Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino has signed on to star in "TheLastTemplar," reports Variety. The new NBC mini-series will be based on the bestselling novel from Raymond Khoury. Sorvino will join Victor Garber ("Eli Stone," "Al...
If you grew up with a fondness for classic animation, you should still remember one story in particular: When thelast eagle flies over thelast crumbling mountain, and thelast lion roars at thelast dusty fountain…
She's in the s...
As part of the Licensing International Expo 2008 conference, director M. Night Shyamalan, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies were on hand to preview their next high profile team effort, an adaptation of TheLast Airbender. Nickelodeon sent media ou...
What They SayJapan\'s top anime creators bring a richly romantic action/adventure fantasy in an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of a young and heroic air pilot duo --- C...
What They SayAt the Yokata Air Force Base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam war. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatch...
What They SayJapan\'s top anime creators bring a richly romantic action/adventure fantasy in an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of a young and heroic air pilot duo --- C...
What They SayThe final contest has begun now that Radium Lavans has emerged to make the brutal intentions of Mars fully known. There\'s only one power in the universe mighty enough to stop the destruction and mayhem that this insurrection will cause: Meta...
What They SayWith Lucciola\'s help, Claus, Alvis and Dio escape the Guild ship while Delphine continues to hold Alex Row hostage and tortures him. Anatoray and Disith continue to wage an all-out war against the Guild and many sacrifice their lives in the...
By the end of his life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reportedly hated his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle's friend and fellow writer P.G. Wodehouse (creator of the hilarious Jeeves the Butler stories) recalled that he could get Doyle to pontificate ...
To no one`s surprise, the most successful horror video release this Halloween was THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, which racked up tape sales in the millions and easily dominated the rental charts. However, the most interesting chiller to hit the video superstore...
What They SayThe movie uses the full spectrum of digital animation which is said to have impressed even James Cameron. Japan\'s top creators gathered to make the show, which was shown in theaters using the HDCAM24P format which George Lucas will also be u...
The Review!A good idea, implemented averagely.
::Audio::
When watching the show, I listened to the original Japanese seiyuu (voice actors). The talking, ambient sounds, and background music made good use of the two, built-in, TV speakers. The English t...
What They SayClaus and Tatiana are thrown together to fly a vanship to defend the Silvana from a massive attack orchestrated by Anatoray and Tatiana begins to confide in Claus when the two make an emergency landing. Sophia, who is revealed to be of roya...
People who have no idea what DISCWORLD is have a rather hard time breaking into the series. They aren't written or released in any kind of logical order, which is very interesting for fans, but makes potential new recruits balk at picking one of the books...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THELAST 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...
Bryan Glass and Michael Oeming present a charming story both whimsical for its anthropomorphic heroes and exciting for its visceral action scenes. Mice Templar follows in the footsteps of Don Bluth’s animated film, The Secret of NIMH, presentin...
What They SayClaus and Dio return to Silvana from their vanship expedition to search for the Exile, only to find that Silvana had been hijacked by the Guild. Delphine holds Alvis, Claus and Alex Row hostage and takes them to the Guild ship. Delphine atte...
You and Jeri Ryan are thelast two people on Earth. What do you do? As soon as fanboys around the world stop hyperventilating easy, fellas... long, slow breaths let us explain how this not completely disagreeable scenario sets up the plot of indie filmm...
Like his last work, SOMETHING SO FAMILIAR, Alex Cahill manages to walk the fine line between complex and intentionally obscure in THELAST ISLAND. And like that last work, Cahill works with very little dialogue and relies on images to convey the story. As...
THELAST CASTLE is one of those movies that doesn't promote post-screening argument over its themes, as discussions as to which aspect of the story is least believable will take the forefront. The film is watchable owing to a punchy pace and some fine act...
Dan Abnett releases a slew of Warhammer novels, Jeffrey Thomas continues the bizarre tales of the inter-dimensional Punktown, and alternate historical fiction runs rampant in this edition of the Weekly Book Buzz.
Greetings Maniac readers and wel...
Last week in COMICSCAPE, I somehow accidentally characterized FABLES: THELAST CASTLE as yet another collected edition of previously published issues. More fool me. Turns out that THELAST CASTLE is a one-off issue telling a completely new story from the ...
What They SayJapan\'s top anime creators bring a richly romantic action/adventure fantasy in an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of a young and heroic air pilot duo --- C...
Coming Attractions at Cinescape has learned that the hit science fiction comic book series Y: THELAST MAN has been optioned by New Line Cinema as a feature film. Created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, this ongoing series debuted last ...
With Thanksgiving already a few days cold, the holiday season (along with all of its consumer-driven trappings) has officially arrived and though economists predict lean shopping numbers for the end of this year, you wouldn’t know it by the sheer vo...
THELAST SIEGE by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Mon 07-22-2002)
“Wow,” you might say, “a film with Jeff Fahey and Ernie Hudson, I’ve so got to get this for the dorm.” Yes, you might say that, even though you’re 47 years old and still live in your parents’ garage – guess that Masters degree in Art History really paid o...
Mizuki’s life sucks. First, her mother commits suicide when she is just a child, when her mother finds out that her father is cheating on her. Then she has a boyfriend who regularly cheats on her, then begs for forgiveness and a second chance. Th...
A dash of "Paul is dead" mystique, a hint of ALMOST FAMOUS, and some great performances by the regular and guest cast combine to make "TheLast Goodbye" every bit as good as last week's wonderful episode. This season's taken its time in hitting its strid...
Last Week by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-22-2008)
Last week was my first real chance to escape the confines of work and go shopping. I know it sounds girly but this last quarter of 2007 was brutal. All the running around, deadlines and holidays made it one giant nightmare. I like to shop, ...
What They SayAt the Yokota base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a mysteriou...
What They SayThe winds of revolution howl through Kyoto as the Tokugawa era comes to a violent close. Will Kaede, Kikyoo, and Ayame follow the ninja code of honor and face their vicious destiny, or escape to another world? Will their love for each other a...
Hey look kids, it's an entirely unnecessary company crossover event with the Joker causing all kinds of mayhem! Buy them all!Yes, I'm cynical, but when the publishers feed into my healthy distrust of all things, it only makes it worse. Fresh off the summe...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
In her latest novel, author Patricia Cornwell continues the adventures of coroner Kay Scarpetta, picking up where BLACK NOTICE left off. This time, Scarpetta finds herself the target of a criminal investigation, accused of killing a professional rival and...
Barrel Entertainment has just announced that they will be releasing the 1970s grindhouse classic THELAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET on DVD. Known as “the most vile and disgusting film ever made,” LAST HOUSE was made in 1972 by Roger Watkins (under the pseu...
With his last film hitting DVD just last week, THELAST SAMURAI director Ed Zwick is currently in talks to take over DreamWorks' long stalled epic fantasy film THE TALISMAN. If Zwick's signature on the contract is dry he'll be taking over from Vadim Perel...
All right, the headline's exaggerating the book's one girl-on-girl scene a bit much, but there is a scene with two women kissing (you'll have to read it to find out which ones), but in world with only two men (Yorrick and the astronauts' baby), I don't su...
Following up on our exclusive report that New Line Cinema is developing a movie based on the Vertigo/DC Comics comic book Y: THELAST MAN, a source relays to us the latest developments on this project.According to our inside source, New Line Cinema execut...
What They SayClaus and Lavie deliver Alvis to airship Silvana?s captain, Alex Row. But much to Claus? anger, Alex Row accepts Alvis inhumanely into Silvana and leaves the duo and their damaged ship behind. Claus and Lavie fly to Silvana to retrieve Alvis,...
What They SayClaus and Lavie\'s fathers died attempting to cross the Grand Stream to deliver a message from Anatoray to Disith. Empress Sophia obtains a copy of the original message and discovers it suggested the two empires join forces to defeat the Guil...
Benderspink has yet another comic to film adaptation on the horizon, this one being the second zombie property announced in the past week. To go with last week's announced adaptation of ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, the production company is also taki...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another entry into the Comicscape canon! Last week, I had to pick between two important subjects – the return of Captain America – temporary or not – and the conclusion of DC/Vertigo’s fantas...
Warner Home Video has targeted a May 4 release date for the two-disc DVD of THELAST SAMURAI, last year's Tom Cruise vehicle. A commentary by director Ed Zwick will be included with the movie on disc one.Disc two will contain Zwick's video journal chronic...
The most terrifying part of the first issue of Y: THELAST MAN is not the nail-biting countdown to the release of the male-dominating plague, or even the scenes of every man but one suddenly vomiting blood and bleeding from the eyes as a result. No, indee...
DC Comics has announced that it will be releasing Y THELAST MAN DOUBLE FEATURE edition on October 2. The 64-page, $5.95 book will collect the first two issues of the Vertigo series. According to DC, the second issue has joined the first issue in sellin...
To no one's surprise THELAST SAMURAI cut its way to the top of the chart this week at the box office; nevertheless, Warner Bros. was expecting Tom Cruise's latest adventure to earn more moolah in its opening weekend. The snowstorm that struck the east co...
If you're a Marvel fan at all, and certainly if you still have fond memories of Peter David's superb run on the INCREDIBLE HULK comic book series from #331 in May 1987 to #467 in August 1998, you simply must pick up this astonishing one-shot, the first in...
Former SWAMP THING writer Brian K. Vaughan returns to Vertigo territory with Y THELAST MAN, a new series that begins in July from DC Comics. Here's the series' set-up: "When a mysterious plague suddenly kills every living creature on the planet with a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yamada YugiTranslated by:Melanie SchoenAdapted by:Melanie SchoenWhat They SayWhat would you do if your crush of many years suddenly got married?! After attending his beloved Saitoh\'s wedding, broken-hearted Nagai gets a littl...
I can never praise Y: THELAST MAN enough. Each month, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra (usually) deliver a funny and intriguing episode in their epic of a world with only one man left alive. As of this 44th issue, Yorick Brown's sister, Hero, and, Beth, t...
Last Day in Vietnam is about warriors at relative rest.An American GI sits at a cafe in Saigon. He has bandages on his face, a cast on his arm, a cane for his busted leg. He sits and smokes, and thinks of the beautiful local girl he picked up. In his mind...
Discover the beginning of the legend of King Arthur when the epic-action adventure TheLast Legion rides onto DVD December 18th from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company. As ancient Rome crumbles, the only hope lies with the Roman Emperor...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mamoru Oshii / Katsuya TeradaTranslated by:Camella NiehAdapted by:What They SayAt Yokota Base in Japan, American soldiers stand guard at the brink of the Vietnam War. Although they fear the enemy outside their base, an even mo...
What They SayClaus and Lavie participate in an eight-hour endurance vanship race, and are joined by Dio Eraclea who tries to befriend Claus. Tatiana also participates in the race, but she is actually on a secret mission under Alex Row\'s direction.
In t...
Hey, Happy All Saints Day/Day of the Dead! Hope everybody had a fabulous scary (but not TOO scary) Halloween. Speaking of scary stuff, I didn't list them in the column, but last week Triumph Marketing released a series of DVDs that I find truly frightenin...
Myth Adventures author Robert Asprin unveils a collection of SF war novels, Manfredi’s TheLast Legion leaps onto the audiobook format, and an F. Paul Wilson’s classic gets the collector’s rendition in this edition of the Weekly Book...
What They SayAt the Yokota Air Force base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists with the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a m...
What They SayLAST EXILE has completely blown away fans and critics alike with breathtaking visuals, captivating storylines, and sensational music. Don the headphones and experience the majestic sense of aerial exhilaration effortlessly combined with aural...
What They SayAt the Yokota Air Force base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists with the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a m...
Warner Bros. Pictures THELAST SAMURAI opened last Friday in theaters and on December 1st the U.S. Premiere was held at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.THELAST SAMURAI was the first of the premieres that were to be held this December and...
Column News: With the switch over to the new site design, I thought I’d make a couple of minor changes in High Def Revue. The most notable one is that the Blu-ray discs will be listed first in the Upcoming Discs section from now on. ...
Hey you. Yeah, the person who clicked on this article, not because they were interested in the latest, hottest and coolest things out there for the holidays, but rather because you're like many last minute shoppers who haven't even stepped into the mall s...
In TheLast Mimzy, the title character is something that appears to be a toy stuffed animal bunny – but is really something quite different. Just what Mimzy really is, and what the objects found with her do, becomes a matter of increasing fascina...
What They SayClaus and Tatiana are thrown together to fly a Vanship to defend the Silvana from a massive attack orchestrated by Anatoray and Tatiana begins to confide in Claus when the two make an emergency landing. Sophia, who is revealed to be of royal ...
Welcome to today's column. This time I'll be taking a look at Last Exile volume three, released by Geneon Entertainment. This is a show that has sported a quality dub in its previous volumes, and this volume continues to uphold the standard of work establ...
Shekhar Kapur, the director of ELIZABETH, is in talks to helm THELAST FULL MEASURE for New Line Cinema. MEASURE is a military drama about a idealistic officer in the Pentagon who battles with his superiors hoping that a Medal of Honor can be awarded to a...
What They SayWith Lucciola's help, Claus, Alvis and Dio escape the Guild ship while Delphine continues to hold Alex Row hostage and tortures him. Anatoray and Disith continue to wage an all-out war against the Guild and many sacrifice their lives in their...
What They SayClaus and Lavie\'s fathers died attempting to cross the Grand Stream to deliver a message from Anatoray to Disith. Empress Sophia obtains a copy of the original message and discovers it suggested the two empires join forces to defeat the Guil...
The Review!It's a good thing that they named this movie "TheLast Vampire", otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what was going on... no wait, I still didn't have a clue what was going on.
I'll get to the technical end of things here. The video in Blood ...
What They SayFor pure escapism into the wild blue yonder, it doesn\'t get any better than theLAST EXILE Original Soundtrack, which delivers mesmerizing vocals and highly evocative instrumentals that will entrall and please those who love the grand sense ...
Strieber works his usual prose magic in this imaginative follow-up to THE HUNGER. His rich, realistic dialogue plays beautifully against the complex and believable vampire world that he creates.Vampires, in this world, call themselves "Keepers." Once upon...
Getting in on some early discs here, we took some time to enjoy a Monday evening last night by checking out Geneon\'s 04/06/2004 release of Last Exile Vol. #3, though some folks surely saw these episodes already during that Tech TV run recently.
Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter have joined the cast of Rogue Pictures' remake Last House on the Left, reports Variety. The two will star alongside Sara Paxton, Garret Dillahunt, Rhys Coiro, Martha MacIsaac and Riki Lindhome in the update of the 70's class...
Greg has taken some time to go through a fairly length anime/manga related book this week with the November 2005 release of the Blood theLast Vampire: Night of the Beasts from Dark Horse.
Included in the final release product for Geneon\'s Last Exile Vol. #1 is a little sheet that lists the release dates for all the volumes with the caveat that they are subject to change. Due to that, we\'ve only added them to the upcoming list and will ad...
What They SayFrom one of Japan\'s most renowned anime studios - GONZO (Hellsing, Full Metal Panic) - comes a richly romantic action/ adventure fantasy on an imaginary planet where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against the lavish backgr...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Creative Hon / Artist: Yong-Wan KwonTranslated by:Sora HanAdapted by:What They SayTian and Drei von Richenstein, two unlikely heroes, embark on an adventure filled with excitement...intrigue...and a bit of comic reli...
The dust has now settled on the San Diego Comic Con. Prices have already begun to rise on eBay for a lot of the exclusives. Cobra Commander in the Blue Suit is already going through the roof. There was almost too much to look on the showroom floor at the ...
What They SayClaus and Dio return to the Silvana from their Vanship expedition to search for Exile, only to find that the Silvana has been hijacked by the Guild. Delphine takes Alvis, Claus and Alex Row hostage and transports them to the Guild ship where ...
New Line Cinema has set D.J. Caruso to direct and Carl Ellsworth to write the comicbook adaptation of Pia Guerra, José Marzan, Jr. and Brian K. Vaughn's Y: THELAST MAN.
The story revolves around a mysterious plague killing nea...
What They SayMusic composed by Hiromoto Tobisawa, Kaoru Oohori, Takanori Masuda, and Keiji Katayama. Lyrics by Keiji Mizutani and Kaoru Asagi. Vocal performances by Kouichi Yamadera, Yoshino Takamori, Yasunori Matsumoto, and Naoko Matsui. The Review!3 out...
What They SayThe movie uses the full spectrum of digital animation which is said to have impressed even James Cameron. Japan\'s top creators gathered to make the show, which was shown in theaters using the HDCAM24P format which George Lucas will also be u...
Emerging screenwriter Alexi Hawley has been called in to perform a last minute rewrite on the script for EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING. Hawley serves as the new writer for the picture's new director, Renny Harlin, who is replacing the fired Paul Schrader. Harli...
Fans of Showtime's JEREMIAH television series, take note: Platinum Studios and Jeremiah Portal are putting together a special online session with Andrew Foley, the writer of the upcoming JEREMIAH: THELAST EMPIRE comic book. The session will take place to...
Y: THELAST MAN is probably the best non-superhero title being in print right now. I don't only qualify it that way because I have a superhero book in mind that's so much better (I don't), but only because it's more along the lines of a Vertigo series li...
Speaking with Sci Fi Wire, screenwriter Jeff Vintar the latest news on his work adapting the Vertigo comic book series Y: THELAST MAN into a screenplay. Vintar is working with writer David Goyer who has had plenty of personal experience turning comic boo...
Though there's no real end in site Nancy Cartwright is on a personal crusade to keep THE SIMPSONS on the air forever. Cartwright, the voice of insufferable scamp Bart Simpson, is hoping that while some rumblings have been heard recently about the show com...
Latino Review broke the exclusive first look at the teaser poster for Tom Cruise's next film, THELAST SAMURAI. Set for release on December 5, the film has Cruise playing a late 19th century Civil War hero hired by the Emperor of Japan to educate the cou...
After the three-hour epic premiere, "Saga of a Star World," writers Glen Larson and Donald Bellisario took the crew of the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA to explore the mysteries of their ancestral home world of Kobol. On the long-lost planet, Commander A...
Sony Pictures is pushing ahead with the sequels I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER 3, HOLLOW MAN 2, and ROAD HOUSE 2. It has not been determined yet whether Columbia Pictures or Screen gems will release them theatrically or whether any or all will go directl...
New Line Cinema has confirmed that Howard Shore is doing the original score for TheLast Mimzy, a dark fairy-tale about two siblings who develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Robert Shaye, one of the executive producers on the...
According to J.K. Rowling via an update of her official website, the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series is her personal favorite.Rowling writes:Charles Dickens put it better than I ever could:'It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to...
A seven-minute preview of X-Men: TheLast Stand has shown up online via Dell. You can view the clip here.The clip features the two newest characters: Beast (Kelsey Grammer) and Angel (Ben Foster). Storm and Wolverine are also in the clip.While there, yo...
20th Century Fox has released the newest trailer for X-MEN: THELAST STAND. The movie opens in theaters on May 26th. As previsouly repored, the film stars Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer...
Icons of Fright.com attended the Monster Mania convention held this past weekend in Cherry Hill, N.J. had these two key stories to report.Wes Craven was on one of the panel discussions and he told the crowd that he recently had breakfast with Neve Campbel...
Square Enix (the same developers of the FINAL FANTASY series) has debuted a trailer for their upcoming fantasy epic, THELAST REMNANT. This game is expected to hit the markets on May 10, 2008 for both the PS3 and the Xbox360. Gamevideos has posted the tra...
It looks like Santa is dropping the presents, grabbing the guns and taking on zombies in THELAST CHRISTMAS, says Hollywood Reporter. The comic book, created by Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan, is getting adapted to the big screen in the near fut...
Congrats to Craig Ramirez for winning the Mini-Goddesses #4 prize this afternoon! Up for our last one today is Saber Marionette J to X Vol. #3 from Bandai Entertainment!
Congrats to Don Zimmerman this morning who has scored a copy of Dokkoida?! Vol. #2 from us. Today is thelast day of the contest and we\'ve got a copy of Tsukihime Vol. #1 up for grabs, so get your entry in and try to end the year with a win!
Well, that may be a bit subjective, but in a sizeable change from most of their recent series that have been done in letterbox format but not anamorphic, the Japanese DVD release of the first volume of Last Exile just came out and it breaks the bad trend ...
With direct M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming supernatural thriller The Happening hitting theaters this Friday, the media has a chance to approach him a couple of subjects in his field of vision. One such project is the upcoming adaptation of TheLast Airbend...
Timur Bekmambetov, the man behind the Russian vampire series Night Watch, has a new vampire tale to spread for Universal Pictures, this time mixing the folk lore with the holy grail mythology. Variety reports that Universal and producer Bekmambetov are se...
Paul\'s checking in from the UK this morning by closing out one of his series with a last look at the 12/26/2005 release of Last Exile Vol. #7 (of 7) from ADV Films UK.
Our adult pile has grown again a bit recently so we\'ve got a look today at the 09/12/2006 release of TheLast Kunoichi Vol. #1 from Adult Source Media.
Mia Farrow will be joining the cast of the live-action remake of THELAST UNICORN. According to the film's website, Farrow will play Molly Grue, the outlaw with a pure heart who can see unicorns. This will be the second time Farrow has involved herself in...
CHATSWORTH, CA (September 11, 2006) " Adult Source Media, the fastest growing distributor of Japanese Adult Anime, has announced the release of the popular Japanese title, TheLast Kunoichi. A world of mystery, suspense and sex unfolds in this battle of ...
The Review!The anime that has already become popular when shown at an anime convention in Canada finally makes it's way here. It took about a year, but it's finally on DVD to own. And it is well worth checking out.
Audio: Okay, here's the layout. When yo...
What They SayYusuke is a young, orphaned, high-school student who just happened to be late for class one day. Little did he know that his tardiness would consequently put him in the right place at the right time…soaking in the middle of a muddy pudd...
Lionsgate has stepped up to make screen scribe Stuart Gibbs' debut novel, TheLast Equation, reports Variety. Production will be overseen for the studio by vice president Jim Miller. Plot Concept: An action-thriller, the contemporary story pivots on gove...
While we still don't have one official released trailer for The Incredible Hulk, we've had plenty of coverage for Iron Man. Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios has revealed the latest (and likely last) poster for the upcoming Jon Favreau-directed advent...
I KNOW WHAT YOU QUOTED LAST SUMMER is the massively dumb title of a massively interesting film quiz book. I KNOW, which was complied by the author of the WHAT'S THAT FROM ? movie quote book, sets up two levels to the quiz.First, the book presents series o...
Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned French children's book "TheLast Giants" by Francois Place.Set in the mid-1800s, the story revolves around a paleontologist who discovers what appears to be an enormous human tooth inscribed with a map. He sets off on a ...
Y: TheLast Man by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 01-26-2007)
Premise: After a mysterious plague has wiped out every male mammal with a Y chromosome on the planet save for a twentysomething amateur escape artist and a monkey he was training, Yorick Brown and Ampersand become the two most wanted individuals in ...
October 10th marks the first day of principal photography for the upcoming Edward Zwick period epic starring Tom Cruise, THELAST SAMURAI. Cruise plays an American military adviser retained by the Emperor of Japan to modernize the country's military.Zwick...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER has announced that John Travolta (SWORDFISH, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE) is in negotiations to star in Intermedia Films' JOE'S LAST CHANCE. Andrew Bergman (STRIPTEASE, HONEYMOON IN VEGAS) will direct. Following in the ANALYZE THIS vein, L...
Not that it was unexpected, but the Sci-Fi Channel has sagely renewed Ronald D. Moore's updated BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. So, those still reeling from the shocking final moments of the finale can breathe a sigh of relief. With an elegant first part, "Kobol's ...
Rogue Pictures has signed a deal to remake Wes Craven's THELAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.Craven, who wrote and directed the original, will produce the remake with longtime partner Marianne Maddalena and Sean S. Cunningham. The latter produced the original. Crav...
January is a cold, pale month that's made blearier by the post-Christmas blahs. The early days of 2008 have been a little more cheerful, however, because a mysterious movie called Cloverfield has initiated enough speculation and discussion to help us forg...
Wes Craven has hired Adam Alleca to write and Dennis Iliadis to direct the remake of THELAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.
The story will center on killers who inadvertently seek refuge with the parents of one of their victims. The remake will aim f...
According to Reuters, thelast film made by the late Anna Nicole Smith, a sci fi comedy titled Illegal Aliens, will be released onto DVD this May. The film stars Smith as one of three aliens who transform themselves into super-hot babes and arrive to p...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, M. Night Shyamalan will write, direct and produce the live-action big-screen adaptation of Avatar: TheLast Airbender.Avatar is set in a world balanced on four nations -- Water, Earth, Fire and Air. In each society, th...
THELAST SAMURAI is coming together in casting and is set to star shooting in a few months. The latest evidence: Billy Connolly (TIMELINE, MRS. BROWN), Tony Goldwyn (THE 6TH DAY, TARZAN) and Timothy Spall (VANILLA SKY) have all signed to join Tom Cruise i...
Having finally watched the review DVD of Bloodline--The Movie, I think I can now guess why the traditional complimentary promo copies of this film are as rare as hen’s teeth. Fundamentally, the ability to rewind and freeze-frame the action provides ...
The production company Benderspink, led by Chris Bender and J.C. Spink, is amassing quite a collection of comic properties for the big screen. The trades have announced their latest pick Last Blood, based on Bobby Crosby's comic book. The project wi...
Director M. Night Shyamalan, who's putting the final touches on his R-rated The Happening thriller, has sat down with Empire Online and talked a bit about his upcoming adaptation of TheLast Airbender. They took off the "Avatar" name because Par...
It’s that time of year again where shopping becomes warfare and finding that perfect gift is some times more stressful than actually buying it.
That’s where this Gift Guide comes in handy. It’s not the end-all, be-all of Gift ...
Here there be spoilersread with care.Where to begin? THE WEST WING is as good a spot to start as any, I expect. To be absolutely honest, I haven't hung out with the Bartlet administration regularly for three years. When creator Aaron Sorkin left at the...
There was some concern about the X-MEN franchise changing directorial hands on its third installment, with Brett Ratner taking over after Bryan Singer had succeeded in making most people very happy with installments one and two. Ratner demonstrates immedi...
What would Albert Einstein do? Well, the story behind this latest movie on the horizon tells what he didn't want to do, says the Hollywood Reporter. The trade announced that screenwriter Sascha Penn is in charge of adapting Stuart Gibbs' novel TheLast Eq...
Universal has bought thetheatrical rights for the Oni Press graphic novel series TheLast Call, reports Variety. The studio has set up Barry Josephson to produce while they have Evan Spiliotopoulos (The Box) adapting the comic to screenplay. The project ...
It's been a few weeks since we had a chance to talk some Y: TheLast Man, thelast bit of rumor control concerning whether actor Shia LaBeouf would hook back with the film's director D.J Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) to lead the comic adaptation. But news...
In the third part of her exclusive interview with CINESCAPE magazine, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER producer/writer Marti Noxon discussed whether the seventh season of the series would be its last."I don't know," said Noxon when asked if Season 7 will be the s...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mera HakamadaTranslated by:Nancy Barron, Ben ApplegateAdapted by:Shannon Fay, Janet HouckWhat They SayEach girl at Tsubakigaoka Girls\' Dorm is paired with a roommate. Tsumugi with Beniko, and Ai with Fuuko. Yet the girls each...
What They SayIn an imaginary world where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies live young and heroic van ship sky porters Claus and Lavie, who are forced to take on a mission to deliver a mysterious girl, Alvis, to the battle ship Silvana. Befo...
What They SayAs the surviving members of the Borgman team try to adjust to a normal life, a new wave of cyber-crime stalks the city. Now thelast three bio-enhanced humans on Earth find themselves pitted against the most monstrous foes they have ever face...
The idea for a new military action movie just got sold to 20th Century Fox, with director John Moore (BEHIND ENEMY LINES) attached to make it. The project is called THELAST MISSION and it was pitched to Fox-based Davis Entertainment by screenwriters Joe ...
THELAST SAMURAI is a big, sumptuous adventure movie that plays a lot like DANCES WITH WOLVES set in 1876 Japan. There is nothing inherently wrong with this WOLVES had a solid structure worth emulating and the SAMURAI environs, both physical and social, ...
It's ironic that 2001 would be the year of release for one of Stanley Kubrick's most eagerly awaited and controversial motion pictures. With Steven Spielberg writing and directing what was to be the late master's greatest sci-fi epic, A.I. is a film to be...
The struggling rock band The Problem has a big problem they see ghosts. Of course, the TV series DEAD LAST has a few problems of its own, namely a title that begs to be mocked and a premise that sounds just about as ridiculous as they come.However, with ...
Superman Returns by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 04-22-2005)
Genre:Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Action.Studio:Warner Brothers.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Brandon Routh (Clark Kent/Kal-El/"Superman"); Kevin Spacey (Lex Luthor); Kate Bosworth (Lois Lane); Hugh Laurie (Pe