Live Action Anime

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The first trailer for The Book of Eli has debuted on Apple.com, and it is just as beautiful as I had hoped! Check it out below!

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Take it as just talk for now, but recently there has been LOTS of it. Rumored for awhile Roger Rabbit 2 was talked about further by Robert Zemeck during the Disney comic con panel.  When asked if he has any intention on a making a sequel he replied.
I can neither confirm nor deny. I will [...]

Convergence Entertainment has bought the rights to make a live action version of the video game/anime Gungrave. Convergence plans on having a budget of $30-$35 million to produce the film, and expects to start production on the film next year.
Gungrave was co-created by Triguns creator Yasuhiro Nightow and Red Entertainment, and then later given an [...]

Yep the director of The Evil Dead, the Spider-Man trilogy, and Drag Me To Hell and the producer of 30 Days Of Night Sam Raimi has been signed on to direct the up coming movie based on the Blizzard Entertainment’s award winning Warcraft.
Not only that, but Charles Roven the producer of the Dark Night, Batman [...]

The status of the live action Voltron adaptation was in limbo for several months following the fallout with 20th Century Fox’s New Regency.  Now, it seems a new comapny has acquired the rights to the franchise.  According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business Blog, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, and Steve [...]

The Live Action Blood: The Last Vampire opened last Friday in 6 more theaters in five states. Those theaters are located in San Diego, Santa Monica, Chicago, Somerville, Dallas, and Arlington.

In another update via this weekend’s Otakon, it was announced by Noburu Ishiguro, director of the Space Battleship Yamato series, that a live action adaptation is being planned according to ANN.

The story is set in the year 2199 with the last remnants of humanity struggling to survive in a battle against a malevolent group of [...]

English-speaking fans of DragonBall everywhere had reason tor ejoice following this year’s Otakon held in Baltimore, MD.  During FUNimation’s industry panel at the convention, it was announced that the highly sought after “Dragon Box” sets will be made available for a North American release.

It seems after years of hardcore fan’s dissapointment with the way the [...]

Lately we’ve been gearing toward bringing everyone more things to read here since the truth is that there isn’t a lot of constant LAA news going on.  So as my contribution I’m going to bring out these “spotlights” on movies that are coming out that I’m excited for. They may not always pertain to LAA [...]

Found this over at GeekTyrant. Seems as though a guy named Sean Mort designed this, originally for a t-shirt, although reading through some of the comments it seems it’s not readily available at the moment, unless you live in the U.K. I didn’t read through all of the comments though so perhaps it [...]