Live Action Anime

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Chris Nahon’s Blood: the Last Vampire finally hit UK cinema screens on Friday 26th of June. Does it live up to the standard of Production I.G.’s original OVA, and does it present a beacon of quality that live action anime adaptations presently need so badly? The Thrasher made to pilgrimage to the cinema to bring [...]

Origin: Spirits of the Past
Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a textbook case of what I’m henceforth dubbing UKAA (United Kingdom Anime-Apathy) syndrome, having taken almost three fucking years to receive a domestic release over here since premiering in Japan. I’ve wanted to see Origin: Spirits of the Past for a while now by the [...]

Thanks go to ANN for providing us with this update on 20th Century Fox’s live-action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop. Website Anime Vice has, it seems, secured an interview with writer Peter Craig who has been allocated to the project.

Craig stems from a background as a novelist of crime fiction, and has been identified [...]

We’re back with a brand new episode of the Live Action Anime Podcast, and you can downlaod it right here!
 
Unfortunately, the podcast was recorded mere hours before the release of the Airbender teaser, but don’t fret!  Thrash ‘Til Death and I give you our first review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was released [...]

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The teaser tailer for the upcoming film The Last Airbender is finally up on Youtube, thanks to Last Airbender Fans. Check it out below:

The Last Airbender Teaser Trailer

Head on over to our forums and let us know what you think.

Entertainment Tonight has an exclusive promo where they show some brief footage of the upcoming live action adaptation of The Last Airbender.
It’s very brief, basically just showing some clips of Aang training in a temple. Embedding of the video has been disable so you’ll have to click here or the picture below to view it.
Of [...]

When Kitchen Appliances Attack!

While not official this comes from Hoycinema who gave us some reliable news at the very beginning.  But I wouldn’t put much behind it because it’s probably just talk.

After the U.S. producers experienced a major failure with the signing of Dragon Ball: Evolution, we get information from our correspondents in Miami that Dragon Ball will [...]

Looks like a live action anime that doesn’t take place completely in an out of this world setting is coming to the big screen. Active Anime is reporting that Harold Sakuishi’s popular manga and anime series, BECK, will be coming to the big screen in Japan in 2010. The series revolves around Yukio “Koyuki” Tanaka [...]

Thanks go to forum member JFDWrites for this bit of info. With Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen on the verge of release, it seems that director, the infamous explosive-fetishist Michael Bay, has stepped down from the production of the proposed third installment in the phenomenally successful franchise. Bay states that he has “had enough” [...]