OPINION First off, some good news: I've been informed by my good friend and editor Arnold T. Blumberg and by a few helpful readers that Marvel will indeed be celebrating the 500th issue of FANTASTIC FOUR by changing back to the old numbering. Thing is, th...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE's own ArnoldBlumberg magazine, comic artist John Bogdanove talked about his work with Chuck Dixon and Kevin Nowlan to bring the Man of Steele face to face again with the popular, and vastly grisly, ALIENS, in SUPE...
Happy Hanukkah to those so inclined, and a Merry Christmas to everyone else! (Yes, I know that Christmas isn't until next Saturday, but we're doing something different for the last two weeks of 2004, so I've got to get the holiday wishes out of the way no...
OPINIONI've just reread AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36 for what is probably the 40th or 50th time, and whatever else we may say about it, there's one incontestable fact: it's lost very little of its original power. I thought that, after having read it so many tim...
Last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger came out and gave his take on the delay of his COLLATERAL DAMAGE flick.While appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor program on Thursday night, Arnold revealed that he had no qualms at all about the film being pulled out of...
While waiting to start shooting TRUE LIES 2 with James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, comedian Tom Arnold has signed onto Joel Silver's (DIE HARD, DEMOLITION MAN, LETHAL WEAPON, THE MATRIX) new action production, CRADLE TO GRAVE. Arnold finds himself ...
Speaking at his annual golf tournament, The Arnold Classic, actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger let slip how his new Terminator character travels back from the future. According to the big man himself, the new T-850 Terminator (notice it's...
Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold has died in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84. Sir Malcolm, who won an Oscar for the musical score to the BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI film in 1958 - was suffering from a chest infection. While renowned as a classical...
Flying over the cranberry capitol of Canada, I`m gawking out the plane window staring at the magnificent Frazier River. I`m thinking that in about 12 hours, I`ll be on the set of Arnold Schwarzeneggar`s latest film THE 6TH DAY, a science fiction thriller...
Hold on to your hats people: I just got back from a 2-day trip to Canada, hanging out on the set of Arnold Schwarzenegger`s latest sci-fi thriller THE SIXTH DAY, which co-stars Robert Duvall and Michael Rooker. In the film, produced by ROBOCOP’s Jon Davi...
Arnold Schwarzenegger versus the Devil? From the moment it was announced, END OF DAYS sound too preposterous to be a true project. How on earth would Mr. Terminator take on the forces of Satan? In the film, the actor portrays ex-cop Jericho Cane, who bare...
David Arnold (TOMORROW NEVER DIES, GODZILLA, INDEPENDENCE DAY, STARGATE) will compose an original score for Stephen Woolley's THE WILD AND WYCKED WORLD OF BRIAN JONES, the film about Rolling Stones guitarist and co-founder. Arnold will also score the new ...
A write up in
this week's Entertainment Weekly detailing
Arnold Schwarzenegger's reemergence at the box office gives a few tidbits about King
Conan: Crown of Iron.
Executive
producer Jon Jashni told EW that writer/director John Milius will use
Arn...
Let the speculation continue on whether the Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger will make an appearance in the Terminator Salvation trilogy! For months, there's been a bit of back-and-forth on whether he's set to appear or not in this new trilogy of a franch...
IGN FilmForce checked with its own trusty Conan source who refuted the reports of Schwarzenegger's rekindled interest in the project. Word has it that Arnold is seriously mulling another run for office. Our insider, however, did advise us that the Conan r...
According to TERMINATOR 4 co-writer Michael Ferris, don't expect to see Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming TERMINATOR film."'Terminator 3' kind of closed the book on Schwarzenegger, as did his gubernatorial career," said Ferris in an interview with Ent...
Today's Variety
reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger is "solidifying plans" to star in
the new Conan The Barbarian sequel currently in development. The
word comes as part of a deal between Warner Bros. and the action star.
Few details
about the actor...
During yesterday's taping of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, Arnold Schwarzenegger made it official and announced that he will be running as a candidate to replace California governor Gray Davis in the upcoming fall election. Previous to the annoucement i...
While promoting after-school programs last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his guess on when his delayed COLLATERAL DAMAGE may finally get theatrically released.In an appearance on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles last Wednesday, Arnold guessed as to the fate of D...
If you`ve got terrorists threatening the world`s oil supply, you call on James Bond. If you`ve got Satan threatening the human race with extinction, you turn to Arnold. After a two year absence from the big-screen, Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a dramatic r...
Adam Rifkin has cast David Carradine, Ali Larter, Tom Arnold, Talia Shire and Hayes MacArthur to star in HOMO ERECTUS: A CAVEMAN COMEDY. The film centers on Ishbo (Rifkin), a philosophical caveman who loves Fardart (Larter), but she only has eyes for Ish...
According to Virgin.net, Arnold Schwarzenegger may be returning to the movies, yet.James Cameron is said to be "waiting" for Arnold before he begins work on the movie Battle Angel Alita because he wants Schwarzenegger to play 'Ido' in the film.H...
Superstar Arnold
Schwarzenegger made a surprise appearance at Saturday's Warner Bros.
presentation at Comic-Con International. The actor was on hand to present clips
for the currently-in-production Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
During th...
That's what producer Moritz Borman has hinted at in the latest issue of Empire Magazine. The producer opened the doors officially on Arnold popping up in the two subsequent sequels after TERMINATOR SALVATION:THE FUTURE BEGINS. Borman also explained that t...
David Arnold’s fourth time behind the baton on a James Bond score, Casino Royale, is another masterful romantic action adventure mixing the distinguishing flavors of John Barry’s traditional 007 sound with the modern textures and vitality o...
Staggering up the cordoned-off stairways toward the sky-high rooftop set of the The Sixth Day, which is being filmed aloft Vancouver`s Canada Post Office, I hear an ear-deafening noise. Peering through a steel meshed dividing wall, I see a mountainous s...
The James Bond phenomenon gets a new lease of life – in the form of the new Bond, Daniel Craig – in director Martin Campbell's Casino Royale, for which composer David Arnold returns with an exciting original score. Exclusively to iTunes, So...
The World Is Not Enough, the 19th official James Bond film, scored big at the box office when it was released late last year, but it was hardly the breakthrough film its makers would have us believe. This special edition DVD presents the film with a beaut...
For Part One of my conversation with Roger Spottiswoode, I ventured out onto rooftops of Canada, where the , director of The Sixth Day was setting up one of the many action sequences in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film. At that time, he demurred when asked ...
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...
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 ...
HD DVD Outselling Blu-ray 3:1:: Last week the North American HD DVD Promotional Group, the organization responsible for touting HD DVDs as you could probably guess from the name, issued a press release where they quoted the Nielsen VideoScan DVD sell-thr...
Anyone else almost slip into a coma last week due to excessive amounts of turkey and the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER marathon on FX? O.K. then, maybe it was just me.I'm not saying BUFFY is boring and that's why I almost slipped into a coma. It was a feeling ...
From comic books, cartoons, TV shows, films, and rock stars—nearly everything has been made into an action figure. But what about the licenses that have yet been given their justice and made into an action figure? This at week, we take a look at ...
Thanks to a reader named "Valaryc", we've got some amazing snapshots from last weekend's TERMINATOR 3 panel and display held at the Los Angeles Comic Book Convention. Among the attendees on the T3 panel were stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kristinna Loken an...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Dario Marianelli has followed up his notable scores for The Brothers Grimm and, especially, V For Vendetta, with a straightforward horror composition for Asif Kapadia’s moody ghost story, The Return, starr...
The Arnold Fans.com continues to publish reports about a possible deal for Arnold Schwarzenegger to reprise his role as Conan.In a note from a Warner Bros., an executive (presumably Alan Horn) stated, "The only thing I can tell you at this time is that th...
After he completes scoring the new James Bond film, CASINO ROYALE, for director Martin Campbell, David Arnold (who perfectly replicated and expanded the classic John Barry 007 sound for TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and DIE ANOTHER DAY), w...
Action Music by Randall D. Larson (Thu 01-15-2004)
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSFrom France comes the first ever original soundtrack release of the full score from 1976's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Record Makers 7243 593241 2 8). The movie was John Carpenter's sophomore directorial effort, a kind of RIO BRAVO ...
Genre:Action/Adventure.Studio:Paramount Pictures.Production Company:Walden Media/Paramount Pictures.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Jackie Chan (Passepartout); Steve Coogan (Phileas Fogg); Jim Broadbent (Lord Kelvin); Johnny Knoxville; Cecile de Fran...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONHans Zimmer, who produced Klaus Badelt's masterful score for the original PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (but who, as Badelt's immediate protégé, was also believed to have had more than a slight hand in its co...
Paramount issued a press release this week promising a `Trekker`s Biggest Dream`--a walk-on role in the finale of Star Trek: Voyager--as the grand prize in a contest to introduce the new Voyager section of the official startrek.com Website. `UPN and Param...
THE SCHWARZENEGGER COLLECTION will be coming to shelves in June of 2006. The DVD box-set will contain three classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movies: PREDATOR, COMMANDO & TRUE LIES.Features on each include:PREDATOR- Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger , Carl Weather...
I just can't believe it took so long, but at last Baltimore has its very own comic book convention...and it looks like it's here to stay. Organized by Marc Nathan, owner of a local comic book shop in Reisterstown (that won't mean anything to those of you ...
In a tragic case of life imitating art, the Warner Bros. action pic COLLATERAL DAMAGE (directed by Andrew Davis) was pushed back from its original September release due to the Osama bin Laden led terrorist attacks that crippled both New York City and Wash...
In the first part of CINESCAPE's Arnold Schwarzenegger profile, the actor explained how the attacks of September 11th affected his new terrorist-themed action film, COLLATERAL DAMAGE. Today, Schwarzenegger continues the discussion.
A captured Arnold...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Latest effort in Intrada's limited Special Collection series is the world premiere release of Elmer Bernstein's avant-garde opus, SATURN 3. The score is one of a handful of true sci-fi films scored by Bernstein, who began his ca...
One of 1999`s most heavily promoted, and ultimately disappointing, releases, was director Peter Hyam’s countdown-to-the-millennium thriller of Days, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film, which finds a faithless and suicidal cop out to save a young w...
It’s one week before Halloween, a holiday that has become almost synonymous (probably thanks to John Carpenter) with the viewing of scary movies at theaters or at home. The deluge of new, classic, obscure and frequently crappy titles that has filled thes...
2006 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECAP
By far the best soundtrack release of 2007 was certainly the majestic, 3-CD release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Complete Recording – but that’s a revived archival score, and we&...
Although director Andrew Davis' COLLATERAL DAMAGE was pushed back from its original fall release after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11, the filmmaker maintains that his moviewhich stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a fireman o...
Eliza Dushku is perhaps best known to genre fans as that other slayer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Dushku's slayer Faith was a counterpoint to Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy for a good part of the show's third season, a tough-fighting, hard-living, take-no...
On this holiday weekend, where everyone is traveling here or jetting off there, one lesser known vacation alternative also happens to be one of the coolest: that ever-enticing sci-fi trope, time travel. With it come the eternal questions that speak to the...
Never say never again.David Duchovny will reprise his role as Fox Mulder in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES on May 19.Wow, that almost makes me want to watch the show again. Almost.X-FILES creator Chris Carter promises to wrap up the whole mytho...
TERMINATOR fans already know that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger will return to star in TERMINATOR 3: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES, but audiences can also anticipate him starring in what looks to be two other returning franchises at Warner Bros.First, Schwarzene...
Warner Bros. has just released the first image from the currently in production TERMINATOR 3: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES. Set 10 years after the adventures of T2, this third installment in THE TERMINATOR franchise stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl and...
This Week’s RecommendationSOK – I’ll admit a prejudice: John Scott’s majestic and heroic score for THE FINAL COUNTDOWN was an instant favorite when the film first appeared in 1980. A thrilling and compelling story about a modern-day nuclear aircraft carri...
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED was took in enough cash to rule the box office, smiting JOHN Q to second place and out distancing the other newcomer, Kevin Costner's DRAGONFLY. And for those of you watching, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest att...
The first image from the set of TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES is out and... it looks awfully familiar to anyone who's seen the first two.Things are on fire, which is good. A vehicle of some sort is crashed, which is also good. And Arnold is looking b...
Sylvester Stallone has been named the Action Star of the Millennium by the Video Software Dealers Association, the trade group from home video businesses. The group will award Stallone (ROCKY, RAMBO) with a trophy at their annual trade show in Las Vegas, ...
Ending months of speculation and wild goose Internet rumors, Nick Stahl (IN THE BEDROOM) has been cast as John Conner in T3: RISE OF THE MACHINES. He steps into the role after T2's John Conner, Edward Furlong, could not reprise the mantle because of perso...
Universal Pictures is looking to remake one of its most beloved monster films, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.Gary Ross' Larger Than Life Prods. shingle will handle the film, which will be produced by helmer Gary Ross with his father, Arthur A. Ross. The ...
VIDEO NEWSMedia Blasters, an indie label best known for anime fare, has been making encroachments into Anchor Bay territory lately with periodic releases of some Euro horror goodies. Continuing that trend, the company recently announced their upcoming rel...
A number of disparate elements for the coming TERMINATOR 3 movie project are said to be nearly jelling.Contrary to previous reports that every major element was etched in stone, word has it that star Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Jonathan Mostow's in...
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Brandywine.Project Phase: Movies Rumored.Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet, but both Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) and Winona Ryder (Call) have voiced their interest to retur...
Director Andrew Davis has been talking about his newly rescheduled COLLATERAL DAMAGE, which Warner Bros. abruptly pulled off its first release date due to the tragic events of September 11th.While talking to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Davis spoke ...
So, the networks are announcing their new fall schedules this week.I've got a couple of shows whose fate I'm really concerned about, but I learned a long time ago that the shows I love are usually the ones that get cancelled.For every SIMPSONS that surviv...
First of all, let us all here at the CINESCAPE video secton offer you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. Do yourself a favor, and take a break from your busy schedule to sit down and watch one of your favorite holiday shows - IT'S A WONDERFUL L...
Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly has put his considerable foot down, and it now looks like the bulk of the shooting on TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES will be done in California, and not Canada.In an item carried in the CALGARY SUN, the British Columbi...
While promoting his fireman-takes-on-terrorists actioner COLLATERAL DAMAGE, Arnold Schwarzenegger was unusually forthcoming with details regarding the third installment of the TERMINATOR franchise."TERMINATOR 3 is terrific," said Schwarzenegger enthusiast...
Imagine you're a boy genius who can build amazing contraptions like rocket ships and robot dogs. However, you're also such a nerd that you constantly embarrass yourself in front of the neighborhood children who've nicknamed you "Shorty." Burgeoning Texas ...
With the final numbers in, we know how big JOHN Q lorded over the box office top ten this last weekend, and how far ROLLERBALL fell in its second week.When the final beans were counted, JOHN Q opened to $23.6 million, followed still by CROSSROADS an...
Release Date: August 1, 2008Studio: Universal PicturesDirector: Rob CohenScreenwriter: Alfred Gough, Miles MillarStarring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, Luke Ford, Isabella LeongGenre: Action, Adventure, Fa...
It's fitting that at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier, Calif., a franchise is rising from the dead and taking no prisoners. It's a hot spring day as Arnold Schwarzenegger emerges from a crypt wielding machine guns and carrying a casket on his shoulders....
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a record 17 animated films as eligible to be nominated for Oscars. The mixed live/CG production STUART LITTLE 2 is the first such film to be admitted to the category. A maximum of five will be nomi...
ABCNEWS.go.com covers the building buzz around the possibility that the California Republican Party will look to Arnold Schwarzenegger as their next gubernatorial candidate in the golden bear state.The plus-sized thespian's backing of a successful $550m e...
Although the magazine doesn't state what roles they will be playing in the picture, today's Variety reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Cleese will provide cameo appearances in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. The Jules Verne story, which stars Jacki...
Greetings Cinescapers! It's been a hectic week here in the Cinescape hive. Your ever so loving reviewer has found himself in danger of losing his precious day job at the fish-gutting factory. Now some may quibble that there is no such thing as a fish-gutt...
Two months after it was pulled from its original release window, Arnold Schwarzenegger's COLLATERAL DAMAGE finally has a solid release date.Warner Bros. has chosen to release the film on February 8th, on the Presidents Day holiday weekend. Previously, MGM...
This Week’s RecommendationsPercepto Records has released the soundtrack to one of the 1980s best independent film scores. Frank LaLoggia wrote, produced, directed, and scored 1981’s FEAR NO EVIL, a terse amalgamation of occult horror, reincarnated archang...
This Week's RecommendationSTHE DARK CRYSTAL has arrived on CD in a splendidly packaged, limited edition 2-CD set from Numenorean (NMCD 003). The first CD contains the contents of the original soundtrack LP (13 tracks), digitally remastered. The second CD ...
By rights, I-SPY ought to not work at all. First of all, it's one of those movie adaptations of a TV series that cannibalizes its source material for names and retains little or nothing of value from the original, which is a form of false advertising. In ...
From the director of that insufferable Barnes & Barnes music video “Fish Heads” comes a tale about avenging angels in Texas. Why their needs to be avenging angels in Texas is for God to say. Personally, I think that’s a bit of overkill in a state wher...
Rob Schneider is stepping into the shoes of Arnold Schwarzenegger... kind of. The ex SNLer has just signed for the lead in the barbarian movie parody HARV THE BARBARIAN. The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER described the movie as a "MONTY PYTHON-esque tale" (big words,...
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY is not a film that requires, at this point, any critical re-evaluation. The film stands pretty much as it did when it first wowed fans back in 1991, as both an entertaining spectacle and a landmark special effects film. The bigg...
Best known to genre fans as Faith, that other slayer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Eliza Dushku has actually had a lengthy acting career considering her young age. Before nailing the role of Faith, the tough-fighting, hard-living, take-no-prisoners slayer,...
It's 3:45 a.m. where Steve Irwin is atop the mountainous Great Dividing Range that runs along Australia's eastern coast - but the self-styled environmental crusader, TV documentary host and now movie star is already up and running around with his usual i...
VIDEO NEWSWhile many video companies are scaling back on the release of extras laden classic film DVD special editions, Warner Home Video recently announced five new ones coming this September. The announcement includes three Academy Award Winners: AMADEU...
While teasing next summer's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES at the San Diego Comic Con, series star Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about getting back to playing one of the most famous hero/villains in movie history, the killing machine T-800. "It was lik...
The crew that gave us the FUGITIVE sequel U.S. MARSHALS is at it again, this time with hopes to create an hour-long drama version of the show on ABC. The network has ordered a pilot of the show, to be produced by FUGITIVE and U.S. MARSHALS producers Arnol...
In a recent chat with CINESCAPE's own Arnold T. Blumberg, X-MEN 2 producer Ralph Winter recently dropped a few bits about the film, and the characters who are playing big roles in the story. "We're going further and deeper about Wolverine," says Winter. ...
In an interview with CINESCAPE's own Arnold T. Blumberg, STAR WARS creator George Lucas is talking again about the symbolic and mythological underpinnings he's tried to weave into his 'adolescent' adventures in the STAR WARS universe. He acknowledges many...
Brigitte Nielsen, as Conan creator Robert E. Howard's female warrior Red Sonja, gets an assist from Arnold Schwarzenegger in this enjoyably campy, Italian-lensed sword & sorcery adventure...
Los Angeles-based Profiles in History opens the bidding in an auction of Hollywood memorabilia on Thursday with some 360 items for sale from the Superman costume George Reeves wore in the 1950s TV show of the same name to the gloves Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
Spider-Man
webbed up a few awards this week, with accolades going this time to the music
from the movie. The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences have
announced the final nominations list for the 45th Annual Grammy
Awards and the web-sl...
Anime fans may
want to start bugging their local cable outlets to make sure they'll have access
to the upcoming relaunch of ACTION channel. The cable station is set to return
with a line up of the top Anime films of all time.
Starting July 5,
every...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its RoboCop franchise. Aronofsky, the director of The Fountain, and Self, the writer of Road to Perdition, make a formidable creative te...
Atari Games has announced a fall release for TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, a single-player and online multi-player first-person shooter for the PC. Set in the dark future where John Connor's forces fight against SkyNet and its Terminators, the T3 ga...
IGN FilmForce has learned who is poised to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger as the title character in the long-in-development King Conan: Crown of Iron. Confirming rumors first reported last fall, Warner Brothers and writer-director John Milius have indeed s...
Michael G. Wilson has been a part of the James Bond franchise since with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME in 1977. Not only has he produced ten of the films; he also worked on scripts for five of them. Working first under the auspices of producer Albert Broccoli (who...
IESB.net is reporting that two major villains in the 'G.I.Joe' movie have been cast.
According to their sources, Arnold Vosloo, who fans best remember as the sorcerer Imhotep in 'The Mummy', is set to play Zartan in the film.
Even bigger news is the cas...
The second season of Aaron McGruder's series, The Boondocks will premiere Monday, Oct. 8 at 11:30 p.m. (ET/ PT) on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late-night sister network showcasing animation and live action for adults. Fifteen new episodes of the Peabody...
(LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2007) " Anime Expo 2007 (June 29-July 2) in Long Beach is almost upon us and Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce its upcoming convention plans.
SEVEN SEAS BOOTH
Booth No. 1021, 1120, 1122
You like sexy maids? How abo...
(Los Angeles, January 17, 2006) – Seven Seas Entertainment has unveiled what fandom thought they’d never see: the first of MediaWorks’ fully-animated Boogiepop commercials subtitled in English and available for free online.
In Japan, B...
Season 3 of the Incredible Hulk went out with a whimper. David Banner (Bill Bixby) got mixed up with some forest fire fighters and a crazy fire bug. The plot was mundane and your standard throw away episode of the series. The ideas of cliffhanger season f...
The blogging of production updates has worked well for Cohen (Mummy 3), Lexi Alexander (Punisher), Del Toro (Hellboy II) and Snyder (Watchmen). So, now, Warner Bros and McG are launching a new official blog for their upcoming Terminator Salvation trilogy....
The wait is over. Conan the Barbarian will finally have his own series of action figures. NECAonline has just released two different sculpts of Conan in the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the classic film Conan the Barbarian.
I saw this Con...
According to Time\'s Andrew Arnold in his Time.comix column that highlights books to look forward to in 2005, he lists both Dr. Slump and Full Metal Alchemist as titles to be on the watch for from Viz. Thanks to Megan for the heads-up.
Thomas Arnold has an article up at Home Media Retailing today which has some comments from Sony\'s president, Benjamin Feingold, who has been relatively quiet about things lately in the camp. A lot of questions have been raised between the scaling back of...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story by Adam Arnold / Art by Shiei Translated by:Adapted by:What They SayHaving narrowly lost the Dance Dance Revolution showdown for control of Aoi House, Alex finds himself in over his head as he\'s forced to endure an awkw...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Koge-DonboTranslated by:Nan RymerAdapted by:What They SayA Lonely Lad, an Adorable Angel, and Hyperactive Hijinks... It's a hard life for Kotarou. His father is always away on business, and his mother recently passed away. He ...
The Review!This review will be different from my "Tenchi in Tokyo" reviews. When I write my "Tenchi in Tokyo" reviews, it's within a few hours of seeing the episodes for the first time, so I'm recording my initial impressions. I first saw the "Tenchi Muyo...
To start this review, I must tell you that this special-edition DVD makes a sensational first impression: When you plop this disc into your player, be sure to crank up that home-theater sound, because the first thing you’ll see is a THX promo created spec...
The 20th Century closed with a bang, film music wise, with a plethora of big budget, bombastically scored genre films whose music did much to accentuate the larger-than-life, stronger-than-death emphasis of their films. The continued mix of new score CDs...
Once again, the DVD proves the perfect tool with which a director can defend his/her rather lackluster film. When a movie hits theaters, the filmmaker has no choice but to succumb to audience and media response after all, in the dog-eat-dog world of Holl...
John Brancato and Michael Ferris have been tapped by legendary genre producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna to rework the script for TERMINATOR 3. The film, which will reunite T2 actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong (though not Linda Hamil...
From video game to major motion picture, TOMB RAIDER brings the buxom Lara Croft to cinematic life via Angelina Jolie. It was a complicated process, but CINESCAPE managed to hook up with Jolie and the behind-the-scenes talent to discuss the making of the ...
(Additional Reporting by ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG)Just about every major comic book hero has at one time or another had his or her origin told, retold, expanded, re-interpreted, re-imagined or otherwise manipulated by countless writers looking to make their mar...
Universal's Golden Age Of Horror will soon be coming our way when Universal Studios unleashes a host of DVD double-features sure to whet the cinematic appetite of any classic-era horror movie fan. Not wanting to miss out on the interest generated by their...
Whenever TERMINATOR 3 gets up and rolling, it may well be Shaquille O'Neal who Arnold Schwarzenegger must contend with.While appearing on the syndicated ACCESS HOLLYWOOD Hollywood program, Shaq revealed that he may join the long in the works project, thou...
Marvel Comics has released book-by-book details for its Marvel Mangaverse event in January, which puts a manga twist on its characters.Following is a rundown of the titles, with synopses from Marvel.MARVEL MANGAVERSE: NEW DAWN #1Written, art and wraparoun...
Disney has chosen to postpone the Touchstone comedy-action film BAD COMPANY, starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, due to its terrorist-related elements.The company issued a statement on their decision, saying, "Due to the national tragedy that occurre...
Yesterday's series of tragic events placed entertainment related projects on the back burner of importance, with massive shut downs in respect of the victims. In addition, these terrible events are having further effects on coming projects. Here's a rundo...
The '90s saw numerous classic movie monsters remade as effects- and/or star-filled extravaganzas, often with little resemblance to the originals and not always with great levels of success. 1992 gave us Bram Stoker's Dracula, a ridiculously romanticized t...
The genre’s two big nationwide releases, Paramount’s What Women Want and Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove saw widely divergent results during their debut weekend. The fantasy comedy starring Mel Gibson as a male chauvinist pig who suddenly finds himself ...
In Part One of my story about the 40th Anniversary Celebration Screening of H.G. Wells` THE TIME MACHINE, I discussed the beauty of downtown LA`s Orpheum Theatre and how the LA Conservancy runs an Annual Last Remaining Seats Film Festival to widen awarene...
One of the biggest behemoths of blockbuster proportions in recent memory, INDEPENDENCE DAY arrives on DVD today in a special edition featuring numerous bells and whistles. The double-disc set, loaded with supplemental materials, supposedly contains five-a...
Creation Convention’s eighth Grand Slam STAR TREK and Sci-Fi convention, held the weekend of March 31st through April 2nd, 2000, offered something for everyone. In the main auditorium, actors from every incarnation of TREK appeared. This included VOYAGE...
Ken Biller had a busy week chatting with online sites about what we can expect on Voyager this season. Scifi.com, the official Trek site at startrek.com, and Fandom`s own Anna Kaplan all posted interviews with Voyager`s current exec. Like Rick Berman, Bil...
Devin Grayson had one goal when she started writing comic books three years ago: to tell stories about Batman. Period. Unlike most comics creators, Grayson wasn’t into funnybooks as a child, so superheroes never really held any interest for her as a write...
While speaking to the Popcorn Website [Popcorn.uk.co] about his new film The Sixth Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger fielded a few questions about the sequels to two of his most popular genre films, Total Recall and Terminator.`Terminator 3 is being written as w...
Hollywood should be thankful for genre entertainment, as that’s what drew in the ticket buyers during the long Thanksgiving weekend. Fantasy and science fiction films ruled the box office, taking seven out of the Top Ten positions, and all of the Top Five...
Big-budget Hollywood movies can be a great format for taking on serious themes and dealing with them within the confines of popular entertainment. The treatment can be larger-than-life, almost operatic in a way; and, as in opera, if the subtext isn’t hand...
In part one of our RAPTOR profile, director Jim Wynorski explained how his latest direct-to-video dinosaur fest is a "Hardware Film"a picture that utilizes footage from other films, in this case John Buechler's animatronic dinos from the CARNOSAUR movies....
EMI/Tooth and Nail Records rock band Thousand Foot Krutch is currently in the studio with legendary rock producer Arnold Lanni working on their upcoming album The Art of Breaking. Lanni, known for producing rock bands like Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven, S...
Who do you trust? Whose side are you on? What would you do with one more day? This summer, everything will change. Do you even care anymore? Public Enemy once said “Don’t believe the hype,” Maniacs. I’...
Toy Fair hit the Jacob Javitz Center in New York last weekend and NECA unveiled new figures planned for release in 2008. Most noticeably of which were additions to their popular Cult Classics Series.
This year there will be several new additio...
It seems that reports of somewhat-unknown David Murray getting cast as Destro came a bit too early. After initially making a deal, he had to pull out due to visa issues. According to IESB (and later confirmed by Hollywood Reporter), Paramount has ins...
According to the Sanchez clan over at IESB, the main baddie for G.I Joe has indeed been cast and it's David Murray, a stage actor with little to no big theatrical roles under his resume. In fact, he did make an appearance in Batman Begins and his rol...
Paramount Pictures and director Stephen Sommers have revealed the first official look at actor Ray Park ( X-Men) as character Snake Eyes for their upcoming adaptation of G.I Joe. Park will be starring alongside Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller,...
Paramount Pictures has supplied the IESB with an exclusive first look at DESTRO and the official M.A.R.S. logo from the upcoming G.I. JOE live action film.
Chris Eccleston plays James McCullen Destro XXIV aka DESTRO. David Murray was originally set...
With their recent announcements and general plans being laid out, Jarred has a new interview with Seven Seas Entertainment today talking with Adam Arnold about \"Light Novels\", branding and general plans for releasing these books.
Update: Two new posters for the upcoming movie have been added at the Film1.nl site below. One features Sienna Miller as the Baroness (click here) and the other Ray Park as Snake Eyes (click here). The Duke poster is below.Original Story: While titles for...
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...
Michael Keaton. Christian Bale. Val Kilmer. George Clooney. Even, yes, Adam West (he did a Batman film during the TV show's run). All of them have donned the bat-ears, the billowy cape, and the pointy gloves for one movie or another, to varying levels of ...
Michelle Williams joined the cast for Martin Scorsese's upcoming SHUTTER ISLAND, based on the Dennis Lehane novel. Variety reports the actress joining Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Sir Ben Kingsley in the period thriller. The trade says Wi...
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Grindhouse, the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez pastiche of 1970s era exploitation flix, features a soundtrack that similarly draws on the many influences that have driven the film’s conceptualiz...
This is one of those reviews that needs to be started with a disclaimer. I’m no stranger to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I spent about five years drawing and writing for Mirage Studios, so I logged a lot of hours thinking about the adventure...
When the highly underappreciated series Day Break was canceled ABC promised that the remaining episodes, which had already been filmed, would be posted online at abc.com. Instead what happened was they didn’t get posted, and the episodes t...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced their 2006 award nominations last weekend. The nominees for the Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music are Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel, David Arnold for Casino Royale, He...
Producers Arnold and Anne Kopelson have bought the 15-page treatment for the upcoming novel "Otherworld" by Michael Scott.
The contemporary fantasy centers on ancient demons unleashed by global warming. Scott will...
Phoenix Pictures will produce the horror thriller MILE ZERO. Erik van Looy will direct.
The script by Holly Brix revolves around an oil drilling station in northern Alaska where a grisly massacre occurred 20-some years ago. A woman arrives at the st...
The producers of TERMINATOR SALVATION have confirmed that Bale will be playing the role of John Connor in the film, nixing the doubts from different sources on which role he will play in the new trilogy. The producers sat down with Entertainment Weekly an...
Director John Moore's (The Omen) schedule continues to fill up recently. Last week, he was tapped to direct the adaptation of the VIRULENTS comic, a story based around vampire zombies fighting soldiers in Afghanistan. Now, Variety is reporting the directo...
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...
What They SayThe Review!There have been many video game-to-anime adaptations over the years, and unfortunately most of them have ranged from mediocre to just plain bad. In fact, so prevalent has this trend become that a negative stigmatism has arisen when...
What They SayAfter twenty years, Detective Zenigata has been taken off the Lupin case! With a new assignment and an aching heart, he seeks friendship in the one man he could never catch?The indomitable Lupin the Third!
When Lupin finds out about Zenigata...
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Entertainment Weekly caught up with Ang Lee, director of Universal Studios' The Hulk to discuss the creation of the CGI character.
In an unusual move, the article explains how Lee chose to...
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FilmForce recently broke the news that writer/director John Milius, star Arnold Schwarzenegger, producers Larry and Andy Wachowski and studio Warner Brothers may no longer be involved with
King Conan: Crown of Iron. Their previous report indicated ...
When
Sam Raimi was searching for a villain to menace Spider-Man in the big screen
adaptation he was helming, he had a plethora of foes to choose from. Spider-Man's
rogue's gallery is one of the largest ones in comic books.
In part two
of an intervie...
Exclusive Street Fighter® Comics, Hardcover Art Book and Art Prints at SDCC
Toronto, ON – July 17, 2008 – The 2008 San Diego Comic-con is only a week away, and UDON is preparing for the studio’s biggest year ev...
The Arnold Fans put in a call to the John Milius camp to find out if the wheels of pain are still turning in a greenlight motion or is the project staled up on the "tree of woe"? Click the link for the answer.
Anonymous Content has optioned film rights to "Tasty Bullet," a yet-to-be-published graphic novel by Jonathan Vankin and Arnold Pander about an insidious energy drink.
Director Jon Favreau to LA Times blogger Geoff Boucher that he's underway on 'Iron Man 2'.
"We're working on it now," he said, "which hasn't been officially announced. It will be released in 2010."
The article focuses largely on Favr...
Stan Lee runs down the various projects he has in development
"One called Earth Walker we're developing for TV. Lightspeed, we're developing that with the Sci Fi Channel. Night Bird, a female hero, with Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin's company."
Mor...
Even before Arnold became Governor of California there has been questions regarding who will be taking over the Conan franchise. The King Conan storyline is pretty well know by the fans worldwide and finding someone to fill his shoes may me a bit challen...
It's Christmas Goodness here at AnimeOnDVD and we're giving away a disc a day through the end of December 2007! Each day will be a new prize and you'll have a chance to win!Today's prize is a copy of Kyo Kar...
New York, NY—Thursday, December 6, 2007: Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—has formed a new manga imprint with Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC. Seven Seas, founded i...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ken AkamatsuTranslated by:David UryAdapted by:What They SayBehind every great man is a great artificial intelligence. Hitoshi Kobe is a poor student, a bad athlete and may be the unluckiest man alive... though he does have a k...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Koge-DonboTranslated by:Nan RymerAdapted by:What They SayAngelic Antics, a Rowdy Rivalry and Crossdressing Cuteness... When your next-door neighbors are a hyperactive angel and her enigmatic friend, life can be filled with dra...
What They SayAll the world-hopping, eye-popping, role-swapping, non-stop madness has come down to this, the fantastical final volume of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi! And the action and mystery don\'t let up until the last satisfying minute! First, ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kouhei KadonoTranslated by:Andrew CunninghamAdapted by:What They SayWitness the first appearance of the mysterious Towa Organization " a major player in the Boogiepop Phantom anime series " as Boogiepop finds himself hunted ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Writer: Adam Arnold / Artist: ShieiTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayAlex and Sandy were two normal guys just trying to get through college. That is, until their troublemaking hamster, Echiboo, gets them thrown out of ...
(Los Angeles, October 31, 2005) – Fans have clamored for it for years, and now Seven Seas Entertainment is proud to announce it is finally bringing Kouhei Kadono’s seminal Boogiepop novels and manga to North American audiences in English for t...
Yes, there is such a thing. Now I'm usually one to write about why I love anime in the capacity that I do, but I've found the more I watch anime, or engage in anything for that matter, the more I realize where anime is lacking. I'm going to try to look...
This second volume of Aoi House in Love! not only brings this zany series to an end but also the overall Aoi House story, which included two volumes.Creative Talent Writer/Artist: Adam Arnold / Shiei What They SayWhen the rest of her club-mates end u...
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MovieScore Media has released its fifteenth soundtrack of the year – like the others, exclusively online and available through iTunes or the label’s web site. Frostbite (aka Frostbitten) is the...
To get the big question out of the way right here, yes, Daniel Craig is James Bond. The Bond franchise is lucky to have him. In turn, Craig is lucky that Casino Royale, the film in which he makes his vivid 007 debut, is also the installment in the series ...
The word has been heard by the DreamWorks Fan Site that plans for the continuation of the story begun in THE TIME MACHINE are underway. Reliable sources tell the site that Warner Bros. and Arnold Leibovit Entertainment are in discussions about creating a ...
Big anime news! Though usually competitors, anime importers Manga and Bandai are teaming up to present a new project based on one of the most beloved animated films of all time. They’ve got Production I.G. (KILL BILL, BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE) working on GH...
Part 2: Restorations & ReissuesApart from new soundtrack releases, archival restorations have played an important part in perpetuating a lot of film music (especially in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres) that would otherwise have been lost ...
Two days ago Atari Games announced their plans for a new game based on TERMINATOR 3. Titled REDEMPTION, very little about the game's premise or storyline was offered except to say that it will offer gamers "an opportunity to experience the world of Termin...
Recently Revolution Studios' and Columbia Pictures held the premiere of 13 GOING ON 30 at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.13 GOING ON 30 is the story of Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) who just wants to be pretty and popular. On the eve of h...