Silversayian4
Time Lord
VIZ Media has launched a new wholly-owned Hollywood-based company named VIZ Productions to produce and license live-action theatrical film and TV projects based on animated and manga series, incuding properties its Japanese parent companies Shogakukan, Inc. and Shueisha, Inc., as Hakusensha.
VIZ Productions will also serve as liaison between Japanese creative licensors and Hollywood production houses, studios and agents and plans to produce or license live action films covering a wide range of graphic novel genres.
Jason Hoffs, formerly of Dreamworks, will assume the role of Head of Production.
Viz has specifically mentioned titles
Naruto
Bleach
Death Note
Inuyasha
Naoki Urasawa?s Monster
Vampire Knight
Other US Live-Action Anime Movies out and on the way
Transformers 1,2,3
Dragonball 1,2,3
Speed Racer
Ghost In The Shell
Grave of the Fireflies
Akira 1,2
Robotech
Outlaw Star
Ikki Tousen
Voltron
Real Bout HighSchool
Trigun
Astroboy
Gatchaman
US Remakes
Battle Royale
Death Note
From Asia
Blood: The Last Vampire
The Prince of Tennis
Slam Dunk
Dragonball (Taiwanese)
Grave of the Fireflies
Azumi 1,2,
Dororo
Initial D
SaiKano
Video Girl Ai
Aquarian Age
Kamikaze Girls
Lady Oscar
Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar
20th Century Boys
Vicky the Viking
CAT GIRL KIKI
Onmyoji
The Princess Blade
Golgo 13
Ichi the Killer
Crying Freeman
Weather Woman
Gegege no Kitaro
Tokyo Babylon 1999
Honey and Clover
Mushishi
Tekken
Dosei Mansion
NANA 1,2,
Detroit Metal City
Neko Rahmen Taishō
Legend of Kamui?s
Kodomo no Kodomo
MW
Higurashi no Naku Koroni
Casshern
YoYoCop Girl
DEATH NOTE
Kekko Kamen
GTO
Zebraman
Devilman
DevilLady
Yatterman
also i forgot for the US
Neon Genesis Evangelion Gainax, Weta, and ADV teaming up for film
Kite,
Battle Angel alita,
G-Saviour Gundam
WitchHunter Robin is being done by the SciFi Channel as a possible series
Fox Gets Cowboy Bebop!
and for Asia
Lupin III,
Boogiepop and Others
Cutie Honey TV and Movie (of course)
Cromartie High
Detective Conan
You?re Under Arrest
Negima! Live-Action
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Chouseishin GranSazer
Lovely Complex
Blue Submarine No. 6
Sanctuary
Keanu Reeves is also in Negotiations for AKIRA
Live-Action Blood Reportedly to Open in U.S. in March
Korea?s Star News says Universal plans 2, 000-screen North American opening
The Korean news website Star News reports that Universal Studios is planning to release Chris Nahon?s live-action film adaptation of the Blood: The Last Vampire anime film on 2, 000 screens in North America next March. South Korea?s Gianna Jun (Ji-hyun Jun of My Sassy Girl) stars as the ageless girl Saya who hunts down a breed of blood-feeding demons in Tokyo in 1970. France?s Pathé and Hong Kong?s EDKO Film plan to distribute the film in other countries around the world simultaneously. Pathé lists a June 2009 release date for France, but the current Korean release date has not been announced.
Warner Brothers to Produce Live-Action Ninja Scroll
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way to produce with Watchmen film scriptwriter The Variety entertainment news source Reports that Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company have acquired the live-action adaptation rights for Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll action anime film from the Madhouse anime studio. Kawajiri wrote this tale about a wandering ninja fighting a conspiracy of demons, and he also directed the original anime with ultraviolent yet fluid animation
. Alex Tse (Watchmen, The Illustrated Man) is slated to write the live-action version, but DiCaprio himself is not planning on acting in the film. Appian Way's Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Mike Ireland will produce with Madhouse itself.
Warner and Appian Way have already acquired the rights to produce two live-action films based on Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. Killoran is also planning to produce the Akira project as well.
Manga Entertainment released the original 1993 Ninja Scroll anime film in North America, while Urban Vision helped produce and later released the 2003 television series adapation. The American publisher WildStorm created its comic book take on the story in 2006. Madhouse revealed at Anime Expo 2008 that it was still planning a sequel to the original anime film.
Steven Spielberg, Will Smith Discuss Remake of Oldboy
Chan Wook-park adapted original film from Japanese psychological thriller manga
The Variety entertainment trade news source reports that famed director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan
, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws) and action star Will Smith (Independence Day, I Am Legend, Men in Black) are dicussing a possible collaboration to remake Chan-wook Park's 2003 Oldboy film. Park himself had adapted his film from Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's award-winning manga about a man who was imprisoned for over a decade and now hunts down his mysterious former kidnappers to take revenge. Universal Pictures had originally optioned the remake project, but the project has since found a new home at Mandate Pictures. Spielberg is reportedly still looking for a writer, and hopes to have Smith play the main character.
Dark Horse Comics published the manga in North America from 2006 to 2007, and the manga won an Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan in 2007.
Update: Variety reported last April that Spielberg's enthusiasm for a remake of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga was a pivotal reason why the manga's publisher (Kodansha) chose to work with Spielberg's DreamWorks company on this other remake project. The Hollywood Reporter newspaper noted last week that the Ghost in the Shell remake project remains at DreamWorks despite DreamWorks' corporate separation from its longtime distributor, Paramount Pictures. Paramount would still have the option to co-finance and co-distribute the Ghost in the Shell remake if it goes forward.
DiCaprio is Producing Akira, Ninja Scroll, Not Acting in Them
Self-professed "big fan of anime" says final Akira script draft is being written
Movie star and producer Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Aviator) told MTV's Splash Page that his Appian Way production company
is waiting for the final script draft for the live-action film version of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. He added, "I'm a big fan of Japanese anime — that and another project called Ninja Scroll we're trying to get developed and made into a movie, and I know there a lot of loyal fans out there of the project and die-hard fans, so we're going to try to do the best job we possibly can and we're not going to make the movie until the script is in the right shape." He also emphasized that he is producing in these two projects, and that he does "not really" have any interest in acting in them.
The Variety entertainment news source reported in February that Warner Brothers and Appian Way had re-licensed the rights to remake Akira from the manga publisher Kodansha. The two companies originally planned to make two films, each of which would cover three volumes of the renowned science-fiction manga about a governmental genetic project and a teenager's attempt to save a fellow biker gang member. Otomo himself directed a popular 1988 anime film based on his own manga. Variety also reported last month that Warner Brothers and Appian Way had licensed the rights to adapt Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll action anime film from the Madhouse anime studio.
Computer-Animated Astro Boy Film's Trailer Streamed
49-second trailer available in 4 resolutions for Osamu Tezuka's robot boy hero
The Moviefone website has begun streaming the trailer for IMAGI's computer-animated film version of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy manga. The 49-second trailer is available in 480-, 720-, and 1080-line resolutions in Apple QuickTime format, as well as in an Adobe Flash-based standard resolution. The Variety entertainment trade news source reported that the trailer would be put before DreamWorks' Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa two weeks ago and will be added to Disney's Bolt this Friday. However, readers have reported that theaters did not include the trailer with Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Moviefone's synopsis describes the movie as follows:
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers. Powered by pure positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) is endowed with super strength, X-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly — not to mention the purest spirit on the planet.
Embarking on a journey across the planet to discover his powers, Astro Boy encounters a netherworld of robot gladiators and other comic characters, and learns the joys and emotions of being human. When he learns his friends and family are in danger, Astro Boy marshals all his awesome super powers and returns to Metro City, in a valiant effort to save everything he cares about and to embrace his place in the world.
David Bowers (Flushed Away) is directing this US$65-million adaptation of the robot boy hero created by Tezuka (Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion, Metropolis, Black Jack). Timothy Harris (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop) wrote the screenplay. The cast features Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, and Donald Sutherland. The film will open in North America on October 23, 2009.
VIZ Productions will also serve as liaison between Japanese creative licensors and Hollywood production houses, studios and agents and plans to produce or license live action films covering a wide range of graphic novel genres.
Jason Hoffs, formerly of Dreamworks, will assume the role of Head of Production.
Viz has specifically mentioned titles
Naruto
Bleach
Death Note
Inuyasha
Naoki Urasawa?s Monster
Vampire Knight
Other US Live-Action Anime Movies out and on the way
Transformers 1,2,3
Dragonball 1,2,3
Speed Racer
Ghost In The Shell
Grave of the Fireflies
Akira 1,2
Robotech
Outlaw Star
Ikki Tousen
Voltron
Real Bout HighSchool
Trigun
Astroboy
Gatchaman
US Remakes
Battle Royale
Death Note
From Asia
Blood: The Last Vampire
The Prince of Tennis
Slam Dunk
Dragonball (Taiwanese)
Grave of the Fireflies
Azumi 1,2,
Dororo
Initial D
SaiKano
Video Girl Ai
Aquarian Age
Kamikaze Girls
Lady Oscar
Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar
20th Century Boys
Vicky the Viking
CAT GIRL KIKI
Onmyoji
The Princess Blade
Golgo 13
Ichi the Killer
Crying Freeman
Weather Woman
Gegege no Kitaro
Tokyo Babylon 1999
Honey and Clover
Mushishi
Tekken
Dosei Mansion
NANA 1,2,
Detroit Metal City
Neko Rahmen Taishō
Legend of Kamui?s
Kodomo no Kodomo
MW
Higurashi no Naku Koroni
Casshern
YoYoCop Girl
DEATH NOTE
Kekko Kamen
GTO
Zebraman
Devilman
DevilLady
Yatterman
also i forgot for the US
Neon Genesis Evangelion Gainax, Weta, and ADV teaming up for film
Kite,
Battle Angel alita,
G-Saviour Gundam
WitchHunter Robin is being done by the SciFi Channel as a possible series
Fox Gets Cowboy Bebop!
and for Asia
Lupin III,
Boogiepop and Others
Cutie Honey TV and Movie (of course)
Cromartie High
Detective Conan
You?re Under Arrest
Negima! Live-Action
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Chouseishin GranSazer
Lovely Complex
Blue Submarine No. 6
Sanctuary
Keanu Reeves is also in Negotiations for AKIRA
Live-Action Blood Reportedly to Open in U.S. in March
Korea?s Star News says Universal plans 2, 000-screen North American opening
The Korean news website Star News reports that Universal Studios is planning to release Chris Nahon?s live-action film adaptation of the Blood: The Last Vampire anime film on 2, 000 screens in North America next March. South Korea?s Gianna Jun (Ji-hyun Jun of My Sassy Girl) stars as the ageless girl Saya who hunts down a breed of blood-feeding demons in Tokyo in 1970. France?s Pathé and Hong Kong?s EDKO Film plan to distribute the film in other countries around the world simultaneously. Pathé lists a June 2009 release date for France, but the current Korean release date has not been announced.
Warner Brothers to Produce Live-Action Ninja Scroll
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way to produce with Watchmen film scriptwriter The Variety entertainment news source Reports that Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company have acquired the live-action adaptation rights for Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll action anime film from the Madhouse anime studio. Kawajiri wrote this tale about a wandering ninja fighting a conspiracy of demons, and he also directed the original anime with ultraviolent yet fluid animation
. Alex Tse (Watchmen, The Illustrated Man) is slated to write the live-action version, but DiCaprio himself is not planning on acting in the film. Appian Way's Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Mike Ireland will produce with Madhouse itself.
Warner and Appian Way have already acquired the rights to produce two live-action films based on Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. Killoran is also planning to produce the Akira project as well.
Manga Entertainment released the original 1993 Ninja Scroll anime film in North America, while Urban Vision helped produce and later released the 2003 television series adapation. The American publisher WildStorm created its comic book take on the story in 2006. Madhouse revealed at Anime Expo 2008 that it was still planning a sequel to the original anime film.
Steven Spielberg, Will Smith Discuss Remake of Oldboy
Chan Wook-park adapted original film from Japanese psychological thriller manga
The Variety entertainment trade news source reports that famed director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan
, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws) and action star Will Smith (Independence Day, I Am Legend, Men in Black) are dicussing a possible collaboration to remake Chan-wook Park's 2003 Oldboy film. Park himself had adapted his film from Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's award-winning manga about a man who was imprisoned for over a decade and now hunts down his mysterious former kidnappers to take revenge. Universal Pictures had originally optioned the remake project, but the project has since found a new home at Mandate Pictures. Spielberg is reportedly still looking for a writer, and hopes to have Smith play the main character.
Dark Horse Comics published the manga in North America from 2006 to 2007, and the manga won an Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan in 2007.
Update: Variety reported last April that Spielberg's enthusiasm for a remake of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga was a pivotal reason why the manga's publisher (Kodansha) chose to work with Spielberg's DreamWorks company on this other remake project. The Hollywood Reporter newspaper noted last week that the Ghost in the Shell remake project remains at DreamWorks despite DreamWorks' corporate separation from its longtime distributor, Paramount Pictures. Paramount would still have the option to co-finance and co-distribute the Ghost in the Shell remake if it goes forward.
DiCaprio is Producing Akira, Ninja Scroll, Not Acting in Them
Self-professed "big fan of anime" says final Akira script draft is being written
Movie star and producer Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Aviator) told MTV's Splash Page that his Appian Way production company
is waiting for the final script draft for the live-action film version of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. He added, "I'm a big fan of Japanese anime — that and another project called Ninja Scroll we're trying to get developed and made into a movie, and I know there a lot of loyal fans out there of the project and die-hard fans, so we're going to try to do the best job we possibly can and we're not going to make the movie until the script is in the right shape." He also emphasized that he is producing in these two projects, and that he does "not really" have any interest in acting in them.
The Variety entertainment news source reported in February that Warner Brothers and Appian Way had re-licensed the rights to remake Akira from the manga publisher Kodansha. The two companies originally planned to make two films, each of which would cover three volumes of the renowned science-fiction manga about a governmental genetic project and a teenager's attempt to save a fellow biker gang member. Otomo himself directed a popular 1988 anime film based on his own manga. Variety also reported last month that Warner Brothers and Appian Way had licensed the rights to adapt Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll action anime film from the Madhouse anime studio.
Computer-Animated Astro Boy Film's Trailer Streamed
49-second trailer available in 4 resolutions for Osamu Tezuka's robot boy hero
The Moviefone website has begun streaming the trailer for IMAGI's computer-animated film version of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy manga. The 49-second trailer is available in 480-, 720-, and 1080-line resolutions in Apple QuickTime format, as well as in an Adobe Flash-based standard resolution. The Variety entertainment trade news source reported that the trailer would be put before DreamWorks' Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa two weeks ago and will be added to Disney's Bolt this Friday. However, readers have reported that theaters did not include the trailer with Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Moviefone's synopsis describes the movie as follows:
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers. Powered by pure positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) is endowed with super strength, X-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly — not to mention the purest spirit on the planet.
Embarking on a journey across the planet to discover his powers, Astro Boy encounters a netherworld of robot gladiators and other comic characters, and learns the joys and emotions of being human. When he learns his friends and family are in danger, Astro Boy marshals all his awesome super powers and returns to Metro City, in a valiant effort to save everything he cares about and to embrace his place in the world.
David Bowers (Flushed Away) is directing this US$65-million adaptation of the robot boy hero created by Tezuka (Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion, Metropolis, Black Jack). Timothy Harris (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop) wrote the screenplay. The cast features Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, and Donald Sutherland. The film will open in North America on October 23, 2009.
Last edited by a moderator:
