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Variety has another update on the live-action Hollywood Death Note movie, which is being helmed by You're Next and The Guest director Adam Wingard. The latest report has Nat Wolff—star of big screen adaptations of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns …Read more »
When Hayao Miyazaki retired in 2013, he mentioned that while he was done with feature filmmaking, he still had plenty of projects up his sleeve, including potential animated shorts for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Miyazaki is making good on that promise, and now …Read more »
Netflix is making the leap into Asia next month, with a Japanese launch set for September 2. The streaming service will feature its originals like Daredevil and Marco Polo , as well as the Knights of Sidonia anime, among other programs. The global expansion of …Read more »
Someday, there will be a week we squeak by without reporting on any live-action anime adaptations. But it is not this week. The rights to the Hollywood-produced live-action version of the Hollywood-produced anime mashup Robotech has switched hands from Warner Bros. to Sony Pictures, reports …Read more »
Whoa, it’s finally happening: Netflix is bringing its digital streaming services to Japan later this year. The announcement came last Wednesday courtesy of both Netflix’s US twitter account and an official press release , and should come as good news, particularly to expats living in …Read more »
Variety posted an exclusive report on the planned Ghost in the Shell live-action adaptation coming out of Hollywood. While The Wolf of Wall Street 's Margot Robbie was previously a contender for the lead role, it now looks like Scarlett Johansson might be suiting up …Read more »
Miyazaki with Pixar chief John Lasseter at the ceremony Legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki received an honorary Oscar for his “years of contributions to the motion picture industry” at a ceremony on Sunday. Receiving the award, Miyazaki said, “my wife told me I’m a very …Read more »
English-language anime news sites and Twitter experienced a flurry of activity Sunday evening as reports circulated that Studio Ghibli, the studio behind Ponyo , Spirited Away and The Wind Rises , would be closing its doors. Sites like Twitch posted articles with headlines like “Studio …Read more »
The Tokyo International Film Festival, one of Asia’s most important film fests, will devote a section to Hideaki Anno, creator and director of Evangelion . Anno, a co-founder of studio Gainax, is one of the most influential and important anime directors of the last twenty …Read more »
Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte manga—which ran in the pages of monthly magazine Gekkan Afternoon from 1990 to 1995 and remains popular in Japan—is getting not one, but two films. Now that New Line no longer holds the rights, Toho has stepped in to produce a two-part …Read more »
The wait to see most anime feature films released stateside can be pretty arduous – let’s consider Studio Ghibli’s own From Up On Poppy Hill, for example. The film, released theatrically in Japan way back in July of 2011, wasn’t given a theatrical run in …Read more »
It seems like just yesterday we were all grousing over Warner Bros. now on-hold Akira adaptation, but it looks like the next hot manga/anime property in line is Bleach . Though there have been rumblings concerning a live-action adaptation in the past, Variety reports that …Read more »
Time heals all wounds. In 1987, during the height of Nintendo's iron grip on the gaming populace, a publisher by the name of Rainbow Arts released Great Giana Sisters —a blatant, shameless clone of Super Mario Bros.— for the Commodore 64 and a multitude of …Read more »
It's been a long time coming, and there have been many ups and downs as far as casting and, well, everything else goes, but thanks to a Variety report we now know that the live-action Akira has officially been green-lit by Warner Bros. Production on …Read more »
Normally I would have been skeptical from the moment a live-action adaptation of Buichi Terasawa's Space Adventure Cobra manga was announced, but I have faith in Alexandre Aja ( The Hills Have Eyes , Piranha 3D ) to get things right. That faith is further …Read more »
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