It's a little sad when the highest hopes you can have for a movie sequel sound something like, "Well, maybe it won't be as bad as the last one." For most fans of the Michael Crichton novel JURASSICPARK, Steven Spielberg's big screen adaptation was someth...
I’ve been a giant fan of theme park building simulators ever since the original THEME PARK came out, so I’ve been eagerly anticipating JURASSICPARK III: PARK BUILDER since I first heard about it. Finally, a portable THEME PARK! It was only appropriate th...
JurassicPark4 by Coming Attractions (Mon 05-26-2003)
...g to be a JurassicPark4, don't hold your breath for Sam Neill to reprise his character for a third time. While speaking on Australia's TV program A Current Affair, Neill said "I suspect this is the last one. Three seems to be the definitive number." ...
...o high on JURASSICPARK4? " You're talking to the guy who has got to decide, and at this point I've pretty much decided to do a JURASSIC4," he recently told STARLOG. "Similar to the third JURASSIC, I will not direct it. I would hope that I could get ...
The release of the JURASSICPARK III sounds like it will appease fans of the film in a big way.The DVD, which will hit store shelves on December 11, will feature 10 hours of extras. Among that material will be:* A featurette entitled A VISIT TO ILM which ...
Today's the day Vivendi Universal Games releases JURASSICPARK: OPERATION GENESIS for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC platforms. Unlike previous JP games, OPERATION GENESIS finally allows players the opportunity to design their own dinosaur kingdoms in ad...
JURASSICPARK III's mid-week opening day looks to have been very successful. The estimated tally for the film's opening gross is said to be in the $19M range. If it stays on track, the weekend to come to should see the film raking in the big bucks. Of cou...
Loads of pictures from the fast approaching JURASSICPARK III arrived at the CINESCAPE doorstep over the weekend. You can check 'em out for yourself by clicking on the thumbnails below to see the larger versions. Be warned, though, that by doing so, you m...
Stan Winston Studio has had a busy year. Their makeup effects artistry can already be seen in PEARL HARBOR, and they have two other summer blockbusters coming out in the next few weeks, JURASSICPARK III and A.I. So Stan Winston should have a lot to talk ...
The Game Boy Advance is home to a lot of things: Mario, racecars, and now the dinosaurs from JURASSICPARK. Konami’s first of III… err, three JURASSICPARK III games for the Game Boy Advance, DNA FACTOR, sells itself as a "fun and unique mix of side-scrol...
Last we heard about JurassicPark4 was that Joe Johnston would direct from a script by William Monahan. Yesterday, the LA Daily News caught up with Sam Neill, star of JurassicPark 1 and 3, and he had this to say:"I know nothing about it. I ha...
When news of a third JURASSICPARK movie was announced, expectations naturally weren’t all that high. After all, not even Steven Spielberg could make a decent follow-up with the first sequel THE LOST WORLD, so how could someone else step in and do any bet...
JURASSICPARK4? by Christopher Allan Smith (Thu 02-21-2002)
In an interview with a British DVD magazine, apparently JURASSICPARK III star Sam Neill is talking about his ideas for a fourth installment of the series.According to the JURASSIC scoop site DansJP3.com, Neill said, "I have looked at a possible plot [for...
While promoting the soon-to-be-released Kubrick/Spielberg sci-fi feature A.I., producer Kathleen Kennedy took a moment to express her enthusiasm for her upcoming JURASSICPARK III.'I'm very happy it,' says Kennedy of the third installment in the din...
With the release date of JURASSICPARK 3 drawing near, PARK star Sam Neill is up on the film, promising it will out-wow THE LOST WORLD: JURASSICPARK. In an interview with SciFi Wire Neill, who is returning to his JURASSICPARK 1 role for eight years late...
The producing team of Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, whose previous genre credits are too numerous to name here (so let’s mention just a few: JURASSIC, PARK, POLTERGEIST, E.T BACK TO THE FUTURE, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, and let’s not forget CONGO),...
It sounds like William H. Macy is feeling embarrassed about his harsh comments made during the making of JURASSICPARK III. While talking to Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Cindy Pearlman, Macy spoke of his rant, saying, "I read that I was railing against th...
Tea Leoni is one of a group of actors who went head-to-head with the dinosaurs of JURASSICPARK III. While talking to Ian Spelling's Inside Trek & Sci Fi syndicated column, Leoni spoke of how she approached her role in the coming film, saying, "We did...
Anecdotal evidence has it that the Chinese word for “danger” is the same as the word for “opportunity.” Unfortunately, in the case of Don Davis and JURASSICPARK III, the opposite is also true. For Davis, the opportunity to step into the shoes of the worl...
According to Collider.com, Laura Dern has confirmed that JurassicPark4 is moving forward and that her character, Ellie Sattler, will be featured in the film."I'm told it's happening and I'm told they're calling me. I'm told that Ellie Sattler is in...
One of the biggest dilemmas the JURASSICPARK toy line has had over the years is having poor-selling human figures. Finally Hasbro has remedied that problem by providing each figure represented from the feature film (four in all) coming with their very ow...
We know William H. Macy wasn't, initially, pleased that JURASSICPARK III seemed to be missing a full script when the production started. Now it's director Joe Johnston's turn to talk about it.While talking to the New York Post, Johnston suggested that at...
Remember that old joke which asks where a 500 lb. Gorilla sleeps? Why, anywhere it wants to, of course! A variation on that question came to mind as I began to hammer out this week’s column. Where does a hit movie and its hit sequel, which claim a comb...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER notes that Universal Pictures has retained William Monahan to script another JURASSICPARK film, the fourth in the series. Both producers for the films, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, are in place.No director has been assign...
In this month's WIRED magazine, that bible of all things new and electric, there was an interesting bit for those of us who loved dinosaurs at one time or another.In a story about what we can expect from cutting-edge technology in the first half of the ce...
Steven Spielberg`s dinosaur film, adpated by Michael Crichton and David Koepp from Crichton`s bestseller, may be lacking in subtleties of narrative and characterization, but it`s hard to think of a more irrelevent criticism when applied to a film that is ...
This genetically-enhanced-super-smart-killer-sharks-on-the-loose movie has neat premise and some effective shock scenes, but ultimately it founders in a sea of uncertainty over whether to be a slick studio thriller or a crude exploitation film. This Spiel...
There's been considerable publicity over the recent sale and destruction of Roger Corman's fabled Venice Beach studios. The former New World Pictures and later New Horizon studios - which brought us everything from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and DEATHRACE 20...
Reporter Edward Douglas at Comingsoon took advantage of his discussion with producer Frank Marshall. He hit three major genre franchises with his questions, grabbing the latest on JURASSICPARK4, INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL ...
VIDEO NEWSJanuary 22nd will bring Fox's release of VENOMOUS, the latest in the ongoing horde of snake and lizard movies unleashed by the box office hit ANACONDA. This latest snake-tacular stars Treat Williams and Mary Page Keller under the direction of th...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Writing a history of science fiction, horror and fantasy film winners at the Academy Awards is much simpler than it should be. Quite simply, there just aren’t that many winners. Comedic actors like Bob Hope used to complain about being overlooked in favor...
Sony Classical is preparing to release an expanded edition of the STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE soundtrack on CD on November 14th. The new 2-CD collector’s release, titled The Ultimate Edition, will feature 68 tracks and more than 120 minutes o...
SteveVP Hello. We`re going to be chatting today with Patricia Tallman and Jeffrey Willerth, of the television series BABLYLON 5. Before throwing the conversation open to visitors, I would like to start the chat by repeating a question I posed to Jerry Doy...
Writer-director David Koepp, working from Richard Matheson`s novel A STIR OF ECHOES (the title taken from a line by Shakespeare), crafted a screenplay that diverges from its source but retains the essential premise and set-up, resulting in a believably re...
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are moving to reunite on another film, this time telling the story of ALEXANDER THE GREAT. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the two principals will work with Initial Entertainment Group, with who they worked on th...
When HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE debuts, odds are good that you'll be able to see it on opening day with word that the film will be shown on an unprecedented number of screens.According to Variety, as it stands, the film will be opening on 7,000...
One of the most innovative works of cinema to emerge last year never made it to a multi-plex near you. Instead, SIEGFRIED AND ROY: THE MAGIC BOX was limited to engagements in Imax 3-D theatres where its amazing imagery and cinematic sleight of hand could ...
It`s incredible that Walter Hill would take his name off of SUPERNOVA and Brian DePalma would leave his name on MISSION TO MARS. Although M2M arrives in theatres without the pre-release baggage warning of imminent disaster, it is actually a far bigger dis...
As Harrison Ford's most famous alter ego, Indiana Jones, once said, “It's not just the years, honey, it's the mileage.”
And if you lower your expectations, then you're bound to get a lot of mileage out of Indy's fourth adventure, The Kingdom ...
Star Trek veteran, Nichelle Nichols, has been cast in the NBC hit show HEROES, says Tv Guide. This marks a strange reunion of sorts seeing how George "Sulu" Takei portrays Hiro's father in the show. Nichols won't have as big a part in it, accord...
Screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas may have their latest effort hitting theaters in Wanted but the trades have announced that the duo have also just completed a new fantasy screenplay called All Creatures Great and Small. Sony Pictures and produc...
What They SayThe Review!Pioneer DVL-919 DVD/LD Player
Review By Dustin Blaine Javier
\"LD is dead! Long live DVD!!\"
As a Laserphile for the past 5+ years, I refused to believe that, but if you pick up a copy of The DVD-Laserdisc Newsletter (formerly Th...
It`s been over 20 years since ABC canceled Universal Studios` TV series, BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA. The show told the adventures of a band of intergalactic wanderers, survivors of a decimated outer space civilization, battling the evil, robotic cylons while ...
What They SayIn the near future, people discovered the true identity of evolution; however, one mad scientist decided to take it further. Dr. Yamagishi was a genius and well-respected - until the day he decided to try human cloning... a forbidden science....
You knew the weekend was going to be really big for HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE after the film set an all-time first opening day record of $31,635,000. That beat out PHANTOM MENACE ($28.5M) and PLANET OF THE APES ($24.6M) own opening weekend Fri...
A cult favorite that received a limited theatrical run, only to develop a small but feverish following on video, TAPEHEADS is that rare comedy that actually improves with repeat viewings. The first feature directed by Bill Fishman – who later went on to C...
Two key roles have been cast for Lexi Alexander's upcoming sequel, PUNISHER:WAR ZONE, says Hollywood Reporter. Dominic West (300, The Wire) will likely fill the shoes of the evil Jigsaw and Wayne Knight (JurassicPark, Seinfield) is set to play Microchip,...
While I do have very mixed emotions about the upcoming Simpsons movie, this promotion from Fox and 7-Eleven hits me right in the geeky parts. The two companies are close to working out a deal to have 11 7-Eleven markets retrofitted to look like t...
Universal Pictures said a few days ago that they would have a new director locked up for The Wolfman and they weren't kidding around. Nearly a week after Mark Romanek exited due to "creative differences", director Joe Johnston (Hidalgo, Jurassic...
Gaogaigar, a giant robot epic 65 million years in the making… What They Say: Gai, Galeon, Volfogg, ChoRyuJin, Goldymarg, Mic Sounders and Mamoru. These are brave heroes who hold the fate of humanity in their hands! The Four Machine Kings fina...
Masi Oka recently talked to ComingSoon about the smash hit Heroes. Below are a few of his quotes, you can read the full article from ComingSoon here."Yes, I heard from Tim (Kring) somewhere down the line, I'm not going to tell you when, but the...
When talking about the great character actors of modern cinema, only a handful of individuals spring to that movie homage infested brain of mine. These are the actors who can fit into the shoes of any given character with such style that they make a l...
Steven Spielberg recently conducted an interview with www.spielbergfilms.com in which he discussed various upcoming films.Here are some important facts I took from the interview:- Spielberg was never offered ANGELS AND DEMONS, and he would never do it eve...
A writer has been hired by Fox 2000 to adapt the young readers fantasy novel ERAGON into a screenplay. Peter Buchman (JURASSICPARK III) has landed the job.The studio snapped up the rights to the book last year and has been eagerly pushing it forward, see...
Director, screenwriter and playwright David Mamet has a new film project in development titled SPARTAN, and today two new cast members were added to the picture's roll call. Longtime Mamet collaborator William H. Macy (JURASSICPARK III) and Derek Luke (...
Special effects pioneer Industrial Light and Magic is in negotiations to handle the visual effects for Steven Spielberg's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. According to today's The Hollywood Reporter, producer Kathleen Kennedy has begun contract talks with George Lu...
XMenFilms.net is reporting that 20th Century Fox has signed Ed Verreaux to be the production designer on X-MEN 3.Verreaux is supposed to start work this week on the film. Verreaux's previous credits as a production designer include JURASSICPARK 3, MONS...
No one could have believed that in the first years of the 21st century that a serious big budget alien invasion film from one of cinema's foremost craftsmen was being watched by intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, who quickly, carelessly and with ...
VIDEO NEWSOver the [IMG3R]past year, HBO has been broadcasting a series of moderately budgeted remakes of some trash classics from the '50s and '60s that were originally produced by American International Pictures, or AIP. The remakes were the brainchild ...
There has been talk of a SPIDERMAN feature film for years, with a variety of famous names connected to the project: everyone from Roger Corman to James Cameron. But now it seems the project is truly on the way to reaching the silver screen, with David Koe...
With the start of 2008 comes news of the next round of book-to-screen translations, and if you’re like me this news is usually met with equal doses of boyish hope and fearful skepticism. Because as all of us readers know the translation of a book in...
The Visual Effects Society announced this week the VES 50: The Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time, which was determined by a vote of their members.
THE VES 50 are (Bold and Italics indicates a tie score)
1. Star Wars (1977) 2. ...
Stan Winston, one of the industry's most noted special effects and makeup artists who was best known for his work on such projects as the Terminator and JurassicPark films, died Sunday. He was 62. Winston died peacefully and surrounded by family at...
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror were once considered cult genres of interest only to a select few, but that changed in 1977 with STAR WARS. The blockbuster mentality engendered by that film continued throughout the ‘80s and reached even larger propor...
You thought 'A.I.,' Stanley Kubrick's unfilmed epic of artificial intelligence, had died along with the great director? Well, it seems Steven Spielberg fancies himself the heir to Kubrick's throne: he is writing a script based on Kubrick's treatment, a sc...
Ever watch a film and think to yourself, `Jezz, I could do better than that in my sleep?` Sure you have. Most any fan bothering to read this column has had those thoughts many a time. But the reality is that making a genuinely good—let alone great—film is...
THIS WEEK'S NOTEWORTHY NEW RELEASESTHE ANTICHRIST (a.k.a. THE TEMPTER) comes [IMG2R]to us from the good old days of rat ridden, derelict dwelling, sticky floored theaters which ran delightfully depraved Italian rip-offs of U.S. made hits in a desperate bi...
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror are big business. If there were any doubt, the box office grosses of last year`s genre films put it to rest. So the major Hollywood studios, along with the mini-majors and the independents, will be offering up a slew o...
David Koepp is one of Hollywood’s Billion Dollar Screenwriters—which is to say, the combined box office grosses from the various films scripted by him exceed $1-billion. These include a fair number of science fiction, fantasy, and horror blockbusters, suc...
According to TMZ, Brendan Fraser has signed on to reprise his role as Rick O'Connell for Universal Pictures' third installment of THE MUMMY.The site claims the project will be a re-imagining of the first two films and that it will not be called THE MUMMY ...
Stan Winston’s Oscar-winningt makeup effects studio has contributed creatures and characters to two of this years most highly anticipated films, JURASSICPARK III and A.I. Toys is for me huge. But that’s not what he is most excited about at the moment. He...
Everyone knows that Hollywood loves its witless wonders, those special effects extravaganzas that look amazing but don’t have a thought in their pretty little heads. If you look closely, however, you’ll notice that these inevitable blockbusters have been ...
In honor of Kermit the Frog's 50th anniversary, we've got 4-packs of the new Muppet movie DVDs in the Prize Closet. It's funny the frog doesn't look a day over 40. How does he do it? Some folks say he's had a lot of "work" done. For your chance to win TH...
In Part One of this article, we interviewed Rich Heierling, a film and video producer at Digital Stream in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, who has sent Paramount Pictures a proposal to remake STAR TREK — The Original Series’ (TOS) visual effects with new, state...
JURASSICPARK III dinos stayed strong over the weekend, with the final count showing slightly more than previously estimated.Also, SCARY MOVIE 2 managed to just slightly squeek out more than DR. DOLITTLE 2, breaking their tie.Here are the rest of the fina...
This Week's RecommendationJoseph LoDuca the creative soul behind the eclectic and compelling music for XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, not to mention its companion show HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS, not to mention the music for Sam Raimi's engagingly over-th...
Not very long ago, 2000 AD represented all that was futuristic and fantastic within our common view of life. That far-off era was held for fantasies of high technology or tales of The End of All That We Know or, at the very least, showing humanity in its ...
Stan Winston's future is horrifying. No, not his career. The special effects guru who's brought the Predator creature, JurassicPark dinosaurs and acid-dripping Alien to big-screen life is currently hard at work on TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES but i...
As development continues on CELLULAR, the latest actor who might be answering the call is William H. Macy (JURASSICPARK III). Macy is in talks to play a police officer in the movie.Kim Basinger has already been cast as the kidnapped woman who dials a ran...
Silva Screen announces the May 10th release date of a 2-CD set entitled Music from the Films of Steven Spielberg (SIL-CD-1182 UPC 738572118228), featuring 145 minutes of music sampled from over 30 years of Spielberg's cinema career, including music from J...
ZATHURA has been in development at Columbia Pictures for almost a decade. After the studio's success with the action-adventure flick JUMANJI in 1995, Columbia started work on turning the book's sequel, ZATHURA, into a film as well. Picking up where Chris ...
What would the annual Academy Awards be without at least one egregious omission? Well, we certainly didn`t find out this year, when MORE, the nominated six-minute mini-masterpiece, was passed over in the category for Best Animated Short Subject. This evoc...
Industrial Light & Magic has been selected to be the lead f/x studio for the coming THE HULK and HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.Regarding THE HULK, Dennis Muren will oversee the visuals work on the project for which he will be given an atypic...
Looking back at the 1990s with an ear toward film music and a leaning toward the fantastic, we can identify plenty of effective, likable musical scores but only a few real milestones. Perhaps the major trend found in the decade was the true marriage – aki...
As far as marketing goes, BOOGEYMEN is one killer idea. You take a smattering of good horror icons (Norman Bates, Leatherface, Michael Myers, the Tall Man from PHANTASM), a handful of tolerable horror icons (Jason, Chucky, Pinhead, Freddy, the various kil...
In Part One of my interview with the polemical Paul Verhoeven, we talked about the effect of Elisabeth Shue’s injury on the shoot, and the directing difficulties incurred due to the invisibility special effects, how that affected Kevin Bacon’s performance...
The story of Jason and the Argonauts, with its bravery, adventure and tragedy, remains one of world literature’s most exciting and moving tales, and one of the most influential quest myths in the world. It has been translated and retold for centuries, bu...
When I first encountered Neil Norman’s GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION HITS back in 1978, I was one of those grumpy purists taken aback by his electric guitars intruding upon the pristine orchestral tonalities of STAR WARS and other icons of science fiction film...
Rumor ControlDon’t worry - recent reports on several websites and newsgroups alleging that John Williams is bowing out of scoring the upcoming big screen version of HARRY POTTER do not appear to be true. As reported on soundtrackmag.com, Williams is stil...
Englewood, CO Continuing to expand programming content for its growing Asian American audience, International Channel has signed licensing agreements with Mirovision for nine Korean films and Central Park Media for seven anime titles. Both the films and ...
Remember when you were a kid and you were too scared to try out the roller coasters? And then when you finally get the guts to go through with it, you just can't get enough and you want to take the ride a hundred more times. Well, Sim Coaster is kinda...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayWelcome to IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK where the miniskirts are short and the trendy guys and girls mix it up all night long. Makoto knows he's gonna rule N...
Film festivals are very odd about hype. It’s amazing how some films get hyped to the hills but by the time the closing credits roll, the movie is mediocre at best and completely terrible at worst. At the Nashville Film Festival a few features were h...
"Oath to Love and Passion 1" and "Full House 5" to be available in July and to be priced at $9.99 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (June 20, 2007) î º Central Park Media announced today that the OATH TO LOVE AND PASSION 1 graphic novel will be available in July. The ...
CPM and the NEAS Ring in the New Year from Boston's Hynes Convention Center
BOSTON, MA (December 23, 2005) - Boston is home to America's longest running First Night celebration, and for the past two years, the city's New England Anime Society has proudly...
New York, NY (September 19, 2005) - Central Park Media announced an online contest letting fans cast the lead roles in CPM's upcoming release of the anime cult hit Outlanders. As this has been an often requested title, CPM wanted to make a DVD that will ...
-- Properties to debut as programming and part of new movie block on FUNimation's 24/7 digital anime channel --
FORT WORTH, TX - April 10, 2007 -- FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation and the market share leader for...
New York, NY (September 13, 2006) " In response to the growing demand for anime programming, Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, and Central Park Media, a pioneer in the distribution of anime in the United States, will make anime availabl...
Ali T. Kokmen joins CPM from stint at HarperCollins
NEW YORK, NY (November 14, 2005) Central Park Media (CPM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ali T. Kokmen as Director of Book Sales. Mr. Kokmen was formerly the Sales & Marketing Manager for H...
CPM and the NEAS Ring in the New Year from Boston's Hynes Convention Center
BOSTON, MA (December 23, 2005) - Boston is home to America's longest running First Night celebration, and for the past two years, the city's New England Anime Society has proudly...
Author J.K Rowling has given her permission and blessings for a Harry Potter theme park to be built in Orlando, Florida.
The joint venture between Warner Bros Entertainment and Universal Orlando Resort will be called The Wizarding World of Harry Po...
SCIFI.COM reported yesterday that actor Ray Park (STAR WARS: EPISODE I), confirmed his involvement with the film adaptation of Marvel Comics' IRON FIST series, but that the project was still in the early stages of development."We're looking at starting," ...
If you check out our official Mania blog section, you will have noticed Maniac, Fallensbane, spreading the word on an upcoming horror comic adaptation, TRAILER PARK OF TERROR. The official trailer has hit online so I'll just write it up here and plug it f...
Up until now, most anime companies have considered DVD as something not very important in their quest to be number one in the industry. But some companies are seeing the anime DVD market as ground yet to be claimed... ground that hasn't been sought after ...
As a film`s success grows, so does our thirst for information on those associated with it. With Ray Park, we`re now talking about three successful franchises (Mortal Kombat, Star Wars, X-Men) and a one-hit wonder (SLEEPY HOLLOW). In Part One of my inter...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayIn IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK, chaos is still the name of the game. Lucky Makoto meets the beautiful and mysterious Asumi, and "actress" with a glamorous d...
It seems the new trend for the studios is to release TV “event” episodes as single DVDs despite the same episode being released in box set later down the line. It must be profitable because South Park has been doing it for a while and lon...
Warner Bros. has grabbed the rights of an untitled pitch for a fantasy set in Central Park, reports Variety. Bryan Schulz and Neil Uliano will write the script. Dan Lin will produce through his WB-based Lin Pictures, and Jon Silk will co-produce. The ide...
New York, NY (June 10, 2005) – Central Park Media has announced that it will express its gratitude to its loyal Patlabor fans for their continued enthusiasm and support of the Patlabor: The Mobile Police TV series throughout its long-running release...
Ray Park seems to be making a living out of playing villains cloaked in makeup. This is true of his latest role, that of Toad in X-Men, but the character allowed him to break the mold at least a little bit: although still covered in green greasepaint, his...
Directors Nick Park and Peter Lord want everyone to know that stop-motion animation is alive and well, and living in the 21st-century, thank you very much. In a summer that has seen the computer generated, high-tech thrills of Disney`s DINOSAUR and TITAN...
New York, NY (June 10, 2005) – Central Park Media has announced that it will express its gratitude to its loyal Patlabor fans for their continued enthusiasm and support of the Patlabor: The Mobile Police TV series throughout its long-running release...
Sure, SOUTH PARK is the best show on television, but who could have guessed that Trey Parker and Matt Stone would be able to expand their Comedy Central hit into the best apocalyptic-action-adventure-fantasy movie of this summer? That’s right: this isn’t...
3-Disc Box Set to be Priced at $29.95 SRP and Single Discs to be Priced From $9.95 SRP.
NEW YORK, NY (November 21, 2006) î º Central Park Media announced today that it will kick off the new year with the re-release and re-pricing of Black Jack DVD Collec...
CENTRAL PARK MEDIA SET TO RELEASE
The Heroic Legend of Arlsan, Gall Force: Earth Chapter, Revolutionary Girl
Utena: Finale, Revolutionary Girl Utena: Apocalypse Saga DVD Collection,
And Zero Woman: The Hunted
Titles Slated For Release On November 11...
Some new stills have appeared for the upcoming horror film TRAILER PARK OF TERROR, an adaptation of the Imperium Comic series which was directed by Steven Goldmann and written by Timothy Dolan. It stars Nichole Hiltz (as Norma, the "Tr...
Going into 2003, Central Park Media looks to have had a set plan of catching up on a number of remasters to bring some of their outsourced titles back into their library proper, fix a few older mistakes or releases that were used as experiments back in ...
In order to ensure maximum sales potential this Holiday Season, Central Park Media is pleased to announce that there will be a price reduction on the following Box Sets effective
September 2, 2003.
Catalog # Title UPC SRP ...
GOSFORD PARK is a curious mixture of meticulous observation of English social class structure and customs in the 1930s and a desultory murder mystery that follows the outer form of an Agatha Christie whodunit/whydunit. The former, with its passion for det...
Central Park Media/ Be Beautiful panel hosted John O'Donnell, Masumi O'Donnell and Peter Tatara
John started out with what CPM has released this year. Blackjack was the first title presented. Shadow Star Narutaru
was the next Japanese title mentioned. ...
Central Park Media has unleashed their 2004 Catalog on their site and there\'s some noteworthy things to mention:Armored Trooper VOTOMS is returning, in a series of \"stages\" box sets. The Uoodo City Collection will be out this fall, no price, with a run...
Central Park Media, which distributes the domestic DVD releases of classic anime titles like RECORD OF THE LODOSS WAR, PROJECT A-KO and ROUJIN Z, has announced the re-release of GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. A Japanese anime feature film, FIREFLIES has been ref...
Ed Chavez is looking at yet another title that doesn\'t seem to reach the top layer of the buzz circuit when it comes to manga coming out these days with something that more people may want to look into. Released in November 2004 from Digital Manga Publis...
Ed Chavez is checking another volume of a series being released in its larger size format with the March 2005 release of Ikebukuro West Gate Park Vol. #3 (of 4) from Digital Manga Publishing.
Sometimes the word \"cut\" can be used in a good way. According to the December release update list from Central Park Media, they have a new round of titles being reduced in price:The Maze OVA release is dropping to 9.95 while the 4 disc box set of the TV...
John,
I would like to once again extend my thanks for your time in answering these burning questions of the faithful anime fan.
This format has brought about somewhat of a new breed of fan, if the emails I get are any evidence. Many are becoming quite k...
We\'ve been so inundated with new reviews to write of early releases the last couple of weeks that we haven\'t had a chance to really get to these like we wanted to, but let\'s see if we can get things rolling again by taking a look at Central Park Media ...
The release month for July looks a bit slim from Central Park Media as listed on their site today:Shadowstar Naruratu Collection - 325 minutes - $49.98 - 07/25/2006
July 22, 2003
Start your engines.....It's another industry first for CPM that is sure to generate 4th quarter sales for you and excitement for your customers. The Central Park Media Anime Test Drive is ready to hit the road! This fall your custome...
Martial arts expert and upcoming Snake Eye player Ray Park sat down with the fellow geeks over at Geekscape and talked a bit about everything. From the upcoming G.I Joe to his inspiration growing up, as well as eventually landing an iconic character in a ...
The Central Park Media site has updated with their June offerings or at least their initial batch of offerings as they have updated in the past with more:Shadow Star Narutaru Vol. #2 (of 4) - 75 minutes - $29.98 - 06/14/2005While that is their only new of...
Moviehole talked to WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT's director Nick Park, who offered an update on what he/or the studio are up to next. Though he says a WALLACE & GROMIT 2 is a ways off - he has got an idea for a sequel to CHICKEN RUN. P...
Mezco has released a look at the upcoming 6th series of South Park figures.The series includes Ming Wa Cartman, Nurse Gollum, Mr. Slave and Starvin' Marvin.The figures, which are listed to ship this August, can be pre-ordered over here.
Mezco Toyz, renowned creators of action figures and collectibles, have teamed up with Best Buy stores, North America's number-one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, to offer two iconic figures from the award winning South Park series. The first f...
ITV.COM presents an item concerning the impending opening of STAR TREK: THE ADVENTURE in London's Hyde Park on December 18. The $47 million exhibition will tour the world for five years after the opening, with stops set for the U. S., Europe, and Australi...
While talking up the new spy film BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER, in which he plays a minor role, X-MEN and STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE heavy Ray Park gave an update for another film on his slate, IRON FIST. The adaptation of the Marvel Comic will ...
Confirming rumors that have been circulating since last week, Artisan Entertainment has signed Ray Park (Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace and Toad in X-Men) to play the title role in the upcoming filmization of Iron Fist, which will...
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the two creators behind Comedy Central's hit animated series SOUTH PARK, have a new target in sight: puppets.The duo and writing partner Pam Brady are making TEAM AMERICA, a feature-length send-up of today's action and superher...
GHOSTBUSTERS director Ivan Reitman is working on a deal that will see him executive produce a TRAILER PARK BOYS feature film. The movie is based on a four-year-old hit TV series that airs in Canada about a trio of borderline criminals that grow dope and w...
This excellent feature film, the sleeper success of last summer, is now available on DVD as part of Paramount’s Widescreen Collection. One might wonder whether the simple, cutout style of animation really benefits from the high-tech presentation: is the p...
August 18, 2003
Dear Central Park Media Customer:
This November, Central Park Media will add two more graphic novel releases to its $9.99 line and will re-release an all new version of Record of Lodoss War: The Lady of Pharis Collector's Edition: Book ...
*Note: Slight Spoilers*Grace Park talked to Sci Fi Wire about the upcoming third season finale of Battlestar Galactica, disclosing some information about the plot and what we can expect to happen."We are going to see the resolution of the trial of Ba...
Well, it has taken almost 40 years, but finally, X-MEN has come to town. In the beginning it was Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Marvel Girl, Iceman, and The Angel donned in blue and gold and sporting the familiar X insignia versus Magneto, Mastermind, Toad...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayThe streets of IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK are notoriously crazy, but when the drug underworld brings Makoto face-to-face with a girl from his past, things ...
Blind Faith - Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Rick Grech - were one of rock's first supergroups, recalling the success of Cream and Crosby Stills & Nash but sadly were a spark that quickly faded out after a single record.Now, after more th...
Emily Rossum (Phantom of the Opera), Eriko Tamura (Heroes) and Joon Park have been cast in the upcoming live-action DRAGON BALL Z, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The trio will be joining Justin Chatwin, James Marsters and Jami Chung. ...
I began the Star Spotlight column back on March 4, 2007 featuring George Lucas as one of the Godfathers of Modern Cinema. It featured one of the men responsible for changing the landscapes of Hollywood over the last 30 years. A man who shell shocked pop c...
Along with the recent announcement that Artisan Entertainment was bringing a new version of THE PUNISHER to the big screen came an update on the long-ago announced IRON FIST. According to VARIETY, Ray Park (Darth Maul in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM M...
According to Variety, Bong Joon-ho (The Host) and Park Chan-wook (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Oldboy) are teaming up to make La Transperceneige.The film, which will be shot in English, is set on a train that is the last refuge for human civilization on t...
Everyone expected the PLANET OF THE APES to open big... but perhaps not this big. The Tim Burton film opened to an incredible weekend taking in an estimated $69.6M. That amount resulted in landing the film the largest non-holiday three day openi...
In its season premiere, as promised in weeks of promos, the producers of SOUTH PARK did something only seen on... other cable channels. They broke the sh*t barrier in language by having Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle say that four letter curse word.....
Company Set to Release Four Titles in 2008:
Fever, Hotel Africa, Martin and John, and Too Long
Los Angeles, CA (March 5, 2008)―TOKYOPOP, the leader of the global manga revolution, is thrilled to announce a multi-book publishing deal with Korea's ho...
August 18, 2003
Dear Central Park Media Customer:
From the daring escapades of a brave young Prince who takes on an army of mighty warriors in an attempt to reclaim his homeland in The Heroic Legend of Arslan to the demise of a world ruled by lethal war...
This week’s column marks the start of my second year of DVD Shopping List, and I want to thank all the readers out there for the support they’ve shown for it – if you’re all enjoying it, that makes all the time & trouble that goes into it worthwhile.O...
The Prize Closet is throbbing so let's get right to it! Geneon Entertainment has provided us with 5-packs of their recent releases to give away to five lucky readers. Send an email to psycho@psychotronic.info with your mailing address and "GENEON 5" in th...
Legend of the Dragon Kings: Under Fire (DVD) (D/S)
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Legend of the Dragon Kings: Under Fire/Black Dragon 2-Pack (DVD) (D/S)
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7-19987-23362-1
Legend of the Dragon Kings: Red Dragon (DVD) (D/S)
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August 18, 2003
Dear Anime 18 Customer:
This November, the final chilling conclusion to Adventure Kid - The Original Manga will be released.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
November 12, 2003
Adventure Kid - The Original Manga Book 4: Input Devices - $16.95 srp
He's a...
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....
By MegazoneCPM has episodes 14-26 of Utena. They have the option on
episodes 27-39. And they are negotiating for the movie.
Remember how they put their sub VHS releases on moratorium? They\'re coming
back in the next few months for $14.95-$16.95, ...
YAHOO! AP News covers Wednesday's announcement of a site selection for a planned Dracula theme park, to be constructed in Romania near the traditional burial place of medieval Romanian prince Vlad Dracul, known as the Impaler and the basis for the legend ...
Summer is almost officially here, and it’s time to start making plans for road trips to drive-ins. Though once you could easily find a drive-in theater nearby, now many of them have disappeared, and those of us that enjoy watching movies under the stars a...
Everyone's favorite foul-mouthed parka-wearing grade schoolers will have more opportunities to tickle our funny bones now that Comedy Central has renewed SOUTH PARK for two more seasons. The animated comedy series, already in its seventh season, has rece...
June looks to be a light month for CPM based on the solicitations that have been added to their site today:Revolutionary Girl Utena Collection 3: Apocalypse Saga - 325 minutes - $39.95 - 06/27/2006Votoms, Armored Trooper Stage 3: Deadworld Sunsa - 300 min...
A mix of new solicitations tonight. First, we\'ve got the March 2006 DVD listings for their main line, Be Beautiful and Anime 18:Kizuna: Kazuma Kodaka Signature Edition - 60 minutes - $29.95 - 03/07/2006Crimson Climax Vol. #2 - 60 minutes - $29.95 - 03/07...
Grade: A- Homemade haunted houses surely have their charm, but to have the boo scared out of you, there's only one place to go -- Knott's Scary Farm in Southern California. This yearly affair from Knott's Berry Farm, transforms the park after hours into a...
August is the end date for a rather fun trip into the past with the conclusion of this series from CPM:Votoms, Armored Trooper Collection - 1300 minutes - $149.95 - 08/08/2006Votoms, Armored Trooper Stage 4: God Planet Quent - 325 minutes - $34.95 - 08/08...
According to an article at Anime News Network (which may be inaccessable at the moment due to server fixes they\'re working on this weekend), CPM has laid off its staff save for a few to clean up loose ends. Conflicting information about the term bankrupt...
The CPM site has updated with some new information today; in addition to their VOTOMS announcement previously, they\'ve added a new collectors edition today with some first time on DVD material as well:Wrath of the Ninja Collectors Series Edition - 225 mi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Park Sung Woo/Oh Rhe Bar GuhnTranslated by:Je-wa JeongAdapted by:What They SayOn a combined drug sting operation between the police and Peigenz, a female assassin takes out the the drug lord before is apprehended. Furthermore...
In addition to the couple of new titles, CPM continues to reprice their catalog and August has several new titles that have been affected:Animation Runner Kuromi Collector\'s Series Edition - $9.95
Descendants of Darkness DVD Collection - $39.95
Descendan...