Anime

Scribe ready for live action Ninja Scroll movie

One of my all time favorite Japanese anime films is getting the big-screen, blockbuster treatment from Warners’. I love anime, but especially love the more adult-oriented stories, with purposeful violence. The kid’s stuff well…that’s for kids. According to the report by The Hollywood Reporter, Alex Tse, who wrote the Watchmen adaptation, as well as the ….

The New York Anime Festival lands in NYC this weekend

The New York Anime Festival comes to NYC this weekend. The con is held at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan and features exclusive and extensive anime screenings, guests from America and Japan, manga, cosplay, video game competitions, live-action Japanese cinema, fashion, food, and the cultural treasures that gave birth to Japanese pop ….

Live-action Death Note II: the Last Name coming to big screen for two-night event

NCM Fathom and VIZ pictures team up to present Death Note II: the Last Name in movie theatres nationwide on Wednesday, October 15 and Thursday, October 16, 2008, at 7:30 pm. This breakthrough live-action Japanese mystery event will feature an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Death Note II: the Last Name, an in-depth ….

James Cameron says Avatar largest scale sci-fi project he’s ever attempted

James Cameron was recently interviewed in Los Angeles about his upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar, where he’s been working feverishly on the new film, which is due in theaters on December 18, 2009. According to a story in The Edmonton Post, the director says that his 1997 blockbuster Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, pales ….

Grave of the Fireflies getting 20th anniversary screening at Anime After Dark fest

Resonance Features and The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival present Anime After Dark, a twelve hour film festival event at Boston’s historic Somerville Theatre, on October 18, 2008. It will start at 7:00 PM, and run until 7:00 AM the next morning. The festival will screen some of the best in new and vintage anime, ….

Live-action Death Note film gets one night theatrical screening and DVD launch

The Canadian theatrical debut of the live-action Death Note movie, based on the popular manga and animated series, will screen as a special event in 60 Cineplex Entertainment and Empire Theatre locations across Canada on Monday, September 15, 2008. A special DVD advance ticket bundle has been added that will go on-sale next week. It ….

The Animatrix film review

The ANIMATRIX is a series of animated short films, inspired by and linked to the MATRIX universe. They were created by some of the hottest Japanese animators working in the industry today. The following reviews are for each of the nine shorts. The Final Flight Of The Osiris The first short within the Animatrix disc ….

Howl’s Moving Castle film review

Miyazaki (Academy Award winner for Spirited Away) has delivered us another sophisticated and pleasantly whimsical animation. Although it is visually stunning, this is Miyazaki’s most complex fantasy to date, with straightforward narrative, and a multilayered approach that reflects the contradictions of real life. Here the master Japanese animator exerts a strong command over the story ….

Sky Blue film review

Sky Blue is an ambitious mix of 2-D and 3-D animation, miniatures and live action. It is a notable anime achievement. With elements of ecological devastation, class warfare and romance, the story is much more typical than the visuals. But the striking rendering of an apocalyptic future are a definite selling point for anime fans. ….

CASSHERN

Genre: SCIENCE FICTION / ACTION / ANIME Release Dates: 2005 Trailers: Japanese Quicktime Trailer http://www.apple.com/jp/quicktime/trailers/casshern_large.html Official Websites: lime.gofishpictures.com/casshern/casshern_main.html www.dreamworks.com Taglines: Reincarnated with an invincible body to fight an iron devil. If Casshern does not do it, who will? Synopsis DreamWorks has landed the domestic distribution rights to the Japanese science fiction action hit Casshern, which ….

Steamboy film review

Year: 2004 Animation in America once consisted of icons like Snow White, Mickey Mouse and Bug Bunny. But those icons are changing. These days, it’s just as likely to mean giant fighting cyborgs, kinetic action and sinister monsters. A large part of the reason for the increasing growth in popularity of Japanese animation is Katsuhiro ….

Brad Pitt nabs manga series rights

According to Variety, Brad Pitt’s Plan B production shingle, and Paramount pictures, have nabbed the feature rights to a four-volume manga series called Miki Falls, created by illustrator Mark Crilley, who also created the Akiko series of novels and comics. The story follows the final year of high school for a girl named Miki Yoshida, ….

The Ultimate Matrix Collection debuts on Blu-ray hi-def in October

The Ultimate Matrix Collection brings the motion pictures that fans have most requested in high definition to Blu-ray for the first time on October 14 from Warner Home Video and Village Roadshow. This seven-disc collection contains the complete Matrix Trilogy in high definition video and lossless high definition 5.1 audio (Dolby TrueHD), each with hours ….