Live Action Anime

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Once again, the forces that be are making it harder for the live action adaptation of Voltron to get going.  According to ANN, three independent film producers (James Young, Ford Oelman and Mark Costa) are filing a new lawsuit against the American right hodlers, World Event Productions (WEP).
 
 
 
The producers contend that they had a deal [...]

I’m sure there are alot of fans waiting for more Cowboy Bebop news, so here it is.

 
After several weeks with no news on the upcoming live action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop, Keanu Reeves shed some light on the film’s status in an interview with MTV’s Splash Page. Reeves states the movie is currently being re-written [...]

Masahiro Ando’s anime chambara epic Sword of the Stranger has won riotous acclaim from anime fans and the film festival circuit alike. Now an eager Thrasher, unwilling to wait for the October 26th UK release, has witnessed it in its full glory. In a genre that’s already swamped, does Sword of the Stranger have what [...]

A body was found near the mountain that Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui was planning on climbing. Reports say that the body found was wearing similar cloths to those Yoshito Usui was wearing the day he went missing. The body was discovered by another climber who said it was in a spot not easily accessible [...]

Yahoo is now streaming the full trailer for Dai Kaiju Battle ~ Ultra Ginga Densetsu The Movie (Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie) . It is the latest Ultraman movie set to release in Japan on December 12th.
Here is a lower quality version of the trailer from You Tube.

Source: Anime Nation

It was announced on Thursday, by Director Scott Charles, that Christopher Plummer and Brad Dourif have been added to the cast of the upcoming live action adaptation of Priest. It has also been reported that Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks, Californication, Gossip Girl) has been added to the cast. Priest started filming last month.
Other cast members [...]

The official Website for the film adaptation of Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata has been launched, and it has also been announced the the film will be live action. The film was first revealed on the light novels wraparound band and in the GA Explorer pamphlet insert earlier this month. However it was not announced, [...]

Moviefone has posted a high definition video clip from IMAGI’s Astro Boy film set to release in Japan on October 10 and in North America on October 23. In the clip Astro Boy realizes that he is a robot, and must goes on a high speed chase through the skies to try and evade being [...]

Thanks go, once again, to informer Mikikazu Komatsu of the ULTIMO SPALPEEN blog for happening upon this piece of news. According to blog Marketsaw, tech tests for CGI and motion-capture in James Cameron’s proposed adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s classic manga Battle Angel Alita are currently underway.
It’s worth noting that we don’t know how viable this [...]

A peculiar tidbit of information on the proposed live-action adaptation of Katsuhito Akiyama’s classic OVA Bubblegum Crisis has emerged on star-techcentral.com. It appears that the winner of new reality TV show HP Space will have the opportunity to join the crew working on Bubblegum Crisis.
The original post is as follows:
Star TV is holding auditions for [...]