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DC Comics has announced plans to shut down its CMX imprint for English translated manga. “Over the course of the last six years, CMX has brought a diverse

Discovery Communications and Hasbro’s forthcoming children’s television network The Hub will host the American premiere of the first 52 episodes of the 65 episode Deltora Quest television series

Japanese publisher Fujimi Shobo has formally confirmed rumors that surfaced last March that author Kimura Shinichi’s adventure comedy light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? (Is This

TMS Entertainment has announced plans to stream its forthcoming anime series Susume! Gachimuchi 3 Kyodai (Charge! Pumping 3 Brothers). The comedy series of 3-minute episodes about the daily

Screen Daily reports that Toei is developing a 3D conversion of its smash hit 2000 live action film Battle Royale for a November 20 theatrical re-release. Kenta Fukasaku,

International independent animation production studio Blender Foundation has released an official trailer for its work-in-progress short film Sintel. The 5-8 minute long short from the animators behind Elephants

Question: Is there any U.S. anime company currently interested in re-releasing the Revolutionary Girl Utena series?

FUNimation has announced its acquisition of five additional anime titles. Chaos;HEAd is Madhouse’s 2008 TV series adaptation of Nitroplus & 5pb.’s mystery/horror PC game. The 12 episode series

Disney subsidiary Touchstone Pictures will theatrically release Studio Ghibli’s 2006 feature film Tales of Earthsea (Ged Senki) in America on August 13. Presumably the theatrical release will be

Shinei Animation, the studio best known for animating Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan, has launched its Shinei Puchi Ani Gekijo (Shinei Petit Anime Theater) series online with two original

Kodansha International has announced its development of an original English language manga adaptation of Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s (1659-1719) written reflections on his life as a samurai and the philosophical

Final Destination franchise creator and Dragonball: Evolution director James Wong has signed on to write and direct a remake of Yasuo Inoue’s 2005 film Neighbour No. Thirteen (Rinjin

Takashi Kubota will direct a live action feature film adaptation of Hiroshi Tanaka’s best selling “bosozoku” manga series Bad Boys. The original manga, serialized from 1988 to 1996,

Beijing-based studio Vasoon Animation has released promotional reels for three films in production: Deity Hunters, Ksitigarbha, and Legend 333. The Legend 333 children’s adventure film is tentatively scheduled

Japanese publisher Frontier Works has announced the development of a live action film loosely inspired by Hyouta Fujiyama’s yaoi manga series Junjou. Digital Manga Publishing distributes the manga