...rights to Transporter3. Jason Statham returns as iconic action hero Frank Martin in the third installment of the EuropaCorp-produced series. The announcement was made today by Lionsgate's Jason Constantine, head of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, and...
The more that's learned about the direction that the fourth season of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE is headed, the greater the connection to TREK's old school mythology seems to be. And if new series showrunner Manny Coto has his way, that will hopefully mean the...
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...
Action star Jason Statham has confirmed that he will be starring in the TRANSPORTER3, which answers a question a lot of us had after a possible director announcement last week. The actor confirmed it in a interview with Silas Lesnick over...
The first teaser has popped up online---though it's in French---for the next adventure of Frank Martin, The Transporter3. The upcoming sequel stars Jason Statham, Robert Knepper and Francois Berleand. Olivier Megaton is directing the third installment f...
Only days from release, Twentieth Century Fox has decided to delay the opening of Luc Besson's partial return to full-throated action films, THE TRANSPORTER, by nearly a month. Besson has given us THE FIFTH ELEMENT and LA FEMME NIKITA, and co-wrote TRANSP...
Jason Statham reprises his role as Frank Martin the man who will transport anything, no questions asked in TRANSPORTER 2, on DVD and PSP today from Fox Home Entertainment. In the film, Frank is blamed for the kidnapping of a young child he is hired to dr...
The first detailed look at the upcoming sequel to THE TRANSPORTER is now online. Over at IGN FilmForce, resident script reviewer Stax took a look at Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen's script for THE TRANSPORTER 2, set to start filming this July.In his rev...
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...
Happy anniversary to me, as this column marks the end of my third year writing this column, making this my 156th without taking a break. All for some free DVDs and a few Canadian Tire Dollars, but look at what I've accomplished. That's right, every movie ...
The TRANSPORTER 2 took the number one spot at the box office over the four day holiday weekend with a $20.25 million take. THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN came in at second with a $16.6 million gross, while THE CONSTANT GARDENER opened at number three with $10.8 m...
San Francisco DJ/mix master Mike Relm has mashed up a treat for fans looking forward to Lionsgate's upcoming releases.
Check out this funky mash-up trailer for 'Punisher' vs 'The Spirit' vs 'Transporter'.
'Transporter3' opens in theaters November 26th....
Well, the third film in the action series has a director now, says FilmActu.com. Very little has been said about this third installment in previous reports. Producer Luc Besson, who wasn't a director on the first two, has said that the plan was to begin s...
While the first teaser was a French release and it came out attached to some films nearly two months ago, Lionsgate has officially premiered the first international trailer for Transporter3 at IGN Movies. The third installment into the action franchise s...
Last seen in THE ITALIAN JOB, actor Jason Statham has been cast as the main bad guy in David Ellis' CELLULAR. Well, Statham is in advanced talks and is expected to sign a deal shortly locking him on the project.Also starring in CELLULAR is Kim Basinger, C...
Director - Lowell Bartholomee
Studio - Monster Island
Ban ? Rich McDonald (ADV Debut) - Ban is one of the two main characters, he is one-half of the Get Backers. He's approx. 18 years old. He generally goes for a "cool" personality. He's a highly talente...
In case you were wondering, the SPACE and WITCHBLADE fans are still writing in to support the seasoning of those shows. The more extreme cases either thank me profusely for the charitable work I’m doing on their behalf, or defensively attack me for some i...
Actor Jason Statham was interested in playing the lead role in Fox's THE TRANSPORTER even before reading the script."Luc Besson... That's all I needed to know," says Statham. "I was sold before they told me anything about the film. I found out I was going...
Boldly Going? by David Michael Wharton (Mon 12-06-2004)
We're well into the fourth season of ENTERPRISE, a season under the guidance of new show runner Manny Coto. Nine episodes in, how does ENTERPRISE's bold, new direction stack up against the legacy of the TREKs that came before, not to mention other SF gian...
Hey, I know you guys are all upset about all this talk about the WB shooting down BIRDS OF PREY.As of this column's writing, the WB hasn't officially cancelled BIRDS OF PREY, but it hasn't extended the series order beyond the original 13 either.Here's why...
The romantic comedy JUST LIKE HEAVEN, took the number one spot at the box office this weekend with a take of $16.5 million.THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE slipped into the number two position with $15.3 million, while Nicolas Cage's LORD OF WAR opened with $9....
Mega Man ZX by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Wed 09-20-2006)
Another Mega Man game has been released, as its series library continues to flourish. I have personally enjoyed and enjoyed again the older Mega Man games with the collections released for the consoles, or originally on the old cartridges. It seems that e...
STAR TREK in High Definition: Good and bad news for STAR TREK fans. Paramount has confirmed that it gearing up to release the TREK franchise again, this time in high definition. The studio is remastering the original series in HD (and rumors claim that...
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE took the number one spot at the box office this past weekend with a take of $30.2 million.THE 40-YEAR-OLD-VIRGIN held in second place with a take of $7.9 million, while TRANSPORTER 2 slipped to third with $7.2 million.Rounding o...
Warning! Spoilers Ahead!I`d like to make a resolution to find more to like about Star Trek: Voyager in its waning days. But `Resolutions` is a loaded term for many of us long-term Voyager viewers. Remember the second-season episode in which Janeway and Ch...
For the past 30 years millions of STAR TREK fans all over the world have faithfully watched 79 episodes of the original 1960s TV series in reruns and videotapes in a seemingly perpetual loop. There are hardcore fans today who can tell you, from a single l...
Does a critic have a statute of limitations on making a judgment regarding a feature film? Is twenty years too long a period of time? Back in December 1979, I was the feature editor of The Compass, the campus newspaper at Suffolk Community College, and I ...
Marvel Studios and Universal Pictures announced a June 27, 2008, release date for The Incredible Hulk, sequel to 2003's Hulk. The announcement was made Nov. 6 by Michael Helfant, president and chief operating officer of Marvel Studios, and Kevin Feige, Ma...
In Part One of my story about the 40th Anniversary Celebration Screening of H.G. Wells` THE TIME MACHINE, I discussed the beauty of downtown LA`s Orpheum Theatre and how the LA Conservancy runs an Annual Last Remaining Seats Film Festival to widen awarene...
Outer space holds many wonders and mysteries. The final frontier to numerous poets, scientists and explorers, it boasts fascinating interstellar phenomenon to eulogize and research, and many strange new worlds and civilizations to explore. But if you don’...
Now that Paramount is kicking ass with some great DVD collections like their must-have GODFATHER box set, it is only fitting that one of the studio's most profitable franchisesSTAR TREKshould share the wealth. After eight rather skimpy disc releases of nu...
Even though NBC’s Emmy-winning hit The West Wing was last Wednesday night’s ratings champion by a huge margin, the fall debut of Star Trek: Voyager brought in more young male viewers than any episode of the past three years. Average viewership was up over...
ENTERPRISE Executive Producer Rick Berman chatted with SCI FI Wire on plot points regarding upcoming episodes of ENTERPRISE. In the article, several episodes are touched on. In episode 7, "T'Pol takes Archer and Mayweather on a secret mission to capture a...
What They SaySeina Yamada is your common 15-year-old boy with one uncommon ability: bad luck. He can\'t get through a day without causing serious harm to himself and those around him. So what in the universe do two gorgeous Galaxy Police officers want to ...
The city has been chosen as a principal filming location for the upcoming Marvel Studios production of "The Incredible Hulk."
"The Hulk" is to be directed by Louis Leterrier ("Transporter" 1 & 2, "Unleashed").
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If you're coming in late, we recently posted parts 1 and 2 of our exclusive interview with 'Incredible Hulk' director Louis Leterrier. In this third part we talk about some of the alleged controversies and ask him to address our own disappointment in th...
Jack
Brodie is master of disguise. He can go anywhere and do almost anything. His secret:
he doesn't just impersonate someone. He becomes them. In the graphic novel
"Brodie's Law: Project Jameson", Jack used his new abilities to gain revenge on London'...
...ished The Transporter3?
JS: Yeah.
Q: Is that taking it up to another level also?
JS: We hope so. We’re always trying to make it go that way.
Q: Was there something specific you wanted to do with the third one?...
Each and every year it is on TV. It has become a must see event. A perpetual ritual for every child each Halloween is watching Charles Schultz’s It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The story has never changed. Charlie Brown has a crappy Hall...
Scottish filmmaker Paul McGuigan is best known for crime pictures such as Lucky Number Slevin and Gangster No. 1. In 2009, he will venture into the realm of science fiction with Push, a film about men and women with mental powers on the run from a siniste...
Anonymous scooper allegedly met with actor Matthew Modine who purportedly dropped a hint that he'll have a role in 'The Incredible Hulk'. Scooper reports:
... he said he's doing something else with the "makers of the 'Transporter' movie that I did."
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Eyetronics, an international provider of high resolution scanning services and animation-ready 3D models, is coming off its most successful year yet and looks to 2005 with a prestigious slate of projects, including RACING STRIPES, ELEKTRA, the much antici...
What They SayHis name is Dante. Half demon and half human, he is charged with ridding the world of the demons that plague it...for the right price. The doors to his business, Devil May Cry, are always open to those with money in pocket, and occasionally...
`During the early ‘70s,` explains David Gerrold, `NBC was the villain, because they had cancelled STAR TREK, and Gene made sure that everybody knew that NBC was the villain. Gene was this man who wanted to change the world for the better, and NBC wouldn`t...
What They SayShute is having trouble with his homework on friendship. While Shute writes his essay, he comes to the realization that the Gundam Force embodies the true meaning of friendship. Rudely interrupted by the trio of Zapper Zaku, Grappler Gouf, an...
JUMPER by Abbie Bernstein, Columnist (Thu 02-14-2008)
Unlike, say, Star Trek, which uses its transporter simply as a plot device, the space-bending abilities of David Rice (Hayden Christensen) are very much the point of Jumper. As an adolescent, David discovers he has the ability to “jump” from o...
A new actress has been pegged by Paramount to perform the transporter duties in their upcoming adventure of Star Trek, reports Variety. The trade says that Marlene Forte ("CSI", "Lost") will become the "Chief Transporter"...
What They SayBased on a popular manga and animated by the respected Studio Deen (King Of Bandit King, Cowboy Bebop).
Everyone knows the feeling of coming home and finding their home broken into. Your possessions thrown around, drawers are ransacked and e...
What They SayThe war between Earth and its space colonies has turned childhood friends Kira and Athrun into enemies. In their Mobile Suits (giant manned robots), they undergo a life-changing epic. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, one of the latest series situat...
What They SayOne Girl. One Tank. No Problem.
In a devastated world overrun by monstrous bugs and ravaged by outlaws, there\'s only one person to call when you really need a job done right: Honoka. With a sixth sense for danger, sword skills that are seco...
What They SayDoes \"back to normal\" have to mean...back to being broke?
Finally, they\'re out of the Limitless Fortress and back to doing what they do best: finding stuff that\'s lost. And never getting paid! After hunting down a boy genius bent on dest...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting episode of Comicscape, where we offer you, the reader, new and innovative excuses to spend yet more money on comics. For instance, next time you’re considering overspending your comics bu...
What They Say\"...the extraterrestrial beauty girls intently unfold the play-heart of the people...\"
- Translated from the introduction to the series published on Tenchi-Web (www.tenchi-web.com), 2002.
Tenchi Muyo! The authentic \"Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki...
Since its inception a few years ago when it released styrene recasts of some of Aurora Plastic's most popular model kits of the 1960s, Tom Lowe's company Playing Mantis (and its cheekily-named model kit arm, Polar Lights) has thrilled baby-boomers by esse...
ROBOCOP is back in a new four-part miniseries, PRIME DIRECTIVES, from Fireworks Entertainment of ANDROMEDA and F/X fame. Producer Julian Grant described the new series to Sci-Fi's promotional site as "hard-hitting, true to the original ROBOCOP feature fil...
James O’Barr’s comic book creation The Crow flies again in the form of The Crow: Salvation—at least in Spokane, Washington. The third film in the franchise, which began with the ill-fated 1994 production starring Brandon Lee, has been sitting on the shelf...
The series kicks off with ONE SMALL STEP by Susan Wright, featuring the classic TREK crew. In this, the strongest novel in the GATEWAYS series, Wright postulates a sequel to the episode "That Which Survives". Due to a transporter glitch Kirk and the other...
The third season of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION was important for two significant reasons. One, the crew of the starship Enterprise finally got fashionable collars on their formerly jumpsuit-styled uniforms. Man, what a difference a starched collar can...
As expected, THE RING sent enough chills down audiences spines to take first place at the box office over the weekend. However, ALABAMA, RED DRAGON and WEDDING are still forces to be reckoned with. The final numbers for the weekend broke the ties for THE ...
With Halloween just around the corner, moviegoing audiences opted for theatrical scares and THE RING provided the perfect outlet. Surprisingly, SWEET HOME ALABAMA maintained second place, while RED DRAGON slipped to third. GREEK WEDDING is still celebrati...
With a handful of Oscar nominations under his belt (and one win for 1967`S THE GRADUATE), Mike Nichols might seem an odd choice to direct a light-hearted comedy about aliens from outer space impregnating human women. After all, this is the man who brought...
In Part Three of our exploration of Digital Stream’s vision to rework the special effects of STAR TREK The Original Series` with their own brand of cutting edge artistry, we approached a number of individuals who have made their careers working with STAR ...
In a recent interview with IESB.net, macho man Jason Statham ('The Transporter', 'In the Name of the King') mused over the possibility of playing a superhero on the big screen.
"There’s so many cool fucking characters. 'The Hulk', I’ve a...
What They SayThe evil forces of Panther Zora are on the march, and only one young woman stands in their way! Of course, if that young woman is blessed with over a dozen lovely but lethal combat bodies, then the Armies of Darkness had better start marching...
If professional STAR WARS booster Steve Sansweet were writing this, chances are he'd be saying, "STAR TREK is back...and in a big way." In this case, however, it wouldn't just be hyperbole; it'd be an accurate assessment of "Broken Bow's" potential to re-...
Trek News: Big Hair DaysVoyager may be going off the air on May 23, but Star Trek executive producer Rick Berman is talking as though it won`t be as long a wait for the next series as previously indicated. In an interview with the Communicator, the magazi...
Kate Mulgrew says she wants her character to die. Robert Beltran says he expects his character to die. Garrett Wang says he’s afraid his character will die. Now Jeri Ryan has become the latest Star Trek: Voyager star to suggest a gloomy fate for her alter...
In Part One of this article, we interviewed Rich Heierling, a film and video producer at Digital Stream in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, who has sent Paramount Pictures a proposal to remake STAR TREK — The Original Series’ (TOS) visual effects with new, state...
The X-Men animated series on Fox ran for over three years and adapted some of the best comics of both the Claremont/Byrne and Lobdell-Nicieza runs, and in the process improved the plots to the point where they actually made sense, not an inconsiderable ac...
The feature adaptation of MTV's popular series, JACKASS, won the box office crown this weekend, demonstrating once again that audiences just can't get enough of crude stunts. THE RING fell to second, but generated more sales than its opening weekend. GHO...
As expected yesterday, the feature adaptation of MTV's popular series, JACKASS, won the box office crown. With Halloween looming around the corner, horror flicks THE RING and GHOST SHIP came in second and third, respectively. Here's how the box office ro...
What They SayYou can’t outrun the past. Whether it’s a bad memory that dogs you, a good one you’re trying to hang onto, or an old nemesis you can’t quite shake loose, the past is always right over your shoulder. Good thing the Ge...
What They SayAfter hunting down a boy genius bent on destroying the world, the Get Backers deserve a few simple, in-and-out recovery jobs, right? But with Ban and Ginji doing the recovering, “easy money” is anything but! First stop: a hot s...
What They SayIn a digital realm between life and the hereafter, there lies an empty room, a black sphere, and the trapped souls of the unfortunate. Here, the only meaning left is in the brutal game. Welcome to GANTZ, the next level of action, horror, and ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tsutomu Nihei Translated by:Stephen PaulAdapted by:What They SayThe ReviewThe one aspect I\'ve really come to enjoy with Tsutomu Nihei\'s Blame! is the unknown in this enormously grim cyberpunk world he has created. When flipp...
Actress and singer/songwriter Kate Nauta stars as a lingerie-clad assassin in producer Luc Besson's new film The Transporter 2, co-wrote and sings two songs on the movie's soundtrack, including the closing theme. Nauta is also up for a part in the next X...
The L.A. Times sheds light on a minor controversy that came out of Comic-Con last month: the announcement that star Ed Norton had written the screenplay for 'Incredible Hulk'. Up until that moment, most fans understood that Zak Penn had written the script...
You WILL like him when he's angry! Marvel Studios and Universal Pictures will unleash Marvel's renowned, larger-than-life green Super Hero onto moviegoers everywhere in summer 2008 as they have announced a June 27th release date for the action-packed, new...
What They SayKazuki is plagued by visions of giant robots that no one else can see. But all of the years of ridicule are about to pay off! Kazuki gets ensnared by a pretty face, and then a mad scientist?s experiment tosses him into this parallel world! No...
In our Prize Closet this week we have a prize pack including all four of our Spotlight items, courtesy of Dragon Dynasty! To be eligible to win one, just send an email to which includes your name and address to DVD Shopping List, and put the wo...
SOPRANOS cast member Vinnie Pastore has been added to the cast of the crime thriller REVOLVER, the new film from Brit director Guy Ritchie. Pastore joins Jason Statham (THE TRANSPORTER) and Ray Liotta (GOODFELLAS) in the movie which is about a high stakes...
Director Corey Yuen will helm the DEAD OR ALIVE movie after he's finished working on the sequel to THE TRANSPORTER. Yuen should be starting to film the live-action version of the Tecmo fighting game around the end of the year. The DOA movie is a collabora...
CHIK YEUNG TIN SAI, as it’s known in China, has been generally advertised in America as the "Chinese CHARLIE’S ANGELS" by distributor Columbia TriStar (home of the ANGELS franchise, who also gave it a limited stateside theatrical release). But outside of ...
ZERO Sum by David Michael Wharton (Mon 01-10-2005)
Here's a suggestion: if the title of your new show contains any word or phrase that can easily be twisted into an ironic review title, either 1) think very seriously about changing said title or 2) make sure that your show is really, really good.Witness t...
FLIGHTPLAN, starring Jodie Foster, landed at the number one spot at the box office with a take of $24.6 million. And TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE came in second with $20.1 million in ticket sales.JUST LIKE HEAVEN slipped to number three with $9.8 million, f...
According to a Press Release, SEGA has acquired the rights to develop and distribute games based on the following franchises: Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Iron ManMore from the Press Release:"Video games are an ideal medium to showc...
According to Moviehole, Australian actress Holly Valance has signed on to join the cast of the upcoming film, Taken. She will join Maggie Grace and Liam Neeson in the cast.The film, to be directed by Pierre Morel, will set Grace as the estranged dau...
When the original STAR TREK was canceled in 1969, it`s unlikely that the cast could have known that their lives would continue to be drawn together over the next decade, fueling a phenomenon that would culminate in the release of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PIC...