TREASUREPLANET is a perfectly serviceable and diverting yet uninspired animated rendition of TREASURE ISLAND that is and is not set in outer space. On the one hand, ships fly the solar seas in search of astral bodies rather than landmasses, and on the ot...
The World Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures' TREASUREPLANET, the futuristic retelling of TREASURE ISLAND, was recently held at the Historic Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, Calif. and the stars were out in full force to catch a glimpse of this latest animated ...
The teaser poster for the spacey-spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND, Disney's TREASUREPLANET, has been released by the studio and it looks promising. While most films sporting traditional cel animation have not held up well in recent years,...
During an interview to promote their newest Disney animated feature, TREASUREPLANET, directors Ron Clements and John Musker (both directed THE LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN and HERCULES) had this to say about the possibility of directing another animated scien...
During an interview promoting the latest addition to the Disney animated pantheon, TREASUREPLANET, Thomas Schumacher, President of Walt Disney Feature Animation discussed the possibility of future direct to video releases of TREASURE and a possible telev...
...adventure TREASUREPLANET, and releasing the film in IMAX theaters at the same time as the film's normal November release. Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
The first images are out from Disney’s secret shrouded re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND. This animated adaptation sets the story in the future, and recasts the adventure as a space opera. What’s it called? TREASUREPLANET of course...
Following the successful IMAX releases of FANTASIA 2000 and the special edition BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Disney Studios has announced it will release its next major animated feature, the sci-fi adventure TREASUREPLANET, in both normal and IMAX editions.This...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER covers Disney's $47 million dollar writedown on previously reported earnings in the wake of Thanksgiving weekend's unexpectedly poor opening for TREASUREPLANET.The same announcement also acknowledged an ongoing financial investigat...
Disney has released the first trailer to it's animate re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND, called now, of course, TREASUREPLANET. The film, sporting the voice talents of David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Emma Thompson, centers on a gr...
... entitled TREASUREPLANET, both slated for release next year.Graeme Revell (TITAN A.E., PITCH BLACK, BATS) has scored the new Mars science fiction film, RED PLANET. James Horner has scored HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS and is slated to score JURASSIC ...
...arron and TreasurePlanet or even enjoyable but essentially average fare like Ice Age, there really wasn\'t much competition or even quality film there. My personal feelings about the film aside, I think it\'s something of a dubious honor considering t...
On March 28, 2006, Fox Home Entertainment will release all-new DVD Singles of the Original Planet of the Apes Series Mastered in Anamorphic Widescreen and featuring THX Certified 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound. In addition to the original film series P...
With his parents killed, Thor finds himself cast down to the secret capital punishment planet of Chimaera where he has to fight to survive.
What They Say:
In the distant future, humanity has migrated into space to settle in the Balkan System, leaving be...
"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" This classic line, spoken by Charlton Heston in 1968's Planet of the Apes, ranks alongside "May the Force be with you," "Bond…James Bond" and "Frankly, my de...
Treasure, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. One may treasure the first cry of a newborn child, while another may treasure a brand-new Porsche. Since Adam and Eve, man has been looking for treasure in one form or another that may bring happiness,...
What They SayBased on the classic novel \"Treasure Island\" by Robert L. Stevenson.
Jim and his mouse friend Gran toll away working as innkeepers. They dream of sailing far away on their own boat. One day, a mysterious fellow appears at the inn and gives...
When last we left Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) and Patrick Gates (Jon Voight), they had found the Knights Templar treasure. With a great box office gross to boot, for the cast of Disney’s Nation...
The new Walt Disney movie National Treasure II (NT2) hits the big screen in just a few days. I predict that like its predecessor National Treasure, it will be a box office winner the first week. Why? Because the new National Treasure II uses a true myster...
‘Grindhouse Presents: Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror’ is a cinematic experience. Opening with a faux trailer that sets a mood, a great mood, I knew that ‘The Grindhouse’ was going to be something different. It is ...
What They SayHarimao’s treasure. It’s worth over 8 billion dollars, and it seems like everyone is looking for it! But nothing’s going to keep Lupin from the treasure this time!
With his faithful companions Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko - Lu...
Los Angeles, CA (December 8, 2006) " Broccoli Books has announced the acquisition of three manga titles, Coyote Ragtime Show, Hakoiri Devil Princess (Japanese title), and Murder Princess.
Coyote Ragtime Show is the manga adaptation of the TV anime serie...
What They SayOnce, the planet Quent was home to the most advanced race in the galaxy...until they unleashed a power so terrifying that they destroyed their own civilization. This power now lies at the heart of Chirico Cuvie's destiny. When he finds it, th...
When it comes to remakes, it's almost better if the film in question is really obscure or not very good to begin with. No one is going to pick apart a big budget remake of AMERICAN NINJA, however critics everywhere will be sharpening their axes for the "r...
The SF films of the 50's are often dismissed on whole as low budget drive-in fodder made by the likes of Roger Corman to turn a quick buck. While that is true to a large extent it isn't entirely accurate. There were a handful of excellent S...
What They SayThe year is 4699. A young adventurer sets off to find Captain Ahab and his crew of outlaw whale hunters. Only Ahab can save his home planet from the most horrific beast known throughout the universe-The Moby Dick.The Review!The journey to Moa...
In the previous entry, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, the series was established as a vicious circle. Seemingly, the apes' trip back in time was destined to make the future planet ruled by them come to pass. However, we can see that it didn't have to...
The `90s was the decade that told us men and women have difficulties in relationships because they`re different from each other. Hardly a new concept, but it received a certain intellectual cache thanks to the popular works of Ph.D.`s like Deborah Tannen ...
Many authors of young people`s books dream of having their works adapted into movies—but if their character is not named `Harry Potter,` the chances are slim. In 1997 Francess Lantz wrote a comedic science fiction book, STEPSISTER FROM THE PLANET WEIRD, i...
To coincide with the release of National Treasure: Book of Shadows, Walt Disney Home Entertainment has released the first National Treasure film on a brand new, 2 Disc Collectors edition DVD set which features several new extras. As I think most...
C`mon—`fess up. You really think your stepfamily is from outer space, right? I mean, they talk funny; they eat strange foods and seem waaaay too interested in dumb TV shows like Wheel of Fortune. Well, if your name is Megan and your mom is a former surfin...
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None of the films released on Christmas day had any print distribution over 2,800 so this weekend’s numbers reflect that. This translates to the top 5 films being returning movies from previous weekends. The top 3 films have at least 3,484 thea...
Since we keep hearing that some people don't have any anime backlogs, it looks like the folks at Planet Anime have devised a sale to help remedy that situation. All In Stock DVDs Now 30% Off! We know what you want. And Planet Anime aims to please! All in...
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For my primary viewing, I listened to the Japanese audio track. The action is primarily concentrated in the center channel. Dialogue, sound effects, and music were all sharp and balanced very well.
The english dub track received a toke...
From a new fantasy series opener by renowned horror author Douglas Clegg to a De Haven Superman novel and a comprehensive behind-the-scenes tome on the beloved Dune series, this Tuesday brings some red-hot goodies that are sure to burn through the shelves...
Welcome to Book Buzz! I’m your new host, Tim Janson. I’d like to first thank Pat Ferrara, your previous MC, for all his help in making this a smooth transition and for all of his sage advice. Many of you may know me already as I...
`They say there`s no devil, Jim, but there is, right out of hell -- I saw it,` Commodore Matt Decker told Captain James T. Kirk in the classic episode `The Doomsday Machine.` The titular devil, a massive weapon that powered itself by destroying planets, w...
What They SaySo long suckers - Say sayonara to Planet Graceland!
Insurrection will not be tolerated! And to prove the point, the government has set a big, bad bomb to blast Graceland right out of the sky! To make matters worse, The King is dead. Howev...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hitoshi TomizawaTranslated by:Mayumi KobayashiAdapted by:What They SayIntroducing Jubei the Treasure Hunter, the greatest adventurer EVER! Jubei must face death-defying traps and white-knuckle dangers to retrieve a mystical ta...
Ever since its conception in 1978, Battlestar Galactica has been offering viewers a layered SF universe, one that manages to stay grounded with the world around us and in sync with contemporary American society. Like any good sci-fi series BSG explores th...
In celebration of Halloween week the Book Buzz is leading off with the week’s new releases and horror and inviting you to share with Mania’s readers the scariest book you ever read! Just use the comments below to tell us the book ...
It's been quite some time since we heard anything at all about Touchstone's long developing NATIONAL TREASURE, but now the film has a director. Jon Turteltaub (DISNEY'S THE KID, INSTINCT) is now attached to helm the project and is said to be planning on m...
We\'ve gotten a lot of email and questions this week about what\'s been going on with Planet Anime, especially with all those who have preorders with them. We\'ve been following their situation this week and Alex Lafoso, the CEO of Planet Anime, has sent ...
Brian Levant has landed on New Line Cinema's planet and will direct the family film "Planet Terry." Neal Moritz is producing via his Original Film banner. "Planet" tells the story of a science fiction enthusiast who finds out that he is actually an alien ...
The first Superman movie "almost feels like three different films," says co-screenwriter Mike Dougherty. "You have your space opera at the beginning, then your rustic western prairie film, and then you go to Metropolis," home to the mammoth building, and ...
In the future, the 21st Century of the Galactic Calendar (or G.C.) to be precise, the Milky Way Federation has decided to respond to the political uprising on planet Graceland by bombing its population into annihilation. Into this impending tragedy comes ...
Variety reports that NBC is putting together an unscripted television show that will let everyday people search for their own national treasure by cracking the NBC's version of "The Da Vinci Code."Producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will produce "Trea...
Comic book writer James D. Hudnall attracted some attention last month when his co-creation with artist Dan Brereton, namely THE PSYCHO, was optioned by Universal Pictures. Now Hudnall is preparing to kick new things off in the comic industry with the for...
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of PLANET OF THE APES, Fox and the American Movie Classics channel produced this feature length documentary which covers the entire series of films - plus whatever Apes spin-offs followed - in as much depth as 127 minutes...
Kim Hunter, who fleshed out one of the genre's favorite characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dr. Zira from THE PLANET OF THE APES films, died in New York at the age of 79. Hunter played Zira, the chimp with a heart of gold, in the original APES, ...
MGM continues their terrific Midnight Movies series presentation of worthy genre programmers on DVD with this John Agar double feature.Today, INVISIBLE INVADERS is better known as a direct inspiration for George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (or even ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hitoshi TomizawaTranslated by:Mayumi KobayashiAdapted by:What They SayJubei has been hired to find the Figurehead of Souls, a magical item that grants immeasurable power to whoever wields it. Joined by his loyal sidekick Carpe...
Looks like the remake of the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet is coming out development hell. Writer J. Michael Straczynski has been tasked by Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver to pen a modern update of the 1956 classic. Straczynski, better known for h...
Not every hit film demands a sequel. Sure, there's been talk over the years about THE GRADUATE 2, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FOURTH KIND, and PRETTIER WOMAN, but so far the filmmakers of many big hits have managed to resist the lure of another cash-in. Not s...
While Fox's PLANET OF THE APES DVD box set is a great collection and a must-have for true fans, one noticeable element of the set is lacking: extra features. Aside from little more than trailers, the only real extra in the box set is a sixth disc which fe...
(WARNING: SPOILERS)Astronaut Leo Davidson blasts off from the research station Oberon into a zone of unstable space to rescue a trained chimpanzee. His ship gets caught in a wormhole and ends up crash-landing on a planet where humans are hunted by super-i...
A world of ice awaits you in Lost Planet. Frozen in time by the galaxy, a frigid wasteland awaits all that wish to step forth onto the tundra. The world is known as E.D.N. III, and was a site hoping to be colonized by humans, though unfortunately upon ...
While at a press junket for NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS, reporter Heather Newgen asked actor Nic Cage about the chance of him doing a Ghost Rider 2 or a National Treasure 3. The actor responded that he's definitely up for both possib...
I frequently feel sorry for younger people growing up today who weren’t able to experience my naďve sense of joy and discovery at virtually every crappy genre movie I watched as a kid. Once we got cable television (13 channels!) we were privy to the telev...
In a tradition of our lovely capitalistic society and feeding the need for cheap goods for poor anime fans, we got word that Planet Anime is doing a couple of specials to partake in the holiday bonanza that\'s going on:All ADV, Rightstuf, and Urban Vision...
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...
The latest in FSM`s series of preserved `Silver Age Classics` soundtracks is this laudable restoration of a lost classic, Leonard Rosenman`s score to BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES. This score has never truly released before, despite the presence of a so...
`Into the Fire` (#301) - Written by Brad Wright. Directed by Martin WoodPart 2 of Season 2`s `Out of Mind.` In this exciting season opener, the SG-1 team are being held prisoner by their old Goa’uld foe Hathor (Susanne Braun), who threatens to insert a Go...
With the world apparently destroyed at the end of BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (Oops! Um… spoiler!), no one thought it likely that there would be another sequel. The box office tally, however, disagreed with them. The filmmakers came up with a brilliant...
This year’s second `Mission to Mars` isn’t quite as ridiculous as the previous journey to the angry red planet, but in some ways that is a liability: without the derision factor, there isn’t as much fun, and there just aren’t enough thrills and excitement...
Though the box office returns for CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES didn't break any records, by this time Ape fandom was growing ever larger. Theaters all over the country were hosting Ape marathons, showing all four films in one day. This assured Fox t...
What happens when we find life outside our own planet? Discovery Channel brings viewers on a virtual mission of the future. Right now, the search for planets with "life signatures" goes on. These efforts are global, and experts tell us on camera how this ...
Updated: International numbers have been added...
The box office cash for this weekend was spread out as expected. With so many new releases this weekend (and this week), audiences chose a bit of everything making for some big moneymakers in the t...
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...
You want horror? Open your eyes and take a look at the world around you. That seems to be the message behind Brutal Planet, the first studio album from Alice Cooper since 1994’s The Last Temptation. In that previous recording, the Coop dealt with themes o...
What They SayThe evil Prince Lotor of Planet Doom has come to destroy Planet Arus and take Princess Allura to be his slave. The Voltron Force, Keith, Lance, Pidge and Hunk pilot the Black, Red, Green and Yellow Lions to defend the peacful planet. With Pri...
No matter what holiday you celebrate there’s always one constant during the winter season: terrible gifts. Because of a schedule / travel conflict with the fam I happened to celebrate Christmas early this year. Did I get Subterranean Press’ li...
What They SayKeith, Lance, Hunk, Pidge and Princess Allura have successfully awakened the legendary robot guardian, Voltron. After countless battles, they\'ve pushed back the forces of evil King Zarkon, freeing the Princess\'s home, planet Arus, as well a...
I'm not the kind of critic that likes to give away too much, but for once I'm not going to worry about it. In fact, I'll go out of my way to type SPOILER WARNING in extra small type, just to mock the concept. The PLANET OF THE APES Charlton Heston finds h...
We got word in from the folks at Planet Anime that they\'re not out of business, though you couldn\'t tell by their now non-existent website. It looks like the network gods have decided to remove their domain account from existence, and it\'ll be a few da...
For those needing to fill their hentai itch, especially after the article about it yesterday, you may be interested to know that Planet Anime is running a NuTech sale:That\'s right Planet Anime is having a sale on all NuTech Hentai DVDs! You save 40% on a...
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has picked up U.S. distribution rights for the CG-animated Planet 51 with TriStar Pictures set to release the film, reports Variety. The upcoming Sci-fi film will star Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, S...
Helen Mirren has joined the cast of National Treasure: The Book of Secrets. She will play Emily Appleton, Ben Gates' (Nicolas Cage) mother. In this sequel, Gates hopes to discover the truth behind the murder of Abraham Lincoln by tracking down missi...
Updated: A new video has appeared over at Yahoo UK featuring the intro to the movie. I'm told that the clip was shortened down to around 5 minutes but the scene may be a bit longer in the film version. In basics, this is the beginning of the film where yo...
Bryan Singer's 'Superman Returns,' one of the most heavily anticipated films of the summer, is chuck-full of mystery, lust and heart-pounding excitement ... and that's just at the office (Rimshot.) Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas narrates our exclusi...
First a note about scheduling: With all the new content coming in along with the new website, they’ve decided to move the Anime Avalanche column from Saturdays to Mondays. This has the advantage of putting it closer to the Tuesday street dates (a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kataoka Jinsei & Kondou KazumaTranslated by:Toshifumi YoshidaAdapted by:T. LedouxWhat They SayRenton and Eureka encounter the female pilot Anemone, who is the pilot of the Federation LFO and is Eureka\'s opposite in every way....
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuri NarushimaTranslated by:Gabi BlumbergAdapted by:What They SayI see the tarot cards in my dreams. I turn them over in hopes of finding all the answers - Who am I? Where do I come from? Why are these people after me? But whe...
The second release from Discotek and their first anime release, we\'ve got a look at their 11/15/2005 title Animal Treasure Island which gains some extra fame by having Hayao Miyazaki involved in its production as well as probably being twice as old as mo...
What better gift for an anime fan than more anime? We got this missive in this afternoon from our friends at Planet Anime:Christmas is rapidly approaching, and you need to start thinking about gift giving! Planet Anime has a big shipment of Mediablasters ...
What They SayThe adventures of Jet and the crew of the DICE F-99 Fortress continues! First, they participate as drivers in a planetary Grand Prix in order to discover who is behind acts of sabotage. Then Jet and Tak will visit a planet that appears once e...
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I've been writing reviews for Anime on DVD.com since 1998. I've been a fan of anime for a bit longer than that. It's been interesting to see my style of review change over the years. With 2000 I realized that I had to do something a bit different in...
Current CD Soundtrack ReleasesA big disappointment is the first soundtrack release of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (ISC 490765). Of the CD’s 76:51 minutes, less than 45 contain James Horner’s rousing and playful orchestral music. As expected in today’...
What They SayWhat the universe needs now is a hero. A killer has stolen a legendary treasure, magical gold! Now, as the universe spirals into chaos, the ancient gods have awakened to avenge this theft. Noble space pirate Captain Harlock must restore the g...
Arguably a much better game series than a movie franchise, RESIDENT EVIL is back with the novelization of the third film, Resident Evil: Extinction due out in theatres this fall. G’day all you Maniac readers and welcome to the Buzz. We’ve got ...
Happy Wednesday to all, and welcome to another weekly installment of all things wondrous, wacky, and wall-crawling in the wily world of comics. Ah, and what a treat it will be, as I, Ben Johnson, in my stunning debut, razzle and dazzle and deconstruc...
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Composer Danny Elfman and director Tim Burton have collaborated nearly consistently since the director's first feature film, PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, in 1985. Elfman, who gained popularity as one of the members of the eclectic rock group Oingo Boingo, had...
Relative acting newcomer Justin Bartha just got handed his highest profile gig to date. He'll play Riley Poole, the best friend to Nicolas Cage's character in the action-adventure film NATIONAL TREASURE.Cage, Bartha and actress Diane Kruger (TROY) will ch...
There are rumblings that suggest that Tim Burton's PLANET OF THE APES isn't done yet, while time quickly runs out to its release date. According to Inside.com, the project is still going through last minute effects work and cutting, allegedly resulting in...
In some ways the presentation is naďve, even cornball, but this film survives on the strength of its story (loosely derived from Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST) and the best production values that MGM could furnish. Sort of a forerunner of STAR TREK (with a st...
The bad thing about months with five release weeks is that you always get a week or two where the pickings are very slim. Such is the case this week! Everything from fiction to non-fiction is rather light but it’s really just the calm befo...
The Weinstein Co. has picked up the rights to Tony Leech and Cory Edwards' pitch ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH.The CG animated family comedy centers on a prison break from Area 51, a mysterious government facility where the inmates are a ragtag group of impris...
According to Variety, Handmade Films and Ilion Animation are teaming to finance and produce the upcoming CGI film, Planet One.The film, written by Joe Stillman (Shrek), is an alien invasion story about the inhabitants of Planet One, and who have two anten...
Andrew Nemeth has announced that he is doing a multi-node, high-resolution cubic VR shoot of the 'Superman Returns' "Daily Planet" movie set, at Fox Studios Sydney, for Warner Brothers Theatrical Interactive Marketing.
With Resident Evil and Street Fighter already being a franchise of films, there have been hints of a Lost Planet film on the horizon, based on Capcom's best selling 2006 property. Variety's confirming that it is indeed on the way and Warner Bros. has reac...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kataoka Jinsei / Kondou KazumaTranslated by:Toshifumi YoshidaAdapted by:What They SayRenton Thurston is a young 14-year-old who is tired of his monotonous life. The only thing that makes him happy is when he lifts, and extreme...
The DVD races this week were ruled by adventures, new and old, from two franchises. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment's National Treasure: Book of Secrets stormed to the top of the national home video sales and rental charts in its first week in stor...
"The original script, the character's name is Stanford, and he had a subplot that's about 20-minutes long in the rough cut that I saw," says actor Kal Penn of his role in 'Superman Returns'. "Part of his plot was that he and Lex Luthor are in cahoots, and...
One last piece of information to spread out of Walt Disney's exhibitor convention from the Kodak theater yesterday. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star Nicolas Cage officially confirmed that they're developing the third installment of their National Treas...
Marvel has publicly posted their quarterly earnings report. As is always the case, the report has several Easter Eggs for Comics2Film fans.
Most interesting is the revelation of a 'Planet Hulk' direct-to-video animated feature, targeted for a February 20...
In our Prize Closet this week we already have two copies of Avatar the Last Airbender Book 2 Volume 1, which is set to street next week! To enter, just send an email to which includes your name and address DVD Shopping List, and in the subject line put...
New Line Cinema has tapped the writing team of Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio to adapt the comic book "Planet Terry" for the big screen. The project, which New Line pre-emptively acquired from comic book creator Rob Liefeld in July, is based on what was to be ...
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After 5 years
waiting desperately, struggling to sleep at night, Barry Sonnenfeld finally
brings us Men in Black II (what's with all these s...
Looks like Harry Potter producer David Heyman has a new adventure in store for Warner Bros. The studio has picked up Timothy Dowling's adventure-comedy spec The Treehouse Gang and set David's Heyday Films as the production company in charge. Heyman has pr...
Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long and Seann William Scott have joined the new sci-fi fantasy Planet 51, says the Hollywood Reporter. The four thespians are the first casting announcements for the new CGI animation for New Line and Ilion ...
Walt Disney Pictures, America Online and Moviefone.com are teaming up to make treasure hunting a little easier. Next Tuesday, October 19, an exclusive preview of a ten-minute clip of the new Nicholas Cage adventure movie NATIONAL TREASURE will be rolled o...
Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have started development of NATIONAL TREASURE 2. Jon Turteltaub will once again direct. Gregory Poirier will write the script.TREASURE brought in $173 million domestically.
YAHOO! NEWS runs a Reuters story which takes a peek at the items on sale from Planet Hollywood's large collection of show biz memorabilia. The items are to be sold at auction by Sotheby's and a portion of the material is available online through Monday."W...
A new version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling classic TREASURE ISLAND is coming to the screen, brought there by the hands of TEXAS RANGERS and LAKE PLACID director Steve Miner.Coming from a script by Gary Goldman (TOTAL RECALL), Miner’s version ...
Plot: The original film was a futuristic adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest that tells the story of a human colony on the distant planet of Altair-4. The crew of a military spaceship sent to check on the colony's progress learns that a terrible unkno...
INTRADA Announce its Special Collection Vol. 25: the first-ever soundtrack CD release of Lalo Schifrin's music for the PLANET OF THE APES television series. In addition to Schifrin's title and episode music, the release also includes Earle Hagen's music f...
After about a year of anticipation, delays, and a change of publisher, BAD PLANET finally arrives. For those still reading X-FORCE in their parents' basement and hoarding copies of SPAWN #1, BAD PLANET is the first comic released by Raw Entertainment a j...
The latest trailer for NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS is now online courtesy of Apple. The sequel brings the original participants(Nic Cage, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Justin Bartha) back for another adventure alongside new editions...
New Line has acquired the rights for the upcoming fantasy adventure PLANET 51, says the Hollywood Reporter. The trade reports the studio purchasing the rights for the 60 million dollar animation, currently in development by Ilion Animation Studios. The st...
Yahoo! Movies has loaded up the teaser trailer for NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS. Jon Turteltaub is back again directing. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. The script is by Gregory Poirier, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Sellek Wibberle...
According to MNightFans.com, M. Night Shyamalan recently finished his latest script, Green Planet, and went shopping it to studios. Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, and Sony have all passed.The story is rumored to center on an alien invasion o...
When films cross over between genres, it's often because the director doesn't know what type of movie he wants to make, or the producers wanted him to change the focus sometime after filming has begun. These films often end up being a mess. ...
Considering the lack of a soundtrack release for his terrifically spooky score for PITCH BLACK, the soundtrack CD for Graeme Revell`s RED PLANET (Pangća 186-810-063-2) comes as a bit of a disappointment. There are only three instrumental score cues, hidde...
Well one might say that this is a very light week for new releases. I’d say pathetic might be a better choice of words. Honestly it really is a very slow week. With few new releases in Sci-Fi, horror and fantasy, I’ve included m...
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All In-Stock import Manga is now on sale for a killer 50% off! This is the best price on import ever offered by Planet Anime! Do not pass up this opportunity! Choose from our extensive...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kim Tae-HyungTranslated by:Woo Sok ParkAdapted by:What They SayNoodles and his band of fighters are intent on taking back the Horai kingdoms of Gaia and Pratria from his twin brother overlord Zetsos. To do so, they must quest ...
Seems like a lot of turning points last year and this year, and the folks at Planet Anime are no exception:Planet Anime is 9 years old! In celebration of our 9th anniversary, we are going to be having some great deals over the next few weeks. None of Plan...
National Treasure: Book of Secrets has been showing in theaters for 3 weeks now and all 3 weeks, the Disney flick has claimed 1st place in our Mania Box Office Report…As a whole though, the top 5 films did rather well in this first weekend of 2008....
Walt Disney Pictures has set the release dates for National Treasure 2, The Chronicles of Narnia: Price Caspian and Pixar's Wall-E.National Treasure 2 - December 21, 2007The Chronicles of Narnia: Price Caspian - May 16, 2008Wall-E - June 27, 2008
Nic Cage, Diane Kruger & Justin Bartha reunite with Harvey Keital, Ed Harris & Helen Mirren in this sequel to the Disney film, NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS. The official website has launched which gives you, the viewer, a look at the trailer...
March 20, 2008 - tokyo pinsalocks new CD "Planet Rita" will be released next week in Japan on March 26, 2008, but JapanFiles.com has the new 7-track EP already available for fans as of today! In cooperation with the band's management, the CD is being rele...
Star Wars: Rogue Planet, available in hardback, is the first Lucas tie-in to be set around the time of Phantom Menace (not counting Terry Brooks' book of the film). As such, it occupies an interesting position in spin-offery. Most such books are written w...
It's easy enough to look back at the first season of a long running genre series to speculate how and why it might have failed had the gods of ratings and viewer attention not been good to it, but it's much harder sometimes to figure out why a series that...
Mania is happy to announce our next contest, a giveaway of the Capcom game Lost Planet for the Xbox 360.Combining a gripping single player campaign and intense multiplayer modes with support for up to 16 players via Xbox Live online game service, Lost Pla...
J. Lee Thompson, who directed the classic (and original) stalker-thriller CAPE FEAR, as well as two of the original PLANET OF THE APES films, has died in British Columbia at the age of 88. Thompson also brought to the screen the classic World War II missi...
The long in the works remake of the classic 1956 science fiction film FORBIDDEN PLANET is moving forward once again, thanks to DreamWorks' Michael de Luca.The project had previously been in development at New Line Cinema, where it had been in development ...
It’s very difficult not to compare this and all other "new" PLANET OF THE APES material to the far more familiar (and in my opinion superior) continuity of the classic series and its many media spin-offs. In that light, nothing Dark Horse does with this B...
In an interview with MTV, producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed various things regarding the upcoming sequel National Treasure 2."I met with Nic yesterday, and it's getting very close," he said. "We're going to start filming in January."...
Director Jon Turteltaub talked with the LA Daily News about the upcoming film NATIONAL TREASURE 2, the sequel to the hit film NATIONAL TREASURE."We are just about to start pre-production," the director revealed. "We'll have Nic [Cage], Justin Bartha, Dian...
What They SayThe Dirty Pair are traveling to the planet of Ookbar in search of a missing girl. Kei and Yuri have traced Missinie to the forest of Nolandia, but their investigations have stalled thanks to the less-than-helpful Chief of Security. But the Di...
What They SayOne boy will risk it all on a heroic journey through space in search of the truth. He and his devoted girlfriend will encounter unimaginable villains and take part in awesome battles to find the star map that will save the galaxy - or so they...
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...
OPINION: You may have noticed a larger than usual number of graphic novels from Europe on the shelves these last few months. It's not because your comics shop owner has suddenly become more enlightened in his/her thinking and gone all "citizen of the worl...
In the midst of preproduction announcements on Paramount’s and Peter Berg’s upcoming Dune remake, Frank Herbert’s God Emperor of Dune is getting the audiobook treatment from Macmillan Audio. Read by Simon Vance, Scott Brick and Katherine...
What They SayInsurrection will not be tolerated! To prove that point, the government has set a big, bad bomb to blast the planet Graceland right out of the sky. To make matters worse, The king is dead. However, before the Pirate King Bruce died, he hid bi...
Mercedes Lackey hits the shelves today with continuations of both her Elemental Masters and The Dragon Jousters series, Koji Suzuki's final installment of the Ring trilogy gets its stateside paperback debut, and Dietz releases his new hard SF thriller fre...
Leading man Nicolas Cage has agreed to topline Touchstone's NATIONAL TRASURE, an action/adventure film that's been in development hell for a number of years. Jon Turtletaub (INSTINCT, PHENOMENON) is directing and Jerry Bruckheimer, the man with the golde...
Diane Kruger, who will appear next year in Wolfgang Petersen's TROY as the fair Helen, has signed on to star in Jon Turteltaub's NATIONAL TREASURE. She will play a Smithsonian museum worker who teams up with Nicolas Cage's character to find a treasure bur...
Publisher Larry Young has announced that AiT/Planet Lar's September offerings will include ABEL, by William Harms and Mark Bloodworth. AiT/Planet Lar book designer and cover artist Brian Wood works his 11th AiT cover for ABEL. "Abel's a hard book to cla...
WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? is not without its virtues, but considering the stellar talent involved it must be reckoned a disappiontment of cosmic proportions. The basic premise (an alien comes to Earth to impregnante a human woman) seems like fertile groun...
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AIR MASTER VOLUME 3 DVD
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Walt Disney Pictures has bought Amy Pocha and Seth Cohen untitled adult treasure script.
The story centers on a group of childhood friends who reunite in their early 30s to seek out a treasure that they tried and failed to find as kids.
Chris Bender,&n...
What They SayBullets, blades, bombs, beauty and boobs... if it\'s capable of destruction or distraction, it\'s fair game in the chilling, thrilling, killing, blood-spilling anime COYOTE RAGTIME!The Review!With ten billion space bucks at stake, a group of ...
I was discussing the upcoming weekend's new theatrical releases with some friends last week, and inevitably OVER THE HEDGE was mentioned. Someone said that they definitely wouldn't be seeing it, because they "don't watch cartoons". Some tried to sway him ...
Dan Abnett releases a slew of Warhammer novels, Jeffrey Thomas continues the bizarre tales of the inter-dimensional Punktown, and alternate historical fiction runs rampant in this edition of the Weekly Book Buzz.
Greetings Maniac readers and wel...
Those wondering if a new version of PLANET OF THE APES was a good idea or not will be able to decide this weekend, with the opening of the film on Friday and the release of the CD earlier in the week. This column we take a look at the new film score, whil...
BBC Video and CBS/FOX Home Entertainment continue their service to American Whovians by adding to their treasure trove of DR. WHO releases with `The Space Museum,` the 15th adventure of our favorite time traveler in the guise of his first face, the entert...
What They SayThe galaxy is a strange and dangerous place, and there are times when even the United Space Force can\'t help. That\'s where the Crushers come in - skilled troubleshooters who will deal with any problem, large or small, for a fee (large only!...
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...
The Sword of Truth series debuted in 1994 with Wizard’s First Rule and has been chugging on ever since. Translated into 20 foreign languages with 10 million copies in print, Terry Goodkind’s leviathan of an epic clocks in at over 7700 pages an...
Disney and Apple have provided us all with an extended clip of a scene from NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS. The clip goes through a chase scene in the UK between Ed Harris and our treasure hunters. The clip wraps up with some shots from other par...
The news lines have been buzzing this week discussing the renewed energy behind the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES CGanime feature film. But the news continues, as Kevin Munroe, the writer and director of the TMNT movie for Imagi Animation, has also been hi...
Mean. That's the only way to describe the comments from last week. Just mean! I thought you could have some respect for your fellow comment posters, whether FARSCAPE or STARGATE fan, but no, I was wrong. Instead, we've been reduced to name-calling, an...
Several readers have written in to our DVD peeve department to gripe about DVD packaging. While the plastic keepcase has settled in as the compromise of choice for most labels, why do some manufacturers force us to unwrap the shrinkwrap, remove adhesive s...
The year 2007 was punctuated by the release of the final Harry Potter tome, by the start of the fourteen-week WGA strike, and by the deaths of some of SF’s and fantasy’s top writers, chief amongst those Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Jordan. But as ...
What They SayGet Ready for the Big Bang!
The mission: To make their way to Planet Graceland before it gets blasted into the afterlife. The motive: 10 billion dollars in hidden treasure. But it ain't gonna be easy. Mister and his band of Coyotes could ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hayao MiyazakiTranslated by:David Lewis and Toren SmithAdapted by:What They SayAcademy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki has created an epic environmental cautionary tale! This masterpiece is now available in a new edition in its or...