Notícias

Inception and Paprika explore similar premises of accessing other people's dreams but differ in their approach and themes. Paprika emphasizes the fantastical aspects of its storytelling through dream sequences, while Inception focuses on the science of dream invasions and the protagonist's obsessions. Paprika tackles the line between reality and fiction, and the power of the subconscious, while Inception delves into guilt, regret, and the potential consequences of erasing past mistakes.

Christopher Nolan's Inception was a game-changing film both for filmmakers and Hollywood, and while it did a lot of new things compared to the average action or heist movie, it also shared a few similarities with an underrated anime movie from the mid-200s. Having started his career in 1998 with the black-and-white neo-noir independent crime thriller, Following, Nolan has solidified himself as one of the industry's most unique and creative voices for over two decades. With films like Memento,...

This article contains WandaVision spoilers.

“It’s Wanda. It’s all Wanda,” states Monica Rambeau after she’s ejected from Westview for triggering Scarlet Witch’s memories of Ultron and the real world. Sword’s gal on the ground had tentatively been playing the part of ‘Geraldine’ in the first three episodes of WandaVision’s sitcom reality, but episode 4 gave us a chance to see the real Monica in action as she attempted to help the FBI’s Jimmy Woo unravel the mysteries of Westview prior to being pulled inside.

When her final encounter with Wanda turned ugly, Monica seemed convinced that Scarlet Witch was the one responsible for all the weirdness happening inside the Westview bubble, but is she? Is it really all Wanda? Handing us a House of M-esque ‘Wanda’s just gone bad and manifested a new reality’ solution on a plate around halfway through WandaVision’s...

Some moviegoers feel China’s exhibition sector has been unfairly targeted by prolonged closures and excessive Covid-19 prevention measures, Variety found in a WeChat-based survey of cinema patrons.

Survey respondents, who participated on the condition of anonymity, felt the protective measures required of cinemas helped to lower the risk of movie-going, but that the exhibition sector had been subject to overly cautious treatment.

The vast majority of the 36 respondents — around 60% of whom said they typically watch 1-5 movies a week — hailed from Shanghai, Beijing or other first-tier cities like Nanjing or Hangzhou. Most encountered the survey while attending the festival earlier this month, and are self-professed “movie fans,” or hardcore cinephiles.

More than half, or 58%, of respondents said they weren’t more worried or cautious about going to cinemas in the wake of the pandemic, while 33% said they were.

Many comments demonstrated faith in China’s Covid-19 prevention guidelines and management system.

Santa Monica, CA – Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of one of the most critically acclaimed anime films of all time when Ghost in the Shell arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital 4K Ultra HD) and Digital 4K Ultra HD on September 8th from Lionsgate. Based on the beloved manga from Japanese writer and illustrator Shirow Masamune, the film’s voice cast includes Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, and Kôichi Yamadera. Remastered in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, and featuring fan-favorite commemorative artwork from pop illustrator Martin Ansin – along with brand new bonus material – this will be the most definitive Ghost in the Shell package to date.

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from...

Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of one of the most critically acclaimed anime films of all time when Ghost In The Shell arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital 4K Ultra HD) and Digital 4K Ultra HD on September 8th from Lionsgate. Based on the beloved manga from Japanese writer and illustrator Shirow Masamune, the film's voice cast includes Atsuko Tanaka, Akio &#212tsuka, and K&#244ichi Yamadera. Remastered in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, and featuring fan-favorite commemorative artwork from pop illustrator Martin Ansin - along with brand new bonus material - this will be the most definitive Ghost in the Shell package to date.

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of "The Puppet Master," a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section...

Lionsgate has announced that the groundbreaking Ghost in the Shell will arrive on 4K Ultra HD this September in celebration of its 25th anniversary! Here's the official press release, cover art, and trailer:

Santa Monica, CA – Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of one of the most critically acclaimed anime films of all time when Ghost in the Shell arrives on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray™ and Digital 4K Ultra HD) and Digital 4K Ultra HD on September 8th from Lionsgate. Based on the beloved manga from Japanese writer and illustrator Shirow Masamune, the film’s voice cast includes Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, and Kôichi Yamadera. Remastered in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, and featuring fan-favorite commemorative artwork from pop illustrator Martin Ansin – along with brand new bonus material – this will be the most definitive Ghost in the Shell package to date.

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi,...

by Cláudio Alves

It's a bit strange for me to be writing a celebratory piece about Inception on the movie's 10th anniversary. I've always considered the picture to be a tad overrated, undeserving of the titles of life-changing masterpiece or perfect action movie that I've seen people bestow upon it. Aside from a deadening first hour of exposition, my main issue has always been a matter of imagination or lack thereof. The world of dreams and the human unconscious is so rich in possibility, that it's disheartening to see Christopher Nolan bend it to fit the model of a heist picture.

Even the set design reflects that. There's much talk of impossible architecture, but what we get is modernist lines as far as the eye can see, bellicose fortresses and concrete cityscapes without a hint of surrealism. Notoriously, Satoshi Kon's Paprika, an anime hallucination with a lot of similarities to the Nolan blockbuster,...

In collaboration with LantarenVenster, Camera Japan will screen Tokyo Godfathers at 19:00 on Tuesday, March 24 at LantarenVenster in Rotterdam.

Tokyo Godfathers is a modern classic by Kon Satoshi, a renowned director of Japanese animation. Kon, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 46, also directed Perfect Blue and Paprika.

Storyline:

One Christmas Eve, three homeless people – a middle-aged alcoholic named Gin, a former drag queen named Hana, and a dependent runaway girl named Miyuki – discover an abandoned newborn while searching through the garbage. A search for the parents of the child ensues. During their efforts their respective pasts catch up with them as they learn to look ahead to the future.

Anime is usually seen as something typically Japanese, even representing the country and its culture. But the Japanese animation industry has a long history of interaction with Asia, North America, and Europe. From the early days of Astro Boy,...

In his short-lived career, Satoshi Kon released nothing but bonafide anime classics and Tokyo Godfathers is no exception. Often touted as the most accessible of the Perfect Blue and Paprika director’s filmography, Tokyo Godfathers is a warm, Frank Capra-esque comedy that has flown under the radar in the Western hemisphere since its release in 2003. But 17 years later, Tokyo […]

The post ‘Tokyo Godfathers’ Trailer Debuts the First English Dub for Satoshi Kon’s Classic appeared first on /Film.

Meet the new Blue's Clues. Nickelodeon just announced the premiere date for their new reboot TV show, Blue's Clues & You, Deadline reports.

Based on the hit preschool series, Blue's Clues & You will follow host Joshua Dela Cruz and his puppy pal, Blue, as they solve puzzles and mysteries with their friendsTickety Tock, Slippery Soap, Shovel, Pail, Cinnamon, Paprika, Felt Friends, Sidetable Drawer, and more.

Read More…...

The brand new Anime Film Festival is taking place on Saturday 7th September in London’s West End, with a programme of visually stunning and captivating films from Japan which will keep keen anime fans, as well as families and younger audiences, spellbound.​

Anime Film Festival was created by Reuben Ramanah, an avid anime fan who has long felt that, despite its strong following in the UK, anime is rarely given the spotlight it deserves in cinemas here. Working with a team of close friends adept in digital marketing and partnering with Picturehouse cinemas, an exciting festival has been created that has already received the backing of Manga UK and Anime Limited as well as creative support from YouTuber Beyond Ghibli and Picnic Animation Studio.

Festival Programme

​Mirai (2018) by Mamoru Hosoda

From acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda comes “Mirai”, a daringly original story of the importance of family across generations, and...

Doc & Film International has boarded Italian filmmaker Filippo Meneghetti’s feature debut “Deux” which is being produced by France’s Paprika Films, Luxembourg’s Tarantula and Belgium’s Artémis.

The movie started shooting Oct. 1 and stars German veteran actress Barbara Sukowa (“Lola,””Rosa Luxemburg”), Martine Chevallier (Pas son genre”) and Léa Drucker (“Custody”).

“Deux” follows two retired women, Nina et Madeleine, who are secretly in love with each other, and are believed to be simple neighbors as they live in the same building. One event causes them to separate abruptly while the daughter of Madeleine discovers her mother’s secret life. The two women will seek to reunite in spite of challenges.

Meneghetti wrote the script with Malysone Bovorasmy, in collaboration with Florence Vignon and Marion Vernoux. Meneghetti previously directed three shorts, “Undici,””l’Intruso” and “La Bête.”

Sophie Dulac Distribution will release “Deux” in France. Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin and Laurent Baujard...

Marc du Pontavice’s Paris-based Xilam Animation, has secured a 22.33M euro ($25.9M) capital increase through the selling of new shares to private investors. The funds will be allocated to company expansion and help in the exploration of acquisition and co-production opportunities. Du Pontavice, who founded Xilam in 1999 after leaving French major Gaumont, retains 54.31% of voting rights in the company. Xilam is listed on the Euronext exchange.

Xilam creates, produces and distributes children’s and family entertainment across TV, film and digital media platforms. Arguably its biggest brand is Oggy & The Cockroaches which has been a longtime international success. Others include Zig & Sharko, The Daltons and its first pre-school series, Paprika. The series are broadcast on major networks and platforms in over 190 countries. In 2017, its YouTube content had 2.6B views.

For the capital raise, Xilam issued 446,500 new shares, accounting for 9.09% of the company’s share capital after the transaction. Settlement...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers (2003) is showing December 18, 2017 - January 17, 2018 and Paprika (2006) from December 19 - January 18, 2018 on Mubi in the United Kingdom in the retrospective Satoshi Kon, Anime Maestro. Tokyo GodfathersIt could be said that consistency and eclecticism make up two sides of the auteurist coin, in which the artist's voice can be seen and felt across a body of work that is either noticeably focused in subject matter, thematic concerns, or stylistic approaches (Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Wes Anderson) or wildly varied in any or all of those areas (Louis Malle, Steven Soderbergh). In that respect, Satoshi Kon got to have it both ways with the final two completed animated features in his oeuvre, the satisfyingly odd parting pairing of Tokyo Godfathers (2003) and Paprika (2006). Sorely missed these past seven years since his premature death from pancreatic cancer on...

It was always only a matter of time until modern Hollywood resigned itself to remaking anime. Which isn’t to suggest that the uniquely Japanese medium is somehow unworthy of being used as fodder for Western blockbusters — on the contrary, anime has provided some of the most progressive, adventurous, and visionary filmmaking of the last 30 years — but rather to acknowledge the palpable whiff of inevitability with which Paramount is releasing “Ghost in the Shell.”

It’s not like studio executives are obsessive fans of the franchise, it’s not like former Paramount CEO Brad Grey bought every new DVD of “Stand Alone Complex” as it was released in the United States and can walk you through every detail of the Laughing Man case, it’s not like the people in power were just patiently waiting for the entertainment climate to warm up to the idea of a star-studded Major Kusanagi...

Ryan Lambie Feb 6, 2017

Beyond Studio Ghibli, a wave of directors and artists ensure that the future’s bright for animation in Japan, Ryan writes...

At its best, anime is diverse, vibrant, unfettered and unpredictable. Look through the history of Japanese animation, and you’ll find stories about baseball, cooking, friendly ghosts, ancient myths, dog detectives and robot cats from the future. You’ll find sci-fi and horror, fantasy and comedy, erotica and historical drama. Just about every country on the planet produces animation of some kind; few broach subjects as varied as the Japanese.

See related Katee Sackhoff interview: Battlestar, Haunting, Statham

In recent years, however, anime has faced threats from multiple angles. First, there’s the threat that will catch up with all of us eventually: time itself. In 2010, Japan lost one of its great storytellers, Satoshi Kon, who made such stunning animated movies as Perfect Blue (one of...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question:

Last Friday saw the release of Garth Davis’ “Lion,” the musical score for which is the gorgeous result of a collaboration between two giants of the neo-classical movement, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka. It’s just the latest indication that we’re living in a fascinating, vibrant time for movie music, and December boasts a number of films that will only add more fuel to that fire. With that in mind, we asked our panel of critics to name their favorite film score of the 21st Century.

Tasha Robinson (@TashaRobinson), The Verge

There are some really striking contenders out there, topped by Susumu Hirasawa’s manic,...

We recently spotlighted Tony Zhou’s video essay on Michael Bay’s editing techniques, and now he’s come up with another fascinating editorial analysis. “Satoshi Kon — Editing Space & Time” examines the work of the late anime legend (Paprika, Perfect Blue) purely from an editor’s perspective, finding analogical techniques in Wes Anderson’s work while unpacking the director’s use of graphic matches, imaginative wipes and other transitions that underlined his concerns with the slippage between dreams and reality. It concludes with Kon’s final work, the one-minute short Ohayo (Good Morning). This is well worth a look, both for anime buffs and editors […]...

We recently spotlighted Tony Zhou’s video essay on Michael Bay’s editing techniques, and now he’s come up with another fascinating editorial analysis. “Satoshi Kon — Editing Space & Time” examines the work of the late anime legend (Paprika, Perfect Blue) purely from an editor’s perspective, finding analogical techniques in Wes Anderson’s work while unpacking the director’s use of graphic matches, imaginative wipes and other transitions that underlined his concerns with the slippage between dreams and reality. It concludes with Kon’s final work, the one-minute short Ohayo (Good Morning). This is well worth a look, both for anime buffs and editors […]...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 23 Jan 2014 - 05:44

Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2006, and a further 25 overlooked gems...

With all the major films that elbow their way into their cinemas every year, there's bound to be some casualties among the big hits. And just like any other year, 2006 was dominated by the likes of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Da Vinci Code and Ice Age: The Meltdown. But in tandem, there were dozens of lesser-seen films which shuffled in and out of cinemas (or occasionally, didn't get a release in cinemas at all) without very many people noticing.

As we're sure you're aware by now, these lists aim to redress the balance a little, and hopefully introduce a few films from any given year that you may have missed. There are also one or two films that, although...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 19 Dec 2013 - 06:30

Our journey through the lesser-known films of the 2000s continues. This week, it's 2003...

It was the year that Arnold Schwarzenegger went from Terminator actor to Governor of California, and when The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King dominated the global box office with a gross of more than $1bn. 2003 was also the year the Wachowskis' Matrix trilogy thundered to a close, the year Freddy Krueger clashed with Jason Voorhees in, er, Freddy Vs Jason, and the year Pixar scored another hit with Finding Nemo.

But as you've probably gathered by now, 2003 was also a year of quite brilliant, less lucrative films. The movies we've included in this week's list were chosen for a variety of reasons - some were ignored in cinemas, while others were harshly treated by critics. Some were modestly popular or given awards on release,...

Studio Ghibli's next film will be When Marnie Was There.

The Secret World of Arrietty's Hiromasa Yonebayashi will direct the adaptation of Joan G Robinson's classic children's novel, reports Variety.

The 1967 book centres around a lonely orphan who makes friends with a mysterious girl called Marnie.

One day her friend disappears without trace.

Keiko Niwa (Ocean Waves, From Up on Poppy Hill, The Secret World of Arrietty), Masashi Ando (character designer on Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Paprika), and Yonebayashi are working together on the script.

Ghibli recently announced Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski and others on the English language voice cast for its most recent film, The Wind Rises.

When Marnie Was There is scheduled for release in summer 2014.

Catch up on all the latest TV and Movies releases in Digital Spy's Screen Time:...

Satoshi Kon director of such Anime classics as Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent and Paprika has died at the age of 47.

Kon started his career as a manga artist and editor in Young Magazine, and then made his screenwriting debut with 'Magnetic Rose, a section of the anthology film Memories. Kon made his directorial debut film, Perfect Blue, in 1997, followed by Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika and the television series Paranoia Agent. He had been at work on his fifth film, The Dream Machine since 2008.

From the moment we learned that Christopher Nolan's Inception would deal with a machine that allowed people to enter the dreams of others, anime fans have been comparing it to Satoshi Kon's highly regarded film Paprika. Based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Paprika is a story about a research psychologist who can use a machine to enter other people's dreams. Nolan bashers have halfheartedly latched on to the similarities when arguing that the filmmaker is overrated and not particularly original (which is largely a matter of personal opinion ... ), and there are definite similarities between the two tales.

Those common elements are even more noticeable -- and funny -- in this fan-made YouTube trailer for Paprika's Inception. In this clever mash-up, Paprika's images are matched with the Inception soundtrack and voice-over narration. The level of synchronicity between the two is pretty amazing. I've never heard Nolan talk about Paprika,...

Ready to get your perception of the world righteously frakked? This is comfortable territory for director Christopher Nolan, who toyed with the very notion of objective reality in Memento and The Prestige. His newest movie, Inception, sends corporate spy Leonardo DiCaprio into the endlessly mutable world of people's dreams. But Nolan isn't alone in this field — the mischievous Japanese animator Satoshi Kon has frequently flung his characters into the dreams and memories of others, no more enthusiastically than in the furiously surreal R-rated Paprika.

more about Kon's Paprika

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 7/15/2010 by reelz...

Less than 24 hours ago we posted a new Korean poster and a TV spot for Inception, which gave us more of a substantial look at the world Christopher Nolan is creating for us.

Most of the attention has been paid to the visuals, including the Paris street scene and the corridor bound zero gravity fightfest, but this is mere window dressing, and this new featurette is all about the characters.

And there’s new footage, and a better look at Joesph Gordon-Levitt and Cillian Murphy, with Leonardo DiCaprio providing a nice explanation as to what the set up is, and Tom Hardy looks as if he will steal this film.

The video, which can see below, was found first on MSN Movies, so click here to go there.

Oh, and those who are have noticed the similarities in theme between Inception and Satoshi Kon’s amazing 2007 film Paprika need look...

In news I thought I’d never post, it seems anime studio Madhouse, who are responsible for some of the greatest anime series of all time – including: Death Note, Paprika and Vampire Hunter D, are working on an anime based on the CW show Supernatural. Yes, you read that right… Supernatural.

The original live-action series follows the Winchester brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) as they hunt creatures and other supernatural phenomena across the American landscape. The new anime will be a 22-episode season that will cover the storyline of the live-action version’s first two seasons. According to animeanime.jp, the anime:

…will not only remake the best episodes from the live-action version, but also depict original episodes not seen in the live-action version. Those original episodes will include prologues of the Winchester brothers’ childhood, anime-only enemies, and episodes featuring secondary characters from the live-action version.

Supernatural...

Welcome all to your Monday morning film fix, the latest episode of the Mouth Off podcast is here.

Joining me in the podcast arena this week are Craig Skinner and Brendon Connelly and this week sees us tackle StreetDance 3D, the Werner Herzog directed Bad Lieutenant: Part of Call New Orleans, and Philip Ridley’s Heartless, and we throw a discussion of 3D, the merits of Nicolas Cage and a new mode of film distribution.

Our Ripped from the Crypt selections this week are the usual eclectic mix, and as always I’ve put the trailers below for you to enjoy.

As always do leave your comments and suggestions below, we want to make this podcast as good as it can be so please do get involved.

Click here to subscribe or listen to the Mouth Off feed in iTunes, where you can also find our older episodes.

I hope you enjoy it,...

As Twig noted, when she alerted me to this news item, I don't know a lot about anime, but I am keen enough to know that Wolfgang Peterson (Troy, Poseidon) is not the guy you want touching a revered anime movie. Peterson was apparently blown away when he saw 2006's Satoshi Kon-directed Paprika and arrogant enough to believe that 1) it warranted an American remake, and 2) he was the right guy to do it.

Wolfgang Peterson is not the right guy to do anything short of ordering a stack of waffles at Denny's, though I'm not sure I'd even trust him with that task, after the disaster that was Troy.

Peterson has apparently tapped a "young writer" (yeah, I bet he has) with a "specific and detailed treatment," which opens Paprika "up a little bit more so it's more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of Matrix.

Superheroes are all the craze in Hollywood these days, but they may soon be supplanted by the next trend—adapting mind-bending Japanese sci-fi anime into blockbuster movies. Three of the most famous and influential anime properties are already being adapted for an American audience—Battle Angel by James Cameron, Ghost in the Shell by Steven Spielberg and Akira by Albert and Allen Hughes. Now, director Wolfgang Petersen has announced his plans to develop a fourth, an adaptation of the award-winning anime movie Paprika.

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 4/12/2010 by BrentJS

Wolfgang Petersen | Satoshi Kon | Paprika...

In an interview with MTV Splash Page, director Wolfgang Petersen talked about his plans for the announced live-action adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel Paprika that Japanese director Satoshi Kon and Studio Madhouse turned into an amazing anime in 2006.

Petersen praises Kon’s adaptation and states that an yet unnamed author is currently working on the adaptation but a screenplay hasn’t been written yet. Unfortunately, he also mentions something that always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to Hollywood adaptations:

We open it up a little bit more so it’s more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of “Matrix” feel. [...] Not like Matrix but sort of the size of it all, the scope of it all. So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience.

[via Quiet Earth]...

I stumbled onto Satoshi Kon when, a few years ago, I did a mini marathon of Anime. I knew very little about the art and after a little searching, I made my way to Perfect Blue, followed closely by Millenium Actress. This wasn’t Disney and I loved every part of it coming to appreciate a medium I knew nothing about (and am still largely unfamiliar with) but when, in 2006, Kon presented his newest work, I knew I had to see it, Asap.

Paprika was astonishing. Bright, colourful, imaginative and pulling at more stories and ideas than I was prepared for, it swept me into an overload coma; the kind I hadn’t experienced since first glimpsing the Wachowski’s The Matrix. In and of itself, that makes this next bit of news beyond strange and into serious Wtf territory.

When news broke last year that Wolfgang Petersen would direct...

One of the most underrated films of the past decade is set to get a remake, we know, but just what is the film set to be like?

Well, speaking to MTV (via The Playlist), director Wolfgang Petersen got a chance to discuss his upcoming remake of Satoshi Kon’s 2006 masterpiece, Paprika. The film sounds a bit like the upcoming Chris Nolan film, Inception, and revolves around the theft of a machine that lets people into the dreams of others.

Read more on Wolfgang Petersen talks Paprika remake…...

Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel Paprika has already been adapted into animation by Satoshi Kon, but back in August of last year it was announced that a live-action feature version would be directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Now Peterson has issued a brief update on the adaptation, and he sounds like he's planning for it to be big, if nothing else. MTV talked to Peterson, who loved the anime telling of the story, and says that he's got a very detailed treatment in hand that, if given the signal to move forward, should generate a script quickly. Peterson says, We open it up a little bit more so it’s more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of "Matrix" feel. Not like Matrix but sort of the size of it all, the scope of it all. So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience.

Wolfgang Petersen proved he had an eye for the fantastic with 1984's "The Neverending Story," but the imagery in the source material for his live-action "Paprika" adaptation may take him into scenes that look more like "Akira" or David Cronenberg's "Scanners." The "Troy" and "Poseidon" director loved "Paprika" as an anime, and the treatment he recently received could become a wide release that he compares to "The Matrix."

"We have a young writer on it, and he just delivered a very specific and detailed treatment that we’re working on," Petersen told MTV News. "And then if that’s a go then he will write the screenplay and that will go very fast because the treatment is already very detailed. So I’m very excited about that. I would say it’s on the fast track."

The "Paprika" story, which originally began as a 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, but...

Though there is still minimal plot information available for Paprika director Satoshi Kon's new kid-friendly science fiction animated feature The Dreaming Machine the official website and blog have just been updated with the first images released from the film.  Kon in kid-friendly mode is an interesting thing ... there are elements of the design work that are clearly familiar to fans of his work but all of it run through a slightly different filter.  I love the look of this and simply can't wait to see it in motion.

Wolfgang Peterson (The Perfect Storm, Troy) is a filmmaker known for three things… epically entertaining adventure flicks, long intervals between films and a frequent inability to keep his films under two hours. Out of his last nine films, six of them surpassed the two hour mark, including Das Boot (1981) which holds the crown with a 149 minutes theatrical cut, a 209 minute director’s cut and a mind-boggling 293 minute uncut version.

Peterson has had a few goes at projects that never panned out, the most recent of which was a long roller coaster of a ride attempting to get Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi epic Ender’S Game on the big screen. This ultimately ended with the project being scrapped, making many skeptical sci-fi buffs very happy, as the story is considered by some as being “unfilmable”.

So, with Ender’S Game off Peterson’s schedule, what is a man to do?...

Moviehole reports that Wolfgang Petersen is working on a version of the oddball Japanese anime Paprika.Paprika began life as a 1993 novel (serialised in Marie Claire!) by Satoshi Kon. It was adapted as a manga in 2003, the full-length anime in 2006, and a different manga in 2007.The plot, which sounds a better fit for David Cronenberg than Petersen, sees a doctor illegally using a new psychotherapy treatment called the "DC Mini", to manipulate her patients' dreams from the inside. When one of the few existing prototype machines is stolen, dreams and the real world eventually collide. There are living nightmares, people turning into one another, a weird circus parade, a people-eating robot and a giant doll. In a word, it's mental, so it's a curious prospect for a director whose recent work has been straight-down-the-line fare like Poseidon and Troy. There's no indication so far though of whether Petersen is planning animation or live action,...

According to Moviehole, Wolfgang Petersen (yes, “our man in Hollywood”) is developing a live-action film based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel Paprika that director Satoshi Kon already adapted into an anime in 2006. Not a bad idea in my eyes, since the basic theme of the novel (dreams meet reality thanks to technology) could work really well in live-action even though I could imagine that combining reality with the dream world would be much harder (and probably less “real”) using CGI.

But why Wolfgang Petersen? I know that he already did Sci-Fi but the man didn’t produce anything spectacular for at least 20 years…

Here’s the title song The Girl in Byakkoya by Susumu Hirasawa (available for download here) from the 2006 anime:...

Previously adapted into a truly splendid feature by anime master Satoshi Kon, Yasutaka Tsutsui's serialized novel Paprika seems set for the big screen again. This time round, we can expect a live action adaptation by Wolfgang Peterson, the perpetrator of Air Force One and Outbreak. The novel's story is a chase mystery revolving around a new technology that allows people to enter one another's dreams, so there's little wonder that Moviehole (via Firstshowing) invoke the director's NeverEnding Story in their rumor-starting piece. What I don't quite get is their assertion that this project would be Petersen "ostensibly out to court the youngsters again." I guess they don't really know the project at all. Is psychotherapy and psychosexual nightmare manipulation typically the stuff of kiddie fare? Kon's film is definitely an adult picture. Let's not get tangled up in knots over Petersen but instead focus on the source material. There...

Wolfgang Petersen has made quite a name for himself by having such a cool name. I mean, come on, the dude.s name is Wolfgang. A Wolfgang sounds like something Twilight needs more of (think: characters from Stand and Deliver, but werewolves). Ever since making one of the greatest children.s. stories of all time (The Neverending Story), it's been all downhill for Peterson. Maybe that means he should get back into kids movies, but instead he's adapting anime. Moviehole reports that Petersen will be adapting Yasutaka Tsutsui.s Paprika, a novel about a female therapist who must find a stolen machine that allows one enter someone.s dreams. The book has already been adapted as an anime once, back in 2006. This has the potential to be a pretty cool thriller, and all Wolfgang needs to do is get a decent special effects department to handle some sweet dream sequences.

Where has he been hiding? Wolfgang Petersen, the other German action movie director (not Roland Emmerich), hasn't directed anything since Poseidon back in 2006. He's attached to an alien movie called Uprising at Sony, but there hasn't been any movement on that for a while (as far as I know). Moviehole is reporting (without many details at all) that Petersen is attached to direct a live-action version of Yasutaka Tsutsui's Japanese novel Paprika. Anime enthusiasts may remember that an anime version of the book was produced in 2006. But a big anime remake just doesn't seem like something Wolfgang would do? Paprika is about a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams. When the machine is stolen, all hell breaks loose, and only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. Apparently it is a very trippy anime (watch the trailer) because it spends so much time in dreams.

Wolfgang Peterson, who directed The NeverEnding Story in 1984, is revisiting the fantasy genre. However, the results might be a little spicier this time.

Moviehole reports the German filmmaker, who has also helmed action-dramas like Das Boot and Air Force One, is developing a live-action adaptation of Paprika, based on a 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Originally serialized in Marie Claire, Paprika concerns an experimental machine that allows therapists to enter the dreams of their patients. When several prototypes are stolen, it’s up to a young therapist, Paprika, to stop a series of murders by entering the dream world herself.

If the title sounds familiar, you might have picked up one of several manga adaptations, or seen the animated film of the same name, which was released by Sony in 2006. The movie, directed by Satoshi Kon, has been praised for its visual style and integration of 2-D and 3-D animation.

No...

There is a lot of love around here for last years (rather ignored at the Japanese Box Office) animated feature (Damn you Ponyo!): The Sky Crawlers. Mamoru Oshii‘s high-flying social science fiction melodrama is certainly one of the most handsome films I have seen in ages, and features the best sound design ever. Period. (The aerial dog-fight footage pounded the cinema I was in, yet even the lighting of a cigarette or a character walking down the hall had aural resonance.) It is also a swanky mixture between the directors predisposition for the ‘heady stuff’ and a mainstream accessibility. The balance is quite nice actually, and the narrative story telling is complicated, rich, and satisfying. Am I being hyperbolic on this film? Well, the darn thing deserves some love. And for those who missed the really thin theatrical release in North America, the DVD and Blu-Ray is going to drop on May 26th.

We’re big fans of Satoshi Kon’s animated film Paprika and today we have found reason to rejoice! The 1993 novel that this animated wonder was based on by author Yasutaka Tsutsui has been translated into English and will be available through Alma Books in the UK this April.

When prototype models of a device for entering into patients dreams go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people s dreams and send them insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground,...

Now this, boys and girls, is how you assemble a cast of talent.

Over the past few years Japan’s Madhouse animation studio has gone from being a fairly run of the mill work farm, turning out solid but unspectacular work, into being arguably the nation’s top production house, a home to auteurs, populist masters an technical geniuses alike. How have they done it? Simply put by having a sterling eye for young talent and the wisdom to allow more established hands like Paprika‘s Satoshi Kon and Kemonozume‘s Masaki Yuasa a free hand to do what they want. Madhouse may not have an exclusive hold at the top of the heap but, particularly when it comes to television animation, they absolutely must be a starting point for any serious conversation of what’s important and interesting in the anime world right now.

And Hell’s Angels is their latest.

By Michael Atkinson

I have to be honest: Japanese pop culture terrifies me. While American pop culture, with its adolescence fetish, prideful ignorance, superhero love and submergent video game fantasias, can merely make me queasy, what I see flowing out of Japan triggers a flight response: the cute cult, the schoolgirl obsession, the giant-penis-monster animated porn, the apocalyptic visions, the oceans of twisted-fairy-tale manga, the deification of inexplicable toys, the combinations of all of the above, and so on. It's as if, by Western junk-culture standards in the last three or so decades, Japan is going joyfully, helplessly insane.

Which accounts, obviously, for the stuff's worldwide popularity. I just can't often get my head around it, or see the opportunity to try, or track what kind of creative idea spawned something like Pokémon or Sailor Moon or the tentacle-rape epic "Urotsukidoji" or Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" or gold-plated poop-shaped cell-phone trinkets,...

While we cross our fingers for the live-action adaptation to Ninja Scroll (come on already!), news came in this weekend via AICN that an animated sequel might be coming sooner than we thought. "Appearing at the Us East Coast's largest anime convention, Madhouse Studios (that animators of Ninja Scroll, Paprika, the Girl Who Leapt Through Time) co-founder and Cco Masao Maruyama stated that Ninja Scroll writer/director Yoshiaki Kawajiri is involved with a script for a sequel to the big-in-the-us bloody affair. Maruyama also mentioned that, like Kawajiri, he has script approval for the sequel. The 1993 anime-movie previously spawned a 13 episode TV series in 2003." In the original, a ninja-for-hire is forced into fighting an old nemesis who is bent on overthrowing the Japanese government. His nemesis is also the leader of a group of demons each with superhuman powers.

• Paprika is the latest feature length work from Japanese anime auteur Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, Millennium Actress), and adapted from a novel by Japan’s most renowned science fiction author Yasutaka Tsutsui. The plot centers around an experimental invention called the DC Mini, that allows its users to enter another person’s dreams. 29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a brilliant but conservative research psychotherapist working on the DC Mini project, and also uses the device to moonlight as super heroine Paprika, entering into her patient’s dreams and helping them resolve anxiety and neurosis.When one of the DC Mini prototypes is stolen, Atsuko is forced into the role of a real-world heroine as her colleagues begin to go mad, haunted by terrifying waking-dreams of a doll torn from the mind of a schizophrenic patient. Someone is wielding the device as a weapon, and setting the

...

• Fans of Millenium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers know who Satoshi Kon is and have been waiting a couple of full moons for his latest release. Selected as part of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival the anime opens in New York on May 25, 2007 and Los Angeles on June 1, 2007, before expanding nationwide throughout the summer. Today, Sony Pictures Classics has passed on the one sheet and trailers below.Paprika is from an original story written by Yasutaka Tsutsui and based on the screenplay by Seishi Minakami & Satoshi Kon, Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a genius scientist by day, and a kick-ass dream warrior named Paprika by night. In this psychedelic sci-fi adventure, it will take the skills of both women to save the world...The near future: a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called Pt has been invented. A device called the "DC Mini" is able to act as a "dream detective

...