Live Action Anime

Props to ANN once again for this bit of news.
The ShockTillYouDrop.com website reports that the release date for the live action movie adaptation of Min-Woo Hyung’s Priest horror manhwa has been pushed back from August 27, 2010 to January 14, 2011. The website reports that the reason for the change is so the movie can [...]

Well boys and girls it’s been a pretty damn long wait, and I have to say by the look of the trailer I can’t predict that it will be a great movie, but compared to other awful video game adaptations, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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This news comes courtesy of the Anime News Network. Funimation have announced that they will be licencing The Legend of Kamui, Yoichi Sai’s live-action adaptation of the classic Sanpei Shirato manga, for release in America. The film, which premiered on September 19th in Japan, is due for a 2010 DVD release Stateside, although at this [...]

The Japan Times news website posted an interview with director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers, Patlabor) on Friday regarding his new live-action film Assault Girls, which premiered in Japan on Saturday, December 19. This film is Oshii’s first live-action feature film since 2001’s Avalon.
The science-fiction story is set on a post-apocalyptic [...]

Thanks go to ANN for this bit of information on the upcoming live-action adaptation of Priest, the Korean horror manhwa by Min-Woo Hyung. It seems the film’s release date, previously announced as October 1st, 2010, will be getting pushed forward to August 27th. The shift is attributed to the announcement Resident Evil: Afterlife will be [...]

Well it looks like Hollywood is already looking at making an adaptation of the upcoming Japanese film Assault Girls.

Director Mamoru Oshii has confirmed that at least one unspecified Hollywood film production outfit has inquired about obtaining the rights to produce an American re-make of his upcoming sci-fi action film Assault Girls. Oshii has reportedly said [...]

Here is the official theatrical trailer for Mamoru Oshii‘s upcoming live-action film Assault Girls.

Plot: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki)  traverse the barren landscape armed with powerful assault rifles to [...]

Thanks go to site member RainyFriday for informing us of this item of news.
A new trailer for director Gordon Chan’s upcoming adaptation of the long-running beat-’em-up video game series King of Fighters has recently appeared on Youtube. Starring in the movie will be Sean Farris as Kyo Kusanagi, Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui, Will Yun [...]

Thanks go to ANN for this item of news.
It seems that Hiroya Oku’s ultraviolent science-fiction/action manga Gantz will be getting a Japanese adaptation into a pair of live-action movies. The film will be directed by Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade), and will star Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Ken’ichi Matsuyama (The Legend of [...]

Thanks go to forum member kmccaskill for finding this bit of news.

News of an American Death Note LAA has been kicking about for a while, and now it appears that a draft of the movie’s script, penned by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, has been leaked online. You can check it out at this link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/g3rwun
It’s labelled [...]