Shinji Aramaki. Even if you don’t know his name, you probably know his work: he’s spent decades in the anime industry, starting out as a mecha designer on shows like Mospeada and Megazone 23 before reinventing himself as a director of CG films like Appleseed …Read more »
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 »
Godzilla saw his first cinematic outing in a decade earlier this year with the release of the Gareth Edwards-helmed Godzilla , but in Japan, he’s been in cinematic slumber since 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars . That’s set to change, with the announcement from Godzilla studio …Read more »
The official YouTube channel for recently-released CG-animated film Expelled from Paradise (which we reviewed last week) has been updating with a series of making-of videos showing just how the film was, well, made. They're currently up to volume four, which shows some behind-the-scenes production of …Read more »
Fans of Mamoru Oshii, the director of anime classics like Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor , are split into two distinct groups: those who like his live-action work and those who don’t. Oshii’s been working in live-action for years, but his real-life films are …Read more »
A promotional image from the new Sonic series Sonic Boom . For a character known for his speed, it's taken Sonic a while to hit the big screen. He's coming, though, apparently, thanks to Sony and producer Neal Moritz, who's developing the script to the …Read more »
What is it about adapting anime to live-action producers find so compelling? The most obvious answer is eyeballs. Live-action adaptations of anime or manga have the possibility to attract mainstream audience members who otherwise avoid anything anime-related (yes, there are plenty of those people in …Read more »
Lovable robot cat Doraemon is dipping his toes in something new for the 80th anniversary of his creator. Stand by Me Doraemon will be the first 3D CG-animated film in the franchise, and it's currently scheduled to be released in Japan next summer. Takashi Yamazaki …Read more »
Yoshitaka Amano's art—most recognizable across a great majority of Final Fantasy games, as well as Vampire Hunter D —has been tough to translate to any medium outside of his own. It's not exactly easy to bottle that ethereal quality in the confines of movies or …Read more »
It's really more of a brief teaser, but consider this an appetite-whetter for the upcoming sequel to Resident Evil: Degeneration . Like Degeneration , Damnation is an all-CG movie that, aesthetically speaking, is pretty darn close to the kind of visuals you see in cutscenes …Read more »
If the latest rumblings from Universal Pictures are any indication, it seems there's a strong possibility we may eventually see Naoki Urasawa's bold riff on a classic Tezuka tale come to life. Universal Pictures, Chris Meledandri's Illumination Entertainment ( Despicable Me ) and Tezuka Productions …Read more »
While you shouldn't get too excited over that headline, you should at least get somewhat excited, because Cyborg 009 is coming back! That's an entirely true statement, despite the fact that they'll only be coming back in a brief burst of CG courtesy Production I.G. …Read more »
I really enjoyed independent filmmaker Jun Awazu's previous work, the computer-animated kaiju-infused short Negadon: The Monster from Mars . It was brief but tightly conceived and executed, so I've been excited ever since to see what Awazu would be cooking up next. Now that project …Read more »
Things haven't been too hot for Tetsuwan Atom and his Imagi Studios theatrical effort, Astro Boy . David Bowers' film, which was produced with a budget of $65 million, pulled in $1.7 million during its fourth weekend, bringing it down to #13 on the box …Read more »
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