Anime

BioWare’s Dragon Age being adapted into anime feature film

BioWare and FUNimation Entertainment today announced an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from BioWare’s critically-acclaimed fantasy Action RPG franchise Dragon Age. Production of the Dragon Age anime should start shortly, with a home video release sometime during 2011. Executive producing the film are BioWare’s Mark Darrah and Mike Laidlaw, as well as ….

Win Ghost in the Shell 2.0, Blood: The Last Vampire or Dante’s Inferno on Blu-ray disc

The site New York-Tokyo has received a great Blu-ray Disc collection, which includes the animated feature films Ghost in the Shell 2.0, Blood: The Last Vampire and Dante’s Inferno, all from Starz Media. They’re looking to share these ultimate high definition experiences with their readers. For all those who loved Mamoru Oshii’s legendary Ghost in ….

William Shatner, Stan Lee, Bionic Woman, Futurama, and Adam West headline Anaheim Comic Con this weekend

William Shatner, Stan Lee, Ilya Salkind and the original cast of Batman and TV show and movie screenings highlight the daily programming at Anaheim Comic Con this weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center. Friday begins with a special session with Academy Award-winning make-up artist Barney Burnham (5 p.m., Room 202A), followed by the popular “Wizard ….

Anime premiere screenings coming to Natural History Museum

The Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World exhibition at the American Natural History Museum explores one of the greatest trading routes in history, the legendary Silk Road. The journey takes visitors through the ancient cities from the Middle East to Asia during AD600-1200. In conjunction with this Exhibition, the Global Weekends ….

VIZ to release gritty urban science fiction horror series Dorohedoro

VIZ Media is set to publish manga creator Q Hayashida’s gritty urban sci-fi/horror series, Dorohedoro next week. The new series will be distributed through the company’s VIZ Signature imprint. Dorohedoro centers on a city so dismal it’s known only as “the Hole,” where an underground group of Sorcerers have been abducting people off the streets ….

Anime and horror festival Zonacon coming to Orlando this month

Join Jim O’Rear (Star Trek 4), Sybil Danning (Howling 2), Terrance Zdunick (Repo), a Return Of The Living Dead reunion, and many more guests on November 20-22 in Orlando, Florida, for Zonacon, a celebration of anime and horror. Date: November 20-22, 2009 Location Holiday Inn International Drive Resort 6515 International Drive Orlando, Florida 32819 For ….

Win one of three copies of the Gigantor: The Collection Volume 2 four disc DVD set

He’s returned to save the world from evil criminals, enemy robots and hostile aliens in the final 26 episodes of the classic cartoon series Gigantor, being released in a highly collectible four disc DVD set on September 22nd, from E1 Entertainment. To celebrate the release, Film Fetish is giving away three copies of the complete ….

Anime feature Eureka Seven to screen at U.S. theaters nationwide

NCM Fathom and Bandai are teaming up for a nationwide screening of Eureka Seven – Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers, a futuristic tale straight from Japan about mankind vs. the machine. This event will be a special one-night only screening on Thursday, September 24th at 7:30 PM. This unique English-dubbed theater event will feature ….

Wolfgang Petersen developing live-action version of the anime Paprika

Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) developing a live-action feature film version of the book and anime film Paprika, according to Moviehole. According to the report, the director is hard at work to bring the acclaimed novel to the big screen. The original 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, tells the story of ….

Win one of five pair of tickets to advance screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo

The long awaited U.S. debut of animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo is here. The New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival is presenting the first East Coast screening of the film in a special pre-release event 3:00pm on Sunday, August 9th at Symphony Space in New York City. Also, if you’re feeling lucky, New York – ….

Ninja Scroll & Vampire Hunter D animators Madhouse to reveal Iron Man and Wolverine anime shows at Comic-Con ’09

Marvel Entertainment has teamed up with iconic Japanese animation studio Madhouse (who animated Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers, Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D, Trigun, Tokyo Godfathers, the list goes on… it’s just insane) to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Get an exciting first glimpse of two of the planned four series ….