World Record gaming event being held at New York Comic-Con
Guinness World Records is getting ready to celebrate the release of its latest video game book – Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2009 – and is urging all gamers to take part in a record-breaking event at New York’s Comic Con this weekend. This weekend convention visitors will attempt to break the Guinness World Record ….
Two more images surface from the Astro Boy movie
Ain’t It Cool News has posted two seriously cool images from Summit Entertainment’s upcoming Astro Boy animated movie, which the mini-major will be previewing this Saturday at New York Comic-Con, along with an entire sequence from the film, according to the report.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen figure exclusives
Empire Online has posted exclusive sample images of the new toy line tied to Michael Bay’s upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which hint at what some of the new giant robots will look like in the film.
Sci-fi goes global with new Japanese VIZ Media imprint
VIZ Media has announced the launch of a brand-new imprint called Haikasoru, which will publish an array of contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy stories for English audiences. This is the first time an imprint with a dedicated focus on Japanese sci-fi has launched in North America. Haikasoru is scheduled to publish twelve books a ….
Costumes from Takashi Miike’s “kid’s film” Yatterman revealed
Variety Asia and Japan Today posted some pics from Takashi Miike’s next film Yattaman, or Yatterman, based on an animation which first aired in Japan in the late 1970s. Miike, who has directed some of the most violent crime thrillers and bloody horrors in recent memory, is trying the teen genre. But this won’t his ….
Keanu Reeves will top-line Cowboy Bebop live-action film for Fox
It’s been reported for some time that Fox is overseeing a big-screen version of the popular Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop. Variety has confirmed that Keanu Reeves in fact attached to star as the easygoing bounty hunter Spike Spiegel, who wanders through space in search of fortune and good times, in the year 2071. Cowboy ….
Bakugan anime to get feature film treatment from Universal
Variety reports that Universal has entered into a deal with toy company Spin Master to bring Bakugan Battle Brawlers to the big screen. The Japanese anime show airs six days a week on the Cartoon Network, and also has a strategy game that uses metal cards and magnetic, spring-loaded figures that transform from marble-like balls ….
Full trailer for Dragonball feature online
Dragonball follows the story of Goku, who, at the request of his dying adoptive grandfather Gohan, seeks out the great Master Roshi, in an attempt to gather all seven fabled “Dragon Balls”, of which he possesses one. His mission is to get them before the evil Lord Piccolo from using the power of the Dragon ….
Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii to give intro at premiere of Sky Crawlers
This Friday, December 12th, New York-Tokyo and the Film Society of Lincoln Center present the New York premiere of director Mamoru Oshii’s (Ghost in the Shell, PatLabor: The Mobile Police) latest film, The Sky Crawlers, which is described as an engaging combination of philosophy and science fiction, featuring brilliantly executed aerial combat sequences. Oshii sees ….
Animation community site goes global
The Association of Japanese Animations, an industry organization consisting mainly of animation production companies, recently announced that its community website, called Open Post, now has an English-language section. Open Post acts as a forum that provides animation professionals with an opportunity to submit and publish their work online. The new English-language section allows submissions from ….
Japanese anime company making live-action Bubblegum Crisis movie
Tokyo-based animation outfit Anime International Company (AIC) has contracted with Singapore-based Cubix, a visual software production company, to make a live-action version of the sci-fi anime series Bubblegum Crisis, according to Variety. The companies plan a large budget for the feature, directed towards a U.S. theatrical release sometime in 2011. Bubblegum Crisis creators Shinji Aramaki ….
Astro Boy teaser trailer goes live
David Bowers, who helmed Flushed Away, is directing the upcoming Summit Pictures’ film Astro Boy. The Studio has just released the first teaser trailer for the movie, which is due in theaters on October 23rd 2009. Based on the classic anime series by Osamu Tezuka, with a script by Timothy Harris (Twins, My Stepmother Is ….
New Naruto media to release nearly simultaneously in U.S and Japan
VIZ Media has announced an innovative and unprecedented multimedia plan to provide a near-simultaneous Japan-U.S. release of NARUTO, one of the most popular Japanese animated and manga properties in the world. Beginning on January 15th 2009, the latest episode of the NARUTO SHIPPUDEN animated series will be available for free viewing on the ultimate destination ….
MTV now casting for I’m A Fan Boy – show to be taped at New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con is working closely with MTV to help them cast a fanboy segment for the network’s award-winning True Life documentary series. All interested fanboys are encouraged to apply immediately. All applications will be reviewed by the talent and production staff at MTV’s True Life. Are you obsessed with comic books, anime, fantasy, ….
Trailer for Dragonball film
Dragonball is based on the extremely popular manga and anime series about a young boy named Goku who seeks out, upon his grandfather’s dying request, to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls (of which he has one) in order to prevent Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the ….