Seaside Entertainment and Warner Bros. have announced plans for the development of a live action feature film adaptation of Capcom’s Xbox 360 action/adventure game Lost Planet. A screenplay is being written by David Hayter, who wrote the screenplay for the feature film adaptation of the Watchmen comic series.
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Academy Award winning movie special effects designer Stan Winston passed away on Sunday, June 15th of complications from multiple myeloma. He was 62. Winston’s celebrated work included iconic and ground breaking monster and special effects for films including Aliens, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, and Iron Man. He will be dearly missed.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Variety Magazine has reported that Tartan Films USA has closed and all of the company’s American assets, including its physical property and its catalog of 101 films, are being sold. Tartan Films USA was formerly the American distributor of noteable Japanese films including Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Doppelganger, Koji Shiraishi’s Carved, Yoji Yamada’s The Hidden Blade, Takeshi Shimizu’s Marebito, Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo, Vital, and A Snake of June, and Park Chan-wook’s Korean adaptation of the manga Oldboy.
Tartan Film’s UK branch is still active.
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Yesterday a Hollywood advertising firm sent me a large Hasbro “Repulsor Power Iron Man” action figure. I’m not sure exactly how I ended up on a publicity list for Hollywood genre related movies, but when someone offers free comic book movie toys, the proper response is not to question but rather, “Thank you. May I have another?” In order to fulfill my theoretical obligation in return for this freebie, I should advertise the upcoming Iron Man motion picture. Luckily, I don’t mind doing so because the movie looks like it’s going to be everything that a comic book movie should be, and more! Iron Man opens on May 2nd.
Although not specifically anime or manga related, this is just too good to pass up. The five minute long trailer for upcoming Japanese live action sci-fi/splatter movie Tokyo Gore Police is now available on Twitch. It’s insane, and packs more bloody violence into five minutes than any Hollywood horror movie of recent memory has packed into two hours. Viewer discretion is highly recommended.
