Writer Mark Schultz cannot emphasize enough that his four-issue ALIEN VS.PREDATORVS. TERMINATOR miniseries from Dark Horse Comics is, first and foremost, an exciting action-adventure that should appeal to fans of all three franchises. The reason for his...
...ed on the Aliensvs.Predator comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics.Premise:Venturing into the Antarctics wastes, an industrial entrepreneur and his team of soldiers and scientists discover a buried structure under the ice. Inside they ...
...the first AliensVs.Predator film.
In addition, there is a footprint feature which, when turned on, will alert the viewer that the particular scene is one of the added/expanded scenes not seen in the theatrical release.
There is also the digital cop...
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AliensVs.Predator Vol. 1 is one of the first of these omnibus editions presenting 456 pages of story and art. Now the Dark Horse Omnibus books are a bit smaller than their Marvel and DC counterparts, and they are also a bit more expens...
...ie within AliensVs.Predator: Requiem. When the title creatures face off against each other in those moments where we can see what’s happening, or when we see Aliens swarming up the sides of a power plant and a hospital, it’s cool.
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...egan with ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: PREY (by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry) and followed in ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: HUNTER`S PLANET (by David Bischoff), which were both based on Dark Horse Comics mini-series. These comics and novels have broadened the concept...
IGN FilmForce checked with its trusty
sources about the rumor that Paul Anderson ('Aliensvs.Predator') might be the director of 'The Transformers' movie. Their sources advised them that the Anderson rumor is completely false. More...
A first look at the upcoming sequel, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM, has appeared online courtesy of IGN Movies. This is the follow up the 2004 film from Fox that pitted the two sci-fi icons in combat while humans tried to get out of the way. The sequel lea...
Electronic Arts and Fox Interactive have shipped their latest chapter in the cosmic brawn between species, ALIENSVS PREDATOR EXTINCTION, for the Sony PlayStation 2. The Microsoft Xbox version will ship to stores on August 5.With 21 missions to go through...
If you need a new dose of duelling extraterrestrials, then you should be informed that Apple is hosting the exclusive internet trailer for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. We've finally gotten our first looks at the Aliens, facehuggers, Predators and the human explore...
Just one day after IGN revealed the first photo of Fox's upcoming ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM sequel, they have released the first trailer online as well. The trailer is a Red Band/ Rated-R trailer. I realize a lot of our readers cannot view them at...
A new trailer for the upcoming sequel, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM, has hit the web courtesy of IGN Movies. The new trailer features more bloody carnage and sequences including a shot of a Predator holding 2 Aliens at once, a scene involving some swimmin...
It is the mark by which the faithful shall know one another ... If you hear an argument about who'd win in a battle between Superman vs. Batman, Darth Vader vs. Ming the Merciless, Dracula vs. the Wolfman, you know you are listening to dueling genre geeks...
Hot off the success of his zombie/videogame movie RESIDENT EVIL, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson is gearing up to make the long-rumored fanboy wetdream ALIENSVS.PREDATORmuch to the chagrin of many of those same fanboys the world over who hold a grudg...
It makes sense that when Sigourney Weaver mentioned that she had been talking about a fifth ALIENS film, there might also be somebody toying with the previously believed to be dead ALIENSVS.PREDATOR as well.While talking to 13th Street, producer Joel Si...
Yahoo Movies has posted a one minute snippet from ALIEN VS.PREDATOR showing -- what else? -- an Alien and a Predator going at it...hard. The fighting prowess of both ETs is clearly shown in this teaser in a fight to the death somewhere inside the catacom...
There's another new trailer for Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR available for download on Apple's website, and it's even better than the one that hit the 'net last week. This new preview presents more of the film's set-up: humans find mysterious pyramid buried u...
The FilmJerk website has followed up on our ALIEN VS.PREDATOR article posted earlier today and confirmed that the action does take place in Antartica and that the film's main character is named Lex. Furthermore, FilmJerk has posted detailed character des...
That was quick of 20th Century Fox: the new teaser trailer for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR is now ready for download at Apple's website.Since it is just a teaser, there's no real footage from Paul W. S. Anderson's movie to show you yet. Instead, we've got some clo...
As if Superman hasn’t had his hands full with the likes of the Aliens (from the movie franchise of the same name) and the Terminator, now he has to turn his attention to the alien hunter known as the Predator. At about the same time, he has to go up again...
Alec Gillies is a special effects guy who recently worked on 'Alien Vs Predator', and is now working on the 'Superman' suit for the upcoming movie.
"Fans of the comic book will not be disappointed," says Gillies.
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So by now you should have heard the news that 20th Century Fox has given a greenlight to ALIEN VS PREDATOR, the long-awaited meeting of two of sci-fi's biggest and baddest creatures. If you attended the San Diego Comic-Con last week you may have even spot...
Aliensvs.Predator – Requiem arrives on DVD today. The meeting of two monsters squaring off toe to toe is far from an original concept. If we look back we will see a time before there was “vs.” movies, a time when monsters wo...
There hasn't been much news lately on Paul W.S. Anderson's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR project. We know Anderson stepped down as director on RESIDENT EVIL 2 so he could focus on the A VS. P project but that was months ago. Where does the project stand now? Is ther...
With the imminent release of 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, McFarlane Toys has a new series of action figures inspired by the film available to fans. The five figure set features three Predator characters seen in the film (Elder Predator, Celtic P...
Variety is reporting that Amalgamated Dynamics, the creature effects shop, will craft the critters for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. The firm, led by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., created the creature designs for the previous two ALIEN pictures, ALIEN 3 and ALI...
Dark Horse Comics has announced that they will publish a original companion comic story to this summer's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR film. Titled ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: THRILL OF THE HUNT, the 96-page graphic novel takes the story elements of Paul W.S. Anderson's f...
Dreamworks Animation's first film utilizing stereoscopic 3-D technology, MONSTERS VS.ALIENS, has been pushed ahead from May 15, 2009 to March 27, 2009. Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) are directing this 3-D look at the 50's era of ...
...Predator- Aliensvs.Predator -- Requiem (20th Century Fox) BEST KISS -- Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer -- Disturbia (DreamWorks SKG) -- Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey -- Enchanted (Walt Disney Pictures) -- Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung -- Harry Pott...
Bloody Disgusting got a report from a scooper regarding ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2. Here is the basic gist:- None of the cast from ALIEN VS PREDATOR will be returning.- Movie will be set in a different time.- Studio wants Sigourney Weaver to play a part.- Weave...
...Predator- Aliensvs.Predator -- Requiem (20th Century Fox)
BEST KISS
Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer -- Disturbia (DreamWorks SKG)
Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey -- Enchanted (Walt Disney Pictures)
Da...
DreamWorks Animation has released their first teaser trailer for their next adventure Monsters vs.Aliens courtesy of Yahoo Movies. The film features the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Kie...
We'll have to file this one as a story spoiler, but it's just a small one: the Coming Soon team has published masks and accessories offered by Rubies Costume Company for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. The photo on the CS site shows all sort of fine E.T. swag that yo...
Actress Sanaa Lathan (who can be seen playing opposite Denzel Washington in OUT OF TIME) has landed the role of Lex Kline in ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, Paul W.S. Anderson's meeting of the 20th Century Fox extraterrestrials. Lathan's character is the lead in the ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz and Johnny Lewis have all signed on to play roles in 20th Century Fox's upcoming film ALIEN VS PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.Epps will play Kendra, a young girl who must protect her little...
McFarlane Toys has released images of their new 12-inch action figures based on characters from ALIEN VS.PREDATOR.The SCAR PREDATOR, the last remaining member of a small hunting party sent to Earth to test their mettle against a horde of Alien attackers,...
McFarlane Toys has been granted the license to create a series of action figures based on Fox's upcoming extraterrestrial ultimate fighting contest, ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. McFarlane has already produced a line of ALIEN and PREDATOR figures that are out in st...
According to Variety, DreamWorks Animation will make all it's films in 3-D starting in 2009.The first all 3-D film produced will be the 2009 release of Monsters vs.Aliens, which starts production this spring.Monsters vs.Aliens follows an alien invasion ...
Preparing himself to star in ALIEN VS.PREDATOR, actor Lance Henriksen spoke with Fangoria about the upcoming project. Henriksen, who first faced one-half of the extraterrestrial foes in James Cameron's ALIENS, let go a slight story spoiler that fans have...
Remember last week, we talked about the studios cutting into each other for 2009-2010 films? Well, appparently, some studios are thinking the exact same thing and have already started adjusting their schedules. Dreamworks( Paramount) have ...
An anonymous scooper wrote in with a tip we looked into, and we got it confirmed: screenwriter Shane Salerno (SHAFT, ARMAGEDDON) will receive co-writer credit on ALIEN VS.PREDATOR. Previously we believed that the film's director, Paul W.S. Anderson, was ...
...s such as Aliensvs.Predator:Requiem and Sweeney Todd on Christmas against some clear family competition?
I understand that alternative programming is a good thing in some cases such as releasing Dan in Real Life on Halloween weekend but Dan ...
The weekend estimates are in and it looks too close to call. I’ll go ahead and call it anyway though, folks. 1st place goes to Stomp The Yard (pulling in 13.3 mil) while Night of the Museum is only 300,000 dollars behind at 2nd place. Yes, that&rsqu...
Ron Marz believes in responsibility. The proof lies in his exclusive contract with CrossGeneration Comics, which he made sure had a clause allowing him to complete work he`d previously committed to for Dark Horse Comics. Interestingly, that same sense of ...
In our last two feature installments, we presented a chat with artist Jon Bogdanove focusing on the new Superman/Aliens match-up, SUPERMAN/ALIENS II: GODWAR, a sprawling cosmic epic co-starring Darkseid and the New Gods. This mini-series, courtesy of comi...
There's a new ALIEN VS.PREDATOR internet exclusive trailer.It's got more Aliens.More Predators.More humans caught in the crossfire.More explosions, more chestbursters, more gunfire, more carnage. And something new: heavy metal rock music.Click to begin y...
Everyone loves zombies. They scare the hell out of you. They serve as a perfect metaphor for, well, “us.” And, best of all, they eat people. With those sterling qualities, I see very little not to like about our lumb...
...earing in ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM. To check out that photo as well as some other cool screenshots of aliens and predators in the film, click the link above or just click on the photo to the left. The upcoming R-rated sequel, directed by the Strause...
We've been hearing rumors on the grape vine that it's going to be a race to finish work on ALIEN VS.PREDATOR in order for the film to meet its release date -- which is just three short days away from today. While it's not completely unusual (albeit stres...
After months of rumors, innuendo and vitriolic diatribes, it's been confirmed that the powers that be at Twentieth Century Fox have tapped RESIDENT EVIL and EVENT HORIZON director Paul Anderson to write and direct the years-in-development ALIENSVS. PREDA...
Here is the ultimate list of the familiar faces that you always see in your favorite fantasy, Sci-Fi and comic book movies and television series, but thanks to their B-Celebrity status, have no idea who these actors are.
When these people&...
After another long week of the daily grind, it’s time for the Saturday edition of Mania Time Warp! Here’s the place where we take our tricked out De Lorean up to 88 mph and travel back in time.
Unlike old Doc Brown and Marty though, we&rsquo...
Spartan sequel planned for 300?
The Rumor: A sequel is on the horizon for Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the Frank Miller comic 300.
The Source: Producer Mark Canton to SOSHollywood
The Mania Verdict: TRUE---Warner Bros. lists the budget for 3...
An international trailer for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR has surfaced on the website for the English tabloid The Sun. The trailer contains about 95% of the same footage seen in the domestic AvsP trailer but there is some new material in there, plus the internation...
... counting ALIENSVS.PREDATOR). But, rather than risk creating an original work that didn't shamelessly (and poorly) ape Singer's style, they went for the easy out. Instead of a great movie, we got a passably entertaining one good for a matinee or a ...
Last night two different kinds of extraterrestrials were sighted in the Long Beach, CA area and we're looking for eyewitness reports. No, there weren't any UFO landings or alien abductions (that we know of) but instead we were able to glean that 20th Cent...
...e Matrix, Aliensvs.Predator and countless other movie tie-in product. If there’s a fight between buying a movie license and buying more research and development for an original property, time shows most companies will go to Hollywood. Beside...
...icipated 'Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem'. That movie ranks #6 for the weekend. Even if you take into account the entire opening week (the film debuted on Christmas Day, a Tuesday), its still #4 behind 'Legend'.
Other slow starters were 'The Water Horse...
The official website for ALIEN VS.PREDATOR has thrown up a second behind-the-scenes featurette, this time examining the crafting of the creatures for the film. In the short film we get to see Tom Woodruff, one of the principals at Amalgamated Dynamics, s...
...otage. In Aliensvs.Predator, opening December 25, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises ever are back. Agent 47 hits the big screen, as Fox present footage from the long-awaited movie adaptation of the legendary videogame fran...
On display at the Master Replicas booth at this year's San Diego Comic Convention are a host of the company's new items for the next quarter including a number of replicas inspired by 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR movie. One of the most impressive...
Actor Lance Henriksen, who portrayed the android Bishop in ALIENS and then Bishop's human creator in ALIEN 3, is getting another face-to-face encounter with the extraterrestrial bugs. Henriksen is the first to be cast in Paul Anderson's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR...
Deep under the ice shelf in Antarctica, two different groups of extraterrestrials are waging a war -- and we're caught in the middle. ALIEN VS.PREDATOR is the long-awaited rumble in the interstellar jungle that fans of these two franchises have been wait...
In anticipation of its imminent release, Apple's trailer website has added a new minute-long clip from ALIEN VS.PREDATOR featuring a confrontation between three humans, two Predators and one smart Alien. Saying more than that would reveal the surprise, s...
It seems that McFarlane Toys has another hit on their hands. After releasing the first assortment of action figures based on 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR last month, the company has announced plans for a second wave of figures.Six new figures wil...
Last week we revealed the first figure in AliensVs.Predator: Requiem Action Figures Series 3, the Open Mouth Predator, and today we unveil the second half of the series: the Stealth Mode Predator! Masked, cast in translucent plastic with surges of elect...
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Cast: NA
Who's Making It: Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) are Co-directors
Genre: CG/AnimationProduction Co: DreamWorks AnimationDistributor:
Dr...
"The Magic 8-Ball" (who was 100% right about when we'd see the teaser trailer for RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE) knocked on our door late last night to tell us another scoop. Are you ready to see your first look at Paul Anderson's ALIEN VS.PREDATOR next mont...
Galactus versus Aunt May. The Kingpin versus a box of Dunkin Donuts. The JLA versus a Predator squadron. What do these pairings have in common? Simple: none of ’em would be much of a fight.Think about the matchup—the third one, that is. The first two are ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of cutthroat Comicscape action! Late as usual, I realize the furious spell of controversy over the statue of Mary Jane Watson-Parker leaning over a laundry hamper wound down last month, but the storm ov...
PRIZE CLOSET: We have 5 copies of X-FILES MYTHOLOGY Volume 4: Super Soldiers courtesy of Fox for lucky readers that send an email containing their name and address to psycho@psychotronic.info with "X-FILES SUPER" in the subject line. We also have a couple...
...series of AliensVs.Predator: Requiem: the Open Mouth Predator! Ugly as sin and loaded with weapons, the Wolf hits shelves this May as part of Series 3 of our AliensVs.Predator: Requiem Action Figures! Take a look at our first official images and ch...
Next weeks episode of the Legion Of Superheroes has the team facing the worst fears in "Fear Factory". Check out some screen captures from the trailer.
Vivendi Universal Games has announced that a video game based on 20th Century Fox's PREDATOR movie franchise is in development. PREDATOR: CONCRETE JUNGLE, a third-person action/adventure console game, is being coded by Eurocom Entertainment Software and i...
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers is pure 1950’s B movie fare. The plot and acting are campy, the budget is minuscule, and it’s filled with 50’s sci-fi clichés, but the film had one thing going for it, and that was the stop-motion...
Two new collectibles will be hitting the market sometime in late 2007-early 2008 from the ALIENSVS PREDATOR series. Each of the two items are Kotobukiya Japanese Imports based off the first film but timing in release with the sequel. The alien and predat...
Fangoria is now confirming the earlier rumor (first published by Creature Corner this past August) that New Line Cinema is actively contemplating a FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH film. While earlier reports were at first dismissed by actor Bruce Campbell, in re...
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...
Last Updated: August 23, 2006Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, MusicalProduction Company: Alter Ego EntertainmentDistributors: Nu-Image Films (International Media)Project Phase: In DevelopmentBudget: NAWho's In It: NAWho's Making It: Thunder Lev...
After its debut at Comic-Con
International last summer the short film "Batman: Dead End" has
generated an unprecedented amount of buzz and rocketed to the top of most fans'
"must see" list of Batman short films. Today it remains a favorite and
top d...
... gem. (O) ALIENSVS.PREDATOR (Fox) Dumb but fun clash of [IMG6R]two sci-fi/horror franchises which have already met in comics and games. Widescreen and fullscreen editions include two commentraks, Making-Of, deleted scenes, featurettes and m...
Shane Salerno's latest sci-fi adventure Doomsday Protocol has been picked up by 20th Century Fox, says The Hollywood Reporter. The deal reportedly involved seven figures between the two parties and was developed by Fox's Alex Young, who will also produce....
Alter Ego is taking orders for V-Rex vs. Kong Statue.As described on their site, "the fiercest creature of Skull Island, the V-Rex is the only dinosaur brave enough to challenge the mighty Kong. An awesome predator stalking the tangled jungle in search of...
PitofHorror.com recently caught up with Robert Englund to talk about his upcoming projects. And in the interview Englund revealed some updates on a NIGHTMARE prequel and the rumored FREDDY VS. JASON VS. MICHAEL MEYERS project. In regards to a NIGHTMARE pr...
The sequel to FREDDY VS. JASON was so close to happening back in 2005. How close? At one point, the FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH script had approvals from New Line executives and actor Bruce Campbell brought on board to co-star in the film. Then everything fe...
IGN FilmForce has been breaking a nice load of exclusive story material on the ALIENSVS.PREDATOR, CATWOMAN and CONSTANTINE movie projects thanks to the industry resource Showfax, a resource used by casting agents to audition actors for possible roles.Fo...
The notion of an ALIEN VS.PREDATOR team-up has long thrilled fans, and it has come to fruition in a variety of mediumsthough the film version has yet to materialize (Paul W.S. Anderson is reportedly at work on a script for such a film right now, however)...
In just five days, when a lot of people will be opening Christmas presents from their loved ones, ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM will be invading theaters. With the marketing aspect of this film reaching its climax, Ryan Rotten had a chance to sit ...
For many a horror fan, Halloween is amateur night, when the whole world wants to party in the graveyard we live in. But the holiday has its distinct advantages, and pretty high on the list is the accessibility of horror movies on TV. In between parties an...
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...
Keeping in mind that producer John Davis was just speaking his mind in a roundtable discussion over the weekend, he still had something interesting to pass along to Frosty over at Collider. It seems that the Aliensvs.Predator franchise may be put on hol...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONBig news for film music fans is the first ever, legitimate release of the oft-requested soundtrack to PREDATOR (VCL 0803 1022), John McTiernan's 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger Rambo-Meets-Alien monster thriller. The music never ...
In breaking with tradition this week, a Pocket Star release has given me an excuse to spend most of my discourse on something I positively love: WARCRAFT.
Ever since playing a demo version of the original Warcraft (on a Shuckysoft shareware CD) a...
The rumors about FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH are true. Today's Hollywood Reporter confirms that New Line Cinema has entered discussions with director Sam Raimi, the fellow who helmed the three EVIL DEAD pictures and who owns the copyright to Ash, the sarcast...
With remade versions of Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider enjoying great popularity and a big screen A-Team movie in the hopper, it appears there’s still a public demand for cheesy TV entertainment. With that in mind, we present our list of clas...
The
Man of Steel will be flying back to the big screen soon, and when he returns
he will not be battling DC's other flag ship hero Batman. A New
York Times article by Laura M. Holson indicated that the decision to
make a new Superman film instead of ...
Of all the genre collections that hit bookshelves daily, this week’s release schedule’s got one with the coolest unifying element I’ve ever encountered: one that pays homage to the stand-up citizens who provide death for hire.
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THE FILM MUSIC OF AKIRA IFUKUBE Akira Ifukube has maintained a notably symphonic style in his prolific array of film scores, utilizing traditional Japanese styles and voicings for many of his adventure and dramatic films, while embodying his music for sci...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...
Two seperate sources have confirmed that we will be traveling to a different planet in the sequel, ALIENSVS PREDATOR: REQUIEM. Apparently, both Shock Til You Drop and Fangoria have been tipped off that we will be seeing the homeworld of the Predator in t...
Over at Marvel.com they've announced a January 27, 2009 release for the 'Hulk Vs' animated double-feature, which comes with two short films pitting Marvels Green Goliath against Wolverine and Thor.
These dark and violent showdowns have been seen in vario...
It turns out there's still life left in Warner Bros. EXORCIST franchise as Renny Harlin's EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING prequel captured the top spot at the box office this past weekend. The movie, which tells the tale of Father Merrin's first encounter with th...
San Francisco DJ/mix master Mike Relm has mashed up a treat for fans looking forward to Lionsgate's upcoming releases.
Check out this funky mash-up trailer for 'Punisher' vs 'The Spirit' vs 'Transporter'.
'Transporter 3' opens in theaters November 26th....
With Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith reportedly looking for $20 million each to do MEN IN BLACK 2, this new series of novels by sci-fi author Dean Wesley Smith (STAR TREK, SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, ALIENS, PREDATOR, SHADOW WARRIOR, etc) might be as close as we ge...
May the worst team win! FEARnet, the world’s premiere horror and thriller website and video on demand service, continues to break new ground with the chilling new slam dunk of an interactive tournament called Death March: Tournament of Blood. Forget...
The Strause brothers made it clear to the media that they had a plan for a third installment in the Aliensvs.Predator franchise being solely in space and it seems they may get their wish very soon. STYD is reporting that a fly on the wall at 20th ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting adventure into the dark soul of American comic books! This week, I’ll expound upon a recent and controversial announcement by Diamond Comic Distributors. For those of you that may not kno...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another serving of Comicscape calamity, where we rise above the fray and endorse insight over insults, and wisdom over whining. Once again, thanks to everyone for your praise and criticism in the comments secti...
It must have seemed like a good idea during the pitch session: genre hybrids have yielded successful results in the past, so why not combine supernatural horror with explosive action? After all, ALIENS, PREDATOR, and SPECIES proved that you could sell tic...
... place is Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem with a weekend total of 10.0 million in receipts. Since its launch on Tuesday, the film has pulled in 26.8 million in its moderate 2,611 theaters across the nation. Not a bad set of box office numbers for Fox here...
At the start of a New Year, it’s traditional for me to look ahead to what’s coming up in the next 12 months. This is impossible when it comes to DVD releases, as labels are never sure of their production schedule more than a few months in a...
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There are few events that can be said to be among television's dependable heavyweights, shows that are practically guaranteed to draw in tens of millions of eyeballs. The Academy Awards. The Grammys. The latest episode of Fox's WHEN HOUSEHOLD PETS GO BAD....
A commenter here at Mania believes that I don’t like holiday episodes of TV series based on my review of the Christmas Special episode of Supernatural. Well, I didn't actually hate that episode, I just thought it was sub-par compared to the res...
The site Alien Experience recently interviewed Andrew Li the Assistant Art Director for Alien vs.Predator 2.
Li revealed, "We used A LOT of locations on this movie, so I won't go into details here to bore you. We shot in an old hospital for the men...
A new international trailer has appeared online for Fox's upcoming installment of ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM courtesy of Filmweb. The new trailer puts more of an emphasis on the town in Colorado where the Predator ship goes down. As the trailer progress...
Column News: With the switch over to the new site design, I thought I’d make a couple of minor changes in High Def Revue. The most notable one is that the Blu-ray discs will be listed first in the Upcoming Discs section from now on. ...
Producer Tom DeSanto has acquired the feature film rights to the videogame CITY OF HEROES from NCsoft and Cryptic Studio.
The story around a group of superheroes who live in Paragon City and must team in order to fight an invasion of aliens known as the ...
Last month I reviewed the DVD release of CABIN FEVER, one of the better horror films of recent years. The delightfully packed disc includes among its extras a record FIVE audio commentary tracks. That nutty director Eli Roth did one commentrak, then hoste...
Finally, in Hall H, with its multiple HD screens, there was something to watch other than trailers of movies. Lionsgate and Marvel debuted their Hulk vs. DVD at the San Diego Comic Con on multiple giant screens. Hulk vs. Wolverineis the first in a two sto...
Fox has announced via a press release that they will be giving special advance screenings of ALIENSVS.PREDATOR: REQUIEM in New York and Los Angeles. The special screenings will be done at 12:01 am on Christmas Eve. Here's the press release for those of ...
Quadrilogy by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-29-2008)
...of ‘Aliensvs.Predator’ sounds incredible. It is the execution that falls flat. I don’t want to see humans mixed into the fray. I want a straight up war with Predators as actual characters, not just killers in suits.&n...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSA perhaps forgotten short-lived TV series from 1977 has been mined as this month’s Silver Age Classic from FSM. A thoroughly satisfying compilation of all the original music written for the 14-episode TV series, LOGAN’S RUN (FSM...
Before we dive in, there's a new, official-type e-mail address you can reach me at. You can still get me at kurtamacker@yahoo.com, but now comicscape@cinescape.com is up and it comes directly to me. It mostly just makes me look slightly official when I'...
...lar "Aliensvs.Predator" franchise; the Vin Diesel action film "Babylon A.D."; and "Hitman," starring Timothy Olyphant, based on the wildly popular video game of the same name."Fox is not going to be able to particip...
...fi horror Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem and the family adventure Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. Fox and Sony are releasing these two films on Christmas Day on 2,500 theaters or more so next weekend’s box office report should be interesting...
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I had a chance this weekend to take in the latest RESIDENT EVIL film, APOCALYPSE, and compare it to my experiences playing through the RESIDENT EVIL franchise of games as it falls squarely in the realm of RESIDENT EVIL 2/3.I was a pretty big fan of the fi...
According to Fangoria, filming on the upcoming film ALIEN VS.PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST will begin September 23 in Vancouver.The shoot will last until December 14 under the watchful eye's of directors Colin and Greg Strauss. Colin and Greg will b...
I've collected comics in one form or another since 1982. It started with a weekly trip to the local Magic Mart and later moved to a little comic book specialty store called Gulf Coast Comics. I think it's safe to say I have a bit of an affinity for the ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSEngland's Harkit Records continues to mine the retrograde treasure trove of 1960s film music with three new releases that are a delight of the period. Making its first foray onto CD, George Duning's lighthearted and theatrical s...
"Well, first of all thank God we were doing an origin story," said David Goyer of 'Batman Begins' from a panel discussion at Comic-Con. "We were telling a story that took place well before the other films and we were telling a story that in large part had...
Now in his second week at the Page One, Panel One editorial helm, Scott Taylor explores two highly anticipated comic to film projects in the much talked about Transformers film, and Marvel's Iron-Man. Also included is talk about Paul W. S. Anderson's Alie...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie will premiere on HBO on Saturday, Aug. 14 at 8 p.m. Other genre programming on HBO during August includes Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, Alien vs.Predator: HBO First Look, Steel and The Crow: City of Angels.
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Boom Studios is set to bring another of their comics projects to the big screen. The latest deal is for David DiGilio's comic 'North Wind'. According to The Hollywood Reporter,Davis Entertainment has acquired the rights to the book and tapped DiGilio to w...
Greetings, and welcome to another edition of Mania.com’s Comicscape. Before reading this week’s column about Marvel’s Secret Invasion, know that the issue is spoiled down to the last detail. If you haven’t read it yet, th...
'Spider-Man 2', in its seventh week of release, is still a top 10 movie. The hero flick brought in another $3.5 million, to claim the #10 spot and bring the domestic gross up to $362.75 million. The more-recent comic-book opener, 'Catwoman' continues to f...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another weekly web of Comicscape wonder. For the past couple of weeks, we talked about Spider-Man 3 in lieu of discussing the end of DC’s weekly maxiseries, 52. The film came out the same week as the final issue of...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Danny Elfman's first orchestral composition written for the concert hall, Serenada Schizophrenia, has been released this week by Sony Classical. The piece received its world premiere on February 23, 2005 at New York's famed C...
Paul W.S. Anderson has made quite a career for himself in genre films. Starting with the surprise hit Mortal Kombat, he then went on to helm the sci-fi cult hit Event Horizon, another successful video game adaption with Resident Evil and the long awaited ...
Greetings Maniacs, and welcome to another calamitous Comicscape adventure, where we crack wise about comics and I insult movies everyone else likes. Last week’s admittedly merciless review of Ghost Rider garnered very little mail – n...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
I had a strange feeling that Klaus Badelt’s new score was going to be a good one. For Premonition, the third effort from actor-producer-director-random hyphenate Mennan Yapo, the composer noted for Cat...
A trailer for the upcoming family oriented fantasy THE WATER HORSE:LEGEND OF THE DEEP has hit the web courtesy of Yahoo Movies. The trailer shows how a boy finds an egg that has a baby creature inside. The creature would grow up to be the legendary Lochne...
...odd & Aliensvs.Predator: Requiem taking in revenue as well.
Disney’s Enchanted continued its success, landing in 2nd place for the weekend with 10.7 million to show for it in its third week of release. The film has accumulated 83.8...
Updated September 10th
Congratulations to daquietman
You get the DVD! Keep the mother-in-law too!
And two antennas up to these runners up, who will receive a Tick IRON ON DECAL!:
somecoolname
orewashinanai
Damascinos
Johnny D
max...
There were a lot of great entries, but Stephen Smith's defense of MALLRATS was judged to be the most concise, to the point, and in keeping with the Essence of Smith. Plus, his name is Smith, thereby fuelling several conspiracy theories if I pick him, so h...
A ton of new ALIENSVS.PREDATOR:REQUIEM images have appeared online courtesy of Clint Morris/Moviehole. Along with the images provided by Fox, the Brothers Strause have shed some light on the new Predalien. Here's the details on the new creature;
The cr...
The publication of my book VideoHound’s DRAGON: ASIAN ACTION & CULT FLICKS (Plug that book enough, Brian?)(Are there any left in the warehouse?) has led to one of my favorite DVD labels asking me to contribute some audio commentary tracks to upcoming ...
Retromedia Entertainment has released two films from the popular Gamera series as a double feature DVD, using prints and titles from their American International television release from the early 1970s. Gamera is a giant monster turtle with the power to f...
All right, I can finally stop buying INFINITE CRISIS books. It's over. Yes, there's the BRAVE NEW WORLD special, AFTERMATH, ONE YEAR LATER, and 52, but the event itself has finally concluded. This week in COMICSCAPE, I'm going to offer some of my thoughts...
Updated September 14th
Congratulations to outlaw1985!
Consider yourself TICKED OFF as the winner of this DVD!
And we've got 10 more winners of the runner up IRON ON DECAL prize as well:
lazlo3341
Mad_Moogle
Sw12005
mlanning84
joe...
So for this WWJCD I had a tough time trying to decide which movie to tackle. It was a toss up between Chick Fights, See No Evil, or Dark City. Although watching women pummel each other and masturbatory scenes featuring everyone’s favorite wrestl...
In the second installment of a two part interview, Ghost Rider screenwriter, Shane Salerno speaks to Screenwriter's Voice about working on such #1 films as Armageddon and Shaft, plus more on his upcoming projects Alien vs Predator, Ghost Rider, and more.
With the comic to film translation of Marvel's Ghost Rider looming on the horizon, Screenwriter's Voice recently sat down with screenwriter extraordinaire, Shane Salerno, co-writer on the highly anticipated Alien vs Predator film.
For Ray Harryhausen, the ’50s were stage one of his career as a special effects ace whose stop-motion-animation effects were far more important to the success of the movies he worked on than any actor or director. Harryhausen had gotten his start working ...
In Part One of my review of the American Cinemateque’s Japanese Science Fiction and Monster Film Weekend at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, I focused on the opening night screening of a newly struck, subtitled print of Gojira, the seminal 1954 film (re...
Director Richard Donner ('Superman') and producer Lauren Shuler Donner ('X-Men', 'X2:X-Men United') will appear in person at the Sunday, October 19 LOS ANGELES COMIC BOOK AND SCIENCE FICTION
CONVENTION.
Also appearing is Sandy Collora, director of 'B...
20th Century Fox has cast Reiko Aylesworth and Steven Pasquale to star in ALIEN VS.PREDATOR 2.Greg and Colin Strause will direct. The script is by Shane Salerno. Davis Entertainment's John Davis and Robbie Brenner will produce.Filming begins next week in...
One would think that everybody would be scrambling to churn out tie-in merchandise to WAR OF THE WORLDS (see below for some of that). Paramount has a deluxe edition DVD of the 1953 George P