DelRey Adds Ninja Girls in 2009
Del Rey Manga has announced the acquisition of Hosana Tanaka’s Rappi Rangai, which it will arrive in bookstores under the name Ninja Girls. Produced in Japan by Kodansha, the ongoing series has five volumes to date out in Japan.
ICv2 describes it as “A young man in Japan’s distant past has an encounter with a beautiful female ninja that helps him discover that he’s the last living descendant of a feudal lord family; a group of beautiful ninjas that will help him regain his throne.”
This will mark Tanaka’s domestic debut.
Lots of Forbidden Planet buzz spread across the Internet while you were digging out from the snowstorms.
It’s been two years since there has been any serious movement on a new feature film adaptation of The Shadow. Two years ago this month, Sony announced that they obtained the rights and will have Sam Raimi on board to produce and possibly direct the feature, telling the press, “I’ve been a passionate Shadow fan ever since I was a kid and have long dreamed of bringing this character to the screen.”
Fox network has announced work has begun on a new hour-long series, Bitches, described by 
The question wasn’t whether they were naughty or nice, but whether the harsh weather or poor reviews kept people out of the theaters this weekend. According to numbers from Box Office Mojo, the repetitive Jim Carrey vehicle, Yes Man, bested Will Smith’s guilt-ridden drama Seven Pounds. Yes Man topped the box office charts with $18,160,000, nearly $5 million less than expected while Smith’s holiday offering grabbed $16 million, about $3 million under the predictions.
Arcana Studios has optioned five of their titles to Legacy Filmworks in a co-production deal that also involves production-finance group Bron Management according to 
In the past, the holiday season is a time for at least one big box office hit, and while the period between 2001 and 2005 may have been taken over by Peter Jackson’s army of Orcs and giant gorillas, the pattern has been consistent. This year, however, you shouldn’t expect to be blown away, or even spend the money on admission with an adaptation of a literary or Hollywood classic, as Frank Miller and his motley crew try to pass off a remake of Will Eisner’s classic “middle-class crime fighter” comic. The film, as a whole, makes very little sense and will bring mostly heartache to fans of the source material, and on an original level, the movie jumps around both in mood, story, and even dialogue so much that it makes it feel like you’ve been watching [[[Sin City]]] fan film for over 90 minutes.
TheCW4Kids’ Saturday morning lineup has been solidified by 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. The revised lineup, incorporating shows moving from Fox, will kick off on January 3, 2009, 
Archie Comics has provided us with a first look at this week’s Archie #592
Sci Fi Channel has given a green light to Ghost Hunters: New Generation, a six-episode spin-off set at a college. According to 
