...ctions of theLoneRanger. This isn't Clayton Moore on Saturday morning television. This is UNFORGIVEN and its attendant visceral consequences. Carriello conveys the sun-blighted desolation of 19th century Texas with both dusty landscapes and fleeti...
Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the scribes behind the Pirates of the Caribbean films, are in final negotiations to write a live-action big-screen adaptation of TheLoneRanger for Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The project will be made by Disney an...
David Webb Peoples, who wrote the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film UNFORGIVEN, has been hired to write a screenplay for THELONERANGER. Peoples will write the screenplay together with his wife, Janet. The couple previously teamed up to produce TWELVE ...
Only weeks after the WB network announced it's bringing back a SMALLVILLE style remake of THELONERANGER, comes word Columbia Pictures is looking at bringing the western/action-adventure icon to the big screen in a "MASK OF ZORRO style remake."GLADIATOR ...
...ion icon, THELONERANGER. The pilot, staring fresh faces Chad Murray and Nathanial Arcand, centers on a younger version of the classic LoneRanger and Tonto set-up. No word on when WB will decide on when and how these two shows will be making it onto ...
After Superman and Tarzan, who should The WB TV network look at now as future TV fodder? Word has it that THELONERANGER may be next.According to the Hollywood Reporter, producer and former WB entertainment prez Susanne Daniels is currently in talks to b...
UPI notes that THELONERANGER first aired 70 years ago Tuesday on radio station WXYZ in Detroit.The masked western lawman helped define the genre of the western for both radio and television audiences.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at fe...
...o created theLoneRanger. The series, which ran until 1952 on the Mutual and NBC Blue networks, followed the adventures of Britt Reid, a bored playboy whose life is changed when he inherits his father's crusading newspaper, The Daily Sentinel. He save...
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... same way TheLoneRanger and Red Sonja were launched - with reverence for what's come in the past that fans loved, but moving the story forward and making it accessible to new fans."Dynamite did not offer any details on the format, creators or la...
At every video store I’ve ever worked, there was always one thing that was the same. We were always instructed to list our favorite titles that would coincide with that month’s holiday. Personally, ‘Gremlins', ‘Die Hard&r...
...er or not TheLoneRanger or Archie (both Gold titles) will leave that store, the guy behind the counter has to shoulder the cost if he wants to carry the Free Comic Book Day Edition of Justice League of America #0 (a Silver title). Retailers not...
...r. Solar, TheLoneRanger, The Phantom, Retro Rocket, Bog the Swamp Demon, Nexus, The Moth, Earthboy Jacobus, Atomika, Robotika, Fist of Justice, Liberty Girl and much much more. The characters in the 6-7" action figure line will also grace the ne...
...achgook, theLoneRanger and Tonto, or Han Solo and Chewbacca.
As far as the new cultures and languages and stuff I invented, all that was very influenced by various Native American cultures. Growing up in New Mexico you get a lot of that. W...
...sp; THELONERANGER: The Legend Begins (Mill Creek) 32 episodes.(O) THE MONSTER OF PHANTOM LAKE (Braun) Spoof of 1950s monster movies, made in Minnesota. (O) OUT THERE (Microcinema) Compilation of spectacular NASA footage ...
...Regarding theLONERANGER: "I think that mask and the powder blue outfit are fantastic. I can certainly see why the Indian follows him around." Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
... that was theLoneRanger, wearing 3-D goggles instead of a mask. Now, they were saying that it’s a copyrighted character and they couldn’t possibly allow this. We were saying, “Well, actually, theLoneRanger in 3-D goggles...
...EN?Can't. TheLoneRanger is owned by someone else. Legally, we can't refer to him without optioning that character as well.HAVE YOU STARTED WRITING THE SCRIPT?Yes. I'm fifty pages in.ARE YOU GOING TO FINISH "SPIDEY/BLACK CAT" AND "TARGET" BEFORE YOU G...
...re story TheLoneRanger -- who was told to cease and desist from the movie company from wearing the mask and appearing in public, doing personal appearances. ... I play the guy who defends him, a character called Red Rock, a TV hero who's an older ma...
...orro, and TheLoneRanger on cassette and book, but to this day I still remember that JLA story: Green Lantern and Superman building the headquarters, each individual JLA member using their abilities to stop a different threat, and what the aliens did...
In the Prize Closet this week we have FIVE copies of Clerks 2 (plus a t-shirt with each one) to give away, courtesy of Weinstein. To enter, send an email to psycho@psychotronic.info which includes your name and address, and the subject line “RETU...
Filmmaker Kevin Smith will continue his longtime business partnership with Miramax Films for the foreseeable future. With his next film, JERSEY GIRL, waiting for its March 2004 premiere, Smith has turned his attention towards two new films he's thinking a...
Genre:Action/Historical/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:Paramount Pictures.Production Company:Mutual Film Company.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Darren Aronofsky (Director); Darren Aronofsky, Eric Watson (Screenwriters); bas...
The Pokemon series has been around for many years, and was a driving force in the success of the Gameboy systems. The original games, Blue and Red, spawned many sequels allowing people to collect more than the original 151 creatures. It has inspired a ...
Director Darren Aronofsky has been selected to direct the feature film version of LONE WOLF AND CUB, an adaptation of the Japanese graphic novel of the same title. The series of LONE WOLF graphic novels have been translated and published domestically by ...
Boasting the best-selling action figure series in America, Bandai is celebrating their 2006 Anniversary with 6.5-inch mock-ups of the Red Power Ranger from six different morphin, monster-fighting seasons. Premiering after Power Rangers in Space and before...
Jeff Watson, former Night Ranger and Mother's Army guitarist has joined the growing rank of artists that have chosen to release an "online only" album. The new solo album, Now Hear This One, Jeff's third, is actually half new material and half material th...
AnimEigo, the company responsible for the domestic DVD releases of such anime classics as OH MY GODDESS! and AD POLICE FILES, announced that they're issuing a re-release of the cult hit film LONE WOLF AND CUB. The news was issued at this weekend's Anime E...
Director Peter Berg has been selected to head up another Universal flick, LONE SURVIVOR, which is based off a real Navy Seal's experience in Afghanistan. Quite a few producers have been trying to get the life story of Seal Marcus Luttrell's life story whi...
Sideshow Collectibles is taking pre-orders for their Aragorn as Strider theRangerThe Lord of the Rings 12-inch Figure. It's scheduled to ship in the third quarter of 2006 with a price of $64.99. The 12-inch Aragorn figure includes:Authentic likeness of ...
Things continue to heat up this week on the videogame side, as an avalanche of games is ready to rock your world, and your wallet. What was more surprising to me though, is that most of these are for the PSP. Perhaps Sony is helping developers to make...
Hey Gamers! Feeling buried under the veritable landslide of recent DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS releases? CINESCAPE is here to save the day with a brake-down of three recent D&D publications that every gamer should know about.D&D Publication #1: CITY OF THE SPIDE...
Comic book writer Micah Wright is at the center of a scandal that exposes his claims of being an Army Ranger -- and of having served in the invasion of Panama in 1989 -- as lies. Wright, who has been outspoken against the Iraq war, has been claiming for t...
His name, his face, and his voice are synonymous with Horror, however Vincent Price began his career on Broadway, but where it would end was far cry different then he could have ever predicted. Vincent Price would go on to become the Master of the Ma...
The latest Best Selling lists have been released from most of the news publications for this past week. It looks like author James Patterson is leading the way on most of the lists from his latest novel, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. Here's a look at the Best Selle...
Videogame RPGs come in a variety of colors and models. On one side of the spectrum you’ve got your hardcore battle mode grinders, often with serious storylines, and then on the other you have the lighter, less intense and usually more kid friendly o...
In breaking with tradition this week, a Pocket Star release has given me an excuse to spend most of my discourse on something I positively love: WARCRAFT.
Ever since playing a demo version of the original Warcraft (on a Shuckysoft shareware CD) a...
This week's DVD peeve: UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION OF THIS COLUMN MAY RESULT IN FINES AND/OR IMPRISONMENT BLAH BLAH BLAH... Many readers are mighty peeved at discs that don't allow you to skip over the lame FBI warning or any other material - at the start ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom La-La Land Records comes The Fantasy Film Music of George Pal (LLLCD 1016), a new limited edition collection of more than an hour's worth of music from the famed sci-fi producer's last seven films, much of which has never b...
Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima are names that any fan of samurai flicks should know. Koike, the writer behind such classics as Lady Snowblood, The Babycart films (mashed up in the West as the bastardized Shogun Assassin), and Crying Freeman, and artist...
Catwoman by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 06-03-2004)
Genre:Comic Book Adaptation/Action.Studio:Warner Bros.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Halle Berry (Patience Price/"Catwoman"); Sharon Stone (Laurel Hedare); Benjamin Bratt (Detective Tom Lone); Lambert Wilson (Georges Hedare)...
Due in large part to its commitment toward developing original programming of both an episodic and telefilm nature (FARSCAPE, DUNE, FIRESTARTER: REKINDLED), the Sci Fi Channel is providing fans of the B5 universe with a reason to smile again. Specifically...
Just as more and more original film scores are captured on disc despite the ongoing proliferation of song collections masquerading as "film music" the increasing market for classic and forgotten film scores being fully restored either through archival r...
BASIC is diverting (except for its casual and extraneous homophobia) in a kind of USA cable movie way, watchable but somewhat hamstrung by conflicting impulses. On the one hand, director John McTiernan and writer James Vanderbilt clearly intend their film...
Sometimes brilliant, sometimes... not... action film director John McTiernan is in talks to direct a "crime drama" hopefully nothing like his last released film, February's ROLLERBALL. The project, called BOOSTER, is based on a book by Eugene Izzi and cen...
Odds are good that THE TRANSPORTER will do much better in venues where audiences are accustomed to shrugging off screwy plots as disposable packaging for a lot of very impressive kick-ass setpieces. Director Corey Yuen provides his European cast with a fr...
The Hollywood Reporter mentions that second unit director Alexander Witt is going to get his chance calling all the shots on RESIDENT EVIL 2, scheduled to begin filming in August in Toronto, Canada. Milla Jovovich will reprise her role as Alice, thelone...
Rambo by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Wed 08-23-2006)
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Slyvester Stallone
Screenwriter: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Jake La Botz, Tim Kang, Paul SchulzeGenre: Action, Adv...
The first issue of R.A. SALVATORE'S DEMONWARS: TRIAL BY FIRE is now available for free on CrossGen's website. Based on the author's series of fantasy novels chronicling the adventures of barbarian Ranger Andacanavar and his companions, the TRIAL BY FIRE ...
The impossible has happened. Marvel has seen several of its major properties adapted in some solidly entertaining motion pictures, and now, after decades of waiting and wondering, we are about to see the flagship hero of the Marvel Universe swinging his w...
Popular X-FILES writer John Shiban has already found his post-FILES gig, now that the show is ending after nine seasons. Where's he going? Space.Shiban has signed on as the newest writer for the STAR TREK prequel series ENTERPRISE.In an interview about th...
Director Jay Woelfel's UNSEEN EVIL stars Richard Hatch (Apollo from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) and Tim Thomerson (Jack Deth himself) in a pleasantly surprising, low budget, direct-to-video little chiller. Today we continue our profile of Woelfel and his partic...
Yeah, so, UPN has officially cancelled the "I'm a teenage alien" drama ROSWELL. I'm sure this news comes as a shock to absolutely no one. Of course, this isn't the first time ROSWELL has been given its walking papers. The WB canned the show after one seas...
Following up on our exclusive report that New Line Cinema is developing a movie based on the Vertigo/DC Comics comic book Y: THE LAST MAN, a source relays to us the latest developments on this project.According to our inside source, New Line Cinema execut...
Former SWAMP THING writer Brian K. Vaughan returns to Vertigo territory with Y THE LAST 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...
For nine years, we've been promised that the truth is out there. With the conclusion of THE X-FILES' formidable run this past Sunday, we finally did learn The Truththough much of it proved to be a recap of the past more than new revelations in the present...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...
People outside of Texas can hear about just how seriously theLone Star State takes its high school football, but for those who have some trouble grasping the notion, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a brilliant illustration. A movie that is very much about footbal...
OPINION: Did anyone else catch the excellent NEW YORK TIMES article on graphic novels in the magazine section this past Sunday? If not, you can find it on-line here (once you've registered for a free membership, of course). And make sure to check out the ...
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, the obscure 1970s ABC TV series that inspired Chris Carter to create Fox's hit THE X-FILES show, is being reinvented by celebrated X-FILES writer-producer Frank Spotnitz. The circle is officially complete. Somewhere, Fox Mulder...
Giving Thanks by David Michael Wharton (Mon 11-22-2004)
So this is the time of year when we're all supposed to spend time dwelling on the things we're thankful for. Given the state of the world -- with famine, disease, poverty, and war rampant -- probably the most arrogant, myopic thing I could possibly do is ...
Some computer companies seem to tend to squeeze the last nickel out of their products. "New World Computing" and "3DO" released a plethora of Might and Magic titles and add-ons. Heroes of Might and Magic III (HoMM III) got an incredible number of add-ons;...
With under a month to go before his next picture opens in theaters, director Roland Emmerich (THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) is making some news by teaming up with his former business associate on a new thriller. ANTHEM is the title of the project that Emmerich ...
OPINION: First of all, a point of clarification: a certain web site which shall remain nameless felt the need to link to last week's column with the headline CINESCAPE BLASTS HELLBLAZER'S CONSTANTINE, with a "synopsis" line reading "Who needs to see a mov...
My first reaction to titles like FINAL DESTINATION 2 is to scoff. I mean, isn't that a contradiction? How can there be so many FINAL FANTASYs isn't any of them the FINAL one? And shouldn't there always be another sequel to NEVERENDING STORY? But given th...
After hearing rumors that Owen Wilson (SHANGHAI KNIGHTS) and Josh Lucas (HULK) were the frontrunners for the role, a decision has finally been announced as to who will play the police detective ally for CATWOMAN. Actor Benjamin Bratt has won the part of D...
When I was a kid, superhero movies sucked. No, not just in movies that were poorly made, but all of them. Comic-books presented the kinds of stories that just couldn't be made into movies, which is one of the reasons readers cherished them so much. Anythi...
Action Music by Randall D. Larson (Thu 01-15-2004)
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom France comes the first ever original soundtrack release of the full score from 1976's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Record Makers 7243 593241 2 8). The movie was John Carpenter's sophomore directorial effort, a kind of RIO BRAVO ...
OPINIONI finally got to see THE HULK yesterday, and now I see why it's gotten such mixed reviews. It's a nicely thought-out movie, and it tells Bruce Banner's story in the only plausible way that it could be told in 2003. On the other hand, it takes a lot...
With the start of 2008 comes news of the next round of book-to-screen translations, and if you’re like me this news is usually met with equal doses of boyish hope and fearful skepticism. Because as all of us readers know the translation of a book in...
A slim release schedule doesn’t mean skimpy genre fare as this week’s debuts prove with big releases from powerhouse authors Kate Elliott, Orson Scott Card, and Ursula K. Le Guin along with newcomer Paul Genesse and a handful of talent from ac...
Strike Victims by Stephen Lackey, Columnist (Mon 02-18-2008)
The war is over and now it’s time to pick up the pieces. The most famous victim of the last war was Moonlighting. It looks like several series are in danger of dying similar deaths as a result of the writer’s strike. Some of the...
Anna Mercury is a lone agent working to stop the fascist government of New Ataraxia from leveling the neighboring Sheol. Through alliances with Sheol resistance fighters, she has learned of New Ataraxia’s condition for its neighbor. Sheol ...
The Winchesters are back with their bag of tricks, and it’s a mixed bag. The final episode prior to the break introduced the new mega demon, Lilith, and set things up for the big battle. This episode - rather than pick up any threads from ...
Mother’s Day is only a few days away (May 11th) and I thought I would suggest a title for Mom. First Knight is the story about the love triangle between King Arthur (Sean Connery), Guinevere (Julia Ormond) and Lancelot (Richard Gere). The film ...
Nine out of ten manga fans agree: If you're not following Yuki Urushibara's Mushishi, you are denying yourself of the greatest seinen series since Death Note and Cowboy Bebop.
Unlike Death Note or Cowboy Bebop, however, there's little to sell about Mush...
20th Century Fox has provided Mania with the latest batch of press materials, which includes six new clips of their upcoming sci-fi adventure Jumper and an expanded detailed plot synopsis. The film, based on the best-selling book by Steven Gould, was...
A day after United Artists made an interim deal with the WGA, the studio is now looking to get the ball rolling forward while other studios are left out in the cold. The smaller branch, led by Cruise and Wagner, had hopes to adapt the childrens fanta...
The horror-comedy genre has been alive and kicking for a long time, namely because of Troma Pictures, a production company that has been around for 33 years now. Troma has over 800 titles, film and television, in their collection and their influence ...
Wizardry 8 by Branislav "Bane" Babovic (Tue 12-18-2001)
Far before most of the gaming population today started realizing what computers are, the first six parts of the Wizardry serial had already been on the market for various platforms - from consoles to personal computers with but a couple of megabytes of RA...
Two-time Oscar winner Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) has just inked a nonexclusive deal with United Artists, which will give him an opportunity to produce, write and direct at least two features a year through his new production company Hwy61. A...
When it comes to Mel Brooks, there`s two kinds of people: those who love him, and those who don`t. So before you read this review, you should be well aware that the only Mel Brooks film I really like is Young Frankenstein. As much as I can appreciate his ...
After hiring on as a director to projects developed without him (PEE WEE`S BIG ADVENTURE, BEETLEJUICE, BATMAN), Tim Burton showed what he could do when he developed a project of his own. The result is a sweet fantasy that for the first time crystalized t...
In the first part of our Ridley Scott profile, the director explained how the events of Sept. 11 affected the release of his new military drama, BLACK HAWK DOWN. The true tale of U.S. servicemen who were stranded in Somalia in 1993 and participated in the...
After nine seasons, THE X-FILES will wrap it up this May; about two seasons too late by my watch.You know, it hurts me to say bad things about THE X-FILES. I'm a total nerd. I used to love the show. But now THE X-FILES is all about Doggett (Robert Patrick...
In parts one and two of CINESCAPE's discussion with Josh Hartnett and Tom Sizemore, the duo discussed their new war drama, BLACK HAWK DOWN. The film, which is based on the 1993 true story of U.S. soldiers who found themselves trapped in Somalia when two o...
Never say never again.David Duchovny will reprise his role as Fox Mulder in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES on May 19.Wow, that almost makes me want to watch the show again. Almost.X-FILES creator Chris Carter promises to wrap up the whole mytho...
So, I'm sitting here eating away at my pile of Girl Scout cookies and I'm thinking, "You know what would really make a good show? I wanna see a sitcom about a group of twenty-something friends livin' and lovin' in the big city? How come networks don't mak...
No sooner has CBS gotten it's first drama in years free of sniggering critical laughs (i.e. WALKER, TEXAS RANGER; DR. QUINN; DIAGNOSIS MURDER) than it's looking for a spin-off.According to the WASHINGTON POST, an episode later this year will have the C.S....
PUNISHER #6 by Arnold T. Blumberg (Thu 11-29-2001)
It's gotten to the point where I can't conceive of reading the Punisher in adventures written by anyone other than Garth Ennis. Not since the character's first introduction by Gerry Conway in the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 has Frank Castle seemed so...
Summer has arrived, and with it comes a whole spate of genre movies: the very successful SHREK and the less-than-exceptional EVOLUTION, ATLANTIS for the kids and TOMB RAIDER for the grownups, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS for teen-agers and DR. DOLITTLE 2 for ...
The latest creation from TidalWave Studios, ATLAS, will be featured as a three-part back-up story beginning in Image Comics' 10th MUSE #7."We are gearing up to start a superhero group called The Odyssey," said Darren G. Davis, president of TidalWave Studi...
It's been a quick six months, and LEGION WORLDS has come to an end all too soon, paving the way for the new LEGION series beginning next month. What a wild ride it's been.This time around, we focus on the planet Rimbor, where Phantom Girl has gone to find...
The writing team of John Zakour and Lawrence Ganem have created an excellent first novel in the form of THE PLUTONIUM BLODE. The book is half a silly parody of '30s pulp fiction, and half an intelligent, insightful comedy in the style of the great Douglas...
So, you walk into your local video superstore this week and find the new-release wall covered with twenty copies of some snore-fest, and maybe fifty copies of some pretentious waste of time. Then, you realize you've seen every other major new release. Now...
Welcome to the mean, cold streets of Tokyo, where the dames are deceptive, the detectives are hard-boiled and the chain smoking never stops.
Though the city does have its dark allies and districts, Tokyo isn't really associated with harde...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
We look forward to summer movies as entertainments that deliver thrilling action sequences, dazzling special effects, chills up our spines and gags that keep us laughing. Transformers does all that to perfection, zipping along at a pace that makes its 144...
Ever since its explosion onto the global screen in 1995, the Ghost in the Shell series has provided viewers with a profoundly philosophical, yet innovatively stylized look into a near future world where the lines between man and machine finally blur. Thro...
Dark Horse continues its re-printing of Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian series with Chronicles of Conan Volume 12. This trade paperback collects issues #91, and 93 to 100 of the original Conan series as Conan concludes his travels along the Black Coast...
If you think you’ve seen The Condemned before you wouldn’t be entirely mistaken. It borrows elements from several films including Escape from New York, Running Man, and No Escape. Despite that, this is actually a pretty good action flick and r...
Hey, did you know Michael Bay made some movie about cars that transform into giant robots? …Oh. I guess it's not exactly breaking news. It's no wonder the hype surrounding the Transformers movie has been so feverish; the series has existed in some ...
Welcome to another Countdown, where summer makes you glad that you are inside and beating the heat by playing games in your basement. This week we have a surge of games to keep us busy as the temperature continues to rise. In my hometown I have swapped je...
Welcome to the 18th century. Prepare to enjoy the pleasures of the day, which include looting and killing people. Of course those where just the events that you could experience as the life of a pirate, and as Thomas "Hawk" Blythe (Blackbear...
Warner Bros. has hired Allen and Albert Hughes to direct BOOK OF ELI.
The post-apocalyptic drama written by Gary Whitta, centers on a lone hero who fights his way across the wasteland of post-apocalyptic America. He's the protector of a sacred book...
You may have noticed that the usual Monday Anime Avalanche column didn’t appear yesterday. Mania decided that anime is overexposed on the site and unceremoniously cut it. I’ve been writing the column without a break since March of 2005, so I h...
MovieWeb.com has posted the new poster for Warner Bros.' I AM LEGEND.
As previously reported, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, and centers on one lone man (Will Smith) who fights to survive against a horde of vampire-lik...
Lionsgate has given a new title to the upcoming John Rambo flick featuring the return of Sylvester Stallone in his iconic role. The new title seems to have been given in accordance with the violence/gore of the trailers & footage we hav...
Well, one question has been answered yet again. Movie News websites' feedback sections do apparently work. This has been proven before now but recently a clear example has been made. A few days ago, Lionsgate announced a new title for the fourth Rambo fil...
The final trailer for Pixar and Disney's upcoming WALL•E has arrived online. The upcoming sci-fi fantasy about a lone robot features the voices of Ben Burtt, Fred Willard and Jeff Garlin. Director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) was back behind the ca...
Strike Season by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 02-19-2008)
The strike is over. TV will continue. Well, most of it anyway. Okay, so it isn’t all roses but some shows will return with a slight break and then squeeze out a few more episodes and then be back in the fall. Hopefully. So I star...
Vinnie Jones, Michael Matthias, Michael Madsen, DMX and Armand Assante are set to star in The Bleeding, reports Variety. The project is being described as a horror action film from Indifferent Entertainment. They join fellow cast members William McNamara...
Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland will join Paul Bettany in Legion, the Screen Gems thriller that marks the feature directing debut of Scott Stewart. The t...
Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz granted interviews to the press at the New York Comic Con last weekend. Truth be told, their panels and interviews at the New York Comic Con may have been the hardest part of all. Shrouded in mystery, their new fi...
Though Garth Ennis will conclude his run on The Punisher in a few issues, in this 54th installment, he almost writes the last word on the character. Barracuda – the mercenary ex-Army-Airborne-Ranger – wants to destroy Frank Castle. S...
Thanks to a web album from Epcot Servo, the first look for Disney & Pixar's UP has made its way online. The picture is really a snapshot of a new billboard near Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. You can check out the billboard below. Nob...
Based on the first in what has become a series of graphic novels by Steve Niles 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...
It seemed that audiences wanted to check out last week’s releases once again rather than watch any of the new releases debuting over the weekend. The two returning films hit the top 2 spots while the debuts show up behind in 3rd and 4th place. As to...
Leave it to the comics industry to drop about three things at once in around one week, all worthy of discussion in this week’s Comicscape. DC’s Countdown reached its half-way point last week, World War Hulk wrapped today, and Marvel very ...
A new trailer for WALL•E has made its way online exclusively for Myspace's Trailer section. The trailer shows thelone little robot dubbed WALL•E dealing with the Pixar logo and then dealing with boredom in his little scrap heap until a shi...
Today, we look at a staple of Japanese live-action TV. Super Sentai and other tokusatsu shows are not my own cup of tea; I was born a little too late to enjoy Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on TV, and I just find the whole thing goofy. Regardless, this ...
Some viewers have proclaimed that the 21st official James Bond movie is the best ever. I’ll try to explain here why they’re not so correct in this view, but first I’ll tell you where I agree with them. The first three 00...
You really have to hand it to the makers of V FOR VENDETTA for having surprising guts. The list of producers includes Joel Silver and THE MATRIX's Andy and Larry Wachowski, who also adapted the screenplay with fidelity from Alan Moore and David Lloyd's gr...
ULTRAVIOLET, according to the production notes, is writer/director Kurt Wimmer's extrapolated take on John Cassavetes' GLORIA, reconceived as a science-fiction action piece. It seems highly unlikely anybody would confuse the two films, or even make the co...
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The folks over at Warner Home Video were kind enough to supply us with 8 copies of INVASION: THE COMPLETE SERIES to give away to you, our loyal readers. Many applied, only a few could win. Without further ado, the winners are:Chris RackleyMike WilliamsD...
The title SNAKES ON A PLANE conjures something irresistibly cheesy, combining perhaps the poker-faced seriousness of AIRPORT mixed with the sky-high camp of ANACONDA. Instead, SNAKES is almost disconcertingly "normal," a well-made action thriller that giv...
ICv2 reports Dark Horse editor Carl Horn announced the company is planning to double its output of manga titles this year, to than 70. Dark Horse will expand its releases to encompass all of the major manga genres. Horn also announced that Dark Horse woul...
On November 6th, the Italian Master Francesco de Masi died of cancer in his home at the age of 75 years. De Masi was an extremely prolific composer and arranger during the 1960s, nearly rivaling the output of his countryman Ennio Morricone. De Masi scored...
First, an apology: whereas I intended to run a reader response column to last week's COMICSCAPE about comics in the classroom, I've decided to run an original column instead. I only received a handful of letters and while all were original and several lea...
THE TRANSPORTER 2 isn't for everybody. The goings-on are usually completely absurd, but the movie is played with an absolutely straight face. However, director Louis Leterrier and returning (from TRANSPORTER 1) writers Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen s...
ReelArt Studios has teamed up with Bret Blevins to create the wildly retro ATTACK OF THE BRAIN MONSTER collectible statue.Shawn Nagle sculpted the figure based on Blevins' original art. The 1/6th scale painted statue pays a campy homage to those the low b...
Has there been a better time to be a TV-on-DVD fan? As I was sliding my newly purchased DVD set of David Greenwalt's short-lived PROFIT onto my shelf a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that they really do seem determined to put every damn show in history...
Release Date: February 14, 2008 Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: Doug Liman Screenwriter: David S. Goyer, Simon Kinberg Cast: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, Max Thieriot, Shawn Roberts, AnnaSophia Robb Genre...
Click here for last week's look at the 80s boom and bust in anime. This week, we'll take a look at the 90s, when anime really began to grow as a hobby on US shores. The 80s ended on a low note for anime in Japan. With a recession on the horizon and the OV...
It's completely indefensible, but this disgusting ultra-low budget horror/action/comedy, shot on location in authentic skid row environs, remains one of the funniest, most entertaining and original exploitation gorefests ever made.
Skid Row liqu...
Comics were once under attack, and admittedly they still are. According to parents, teachers and politicians, they're a bad influence and rot the brain like toffee erodes teeth. Fortunately, the medium's reputation has improved some in rece...
Author Don Bassingthwaite concluded his The Dragon Below Trilogy late last year with the release of The Killing Song through Wizards of the Coast Publishing.
Before I delved into the third installment I wanted to get a true sense of what this s...
The New Year is officially here, and with it a new crop of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature is beginning to spring up from the fertile minds of genre authors everywhere. But though 2008 is the year of the new, some authors from the past, ...
How popular is Japanese anime? The Japanese Motion Picture Society just released a list of the top ten Japanese films at the box office for 2006, and four of those films were anime - Studio Ghibli's Tales From Earthsea was number one, followed by Pok&...
The weekend estimates are in and it looks too close to call. I’ll go ahead and call it anyway though, folks. 1st place goes to Stomp The Yard (pulling in 13.3 mil) while Night of the Museum is only 300,000 dollars behind at 2nd place. Yes, that&rsqu...
If you’re like me you may think you’re well-versed on fantasy literature, but it doesn’t take much to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of Forgotten Realms and Eberron literature out there. It was only recently that I myself was abl...
If you hang around the Internet, you undoubtedly hear a lot about Ninjas and how they waste their enemies with laser-swords, run on the ceiling, and hate pirates (and vice versa). Someone usually brings up something about the hit series, Naruto. You mig...
The KNIGHT RIDER poster has made it's way online via hollywoodnorthreport.com, you can view it above.In the film, based on the 1982 series of the same name, a lone crime fighter battles the forces of evil with the help of his indestructible and artificial...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Joel Silver's Silver Pictures has optioned the rights to the upcoming book and video game series Empire.Silver Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures are eyeing the project as an action film revolving around a scenario in ...
Every once in a while, I have the opportunity to get an interview from top companies around the world. I look forward to each and every one of them, because each is a different experience. Sometimes they read a bit like a press release, which can get a...
"Everyone, I've got bad news. We've been cancelled. Unfortunately, there's no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept that Fox has to make room for terrific shows like DARK ANGEL, TITUS, UNDECLARED, ACTION, THAT '80S SHOW, WONDERFALLS, FAST...
We’ve got a full list this week, so let’s get right into it!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
Though a deluxe edition was released in 1999, a new edition of Phantasm is overdue. Here ya go:
(O) PHANTASM (Anchor Bay...
Universal Pictures has officially confirmed that filming is underway on the sequel to PITCH BLACK, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. In addition to fleshing out the cast and crew listings, the studio has also released the most detailed synopsis of the sequel's s...
IGN FilmForce has been breaking a nice load of exclusive story material on the ALIENS VS. PREDATOR, CATWOMAN and CONSTANTINE movie projects thanks to the industry resource Showfax, a resource used by casting agents to audition actors for possible roles.Fo...
In the minds of most videogame players, outer space is where it's at. Vivendi Universal knows this and has teamed up with Warthog Studios to create MACE GRIFFIN BOUNTY HUNTER, a game that combines two of the most popular video game genres first-person sh...
Sharon Stone is the leading candidate to play CATWOMAN's adversary in the movie of the same name, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Stone would play a character named Laurel, the head of a cosmetics company by day, evil criminal mastermind by night.Reporter...
Throughout the history of the FINAL FANTASY series there have been quite a few different offshoots of the games. Reaching back, you'll find the FINAL FANTASY ADVENTURE games, as well as FINAL FANTASY MYSTIC QUEST, and coming soon to the GameCube, FINAL FA...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER covers nominations for the Art Directors' Guild nominees in production design. In the period or fantasy films category, GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE TWO TOWERS, MINORITY REPORT, and ROAD TO PERDITION all made it. In that category, the lon...
New Line Cinema will release FINAL DESTINATION 2 on January 31. Directed by David Ellis and starring: A.J. Cook, Michael Landes and Ali Larter, the sequel's central premise is the awakening of unpleasant precognitive powers in a young woman after a horrif...
Never thought I'd see writers like Peter David dabbling in pure Chaos!, but since it's already happened once or twice, the floodgates have been opened. David is back with a new saga for the exclamation-pointed publisher, and it should be somewhat familiar...
IGN.com DVD notes the upcoming release of the moody comic-book noir adaptation, ROAD TO PERDITION, which starred Tom Hanks, Jude Law, and Paul Newman. The standard array of special features is lined up.The film and book execute a take on theLONE WOLF AND...
I'm a huge fan of the Tom Clancy novels. Written with a keen eye for detail, a high level of suspense, and great characters, I anxiously await each new novel. With the help of Ubi Soft, the newest Tom Clancy title puts gamers into the role of Sam Fisher, ...
In a Dark Horse Comics press release, the publisher announced the development of a line of adventure comics under a new banner, Rocket Comics, set to hit shelves in Summer 2003. The project is described as "high-energy adventure stories that focus on stro...
Director Christophe Gans (BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF), producer Samuel Hadida and his production company Davis Films will turn Konami's survival horror video game SILENT HILL into a feature-length film. Konami announced plans for the movie today in Tokyo.The...
Silent Hill by Coming Attractions (Thu 09-18-2003)
Genre:Horror/Video Game Adaptation.Studio:Unknown.Production Company:Davis Films.Project Phase:Pre-script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Christophe Gans (Director); Samuel Hadida (Producer); based on the Komani video game series Silent Hill.Pre...
It should be said up front that NATIONAL TREASURE is entertaining in the manner of a genre that has subtly slipped away in recent years, the action-adventure romp. It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has the kind of big setpieces associated with his w...
More than a year after its first intended release date, HALF-LIFE 2 has finally arrived on retail store shelves. Valve Software's new first-person shooter picks up the story of former Black Mesa scientist Gordon Freeman, thelone person that helped repel ...
It's that time of the year when the videogame industry winds down for a nice two week nap. After all of the games that have been coming out in the past few months, we're pretty tuckered out given all of our commitments to gaming as well as our real l...
Bad is Good by David Michael Wharton (Mon 03-07-2005)
So around this time last year, I was laid up in the hospital recovering from major abdominal surgery. (Don't let the weighty opening trouble you, folks. I'm steering toward the shallow and the ridiculous as fast as this crate will carry me.) A crack team ...
3DO has indebted history with its FRP Might & Magic series (which recently got its eighth member) and the unsurpassed strategically oriented trilogy Heroes of Might & Magic, which will surely get the title of VIG (very important games) in some probable Co...
Producers Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter have teamed up to option the rights to Devil's Due Publishing's AFTERMATH line of superhero comic books. The producers are developing the properties for translation into movies, television shows and video games.F...
OPINIONMy thanks again to everyone who wrote in regarding the "Nick Fury Question." Your responses were many and varied as you yourselves are, and I'm still getting letters about it. I guess that, despite how far we've come in this country, race as an iss...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSJoe Hisaishi's sumptuous score for Hiyao Miyazaki latest anime treasure, HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, has been released in Japan on the Takuma label (TKCA-72620). Like the acclaimed director's previous Oscar-winning film, SPIRITED AWAY...
Columbia TriStar has announced a June 1 release for STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION, the direct-to-video sequel to the 1997 movie. Making his directorial debut is Phil Tippett (the visual effects supervisor for Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPE...
Even though the X-FILES hasn't aired a new episode in nearly two years, it doesn't keep fans of the series from remembering it fondly and clamoring for more. Luckily for fans out there, Vivendi Universal has released the newest X-FILES game, X-FILES: RESI...
Has it been a year already? It seems like only a few months ago when I was at the Electronic Entertainment Expo attempting to cover it on a webserver that was up as frequently as it was down. Definitely not my finest hour, not to mention that I was the</
