These live-action adaptations just don’t stop coming, man. Today we’re reporting on not one but two live-action versions of classic anime, this one being the classic anime: Astro Boy , also known as Tetsuwan Atom . The film will be produced by Animal Logic Entertainment …Read more »
A Hollywood version of Robotech has been announced, delayed and changed hands more than once over the last few years, but Deadline Hollywood is reporting the project is “back online.” The project is now in the hands of Warner Bros-based producers Hollywood Gang. Set to …Read more »
Millions of Final Fantasy VII fans suddenly cried out in joy and then subsequent terror Saturday as Square Enix announced Final Fantasy VII would be coming to Playstation 4… as a slightly tweaked version of the PC port. The announcement of a simple port of …Read more »
Sometimes you forget just how much of a force Pokémon really is. Then you find out that the latest installments of the franchise -- Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire -- sold over 3 million copies worldwide this past weekend. And then you find out that’s …Read more »
A television broadcast of Evangelion 3.33 last Friday served up a brief teaser of the fourth and final film in the Evangelion remake series. And we do mean brief. After the credits rolled, the words “Next” and “Evangelion 3.0+1.0” appeared on screen. The image subsequently …Read more »
The Hollywood remake train keeps rollin’. It was announced this week a Hollywood version of Space Battleship Yamato has been greenlit, with a tentative release date of 2017 or 2018. The Space Battleship Yamato film, which may be titled Star Blazers after Yamato’s American dub, …Read more »
It’s been a big week for Godzilla in his hometown of Tokyo. We reported the other day in a giant Godzilla statue that’s been set up in a park in Tokyo, and the new Godzilla film is finally opening in Japan this Friday. Well, thanks …Read more »
Photo: Hector Garcia Godzilla hasn't done a whole lot of stomping Tokyo recently. The last time was about ten years ago in 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars , after which Toho sent him into hibernation until the release of this year's Hollywood Godzilla film. Well, to …Read more »
So Akira , the live action Hollywood remake. Is this thing happening or not? The short answer: uh, maybe. The film, which has been an on-and-off deal since it was announced in 2011, has been through a mound of rewrites, budget cuts and scrapped designs, …Read more »
The hype surrounding the recent Sailor Moon remake is yet another reminder that the Japanese animation industry is an unrelenting, ouroborosian machine that consumes itself just as fast as it reinvents itself. Sailor Moon ’s staggering popularity in Japan was matched in the U.S. by …Read more »
As infrequently as live action Hollywood adaptations of manga and anime properties tend to actually make it through to production (see: Akira , Battle Angel Alita , the live-action Robotech with Tobey Maguire), every once in a while something slips through, a freak blip in …Read more »
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D could mean very different things depending on who and how old you are. To me, it's the latest reincarnation of an N64 game I hated myself over when I was 13 because I always got sidetracked and …Read more »
Previously restricted to some not-so-hot magazine photos, we can now get a much better idea of what to expect from Konami's upcoming Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth , which will be available to eager Japanese gamers as early as next week on Wii's Virtual Console service. …Read more »
It's forgivable if A Boy and His Blob doesn't immediately strike a chord of nostalgia in some of you out there. After all, many of our readers likely weren't on this Earth for its original 1989 NES debut, and the rest could have understandably locked …Read more »
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