THE WICKERMAN by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Fri 09-28-2001)
A mystery/thriller/musical with horror overtones, The WickerMan stands as one of the best British films ever! Well at least they think so: it’s number 96 on the BFI 100 favorite list. After hearing praise like that, one can only expect the actual viewing...
To be fair to writer/director Neil LaBute, he had nothing to do with PULSE. However, between that poor remake of a decent Japanese horror film and now LaBute's notably inferior reimagining of 1973's classic THE WICKERMAN, genre fans may understandably fe...
IMPA has recently posted the new posters for BASIC INSTINCT 2: RISK ADDICTION, Richard Donner's 16 BLOCKS starring Bruce Willis, and Neil La Bute's THE WICKERMAN remake starring Nicholas Cage.In BI2 Catherine Tramell travels to London, where she again fi...
...iller THE WICKERMAN (1973). Neil LaBute adapted the screenplay and will also direct.The story centers on a sheriff who investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote island off the coast of Maine. His hopes of unraveling the girl's disapp...
Nicolas Cage has signed on to Neil LaBute's remake of the creepy 1973 thriller THE WICKERMAN. Originally a British film, Universal Pictures is readying the remake, which centers on a cop looking for a lost girl who finds himself drawn to a mysterious isl...
Nicolas Cage has been cast in the remake of the thriller THE WICKERMAN (1973). Neil LaBute adapted the screenplay and will also direct.The story centers on a sheriff who investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote island off the coast of ...
The trailer for THE WICKERMAN is now Online via Apple. You can view the trailer here.THE WICKERMAN hits theaters on September 1st and stars Nicolas Cage, Leelee Sobieski, Ellen Burstyn, and Christa Campbell.
Whether or not Nicolas Cage is in the running to star in a remake of the WICKERMAN, the original film's scribe isn't thrilled with the direction the rumors about the project seem to be suggesting.While talking to the London Sunday Times, scribe Anthony S...
...ke of THE WICKERMAN, whose soundtrack has been released by Silva Screen, Nicolas Cage plays a loner police officer tortured by tragedies in his past (and soon to be tortured by yet new tragedies in his future). Badalamenti beautifully captures this em...
The long awaited re-imagining of WickerMan, currently titled COWBOYS FOR CHRIST, is set to begin next month for Christopher Lee and Director Robin Hardy in both Texas and Scotland, says Moviehole. Btw, I'm talking about the 1973 "Wicker M...
The script by Anthony Schaeffer (FRENZY) tells the tale of Srgt. Howie (Edward Woodward), a police officer who comes to a small British isle looking for a missing girl. There, he finds that Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee) has revived ancient pagan relig...
Following his music for Walter Salles' horror film DARK WATER, composer Angelo Badalamenti continues to explore the darker side of his vocabulary. He has been hired to write the music for THE WICKERMAN, a remake of the British 1973 cult thriller. The new...
Spider-Man 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
Genre:Action/Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker/"Spider-Man"); Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson); Alfred Molina (Dr. Otto Octavius/"Doc...
It seems the idea of remaking the 1973 horror flick THE WICKERMAN hasn't gone over so well with original director Robin Hardy or producer Peter Snell. They are rejoining with original WICKER star Christopher Lee for a new horror film, RIDING THE LADDIE, ...
It's Halloween, which means it's time to start thinking about you holiday gift shopping. Right?
OK, maybe starting the holiday consumer frenzy early is too depressing a thought, but we've got some images of upcoming Marvel action figure offerings from Ha...
Marvel Comics will be the first to admit that comics have hit on hard times in recent years. Some of the company`s key titles have lost their once impenetrable foothold in the marketplace, and marquee characters such as Spider-Man have lost their stature ...
Spider-Man 3 opened on Friday to mixed, yet mostly positive reviews. It also opened to record-breaking box office receipts, making it the biggest opening weekend in history. Effectively, more people saw Spider-Man 3 in a single weekend than any ...
The review contains some minor spoilers.
I should start by saying that I'm a huge fan of the first two 'Spider-Man' movies. I should also add that I've been a big fan of Sam Raimi's ever since I saw "Evil Dead" at the Roseville Theater the first summer...
Spidey cast his web and captured more box office cash this weekend with a 60.0 million box office take here in the States. I’d have to say though there was no doubt whom I would be writing about this weekend. No, it was never a question of if Spider...
We present this guest DVD review from James Harvey at The World's Finest Online
Everyone knew this movie would be a hit when it hit theaters this past May, but no one expect how big of a hit it would be. Grossing almost $100 million dollars in its first ...
In case you work on Saturday mornings, don’t watch the CW or don’t have kids you might not have known that Spider-Man has returned, in the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon. Sony has released a full length animated adventure called Spectacular Sp...
I don't make toys for a living, but even I can tell you that it's pretty damned hard to make an action figure in a little sewn polyester costume look like a superhero in a skintight supersuit. This has been a given ever since Mego launched a line of 8" su...
...ffer us a wickerman, an amphibian man, a bat man, a bunch of wolf men, a couple of crazy men, and an undeniable wo-man. It's a "B" movie spectacular, full of breasts, beasts and blood. Don't miss it! Same Vidiot time, same Vidiot channel.Vidiocy is ou...
"Hey let's do less," Laura Ziskin, one of the Producers on 'Spider-Man 3' jokes when asked whether it was important to make a bigger Spider-Man movie the third time around. "We did consciously say we had to top ourselves (on both 'Spider-Man 2' and '3')...
Whenever there are big budget blockbuster films coming out you can bet that there will be an avalanche of media tie-in material from toys and clothing to calendars and books…A film like Spider-Man 3 is going to generate even more than the usual mas...
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What They SayComputer engineer Otaku is an average young man, dressed in unstylish clothes and dorky glasses. But as luck would have it, he encounters a pretty young woman on a commuter train and saves her from a lecherous molester, falling in love with h...
Note: This review is entirely free of major spoilers, though some very minor story details may be mentioned.
It seemed nearly impossible that Sam Raimi would be able to outdo the first Spider-Man film, a summer blockbuster that outdid every other mov...
For those not old enough to have experienced the series of Spider-Man Saturday morning cartoons that debuted in the fall of 1967, or even the syndicated reruns that came later, all the fuss over the release of this DVD collection may be perplexing. After ...
... 79. The WickerMan (1973) 80. Superman (1978) 81. Miracle Mile (1988) 82. Freaks (1933) 83. Village of the Damned (1960) 84. Akira (1988) 85. The Thing (1982) 86. Batman (1989) 87. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) 88...
Last Updated: July 17, 2006Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, ThrillerProduction Company: Columbia Pictures, Marvel Enterprises, Laura Ziskin ProductionsDistributors: Sony PicturesProject Phase: Post-ProductionBudget: 300,000,000 [IMDB]Who's In It...
The latest M. Night. Shyamalan fantasy film, Lady in the Water, has been nominated for the dubious award of the worst film of the year. The film will join Basic Instinct 2, Bloodrayne, Little Man and WickerMan for the title of Worst Film of 2006.No...
The Union Weekly needed to get the inside scoop on Spider-Man 3, and in order to do so they contacted an old friend of theirs, Dave Lowery. Dave's worked on Spider-Man 2 and 3, all three Jurassic Park movies, and even the upcoming Iron Man movie.
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Amazing, Too by Randall D. Larson (Thu 08-31-2006)
...on of THE WICKERMAN. Angelo Badalamenti's work is said to define the phrase "haunting soundtrack," while Isham's trumpet leads the DAHLIA audience through its mesmerizing melodramatic story with a 100-piece English orchestra, recorded at London's famo...
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Review by: Harlan Lovestone
Overall Rating: 3.5 stars
Spoilers: Minor (nothing you wouldn't get from the trailers)
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From a press release:
Hasbro, Inc. reveals its exciting new product offerings at New York's annual American International Toy Fair with innovation in a wide range of entertainment categories.
Among the traditional toy and game categories, highlights inc...
Last time, we examined Spider-Man's universal appeal through the eyes of his many creators. Now the really fun part - we ask these talented guys to pick their favorite Spidey issues ever! Every Spider-fan has his or her own list of their favorite moments ...
...(1970)The WickerMan (1973)*The Three Musketeers (1973)The Man With the Golden Gun (1973)The Four Musketeers (1974)Airport ’77 (1977)Circle of Iron (1979)1941 (1979)Serial (1980)The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)House of the Long Shadows (1983)Ret...
None of us ever had the character to ourselves - not really. From early in his illustrious crime-fighting career, there was a steadily increasing number of avid fans thrilling to his tragedy-tinged adventures. But sometimes, sitting alone with a stack of ...
Comics2Film's head is still reeling from the biggest Comic-Con ever. One of the highlights was definitively talking with Jon Favreau in a one-on-one interview about 'Iron Man'. Naturally, with so much going on, we started off talking about the hot, humid ...
With two incredibly successful Spider-Man movies under his belt, Director Sam Raimi comes back better than ever with 'Spider-Man 3'. His cast and the Producing team praise his talent and he has spearheaded a franchise worth billions of dollars. So what ...
...lease The WickerMan, another superb yet seldom seen gem. They apparently plan to pack that release with extra features, but also plan to make us wait until early 2001 to see it. In case you missed it last week, and didn’t realize how lucky you were, ...
...I did the WICKERMAN. Some people refer to it as a horror film. I wouldn`t call it that. I would call it very disturbing, very horrifying, but not impossible to believe because there are still pagans in the world, people who believe in the `elements...
Paramount Home Entertainment has set September 30, 2008 as "Iron Day" with the smash hit Marvel movie 'Iron Man' coming home to DVD in three editions.
Press Release Follows
$315 Million Box Office Smash Debuts September 30, 2008 in Ultimate Ed...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hitori NakanoTranslated by:Bonnie ElliottAdapted by:What They SayAn instant bestseller when it was first published in Japan, Train Man became a multimedia sensation, generating a smash-hit TV series, a blockbuster film, and mu...
Marvel Studios released the long-in-the-making cinematic adaptation of Iron Man this weekend. Thus far, it has garnered both rave reviews and over $100 million in box office grosses. Despite a few minor flaws, the film resets the standard for Ma...
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The WickerMan/Angelo Badalamenti (Silva Screen)
Angelo Badalamenti has always had a remarkable flair for melodic fluidity, even in the midst of very diverse and unusual scores. In the new remake of The WickerMan, the composer beautifully c...
...liant THE WICKERMAN features an excellent little hidden goodie. Jut start from the "Main Menu" and then select "Extras." From "WickerMan Enigma," click on the question mark at the top of the screen. The result is an enlightening interview with star C...
From a press release
NEW YORK, NY, December 4, 2007 -- The latest adaptation of Marvel¹s ever-popular Spider-Man continues to cast a web over the licensing industry as Spider-Man Merchandising L.P. the limited partnership between Sony Pictures...
Welcome to another fun-filled week at COMICSCAPE! Last week I asked you to write in with your thoughts regarding Marvel's hiring of Orson Scott Card to write ULTIMATE IRON MAN. The problem, according to many gay and lesbian comics fans, is that Card has w...
Do you know Mega Man? Little blue robot dude who shoots bullets out of his arm to bring down the plans of the nefarious scientist Dr Wily? Fights other killer robots? Well, he turns 20 this year.
If you've ever owned any game system of any kind...
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Namco Hometek has begun shipping Pac-Man World 3 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PC. The game will also be available on Nintendo DS and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system in December. The 25-year o...
Actor Terrence Howard sat down with the press to talk about playing Jim "Rhodie" Rhodes in the upcoming 'Iron Man' movie. The normally reserved actor surprised the press by how much of a fanboy he is, and revealed his emotional connection to the...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hidenori HaraTranslated by:Cindy YamauchiAdapted by:Mark GiambrunoWhat They SayThe geek, a.k.a. \"Train_man,\" has managed to go on several dates with the girl of his dreams, but he still can\'t go beyond that \"more than just...
"I am a total comic book geek," says Topher Grace. Grace plays probably one of the most popular villains in Spider-Man, Venom. So for an admitted comic book geek it was quite a thrill for Grace to take on the role. "I'm the geekiest guy to ever be in a fi...
IESB.net has confirmed that Bryan Singer will, indeed, sit in the director's chair for the 'Superman: The Man of Steel' movie. According to their sources, 'Transformers' writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are considering the project.
Hey Spidey fans, Spider-Man is coming to New York and the city is throwing him a homecoming celebration -- an entire week of Spidey-themed events, talent appearances and giveaways throughout the 5 boroughs from April 30th-May 6th. Check this space on Mond...
One of the biggest films of 2007, Spider-Man 3, hits DVD this Tuesday so it’s time to take a second look at the film, and the wide range of extras on the two disc special edition. Have you noticed how the directors of superhero films cannot res...
"He's a superhero who is just a man," Robert Downey jr. tells the Telegraph. "Not that I wouldn't play a guy who got bit by a spider or who has some freaky connection with bats, but I think this is a little more accessible.
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Universal Pictures has set actor Benicio Del Toro to star in the remake of THE WOLF MAN.The story will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy m...
...rshallThe WickerMan (January 30)Beerfest (January 30)Broken Lizard (January 30)KJ's Take: I don't have the money to enjoy HD DVD's, nor do I have a TV capable of playing them. I hope to change the latter this year or next at the latest.&nb...
Be sure to check out these Spider-Man cast appearances this week:
Monday
- Kirsten Dunst on The Late Show with David Letterman
Tuesday
- Entire cast on MTV TRL
- Tobey Maguire on Live with Regis and Kelly
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...0)8 - THE WICKERMAN - $4,120,000 ($17,490,000)9 - TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY - $3,000,000 ($142,181,000)10 - BARNYARD: THE ORIGINAL PARTY ANIMALS - $2,586,000 ($66,885,000)
...se of THE WICKERMAN, which countered the poor quality of the bonus footage with the crisp footage from the “mastered off the negative” theatrical print, MANHUNTER’s director’s cut looks like it was mastered off of video tape throughout. The fuzzy, poo...
Al Gough is featured in the latest October Issue of "Sound & Vision." He talks about Smallville, DVD commentaries, and his other projects such as Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man.
ToonZone reports that fans shopping for 'Iron Man' at Wal-Mart will receive an extra DVD containing the pilot episode for the upcoming 'Iron Man: Armored Adventures' animated series, debuting in 2009 on Nicktoons Network.
Spider-Man 2, which will air on FX will feature approximately five minutes of extra content, including a never-before-seen preview of Spider-Man 3, created exclusively for the FX broadcast and more...
It’s an announcement sure to send a shiver up the spine of Spider-Man fans everywhere and set their spider-sense a-tingling. Stan "The Man" Lee, one of the living legends of the medium and the mind behind Peter Parker and his arachnid alter ego, will hims...
It was never going to get an "A" from me. I'm way too close to it. I have too much emotional investment in the character from my childhood to be completely won over by anything they could have put on screen, not with the compromises that would inevitably ...
If there's one thing 'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau has learned in recent years, it's how to work the comic book fans. Coming off a less than stellar screening of clips from 'Zathura' just two years earlier, Favreau has used the Internet and Comic-Con to...
...K and THE WICKERMAN which made $13 and $11.7 million respectively.While the newcomers were a bit disappointing, it wasn't all that surprising. On the bright side, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE continues to generate great WOM, reviews and box office receipts. ...
James Franco who plays Harry Osborn in 'Spider-Man' and '2' is back for vengeance in 'Spider-Man 3'. So what was it like coming back for a third time? "Until I actually saw it I didn't realize how special these movies are and the heart Sam (Raimi) would i...
Sitting on a United Airlines flight on the way back from an Activision event, I'm watching/listening to the new Dashboard Confessional music video, Vidnicated, the big song to come out of the new feature film, SPIDER-MAN 2. The event in San Francisco gave...
OPINION: Wow, talk about varied opinions! After my extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2 a couple of weeks back, I got people agreeing with me, people disagreeing with me, people kinda disagreeing with me, and people strongly disagreeing with me. (I even got on...
OPINION: I knew I should have stayed out of the Thor/Superman conflict. Several of you had quite strong responses to last week's column, and in the last week I've been labeled both a Superman-hater and a Thor-hater (neither of which is true, by the way). ...
Due out this November from the Marvel Comics Spider-Man line: SPIDER-GIRL #40Cover by Pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonWritten by Tom Defalco; art by pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonIt's time for "A Death in the Family," as a member of our colorful cast ends up ...
From the DVD cover:Past and present collide in this epic adventure that reveals the origin of Iron Man. While raising the ruins of a long buried Chinese kingdom, billionaire inventor Tony Stark digs up far more than he bargained for. He unleashes an age...
Quirky Romantic Tale Of An Otaku Who Finds Love To Make North American Debut On DVD and As A New Manga Series
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Spider-Man 3 by Captain Gordon Edward (Mon 05-07-2007)
Well another Spider-man release indicates that we have another Spider-man game on the shelves to eat up like candy. In the third movie we see Spider-man dealing with Venom, Harry Osborn / Green Goblin 2, and Sandman. Since this is a game base on the movie...
When you hear that an animated film has been made from Ernest Hemingway`s novel The Old Man and the Sea, you almost expect that it would be a Disney-like take on the story: with fishing pole in hand, the Old Man belts out a ballad about how much he has to...
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There`s an old formula in Hollywood: `If something`s successful, do it again.` That can be applied to the creative team behind Fox Kids` new hit series ACTION MAN. It all goes back to BEAST MACHINES: TRANSFORMERS, which means it all goes back to Hasbro. H...
Marvel Comics and Gotham Entertainment Group have announced plans to release a new comic book series that takes one of America's most-recognized crimefighters and transplants him to become an Indian superhero.SPIDER-MAN INDIA will be released to stores to...
Although it's
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At Marvel Studios' panel on Saturday, Feige -- joined by studiomates Avi Arad and Ari Arad -- introduced directors of three of Marvel's first independently produced films: Ant-Man's Edgar Wright, The Incredible Hulk's Louis Leterrier and Iron Man's Jon Fa...
OPINION: Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day and that, if you weren't out remembering those who have fought and died for our freedom, you were at least enjoying the fruits (and nicely grilled meats) of that freedom at the park or campgrounds of your cho...
L.A. Times hosted a live chat with director Jon Favreau yesterday in which fans quizzed him about the 'Iron Man' franchise and the much-anticipated 'Avengers' movie. Here are some of the highlights from the chat. Some of Favreau's comments have been edite...
Acclaim comics
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The impossible has happened. Marvel has seen several of its major properties adapted in some solidly entertaining motion pictures, and now, after decades of waiting and wondering, we are about to see the flagship hero of the Marvel Universe swinging his w...
Updated January 10th
It's no surprise that the 'Spider-Man 3 On Demand' giveaway saw our biggest turnout yet. We wish we could give this swell prize to each and every contestant, but there can be only one winner of the Grand Prize...
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Sideshow Toy has been a classic horror fan's dream come true, thanks to their phenomenal line of Universal Studios Classic Monsters action figures. Of course, when you have a successful product line like that (was there any way these could not be successf...
Chronicle Books is one of the best publishing companies out there, and they've been churning out some beautiful volumes covering all areas of pop culture history naturally this includes superhero comics. Handsome hardcover tomes on Superman and Batman ha...
From the final moments after the credits in the film Iron Man, director Jon Favreau lit a fire under all of us. That fire being a burning desire for more Iron Man. So where does one turn? In the current Marvel Universe Iron Man is the director of S.H.I.E....
When I first saw 'Spider-Man' I
compared my excitement to that of a 17-year old girl on prom night. I now sit
here at this computer, after having seen 'Spider-Man 2,' with the wonder of a
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After Hugh Jackman was forced to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, Focus Features is said to be considering another superhero star, Daredevil's Ben Affleck, to portray George Reeves.
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NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicktoons Network, Nickelodeon's 24-hour animation channel, has joined forces with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. NYSE: MVL, to bring iconic heroes Wolverine and Iron Man from the page and big screen ...
Updated November 15th
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Don't spoil it for your son, but Santa's bringing him the DVD and the Thinkway Remote Control Spider-Man figure!
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At the recent Comic-Con International in San Diego, Comics2Film had a chance to sit down with Marvel Studios President Production Kevin Feige during roundtable interviews to talk about the big story at the show: 'Iron Man' and the footage they unveiled ...
Updated May 7th
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The first Marvel Adventures Animated AdverVideos series comes to an explosive finale as Hulk joins Iron Man and Spider-Man in their battle against robotic villainy
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2008 - Ready your repulsor rays because Iron Man is coming to mobile! Hands-On Mobile, Inc., the world's leading developer of connected games and applications, and Marvel Entertainment, Inc., today ann...
From a press release
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (June 30, 2008) – The web-slinging super hero returns in an all-new-to-DVD, full length animated adventure 'The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard'!, arriving on DVD September 9 from Sony Pictures ...
Being the daughter of Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard could be considered Hollywood royalty, but you would never know it. In person she is probably one of the most down to earth people you could ever meet. Howard, who plays Gwen Stacy in 'Spider-Man 3',...
When Kirstin Dunst walks into a room you notice. It's not merely the dimpled cheeks or her blonde tresses, but what makes Dunst stand out is her grace and smile. When she greets you, as she enters the room, she is genuinely happy you are there to speak ...
Quirky Romantic Tale Of An Otaku Who Finds Love
San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2006 " VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media LLC, the leading U.S. publisher of Japanese animation and comics that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, has a...
What They SayThe year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as The Laughing Man swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, and corporate espionage leaving no known susp...
Updated December 28th
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Updated January 4th
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Jennifer Coyle has literally worn her love of Spider-Man for much of her adolescent and adult life – she went so far as to paint a huge Spidey on the back of her motorcycle jacket in her days growing up in Rolling Hills and at Cal State Long Beach...
Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing resurrects three different characters and concepts. Dead of Night was one of those fantastic Marvel Comics horror anthologies of the 1970’s. Because these titles were always low-sellers, Marvel’s edi...
Updated January 9th
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Sitting in Stage 27 on the Sony lot, a webshoot away from the actors and filmmakers of the upcoming Spider-Man film, I`ve been continually humming to myself that jazzy song from the 1967-1970 animated TV series Spider-Man. `Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does w...
The Review!To be perfectly honest, when I heard AnimeVillage was about to start pushing out DVDs, two titles immediately came to mind: Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star.
While I enjoy both of the above, I wanted to see one of my favorite shows on DVD: Eat-M...
When it came time for Marvel to issue a "definitive statement" set within the Marvel Universe addressing the terrorist attacks on the United States that took place on September 11, 2001, the choice of title should have been fairly obvious to any fan, and ...
From its opening credits to its final frame, Rolfe Kanefsky’s Nightmare Man is a great throwback to eighties horror. Unfortunately the eighties staples are obvious and the effort is uneven.
A young woman, Ellen (Blythe Metz), purchases a...
It's just over a week away: Comic-Con
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Today comic-creator and
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I've just spent an entire day sitting in a room with pizza, chips, brownies, Mountain Dew and a copy of SPIDER-MAN 2 for the Xbox. While it's somewhat disappointing to have spoiled the movie story for myself, the gameplay may be the closest any game has e...
Every great hero has that one villain who stands above all the rest, that archenemy who isn’t a cartoonish `bad guy,` but a dark, disturbingly close reflection of the hero himself. Batman has the Joker, Wolverine has Sabretooth and Reed Richards has Docto...
Paul Verhoeven is a very talented, intelligent director, but on the basis of many of his films, you might not know it. Sure, he’s made great ones like THE FOURTH MAN, ROBOCOP, and STARSHIP TROOPERS, but even some of his relatively entertaining work (TOTAL...
If you're a comic book fan, videogame fan, or movie buff you know that the third Spider-Man movie is coming to theaters this May. Along with it is Activision and Treyarch's "third" Spider-Man game (technically it's the sixth Activision Spider-Man game), S...
If one was to philosophically understand what Paul Verhoeven is trying to accomplish with the much anticipated Hollow Man, perhaps you could sum it up as, `The art of invisibility without being invisible.` Hollywood is again revisiting the past by re-inve...
25-year-old Jeevan Kang is living one of his dreams: he gets to create a new spin on one of his beloved childhood characters, Spider-Man. Kang is the writer/artist working on SPIDER-MAN INDIA, the Indian counterpart to Marvel's Manhattan-based wall-crawle...
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...
Iron Man arrives in theaters this weekend. Prepare for the onslaught of Iron Man products. Toys, video games, comics and soundtracks will, of course, be on our collective radars. Let’s face it guys (and gals), the days of little action fi...
Spider-Fans will
will have an opportunity to purchase unique memorabilia and merchandise through
the Spider-Man Collector's Program.
Available
exclusively at select specialty and comic book outlets and on the web at www.sony.com/Spider-Man
and www....
Inside a makeshift, Wrestle-Mania, steel death cage, a giant `Spider-Man` banner dangles above 9 empty chairs. On the hardwood floor, lies the insignia `NYWL,` surrounded by a single thread of tattooed barbed wire. The anxious, pastry-totting media rep...
Marvel announced its first quarter earnings today. As is typical the comics publisher and movie studio gave forward looking statements about it's upcoming film, TV and DVD plans.
Highlights include firm announcements for 'Iron Man 2' and 'Thor', along wi...
The MEGA MAN series to me will always remind me of the time I picked up a copy of MEGA MAN 2 at a flea market, and found myself brought into a whole new world of videogames. Since then, I've played the majority of the MEGA MAN titles, from the original se...
The nice thing about anime fandom is how dependable it can be. Anime enthusiasts are often video game enthusiasts, and vice versa. Many of us got our earliest exposure to Japanese animation through the monster and character designs found in early Nintendo...
We already knew this week would already be all about Spider-Man 3. With the anticipation so high, the presales from Fandango.com and Movietickets.com being in the upper stratosphere and news everywhere on Spider-Man 3 the past few weeks, the question wasn...
It's good to be the king.
Or rather, it's good to be Tony Stark. He's got a hot car, a cool house, the best scotch, and he always gets the girl. If he can't buy it, he'll engineer it.
'Iron Man' features Robert Downey Jr. as Stark, a media darling and b...
Bantam Spectra has provided Cinescape with an excerpt from George R. R. Martin's upcoming A Feast for Crows. The novel will be released on November 8, 2005. THE PROPHET The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was...
The reaction to Activision and Treyarch's Spider-Man 3 game trailer has been less than stellar. "It's Spider-Man 2 with better graphics," fanboys have screamed across the Internet, but after a day in the Activision offices and some hands-on time with the ...
Updated May 8th
Congratulations to Tyguy2021
You'll be darting like a...er...a thing that darts a LOT with this baby! You win!
Those of you who didn't win: We've got one last Iron Man Mask/Gauntlet set up for giveaway! NOTE TO ALL CONTEST ENTRAN...
Updated May 5th
Congratulations to Binaryan!
You're pumped for the movie and soon you'll be pumping up your Nerf Blaster!
Those of you who didn't win: Remember we have another NRF 425 Blaster here, as well as other cool prizes from 'Iron Man'! N...
Remember that CGI animated 'Spider-Man' series that aired on MTV a while back. I started some time after the first movie came out.
Well, now you can relive the glory of that show as it's set to broadcast via Kabillion, the multi-platform kids' entertainm...
In a quiet Connecticut town, two children, a girl and a boy, run from their house in the middle of the night. Their parents have been slain before their eyes, and now they run, without thinking, to the grounds of their elementary school. Their parents’ ki...
Danny Elfman’s score is just about the only thing that hasn’t been unanimously praised about Sam Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN movie. Early reviews on the Internet slammed it as “tuneless” with one reviewer going so far as to state, “There is literally NO THEME!” We...
Nearly 20 years after the heroic He-Man was first introduced to the youth of America, Mattel, Inc. is bringing back an updated version of the warrior from Eternia, along with several other Masters of the Universe, for a new generation of fans.Premiering a...
This was, without a doubt, the biggest panel at Comic-Con 2007. No fewer than ten movies were previewed/featured at this thing, and several big surprises were revealed as well. But of course, the biggest reveal was the premiere of the 'Iron Man' trail...
Spider-Man nuts around the world still have two long months to wait before their favorite wall-crawler officially arrives on the big screen in May, but one famous fan of ol' Webhead is already giving director Sam Raimi's take on the character the thumbs-u...
For a guy who's married to Lara Croft, Billy Bob Thornton doesn't seem to have the highest opinion of today's mainstream Hollywood cineplex fare. "Movies have become two-hour rock videos made by a marketing machine," drawls the Arkansas-born actor, writer...
Straight from a smash summer run at the box office (where it still remains in the top ten), Columbia TriStar Home Video has announced a November 30 release date for SPIDER-MAN 2 on VHS and a two-disc DVD -- but you'll have to choose from five different D...
Comic Continuum reports that Toy Biz has announced plans to release a second series of Spider-Man Classic action figures this spring, around March. The figure list for the second series this time around includes Classic Spider-Man, Battle Ravaged Spider-M...
Genre:Comic Book Adaptation/Horror.Studio:Artisan Entertainment.Production Company:Fierce Entertainment.Project Phase:Post-production.Who's In It:Jack Thompson; Rawiri Paratene; Matt Le Nevez; Rachel Taylor; Steve Bastoni.Who's Making It:Brett Leonard (Di...
MTV recently caught up with Jon Favreau, the director of the upcoming film IRON MAN. Below are the quotes I found most relevant, you can view the full interview on MTV's website here."It's the first movie Marvel is self-financing," he said of a new deal ...
Hello fellow Maniacs. Normally, I’m restricted to the weekend content but since it’s the summer, I’ll be trying to update everyone on current activities and updates of the industry. My weekly box office report is sometimes not accurate a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mick TakeuchiTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:Brynne ChandlerWhat They SayMiharu hasn\'t been having a good year. Her mother died, leaving her only a single ring to remember her by, and her father went bankrupt - le...
In the recent media blitz Spider-Man has turned up almost everywhere, and in
light of the financial ramifications, the business trades have been no
exception. This week, BusinessWeek.com
ran a story about the winding and tangled path Spidey has taken ...
Last week's column on the industry's reliance on old characters and the need for new blood garnered a lot of mail. Some weeks COMICSCAPE really resonates with people and my inbox groans under the weight of responses, criticism, praise, and the occasional ...
As Spider-Man
fans and collectors around the world eagerly await the release of the upcoming Spider-Man
film on May 3, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment and eBay will offer fans the
chance to bid on exclusive items, including many props and costume...
This
past weekend journalists and hundreds of lucky fans got to see an advanced
screening of the eagerly awaited Spider-Man film. Louis B. Hobson of
the Calgary
Sun writes
that this past weekend Columbia had four special sneak previews of the
Spide...