Live Action Anime

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A while back you may remember we posted the first trailer of this live action adaptation of The Legend of Kamui:

The rogue ninja Kamui is struggling to free himself from the iron fist of his own clan. As a rounin, he should not exist. In his flight from his clan he meets another apostate ninja, [...]

Paramount has announced that Revenge of the Fallen will be out on Blu-ray and DVD on October 20. Full specs below:

With more action and more thrills, TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen captivated audiences to earn over $820 million at the box office and become the #1 movie of the year in North America [...]

Yes that’s right everyone Karl Urban has been signed to play Black Hat in the upcoming live action adaptation of Priest.  Black Hat is the leader of the vampires, and was once a priest and vampire hunter.

Adapted by Cory Goodman from a TokyoPop comic, the film is set in a world ravaged by war [...]

After months and years of incessant speculation and scrutiny, at long last the world today got it’s first proper look at James Cameron’s Avatar, his opus over a decade in the making, in the form of a tantalisingly brief two-minute teaser trailer. Whether or not it lives up to the near-euphoric levels of hype it’s [...]

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We need a couple of people that could help find, and post news to the site.
What we need are a few people that would like to post anime news to the site, and a few people that [...]

MSN has up a new trailer from Astroboy.  Shows alot about how the film is going to look and what the story is about.   Pretty cool trailer for those that are interested in seeing the movie.
Click the pic to watch the trailer.

Ninja Scroll
Format: Movie (91 minutes)
Genre: Action, Historical, Samurai, Drama
Studio: Madhouse
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
If one were to try to encapsulate in one word the regard in which 1993’s ultraviolent cult classic Ninja Scroll is held among anime fans, “famous” doesn’t quite hit the mark. “Notorious” comes closer; “infamous”, perhaps nearer still. This is, after all, the movie [...]

Viz Pictures has begun streaming three English subtitled trailers for the US release of 20th Century Boys.
Viz Pictures is set to show the first 20th Century Boys film at the grand opening of the Viz Cinema theater in San Francisco on August 15. The second film is set to be released on August 21 to [...]

It’s been a while since the Halo movie was shelved, but some possible new big news has made it’s way out of IESB. According to IESB Steven Speildberg is in talks to produce Halo: The Fall of Reach.

IESB has learned exclusively (believe me this is solid and I’ve confirmed it three times over with studio [...]

Recently there has been a lot of talk about Marvel studios branching out to the East in search of new ways to bring their products to life.  Well, it’s finally coming around.  Here are the latest trailers for the Marvel projects.

Iron Man (アヤンマン)

Wolverine (ワルヴァリン)

Both trailers were revealed at San Diego Comic Con and according to [...]