soundtrax is sorry to report the untimely death of Oscar- and Emmy-winning composer, music teacher, and noted author Fred Karlin, who died of cancer on March 26 in Culver City, California at the age of 67. Over three decades, Karlin composed more than two...
In 1968 a young UCLA grad student named Alan Dean Foster, decided to find a ride to Berkley for the World Science Fiction Convention. "I was blown away," Foster says. "I never knew there were such things. I got to meet some of the great writers from the...
OK, so we all know the wall-crawler's big screen debut was a monster smash, yadda yadda yadda. Thanks to the efforts of director Sam Raimi, stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe and the many men and women behind the scenes of this summer's firs...
Steven Spielberg shaped the childhoods of countless moviegoers around the world. He's one of the most respected filmmakers alive today, with some of the most popular and successful movies in history on his resume. And despite all the adulation, there are ...
This Week’s RecommendationSOK – I’ll admit a prejudice: John Scott’s majestic and heroic score for THE FINAL COUNTDOWN was an instant favorite when the film first appeared in 1980. A thrilling and compelling story about a modern-day nuclear aircraft carri...
It always amazes me when American artists and writers put together a Western-style plot, do up the artwork in what they consider "manga style" (which generally only includes the conventions of big-eyed characters and the occasional subtler touches like wh...
Currently co-starring alongside The Rock in the hit action film THE SCORPION KING, Michael Clarke Duncan is riding high. After his Oscar nominated turn in THE GREEN MILE, the actor has had a string of roles in popular films. In THE SCORPION KING, The Rock...
Best known for his work on both the X-FILES movie and television series, director Rob Bowman returns to the big screen this week with REIGN OF FIRE, a tale of fire-breathing medieval dragons inadvertently awakened from their slumber in present-day London....
I applaud Marvel and decry the publisher at the same time. Almost everyone knew Thor would return. And, he does, after a fashion. I applaud Marvel for thwarting everyone's expectations and resurrecting him on the side of those in favor of the Superhero...
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Firestorm is an SF series set in the near future with some sort of bad guys that I couldn't be bothered to look into attacking the good guys. The good guys have built these bases called Storm Forces to serve as defenses against them, and the story begins ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kazuo UmezuTranslated by:Kumar SivasubramanianAdapted by:What They SayThe spine-chilling influence of Japanese horror cinema has taken hold of Western audiences, with many of these terrifying films being adapted from classic m...
What They SayLast minute preparations have been made, as the impending battle for Kanna draws near. In the furious climax, not all of the Samurai will survive.
There is no turning back.The Review!Carnage is underway as the Bandits relentlessly attack Kan...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoko MatsushitaTranslated by:David Ury/Kelly Sue DeConnickAdapted by:What They SayAs a Guardian of Death, Asato Tsuzuki has a lot to think about. First of all, there are all those dead people. Someone's got to escort them safe...
HOUSTON, April 2, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you the third volume of Air Gear and the thin-packed Diamond Daydreams Complete Collection. Both of these exciting titles will be avail...
The creative dream-team of writer Warren Ellis and artist Simone Bianchi begin their run on Astonishing X-Men with a mutant murder mystery. After Storm returns to the team from Wakanda, the group leaves from its new base in San Francisco to examine a...