Featured Spotlight: Funimation Films Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul manga is a certified fan-favorite thriller, with people around the world glued to its pages along with the pair of anime adaptations that followed. Now the series is entering another dimension entirely in the form of the …Read more »
If Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi were to helm the live-action Akira film, he would cast Asian actors in the main roles. That’s what he told IGN in an interview published by the site this week. In the interview, Waititi was very coy about whether …Read more »
Tokyo Ghoul: The Movie is coming to select theaters in English from October 16 to October 22, and we have an exclusive clip to share. Watch as Kaneki seeks help from veteran ghoul Touka in the English-subtitled preview below. If you plan on checking out …Read more »
The upcoming Fullmetal Alchemist movie may be live-action, but Alphonse is going to have to stay animated. That means he needs a voice, and the job is officially going to 21-year-old actor Atomu Mizuishi. He was first hired as a motion capture actor for the …Read more »
In case you forgot, which is understandable, last year Skydance Television acquired the global rights to Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online series, and they’re planning to produce a live-action television series. Now SAO has a pair of writer-producers lined up to act as showrunners, executive …Read more »
Your Name, Makoto Shinkai’s hit 2016 anime film, will be adapted into a live-action Hollywood remake, it was reported today. The film will be produced by Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot, the production company of J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Abrams, Lindsey Weber …Read more »
The theme song performer has been revealed for the upcoming live-action Fullmetal Alchemist film. Misia, a singer-songwriter who previously provided themes for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans and the King of Thorn movie, will perform the “Kimi no Soba ni Iru yo” (“I’m By Your …Read more »
Curious what the world of Fullmetal Alchemist will look like in live-action form? In anticipation of the film’s release, several behind-the-scenes and promotional stills, which show Ed, Alphonse and the whole gang, were revealed today. The live-action Fullmetal Alchemist, which debuts at the Tokyo International …Read more »
Move over, Akira—an Hollywood adaptation of a far more obscure (though no less 80s) Japanese property is on the way. Producers Roy Lee (It) and Scott Bernstein have teamed up to bring Kow Yokoyama’s mecha series Ma.K to the big screen. Even if you’ve never …Read more »
Every time you think the live-action Hollywood adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira is down for the count, it pops another capsule and jumps back on the bike. According to Deadline Hollywood, Akira is “revving back up,” and Taika Waititi, who directed Thor: Ragnarok, is in …Read more »
Last week’s Nikufes (Meat Festival) Tokyo 2017 was host to some anime-related programming, including a panel featuring a roundtable discussion with producers Hiroshi Kanemaru, Tomoki Misawa, and 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime director Seiji Mizushima. When the topic came around to the trend of live-action films …Read more »
The live-action Hollywood remake of Robotech has been in development hell for years now, but it appears to be inching towards life. In the most recent piece of Robotech news, it’s been announced Jason Fuchs, who co-wrote Wonder Woman, will pen the screenplay for the …Read more »
The Japanese entertainment industry is aflutter today with the news that actress Emi Takei (Rurouni Kenshin, Terra Formars) is engaged to Takahiro from musical group Exile—and pregnant. This is a big deal not just because Takei is a popular actress, but because her various advertising …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of fan favorite Fullmetal Alchemist opens in Japan December 1, and the promotional train is picking up steam. Today a poster for the film was unveiled that gives us a glimpse of all the main cast members in costume. This poster joins …Read more »
Takashi Miike’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure movie may have been bad enough to force our own Matt Schley to swear off seeing manga adaptations in the theater, but maybe his next movie will make up for it. Based on the manga by Hiroaki Samura, Blade of …Read more »
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