Well, it's time to stir up the rabble with TV Wasteland's first ever (at least under my administration) WastelandAwards. Essentially, this is an opportunity for me the columnist to heap meaningless praise upon the shows I enjoyed this year while providi...
This week's column is going to be a little different. The adjective could be "diverse" or it could be "scattered" depending on your personal taste. The idea is to spew forth all the things that are cluttering up my head at the moment in the hopes that I...
--- Wins Best Long Series, Best Cast, Best DVD Package Design, Best Actor and Best Anime Theme Song ---
Fort Worth, TX (March 5, 2007) - FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation and the market share leader for home vide...
Film Music Magazine has announced The Film & TV Music Awards, a new annual peer awards program for the film and television music industry. Nominations for the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards will begin June 1, 2007 and industry voting will take pla...
Anime Professionals Gather for Ceremony, Gala February 24th
Norwalk, CT, November 10, 2006: The New York Comic Con today announced that it will host the first-ever American Anime Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, February 24th at...
--- Wins Best Long Series, Best Cast, Best DVD Package Design, Best Actor and Best Anime Theme Song ---
Fort Worth, TX (March 5, 2007) - FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation and the market share leader for home vide...
...ng the TV WastelandAwards for the 2005-6 season. I thought I'd open the floor to others as well, so I'll include the most thought-provoking argument for each award alongside my own picks. So, if you have a strong opinion on one of the categories menti...
Picture a large white tent on a beach in Santa Monica, Calif. Now picture limousines pulling up to that tent, stars filing out and collecting awards. All this occurred last Saturday as the IFP/West hosted the 17TH Annual Spirit Awards, a kind of Bizarro W...
So the Grammy’s just finished up and now it’s time for the Oscars. When I was younger, I used to actually care about these awards shows. Now I wouldn’t necessarily watch them because they’ve always been way too long,...
Winners to Be Honored At NY City Gala February 24
Norwalk, CT, February 8, 2007 " The New York Comic Con today announced finalists for the inaugural American Anime Awards. Over 43,000 fans cast their vote for the hottest manga and anime in North Americ...
Live Webcast Brings the First-Ever Awards Program to the Internet
Norwalk, CT, February 21, 2007: Over 43,000 fans cast their vote for the hottest anime and manga in the first-ever American Anime Awards, and the winners will be announced this Saturday a...
The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Saturday, February 5th at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and aired the same night on TNT. The words on the red carpet that kept radiating were... "It's a thrill and an honor to be nominated by ...
Greeting Cinescapers! Wow, it's officially summer and doesn't that beat all! As a special summer tribute to re-runs I've decided to cull through the Wasteland archives and bring you a smattering of classic blurbs relevant to this week's offerings. I'm sur...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror films has announced the nominations for the 32nd Annual Saturn Awards. Leading the pack is George Lucas' genre epic "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" with 10 nominations. "Batman Begins" fol...
The 13th ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AWARDS was held again this year at the Ebell Theatre of Los Angeles. These awards are a salute to the Hollywood community and recognizes film, music and television productions that increase public awareness of environme...
Howard Shore's score for THE LORD OF THE RINGS took home two awards Saturday in Ghent, Belgium at the end of the Flanders International Film Festival.The World Soundtrack Awards were for original soundtrack of the year and for the online vote based public...
While best known for handing out the Hugo awards, the World Science Fiction Convention (called World Con) also gives out other prizes related to SF literature and fan culture. Here's a breakdown of some of the various non-Hugo awards given at this year's ...
Ellen DeGeneres to host 79th Annual Academy AwardsEllen DeGeneres has accepted an offer to host the 79th Annual Academy Awards on February 25, 2007. It will be her first time hosting the event.Laura Ziskin, who is producing this year's ceremonies, said T...
Nominations Just Announced – Lady Death: The Motion Picture and Neon Genesis: Platinum Edition Nominated for Best Anime DVD of 2004
HOUSTON, March 18, 2005 – ADV Films produced two of the five nominees for “Best Anime DVD” in t...
After several slow weeks in genre literature the release schedule is finally picking back up, offering loads of fresh sci-fi, fantasy, and horror amidst the news of recent award noms and finalists.
An unfortunate truth of life is that there are a lot of ...
Sunday, September 1st the 2002 World Con, called Con Jose, hosted the 49th annual Hugo awards. The Hugo, named after famed SF editor Hugo Gernsback, is considered the top honor in genre entertainment, especially with regards to literature. This year's awa...
Manas Sergio Vallin, Conjunto Primaveras Tony Melendez and the LA-based band Ozomatli are scheduled to perform in honor of Carlos Santana when the songwriter/artist is honored as an Icon by performing rights organization BMI. The presentation and performa...
The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony was held Monday, October 20th at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Awards were chosen by voting online at the Yahoo Movies and Entertainment Tonight websites. And the winners are:The Hollywood Actor of the Year...
Recently FOX held the 2003 Teen Choice Awards at the Universal Amphitheater. For the first time, fans ranging from their teens into their 60's had on-line access, (through AOL and Teen People), to vote and have a say in production elements of the show. Th...
The staff and reviewers here have put together an interesting project over the last two months or so and have unleashed it onto the manga forums here today with the 2005 Manga Awards. Similar to the Best DVD release awards, this is where you the reader ge...
The last two months here in Tinsletown have been absolutely crazy. Award Show after Award Show...premiere after premiere. This next week Cinescape will catch you up on some of the events that have been happening. First up is the 10th Annual Screen Actors ...
This year's Kerrang! Awards, an annual event presented by the long-running British music publication, have been announced. Seven of the Awards are voted for by the readers of Kerrang! Magazine and users of Kerrang.com (voting closes on the 22nd August); t...
Warner Brothers` THE IRON GIANT won during the 27th Annual Annie Awards ceremonies held at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California. In a ceremony on Saturday, November 7, 1999, this animated feature won nine awards including the coveted Outstanding Achie...
THE 19TH GENESIS AWARDS which are presented by The Humane Society of The United States Hollywood Office recently held their awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.THE GENESIS AWARDS are the only awards show of its kind, which hono...
Yesterday, five popular science fiction television series filmed in Canada were nominated in nine categories for Gemini Awards, the country`s version of `Emmy Awards,` recognizing the best of Canadian television in 74 categories. STARGATE SG-1 and THE OUT...
DEATH NOTE, BLEACH, NARUTO, INUYASHA, POKéMON And RANMA ½ Among the Contenders To Win In Multiple Categories
San Francisco, CA, February 13, 2007 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive pub...
Featuring A Reader's Choice Vote And Exciting Contest In Partnership With MYX!
San Francisco, CA, January 24, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensi...
There was once an era, decades ago, when science fiction television shows were not popular and had little or no legitimacy--an era when the genre was looked down upon by the mainstream media and within Hollywood. In todays climate of a thousand channels,...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films handed out their 31st Annual Saturn Awards on May 3 and two films dominated the accolades for the evening: SPIDER-MAN 2 and KILL BILL: VOL. 2 SPIDER-MAN 2 walked away with a total of five Saturn ...
Genre TV shows have always had trouble winning the big awards, not to mention mere nominations, at the Emmys, so it`s a pleasant surprise to see some of the newest as well as some of the most recognizable names in sci-fi and fantasy television get nominat...
It was a hot and sunny day at The Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles as I took my place in one of the photographer pens on the red carpet. Fans were in bleachers and screamed for their favorite television stars as they walked down the red carpet to...
Finally, an awards show in which the participants cannot possibly rationalize a dance number.The Visual Effects Society has announced it will begin the first annual VES Awards next February, which will honor achievements in... well, special effects. That ...
Greetings Cinescapers. First off I'd like to thank all of you for your wonderful letters, advice, and the dead rat. As you'll no doubt notice there have been a few changes to TV Wasteland since last week; first of all, my spelling is a little better, and ...
Okay. We've got the winners for the 2002 MTV Movie awards for you, out loyal readers, again. The awards were given Saturday night, and we had them for you Monday, but not everyone wants to ruin the experience of that awards show by knowing the winners. So...
The 12th Annual Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards ceremony was held Friday night during the San Diego Comic-Con 2000 Convention. The awards are named after comics legend Eisner, creator of The Spirit. Considered by many to be the `Oscars` of the comic bo...
TOKYOPOP INC. AWARDS HASBRO MASTER TOY LICENSE FOR RAVE MASTER
Exciting Boys Action Toy Line to Revolve Around Highly Anticipated Cartoon Network Anime Series
LOS ANGELES (January 13, 2004)--TOKYOPOP Inc. has chosen a "toy master" for Rave Master--its a...
The AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards has finished out for the month of March and it\'s a clean sweep for ADV Films as their release of Kanon Vol. #3 has grabbed best actor, best actress and best dub overall for the month.
The nomination period ends today for those you want to see eligible for the March ADR Awards so if there are performances you want to see included, be sure to get them added!
With the January awards out of the way, we wanted to draw folks into participating more in the process. Information on the Anime Dub Recognition Awards has been updated and the February Nominations have begun.
The ADR Awards program is continuing on today and it's a bit of a catch-up round as the winners for the best dub overall, the best male performance and the best female performance has been awarded for the months of April 2008 and May 2008. Not unexpectedl...
About a month back I ranted about the Emmy Awards. The fact is, the entertainment industry always treats animation as a red-headed stepchild. This is in spite of the fact that half the top ten box office films, as well as the longest running sitcom, are a...
Big screen documentary SPACE STATION 3-D took home a trio of awards for production company IMAX during the 25th Giant Screen Theater Association confab last week, VARIETY reports. SPACE STATION 3-D, shot on location in the U.S. space shuttle and the Inter...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
VARIETY reports that TNN will broadcast the VIDEO GAME AWARDS in a two-hour format sometime late in 2003.The show will be a first for the network and for the video-gaming industry. The article notes the sector grossed $9.4 billion in 2001 and is predicted...
It suddenly came to Troy and James that they hadn't done mid-year awards. Considering that we were running a little low on ideas for this week's column, it seemed like the perfect way to kill two birds with one award column. So without further ado, our mi...
On Saturday, September 4 the 2004 Hugo Awards were presented at Noreascon Four held in Boston, Massachusetts, honoring the best genre writing, artwork and entertainment released in 2003. The Best Novel Hugo went to Lois McMaster Bujold's PALADIN OF SOULS ...
It's official. Comedian Billy Crystal is returning to host the 76th Academy Awards ceremony, the eighth time that Crystal has done so. The ceremony is scheduled to be held on February 29, 2004 at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.The big factor in Crystal ...
The 2003 MTV Movie Awards aired June 5th from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Among the screaming of the fans the many celebrities and music stars strolled down the blue carpet and Cinescape was there!And the winners were:Best Movie THE LORD OF TH...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
The Classical BRIT Awards is the most glittering event on the classical music calendar, when a who's who of the classical world convene at The Royal Albert Hall for an evening of one night only performances and prize giving. Film music gets a nod in the "...
If you caught last night's broadcast of the People's Choice Awards, you would have seen the new format for award shows without the contribution of WGA writers. Basically, the staff tracked down all the winners and filmed the acceptance speeches at their i...
The catch-up phase has finished out and we\'ve got three new winners added to our Best DVD Awards section. In April, Bandai Entertainment scored with their release of Eureka Seven Vol. #1. Geneon managed to score in both the May and June awards with Ganku...
We\'ll be formalizing this section soon and indeed hoped for better pictures tonight before our camera simply decided that it wasn\'t going to work, but what are you going to do. The voting finished earlier this week for the user voted Best DVD Release fo...
Even facing a good deal of strong competition, the September 2006 release of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Vol. #7 blew everything else away and took the top spot in our Best DVD Release Awards.
The February 2008 AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards has been finalized and the winners announced with commentary from the participants today. Congratulations to all who picked up the nods this month and be sure to participate in the March 2008 nominations which are l...
The nomination period has ended and the finalists for the American Anime Awards have been announced. The New York Comic Con in late February is where the event will be held where the winners will be announced. The event will also be available on The Anime...
A bit of news has come out that the American Anime Awards that a pair of titles have been added to the manga category. \"Two very important and deserving nominees, Tsubasa and Negima, have been added to the manga titles on the ballot for the American Anim...
Taking advantage of being hunkered in a cool room and near a computer, we\'ve put together a couple of polls to help catch us up in our Best Release Awards section. Open to registered users (and registration is quick and simple, put in for what you think ...
Danielle has posted up a new article this afternoon covering the winners of the January 2007 Dub Awards and about their performances. This is a first in a series of articles covering the winners and we look forward to hearing feedback on what you\'d like ...
We're back with 25 more photos to show you who was there and what they were wearing at last Sunday's 29th Annual Saturn Awards. Cinescape roamed around the event as well as the after party at the Highlands to show the excitement of the event.On Saturday ...
The September voting has closed out as of last night and the winners have been announced in the AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards. This months winners are fairly diverse as Ergo Proxy Vol. #6 took the best dub overall award, Crispin Freeman scored again as Kyon from ...
The nomination period has closed and the voting period is now open for the AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards for June 2007. There\'s quite a good bit of variety to the candidates this month that you can vote for (no registration required to vote, only to comment).
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) presented its Henry Mancini Award to Marc Shaiman at the 22nd Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards held last Tuesday night (April 17) at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, Califo...
Video game scores are now among the categories in this year's MTV Video Music Awards. GameTrailers.com and MTV are proud to announce two new MTV Video Music Awards to be presented on MTV's Overdrive during the world famous VMAs "Best Video Game Soundtrac...
The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards aired live on TNT Sunday, March 9, 2003, and CINESCAPE's roving lens was on hand to catch all of the excitement. And exciting it was as star after star sauntered down the red carpet and into the entrance of the Sh...
CINESCAPE and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. What follows is a complete list of the Face of the Future nominees, an award that will be decided by fans who log onto...
CINESCAPE and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. What follows is a complete list of the DVD nominations:BEST DVD RELEASEBROTHER'S KEEPER (New Line)DAGON (Lion's Gate)D...
We're back with the final batch of photos from last week's 29th Annual Saturn Awards. If you missed the first two rounds of photos, you can catch up by clicking here for day one and here for day two.See you again at next year's Saturns!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the official poster for the 76th Annual Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars. The pop-art inspired look was created by artist Burton Morris who captures the media frenzy surrounding the Osca...
Recently The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films held THE 31ST ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS at the Universal Hilton in Universal, California.Seen walking the red carpet: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jeff Rector, Brian Henson with Mia Sara, Irwin Keyes, Si...
At last night's broadcast of the 56th Annual Emmy Awards, ANGELS IN AMERICA came out as the big winner. The HBO mini-series walked away with a record setting 11 Emmy wins, the most ever for a mini-series since ROOTS.After four times at bat but failing to ...
The nominees for the 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. The Eisners are held every year at the San Diego International Comic Convention and are the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Simply put, these are the best of the b...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced their 2006 award nominations last weekend. The nominees for the Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music are Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel, David Arnold for Casino Royale, He...
Last Saturday the Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2003 Bram Stoker Awards, the genre's largest association of professionals creating dark fiction. Started in 1987, the Stokers are awarded every year, with the Association's members ...
On Sunday, November 3rd, the World Fantasy Convention (held this year in Minneapolis, Minnesota) announced the winners of the 2002 World Fantasy Awards. Among the honored were Ursula K Le Guin (Best Novel THE OTHER WIND), Nalo Hopkinson (Best Collection S...
MGM-TVs Stargate SG-1 won a Gemini award in the category of `Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Dramatic Program or Series` over the weekend during the Canadian Gemini Awards (otherwise known as the Canadian Emmys). Award recipients include Ric...
Catching up from the evil that was December, we\'ve got a few updates to note in regards to the AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards. First, we\'ve got the listing of winners for the titles release during the month of October 2007:Best Dub - Hellsing Ultimate Vol. #3Bes...
It had to happen eventually: there's a movie using the kitschy Darwin Awards as its premise. Winona Ryder (MR. DEEDS), Jospeh Fiennes (ENEMY AT THE GATES), David Arquette (the SCREAM trilogy), Jeffrey Tambor (HELLBOY) and Tim Blake Nelson (MINORITY REPORT...
MTV has announced the nominations for the their annual movie awards, which will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon. The awards show will air on TV June 9 on MTV.Two new categories have been added this year. The first is Best Frightened Performance. The nominees ar...
A process that has been part of our English Track forum almsot since its inception, we\'ve brought the awards process \"in house\" in order to give it more recognition and to build upon it. We will be adding previous years entries over time, but we wanted...
The 2007 MTV Movie Awards were held last night. Sarah Silverman hosted. Presenters included Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, and Shia LaBeouf. The awards were held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Unive...
Composer David Kitay has scored DARWIN AWARDS for writer/director Finn Taylor. The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this Wednesday, January 25 at 6pm at the Eccles Theatre. In addition, Kitay will take part in Music & Film: The Creativ...
An awards dinner presented by U.S. performing rights organization BMI honoring composers of the music from the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series, and highest-ranking cable network programs, will be held at the ...
In the second annual Taurus Awards, the Oscars of stunt work in Hollywood, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and RUSH HOUR 2 walked away with the lion's share of honors. FURIOUS took five nods, all for the spectacular driving sequences, while the Chris Tucker and ...
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of its annual awards. HALO took home top overall and console honors, while BLACK & WHITE got the nod for PC game of the year. The biggest surprise was Sony's ICO, which took h...
(Additional reporting by Frank Kurtz)Back on August 6th, the 5th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's "Hollywood Movie Awards" honored a number of established and up and coming artists in the movie industry at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.Amo...
Patrick, our News Editor covered who won at the 29th Annual Saturn Awards and now here are the pictures as Cinescape roamed around covering inside and outside, the after party at the Highlands to show the excitement of the event.Today we have 25 photos fo...
If your plans include watching the MTV Movie Awards this Thursday, and you don't want to know the winners, you might want to skip this story. Still there? Okay, we've got the winners. Why? Because the show is taped to make sure the worst of the traditiona...
We know you've been waiting all year for this, and the day is finally here! The 28th annual Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction entertainment and achievement in the year gone past, will be handed out tonight in Los Angeles. But what's even...
For the third consecutive year, award-winning film composer Tree Adams will compose and conduct for the 5th Taurus World Stunt Awards airing on E! Thursday, October 13th at 8:00 PM. The annual awards show honoring the best in the stunt business will be ho...
The 30th Annual Saturn Awards, 'Celebration of the Fantastic,' were held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel on Wednesday, May 5th. As the excitement built on the red carpet the key phrases from everyone about The Academy and Science Fiction in general seemed...
Greetings Cinescapers. A new dawn is upon us and, alas, a dusk as well. Brilliant, gregarious, gorgeous and great Sonia Mansfield has moved on and for the time being your one stop guide to what's on the telly will be handled by my humble old lonesome self...
The January voting has closed and the winners chosen for our ADR Awards which have been reworked a bit for a new piece. Check out the January 2008 ADR Awards Winning Performance Highlights.
The Fox network aired the 2002 Teen Choice Awards Monday, August 19th from the Universal Amphitheatre, in Universal City, Calif. Seen walking down the red carpet were a number of genre entertainment's biggest celebrities: The Rock, Allison Mack, Kristin K...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
On January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its 60th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. CINESCAPE has already announced the winners ( click here to see them again ), but now we'd like to gi...
Held at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hanger and hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, Nickelodeon presented the 2002 Kids' Choice Awards. More than 17 million kids voted on Nickelodeon Online (www.nick.com) or by calling a toll free number to say who were their...
The Italian version of the Hugos, called the Italia Awards, were named this month at the SF convention DEEPCON in Fiuggi, Italy. The winners for best Italian SF published in various formats were selected by a panel of members from the World SF Italia club...
CINESCAPE and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. Leading the pack in the television category are BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and SMALLVILLE with a total of five nominatio...
CINESCAPE and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. What follows is a complete list of the Special Award recipients:THE DR. DONALD A. REED AWARDFILMMAKER JAMES CAMERONThe...
Tokyo, November 13, 2007
"Asience: Hairy Tale," the creative challenge directed by Kazuto Nakazawa for Kao Corporation, has been awarded Gold at the 22nd London International Advertising Awards, Television/Cinema category, cel animation section. The awar...
The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards aired live on TNT Sunday, March 9, 2003, and CINESCAPE's roving lens was on hand to catch all of the excitement. And exciting it was as star after star sauntered down the red carpet and into the entrance of the Sh...
The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards aired live on TNT Sunday, March 9, 2003, and CINESCAPE's roving lens was on hand to catch all of the excitement. And exciting it was as star after star sauntered down the red carpet and into the entrance of the Sh...
Peter Jackson's THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS took home the best picture award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards. For all you Yankees, think of them as the British Oscars.Jackson also snagged the best director nod, while LORD ...
CINESCAPE and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. Leading the pack in the feature film category with a whopping 10 nominations each are THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO T...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just arent that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING has been getting quite a few critical kudos... and its first official awards.In the American Film Institutes first AFI Awards ceremony, the film was given Best Motion Picture as well as nods for Best Produ...
The Anime Dub Recognition Awards in the English Track for June went longer than usual this time with all three categories going to a run-off for the first time. As the dust settled, three of the more popular dubs of the past year added to their previous s...
Universal Pictures has announced a definitive start to filming for Peter Jackson's remake of KING KONG. The film will start shooting this month in New Zealand for a worldwide theatrical release on December 14, 2005.The movie studio issued a press release ...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just arent that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Blizzard Entertainment unleashes their first novel surrounding the Ghost assassin Nova, Paul Kearney and James M. Ward blend good old-fashion magic with maritime warfare, and Mercedes Lackey debuts another novel in the Scepter’d Isle sequence wi...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS THE MYTH is Jackie Chan's latest Hong Kong film, and an unusual departure as he plays a Qin Dynasty General in a film that mingles the epic spectacle of films like HERO with the kind of humorous kung-fu action that Chan is know...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Last week I commented that the cancellation of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE would create a festival of joy to rival Mardi Gras. Many of you readers (many more former readers) have notified me that such a thi...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! Looks like the season premieres are descending upon us like acne on an adolescent's face, and it is now time to pick the shows we will and will not watch this year. We can now take a reprieve from the...
The last big writer's strike was credited with the success of smaller cable networks that weren’t effected by the strike at that time. We’ve discussed here before the possibility of this year’s writer’s strike helping create a larg...
Fox is finally learning from its own animated television success. Shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and King of the Hill continue to play successfully for them, even though it seemed for a while that the network was dead set on killing these shows. Fox...
Masters of Horror was one of those must see series for our crowd when it was first announced. The premise was just too exciting - Showtime would give a million bucks to some of the greatest director’s in the horror genre and let them create whatever...
The major networks are still looking at the success of independent web series and scratching their heads. They’ve tried to jump into this arena before and failed pretty miserably. It’s obvious to fans why the major networks haven’t ...
The May sweeps officially started last Thursday and some of our favorite series came back from hiatus that night. Smallville and Lost both came back to the same average numbers they had been getting for the past season while another series, Supernatural a...
Don S. Davis, most well known playing a character from the Stargate television franchise, Major General George Hammond, died on June 29th at age 65 as a result of a massive heart attack. Davis played Hammond as a regular character through season ten ...
Icons of retro television continue to pour onto the sets of the NBC hit Heroes. Last season, Nichele Nichols from Star Trek: The Original Series appeared on Heroes in a small role along with George Takei, and Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner). and this year W...
LANCASTER, MA, FEBRUARY 13, 2006: Readers at the website AnimeOnDVD.com were given the opportunity in late January to vote upon the numerous titles released during the calendar year of 2005 from all publishers of Japanese manga and Korean manhua in order...
Alan Ball is the man behind HBO’s critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under. That series was a surreal drama centered around a family that has to come together after the father’s death to continue running the family business - a funeral home....
Our first round of voting for January 2008\'s Best DVD Release award is about to come to a close tomorrow morning so be sure to drop in and get your vote counted!
New York, N.Y. (May 25, 2005) – 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: KDE) has reached a distribution agreement with FUNimation Entertainment for the U.S. video rights to hit animated series WINX CLUB.
The WINX CLUB series continues to build a strong au...
When JJ Abrams is on, he’s really on. He’s brought us so many fantastic series and films including Alias, Lost, and the underrated Mission Impossible III, that anything he does must be investigated. If you’re into that kind of series Fel...
Recently at the Beverly Hilton Hotel the Casting Society of America held their 17th Annual Artios Award for excellence in casting in l5 categories. Bernie Brillstein received the Career Achievement Award. If you are not familiar with Bernie his company Br...
Torchwood was for many a more digestible series than Doctor Who; it was more familiar. The show has a fantastic ensemble cast and the Earthbound current time adventures are fun, a little , dark, and unfortunately a little soap opera. Season one of th...
At the years' Spike TV Video Game Awards, RESIDENT EVIL 4 won "Game of the Year." PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG: THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MOVIE won for "Best Game Based on a Movie." GOD OF WAR won for "Best Action Game," while WORLD OF WARCRAFT won for "Best ...
With Prison Break returning from an extremely long hiatus this week, now seems like a good time to talk about some of the most interesting new series premiering this fall. Of course Prison Break, Heroes, The Sarah Conner Chronicles and many other shows wi...
Heroes, like LOST, is a series that due to its nature can do virtually whatever it wants with characters and their relationship. Previously on Heroes, it has been made extremely plain that Nathan and Peter’s father is dead. Well, this season Arthur ...
It’s interesting just how many of the most visionary writers working in science fiction and animation these days are also so heavily into writing musicals. Seth McFarlane is always looking for a reason to write some music in Family Guy and South Par...
We\'re getting the voting underway for the last two months of the year today, both of which will end next Friday. Both months have some really good titles in there that you\'ll want to see competing for the best of the year. Check out the entries for Nove...
For those of you that are hardcore fans of Battlestar Galactica, the name Ron Moore is synonymous with quality science fiction television. Even if you aren’t a BSG fan ,you may still appreciate him for his work on what many say was the last good Sta...
Fox has set a benchmark over the last few years with their level of tinkering with potentially great shows because they think they know better than the show’s creators. Now it seems that CBS is taking a play from Fox’s book when it comes to th...
The December voting has closed on the best dub, best actress and best actor in regards to the English language adaptations which can be found here. Congrats to Hannah Alcorn for her performance in Wallflower and to School Rumble Vol. #4 which got the best...
Male Performance of the Month: Greg Ayres as Yukio “Koyuki” Tanaka in Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Vol. 6 (FUNimation Entertainment/FUNimation Studios)
Greg Ayres has played many a put upon character, from Shinji Kazama in Full Metal Panic, to ...
Not too much of a surprise though it did face some competition, Kadokawa Pictures USA\'s release of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. #3 picked up the nod of Best DVD Release for September 2007 today as voted on by readers here. All three volumes hav...
ADV Films has added their second entry in the charts this week as it turns out that their August 2007 release of Air TV Vol. #1 has been voted the Best DVD Release Award by readers here. September\'s voting period will start early next week.
We\'re getting caught up on the past couple of months with voting and have kicked off the October Best DVD Release Voting and the November Best DVD Release Voting threads in our region 1 news section.
Today\'s the last day to get your vote in on one of the more competitive months for releases, September 2006. The top pick will be announced tomorrow morning.
With December being a rather light month, almost by half in comparison to previous months, we\'ve kicked off the voting for the best release a bit early. Once this one concludes, the twelve titles that won in 2006 will go for a vote for the best release o...
The February voting has ended and the winners have been announced! Congratulations to Carli Mosier for her win in Nerima Daikon Brothers and to Patrick Seitz for Paradise Kiss. Nerima Daikon Brothers Vol. #2 picked up the win for the best dub of the month...
The AoD ADR Awards voting period is now up for the month of July 2007. There is some good diversity that came out of the titles that month and the nominations, so be sure to stop by and cast your vote on:Best Male Performance - Greg Ayres (Koyuki, BECK: M...
The voting for the March AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards is now underway! Five men, five women and five titles are entering into competition once again. But only one of each can win and you can influence it!
A couple of new rounds of voting are now underway in our Region 1 News & Views forum for readers here to choose the Best DVD Release of July 2006 and the Best DVD Release of August 2006! Be sure to pick the title you think was the best and participate in ...
The August voting has closed out and the winners announced for the AnimeOnDVD ADR Awards.Dub of the Month - BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad Vol. 2Male Performance of the Month - Brandon Potter (Kenji Harima, School Rumble Vol. 1)Female Performance of the Month...
Salutations, denizens of the TV Wasteland! As Andrew Hershberger saddles off to ride away into a picture perfect sunset, it falls upon myself to mount up and become your new host for CINESCAPE's weekly television column, TV Wasteland. My name's Patrick Sa...
Mordred maneuvers for power in Douglas Clegg’s darkly reimagined Arthurian saga, Stephen Baxter unleashes his new time-shifting alternate history thriller with Emperor, and Pamela Sargent’s beloved Ship is back to sow the seeds of humanity&...
I know that you already know, but I'm writing this before the Academy Awards ceremony, so please don't ruin it for me by telling me who won what. Dipping into the Prize Closet, we have three copies of JARHEAD for you, courtesy of Universal. To enter, simp...
THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONSAmong the plaudits that composer/sound designer Tim Larkin has received for his recent soundtrack music on Cyans new video game, URU: Ages Beyond MYST (sequel to the popular MYST game) was a nomination for the "Excellence in Au...
[Editor's note: After all of our post-E3 coverage of the past week, James returns with his choices for what games stole his attention at the Expo.]Game of Show " THE LEGEND OF ZELDAWhile there were a lot of games shown at this years E3, the footage from...
Wizard Magazine has named newly formed comic book publisher Boom! Studios "Best New Publisher." Boom! Studios has garnered critical attention as well, getting 17 out of 17 favorable website reviews for its initial launch title. Since then, Boom! has moved...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Despite being a huge fan and collector of Asian action films for many years, I was totally unprepared for the zany incredulosity that is KUNG FU HUSTLE. An absolutely mind-boggling mix of action and comedy, kung-fu and wire-fu ...
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...
Based on Actual Television ShowsBooga Booga Cinescapers! Well it looks like the greatest Holiday ever is about to arrive and you know I'm talking about All Saints Day. But until then we've got some serious television programming to watch. Thanks to TCM th...
A Quick One by Andrew Hershberger (Mon 03-08-2004)
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! It's been a hectic week here at the Cinescape offices. Since LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING won Best Picture, and 10 other Oscars at the Academy Awards, I've been to one homegrown victory party...
Our voting period for November and December 2007 releases has ended and the last two candidates eligible for Best of 2007 are now set. Congratulations go out today as Kadokawa Pictures USA has made a clean sweep with Melancholoy of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. #4...
There are few events that can be said to be among television's dependable heavyweights, shows that are practically guaranteed to draw in tens of millions of eyeballs. The Academy Awards. The Grammys. The latest episode of Fox's WHEN HOUSEHOLD PETS GO BAD....
When last you read my words, I promised you my own personal list of the ten best TV shows ever. I delivered eight of them while noting that the remaining two would be forthcoming in this week's column. This week, I present my ten favorite shows still in...
NEW YORK, NY - April 19, 2008 - Marvel Entertainment and Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today the creative team for a manga based on the popular X-Men character, Wolverine. The series will be ...
Here there be spoilersread with care.Where to begin? THE WEST WING is as good a spot to start as any, I expect. To be absolutely honest, I haven't hung out with the Bartlet administration regularly for three years. When creator Aaron Sorkin left at the...