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Despite an amazing year full of quality work, some terrible news arrived for the animators at one of the branches of CG animation studio Moving Picture Company (MPC). The Vancouver-based studio is hot off heavy-hitters like The Lion King remake, as well as work on Detective Pikachu and the spruced-up Sonic …Read more »
Two Japanese movies were honored at the 2024 Academy Awards: The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla Minus One. Godzilla Minus One got the award for best visual effects, and upon getting back to Japan, the movie’s crew set up a press conference to talk about …Read more »
The live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series hit Netflix on December 14, and now that it’s been out for a little bit, Netflix is revealing its rankings. During its first week out, Yu Yu Hakusho received 7.7 million views, and was watched for 32.1 million hours. …Read more »
What does an anime-themed Japanese food truck do after overcoming adversity in the business? Make an anime about it, of course. The Okamoto Kitchen OVA, out now on YouTube (or the Okamoto Kitchen site here), is a comedic take on what the real business Okamoto …Read more »
Netflix announced plans for a live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series back in December 2020, and it’s about to come to fruition three years later. The streamer’s official social accounts went live with the news that the live-action spin on Yoshihiro Togashi’s classic series officially has …Read more »
To say Attack on Titan is a terrifying series would be an understatement. Even before the Walls came down, the uncanny megamonsters of the series got into our nightmares. Every revelation builds out a world that’s increasingly eldritch, leading up to the horror of the Rumbling. …Read more »
At long last, it’s time to see how the planned redesign of the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie’s lead character went. While some doubts understandably popped up during the wait, we have to hand it to the team behind it. Director Jeff Fowler and his VFX crew took …Read more »
When the Sonic the Hedgehog trailer first hit, the reactions were pretty much universal. That look had to go, right? While fans were a little concerned when director Jeff Fowler said they’d be changing the Blue Blur’s look, mostly because it might mean some serious overtime for VFX …Read more »
Following the less than warm reception to the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog trailer, director Jeff Fowler promised to fix the design before release. The fact that Sonic was set for this November had everyone feeling a little nervous for the artists and animators that would be feeling the most pressure, …Read more »
We recently posted about the newly-revealed plans for a My Hero Academia anime film, which now has an official website and Twitter account. The feature’s Japanese theatrical release has been confirmed for summer 2018, and manga author Kohei Hirokoshi is supervising and providing character designs …Read more »
Have you met the man or woman of your dreams? Is that man or woman… two-dimensional? If you’re looking to get hitched but there’s a slight, well, hitch, one company in Japan has the thing for you. Gatebox, a company that “lets you experience cohabitation …Read more »
Lionsgate's live-action Naruto film adaptation has a couple of writers tapped for a rewrite of the script. This responsibility falls to Jon and Erich Hoeber, who previously worked on the adaptations of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's Red comic, as well as upcoming monster movie …Read more »
Famous Monsters of Filmland famous for being the first monster and science fiction magazine of its kind covered film, television, and trends including cosplay back in 1958 returns to conventions which they held in the 1970s, 80’s, and recently as Alien Con 2016 produced in …Read more »
Bandai Namco is cooking up a new Sword Art Online game for smartphones. Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag was recently revealed for iOS and Android devices during a live stream, and an official website is now live. Memory Defrag will be a free-to-play, side-scrolling action-RPG …Read more »
It’s been about a week since the internet got its first look at Scarlett Johansson as the Major in Paramount Pictures/Dreamworks’ live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell . Since then, reaction to the image has been, in Ghost in the Shell terms, vast and …Read more »
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