Image Comics will launch a "light-hearted" four-issue mini-series, SAMMY: TOURIST TRAP, in February.Created, written and drawn by newcomer Azad, SAMMY: TOURIST TRAP follows in the footsteps of another recent Image project, Hawaiian Dick, by offering a som...
Thespian George Clooney will be putting on his spy boots (whatever those are) very soon in an upcoming thriller called TheTourist. The trades announce that he'll be starring in the film while Anthony Peckham is set to adapt the Olen Steinhauer novel to s...
According to the New York Daily News, Michelle Williams has signed on to star in the upcoming film THETOURIST. She will join Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in the cast.In the film, McGregor plays Jonathan, an accountant disconnected from life, who is re...
According to Variety, Maggie Quigley has signed onto the upcoming sexual thriller THETOURIST. She will join Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor and Michelle WIlliams in the cast.In the film, McGregor plays Jonathan, an accountant disconnected from life, who is ...
Never suffer the wrath of a woman in the intelligence community. I'm sure Jason Bourne and 007 would agree and so does Spyglass Entertainment, reports Variety. Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) is set to direct TheTourist, a remake of the 2...
Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to a yet-to-be-published spy novel called THETOURIST, says the Hollywood Reporter. The spy story is an upcoming novel by Olen Steinhauer but the manuscript for it has already been prepped for production by Georg...
While his participation isn't a done deal yet, Tom Cruise and Spyglass Entertainment are circling each other on TheTourist, the Bharat Nalluri-directed remake of the 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer. The film has emerged as the strongest contender for...
Thespian Charlize Theron is nearly set to join Tom Cruise in United Artist's upcoming thriller remake TheTourist, which is based on the 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer. She's in final negotiations to star while Bharat Nalluri is set to direct the fea...
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the children fantasy novel, THE NIGHT TOURIST, says Variety. The book, authored by Katherine Marsh and published by Hyperion Books, will be developed for the big screen by Chris Meledandri. While no writer is ...
Summary: An accountant (McGregor) is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend (Jackman). But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
Status: Filmi...
In Part 1 of CINESCAPE's profile of Vincent D'Onofrio, the actor discussed his latest role in the time travel love story HAPPY ACCIDENTS. Now in Part 2, D'Onofrio talks about his upcoming TV series, LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, as well as his spin as a...
Not necessarily the movie industry's example of a leading man, actor Vincent D'Onofrio has been dubbed the quintessential character actor. Today, as he strolls into a suite at the posh Le Montrose Hotel in Hollywood, he is dressed in a dapper black suit w...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Makoto NakajimaTranslated by:Amelia CantlayAdapted by:What They SayBased off the hit tours arranged by Pop Japan Travel, explore the streets of Tokyo and experience Japanese pop culture in this new manga. T.M. Revolution makes...
After years of starts and stops, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's LOST GIRLS will see print in August of this year in a three-volume hardcover set from Top Shelf Productions. The idea is classic Moore -- three of literature's most famous female protagonist...
Genre: Adventure/Action.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Company/Miramax Films/20th Century Fox/Universal.Project Phase: In the Can.Who's In It: Russell Crowe (Captain Jack "Lucky" Aubrey); Paul Bettany (Stephen Maturin); Billy ...
After a successful run with indie publisher Shooting Star Press, Tom Waltz and Casey Malone's CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE has found a new home in trade paperback form at IDW. The black and white miniseries tells the chilling story of a black ops squad of only ...
I promised myself I wouldn't let the STARGATE discussion stretch into a third week, much as I do like antagonizing overly zealous Gaters, but the below email turned up in my account last week and I just couldn't let it pass.Kaya Jackson wrote: "You can pr...
Quite a bit of news going on in the world of Celebrities this week. Joe Francis continues to piss off the law even while in jail. Snoop Dogg is barred from yet another country for being Snoop Dogg. Kissing is worth an arrest warrant in India for some ...
The first trailer for THE RUINS has appeared online this morning courtesy of Atom Films Uploads. You can check out the upcoming horror-thriller from Dreamworks below or watch it in better quality when it's attached to SWEENEY TODD this weekend. The film, ...
It seems that the caped crusader will be making a trip to Hong Kong sometime in the upcoming sequel, THE DARK KNIGHT. A shooting schedule for the asian tourist spot has been revealed courtesy of The Standard.
Here's the details...
Kam Nai-wai, of the C...
Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone and Shawn Ashmore have been cast in THE RUINS. Jonathan Tucker also stars.
The film is based on Scott B. Smith's novel. The thriller centers on a group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the w...
...ed siting thetourist attraction near Dracul's birthplace, Sighisoara. The burial place is said to be in a small monastery the prince constructed on an island set within a lake. The lakeside is to be the park's setting.Questions? Comments? Let us know ...
According to Variety, DreamWorks has hired Carter B. Smith to direct the upcoming horror thriller, The Ruins.The film, set in the Yucatan jungles, follows four American friends on vacation in Cancún who find themselves lost in the jungle after bein...
... time and thetourists had thinned out, and actually entering the cathedral was now a reality.It`s very, very dark inside. Centuries of candle flames have blackened those famous arches. And what arches they are--incredibly high, especially without inte...
I have to admit that I threw a bit of a wobbly in the car when Sophia broke it to me that we were booked into a Best Western chain hotel in the ancient cathedral town of Chartres. Suddenly it felt more like my old rock'n'roll days on tour with the sound c...
Maybe it's his first time in Hong Kong, so Bruce Wayne is acting like any other tourist. Or maybe he's planning something else in this behind the scene video from "The Dark Knight" shooting.
While The Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan was a remake of its 1968 counterpart, the sequel will be traveling a different direction and instead be a remake of 1964's Topkapi. That's all that we have known about the project for about a year now....
Our first impression upon entering Chartres Cathedral was that it had become a tourist trap. We weren't immediately struck by the majesty of God in his Heaven or awe for the skill of the master masons triumphing over the laws of physics or even by the lur...
The largest lot at Toho, stage 9 is where the majority of the effect scenes of the studio’s kaiju films are shot. It is separated from the outdoors by two sets of heavy steel doors. The inside is kept dimly lit and suspended above is a spider web like cri...
As giant worms are all the rage on the cult scene thanks to TREMORS 3, the time is ripe for other oversized beasts to weasel their way into the public conscious. Something Weird Video seems to have sensed this and unleashed a behemoth whose size is matche...
A Russian Soyuz rocket suffered a catastrophic failure during launch on Tuesday, CNN.COM reports. The rocket, the mainstay of Russia's space program and a key element of the International Space Station's supply chain, exploded 29 seconds after lift-off, k...
Popular underground director Herschell Gordon Lewis was truly the Howard Hawks of the ’60s/’70s exploitation circuit. From dramas, to action packed biker films, to gore fests, to comic nudies, to roughies, to even musicals, there was hardly a cinematic st...
Matt Damon makes the inevitable transition to action star in his new release THE BOURNE IDENTITY. The film follows the exploits of a spy named Jason Bourne who, at the opening of the story, is found half-dead and suffering from total amnesia. He must slow...
Image Comics is launching SHADOWS, a series from comics newcomers Jade Dodge and Matt Camp, in February.Written by Dodge and drawn by Camp, with colors by Guy Major, SHADOWS is the story of four paranormal investigators who have set out to explore the hid...
What They SayIn the 41st volume of the show where spring cleaning is not only a chore, but a school subject. Mr. Fujinami\'s hard work (along with Ryuunosuke\'s much much harder work) allows him to open his beach-side teashop in a not so tourist friendly ...
Aria Vol.#01 by Danielle Van Gorder (Mon 04-07-2008)
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kozune AmanoTranslated by:Elina IshikawaAdapted by:Gina Lee FerenziWhat They SayOn the planet Aqua lies the watery city of Neo Venezia, a tourist hub in which people travel around in gondolas. Professional gondoliers known as ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Saitou ProTranslated by:Kenichiro YagiAdapted by:Carl Gustav HornWhat They Say1996: Okinawa, Japan\'s smallest prefecture, holds 75 percent of the U.S. military presence in Japan. When a Self-Defense Force officer is murdered ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Nobuhiro WatsukiTranslated by:Kenichiro YagiAdapted by:What They SayA glimpse of the new Japan if the mad ambitions of Shishio Makoto should succeed is revealed when Kenshin arrives in Kyoto and meets him at last ... although ...
What They SayAlongside a tragic girl named Kagura, the supernaturally empowered Saiga flees from both enemies and inner demons. A single kiss has potentially delivered a crushing blow to the entire ruling class and the point of no return has been passed. ...
Based on Scott Smith’s best-selling novel, The Ruins finds a group of four college friends on vacation in Mexico where they meet a German tourist who invites them to visit a local Mayan ruin. The natives of the area are none too inviting and fo...
...ng all of thetourist hot spots. They may appear to be your average bunny or hamster, but don’t be fooled, the cute bunny hopping around in the grass is actually a dangerous alien! In an attempt to protect Japan the government forms t...
Fresh from shooting "The Machinist" in tourist-friendly Barcelona, it was a shock for Christian Bale to begin filming "Batman Begins" in bleak and chilly Iceland.
"It's f***ing cold in Iceland. And they eat whales -- they eat anything -- puffins," jok...
As part of the SCIFI Channel Digital Press Event we were given an opportunity to speak with the Ghost Hunters and then we were taken on a live ghost hunt in the supposedly haunted Stanley hotel. The Ghost Hunters are definitely passionate about what they ...
Variety reports that Fox has placed a 100 foot tall replica of the Silver Surfer inside the London Eye wheel to promote 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'.
Under cover of darkness, construction workers busily erected a gleaming 100-foot mesh r...
Usually, we read about Superman saving ordinary people—or an entire planet full of them, as it were. But, thanks to novelist and comic writer Brad Meltzer and a legion of creators and fans, ordinary people are saving Superman, in a manner of sp...
What They SayThe Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, is given his first assignment. He is to inspect the coalmines of Youswell, a task he believes to be Mustang’s attempt to deter his search for the Philosopher’s Stone. Ignoring direct orders E...
What They SayAlimony Hunter: When sexy, young Jun runs meets the busty Chizuru, she sees an opportunity for one hot night! Plus Chizuru's got a cute stepson that may serve as a dessert for her main course!
Seek: When rescuing a princess doesn't provid...
What They SayAsh, Pikachu and friends travel to Cinnabar Island to find the Pokemon gym, but the whole island has become a tourist trap! Can Ash track down the hidden gym? Then, it\'s a battle between Magmar and Charizard with the Volcano Badge at stake! ...
What They SayBased on his own Manga short, Hayao Miyazaki\'s directorial follow-up to his big hit \"Kiki\'s Delivery Service\" is a fantastic tale of a different kind. Many speculate that the main character reflects his own self more than any other charac...
What They SayAn Outlaw\'s life can sure be complicated. After encountering other outlaws, pirates, and the evil known as the Ctarl-Ctarl, Gene and company are speeding along happily through the galaxy. However, with the final battle at hand, the crew of t...
What They SayKei and Yuri [aka The Lovely Angels] are assigned to protect a computer troubleshooter. But the girls would rather spend their time sowing wild oats on the galaxy’s number one party planet than keeping a young nerd from getting assassin...
What They SayThe mystery of Popotan is becoming clear little by little... What fearsome adventures do the sisters face now? Bathing in hot springs, selling ice cream at the beach and even spending Christmas at a Shinto shrine! But why? As they continue ...
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What They SayAlongside a tragic girl named Kagura, the supernaturally empowered Saiga flees from both enemies and inner demons. A single kiss has potentially delivered a crushing blow to the entire ruling class and the point of no return has been passed. ...
What They SayContains 285 minutes of Slayers goodness, including not only Slayers: The Motion Picture, but also the standalone Slayers: Return, Slayers: Great, Slayers Gorgeous, and Slayers: Premium.
Plagued by a recurring dream, master thief and sorcere...
What They SayThe end of the school year is near! Mika-Sensei must overcome her fear of public speaking in order to emcee graduation. During a class trip to Kyoto, rumors fly that Seki and Iincho have eloped. Later, the school is buzzing upon the arrival...
Welp, I still haven’t received my review DVD of Bloodline - The Movie, so I guess I'm just going to have to resort to the outright gossip column angle for this week, instead of being able to cite specifics. From what I hear some of the "experts...
What They SayNo cash! Mugen, Jin and Fuu need money fast. Fuu tries to model, but it turns out to be a trap. When they arrive in the capital city, they delay their quest to join an eating contest, but find out the hard way they need to watch who they hang...
Happy Monday, one and all. Hope your weekend was bountiful and prosperous, but now it's back to the grind. And first on the docket is sifting through the reader mail that's been backing up for the past few weeks. If these letters make anything clear, i...
Last winter, this column ran a very popular poll to find out which TV series readers most want seasoned on DVD. Well here's a progress report. While SEINFELD, MILLENNIUM, QUANTUM LEAP and the animated BATMAN and SUPERMAN series have started to arrive, cer...
Some anime labels have been re-issuing series episodes on Mini-DVDs smaller DVD discs that play like regular full size discs but with lower capacity, and a lower price tag. Recently Warner Bros. got into the same game in a big way with a slate of mostly ...
OPINION: I'm not entirely sure why, but I got neither death threats nor a lot of positive feedback on last week's musings about Captain America. I hope that doesn't mean no one cares about the old man anymore... My thanks, though, to the two(!) readers wh...
HOSTEL falls squarely within the TEXAS CHAINSAW subgenre, with a bit of borrowing from AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (there may be other, earlier movies about wisecracking young Yank backpackers in Europe who are preyed on by evil forces, but that's the ...
Rock Shaink Jr. has sold his script ALTER EGO to Beltran Productions.The psychological thriller centers on a group of unique characters trapped inside an imaginary world (Manhattan) who must solve a murder inside thetourist filled city streets before the...
Forest Whitaker will co-star in the Pete Travis directed film, VANTAGE POINT. Whitaker is joining Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and William Hurt for the film by Columbia Pictures.The script is by Barry Levy and it follows an attempt to assassinate the U.S. ...
Picking up immediately after the events of "The Horizon," "S.O.S." finds the very pregnant Sydney Bristow (and her equally expectant actress counterpart Jennifer Garner) sidelined for much of the hour. Strangely, this is not a bad thing as the episode of...
Chi McBride, who plays BOSTON PUBLIC's principal on the Fox TV series, is the latest addition to the cast of Steven Spielberg's TERMINAL. McBride joins Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones as a airport baggage handler who befriends a Balkan tourist (Hanks) who...
One of the topics often discussed at this year's World Con was the fact that so few new, younger readers are becoming interested in science fiction. "Look around the convention," said David Brin at one point. "You don't see that many younger faces; and ye...
Bite MeWhile we`re still in a Hallowe`en mood, I thought we`d start the nonfiction segment of our rant (what`s with the royal we all of a sudden, DD?) with more seasonal material. Check out this brand new title: The Dracula Cookbook: Authentic Recipes fro...
... close to thetourist traps and went toy hunting. Being that this was New York I should have been able to find just about anything. Midtown Comics is great place to actually see all the latest figures next to their counterparts and rivals. I recommend ...
What They SayKei and Yuri [aka The Lovely Angels] are assigned to protect a computer troubleshooter. But the girls would rather spend their time sowing wild oats on the galaxy’s number one party planet than keeping a young nerd from getting assassin...
...al (well, thetourist beating part is made up, so far as I can tell). I didn't spend as much time at the bar as he did, but I've met many of the individuals and types thereof that inspired his characters. Therein lies a weakness WRITHE AND SHINE most...
It seems the March 31 episode of THE SIMPSONS didn't make as many people laugh in Brazil as America. Thetourist board of Rio de Janeiro is considering suing the makers of the show and the Fox Network after the episode "Blame It On Lisa" portrayed at leas...
Don’t bother looking up Leonard Kirtman in your Hollywood book of who’s who. Since releasing the Warhol-esque, or should I more accurately say Paul Morrisey-esque, CURSE OF THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN (1972), his cinematic offerings have taken a blue path with ...
VIDEO NEWS· TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE was originally a low budget TV anthology series which, while largely forgotten today, helped pave the way for a multitude of horror, fantasy and sci-fi TV series we enjoy ...
What They SayTOKYOLOGY is a documentary exploring contemporary Japanese pop-culture.
Vicariously experience the diverse and colorful attractions of the world\'s largest city, as
Carrie Ann Inaba guides you through the legendary crowds of Tokyo.
Have ...
What They SayCOOL DEVICES, a series that redefined adult anime in the US and became one of the best selling hentai titles ever, has returned in a brand new DIGITALLY REMASTERED 10th Anniversary Edition! Now, for the very first time, this hentai masterpiec...
Although American publishers have no problem churning out movie novelizations on time and en masse, some great genre literature is falling through the cracks, getting too little publicity or attention to garner the widespread praise it rightfully dese...
Due to the current writer’s strike, the writers of The Late Show with David Letterman aren’t bringing home any bacon, but they can apparently still find it in themselves to be clever and funny. I’m really on the fence about the stri...
What They SayThe Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, is given his first assignment. He is to inspect the coalmines of Youswell, a task he believes to be Mustang’s attempt to deter his search for the Philosopher’s Stone. Ignoring direct orders E...
What They SayThings are in full swing at Princess Academy! Yucie and her friends continue to work off jobs, study and meet new people like Arc (who is searching for the Eternal Tiara) and Elmina (Princess of the Heavenly Realm). With a visit to Glenda\'s ...
What They SayTake flight with \"Porco\" Rosso, a valiant World War I flying ace! From tropical Adriatic settings to dazzling aerial maneuvers, this action-adventure from world-renowned animator Hayao Miyazaki is full of humor, courage, and chivalry.
Whe...
What They SayContains all 6 DVDs of Dai-Guard in one complete collection!
Twelve years ago, the Earth was attacked by giant invaders. To defend our planet, the Earth\'s greatest minds and corporations assembled to design a giant robot of incredible powe...
What They SayThe Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, is given his first assignment. He is to inspect the coalmines of Youswell, a task he believes to be Mustang\'s attempt to deter his search for the Philosopher\'s Stone. Ignoring direct orders Ed and Al t...
What They SayThe Angel Brigade is at it again in another frantic search across the cosmos for the dangerous and unpredictable Lost Technology! When Milfeulle and Ranpha are dispatched to a distant planet in order to aid Mint in her recovery of one of thes...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Eiji Otsuka / Housui YamazakiTranslated by:Toshifumi YoshidaAdapted by:Carl Gustav HornWhat They SayA small country town\'s got more than the usual crop circles to claim aliens drop by... they\'ve got the extraterrestrial\'s b...
ARIA Vol.#01 by Eduardo M. Chavez (Sat 05-22-2004)
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Amano KozueTranslated by:Kay BertrandAdapted by:What They SayON THE PLANET AQUA, a world once known as Mars, Akari Mizunashi has just made her home in the town of Neo-Venezia, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city of Veni...
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A big-robot anime, and I enjoyed it. I\'m getting too old for this.
One of my friends, with a peculiar sense of humor (and apparently a bursting wallet), knew I hated big-robot a...
What They SayMomosuke visits his brother, only to find a murder mystery underway . . . a man has been killed in a rare manner. Ogin then faces her mother’s killer, who has been dying and coming back to life, over and over again, terrorizing the loc...
... Despite thetourist guide saying that the museum is always open, Max and Ash find the place closed for the day.
Max attempts to sneak a peek inside and is confronted by Marius who thinks Max is a thief. Marius tries to use his Spheal to capture the...
In a sense, The Ruins is analogous to a courageous expedition that doesn’t quite get where the people involved are trying to go. We can salute their fortitude, dedication and ability to get as far as they did, while still noting that they fall short...
VANTAGE POINT, per its title, is a thriller that uses the device of showing us the same event from multiple perspectives. This could work – except that there’s not enough mystery in the original events in the way they’re presented for us...
Normally, I wouldn't cover this kind of subject here at Mania but this guy is involved with a few genre-related projects so I'll pass it along. Scribe Roger Avary has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence after a ...
Some new details and a concept sketch has made its way online for THE HOST 2 (it's really a prequel), courtesy of Sci-Fi Japan. The details came by way of a press release from creator Kang Full, who alway drew the concept below featuring a lift holding th...
One of the most fulfilling aspects of investigating secret societies and faux chivalric orders is the thrill of finally nailing a fake artifact or fabricated document relating to a long, arduous and protracted scam.
My very first catch involved a well-k...
From Fodor’s to Frommer’s and everything in between, the travel buff doesn’t lack for informative journey guides no matter their destination. Yet the traveling movie fanatic requires a unique synthesis in a companion book, a synthesis th...
What They SayDisc Catalogue Numbers: DVD-200401/DVD-200403The Review!Audio: Presented in Dolby Digital Stereo Japanese, the show\'s sountrack is, arguably, the greatest asset it\'s got. A generally pleasing mix, the music and dialogue and sound effects al...
What They SayFrom famed adult comic artist Hiroyuki Utatane come four of the most erotic, the most exotic, the most unusual and just downright odd stories ever animated.
To start with, there\'s an extremely unusual three-for-all in which not everyone is...
What They SayThe \'99 summer\'s blockbuster theatrical hit \'\'Sakura\'\' the movie is already coming out on DVD! Carries an all-color 24-page booklet, illustrated by CLAMPThe Review!Sakura Kinomoto is a 4th Grade Elementary School Student. One day, whil...
August 1st, 2004
Baltimore, MD
How was your US debut performance at Otakon? Was performing here different than in Japan?
ken: I got to Baltimore, went to all thetourist sites first and did the show after I had learned everything about Baltimore. I pr...