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THE REAPING
by Tim Janson (Thu 11-08-2007)

Take one part Rosemary’s Baby, one part The Omen, and mix into a sleepy little bayou town and you’ve got The Reaping. While it may not earn a lot of points for originality, the Reaping is an effective chiller that’s low on shock val...

"The Reaping" Final Poster
by Karl Schneider (Tue 01-30-2007)

The final poster for the upcoming horror film, The Reaping, is now online and can be viewed to the left.In the film, Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has since become a world-r...

Swank Looks to Star in Supernatural "Reaping"
by News Editor (Sat 03-12-2005)

Warner Bros. Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment are in final negotiations with Oscar winner Hilary Swank to star in "The Reaping."The supernatural story centers a myth debunker who travels to a small, religious town in Texas to investigate occurrences...


"The Reaping"
by Abbie Bernstein (Thu 04-05-2007)

...ow. While The Reaping doesn’t seem to be taking place during Passover – there are no Seders (the Passover ritual) or even any noticeably Jewish characters – it is still based around the ten plagues of Egypt that caused the Pharaoh ...

THE REAPING Trailer hits the web
by Karl Schneider (Wed 07-19-2006)

The trailer for the upcoming film THE REAPING has found it's way onto the web. You can view it here with Quicktime.In THE REAPING Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who has lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has sinc...

"The Reaping"
by Brian Thomas (Sat 04-07-2007)

Behold!: A movie so mindful of religion to avoid opening on Good Friday, but edited in such confusion that it misses getting the details right on its main theme – the Biblical Plagues. It seems inconceivable that screenwriters returning to the o...

Silver Hires Cox To Helm "Reaping" (Mon 01-31-2005)

James Cox has been hired by Warner Bros. and Dark Castle to direct the supernatural thriller "The Reaping."The story centers on a woman who debunks religious phenomena coming to a small town. Chad & Carey Hayes wrote the script which is based on a spec by...


Reaping the HARVEST Part One
by John Thonen (Tue 02-19-2002)

If you look at the press on current films, it can start to seem that the most important aspect of any movie’s genesis is its budget. In fact, you read so much about how many millions each one cost that it begins to seem like no current film can be made wi...

Reaping the HARVEST Part Two
by John Thonen (Thu 02-21-2002)

After a 13 year, self-imposed exile, Maryland-based veteran no-budget filmmaker Don Dohler has recently returned to the realm of movies with HARVESTERS, a shot-on-video (SOV) horror film. Today, he continues his chat with CINESCAPE about his particular br...

Zemekis, Silver begin THE REAPING
by Christopher Allan Smith (Fri 06-07-2002)

Joel Silver and Robert Zemekis' joint genre production label Dark Castle Entertainment has made another purchase, this time of a promising horror spec script from Brian Rousso. THE REAPING was likened in the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER story announcing the purchas...

Fish Heads, Fish Heads
by Randall Larson (Thu 04-12-2007)

...score for The Reaping, which opened last week, has been released on CD by Varese Sarabande.  Hillary Swank stars as a former Christian missionary who abandoned her faith and now specializes in debunking religious phenomena, who journeys to a s...


Box Sets
by Robert T. Trate (Tue 10-16-2007)

...   The Reaping (2007)   The Reaping [Blu-ray] (2007)   The Reaping [HD DVD] (2007)   Ronin Collector's Edition   The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) (1999)   The Woods Have Eyes (2006)   BOX SETS &nb...

A Disturbed B.O Report
by Jarrod Sarafin (Sun 04-15-2007)

...g 300 and The Reaping here. Reaping lands in 8th place with 4.5 million in receipts, just 100 k short of the 7th placed Hogs. The Hillary Swank horror film has pulled in 19.7 overall in its two weeks. 300, on the other hand, has breached that all i...

Hayes Brothers making "The Caliph's House"
by Karl Schneider (Sat 03-24-2007)

...f Wax and The Reaping, so I expect to be right on that level of quality.

Ferrell wins gold back to back!
by Jarrod Sarafin (Sun 04-08-2007)

...rror film The Reaping scares up 5th place in its opening weekend in this week’s box office report. Hillary Swank’s film took in 12 mil over the last 5 days in 2,603 films. That’s going to finish up this and last weekend’s rel...


Danny Elfman Meets The Robinsons
by Randall Larson (Thu 03-15-2007)

...score for The Reaping, which Varese will release on March 27th, is a grand work for choir and orchestra, capturing the age-old, Biblically-epic, battle of good and evil.  Last week, brother composers Mychael and Jeff Danna were at the Todd AO ...

FRIDAY THE 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, Part 2
by Brian Thomas (Mon 10-25-2004)

FRIDAY THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER apparently ended the killing spree of Jason Voorhees, chopped to bits with his own machete by crafty little Tommy Jarvis. To some, this signaled the end of the slasher genre and perhaps horror cinema altogether, as box o...

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Inside the F/X Lair, Part 1
by Steve Ryfle (Thu 11-30-2000)

A couple of years ago, when word came down the pipeline that a Dungeons & Dragons movie was in the works, there were those of us who wondered why. Many years had passed since the early 1980s, when millions of oddball kids and fans of Lord of the Rings wer...

SCOTLAND, PA
by MICHAEL TUNISON (Mon 02-11-2002)

Shakespeare's works have been pushed, pulled and twisted into some pretty strange shapes over the centuries, but the idea of a fast food MACBETH may take the cake for pure cheekiness. Closer in spirit to Tarantino than the Royal Shakespeare Company, Billy...


Apocalypto Now
by Randall Larson (Thu 12-14-2006)

... score to The Reaping. The film, starring Hilary Swank, is directed by Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2) and produced by Joel Silver. The original score by Philip Glass had been completed and mixed last week.  No word was given for the reason behin...

Strong Sunday helps 'Sin' beat weekend estimates
by Rob M. Worley (Tue 04-05-2005)

Dimension's "Sin City" was reaping a whirlwind of cash at the boxoffice this weekend as the R-rated action-thriller dominated the frame with $29.1 million. The final tally was $1 million higher than where early projections put the gross, thanks to a stron...

Berg doing 'X-Men 3' Tattoos (Fri 12-09-2005)

...Men 3 and The Reaping...

Oh Lords, We've Got the Benz
by Steve Ryfle (Mon 01-08-2001)

Who could have imagined, all those years past, when she was getting busted by the FBI for making dirty movies when she was just 15 to 17 years old (it seems like ages ago, doesn’t it?) that in the year 2001 we’d be talking about Traci Lords, actress. No o...


Sojitz and Geneon Titles Valued
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 08-05-2008)

According to ICv2, some interesting information came about during the Navarre conference call regarding their financials. Afro Samurai account for a strong percentage of sales last year as it made FUNimation about 4.5 million in wholesale revenue, which t...

Book Buzz: From Novik to Heinlein and George R.R. Martin, Deluxe Editions
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 07-28-2008)

In an overloaded release schedule of sci-fi, horror and fantasy book debuts a few reduxes by renowned authors George R.R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and Naomi Novik stand out amongst dozens of new titles.   The month of July has se...

Viz Media Celebrates SHONEN JUMP With Collector's Edition (Thu 07-10-2008)

40th Anniversary Of Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump And 5th Anniversary Of SHONEN JUMP Magazine Commemorated With Special Collector’s Edition Of Top Manga Anthology’s Articles And New Hardcover Presentations Of Several Most-Loved Manga Seri...

'Wonder Woman' feature lives as Warner Bros. rebuts sexism story
by Rob M. Worley (Wed 10-10-2007)

...ve One"; "The Reaping," with Hilary Swank; and the remake "The Invasion," starring Nicole Kidman -- Warner production prexy Jeff Robinov insists he is moving forward with several movies with women in the lead. Indeed, he is offended by rumors of his ci...


Elba Pulls a Heist in BONE DEEP
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Tue 12-18-2007)

British actor Idris Elba (The Reaping) has joined the cast of BONE DEEP, a new bank heist thriller from Sony Screen Gems. The trade reports that Elba will be one of the robbers looking for a quick 20 mil payday in this particular heist. Matt Dillon is alr...

Lost in the Village
by Jason Davis (Mon 07-31-2006)

Do you ever look at something and think, "Has no one else noticed this?" That's exactly what I did when I sat down to watch THE PRISONER in a marathon session earlier this week. Think about it. You have an isolated location honeycombed with strange bun...

DEAD LIKE ME - "Pilot"
by Chris Wyatt (Mon 06-16-2003)

Watch the premiere of DEAD LIKE ME on Showtime June 27, 10pm ET/PT.Showtime's new original series DEAD LIKE ME launches next week with an extended-length pilot episode. Showtime, as a network, has long been a haven for imaginative genre fiction. The pheno...

CRIMSON SKIES: HIGH ROAD TO REVENGE
by Troy Roberts (Tue 11-25-2003)

A year ago when Xbox Live! was released, there is no doubt that the main draw for gamers to pick up the online service was MECHASSAULT. The intense action and numerous gameplay selections made the game a smash hit and Microsoft is still reaping the benefi...


From the HOUSE to the JETSONS
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 03-19-2003)

Reaping the rewards from his hit comedy BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, director Adam Shankman is in talks to direct the long-promised live-action JETSONS movie. If Shankman can ink a deal, expect Paul Foley and Dan Forman's old script to be jettisoned and a ne...

Still HOWLING After All These Years
by SCOTT COLLURA (Sun 12-09-2001)

Twenty years after its release, director Joe Dante's THE HOWLING still stands as one of the most memorable werewolf movies ever made, old or newit's right up there, in fact, with THE WOLF MAN, Werewolf of London and AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. While t...

Bleach Vol. #03
by Bryce Coulter (Tue 05-01-2007)

What They SayIchigo and Rukia continue their work as Soul Reapers, protecting spirits and the living. But they are not the only ones with power to defeat the evil Hollows. A rival called a Quincy appears with fearsome powers of his own " and a grudge a...

JURASSIC PARK III Dinosaurs
by Carl Cortez (Sun 10-14-2001)

One of the biggest dilemmas the JURASSIC PARK toy line has had over the years is having poor-selling human figures. Finally Hasbro has remedied that problem by providing each figure represented from the feature film (four in all) coming with their very ow...


Thrillers of Glass
by Randall Larson (Tue 04-11-2006)

Composer Philip Glass has some new scores lined up. First, he is set to score Stephen Hopkins' THE REAPING, in which Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith and has since become a world-renowned expert in disproving religious p...

Wildmusic
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 04-13-2006)

...thriller, THE REAPING, which opens August 11th, about a former missionary (Hilary Swank) whose lost faith is troubled when she investigates a small Louisiana town that is suffering from an apparently demonic influence, and Neil Burger's latest fantasy ...

Bleach Vol. #02
by Bryce Coulter (Thu 02-15-2007)

What They SayAfter her Soul Reaper powers are transferred to Ichigo, Rukia Kuchiki, becomes disguised as a transfer student, and she must help Ichigo to use his newly acquired powers to destroy soul-devouring Hollows. As if Ichigo didn't have enough trou...

Anime Attractions
by Oliver Chin (-)

Reprinted with permission by the author Comic Retailer January 1, 2003 People have a tendency to speculate on what changes the new year will bring. Certainly different cultures have different expectations and openness to change. Actually in other countr...


SMALLVILLE: Veritas
by Stephen Lackey (Sun 03-30-2008)

Few shows currently on the air are as convoluted as Smallville. The creators keep adding layer after layer of plot threads assumingly to add depth to the story but mostly, the story just feels messy. The whole tattoo thing with Lana may as well ...

23 Skidoo
by Randall Larson (Thu 02-22-2007)

...ns’ The Reaping, starring Hilary Swank as a woman investigating a Southern town beset by Biblical plagues, and will also see a March 27th CD release from Varese. www.varesesarabande.com   This Friday, Perseverance will release their lo...

No Reservations for new Philip Glass score
by Randall Larson (Fri 12-01-2006)

Warner Bros. has confirmed to Film Music Radio that Philip Glass has been hired to compose the original music for No Reservations, which is an unusual project for the composer in terms of genre: a drama comedy. The film is directed by Scott Hicks (Shi...

The Mythic Eloquence of 300
by Randall Larson (Thu 02-08-2007)

THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS  Tyler Bates’ music for 300, Zach Snyder’s spectacular adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the epic Battle of Thermopylae that pitted 300 Greeks against the massive Persian Army in...


Viz Media Showcases A Variety of New Titles at 2008 BookExpo America Show (Fri 05-30-2008)

Company To Offer A Dynamic Array Of Manga Titles For Children, Teens And Adults At Preeminent Publishing Event In Booth #1647 San Francisco, CA, May 30, 2008 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehens...