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In this year’s 13th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine it was announced that live action television adaptation of Miki Yoshikawa’s Yankee-kun to Megane-chan manga has been green lit. It was also announced that actor Hiroki Narimiya (Gokusen, Akihabara @ DEEP, NANA) will play Yankee-kun (the delinquent) Daichi Shinagawa, while Riisa Naka (The Girl Who [...]

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Shock Till You Drop has posted an interview with Laeta Kalogribis, the current screenwriter for Steven Spielberg’s planned live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga. Kalogridis was once also hired by James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel [...]

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The websites MoviesOnline.ca and ScreenRant.com have both posted interviews with Laeta Kalogridis, the current screenwriter for Dreamworks’ and Steven Spielberg’s planned live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s cyber-police manga Ghost in the Shell. Kalogridis was once also hired by James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of [...]

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 [...]

Click HERE to view the “Last Webcast” to LAA.

For those of you who have no idea what’s going on in this whimsical spin-off, I suggest you watch webcasts 1-4 first. Of course, all of the webcasts contain a bit of fiction (from a small amount to a nigh complete amount), but this one, which [...]