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Death Note director Adam Wingard has shared a new poster for his upcoming live-action adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata's classic manga, and it gives us a much better look at Ryuk...

The wait is almost over for Netflix's live-action adaptation of Death Note and today we get a first look at what Willem Dafoe looks like as Ryuk the Shinigami on the new poster promoting the upcoming movie. The Japanese manga series was written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It has sold well over 30 million copies worldwide as well as winning numerous awards and gaining a huge cult following. So to say that the upcoming Netflix movie is anticipated would be a complete understatement.

Death Note director Adam Wingard has taken to social media to share the new poster and it looks just as awesome. It features our first look at William Dafoe as Ryuk the Shinigami, the Japanese spirit who ushers people into their deaths. The poster is absolutely in tune with Obata's original illustrations with a bit of a twist, but long time fans should be...

We’re just two months away from the premiere of Death Note, Netflix and Adam Wingard’s manga-to-film adaptation of the Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata-penned series. Are you ready for a sneak peek? How about the official poster?! Chatting with the official account for Death Note character Ryuk, Wingard just shared the poster over on Twitter this […]...

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In episode 51 of Los Fanboys, Jammer, Eric, Sophia, and Lrm writer David discuss this past week in the box office. From there, we dig into the Black Panther trailer before jumping into the DC Extended Universe news, which involves Patty Jenkins and Wonder Woman 2, and rumors surrounding Justice League. From there, we go into more diverse casting discussions with Aladdin, Death Note, and the newly-announced Cowboy Bebop live-action TV show.

Show Guide:

00:00:00 - Intro and box office

00:20:51 - Black Panther trailer reactions

00:28:40 - Patty Jenkins not yet signed on for Wonder Woman 2

00:42:48 - Warner Bros. waiting to see how Justice League Performs, and extensive photography rumors

00:51:25 - Tom Hardy as Jafar in live-action Aladdin?

01:02:13 - Death Note director defends U.S. setting of adaptation

01:12:23 -...

Game of Thrones fans are undoubtedly a bit perturbed that there are only 13 episodes left of the acclaimed series. After seasons and seasons of story, we are finally getting the resolutions we were so desperately seeking, but at the cost of longer seasons.

But don’t worry. The end may be near, but don’t think yourself completely cheated. While we may be getting fewer episodes than ever before in the upcoming season, we’ll also be getting some of the longest episodes of the series yet. Thanks to the eagle-eyed Watchers on the Wall, who have been scouring HBO’s site, we now have the episode length for each of the episodes of Season 7 of the show.

Related: Game Of Thrones Season 8 Could Air In 2019

Here’s what the episodes will clock in at:

Episode 1: 59 minutesEpisode 2: 59 minutesEpisode 3: 63 minutesEpisode 4: 50 minutesEpisode 5: 59 minutesEpisode 6: 71 minutesEpisode 7: 81 minutes

Now,...

Aside from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and Baby Driver, Edgar Wright's biggest films have been collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. The three films make up the Cornetto Trilogy, connected by the consistent appearance of the popular brand of ice cream. Yet, the biggest similarities between the films is they are all near perfect parodies of different genres, made with such love and respect that they are also among the best entries in that given genre.

Hot Fuzz is my favorite film of Wright's. Co-written by Simon Pegg, it follows London cop Nicholas Angel, who is transferred to a quiet English village where he feels his talents are lost, until a dark conspiracy is revealed under the surface of the peaceful town. Parodying my favorite sub-genre, the buddy cop film, Hot Fuzz contains plenty of laughs,...

When Roy Lee was quizzed about those scathing whitewashing claims surrounding Death Note, the seasoned producer argued that Netflix’s R-rated adaptation is “an interpretation of the story in a different culture.”

Change is inevitable, then, and sure enough, the casting of Nat Wolff as moody teenager Light Yagami has arguably proven to be the biggest point of contention since Death Note was officially unveiled three months ago. He’ll now go by the name of Light Turner, who begins to develop a heartfelt bond with L, a world-famous detective, upon discovering the titular piece of script: “The human whose name is written in this note shall die.”

Moreover, in Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s original manga series, Light’s dalliance with death and the deity known as Shinigami Ryuk takes place in Japan, though we understand the Adam Wingard-directed film will relocate that story to Seattle, where...

Adapting anime and manga properties is no easy feat. Not only do you have to overcome adapting a project from a different medium, but you also have to adapt it from an entirely different culture. Something that makes sense to a Japanese person may come across as stupid and illogical to an American viewer, and that’s not even taking into account the cultural mythology that a lot of anime pulls from. As such, the studios need to be picky about what they decide to bring over. What can they adapt that is both popular and not so reliant on knowing Japanese culture?

Hollywood is trying their hand with a few properties right now. Earlier this year, we saw the release of the underwhelming Ghost in the Shell, but later this year, we’ll be seeing the release of the Netflix original movie, Death Note. However, one series that’s...

Hollywood continues to try and bring manga and anime material to Western audiences, but they still haven’t figured out how to do it without screwing up the source material or making questionable/controversial production choices. This past spring, “Ghost In The Shell” was met with a wave of criticism as it flopped at the box office, and before Netflix unveils “Death Note” later this summer, there is already plenty of chatter about its problematic approach.

Continue reading Live Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ TV Series In The Works at The Playlist.

The Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will showcase films starring local actresses Sakura Ando, Yu Aoi, Hikari Mitsushima and Aoi Miyazaki in its Japan Now section.

Ando came to the attention of audiences in Sion Sono's Love Exposure (2008) and starred in 100 Yen Love, Japan's foreign-language Oscar entry in 2015. Mitsushima also appeared in Love Exposure, as well as Death Note (2006).

Aoi made her debut in Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) and won best supporting actress at the Japan Academy Prize awards for Hula Girls (2007). Miyazaki has appeared in numerous films, including Chronicles of My...

Okay, kids, strap yourselves in for a slice of glorious oddity from Japan! The Last Cop is a remake of a German TV series originally produced for Hulu Japan. Karasawa Toshiaki plays a cop awakened from a thirty year coma and pressed into action against a variety of super villains with the help of a small team of gadget-enhanced super cops and the results are delieriously loopy. After a successful first series and a shorter mini-series run the show is now making the step to features and, wow. Inomata Ryuichi - an experienced TV director with the recent Death Note series on his resume - helms the feature version and the promos promise a glorious mash up of martial arts, power gloves, clones, web slinging...

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Death Note director Adam Wingard released a new photo from his feature film adaptation showing L and Light meeting face-to-face. The first teaser trailer for the movie was released a couple days ago, and it was met with mixed reactions.

Some people liked what they saw, while others complained about it. That's just how it goes with these kinds of film projects, though. The filmmakers will never make all of the fans happy, but they do their best.

It's not like any of us didn't know that there were going to be changes made during the development process. Hell, Marvel and DC change things up all the time from their source material to the big screen, and for the most part, fans accept it.

Regardless, what we saw was a very brief tease, and it's hard to judge what Wingard and his team have done with only a minute of footage.

Netflix recently shared a glimpse into their live-action world of Death Note, and Funko is also celebrating the franchise with new Pop! vinyl figures based on the 2006–2007 anime series (which, in turn, is based on Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga series of the same name).

The new Funko Pop! vinyl figures feature Light, the Shinigami Ryuk, and the brilliant detective L. You can view all four items below (including the Hot Topic exclusive version of L with his cake), and be sure to keep an eye out for these collectibles when they're released this June.

From Funko: "Pop! Animation: Death Note

Light Yagami and the characters of Death Note are coming to Pop! vinyl! Collect Light, who attempts to rid the world of crime; L, the detective; and Ryuk, the Shinigami!

You can also collect L with cake, available exclusively at Hot Topic!

Coming in June!"

Images via...

Nipping at the heels of yesterday’s morbid teaser trailer, the first official still for Netflix’s Death Note adaptation has arrived and in it, we see Light Turner (Nat Wolff) have a fateful encounter with the world-famous detective known as L.

Cloaked in a jet-black hoody and facing away from the camera, we don’t actually get to see L’s face here, but those familiar with Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s iconic Japanese manga will no doubt be able to identify his signature pose. Indeed, when Death Note premieres in August, Light and L will find their lives inextricably bound by the titular notebook, which holds the bone-chilling power to kill anyone whose name is scribbled down on its page.

Originally called Light Yagami in the manga, once he comes into possession of the Death Note, Nat Wolff’s unassuming student moonlights as a vigilante, picking off...

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Are you worthy of your life? That decision is in the hands of the bearer of the Death Note so be sure to be kind to all those you encounter. Thanks to Netflix, all will be revealed in their upcoming original film, Death Note in August, but first, we have a teaser to wet your appetite.

What is the Death Note you may ask! Death Note is Netflix own live-action adaptation of a hugely popular manga series brought to life for Western audiences. With Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost in the Shell released into cinemas next week, Netflix has followed suit in adapting the series which first debuted in Japan in 2003, clearly not wanting to be left out of the trend which is taking the big screen by storm.

This isn’t the first time this story has been adapted, in Japan it has had four live-action films,...

"Shall we begin?" Today, Netflix released a new trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of the popular anime series Death Note.Based on the Japanese manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note “follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.” An anime adaptation of the series ran for 37 episodes between 2006 and 2007.Read More…...

Netflix has dropped the teaser trailer for the upcoming horror film, “Death Note”, based on the popular Japanese manga series. There’s just one problem: the Asian-based story features zero Asian actors or characters. After Netflix faced backlash over the casting of a white male actor in the Marvel series “Iron Fist”, the new teaser for […]...

This morning Netflix dated and dropped the first teaser trailer for Adam Wingard’s manga-to-film adaptation of the Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata penned series Death Note. In addition, Bloody Disgusting was just provided with the first ever image from the big-budget adaptation streaming on August 25, 2017: ‘Death Note’ follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, […]...

Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy... Read More...

While some novices may not realize what is about to hit Netflix this summer, fans do, and they have been waiting for the American Death Note adaptation for quite some time. Originally envisioned as a big screen reboot of the popular Japanese franchise, the movie eventually wound up at Netflix. And now, it is set to be one of their biggest original summer movie releases ever. Today, we have a first look at this thriller.

'We suggest you obey the rules'. That's the warning issued at the forefront of this spooky tale. Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the...

Sneak Peek new footage, images and synopsis from the upcoming live-action feature "Death Note', directed by Adam Wingard, adapting the manga comics/animated series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, starring Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Keith Stanfield, Paul Nakauchi, Shea Whigham and Willem Dafoe, airing August 25, 2017 on Netflix:

"...a young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the 'Death Note', that grants him the power to destroy any person by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and bring justice to the world, but an enigmatic detective attempts to track him down and end his reign of terror..."

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For several years now, Death Note has been one of those anime and manga adaptations that seems to have been in constant development in Hollywood. While it’s definitely one of the newer manga series out there to get tossed around Tinsel Town, it joined the likes of Akira and Ghost in the Shell as one of the series that would inevitably head on over to the west.

Unlike a good number of anime or manga series coming out of Japan, it was one with a premise that could easily be catered to a Western audience with few changes. Just rearrange the setting, change shinigami to grim reaper, or some variation, and you got yourself a pretty solid thriller. More than even Akira and Ghost in the Shell, I felt Death Note had the potential to really take off in a big way in North America.

Some time ago, Netflix picked up the property,...

Netflix has released the first teaser for its live-action adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba’s beloved manga, Death Note.

The post Netflix’s ‘Death Note’ Is Here. It’s A Must-See! appeared first on Fortress of Solitude.

"The human whose name is written in this note shall die." Ahead of its August 25th release on Netflix, Adam Wingard's live-action Death Note movie (based on Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's popular manga) is teased in a new trailer featuring Nat Wolff as Light Turner and Willem Dafoe as the voice of Shinigami Ryuk, who is hidden in the shadows.

"What if you had the power to decide who lives and who dies?

We suggest you obey the rules. Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.

"Shall we begin?"

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for their live-action adaptation of the manga/anime Death Note, and I love what I'm seeing in this first footage! The movie comes from director Adam Wingard (The Guest, You’re Next). I'm a fan of his films, and it looks like he may have actually done a great job with Death Note!

The manga was created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, and the story follows student Light Turner, played by Nat Wolff in the film, who uncovers a mysterious notebook that kills people if their name is written in it. When talking about adapting the property into a live-action film, Wingard said:

“I think anime are due for the same treatment that comics got when Nolan did Batman. I think the key is straying away from overt anime style like Speed Racer and Dragon Ball and instead try...

“The human whose name is written in this note shall die.” That is, in essence, the crux of Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s morbid Japanese manga that’s bound for Netflix in 2017.

Piggybacking on the excitement generated by Paramount’s Ghost in the Shell movie, Netflix has today unveiled the frightening first teaser for Adam Wingard’s R-rated adaptation, one which finds Nat Wolff (The Fault in Our Stars) uncovering the titular supernatural notebook. At only 55 seconds in length, chances are you’ll need to sit down and watch Death Note‘s inaugural promo two or three times before identifying all the pertinent story beats, but it’s still an exciting teaser nonetheless.

Perhaps cautious of revealing too much, too soon, you’ll also be able to hear Willem Dafoe’s unruly, all-powerful Ryuk let out a chilling cackle. Known as a Shinigami in the Death Note lore,...

Netflix has released the first trailer for director Adam Wingard’s “Death Note.” The live-action adaptation of the popular manga will be released in August as a Netflix original movie.

Read More: ‘Death Note’: Willem Dafoe Cast As Shinigami In Adam Wingard’s Netflix Movie

The original story from creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata centers on a student named Light Turner (Nat Wolff) who finds a mysterious notebook that kills people when their name is written in it.

“I think Anime are due for the same treatment that comics got when Nolan did ‘Batman,’ Wingard said during a Reddit Ama last year. “I think the key is straying away from overt Anime style like ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Dragon Ball’ and instead try to ground the stories in more relatable ways. With ‘Death Note’ I tried to give it a gritty, lived-in look. With that said ‘Death Note’ is...

Following last year’s surprise Blair Witch sequel, director Adam Wingard (The Guest, You’re Next) is back with a new film this year. His latest project is the Netflix-distributed, Japanese-manga-to-American-film adaptation Death Note, and the first trailer has landed today ahead of an August release. For those unfamiliar with Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata‘s source material, the film follows student Light Turner (Nat Wolff) who uncovers a mysterious notebook that — spoiler alert — kills people if their name is written in it.

“I think anime are due for the same treatment that comics got when Nolan did Batman. I think the key is straying away from overt anime style like Speed Racer and Dragon Ball and instead try to ground the stories in more relatable ways. With Death Note I tried to give it a gritty lived in look. With that said Death Note is going to be my most insane movie yet.

Ghost in the Shell faces an uphill battle on March 31st if it’s to truly win over the naysayers, that much we know, but there’s no question that Rupert Sanders’ live-action manga movie is shaping up to be a visual treat.

Now that we’re little over a week out from welcoming Scarlett Johannson’s Major into theaters, and the intricate VFX work is all but complete, Paramount has today rolled out an extended clip for Ghost in the Shell via Twitter that’s pulled from the film’s super-sleek opening sequence. Perched over a vertiginous drop, here we get a glimpse of The Major closing in on a terrorist threat. Section 9 is en route to the scene, but ScarJo’s groundbreaking cyborg tends to take matters into her own hands. First spotted by Cbm, you’ll find the film’s first five minutes above and, in case you missed it,...

Two weeks out from release, Paramount has lifted the curtain on an all-new featurette for Ghost in the Shell, which essentially places the Ghost in the shell.

Coming to us via Coming Soon, the two-minute promo features director Rupert Sanders and members of the VFX team discussing the film’s “Shelling” sequence – that is, the moment when Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost is uploaded into a cutting-edge synthetic body. Those familiar with Masamune Shirow’s genre-defining manga series know all too well that it’s this process, one which raises nine kinds of existential questions, where Shirow’s series finds its name, and it’s enough to spark a bona fide identity crisis for ScarJo’s fearless leader.

Known simply as The Major in Paramount’s live-action interpretation, Ghost in the Shell‘s heroine is the driving force behind neo-Tokyo’s Section 9, an elite counter-terrorism unit comprised of the finest mercenaries in the city.

Ever since a western remake of Akira was tentatively announced more than a decade ago, Hollywood studios have been trying to crack the anime scene. On paper, many of the genre’s more prominent icons – namely Death Note, Alita: Battle Angel and Ghost in the Shell – lend themselves to a big-screen adaptation, what with their rich cyberpunk settings and built-in audience.

The first two properties are currently simmering in various stages of production, meaning it’s Rupert Sanders’ live-action Ghost in the Shell movie that has the honor (burden?) of instigating Hollywood’s new wave of mega-budget anime movies. Pegged for release on March 31st, Paramount has today rolled out yet another featurette that shifts the spotlight over to Section 9, an elite task force formed around The Major. Known as Motoko Kusanagi in the seminal manga series, Scarlett Johansson is set to spearhead Ghost in the Shell as a cutting-edge cyborg,...

Exclusive: Producer Genki Kawamura and Japanese studio Toho are partnering again after global success of Your Name.

Following their collaboration on hit animation Your Name, Japanese studio Toho and producer Genki Kawamura are reteaming on an animated feature based on a TV series created by Shunji Iwai.

The new project, Fireworks, Should We See It From The Side Or The Bottom?, will be directed by Akiyuki Shinbo of Japan’s Shaft animation studio and Nobuyuki Takeuchi, who has worked with Studio Ghibli. Hitoshi One (Bakuman) has adapted the TV series created by writer-director Iwai (A Bride For Rip Van Winkle).

Currently in production, the film tells the story of two young boys and a girl whose fates become intertwined one summer day. Voice talent on the film includes Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister), Masaki Suda (Drowning Love) and Mamoru Miyano (Death Note). Japanese release is scheduled for August 2017.

New titles on Toho’s slate also include suspense...

In their never-ending quest to have cuteness drain all of our wallets dry, Funko Toys has unveiled the concept art for several new properties and a whole lot more! Thanks to our brother site Idle Hands for all the eye… Continue Reading →

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Assassin’s Creed has come and gone. For a good year and a half, we speculated that it could potentially be the film that finally cracks the video game movie code. As I’m sure you noticed by now…that doesn’t seem to be the case. The flick didn’t click with either critics or fans, and its box office — while not a huge flop — isn’t really fortuitous of an impending genre of films. While Assassin’s Creed will by no means be the last video game to be turned into a flick, it may put a temporary pause on the idea of these films hitting it big. 2017 looks to potentially bring another type of film to Hollywood films: anime adaptations.

In 2017 alone, we’ll be getting the live-action Death Note film on Netflix, and of course, the ever-controversial Ghost in the Shell film, which stars Scarlett Johansson.

Lionsgate has hired Zombieland director Ruben Fleisher to helm their new film Jekyll, which will star Chris Evans. The movie is an adaptation of Steven Moffat's 2007 BBC One miniseries, which continued the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Evans will take on the role of Tom Jackman, "a modern-day descendant of Jekyll who is beginning to exhibit the trademark split personality. The father and husband abandons his family, without explaining why, and lives in a fortified basement with a psychiatric nurse as his ally. When they strap the doctor to a metal chair, she watches him transform into an alter ego who rages, shows heightened strength and speed and can be a charming, flirtatious scoundrel as well. The two personalities try to co-exist, even though one doesn’t remember what the other does while in control of the body. They use...

The film version of the hugely successful cop show will feature the lead actors from TV series.

Red Arrow International have announced that the hit Japanese TV series The Last Cop will get a film adaptation.

They have agreed a deal with Japanese production company Nippon Television Network Corporation.

The film is in pre-production with the working title, Last Cop: The Movie and will be released in Japan in May 2017.

The lead actors from the television show, Toshiaki Karasawa (20th Century Boys) and Masataka Kubota (Death Note), will reprise their roles for movie adaptation.

The Last Cop sees Karasawa play around a detective who is put in a coma after pursuing a vicious criminal. He wakes up 30 years later and must work with a new young partner (Kubota) to bring his nemesis to justice.

The show received a huge 12.9% audience share when it premiered on Nippon TV in October and was a huge success on Hulu Japan...

The Last Cop, a German high-concept crime series, is getting a Japanese film adaptation. 

Japan's Nippon TV, which scored a hit with their local-language version of the show, announced on Wednesday they are in preproduction on a movie spinoff, tentatively titled: The Last Cop: The Movie.

Nippon TV and Red Arrow International, the German group that controls the rights to the popular scripted format, made the announcement at the Asia TV Forum & Market in Singapore. The film version is eyeing a May 2017 in Japan. 

Toshiaki Karasawa (20th Century Boys, Toshiie and Matsu) and Masataka Kubota (Mars, Death Note),...

Japanese actor Masi Oka, known for his work in television hits “Heroes” and “Hawaii Five-o”, is producing the Hollywood live-action version of “Death Note.” Recently, Japan Today reveals that Oka will also star in the film.

The film is based on the extremely popular manga “Death Note” written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. “Death Note” tells the story of Light, a student who discovers a supernatural notebook that kills any person whose name is written on its pages. Soon the student-turned-vigilante is hunted down by a reclusive detective known as L.

There have already been five Japanese TV and film adaptations of the manga. The live-action feature “Death Note: Light Up the New World” was released October of this year and earned 2 billion yen.

The American version of “Death Note” is directed by horror film expert Adam Wingard (“You’re Next”). The cast is led by...

Lucy, Black Widow and soon, Major Motoko Kusanagi. Come 2017, Hollywood veteran Scarlett Johansson will be headlining Paramount’s lavish Ghost in the Shell movie as The Major, an elite cyborg enforcer who spearheads a task force known as Section 9.

It’s another kick-ass role for the actress, who discussed her involvement in the Rupert Sanders-directed movie while chatting to Entertainment Tonight. Designed to take you behind the scenes of Ghost in the Shell, up above you’ll see Johansson and Co. engage in a pre-cg firefight on the streets of Wellington, New Zealand – acting as a stand-in for the futuristic cityscape of Masamune Shirow’s cyberpunk saga.

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Tapping into Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig, the creative team behind Paramount’s live-action movie have continually stressed that the 2017 tentpole will remain faithful to the source material.

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No doubt about it, Ghost in the Shell has had its fair share of controversy. It’ll take a good while before fans will get over the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the role that was largely intended for a Japanese woman (at least based on the source material). No amount of logical acrobats will change that fact. But now that the deed is done, there’s no reason we can’t enjoy the film for what it is, right?

The studio has already released a series of mysterious clips that tout the aesthetic of the live-action film. From what we’ve been able to see, they’re doing their best to recreate the look of the anime adaptation from the 1990s, which is not a terrible direction to go. Now, they’ve released a new clip that further threatens to blur the line between the...

So, there's this “Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen” craze that I've just been introduced to. I know I'm a bit late to the party on this, but there are certain dark corners of the web that I do not dare visit and expose myself to such things.

It took this video of Ryuk from the anime series Death Note doing the Ppap dance routine to introduce me to this whole Ppap thing. I have no idea why this all exists, but it does, and for some reason it's popular, and it's so damn weird!

I honestly find the Death Note-inspired version of Ppap less disturbing than the original video. I don't know why, but it makes more sense for Ryuk to be performing this thing. I think I've lost my mind, so just watch the video.

Via: Geeks Are Sexy...

The new Japanese Death Note film, Death Note: Light Up The New World, opened number one in the nation's box office. Ann reports the film made about $4.37 million in its opening weekend and sold 306,385 tickets. The film is really close to beating the record for the 8th highest grossing box office film in Japan, which is a currently held by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 

$4.3 million would be film suicide in the American market, but since Japan is just slightly larger than the state of California, you can see how that number is more impressive. 

In case you were wondering, this film has nothing to do with the Netflix adaptation of Death Note, which is scheduled for a 2017 release. The Japanese film is a continuation of the already popular live action films, which are supposedly better quality than most live action anime adaptations. See the trailer below.

Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe jostled for the spotlight with Meryl Streep at the opening night of this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.

Fresh off his surprise turn as Super Mario at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe once again pulled the red carpet out from under the stars at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff).

Standing between cinematic legend Meryl Streep and Death Note actor Kenichi Matsuyama, Shinzo Abe kicked off the opening of the 29th edition of the festival by praising Streep for her portrayal of late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 2011’s The Iron Lady.

“’I have done battle every day of my life’, that’s a line I clearly remember from the film,” the conservative lawmaker told Streep.

Abe later wise-cracked, saying that he wanted to see the latest installment of the Godzilla series, but his wife Akie regretfully informed him that the...

The long wait for Death Note: Light Up the New World is almost over. The film will be released in less than 2 weeks and just recently fans were treated to titillating teaser clips to the movie.

Several viral videos were released on the official website. The clips show the looming chaos in Tokyo and the impending doom of six new Death Notes – supernatural notebooks that can extinguish any name written on its pages.

One of the unleashed viral videos particularly tickled avid fans. The clip shows the ‘Kira Virus’ taking over an unsuspecting victim’s mobile phone. The screen goes black and the ever-daunting Kira hijacks the screen. The audience can only tremble as the sight of the serial killer promises to bring more mischief, mayhem and murder.

Set ten years after the events of the previous films, Death Note: Light Up the New World revolves around a...

While the Western world is awaiting the Netflix's live-action version of Death Note, the Japanese are onto sequels and spin-off films in the series. The latest film, Death Note: Light Up The World, premieres overseas on October 29th. 

The film centers around six owners of Death Notes and how they'll use them on the rest of mankind. Some owners are honorable like L, and are keeping theirs solely to remove the followers of Kira (Light Yagami) who used it to execute people as he saw fit. 

Here's the first trailer for the film...

It looks leaps and bounds better than most live-action anime! That's saying a lot considering it has no basis in the source material, and it's a completely original story. Looks like something I might want to check out! What about you? ...

Ghost in the Shell is a film that's been mired in controversy practically from the get-go. It was pretty much assumed by many that they'd cast a mostly-white cast, but nonetheless, that didn't stop the controversy from hitting when it was announced that Black Widow herself, Scarlett Johansson, would be taking on the iconic role of the Major, a cyborg employed as the squad leader of a fictional division of the real Japanese National Public Safety Commission -- though I'm assuming those details will be changed in favor of something less Japanese.

Yet despite all this controversy surrounding the races of the film's leads, it's still a film that carries a lot of anticipation. Like with video game adaptations, anime/manga adaptations are something Hollywood has tried in the past, but have thus far failed to do successfully. Dragon Ball Evolution was an embarrassment of a film, and Speed Racer...

Thanks in large part to the stellar one-two punch of You’re Next and The Guest, writer-director Adam Wingard quickly established himself as a bankable genre filmmaker who harbored the ability to unsettle audiences with thrilling visuals and sharp, intelligent scripts.

That continued with a foray into the realm of mainstream horror for the recent Blair Witch sequel – a sequel that was paraded around as The Woods for the longest time – but with Death Note, Wingard is circling back to the type of jet-black material that helped put him on the map in the first place.

Setting up shop at Netflix, the director spoke to Collider about the creative agency that the platform tends to afford, along with his own personal experience with the anime genre. Perhaps above all else, the one thing that ought to please fans of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s morbid Japanese manga is that,...

Comic book adaptations are all the rage in Hollywood right now, but Adam Wingard's upcoming adaptation of Death Note could usher in the era of the manga and anime adaptations. The project has had a rough road to production, but the movie is coming to Netflix next year and Wingard recently said that his adaptation will take a page or two from Christopher Nolan's Batman movies. That is encouraging, being that Batman Returns and The Dark Knight are still two of the finest comic book movies ever made.

Wingard recently did an Ama on Reddit in order to promote his upcoming movie Blair Witch, a sequel to the 1999 found footage movie The Blair Witch Project. During the course of the Ama, a fan asked abou anime adaptations in Hollywood and if big studios will take them seriously. Here is what he had to say.

"I think Anime are...

Actor Keanu Reeves may have been the butt of a lot of jokes back when the Matrix Trilogy wrapped up, but if there's an actor who's learn to cater his roles to his strengths, it's him. The 2014 film John Wick managed to bring just the perfect amount of stoicism and badassery to the title character to make it fall squarely in his range.

Now it sounds like another Keanu Reeves vehicle has just started production, namely the film Replicas. This isn't the first we'd heard of this. The film was first announced back in October of 2014, but since that time has pretty much disappeared from the public eye. It's unclear why it was stalled for so long, but today, Remstar Studios announced they would be co-financing the flick with Riverstone Pictures (via Coming Soon).

What's more is that principal photography began over a week ago on August 10. The movie is...

While 2016 was poised to be a huge year for comic book fans, the majority of films that hit the big screen didn't quite meet expectations of some fans. While Captain America: Civil War and Deadpool were generally received positively, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Suicide Squad were more than a little disappointing for a good number of people. The summer has officially ended, and some outlets have gone so far as to call this a monumentally disappointing summer.

Of course, while the summer season may be coming to a close, that's not to say there are no big productions on their way to the theaters. Not only do we have a new Star Wars film on the way, as well as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but we have one last hurrah in the comic book movie genre in the form of Doctor Strange,...