Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kazusa TakashimaTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayMeet Emba and Yuuen, two very different heirs to two very different warring clans. When they meet, it's love at first sight...and a wild romantic odyssey is about to unf...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Harold SakuishiTranslated by:Stephen PaulAdapted by:What They SayFourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka is one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, a weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. His shy and some...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Pink Psycho (Heath & Nheira) Translated by:Erin M. BlakemoreAdapted by:Barb Lien-CooperWhat They SayNo one understands high school student Kaito Niikura. Not his dad. Not his classmates. No one. That is, until he meets Ren...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kazuya MinekuraTranslated by:Alexis KirschAdapted by:Christine BoylanWhat They SayWhen an assassin tries to quit the profession, he takes in a boy with a mysterious past. The boy has been exposed to the drug wild adapter, whic...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shinjo MayuTranslated by:Kelly Sue DeConnickAdapted by:What They SayAs a budding poet and lyricist, Aine is determined to make it big in show business. On her way to an audition one fateful day, she absentmindedly steps into t...
When we first heard of the THE JOURNEY TO THE WILD DIVINE a few months ago, the project sounded like something we wanted to cover. While it is questionable whether the WILD DIVINE can actually be called a game, one thing that is for sure is that this is s...
Julie\'s checking in with us again today with our first look at a title from the Blu distributed line of titles via TOKYOPOP with their January 2006 release of the standalone title WildRock.
What Laurence Oliver is to the stage, Cary Grant to the screen and Tony the Tiger to the cereal box, Arch Hall Jr. is to the sub-B drive-in movie of the ’60s: the lord heavenly father. Featured in only six films, most directed by his father Arch Hall (act...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kiyo FujiwaraTranslated by:Mai IharaAdapted by:Mai IharaWhat They SaySachie Wakamura just lost her mother and her estranged grandfather has shown up to take care of her. The only problem is that grandpa is the head of a yakuza...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kye Young ChonTranslated by:Young AhnAdapted by:What They SayEver dream of being in a rock band? Ever dream of being in a GENIUS rock band? Could there be such a thing? For Chul, Dal Bong, Mickey, and Rae-young, it's not a mat...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Jun LennonTranslated by:Andrew CunninghamAdapted by:What They SayEnergetic teenager Shuichi Shindo is the lead singer and songwriter for the smash-hit pop band, Bad Luck. He's recently moved in with his older boyfriend, Eiri Y...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Takuya FujimaTranslated by:William FlanaganAdapted by:What They SayTHOSE FEISTY FELINES!
Cyan is a teenage cat (in cat years!), and when his beloved young master falls ill, the parents abandon Cyan in the basement of a luxuri...
A man unjustly burdened by the curse of a demon’s spirit through his brother’s treachery struggles to survive a life of blood and rejection.Creative TalentWriter/Artist: Kim Sung-Jae and Kim Byung-JinTranslated by: N/AAdapted by: N/A What They...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yasuhiro NightowTranslated by:Justin BurnsAdapted by:What They SayAction, comedy, science fiction, and western gunslinger action congregate within these pages. Created by Yasuhiro Nightow, this compound of genre-bending ingred...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mario KanedaTranslated by:Asuka YoshizuAdapted by:What They SayBoy meets girl. Boy breaks out in hives. Boy stumbles onto alien planet full of girls...
Meet Yukinari Sasaki, an average high school boy who has extreme girl-pho...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Azuma Mayumi Translated by:Project GenAdapted by:What They SayAfter a routine raid, rookie air pirate Coud Van Giruet discovers a most unusual bounty: Ren, an \"Edyll Raid,\" is a living weapon that reacts with a human to beco...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Temari MatsumotoTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayThe Ninja: A stealth fighter expertly trained in ancient Japanese martial arts. With his fiery combination of sheer force, considerable guile and devastating proficiency...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Nanae ChronoTranslated by:Amy ForsythAdapted by:What They SayBesieged by the bloody revolution sweeping late feudal Japan, the imperial city of Kyoto must turn to an elite cadre of samurai swordsmen for protection - the Shinse...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hinako AshiharaTranslated by:Kinami WatabeAdapted by:What They SayAfter her parents get divorced, Ann Uekusa and her mother move from Tokyo to rural Shimane. Accustomed to the anonymity of city living, Ann can\'t get used to t...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Umekawa Kazumi Translated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayA Wonderful Tale of Man and Man's Best Friend
Imagine being born into a family where your father is a Shinto God and your mother, a statue! Imagine being able to talk to...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Aoyama GoshoTranslated by:Joe YamazakiAdapted by:What They SayGhastly beheadings, bloody murders, and cold-hearted child abductions-
Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intu...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Artist: Wagner Fukuhara / Story: Jeffrey NodelmanTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayAn original English comic in the classic pulp tradition, that packs more thrills and laughs into a chapter than most books can work into a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Christina PlakaTranslated by:Nina OlligschalegerAdapted by:Zachary RauWhat They SayMeet Plastic Chew, an up-and-coming rock band desperately in need of a lead singer. Enter Sayuri, a young musician with dreams of rock stardom ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Chuck Austen / Artist: Otsuka HirokiTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayMeet Bud Waterston, a decent looking guy who happens to be in full hormonal bloom. He\'s on his way to college, and drools over the sexual li...
A student/teacher boy’s love story full of sex, lies, and video tapes (all right, not really lies, but I wanted to use the quote).Creative TalentWriter/Artist: Akemi TakaidoTranslated by: Ken WakitaAdapted by: Ken WakitaWhat They SayAsahina-sensei i...
Asian Beat is interesting in its artistic approach but falters when it comes to actually telling a story.Creative TalentWriter/Artist: Hakase MizukiTranslated by: N/AAdapted by: N/AWhat They SayA negligent mother, an affair, a broken family, domestic abus...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:VariousTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayIn celebration of Star Trek\'s 40th anniversary, here are five new episodes set in the Original Star Trek series: The last survivors of gender war live on as spirits in machinery...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hiro MashimaTranslated by:William FlannaganAdapted by:William FlannaganWhat They SayLucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards, but her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of dangerous pir...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Susugi SakuraiTranslated by:Kristy HarmonAdapted by:Zachary RauWhat They SayIt\'s girl meets boy meets fist - and anything but your typical love story!
Meet Satsuki, a rather rough and tumble girl, who acts more like a gang m...
I'm having a hard time deciding whether I like Orion in spite of its absurdity or because of it.Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shirow MasamuneTranslated by:Frederick Schodt / Toren Smith / Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayIn the mighty Yamata Empire, ma...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hideshi HinoTranslated by:Hiroo YamagataAdapted by:What They SayFrom one of Japan\'s most accomplished artists comes this new graphic novel, the unsettling saga of twin sisters born on a dark and stormy night in Tokyo: one nor...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Takahashi HiroshiTranslated by:Namoi Kokubo and Steven HoffmanAdapted by:What They SayWho wants to be the tough guy at school?
Well that's what the bad boys of Suzuran High School are going to find out at the Freshman's Battle...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Peach-PitTranslated by:n/aAdapted by:What They SayTakeya Ikuhara attends high school all day to come home to his own apartment, where Neneko, the landlady's daughter, provides him with an allotment of money. One day he encount...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Miki Rinno Translated by:Matthew JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayJu-On: Video Side is the manga adaptation of the Japanese horror movie that spawned an enormous franchise in Japan ... and inspired a blockbuster Hollywood remake...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Min-Woo HyungTranslated by:Jessica KimAdapted by:What They SayThere's gonna be a hanging in the frontier town of St. Baldlas. The leader of the infamous Angel Gang has finally been brought to justice, and the marshals want to ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Like many progressive metal and gothic rock bands, the Dutch group Epica has been strongly influenced by motion picture soundtracks. Their first two albums, The Phantom Agony (June, 2003), and Consign to Oblivion (April, 2005) a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hirohiko ArakiTranslated by:Alexis KirschAdapted by:What They SayIn a Japanese jail sits 17-year-old Jotaro Kujo: punk, fighter, delinquent...and possessed by a force beyond his control! Around the world, evil spirits are awak...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:So-Young LeeTranslated by:Youngju RyuAdapted by:What They SayThe young orphan girl Inez has a special gift that allows her to communicate with all creatures. A great, unknown destiny awaits her - Inez is the chosen one! She tr...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kazuto OkadaTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:What They SayAn indecent proposal. A far from ordinary girl. Hideo Aiba’s boring life just go far more . . . frustrating.The ReviewSundome is a humorous look at h...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shirow MasamuneTranslated by:Dana Lewis, Frederick L. Schodt, and Toren Smith (with Duane Johnson)Adapted by:Dana Lewis, Frederick L. Schodt, and Toren Smith (with Duane Johnson)What They SayWelcome to the future, where the no...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Kideyuki Kurata / Artist: Shutaro YamadaTranslated by:Steve BallatiAdapted by:What They SayNot Your Average Bookworm
Yomiko Readman\'s love for literature goes far beyond any run-of-the-mill bookworm\'s! In fact, she...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yuriko NishiyamaTranslated by:Mike KieflAdapted by:What They Say14-year-old Rin Amami is a gifted dancer who has been forced to give up his dream of becoming a singer like his mom because of his deep, frog-like voice. A chance...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist: Park JaeSung/Kim JuRiTranslated by:Je-wa JeongAdapted by:Je-wa JeongWhat They SayLooks? Average... Grades? Average.... Personality? Average?!
But one day, an all around average guy is bombarded by advances by the prettiest gi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kei ToumeTranslated by:Akira TsubasaAdapted by:What They SayAvenging his father's murder is a matter of honor for the young samurai Jintetsu. But it turns out that the killer is a corrupt government official "and now the power...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mi-ae ChoiTranslated by:Jihae HongAdapted by:Liz ForbesWhat They SayWhen four troublemakers are arrested for a variety of crimes, the judge hands down the ultimate sentence: The quartet must form a band! Ji-Yoo Lee, the top st...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mori KotaroTranslated by:Misato SakamotoAdapted by:What They SayMeet Pam Akumachi, an energetic 13-year-old junior high student who has just turned into ...a little devil! One day, when Pam and her friends try to summon the \"...
The boyfriend from Hell!Creative Talent Writer/Artist: YoungHee LeeTranslated by: Jackie OhAdapted by: Jackie OhWhat They SayEveryone dreams about Seung-Ha, the perfect prince and shining star of the school. Chasing after someone so perfect is definitely ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Shiuko KanoTranslated by:Melanie SchoenAdapted by:What They SaySelling one\'s body
at Japan\'s most popular Host Club comes naturally for Junsuke Aki. In fact, he is the club\'s top performer (and earner!) and is easily the m...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Translated by:Rika KolkaAdapted by:Taliesin Jaffe and Jonathan KleinWhat They SayIn a long-forgotten walled town, humans coexist with the Haibane, angelic beings of unknown origin. Rakka becomes the newest Haibane after she aw...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Atsushi Kaneko Translated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayThe word is out on the streets: a reward of five million dollars to the opportunist that wastes the courier calling herself Bambi and returns her living cargo. Chainsaw s...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Nankin GurekoTranslated by:Kyle Edward CookAdapted by:What They SayYuji Midorikawa is your typical high school student whose has a secret identity: He is Green in the high school battalion unit, Gakusei 5 (G5 for short). G5 is...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yanagi YukiTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayHave you ever thought that even though she may have an angelic face, she has dark perverted thoughts and desires in her wonderful and pretty head?
Could you ever imagine ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Created by: Courtney Love & D.J. Milky / Illustrated by: Misaho KUJIRADOU / Written by: Misaho KUJIRADOU & D.J. MilkyTranslated by:Kimiko FUJIKAWA & Yuki N. JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayRelive the amazing journey of Ai-Land\...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ai MorinagaTranslated by:Kay BertrandAdapted by:What They SayHigh schooler Nanako Momoi may be petite and adorable, but she is far from sweet - she is obnoxious, violent and has the table manners of a wild boar. Akira Uehara, ...
The Record of a Fallen Vampire wins a few points for sheer ambition ... otherwise, it's a mess.Creative Talent Writer/Artist: Kyo Shirodaira / Yuri KimuraTranslated by: Andrew CunninghamAdapted by: Andrew CunninghamWhat They SayThousands of years ago, Vam...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ai MorinagaTranslated by:Athena & Alethea NibleyAdapted by:Athena & Alethea NibleyWhat They SayLazy Hana Suzuki lives for two things: eating and sleeping. But she owes a favor to Izumi, the captain of the boy\'s high school ho...
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...
Masterpiece Comics released information today concerning the April release of issue two of the Wild Boys: Dawn Of The Wild mini-series. In the second part of the four installment series, a vicious and overwhelming attack by the Jovarn leaves the Wild Boys...
IGN FilmForce followed up on rumors that S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock ('WildWild West') were coming in to take a pass at the script for the 'Superman' movie.
FilmForce went directly to Wilson who said he and his partner were not involved.
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kawashima YoshioTranslated by:G GenkiAdapted by:What They SayLearn slang, black humor and the uniquely Japanese comedic rhythm in Yoshio Kawashima\'s classic Gloom Party, a shorts collection from Shonen Champion Comics. Every ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:You AsagiriTranslated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:What They SayShadows From The Past. Shun works very hard to live up to the memory of his older brother, even at the cost of his personal life. Suddenly, a beautiful stranger comes ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Maki Murakami Translated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:What They SayYamada Shintaro is training to become a monster guardian--his job is to protect the monsters from harm. But when he meets Nao, a girl from his middle schoo...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ogawa YayoiTranslated by:Yuki N. JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayLife is good for Sumire Iwaya... until the day she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her, she gets demoted at work and her life spirals towards the dumps. Th...
The only show that I went into blind, and became a massive fan of. 2nd Barrage continuing into brilliance, with action, comedy, great characters, mystery, suspense - and even a little romance for the most unlikely character in the show.
What They S...
Yesterday, we brought you our day one profile of JOURNEY TO THE WILD DIVINE, a game that takes more than just a simple "point and click" to progress in. Today, we bring you the second part of our feature, this time dealing more with the biofeedback system...
VH1 has set a date for their now regular music related horror anthology TV program. STRANGE FREQUENCY, with Roger Daltrey hosting. The series will premiere on the cable network on Saturday, August 18, At 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The premiere episode will also ...
What They SayFilled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is Action Incarnate!
The Black Lagoon Company gets into a brutal head to head battle with a bunch of neo-nazi freaks after the same sunken booty. Revy and Dutch blaze a trail full of bloo...
After rising to fame as the WWF's biggest star, The Rock turned his brief but charismatic performance as "The Scorpion King" in 2001's THE MUMMY RETURNS into its own feature film. Today, CINESCAPE continues its conversation with The Rock.The Rock and his ...
What They SayContains all 5 DVDs of Wild Arms in a easily-managed Thinpak Box Set!
ARMS: mysterious, ultra-rare weapons of almost unbelievable power. So how did Sheyenne Rainstorm come into possession of one? More importantly, how did the twenty-five ye...
The Review!Since my first visit to this site and my subsequent upgrade to DVD six moths ago, I have always intended to review some of the titles in my meager collection. Unwilling (or lazy) as I was to attempt to review a monster like Macross Plus or the ...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
Revolutionary
Girl Utena
A princess who wants to become a
prince, and protect the ones she loves.
A castle in the sky, hiding the
power of miracles.
A mysterious girl who seems to
have no will of her own.
And roses. Lots and lots and lots
of roses...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Disney has released a quite nice soundtrack to their latest animated comedy, THE WILD, featuring a splendid, full-blooded orchestral score by Alan Silvestri, who hasn't had an outright swashbuckling score like this 2001's THE MU...
OPINION: The phrase "If you build it, they will come" never resonated for me more than this week: after printing what I had of the somewhat tepid response to my first call for titles you wish had never been cancelled last week, the amount of mail this wee...
Michael C. Luckman is an interesting character. Not only does he write books, but he also organizes and promotes concerts and events connected with UFOs. Luckman is founder of the Cosmic Majority and taught the nation's first college-level course on rock ...
The music emerges out of the darkness, swelling up with a cadence and a roguish kind of playful sensibility that colors its rhythmic crests. There is a fresh dynamic here, one that`s rarely been heard in Hollywood film music. The music shifts form, temp...
What They SayRokuro Okajima is a meek, mundane and metropolitan man on a business trip to South East Asia. But things quickly go from pleasure cruise to festival of pain when modern day pirates board the ship and take him hostage! Revy, Dutch and Benny ar...
The twentieth annual induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame took place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City on March 14, 2004, with an edited ceremony aired on VH-1 on Saturday, March 19. The inductees to for 2005 celebrated and pe...
Proposed by David McCall, an advertising executive, back in 1972, SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! was an attempt to teach young kids important information through song. The basic idea being that with a catch ditty supporting it children would be able to easily retain i...
Currently co-starring alongside The Rock in the hit action film THE SCORPION KING, Michael Clarke Duncan is riding high. After his Oscar nominated turn in THE GREEN MILE, the actor has had a string of roles in popular films. In THE SCORPION KING, The Rock...
When I first encountered Neil Norman’s GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION HITS back in 1978, I was one of those grumpy purists taken aback by his electric guitars intruding upon the pristine orchestral tonalities of STAR WARS and other icons of science fiction film...
Step right up, Maniacs! Spin the wheel the Box Office Chance! This weekend we have 6 (Yes, that’s right 6) new movies opening up all at once. 300 has dominated the box office report for two weeks and the studios steered clear giving it a week of...
He's big, bigger than most. But can he stack up against The Rock? You better believe it, says Michael Clarke Duncan who co-stars with the famous wrestler in The Rock's first starring role in THE SCORPION KING."He's six four, two seventy," says Duncan. "I'...
Director Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION) has found his next job, and it's adapting Maurice Sendak's classic childrens book WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE as a live-action movie for Universal Pictures. Tom Hanka and Gary Goetzman will produce the...
The upcoming fantasy adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are has a cast of actors and a director but that's not stopping it from traveling to the murky depths of release date hell. Warner Bros. has once again pushed the release date back taking it out of ...
Estranged Van Halen co-stars David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar are set to reunite in space, World Entertainment News Network reported last week. The Jump rockers have been invited to be part of extraterrestrial research expert Michael Luckman's hotly-antici...
IGN FilmForce quashes an online rumor concerning the possible casting of new-minted action star The Rock (THE SCORPION KING) in the role of Marvel's gun-toting, black-clad skull-blazoned vigilante, THE PUNISHER.IGN quotes their inside, unnamed source thus...
Many mathematicians and theologians are now saying that the Number of the Beast is actually 611. I know - short notice to reschedule your Antichrist party, but a late Saturday date is better anyway. Getting that tattoo changed is going to be a bitch, thou...
The death last week of legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, on August 18th, coming so close after that of Hollywood maestros Jerry Goldsmith (on July 21st) and David Raksin (August 9th), has robbed Hollywood of its last three connections with the film...
What They SaySheyenne hasn\'t found his body yet, but he has found Laila. The trouble is she\'s in the hands of an evil cult who thinks she\'s the reincarnation of a goddess. To make matters worse, someone\'s posted a huge reward for Sheyenne, Kiel and Is...
Sorry, Maniacs. The title above is as accurate a description for this week’s craziness as I could find. After reading this column or the news at all this week, you’ll certainly agree with it. Keith Richards certainly does blow…as a s...
OTAKON 2004 Presents
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Live in USA
When: July 31, 2004 (Saturday) show 5PM
Where: 1st Mariner Arena, 201 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
By Lauren Goodnight and Karyn Waller
After many months of rumors and speculation it was wit...
There was a major crowd of fans and autograph seekers on the second floor of the world-renown toy store New York City`s F.A.O. Schwartz last week, and they were getting a touch antsy. It seems that no less than the infamous Todd McFarlane and the venerabl...
Mainman/guitarist Timo Tolkki for the Finnish metal band Stratovarius has issued the following update: "[My new solo album] 'Saana - Warrior of Light' is a work in progress. [For the past] two years I have had this idea in my head an...
In this video interview Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson talks about appearing in the movie 'Shazam!'.
"I'm very excited about 'Shazam!' but nothing nothing is set in concrete yet," the Rock said while promoting his new movie 'Game Plan'.
So would he play...
John Cox has been hired to write "Sgt. Rock," an adaptation of DC Comics' World War II adventure series being produced by Joel Silver for Warner Bros. Pictures. Sgt. Frank Rock was the leader of his infantry unit, Easy Company. He first appeared in a 1959...
A fan known as Warlord contacted screenwriter John Cox for news about his 'Sgt. Rock' script. Announcement last April revealed Cox was writing for Silver Pictures and Warner Bros.
Our scooper attributes this response to the writer: "Yes, 'Rock' is stil...
Elmer Bernstein's work in cinema during the 1980s included quite a few youth-oriented comedies such as ANIMAL HOUSE, STRIPES, TRADING PLACES and others, many of which have been produced by Ivan Reitman and directed by John Landis, filmmakers with whom Ber...
Warner Bros. has shifted its adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are out of TBA status and placed it back to October 2009. The exact date is October 16, 2009 as to when the Spike Jonze fantasy will hit theaters. The big screen treatment of Maurice Sendak'...
What They SayARMS - mysterious, ultra-rare weapons of almost unbelievable power. So how did Sheyenne Rainstorm come into possession of one? More importantly, how did this twenty five-year-old gunslinger end up in the body of a five year-old boy? These ...
Bear Family Records of Germany, the world’s leading preserver of 1960s musical culture, has announced The Encyclopedia of British and Irish Sixties Rock and Pop – on CD-ROM. With entries of about 3,500 bands and artists and about 10,000 musicians, the CD-...
A unique adaptation of Italian Western film music performed by progressive rock bands, The Spaghetti Epic - Six Modern Prog Bands For Six Seventies Prog Suites was released by French record label Musea in collaboration with Colossus, a Finnish prog ro...
The coming SCORPION KING project isn't the only film that Universal has for wrestler The Rock, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson.According to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, the Rock is already attached to a project called HUNTING BRONZE, an action-comedy written ...
Actress Lauren Ambrose has been set to voice one of the title characters in the upcoming fantasy WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, based on the 1963 fantasy novel by Maurice Sendik. The trade reports she's replacing Michelle Williams, whose voice didn't match up...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Available as a Region-3 DVD from Hong Kong, Jingle Ma's 2004 superhero spectacular, SILVER HAWK (FEI YING), stars Michele Yeoh as a crime fighting martial arts heroine hiding from a painful past and hoping the attentions of a w...
What do you get when you cross TARZAN with that wild Hong Kong film MIGHTY PEKING MAN (1976), add a touch of SPACE: 1999 and call it something some of you have already heard of? Well, it’s happened. TV Hollywood has decided that it can’t come up with anyt...
What They SayFilled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is action incarnate! Dirty jobs are a part of life for the Black Lagoon but things seem to be getting worse by the minute. Their latest problem is a maid from Columbia. She\'s a killing mac...
The theme is a familiar one. The mighty, stalwart chords of brass, the trilling woodwinds, the driving rhythm of the violins, the strident siren of electric guitar… Wait a minute? Electric guitar? What’s that doing in the middle of the STAR WARS theme?...
The problem with doing a track-by-track rundown of an album is that one’s reactions to the individual pieces may not give an adequate indication of one’s reaction to the collection as a whole. Thus, many of the rare tracks on The Goblin Collection are onl...
A friend of mine with two kids has been raving about THE WILD THORNBERRYS animated TV series for a few years now, but I'd never caught up with it until it reached the big screen. Well, if the series is anything like THE WILD THORNBERRYS MOVIE, I've missed...
Mega-star wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has always loved film, but he didn't always want to be an actor. In fact, he didn't always want to be a wrestler. His first career choice was to join "the family business"... criminology.It was a noted criminol...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONNeil Norman, the maestro of rock and roll interpretations of science fiction film music, is back in the Control Voice Cockpit with a new recording, Sci-Fi in Hi-Fi (Audio Fidelity AFZ 012). The CD is a dual layered hybrid disc, m...
Yeah, I`m old enough to remember Goblin, the Italian progressive rock group whose work helped define a certain sound and style of film scoring back in the 1970s and 1980s. But age really has little to do with it, since few people from that era remember th...
When American fighting men (and women) returned from service in World War II, they returned with their horizons expanded. While our boys in Europe had some romantic adventures along the streets of Rome and Paris, commandoes of the Pacific theater got to k...
Tim Burton`s joining SUPERMAN LIVES pretty much knocked screenwriter Kevin Smith out of the creative process. Although actor Nicolas Cage was still signed for the lead role, the eccentric director had his own ideas for screenwriter. He chose Wesley Strick...
Shakary, a noted progressive rock band from Switzerland, has reworked two of their classic albums into new and vastly improved expressions. When 2000’s Alya and 2002’s The Last Summer were initially released they both received mostly posit...
Cinema Blend has published a new movie still for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, based on the 1963 fantasy novel by Maurice Sendik. The film stars Lauren Ambrose, Catherine Keener, Benicio Del Toro, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, Tom Noonan,...
While promoting 'Get Smart' Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson fielded questions about the possibility of working on 'Shazam!' with 'Get Smart' director Pete Segal.
When asked if the director had raised the idea of Rock top-lining the comic cook film, The Rock ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA-August 16, 2004-eigoMANGA has plans to work with a couple of noted Japanese rock bands in 2005. J-rock bands have enormous potential to be popular here with American anime fans, says Austin Osueke, President and CEO of eigoMANGA.
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War Rock by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Sun 10-15-2006)
A lot can be said for a company that will allow you to play their games for free, and the K2 Network allows you to do just that. With War Rock they allow you to dip your feet, or even jump all in for free, or with a paid subscription. It is a growing tren...
Manga, movies and comic books have plenty of protagonists who might earn the title of "Badass" at first glance; it seems all you need is a cigarette and a few gruff words. But how many of those puppy-loving orphan-saving "Badasses&...
What They SayAfter Sheyenne and Kiel help an ace safecracker who wants to go straight get out of the business, a mysterious woman out of Sheyenne\'s past appears to trouble his dreams. Her name is Laila, but she doesn\'t stay in his dreams for long. She...
DVD Release And Special Poster Promotion Highlight Sequel To Hit Film NANA Based On Popular Shojo Manga Series
San Francisco, CA, JULY 22, 2008 – VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media, LLC that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, h...
What They SayMirabelle has a suitor! After a chance encounter with a picture of Mirabelle, Count Ampire has his heart set on having her for his wife. Unfortunately for everyone concerned, Mirabelle has some strenuous objections. Then Sheyenne and the guys...
Ozzy Osbourne. Alice Cooper. KISS. Sure they’ve all split eardrums, showered fans with sweat and frightened parents everywhere. But they have one more thing in common: they’ve all been trapped in plastic. No, no, get your mind out of the gutter…we’re talk...
According to Variety, the people who are making the sequel to GET SHORTY, BE COOL, have their mind set on hiring The Rock to play one of the movie's roles. If they can arrange it, Rocky would portray the bodyguard of an up-and-coming music star's manager ...
DVD label Unearthed Films, best known as the US home of violent Japanese films like the GUINEA PIG series, has finally announced a street date of June 7 for the 1983 Canadian animated feature ROCK & RULE. The film is a rock opera about a punk singer n...
VARIETY notes that THE ROCK has come aboard a remake of the 1973 WALKING TALL, the story of determined real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser's struggle to clean up the county.The remake is scripted by David Klass and will hit production in early summer, it is t...
Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Maurice Sendak's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. The project was in turnaround at Universal.The film will be a combination of live-action and CGI. Spike Jonze will direct from a script he wrote wtih Dave Eggers. Tom H...
It looks like that long-rumored big screen version of the classic arcade game, SPY HUNTER, is moving forward with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson set to star. The film, which has Johnson playing car/boat/plane fighting expert Alec Sects, who uses various vehicl...
Besides Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston and a number of other actors, rock star themselves represented their medium at last week's ROCK STAR movie premiere event in Los Angeles.Besides starring in the film, Mark Wahlberg has his own musical past under the...
Screenwriter David Ayer has been handed the job of remaking Sam Peckinpah's classic western THE WILD BUNCH. Warner Bros. is the studio behind the project.Peckinpah's 1969 film is considered one of the best westerns ever made by many film critics. Set in...
The Review!Finally, after reading so many reviews I can submit my own. First off, I decided to do a review on Wild Cardz merely as a test for the possibility of future reviews (any suggestions would be welcome) and the fact it seems to be one of those lo...
Welcome to the second installment of "Fans Take On..." an ongoing feature where fans get to talk about a significant individual in the US anime industry. This month, we asked fans to talk about a legend in the American anime industry, Wendee Lee.
Quicky ...
In extensive interview with The Rock about his burgeoning acting career, the former wrestler fielded a final as to whether he had ever considered doing a comic movie, such as The Silver Surfer. "Yeah, it's funny. Abby was talking to my guy about Silver Su...
A 1987 script by David Webb Peoples for a Sgt. Rock movie to be produced by Joel Silver with not-yet-governor Arnie as the Sergeant, is now online for you to enjoy.
ComingSoon.net is reporting that Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is having discussions about possibly starring in the big screen version of SHAZAM!
During a set visit for GET SMART, Johnson told CS.net ""Listen, John August is writing the script and ...
Janice Williams of ADV has finished up with the dub cast guessing game for their upcoming release of Wild Arms:
Sheyenne - Ian HawkKiel - James LyonLoretta - Wendee LeeMirabelle - Julie MaddalenaIsaac - David LucasJerusha - Sue Beth Arden
The new album of the Roman progsters Kingcrow, Timetropia, will soon be released by Italy's Lucretia Records International. The band has just signed an exclusive contract with the Italian label, which will distribute the album worldwide. Timetropia is a p...
While studying corn-pest predators in Illinois, I was once in the middle of `flat` nowhere, when suddenly the skies darkened and a tornado ominously swooped down and weaved a destructive path through a field I had just been in. The next thing I knew, my c...
August 1st, 2004
Baltimore, MD
How was your US debut performance at Otakon? Was performing here different than in Japan?
ken: I got to Baltimore, went to all the tourist sites first and did the show after I had learned everything about Baltimore. I pr...
The Comics Continuum chatted up screenwriter John Cox at Wizard World L.A. Cox said he's optimistic that the 'Sgt. Rock' movie, which he penned a year ago, may go into production this year.
"It's a fantastic World War 2 action/adventure with a great...
What They SayBaki is back! And this time, he's faced with his greatest challenge yet... a head to head battle with his father. With impossible odds weighing against him, Baki knows that his father, the undefeated Yujiro Hanma, will do anything to win. Now...
What They SaySword-bearing assassins and demons force Kyoshiro Mibu to reawaken his long-forgotten samurai past and his alter ego, the powerful slayer, \"Demon Eyes\" Kyo, but he\'ll still need all the allies and mystical weapons he can find in order to b...
Hollywood is a slaughterhouse where cool movie ideas go to die. Here are ten films that were tragically cut down before their time, simply because they were just too friggin' awesome. #10. Peter Jackson's Halo Fans of the popular video game wept tears of ...
What They SayLove - the one force that simply won\'t be denied!
All Shuichi ever dreamed about was following in the footsteps of his pop idol, Ryuichi Sakuma and the band Nittle Grasper. Together with his best friend Hiro, Shuichi\'s formed a band calle...
While the first installment in this column’s new weekly format may have been a little lackluster in terms of exciting releases, things pick up a bit on this second Tuesday in August. The big news is on the Direct-to-video (DTV) front. It appears DTV is ...
Occasionally a game comes along that no one expects to be good, but it turns out phenomenally, and once in a while, the sequel to the game is even better than the first. But rarely, if ever, does a sequel's sequel take the revolutionary steps that TONY HA...
Quite a bit of news going on in the world of Celebrities this week. Joe Francis continues to piss off the law even while in jail. Snoop Dogg is barred from yet another country for being Snoop Dogg. Kissing is worth an arrest warrant in India for some ...
It’s time for another edition of Mania’s Most Maniacal Rumors, where we blow the lid off the week’s juiciest gossip and hush-hush industry whispers. If you have a rumor you want to contribute, we’re all ears. Just send it to jarrod...
t's been a bad year for fans of the King Crimson 1971-1972 lineup. Another former member of the acclaimed prog rock band has passed away: drummer Ian Wallace, who was part of the same Islands-era lineup as the recently departed Boz Burrell.
Wal...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Marco Beltrami has composed a guttural undulation of darkness for the opening moments of UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION, the sequel to the 2003 hit depicting an ongoing war between the vampires and the werewolves. The first film containe...
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 weird tales of Howard Phillips Lovecraft are among the most potent horror stories of the last century. Told through a careful and precise narrative ambiance, H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the undying manifestations of monstrous, cosmic evil and arcane sor...
What They SayPuchuuboy Publishing and ACROSS proudly presents: Ilpalazzo-mates gone wild! They\'re cute, they\'re scantily clad, and they\'re dying to please! But enough about those pesky alien Puchuus who\'re invading Earth! When it comes to dying for s...
The government of Japan is considering their child pornography law to include anime and manga. Of all the new porn anime titles released, about half feature sex acts involving schoolgirls. It's a touchy subject, since some argue that drawings don't have a...
Love it or hate it, this is a book that's likely to get you right in the gut.
Creative Staff:Writer/Artist: Hiroki KusumotoTranslator: Sachiko SatoAdaptation: Sachiko Sato
What They Say:In a time of war, Oliver finds himself as an adjutant professor at ...
Fans were able to get many of their questions answered on characters and concepts at the Smallville and Birds of Prey panel at this year's Comic-Con International. This is part II of our special Convention...
While doing a press tour for his upcoming sports/family film, THE GAME PLAN, Robert Sanchez had a chance to ask Dwayne Johnson (formerly known as "The Rock") about his thoughts on the project. It seems clear from sources involved with the p...
I'm pretty sure nearly everyone has read this tale or rather had this children's book read to them. You just may not remember it because you may have been 3 or 4 at the time. It's one of those children's literature classic. The tale written by author Maur...
This big screen treatment of the DC comic book, SGT ROCK, has been sitting around collecting dust in development hell for a long time. How long? Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to portray the character before his bid to become governor of California. Both...
Today it was announced that the rock band "Almighty Love Noise" has just completed their new single that was specifically made to be considered for inclusion in the new Warner Bros. film "Superman Returns" that is currently in production. The title of the...
Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, writers and producers of the Flash Tv series and future writer on the comic-book of the Scarlet Speedster, reveal that they are working on the movie version of Paul Chadwick's 'Concrete' and Howard Chaykin's 'American Flagg',...
Brian Pulido: You know him as the creator of 'Lady Death' and 'Evil Ernie', founder of the late, lamented Chaso! Comics.
Of late Pulido has turned an eye towards filmmaking. Here's his latest effort: a music video for the rock band Calabrese.
"This is my first PG-rated movie!!" yelped a tyke in glee as his dad tried in vain to get him to settle down on opening day in a theater showing THE INCREDIBLES. That comment has been echoing in my head ever since, and came up again last week when I mista...
Create a piece of art that promotes the Rock and Rule DVD and you could win a 120W 5.1-Ch. Home Theater System! Hurry and get your entry in! Contest ends July 10.
Dark Horizons gives a rundown of Universal Pictures projects. No sources are named and none of these rumors have been verified:
The site claims that Duane 'The Rock' Johnson is attached to star in the Sub-Mariner movie.
The animated feature based on...
Create an illustration that promotes the release of the "Rock and Rule" DVD for a chance at winning a 120W 5.1-Ch. Home Theater System and other prizes!
Walt Disney Pictures upcoming film THE GAME PLAN was thrown a curve when Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson injured himself preparing for the film.Johnson was injured Monday during a football practice in preparation for his upcoming role as a professional quarterb...
William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden have joined the cast of Paramount's INTO THE WILD. They will join Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Keener in the cast for the film.The film is based on a non-fiction book and centers on Christopher McCandless (H...
Chris Rock's next film will be for Universal Pictures and called SICK DAY. Teaming up with Imagine Entertainment and producer Brian Grazer, Rock will play a lazy guy who phones in sick to his job and then causes trouble with the next-door neighbors. The r...
After starring in a pair of action films, Dwyane "The Rock" Johnson said he was looking for a lighter vehicle to showcase his comedic talents. It looks like he's found his project with INSTANT KARMA, a new live-action/CGI film set up at New Line Cinema. J...
Hollywood North Report has published four great snaps of The Rock filming a scene of WALKING TALL in Vancouver, Canada. The WWE superstar is seen playing a game of touch football along with co-star Johnny Knoxville (JACKASS THE MOVIE). Click here to see t...
Currently seen every week on NBC's BOOMTOWN, actor Neal McDonough has agreed to star as the main villain in the remake of WALKING TALL. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is playing the part of the law-abiding Tennessee sheriff (originally played by Joe Don Baker...
Last week saw the world premiere of ROCK STAR starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston in Los Angeles. Both actors attended the premiere event as did cast members