Death Note is all over the place once more, from the Netflix-destined adaptation by director Adam Wingard ( You're Next , The Guest ) to the new Japanese live-action attempt, Death Note: Light Up the New World . In the case of the latter a …Read more »
Funimation will be releasing the first film in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin trilogy in the US as Rurouni Kenshin: Origins , with screenings scheduled for August 8-10. With less than a month to go, Funimation busted out a new subtitled trailer promoting the feature's upcoming …Read more »
Who’s got Pokemon fever? If you answered “the entirety of America,” you would be correct. But if you answered “ Warcraft producers Legendary Pictures,” you would also be correct. That’s the word, at least, according to Deadline, who claim the studio has thrown a Pokeball …Read more »
Rumors have been swirling on this one for the last few weeks, but with an official announcement, it can no longer be denied: Gintama is coming to flesh-and-blood cinema in 2017. Shun Oguri, who appeared as Lupin in the live-action Lupin III film , as …Read more »
The live-action Akira film. Neither living nor dead, it resides in a limbo state not unlike that of a zombie, feeding on the brains of hapless anime journalists. The latest spasm of quasi-life for the long, long, long-delayed film come from entertainment news writer Jeff …Read more »
Okay, let’s get things straight from the beginning: there are currently two live-action Death Note films in various stages of production: the Netflix-produced American version and the Japanese Death Note Light up the NEW world , due out in theaters October 29. It’s the latter …Read more »
Funimation announced plans to bring the live-action trilogy of Rurouni Kenshin films to home video, starting with the first entry—localized for North American release as Rurouni Kenshin: Origins —this fall. The Takeru Satoh-lead trilogy will continue after that with home video releases of Rurouni Kenshin: …Read more »
With lots of Ghost in the Shell fans upset that a live-action version is even being created, let alone starring a non-Asian as main character Motoko Kusanagi, two guys who appear to be down with the project – at least enough to go visit the …Read more »
Well, folks, it looks like this thing really exists. In a bit of a cosmic coincidence, today the internet at large got not just the first look at the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist film, but the first on-set photos of the Scarlett Johansson Ghost in the …Read more »
Hiroya Oku, writer and illustrator of sci-fi manga Gantz , took to Twitter yesterday to vent his frustrations about recent live-action adaptations of manga and anime. Here's what Oku had to say: Why do these live-action manga movies continue to get made? Even if you …Read more »
James Cameron has been dreaming up a live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga for a long time, and plans recently started heating up more and more. Following earlier news that put Robert Rodriguez ( Sin City , Once Upon a Time in …Read more »
Rila Fukushima, a Japanese actor who co-starred in The Wolverine , has joined the live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell , says the Hollywood Reporter. Fukushima joins actors Scarlett Johansson and Takeshi Kitano in the film which opens March 31, 2017. Best known in …Read more »
The first advance review for the live-action adaptation of Terra Formars , which opens Friday in Japan, is out, and it is not exactly glowing. Critic Yuichi Maeda of the movie review site Chou Eiga Hihyou gave the film 5 out of a possible 100 …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 »
It's one thing to read about the casting for the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell film; now it's time for an idea of how it looks on screen. There's been no shortage of controversy surrounding Scarlett Johansson's role as the Major in Hollywood's Ghost …Read more »
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