It seems New Line Cinema's bold plan to shoot the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy all at once and release one a year for three years was only the SECOND boldest plan the studio contemplated when it came to Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic....
Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon, who wrote ROBIN: YEARONE and THE JOKER: LAST LAUGH, will be collaborating again on BATGIRL: YEARONE, a nine-issue mini-series from DC Comics targeted for next year."We've been itching to delve more deeply into the origin an...
Podcast's 27th Episode Marks First Anniversary With New Segments, Special Guests
GRIMES, IA, November 10, 2006 " Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer The Right Stuf International (TRSI) is excited to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its...
Podcast's 27th Episode Marks First Anniversary With New Segments, Special Guests
GRIMES, IA, November 10, 2006 " Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer The Right Stuf International (TRSI) is excited to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its AN...
One area where we went to get a sort of "readers view" of the AnimeOnDVD community is in our off-topic area. In being a participant in many of these types of forums across many sites over the years, the health of a forum can often be determined by what ki...
Podcast's 27th Episode Marks First Anniversary With New Segments, Special Guests
GRIMES, IA, November 10, 2006 " Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer The Right Stuf International (TRSI) is excited to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its A...
Batman-on-Film got a head's up on an interesting book by David Hughes titled "Tales from Development Hell" that features the details of the Aronofsky/Miller "Batman: YearOne" project.
The release year 2003 was a sizeable one for ADV Films. In addition to putting out nearly two hundred DVDs and collections, they revamped their music division, created and launched a new manga publishing division and laid the groundwork for their "toys"...
"Being a host and getting fussed over by a bunch of girls may not be that bad."
--Haruhi Fujioka
Dubbed by FUNimation Productions, Flower Mound, TX.
See the Mania Review
Running Time: 300 mins (excl. extras).
Episodes 1-13.
Directed by ...
Long before Dark Horse made STAR WARS into a comic book cottage industry, Marvel Comics tackled the challenge of expanding on George Lucas' galaxy far, far away with a monthly comic that occasionally delved into bizarre territory (a pastel-hued talking ra...
For AnimEigo, 2003 proved to be something of a quieter year with some substantial gains over the previous one in certain areas.
With more and more of their back catalog getting done, the shift to other materials started to become more important. The bi...
With any luck, this editorial will be less controversial than some of my previous ones. :)
As of the end of October, I've now had my DVD player for a year, so I'll be doing a year in review here. A lot has gone on for the format during the past year, not...
In 2003, Bandai had itself a busy year in both getting releases out as well as setting their plans for the future. But unlike other studios, a lot of what goes on with Bandai releases seem to give the impression of a "slumbering giant" of sorts. Bandai ...
What a weird and fun ride this has been.
Tomorrow, March 3rd, is the 5th anniversary of the start of the site. Our first full real news posting was just a few days later on March 5th, 1998 where we mentioned some new Image titles coming out. Our next p...
...uld be a "yearone" Fletch movie, thus enabling you to have a younger actor play the role. He did state that they could have the older Fletch (played by Chase) relating his first big story and thus having a connection to the previous two films.He dispu...
Actress and screenwriter June Diane Raphael will be joining the cast of YEARONE, a new biblical comedy directed by Harold Ramis and produced by Judd Apatow. The film also stars Jack Black as well as Superbad's Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plas...
As I said yesterday here, the studios have out done themselves at the box office for the year of 2007. Universal Pictures has issued the following statement with the acknowledgement that this past year was their best in their nearly 100 years of existence...
For FUNimation, 2003 looked to be a good year as they continued their movement into more "hardcore" anime fandom all while still feeding the all powerful Dragonball beast that they've managed over the years.
The early part of the year saw the end of B...
... BATGIRL: YEARONE. There's precious little of Batgirl in here, and what we do see of Barbara Gordon in this issue is what we always see of her nowadays: typing away in front of a computer. Thank goodness Black Canary shows up next issue, or else I'd b...
Have you been watching FARSCAPE on the Sci-Fi Channel? If not, Ben Browder, who plays John Crichton, wants you to sample the end of the season. He explains, `If you were going to watch the show, and you hadnt seen the first 18 episodes, you could start ...
Going into 2003, Central Park Media looks to have had a set plan of catching up on a number of remasters to bring some of their outsourced titles back into their library proper, fix a few older mistakes or releases that were used as experiments back in ...
In a year when anime saw an explosion of growth across just about all areas, Urban Vision managed to put out even less than before.
In 2002, they put just about all their eggs in the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust basket and managed to do pretty well wit...
Interviewer: Way Jeng
If you're a fan of New York dubs, you've probably seen some of Jeff Thompson's work. He has worked on many shows, including Boogiepop Phantom, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and His and Her Circumstances. I had a chance to speak w...
And so we come
to the close to the year that was 2002, a year which proved to be a high-water
mark for comic book movies and TV shows. T
his year stands
in sharp contrast to 1997, the year that Comics2Film was born. In 1997,
it took a brave soul to...
One thing that that slipped my mind this weekend while dealing with other issues is that we just hit our eight year anniversary. Looking back at that first month of news posts from 1998 is certainly a blast from the past.
(NOTE: The following is not an exact transcription of the interview. A translator assisted with the interview and the following is based on that person\'s translation. For some questions, Maaya replied in English and I\'ve denoted those instances.)
[Q] -...
Brian Goldner, chief operating officer at Hasbro, and executive producer on the 'G.I. Joe' movie talked to MTV. Who's in the movie? Who got left out? Goldner dishes:
Goldner confirmed for MTV that Larry Hama, the comic scribe credited largely as the arch...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
From Star Trek’s FTL warp drive to Carl Sagan’s concentric-ringed, space-tearing Machine, spaceships have been as much a staple of science fiction as aliens or any other concept that has helped define the genre. Within the fictional SF univers...
Welcome to the most depressing day of the year. Thats right: the Day after Halloween. Man, what a letdown! Its like crashing after a really good high. Now theres nothing left but the hangover and the disturbing thought that next Halloween wont come fo...
The first thing you notice when Woody Allen walks into the room is how... Woody-ish he is. The voice, the posture, the attitude heck, he's even complaining about a cold he has as he sits down to talk about his latest comedy, THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPIO...
...oing that YearOne Million crap with everyone, weren't they?"caliban" wrote in to say that "Actually, the comic I wish hadn't been cancelled was NIGHTFORCE. It predated the Vertigo concept titles by years. I knew it wouldn't last since the timing was w...
...s BATMAN: YEARONE, though the latter has supposedly been in limbo since it was announced over a year ago. These are a few of the films the studio supposedly wants to spin out between 2003 and 2010. What else is on tap? The previously announced BATMAN ...
It seems like a number of sites are hitting their anniversaries this year and we\'re one of them. With tomorrow being our five year anniversary since kicking off this little shindig, I thought I\'d ramble on a bit about things past and present.
In 2003, TOKYOPOP had themselves another banner year when it came to the manga side of things, which we aren't really covering here. Their anime & DVD side of the show has taken a serious backseat to their manga movement, which isn't surprising consider...
Well, it's been some time since this guy last ranted and was able to get it posted rather than being burned at the stake for an Anime heretic. Christmas has come and gone, seeing with it many a happy DVDs, CDs and BYOBs coming into my possession. Actually...
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...
Action Packed Supernatural Adventure Of A Teen Who Sees Ghosts
San Francisco, CA, November 28, 2006 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has a...
And lo, in the year 1966 the Great Bird of the Galaxy begat STAR TREK. And when STAR TREK left the National Broadcasting Network it sought out new followers, converting them from the inhospitable netheregions known as late night reruns. And in this barren...
If your New Year's resolution is to read more SF, you're in luck because January has brought a batch of interesting releases. If, instead, your resolution is to do less leisure reading so you can finally get some work done...well, you might be in trouble....
...cessarily YearOne, either) to read about and wonder 'Wow. What would the real world be like with him in it? Wouldn't it be cool?' (This will probably reveal the fact that I haven't read it, but wasn't that what SECRET IDENTITY was supposed to be? TBW...
Happy Y2K, Web Browsers!Notice: we did not say `Happy New Millennium.` When you count to ten, you dont start at zero, go to nine, and then start over again at ten; you start at one and go to ten, then start over at eleven. The same holds true when you co...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! I've just spent the last week catching up on old SEX AND THE CITY episodes and let me tell you, I'm hooked. Yep, not since STRANGERS WITH CANDY has a television series so rocked my world that I've sai...
While Critical Mass didn't take the hentai world by storm, they released a couple of noteworthy titles while still holding onto some of the more desired ones. The continual calls for Monica to be released among hentai fandom is probably one of the stron...
The ever-optimistic Todd McFarlane predicts a new 'Spawn' movie will be in theaters next year, one that he will write and direct.
"We're currently working on the return of 'Spawn' in animation form, and this summer I'll be writing the screenplay for a ...
One of the DVD reviewers who has been here for quite some time and got dealt an interesting hand by taking on Inu Yasha, Luis has posted up his thoughts on A Year of Reviews.
Given the bevy of Batman miniseries that complement the character's already overloaded schedule of monthly titles, it's always pleasant to read one that both portrays the character faithfully and takes him in a new direction. While at first glance, Paul ...
Now I'm not one to throw superlatives around without a little green palming, but doggone it, if you didn't attend Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in New York a couple of weeks ago, you missed out on a humdinger of an event. Why, all sorts of horror and sci-...
Paul Pope's BATMAN: YEAR 100 feels like the synthesis of YEARONE, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, and V FOR VENDETTA. It occurs in the year 2039, when an invasive fascist government uses psychic police to eliminate privacy and control the press. In Gotham City,...
Last time, we left off just as Luke learned the truth about his girlfriend, Rebel pilot and secret Imperial agent Shira Brie. And then, it was time for Darth Vader to return to prominence in the saga. It's Anakin's time to shine as we conclude our look at...
...begins a "YearOne" storyline NIGHTWING #101 ($2.25) and now completely gay-free!The BLOODHOUND has to deal with painful memories that have suddenly been unblocked in issue #7 ($2.95). Yeah, those memories of wedgies in the playground and being called...
One or twice a year, a DVD comes out that just makes you say, “It’s about time!” Popeye the Sailor Volume One 1933 – 1938, is one of those DVDs. Like the Disney Treasures sets, this first volume presents 60 animated short...
Ed Chavez: Well, thanks for joining me today, Dallas. I have to say, at least for Anime on DVD and for my own podcast, Mangacast, it’s just been the general consensus that, over the past year, Del Rey has basically been the best publisher for, rea...
What They SayIn 19th-century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which one is born dictates the path his or her life will likely follow. But when Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, and William, an earnest member of t...
Reprinted with permission by the author
Comic Retailer
March, 2002
Over the past decade, the growing roster of manga publishers has mirrored the increased mainstream success of the comics genre. Today the market adoption has been so complete that old an...
Fairly early on in its first season, ANGEL proved itself to be a series that could stand apart from its progenitor, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. In the following interview, supervising producer Tim Minear begins taking FANDOM on a personal tour through all 2...
Another lackluster weekend at the box office, a weekend where the first and only movie to hit the $10.0 million mark is the winner. Those studio executives with profits on their minds are wishing we could do a time jump, which would make Doc Brown proud, ...
Opening Ceremonies
Hosted by: Adam Ferraro
The opening ceremonies for Anime Boston took place in a grand theatre room. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling and an upper level let some special guest sit from above and watch the people who were seate...
....50Batman YearOne Hundred #2 (of 4) $5.99Al: I did enjoy the first issue. Kurt's point was valid - it was similar to Dark Knight Returns in several ways - but it was still original enough, and cool enough, to be well worth checking out.Kurt: And by sa...
The year 2001 has come and gone, and it's now 2002 (has been for over a week actually). That doesn't mean that we at CINESCAPE aren't going to force yet another "Best of the Year" list down your throatjust when you thought you'd avoided all the others! An...
Jim Butcher propels the Dresden Files, Janine Cross’s dark fantasy series reaches its conclusion, and entertainment journalist Edward Gross takes a stab at chronicling the development of all things Harry Potter in a very weighted edition of this ...
Hiroyuki Morioka Panel & Interview In March of 2002, I watched Crest of the Stars for the
first time and immediately regretted not picking it up when it first came out.
When Otakon announced they were having Hiroyuki Morioka as a guest, I was quite
...
What They SayThe great war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon is almost over. At the neutral space colony of Libott, the federation secretly constructs a powerful new Gundam mobile suit. Untouched by the conflict, a little boy named...
...ETURNS or YEARONE. Maybe there's a fantastic, industry-changing story with an established character still waiting to happen. "In a perfect world, everyone would have that drive and talent. But most of them don't. Most of them would just recycle old ti...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist: Ayano YamaneTranslated by: Kaya ElleAdapted by: Kaya ElleWhat They SayAyano Yamane is renowned for her passionate stories and highly refined art style in both the United States and Japan. The Finder story began as a short wor...
...r Batman: YearOne.
Miller is not involved with Batman: The Frightening. Our source
tells us that Miller has other scripting irons in the fire at Warner Bros. as
well. This may include a big-screen version of Miller's Hard Boiled,
among other thing...
At a lot of conventions, downtime between panels can feel like hanging around in a theatre lobby between acts of a play. The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention, held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, has an atmosphere much more like a party wi...
If you're a vampire your life sucks. Sunlight destroys you, everybody's trying to drive a stake through your heart and you never know who your next meal is going to be. But all that pales in comparison to the trials and tribulations director Michael Rymer...
What They SayThree years of peace have followed the Earth Federation\'s victory over the Duchy of Zeon. Now, in the year 0083 of the Universal Century, the last remnants of Zeon begin their plan for revenge by stealing a prototype Gundam armed with nuclea...
Tonight, at 7:00 p.m. Central time, the Marshall Public Library Board of Trustees will convene to vote on whether or not to remove two graphic novels from their shelves BLANKETS by Craig Thompson and FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel. Louise Mills, a resident ...
Greetings, fellow fiends, and welcome to another week of brilliant banter, witty rhetoric, and cataclysmic commentary about the state of the comics industry. Before we dive headlong into this pit of barbed wire and broken glass: I'll run your letters next...
Revenge is a dish best served on DVD with 'Man on Fire' and 'Punisher' topping the charts this week. 'Man' sold about 1.5 million combined DVD and VHS units Tuesday. Lions Gate's 'The Punisher,' sold about 1.8 million combined DVD and VHS units during its...
So, people are making much ado about Sarah Michelle Gellar's new 'do.The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star cut about five inches off her long locks, and now entertainment publications and Web sites are all abuzz about it.What's the big freakin' deal, you ask?...
There's a chance that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first year of their Best Animated Feature Film category may have to wait until next year.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the new category requires a minimum of eight cadidates for ...
The nominees for the
sixth annual Hollywood Film Fest's Hollywood Movie of the Year Awards have been
announced. With 2002 being a great year for comic book movies, it's no surprise
that one of them has landed on the best picture list.
Road To Perdit...
[IMG2R]The makers of low budget, direct-to-video movies rarely garner much respect in the world of cinema. You can find televised award shows for just about every form of popular entertainment even soap operas but not for the people who turn out featu...
R.A. Salvatore’s The Hunter’s Blades trilogy gets a collector’s edition facelift, the Time Spiral Cycle wrenches out another installment with Planar Chaos, and two notable female SF authors get some well-deserved credit for their con...
Update: A new report over at Variety goes into more detail about what to expect within the WGA membership voting process after the tentative agreement has been reached.
WGA members will have the chance to vote on whether to end the strike unde...
What They SayThe epic story of Gundam is taken into a new realm, where it takes the viewer deeper behind the lines of the One-Year War than ever before. See how the war was portrayed on the side of Zeon. Who is the true evil?
Episode 1: The Vanishing Ser...
A couple of weeks ago, a COMICSCAPE reader asked me to do a column about breaking into comics. Here, I present the first of a couple of columns on the subject. Many comics professionals began their career in self-publishing they created their own books, ...
...s – YearOne, which occurred in canon (I think); All-Star Batman and Robin, which does not; Spawn/Batman, which just sucked; and Holy Terror, Batman!, which isn’t out yet. Miller did the same thing with his graphic novel Elektra Lives ...
Every young actor this side of the WB wanted the job, but it was relative unknown Hayden Christensen who got ithe's the boy who would be Anakin Skywalker (picking up where the much younger Jake Lloyd left off) in George Lucas' highly anticipated STAR WARS...
It looks as if the Beatles have invaded a Borders bookstore at the World Financial Center in Manhattan. A line of autograph-hungry fans pours out of the main signing area, dominating the entire second floor of the multi-level facility. A stunned employee ...
Home Media Research has released a list of the top selling DVD's for 2005. Batman Begins was released back on October 18th and sold 6.15 million units last year and that was good enough for 10th place.
Every so often Hollywood hits us with a pleasant surprise that in fact really should not be a surprise. I cheered when I heard that Michael Clarke Duncan got nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role of the wrongly convicted John Coffey in w...
Even though he hasn't finished filming his next movie, director Ridley Scott has already settled on what his project after the present one has wrapped will be. While Scott continues to shoot KINGDOM OF HEAVEN in Morocco, his next assignment will be creati...
...etamorpho YearOne #6 (Of 6) $2.99
Moon Child Vol 9 $9.99
Ben: I did this, and now I’m in jail for indecent exposure.
Kurt: Are you sharing a cell with Al Brown?
Programme #6 (Of 12) $2.99
Scooby Doo #127 $2.25
Ben: ...
David X. Cohen seems like a funny guy. Talking with him on the phone about this week's release of FUTURAMA - VOLUME TWO on DVD, Cohen comes off as likeable, even down to earth kind of fellow. But when you get him to talk to you about science fiction, that...
Five years after it ceased production, HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES remains like its Immortal characters something that will not die. Davis-Panzer Productions released full seasons of the six-year run Highlander in videotape years before this was the norm, th...
I got into the indy comics scene late, so I never heard of David Hine until a few years ago when he began working for the stateside offices of Marvel Comics. In a short space of time there were a few Marvel miniseries: Daredevil Redemption, Son of M., th...
New Line Cinema has given us the final one-sheet poster for ELF, the upcoming fantasy comedy starring Will Ferrell, James Caan and Edward Asner. Ferrell plays Buddy, a human raised in the North Pole to be an elf. Figuring out that he doesn't really fit in...
I’ll admit; I was skeptical that this title would ever see the light of day on US shores, even after CMX announced the license. I mean, sure, us weird Otaku with English degrees have a fondness for the Victorian era, but it’s not exactly a ...
In this age of manga glut, the josei genre is often overlooked during the selection and translation process. "Josei" manga refers to stories that are tailored for a female adult audience--the good women of the working world who would love a comi...
In an effort to hit a few more conventions in 2005 than I did in 2004, I opted to check out the relatively new one down in Connecticut this past weekend. This is their third year I believe and they took advantage of their overall growth to do two things. ...
Some day, it's entirely possible that Adrian Paul will become best known for playing a perfectly ordinary human being but that's not in the cards just yet. True, after starring for six seasons as 400-year-old Immortal swordsman/martial artist/all-round g...
It's been a roller coaster ride for the 2007 box office, with a gangbuster Summer followed by a weak Fall and then rescued by a magical Holiday season. All in all the year proved to be the best since 2004, according to analysis provided by <a href=&quo...
Director Alex Proyas certainly seems to be opening up to the media these days. A month after surprising online news by shooting down any involvement in Fox's Silver Surfer spin-off, due in part to Proyas being angry with the studio over issues with I, Rob...
On Thursday, June 21, at 7:30pm, the American Cinematheque kicked off its four-day series, "Outside Looking In: A Tribute to Malcolm McDowell," with a Thirtieth Anniversary screening of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, one of the actor's most memorable and controversi...
The strongest point for volume one of eV would be the cliffhanger on the very last panel. The lead-up, however, is average, which presents an interesting problem: if a story gives you a good reason to read further installments but not until the very end, ...
...p;
Robin YearOne TP New Ptg $14.99
Simon Dark #11 $2.99
Simon Dark What Simon Does TP $14.99
Supergirl Beyond Good And Evil TP $17.99
Testament TP Vol 04 Exodus (MR) $14.99
Tiny Titans #7 $2.25
Tr...
What They SayUniversal Century 0087, Seven years have past since the defeat of the Zeon army during what has now become known as the \'OneYear War\'. An elite Federation military force known as the Titans are tasked with the prevention of further uprisin...
...NIGHTWING YEARONE TP $14.99 OMAC PROJECT #4 (OF 6) $2.50 OTHERWORLD #5 (OF 12) (MR) $2.99 If anyone was wondering, and I'm gonna assume you weren't, I did read the first couple issues of this and I loathed it. OUTSIDERS #26 $2.50 PROMETHEA BOOK 5 HC $...
...ss in the yearone class that he\'s in. He ends up hooking up with Hayashida, an amusing delinquent who has a small purple Mohawk that flows in the wind – even when there isn\'t any wind, and is probably one of the stranger members of the crowd i...
...For every YearOne or Hush, there are innumerable instances of both entertaining-but-forgettable stories and outright unreadable ones. Never forget Bat-Mite, with Grant Morrison’s recent revised take excepted. Most of any given ongoing series o...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and Merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, and have a spectacular holiday-of-some-other-obscure-nation-or-alternative-religion. If I don’t say that part, someone will remind me about Yule or something. Anyway, i...
The Review!I think that this is the third belated "Tenchi in Tokyo" review that I've done. I seem to remember that Volume 3 was delayed by several months last spring, and then I had just left on vacation when Volume 4 arrived in my mailbox (in Pincourt, Q...
Hands down absolutely one of the greatest achievements in the horror genreever. Evil Dead 2 is literally one of those films that have to be seen to be believedits outrageous, over-the-top, and beyond what you could possibly imagine, if you havent alre...
Well-respected British thespian Richard Harris has been lauded critically for roles in films like CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY and WRESTLING ERNEST HEMINGWAY. But the distinguished actor is also no stranger to genre films, having played King Arthur in the 196...
This years Otakon marks the fourth time I\'ve gone to one. And after the
problems of last year, I definitely wasn\'t sure if it would be my last or not,
dependent on how the problems played out this year. Thankfully, the majority
of the problems ...
What They SayUniversal Century 0087, Seven years have past since the defeat of the Zeon army during what has now become known as the \'OneYear War\'. An elite Federation military force known as the Titans are tasked with the prevention of further uprisin...
What They SayAmidst the Passing of the Year Festival, Reki begins to distance herself from everyone and prepares to face the bitter darkness that will soon engulf her, resigned to her fate as a cursed and unforgiven Haibane.
With little time remaining, R...
...en Titans YearOne #4 (Of 6) $2.99
Ben: Yearone of an old team should not take place during modern times.
Uncle Sam And The Freedom Fighters #8 (Of 8) $2.99
IMAGE COMICS
Crawl Space XXXombies #4 (MR) $2.99
Kurt: With a title like that, it can onl...
Not necessarily the movie industry's example of a leading man, actor Vincent D'Onofrio has been dubbed the quintessential character actor. Today, as he strolls into a suite at the posh Le Montrose Hotel in Hollywood, he is dressed in a dapper black suit w...
There are certain screenplays that have the power to have Hollywood buzzing about. A fair amount of the business of show business happens simply by people in the industry listening close to what's being said on the grapevine. For literary agents, it's try...
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 ...
The midterm "check-up" can't be easy for any producer to live through, especially if the series in question is fighting for a return season. For a time, ROSWELL seemed to be as homeless as the aliens on its show, but ever since it was given a new life on ...
Some STAR WARS fans where a little surprised when PULP FICTION's original hardcore badass, Samuel L. Jackson, was featured in EPISODE I as Yoda's friend and confidant. But Jackson's legendary talent has made Jedi Master Mace Windu one of the most popular ...
Twenty-Two All-New Warcraft® and StarCraft® Manga Volumes Slated for Release through 2010
New York Comic-Con, New York (April 17, 2008)―On the heels of the critically acclaimed international hit manga series Warcraft®: The Sunwell Trilo...
Batman Begins by Corona's Coming Attractions (Mon 02-28-2005)
Genre:Action/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Warner Brothers.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/"Batman"); Michael Caine (Alfred); Katie Holmes (Rachel); Liam Neeson (Henri Ducard); Morgan Freeman...
Its no secret that when THE MATRIX hit theaters back in 1999, it revolutionized the way sci-fi action films were made and boggled the minds of many a moviegoer. In the process, however, it managed to become one of the most successful genre films ever, ta...
Due in large part to its commitment toward developing original programming of both an episodic and telefilm nature (FARSCAPE, DUNE, FIRESTARTER: REKINDLED), the Sci Fi Channel is providing fans of the B5 universe with a reason to smile again. Specifically...
OPINION: First off, my thanks to Justin Campbell, who wrote in to tell me that the silent classic THE GOLEM has indeed been released on DVD. I'll have to get Brian Thomas to review that sometime... On the subject of parallel continuities, or the idea that...
This years Otakon marks the fourth time I\'ve gone to one. And after the problems of last year, I definitely wasn\'t sure if it would be my last or not, dependent on how the problems played out this year. Thankfully, the majority of the problems seemed to...
FARSCAPE, the top-rated original series on the Sci-Fi Channel, now in its third season, tells the story of John Crichton (Ben Browder), an astronaut from our time thrown through a wormhole to the other side of the universe. In season one, Crichton began t...
OPINION: Before we get started, there's various and sundry stuff to cover. Thanks to Jeremy Travaglini for pointing out that the DC annual crossover event a few years back was actually named "Bloodlines" rather than "New Blood"; to J. Adams for suggesting...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of Comicscape. Before I dive into my interview with comic writer Brandon Thomas, I want to acknowledge the passing of Heath Ledger, who passed away in his apartment yesterday morning. Ledger, of co...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another week of watching your credit card bill skyrocket like the national deficit. Yes, I'm hooked, too. So, don't feel bad. You've only got your wife to answer to. This week features the second (and much lo...
You'd think an actor who had to step into Tom Cruise's shoes would be nervous. Not Stuart Townsend, who follows Cruise's interpretation of the vampire Lestat in Interview With THE Vampire with his own version of the charismatic bloodsucker in Queen of the...
Every year when
Halloween rolls around, there's a hot costume or theme that every kid (young and
old) just has to have. Last year it was understandably Firemen and Policemen.
This year could be called the year of the Superhero! With the blockbuster
...
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In a yearone man will have fallen from a great position that was truly reaching the stars, to a point far beneath the earth. This man has not been forgotten and his memory still burns fierce in the mind and hearts of many, however his future look...
What They SayThe great war between the Earth Federation and the Duchy of Zeon is almost over. At the neutral space colony of Libot, the Federation secretly constructs a powerful new Gundam mobile suit. And in this colony, so far untouched by the conflict,...
What They SayContains 4 DVDs (the full series) in one lovely artbox!
Narue is an adorable schoolgirl with a secret. She\'s really an alien with powers right out of a sci-fi comic! But growing up is never easy, and it doesn\'t help when you\'re from outer...
What They SayAs the oneyear anniversary of her mother\'s death looms on the horizon, Tohru Honda is forced to take inventory of her life. Over the past 12 months she remained strong and focused despite her personal tragedy by becoming a valued member of ...
A year and a half after the events that led to the death of his wife and an estrangement from his daughter Kim, Jack Bauer is called out of retirement by President David Palmer to track down a nuclear device set to detonate somewhere in Los Angeles that s...
VIDEO NEWSProof, as if any was needed, that direct-to-video horror producers have no shame is the recent report (from CREATURE CORNER) of a sequel to the dreadful BLOODY MURDER. That film was an unexpected video hit, probably due to its cover art of a cha...
What They SayTwo years down...One to go!
The annual class shuffle leaves a frightened Kaori marooned in Mr. Kimura\'s homeroom: hopeless, helpless, and worst of all...Sakaki-less! Back in Miss Yukari\'s class, a trip to Okinawa brings plenty of laughs al...
First, the good news: next week is my first interview in a while. I'll be talking with the man...the legend...THE CHIN: Bruce Campbell. We'll be chatting about his new comic book and movie THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN. The first issue of the miniserie...
With Thanksgiving already a few days cold, the holiday season (along with all of its consumer-driven trappings) has officially arrived and though economists predict lean shopping numbers for the end of this year, you wouldn’t know it by the sheer vo...
In an overloaded release schedule of sci-fi, horror and fantasy book debuts a few reduxes by renowned authors George R.R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and Naomi Novik stand out amongst dozens of new titles.
The month of July has se...
The FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise takes a big leap into the future with JASON X, completed last year but just now opening on April 26th. Returning along with the hockey-masked slasher is composer Harry Manfredini, whose music has been as much a staple of the ...
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...
Its starting to look as if contemporary Hollywood horror movie remakes owe ever-increasing royalty payments to Roger Corman and Barbara Steele. For some reason, when filmmakers refashion old movies, they borrow less from the official source than from the...
Near the end of the week, a juggernaut system is released to put a nail in the coffin of the Playstation 2. Generally with most console releases, all other games slow to a crawl allowing an explosion of choice for those whom pick up this new system. Lucki...
Veteran producer Roger Corman has taken a different tack from Charles Band in order to keep his ship running through this latest economic storm. `We are the only independent with two studios, one here and one in Ireland. With the markets weakness, we w...
What They SayUniversal Century 0079. The last battle in Southeast Asia is about to take place. As the Zeon’s being to evacuate their base, the Federation moves in for the attack! Zeon ace, Packard, rushes to engage the enemy in order to buy his troo...
Peter Jackson has been talking about the Herculean task of filming the LORD OF THE RINGS three films at one time.While talking to SCIFI.COM, Jackson spoke of how he mentally tackled the three films at one time, saying, "We really haven't divided the film ...
What They SayUniversal Century 0087, Seven years have past since the defeat of the Zeon army during what has now become known as the \'OneYear War\'. An elite Federation military force known as the Titans are tasked with the prevention of further uprisin...
What They SayAs the oneyear anniversary of her mother\'s death looms on the horizon, Tohru Honda is forced to take inventory of her life. Over the past 12 months she remained strong and focused despite her personal tragedy by becoming a valued member of ...
Hey fellow Maniacs and welcome to the second edition Mania Time Warp! This is the place where you can kick off your shoes, relax on your Saturday afternoon, and travel back in time with us to see the history of the realm of Mania on this day 1, 3, and 5 y...
What They SayAC 196. Oneyear after the end of the Gundam Wing television series. Now, peace has spread through the Earth Sphere and the colonies are at peace. The Gundam pilots now find themselves attempting to rebuild their lives in this new era. And no...
What They SayGriffith stands at the peak of victory. The remaining opposition attempts one final act of treachery, and for that they will burn. Guts fights at Griffith\'s right hand till the very end, and now that the status of the Hawks has reached its p...
Sure, he may have his own movie studio, a reputation for shaping the childhoods of countless thirty-somethings and enough money to rest on his laurels until the end of time, but that hasn't stopped George Lucas from daring to revisit his greatest triumph ...
...n Beyond: YearOne" has a full length movie been submitted for
consideration at Comic-Con. O.C.D. Production's "Luthor For President"
is a 90 minute movie by Jason Bailey and Michael Walters that has been in
development since March 2003.
"Luthor Fo...
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 ...
Several years ago, cable channel American Movie Classics acquired the broadcast rights to Universal's library of classic monster films for Halloween. While this was a sad day for local TV horror hosts, who then had to rake through the lower dregs for horr...
Theres a lot to cover this week, so Ill dispense with the usual smart-ass comments and get right to it. The major new release for the week is New Line Home Videos, The Cell. When the film opened theatrically, a handful of critics praised it as a vis...
Well, it?s been stated before and I?ll state it again, DVD has almost passed it next hurtle, the second holiday season mark. Now here we are with DVDs coming out of our ears, plenty of anime titles to choose from and more on the way. Even Bubblegum Crisis...
One of the best-selling franchises among the crime noir genre of video games, Infogrames' Atari division was targeting the holiday 2003 season for the release of DRIVER 3, the next installment in the DRIVER series. Plans have now changed and the game's d...
...it out of yearone, which is unimaginable. That is truly the Titanic situation. Okay, Paramount cuts their losses and fires everybody. They clean out the soundstages; they give up the production offices, and they sit on it for ten years. Then some exec...
I first met Masaru Sato when I sat in on writer David (Cult Movies) Milners interview with the composer in December 1994. Sato had expressed some concern about doing the interview; he had written 300 film scores, and only a handful of those were science ...
Director Peter Jackson's first LORD OF THE RINGS installment, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, has finally arrived after years of anticipation from both fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's popular fantasy novels and the movie-going public in general. The film has perform...
You may know her very well and be afraid to admit it in mixed company, or you may somehow be a living breathing American male and not be aware of Ashlyn Gere, one of the most popular and prolific adult stars of the '80s and early '90s. In any event, wheth...
Robin Williams is not a funny man. At least not is his new creepy drama ONE HOUR PHOTO where he plays Seymour (Sy) Parrish, a lonely man who becomes obsessed with a family through developing their pictures over the years. The appeal of the character, says...
What They SayCrack open those books, and don\'t forget to pack your lunch for the first side-splitting volume of Azumanga Daioh!
In Miss Yukari\'s English class, every day is an adventure. First off, there\'s the teacher herself: a bit of an airhead, sh...
VIDEO NEWS In addition to the upcoming new STAR TREK TV series, Trekkers will soon get another treat with Paramount's release of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE THE DIRECTOR'S EDITION on Nov. 6th. As the title sug...
Composer/musician George Sarah has one of the more distinctive sounds to be found on album, TV and the L.A. club scene. His electronica-meets-classical compositions can be found performed live around Los Angeles in company with the String Trio at venues a...
It took five long years to happen but finally a sequel to 1997's blockbuster MEN IN BLACK has arrived and MIIB star Will Smith says this one won't disappoint fans."[Before filming] we sat down and went through what we thought the overall feeling of the fi...