I don’t know details except that this is being done in Japan of course (which means it will be known by the original name of Space Battleship Yamato) but I am impressed by the effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoHXxWg7pw4 See our previous articles: Space Cruiser Yamato/Star Blazers ReturnsStar Blazers Redone Right
Nikki Finke has the numbers: “Early overseas estimates from Paramount have Iron Man 2 grossing just over $100 million from 53 markets. And some large territories haven’t even opened yet, like Germany, Japan, and China. In local currencies, the film opened 25% ahead of the original Iron Man (despite the fact that in those two years both…
Above: Zoorasian Brass, from Yokohama, Japan, with musicians in animal suits. Now compare to the right: Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle’s Whodunnit? comic, with Noah Zark, a rock band on the cover– musicians in animal suits. Came out in 1986 from Eclipse. Dear heavens– that’s so long ago I think this means Mark Evanier invented…
Transformers… more than meets the eye. This, we know. But what happens when the mighty all-spark malfunctions and sends the Michael Bay Monstrosities to wage war against the Autobots and Decepticons of our shared youth? We’ve got a few battles in our back pocket ComicMixers… let’s let ’em duke it out, shall we? Round Three:…
The nominations for the best of the year are finalized. Ballots with this year’s nominees will be going out in mid-April to comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers. A downloadable pdf of the ballot will also be available online, and a special website has been set up for online voting. The results in all categories…
Disturbing if true: ICV2 has an article entitled, simply, Worldwide Anime Market Shrinking. In a lecture by TV Tokyo’s Keisuke Iwata, he noted that due to market saturation, illegal downloading, the worldwide recession, and the rising yen, “It is easy to imagine the global marketplace shrinking from 2010 onward." According to Iwata there may be little or…
It was inevitable. From a Japanese toy web site— and apparently, Barack Obama doesn’t even need Secret Service protection, he packs his own handgun. And his own street sweeper. And his own katana and wakizashi! And best of all, since it’s the Japanese, we get to have the Star Wars reference: Choose your punchline for…
Manga Friday took a little holiday for the last couple of weeks, and it may take more holidays in the weeks to come. Looking back on my recent columns, I’ve said an awful lot of “and here’s the next volume in a series I’ve reviewed four times” and “this week’s books have nothing in common”…
Tom Cruise and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie are becoming a formidable duo with three different projects in the works. The two met during the production of Valkyrie, opening this month, which McQuarrie wrote for his other pal, director Bryan Singer. McQuarrie had already been developing The Champions, based on the old BBC series with producer Guillermo…
Tomoko Ninomiya’s Nodame Cantabile manga is moving to the big screen according to Variety. The story of a pianist and an apprentice conductor who have a torrid romance has already been a television series and the leads, Juri Ueno and Hiroshi Tamaki, will reprise their parts for two feature films according to Variety. Their television…
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), has announced several eagerly awaited new manga series scheduled for release throughout the Fourth Quarter of 2008. Seven new series are set to debut, beginning this month, and feature a variety of captivating stories designed to appeal to Teen and Older Teen readers. The new series include BLANK SLATE, NORA:…
To handle international properties for worldwide distribution, Sony has created the Intl. Product Expansion Group according to Variety. Tony Ishizuka will serve as Vice President of the unit. T. Paul Miller, senior VP of international for home entertainment said the “goal is to recoup its investment in each project in the country in which it…
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