Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Forthcoming Redline Feature Film Inspires Model Line

The forthcoming anime feature film Redline, written by Katsuhito Ishii and directed by Takeshi Koike of Animatrix fame has inspired a line of scale models featuring vehicles and characters from the aforementioned film following the debut of its trailer at last week’s Tokyo Anime Fair, which can be seen below. [via Anime Research and Awesome [...]

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Get Smart Director Negotiating Bleach Live-Action Film Rights

The Heat Vision blog hosted by the Hollywod Reporter notes that the director of Get Smart, The Longest Yard and Anger Management in Peter Segal is negotiating and in the process of securing the live-action film rights to the BLEACH supernatural action manga penned by author Tite Kubo and distributed in the US by Viz [...]

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Space Battleship Yamamoto and Live Action Gantz Trailers Posted

Almost forgot to put these up. The Yamamoto adaptation will be released on December 1st, while the Gantz adaptation will be a series of two films releasing next year in Japan.

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Oldboy Manga Feature Film Adaptation Apparently Dead

According to showbiz blog Latino Review, the planned feature film adaptation of the Oldboy manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya planned by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith is dead due to the proposed rights deal with production studio Mandate along with Dreamworks falling though, with DreamWorks walking away from the deal. This follows earlier [...]

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Warner Brothers Japan Officially Announces Gintama Film

Warner Brothers Japan has officially confirmed the Gintama feature film Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura Hen for a Golden Week 2010 release after news of the announcement was leaked via magazine scans last week.

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Broken Blade Anime Adaptation to be Six Film Anthology in 2010

The official site for the forthcoming Broken Blade anime adaptation has confirmed that it will be a six-film anthology set for release in 2010. The DC Comics owned CMX Manga imprint will publish the second manga volume of the alternate-world robot manga in December. CMX Manga’s synopsis of the story follows below: Rygart Arrow is [...]

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Rintaro Announces Korean-Japanese 3D Film Project

Metropolis director Rintaro has announced that he will direct a new joint project during the 2nd Republic of Korea Content Fair at Seoul’s Samsung-Dong COEX Mall on Tuesday. The story will follow a Caucasian mother who embarks on an adventure to save children who have been transported to a world of Asian mythos. Ji Young-jun, [...]

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Ring of Gundam Preview at Gundam Big Expo

Following up, the Gundam Big Expo event also previewed Ring of Gundam – the animated short film created by franchise creator Yoshiuki Tomino with the Mainichi Newspaper Mantan blog posting a frame from the hybrid CG/2D animation film which marks the 30th anniversary of the franchise. “Ring of Gundam” takes place in a new era [...]

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One Piece Strong World Trailer Posted

The first teaser trailer for the forthcoming 10th One Piece feature film has been posted on the dedicated official movie page. The film One Piece: Strong World is being overseen by manga author Eichiro Oda by creating the premise of the film as well as creating 120 pages of rough art towards the general production. [...]

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Fate Stay Night Film Teaser Page Opens

Geneon has registered and opened a teaser page for an as yet unannounced Fate/Stay Night film according to Gigazine. The QR Code leads to the Japanese Fate/Stay Night mobile homepage.

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