As Valeria Von Doom, Franklin Richards, Saturnyne, and Roma watch, the FantasticFour work in four different universes to find the location of the Ultimate Nullifier, locked in the mind of each world's Johnny Storm. The weapon which once stopped Galactus ...
Imagine if Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had created The Practice. Granted, it’s a bizarre idea, but one that hints at the changes which plotter/artist Carlos Pacheco is making in the lives of Lee and Kirby’s family super-team, the FantasticFour. Combining cla...
It has taken more than two years to produce, but Gen13/ FantasticFour finally hits comic racks today. And you thought waiting for an issue of Battle Chasers to be published was bad.`I did the project like two years ago,` admits Kevin Maguire, who writes ...
While speaking to the assembled press converging on the set of FANTASTICFOUR this past weekend, producer Ralph Winter was asked if his team had already begun thinking about the sequel possibilities for this new superhero film franchise. "Funny you ask," ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another controversial edition of Comicscape! Last week’s review of FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer sparked a hellacious debate on the comment section unlike few we’ve seen on the site. It ...
Genre:Adventure/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:1492 Pictures.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/"Mr. Fantastic"); Michael Chiklis (Benjamin J. Grimm/"The Thing"); Jessica Alba (Susan "Sue" Sto...
As I said in last week’s box office report, Ocean’s Thirteen had very little chance to make a repeat appearance at the top spot. With FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer clocking in at 1 hr & 29 minutes and it appearing in 3,959 thea...
This week is a perfect time to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the FantasticFour, and indeed, the 40th birthday of the Marvel Universe in general as well. A few days ago, just in time to commemorate this landmark in the history of the First Family of ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another Comicscape adventure at the movies! I rarely see movies in the theater these days. Between the incessant chatter, the rising ticket prices, the ridiculous levels of air conditioning, and the overpriced ...
Marvel Comics has announced FANTASTICFOUR: UNSTABLE MOLECULES, a four-issue mini-series that presents the "cartoon biography of the real-life inspiration of comics' first family."James Sturm, creator of GOLEM'S MIGHTY SWING, is writing and thumb-nailing ...
This is a tale of two Big Towns. FantasticFour: Big Town, the much-talked about four-issue mini-series, tells the story of a world where the advanced technology of Marvel’s superheroes has filtered down to the street-level everyday society. But in recent...
Marvel is pleased to announce that FantasticFour #544, the first issue to feature the new team lineup, has sold out at Diamond. In the aftermath of Civil War, Marvel’s first family must re-evaluate their place in life, leaving the team without Mr. ...
John Ottman has risen to an impressive prominence over the last several years, while also avoiding that traditional Hollywood pitfall typecasting. He's managed to score a continual variety of films from scary horror films like URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT a...
Anyone hanging out on the CINESCAPE web site should know just who and what the FANTASTICFOUR are, but on the off chance you don't, here's a bit of history.Background:In 1961 the publisher of Marvel Comics, Martin Goodman, told his editor and head writer ...
FantasticFour: World’s Greatest Heroes is the fourth animated TV series for Marvel Comics’s flagship title. Premiering on the Cartoon Network the show has had a bit of a spotty broadcast history but now you can see the complete firs...
As many of you know by now, I generally lead off my reviews by giving a plot synopsis of the book in question, but in this case it's hardly necessary to do so. Most of those interested in reading MARVEL AGE: FANTASTICFOUR #1 are already familiar with the...
My headline continues the "bad House of M pun" tradition I began last month, but I promise this is the last one. However, the FantasticFour as readers know them appear nowhere in this issue. Apparently, they all died years before the formation of the F...
They deserved so much better.The FantasticFour's fortieth anniversary has been celebrated in a variety of ways this year, ranging from the overblown and confusing (FANTASTICFOUR 1234) to the overblown and amazingly entertaining (FANTASTICFOUR: THE WORL...
FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a case of a sequel that’s better than the original. Granted, the first FantasticFour didn’t set the bar all that high, but it was good-natured fun. FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer runs wi...
Careful the first soundtrack album for THE FANTASTICFOUR movie won't be the actual film score, but the obligatory exploitative song compilation release. Released on Wind-Up records on July 5th, the "various artists" soundtrack, entitled FantasticFour -...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, NIP/TUCK star Julian McMahon is in negotiations to play Doctor Doom in the FANTASTICFOUR movie. The role of Doom, the picture's villain, is the final major part that the 20th Century Fox film is left to fill.In the co...
According to WENN, the giant planet devouring character Galactus will show up toward the end of the FANTASTICFOUR sequel."I don't want to give too much away but I will say this: Galactus will appear and fans will not be disappointed," said Fox chairman T...
Sideshow Collectibles and Marvel Comics have announced details of their upcoming FantasticFour Diorama. The sculpture reflects the best of each character; Mr. Fantastic's talent for stretching, the Human Torch's gift for flame and flight, The Invisible W...
For all those who felt the so-called "anniversary" issue last month was a virtual catalogue of mistakes and opportunities missed, this first regular issue since the big celebration manages to recapture much of what makes the FF work so well these last 40 ...
Anonymous has returned with a new photo from last night's on-location filming of the FANTASTICFOUR movie. This latest image shows the FF crew preparing to film the scene where The Thing walks down a New York street and spots a sculpture of his head/torso...
Ain't It Cool News has published a review of a recent draft of Simon Kinsburg's FANTASTICFOUR screenplay. While it's not the shooting draft of the project, Moriarty's review of the superhero flick does fill in some of the story gaps that fans have been w...
DARK HORIZONS posts a couple of quotes today from a DREAMWATCH magazine interview with BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER's Doug Petrie on his FANTASTICFOUR movie script.Among other things, the writer notes he's fiddled with the origin story to link the origins of...
Today at the WizardWorld comic book convention Marvel Comics announced that the next title in their popular Ultimates line will be ULTIMATE FANTASTICFOUR. The book will be co-written by Mark Millar (THE ULTIMATES) and Brian Michael Bendis (ULTIMATE SPIDE...
It's fair to say that Marvel's flagship title has not been what it once was for a very long time now. The last positive shakeup FANTASTICFOUR had was the much maligned HEROES REBORN run some years back (which I will readily admit I enjoyed, if only becau...
A new animated television series featuring the FANTASTICFOUR is in the works from Marvel Enterprises and the French animation firm Antefilms Productions. 26 half-hour episodes are being made for broadcast sometime in the latter portion of 2006, approxima...
Even with all the bad reviews 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR still managed to claim the number one spot at the box office this weekend by early estimates. WAR OF THE WORLDS slipped to the number two spot with a take of $31.3 million, while BATMAN BEGIN...
Mark Millar begins his run on FantasticFour with a pitch-perfect, if somewhat decompressed, introduction. It opens with the team on a time-travel vacation gone horribly awry, with Ben Grimm somehow left in – and then rescued from – the y...
Is this supposed to be a "grim 'n' gritty" take on the venerable FantasticFour, a sort of backhanded celebration of their 40th anniversary meant to pay tribute to the team by dirtying them up a bit? That's how it appears, and as darker superhero stories ...
The Tuesday edition of USA Today has published all four character photos of Fox's FANTASTICFOUR, giving everyone their first true look at Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), The Human Torch (Chris Evans), The Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba) and The Thing (Mich...
As principal photography on 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR winds down, we've been hearing stories about a last-minute change of plans that happened with the film -- and it's all due to another superhero movie called THE INCREDIBLES.Two sources have now...
If you missed the Tuesday broadcast of Entertainment Tonight and the on the set preview of FANTASTICFOUR, the internet is coming to your rescue. The segment is being hosted as a video file on a website, though for how long that will last we're unsure. Th...
Superhero Hype has the first group photo of the FANTASTICFOUR -- The Thing, Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman -- officially released by the movie studio. Strike a pose, cosmic powered heroes!Got a scoop? Know something that you need to ...
Marvel Comics on Tuesday released the cover to FANTASTICFOUR #60, the 9-cent issue and the first from the new creative team of Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "The FF's new all-star creative team debuts in this, the...
Last summer's sequel FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer may have been the last in that particular franchise, so says co-star Chris Evans. While we've had quotes about the confidence of a third film from co-stars Jessica and Michael in terms of what...
UNSTABLE MOLECULES sets out what may be one of the most interesting FANTASTICFOUR-based premises to date: what if Marvel's First Family were based on a real family whom creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby happened to meet back in the 60s? Not a superpowered...
Ocean’s Thirteen rolled the dice, overcame the odds and hit the box office jackpot over the last three days bringing in 37.0 million on 3,565 theaters across the nation. Last week, Knocked Up literally tore into the sails of Pirates of the Caribbean...
Tim Story recently updated his blog with some news on the upcoming sequel FANTASTICFOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. The film is set to hit theaters on June 15, 2007.Story writes, "Well here we are. Exactly two weeks til this all gets under way. Seeing a...
Superhero Hype has published the first image of Julian McMahon as Dr. Victor von Doom in FANTASTICFOUR. The profile shot of the NIP/TUCK actor is of Doom as he first appears in the film and not in his metal mask or hooded green costume which comes later....
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another catastrophic adventure into Comicscape. My scheduled interview for this week fell through, so I’ve reduced myself to one of those pithy observational columns. Fortunately, Wizard World Chicago wra...
A new poster has hit the web for Fox's upcoming film, FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer.In the film, the Silver Surfer comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and ...
Apple.com has now posted the QuickTime version of the FANTASTICFOUR trailer, providing us four sizes of presentation (small, medium, large and fullscreen.)Take a look and see what the FF movie is shaping up to look like.Got a scoop? Know something that ...
The site Filmz has got their hands on 5 international character posters for the upcoming film, FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer.You can find all 5 posters here.In the sequel, the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth ...
A fairly typical encounter with some nasty elementals each assigned to annihilate one specific member of the fabled FantasticFour (now in the midst of celebrating their 40th anniversary in comics) ends predictably, as the team changes opponents and easil...
Last time, writer Mark Waid and artist Mike Wieringo began to give us an idea of where the FantasticFour will be headed in the next year with the new creative team at the helm. And now, the dramatic conclusion!While Waid will be guiding the new adventure...
At first it sounds like a dream book: Grant Morrison (current writer of NEW X-MEN and former writer of JLA) working with hot artist Jae Lee (SENTRY) to tell a story about the FF's greatest foes teaming up to bring the family to its knees. Morrison promise...
Los Angeles Magazine's March 2005 issue has an article by Robert Ito discussing the first "FantasticFour" film made in 1993.Ito interviewed Roger Corman, German producer Bernd Eichinger who bought the rights cheap from Marvel, Stan Lee and members of the...
The trailer for the upcoming film FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer has made it's way online via Apple.You can find it here.Directed by Tim Story, the anticipated sequel stars Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMah...
The Yancy Street Gang have done it again, and Ben's hopping mad - or as "hopping" as someone who weighs two tons can get. He finally has a lead on who's been sending those anonymous packages all these years, and Johnny's off to stop him before he does som...
Both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety break word today that three of the FANTASTICFOUR have been cast. They are:Ioan Gruffudd, probably still best remembered for playing Horatio Hornblower in a number of A&E movies, has landed the role of brilliant sci...
According to Superhero Hype, the upcoming sequel to 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR has received another title change.The movie was previously known as FantasticFour and The Silver Surfer, but will now be known as FANTASTICFOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SUR...
Plot:
The FantasticFour return with this third-person action video game featuring Marvel Comics' legendary super-powered foursome. The game is based on both the comic book series as well as Twentieth Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment's movie sequel.
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In what seems to be a strange turn of events, Universal’s latest comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry has come out on top this weekend against the second weekend of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. They were close. Very close. The co...
At the ShoWest, the cast and crew of FANTASTICFOUR told the AP about the superpowers they wish they had. Ioan Gruffudd and Julian McMahon dream about the power to fly. Director Tim Story wishes he had healing superpowers. Producer Avi Arad craves telepat...
20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR "will benefit from an innovative and extensive cross-marketing program that leverages how important music and video games are to each other." It has been announced there will be "games from Activision, a soundtrack from W...
Hey, I apologize for the lateness of this more detailed Box Office Report. On Sunday, I had the pleasure of screaming my lungs out a very lively LinkinPark concert/festival from noon-midnight. While this has my vocal cords currently inoperable and my skin...
Evan Almighty flooded into 3,604 theaters this weekend clocking in at 1 hour and 30 minutes in length. The Universal comedy, starring Steve Carell and Morgan Freeman, ended up drowning out its competition in the process. It pulled in 32.1 million in recei...
Hollywood North Report has reported that additional photography, with the entire cast, for the FANTASTICFOUR has wrapped up in Vancouver.David Gorder, the associate producer, stated that, "We shot some excellent new scenes which will augment the story an...
For the first time since June 03, 2007, we have a movie which wins two weekends in a row. It’s been quite a chaotic summer season with so many tent pole films appearing in the lineup spaced only a week apart from each other. The last time a movie wo...
ComicBookMovie.com recently did an interview with the FANTASTICFOUR's Ioan Gruffudd (Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards) regarding the soon-to-be released film.Here's what Gruffudd had to say in regard to sequels:ComicBookMovie.com: Speaking of sequels, you kno...
This will be a strange Box Office Report. While the winner for the weekend is the new release and the movie everyone expected to win, I’m still not sure if that movie is as clear a winner as the movies ranked 2-4 judging off what they did in their p...
In one corner, we have a comedy from Sony, Superbad, which stars no big names (Unless Seth Rogen and Michael Sera matches up with Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig these days…) at all but has had a heavy hitting advertising campaign. In another c...
While there were three new wide releases debuting this weekend, only one of them turned out to be a success. The winner for this week’s box office report is the buddy cop comedy, Rush Hour 3, for New Line and director Brett Ratner. The third install...
Homer Simpson can begin pondering the justification of buying a life time supply of doughnuts with the cash rolling in this weekend. Given his dim witted nature over the course of the past 18 odd years, him spending the money on such a...
Most insiders consider this a 4-day holiday box office weekend but I’ll turn in the 3-day weekend numbers now. The three day numbers have Rob Zombie’s Halloween taking the top spot this weekend and breaking the Labor Day Record. The remake/re-...
Two demographics were the focus this weekend and both of them clearly showed up for this weekend’s round of movies. For the 3 day weekend, Remy the Rat (Voiced by Patton Oswalt) lead Pixar’s Ratatouille to victory scoring big with family audie...
Marvel Comics has fired the writer of their FANTASTICFOUR comic series. Last Friday writer Mark Waid was told that his services would no longer be required, and that his final issue as writer would be #508 (published with a January 2004 cover date.) Waid...
A scooper for Latino Review has dropped off word that actress Kate Bosworth (BLUE CRUSH) is also up for the role of the Invisible Woman in Fox's FANTASTICFOUR film. That now makes it three actresses rumored by movie websites to be in the running to play ...
With the cast for 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR now signed, and production slated to start on the film today, word has reached us of an important and rather large set that's been constructed inside an off-limits sound stage somewhere in Vancouver. Ins...
Jessica Alba has won the role of The Invisible Woman in the FANTASTICFOUR movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alba beat out other potential candidates Rachel McAdams (MEAN GIRLS) and Elizabeth Banks (SPIDER-MAN 2) for the part.The DARK ANGEL actr...
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT reporter Maria Menounos has won a small part in Fox's FANTASTICFOUR film, playing a nurse that catches the eye of Johnny Storm/The Human Torch. The movie is underway in Vancouver, Canada and stars Chris Evans as the Torch, Ioan Gruf...
The July 4th week has come and gone, the estimates are now in and the winner is locked. Honestly, there was never any doubt on who that winner would be. Transformers rolled out to victory this weekend pulled in 67.6 million in box office sales. For the ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Beau Garrett and Andre Braugher have both signed on to play roles in the upcoming 20th Century Fox sequel FANTASTICFOUR: THE RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. They will join Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Mich...
As we we the first to report, today the long-anticipated trailer for 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR film arrives in theaters attached to ELEKTRA. It doesn't appear that Fox will be releasing the trailer to the Web before the weekend starts, but they di...
It seems the FantasticFour are no match for a bunch of toys. Transformers and FantasticFour had both been staking claim to the July 4th, 2007 release date, a game of chicken if you will. The FantasticFour swerved first.Bumping the release up two week...
First the Batman was featured in a 10 cent comic book intended to entice lapsed readers and new fans alike to return to the DC fold, and now Marvel has upped the ante by pricing FANTASTICFOUR #60 - the "World's Cheapest Comic Magazine" - at a miraculous ...
Tim Story posted a new entry in his myspace blog and it deals with the upcoming FANTASTICFOUR film.Story writes:Sorry guys,I've been going crazy prepping this thing. Just got back from Vancouver, which is of course where we will be filming the movie, and...
Marvel Comics has announced that they have signed TEEN TITANS artist Mike McKone to an exclusive two-year contract with the company. It's a return to the House of Ideas for McKone whose previous Marvel work includes stints on THOR, EXILES, THE PUNISHER an...
According to Blackfilm.com, Andre Braugher has left an episodic role on the TV show ER so he can play a part in the upcoming sequel FANTASTICFOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER.Braugher will be playing the role of a military general in the sequel.The film wi...
Julian McMahon has revealed to iF Magazine that he will be back as Dr. Doom for the FANTASTICFOUR sequel. Though McMahon will be back in some form, he is not sure of his exact role in the film."We haven't got a script yet. The script hasn't been put out...
Via his website, comic book scribe Peter David has revealed that he will write the Pocket Books novel adaptation of 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR movie. In David's November 7 blog entry he states this fact and adds (no pun intended, we're sure) that ...
High quality views of the FANTASTICFOUR character photos that first appeared in the pages of USA Today earlier this week have finally sprouted online courtesy of 20th Century Fox. If you've been waiting for better resolution shots to see if there's grey ...
Sometimes the scoops that we receive aren't exactly big and beefy. By that, the sender tells us a piece of important information but it's just a sentence worth of news, a small piece of newsworthy gossip but is it enough to write a whole article about?Wel...
A source has told us that the production company working on 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR movie is looking at filming the production in Canada, with their focus being centered on either Toronto or Vancouver. For the moment it appears that Toronto has ...
Reed continues to try to justify his take over of Latveria to his teammates, to the rest of the world - and to the Latverians themselves, who seem not to appreciate the fact that they're now free of Doom's tyranny. The border countries want the team out s...
It's official: Baby Val is in the control of Doctor Doom. Seems that when he helped Sue deliver the baby, he also managed to make her his familiar, a conduit for his sorcery to attack her family. None of this is known to the team, of course, since they ha...
Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo, who once teamed on DC Comics' THE FLASH, are the new creative team of Marvel Comics' FANTASTICFOUR. Waid is ending his exclusivity with CrossGen Comics but recently reached a long-term agreement to continue writing the compan...
Ben Grimm should know better than to go back to Yancy Street, the tough little area of town where he grew up. After all, as FF fans well know, the Yancy Streeters don't care how many world-eaters and aliens and armor-wearing power-crazed nutcases he's fou...
It looks like a new RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER trailer has landed on Apple.com. The film rides into theaters on July 15th.
So if you haven't seen it yet or downloaded it to your iPod, click here to check it out.
Marvel Enterprises will distribute a six-week lesson plan for 2 million second- through fourth-graders at 6,000 predominantly public schools that will promote the upcoming "FantasticFour" which hits theaters nationwide on July 8th.The campaign is called ...
Given the widely reported, tangled history of this production, it's sort of impressive that the version of FANTASTICFOUR that made it to the screen is respectably coherent and moderately enjoyable. Director Tim Story, credited writers Mark Frost and Mich...
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End sailed into the number one spot for its second weekend, pulling in 43.1 mil here in the states. The 3rd installment in the franchise averaged $9,900 per showing on it’s 4,362 theaters around the world. ...
With filming well underway on 20th Century Fox's FANTASTICFOUR movie, our network of spies have been hard at work digging up whatever facts we can land about the production. We were the first to tell you about a set that was to be constructed at a parkin...
Another day, another pair of FANTASTICFOUR casting rumors to add to the pile. Yesterday we broke the scoop that Christina Milian was one of the rumored actresses up for consideration for the role of Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman. Today another FF castin...
Confirming the scoop first reported by FilmForce, BARBERSHOP helmer Tim Story has been cited as the new director of the FANTASTICFOUR movie by the trade magazines. While speaking with Variety, Story said that the principal idea that attracted him to the ...
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEADHaving gone beyond the veil into Heaven and finding Ben locked out by a door of Reed's design, the team attempt to solve the problem and soon find they have an appointment with God. No, really.Whether you'll enjoy FANTASTICFOUR #51...
There's been two new developments to report about 20th Century Fox's long in gestation superhero flick, FANTASTICFOUR.Movie website JoBlo spoke with DOWN WITH LOVE director Peyton Reed, who's also attached to helm the FOUR movie, and uncovered a surprisi...
First confirmed on Ain't It Cool News last week by Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad, today's The Hollywood Reporter reiterates that director Peyton Reed has exited Fox's FANTASTICFOUR movie project. According to the Reporter, Peyton's departure was due to "cr...
MTV runs an article on the story ideas and creative approach being employed by screenwriter Doug Petrie in crafting the script for the upcoming FANTASTICFOUR movie. Petrie discusses the film's opening scene, and how his creative approach differs from oth...
Gentlemen,I greatly enjoyed Steve Ryfle`s witty feature article of 10/9/00, `BLACK SCORPION debuts Big, Bad Car at Peterson Automotive Museum.` Just for the record, however, I`d like to point out that the reference to `...Corman`s disastrous, legally supp...
Did Stan Lee ever dream of the day when he might star in the FANTASTICFOUR movie when he and artist Jack Kirby created the world's greatest comic magazine? If Lee ever did, that dream has come true already: the legendary writer of some of Marvel Comics' ...
Marvel Masterworks Editor Tom Brevoort wasn’t worried that his new volume of Silver Age reprints, containing FantasticFour #51-#60 and Annual #4, would ship late. And the hardcover’s appearance in late October, two weeks earlier than its solicited Nov. 8...
Over the past two weeks a pair of sharp-eyed scoopers sent word of a interesting fragment of news found on E! Online: the mention that pop superstar Jessica Simpson has been apparently cast in a new Marvel Comics film project due out in the summer of 2004...
Marvel has provided six black-and-white sample pages of artist Steve McNiven's work from the upcoming FANTASTICFOUR Marvel Knights series. Scheduled for release in February 2004, the book is written by playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and will showcase ...
A number of new exclusives have popped up on the Web concerning the FANTASTICFOUR movie, and we need to fill you in on what's been happening.First up, Hollywood North Report has landed the best spy photo yet of Michael Chiklis as The Thing, snapped on th...
Continuing their spy coverage of the FANTASTICFOUR movie while it films in Vancouver, Hollywood North Report has a new series of photos up showing the production shooting at the Plaza of Nations, an outdoor venue that's usually the site for concerts. The...
With three of the FANTASTICFOUR's quartet signed, sealed and delivered, all that remains is the announcement as to which actress will play the part of Sue Storm, a.k.a. The Invisible Woman. Names have been swirling around for weeks, but this past weekend...
Rumors continue to swirl about which actors may be leading candidates for roles in the live-action FANTASTICFOUR movie, to be directed by Tim Story (BARBERSHOP). We ourselves have contributed to the cyclone by publishing a report last April that actress ...
A Galaxia, a Brazilian website specializing in genre entertainment, landed a pretty big exclusive today with their interview with LORD OF THE RINGS star Sean Astin. The man who brought Samwise Gamgee to life in three RINGS films spoke with a reporter from...
The internet. It's both a powerful tool for pushing the frontier of human civilization and communication ahead as well as a means to give ulcers to producers and studio executives working in Hollywood. Better grab the Tums fellas, we've got another scoop ...
Spidey cast his web and captured more box office cash this weekend with a 60.0 million box office take here in the States. I’d have to say though there was no doubt whom I would be writing about this weekend. No, it was never a question of if Spider...
Cartoon Network has landed exclusive domestic TV rights to a new half-hour animated series based on Marvel's FANTASTICFOUR. The show is a co-production of Marvel Studios and Moonscoop.The program will premiere as a weekly series on the network this fall....
Marvel Comics has pulled a shocker on fans of the world's greatest comic magazine, FANTASTICFOUR. Settling the controversy that erupted four months ago when FF writer Mark Waid was dismissed from the book (followed shortly thereafter by artist Mike Wieri...
Warner Brothers wants to take its DC adaptation to a darker place. After the phenomenal success of The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov wants to get more DC movies in theaters. Over at the Wall Street Journal, Robi...
Before I dive into my interview with Joshua Ortega, I’d like to explain the lateness of this column. I thought the new comics would ship on Thursday of this week because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday. That usually ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting adventure into the unknown with Comicscape! San Diego Comic-Con has left me with rant material for the rest of the calendar year and beyond. Marvel’s decision to publish Amazing Spider-Ma...
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'...
It's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm giving myself an early birthday present: a shorter column. Many happy returns. And in keeping with the birthday theme -- namely, focusing on me, myself, and I -- here's a list of four things that would make my birthday ...
What They SayThere are two sides to every love story, and Boys Be... reveals what\'s really going on - from the guy\'s point of view!
Meet three normal high school guys with just one thing on their minds: girls. Quiet Kyoichi has been friends with Chihar...
The latest volume of Flight delivers the kind of whimsy and imagination you'd expect from a graphic novel of such pedigree (though the fantastic cover of dove-riders swooping amongst floating steampunk whales is a dead giveaway, too).
Volume fou...
Principal Photography wrapped December 23 on FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED, the latest offering from one of the DTV arena`s most fearless filmmakers, Brian (SOCIETY, PROGENY, THE DENTIST) Yuzna. The film is the first of a four-picture package that will be pro...
As comics increase in popularity, the conventional wisdom heralds the eventual death of the monthly format. Conventional wisdom paints the typical comic reader as a collector bent on a weekly Wednesday trip. On that trip, the reader will gather ...
Dear Maniacs, I have wanted to write comics for a very long time. And now, Dead Souls, my first miniseries is finally coming out. I can’t believe that I can finally say those words. A process I began over five years ago has finally co...
Marvel Comics plans on an extensive licensing program for its upcoming THE CALL property. "One that we've announced is THQ for electronic games, the one that we're announcing today is Toy Biz doing a toy line," Marvel's Bill Jemas says during a press con...
When it comes down to it you have to ask yourself, “Which one do I buy?” Is it the DVD titled “Special Edition” or do I save a few bucks and just get the movie? How many times will I watch those special features? &nb...
Twentieth Century Fox has pushed the release of "FantasticFour" back a week to July 8. The film is now set to open against Sony's "Bewitched and Universal's "Skeleton Key."By Fox clearing off the week of July 4th, Steven Spielberg's remake of "War of the...
What They SayThe warmth and emotional angst of the popular anime series Fruits Basket will always hold a place in the hearts of anime fans, as will composer-lyricist-vocalist Ritsuko Okazaki, who headlines the image soundtrack, \"Fruits Basket - Four Seas...
After years of starts and stops, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's LOST GIRLS will see print in August of this year in a three-volume hardcover set from Top Shelf Productions. The idea is classic Moore -- three of literature's most famous female protagonist...
When I first started writing about the comic book industry, one of the first people in the industry that I became fast friends with was colorist Laura Martin. She was working with the online magazine, Sequential Tart and coloring a multitude of proj...
Sometimes there’s no happily ever after. Last year’s Earth X maxi-series from Marvel Comics presented a future continuity in which battered and altered versions of Marvel’s current heroes fought to save their planet. When the story ended, there was hope f...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another rip-roaring Comicscape! Two important things happened in comics this week: the new Captain America premiered and Y The Last Man concluded after a very well-regarded run. Each deserves their own Comicsca...
Warner Brothers finally re-released the original four Batman films on "super-special-Über-badass-cure-for-cancer" two-disc editions last week in conjunction with Christopher Nolan's BATMAN BEGINS. I hadn't seen BATMAN or BATMAN RETURNS in over ten years. ...
Marvel has released 10 new posters for the upcoming film, FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer.You can find the posters here.In the film, the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, the Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As he race...
It's been a while since I did a Superficial update here but in the past week, two stars have been sentenced or took plea deals for jail time, time which could have affected their genre related projects. Both cases are on the opposite end of the spectrum. ...
We're proud to kick off our new monthly column in the comics section, a no-holds-barred round-up covering all the titles you should be reading and perhaps a few that you shouldn't. It's all compiled by stalwart correspondent Tony Whitt, so take it away, T...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Alan Menken hasn't entirely dropped out of site since scoring a run of successful Disney animated features from THE LITTLE MERMAID through HERCULES. He did some TV work, scored Disney's humdrum animated HOME ON THE RANGE as wel...
Now that it appears that the long-delayed FANTASTICFOUR movie at 20th Century Fox will go before cameras sometime this year, rumors about possible casting considerations have started to be heard. Last week the news was that Michael Chiklis (THE SHIELD) a...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful. This is my last column before San Diego Comic Con. After the con, I'll have a lot to write about, depending on what I catch while there. Most of the time, I'll talk to publishers about my own proposed miniseries (IMMORTALS)...
What They SayIn volume 48 of the show that only occasionally fabricates its emotional roller-coaster of distilled network-like comedy, a big test at school causes Ataru to flirt, cheat, dress up as a girl and get trapped in a copy machine (but that\'s jus...
Writer and BET TV President Reggie Hudlin was just supposed to pen a six-issue miniseries returning the Black Panther to the forefront of the Marvel Comics Universe, but the response to the first few issues was so overwhelming that the House of Ideas ...
On a marginally-unrelated-to-comics note, REVENGE OF THE SITH will kick your ass and those of your children. It's the best of the STAR WARS prequel trilogy and better than RETURN OF THE JEDI. I've already seen it twice and I'll probably see it again befor...
As I said I would, I’m updating the box office numbers with the latest estimates. The actual totals will be added tomorrow night for this Memorial Day Weekend but it seems safe right now to list those numbers as they lie.
Here’s how t...
OPINION: I'm not entirely sure why, but I got neither death threats nor a lot of positive feedback on last week's musings about Captain America. I hope that doesn't mean no one cares about the old man anymore... My thanks, though, to the two(!) readers wh...
The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention was held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, marking the 15th year of the existence of HIGHLANDER. CINESCAPE's extensive coverage of the event continues today with a look at the "Script to Screen" panel, th...
Chris Evans' primary claim to fame these days is Johnny Storm in the FantasticFour movies. His other genre ventures include the criminally underrated Sunshine and the recent CG-animated version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He returns to science ficti...
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...
Writer Mike Carey is getting all technical on us, through his work with the Ultimate Universe's version of The Vision. Carey and artist Brandon Peterson have got five issues to further her story and we've got a few details from Carey on what that st...
Sony Computer Entertainment's RATCHET AND CLANK is one of the year's best titles that no one knows about. Developed by Insomniac, the folks that brought you SPYRO, it utilizes platformer roots while at the same time adding many elements never seen in a pl...
What They SayThe amazing sequel to The Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV Series is finally available in sterling release it deserves - a Limited Edition Collector\'s Ultra Box Set!
This astounding collection includes: all three Irresponsible Captain Tylor ...
Quite a bit of news going on in the world of Celebrities this week. Joe Francis continues to piss off the law even while in jail. Snoop Dogg is barred from yet another country for being Snoop Dogg. Kissing is worth an arrest warrant in India for some ...
Did you think Disturbia winning 1st place last week with only 13 mil in receipts was something hardly worth talking about? Well, it’s worse this week. The winner, Disturbia, doesn’t even in pull in 10 mil. Yep, you heard me. In a box office...
You know him. You just don`t remember him. His name is Robert Reynolds, and he`s the most powerful character the Marvel Universe has ever seen. At least when in his guise as The Sentry.`Sentry is the Marvel Universe`s Superman,` says Paul Jenkins, who wil...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Kirk Jones' NANNY McPHEE is the latest enchanting children's-oriented fantasy, following in the tradition of such young-kids-left-with-foreboding-relatives storylines as MATHILDA, LEMONY SNICKETT'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENT...
What They SayAs Yushiro struggles desperately to rescue Miharu, the noose around the neck of the free world begins to tighten.
As the US and Japan find themselves driven to the brink of war, the very fabric of civilization begins to unravel. Caught in t...
What They SayOctober 1941, as the second World War threatens to destroy the civilized world, an unforeseen complication suddenly occurs. An alien invasion! Despite the sudden appearance of these extraterrestrial aggressors, the Axis and Allies continue th...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Howard Shore's latest composition is a broad orchestral and choral score for the new South Korean Webzen computer game, SOUL OF THE ULTIMATE NATION (aka SUN), has been released on a splendid soundtrack CD by Sony/BMG of Korea (...
Another Trip to the Buffet
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting installment of Comiscape! Your faithful correspondent finds himself sent by his day job to Alexandria, Virginia for a conference, where he has enjoyed walking aro...
Last week, I proposed an interesting solution to the crossover and continuity issue that plagues the comic reading experience. In short, I suggested that Marvel and DC drastically reduce titles per character and any in excess of, say, two, should occur ou...
Wow, the big day is only three days off, isn't it? And here I am with none of my presents bought yet. (Of course, my idea of a present is an on-line gift certificate from Amazon.com, so Christmas shopping is never all that arduous. Besides, it's the thoug...
We already knew this week would already be all about Spider-Man 3. With the anticipation so high, the presales from Fandango.com and Movietickets.com being in the upper stratosphere and news everywhere on Spider-Man 3 the past few weeks, the question wasn...
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-Ray DVD releases of their latest titles, FANTASTICFOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER & LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD. FF2 will hit local North America shelves on October 2, 2007 and hit international zon...