Mature games are coming under attack from the inside and a reported insider document reveals some very disturbing news, which will definitely affect the way game designers work on their future projects.

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McFarlane Launches Entire 2001 Lineup Online for Fans
Todd McFarlane's site Spawn.com has put together an absolutely amazing section of their site to show their Toy Fair 2001 lineup. Normally this is the sort of stuff that only media and buyers get to take a look at during Toy Fair but in a normal fan-friendly move that McFarlane is famous for, he's presented the entire catalog online, as well as a virtual tour of the actual showroom at Toy Fair.

Some of the horror highlights (and there are many!) include the Movie Maniacs 4 lineup that includes the Blair Witch, Evil Ash, Terminator (T 800), T1000 (2 versions), Candyman and a spectacular boxed set for Jaws (pictured here).

McFarlane's also offering two more 18" figures to the Movie Maniac line. This time it's the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Ash from Army of Darkness. The detail on these is stunning.

Hold on to your butts, because this year McFarlane isn't stopping with just the movie maniacs line. There will also be the Tortured Souls figures from Clive Barker and these aren't just pushing the envelope of graphically intense figures, it's shredding it. Just take a look at the figure called The Fix and you'll know exactly what we're talking about!

And in another beautiful line comes the H.R. Giger figures. The picture here shows one of them. It's difficult not to believe that's the original Giger art but it is actually a figure (it's almost too tough not to call it a statue).

They are also launching a fantastic looking anime line, which includes a beautiful Ghost in the Shell figure. For more information and all the photos for the entire 2001 McFarlane lineup, click here for the official site.

Hannibal Producer Plans on Prequel and Another Sequel
Dark Horizons reports Caltanet Cinema attended the Hannibal press conference at the Berlin Film Festival and almost right from the start a question was asked to Producer Dino DeLaurentiis about doing the first Lecter novel Red Dragon again (for those not in the know, Michael Mann adapted it in 1986 under the title Manhunter). DeLaurentiis indicated the movie will be "a remake of Manhunter, but there will also a sequel to Hannibal (ie. a fourth chapter). He explained his remake of Manhunter by saying the audience wants to know something more about the origins of the famous Doctor". Would Hopkins participate? Hopkins says he'll decide once he reads the script (currently being worked on by Ted Tally). De Laurentiis also indicated he was going to try and get a lot of the cast and crew who worked on Hannibal to come back and do Red Dragon.

Hannibal Gobbles Up Box Office Records
Variety reports Hannibal grossed a record-breaking $58 million in its first three days of release in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

If the numbers hold Hannibal will replace 2000's Mission: Impossible II ($57.9 million) as the third-highest bow in movie history, after 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($72 million) and 1999's Star Wars: Episode One -- The Phantom Menace ($64.8 million). It also set new records for a non-summer opening, an R-rated release and for a release by domestic distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

"I must confess I expected it to be big, but not this big," Hannibal producer Dino De Laurentiis told Reuters from Berlin.