Category: Anime Movies

Otakon 2011 to Premiere TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance in 2D

Otakon 2011 to Premiere TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance in 2D

Baltimore, MD (July 27, 2011) – Otakon 2011 is proud to present the 2D premiere of the English version Tekken: Blood Vengeance. Set in the rich Tekken universe, Tekken: Blood Vengeance follows Xiaoyu Ling, seasoned martial artist and high school student, tasked by the G Corporation to infiltrate an international school in Kyoto to gather [...]

Update on Regal L.A. Live “Tekken: Blood Vengeance Event” Door Open at 5:30pm for Pre-Movie Events!

Update on Regal L.A. Live “Tekken: Blood Vengeance Event” Door Open at 5:30pm for Pre-Movie Events!

July 25, 2011. Bandai Entertainment, INC. announced today that the L.A. Live Regal Cinema screening of Tekken: Blood Vengeance will open at 5:30 pacific to ticket holder for pre-movie events. Bandai Entertainment welcomes the Tekken Project Director, Katsuhiro Harada and Producer Yoshinari Mizushima as they make their stage appearance at the L.A. Live Regal Cinema. [...]

Square Enix Manga Store to Offer Free Volume of Fullmetal Alchemist and Other Popular Digital Comics

Square Enix Manga Store to Offer Free Volume of Fullmetal Alchemist and Other Popular Digital Comics

Los Angeles, California (July 21, 2011) – SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (Square Enix®) today announced a special offer to be conducted at its North American digital manga distribution site, the SQUARE ENIX MANGA STORE. For a limited time, eligible users will be able to download the first volume of numerous popular comic series free of [...]

Indomania and Samuel L Jackson Team for First Live-Action “Afro Samurai” Film

Indomania and Samuel L Jackson Team for First Live-Action “Afro Samurai” Film

The Indomina Group and Jackson to Produce Feature Film Adaptation LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – Jul 21, 2011) – It was announced today that The Indomina Group, the fast-growing U.S. and Dominican Republic based producer and distributor of film, TV and trans-media content, is teaming with Samuel L. Jackson and Gonzo Studios to produce a new [...]

Upcoming 2012  Doraemon Film Revealed with Trailer

Upcoming 2012 Doraemon Film Revealed with Trailer

The official website for the Doraemon anime films launched a page for the 2012 film and began streaming a trailer on Friday. Doraemon: Nobita to Kiseki no Shima ~Animal Adventure~ (Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles ~Animal Adventure~) will open in March 2012; a new Doraemon film has opened in Japan nearly every year [...]

Otakon 2011 to Host Executive Producer Masayuki Ozaki

Otakon 2011 to Host Executive Producer Masayuki Ozaki

Baltimore, MD (July 14, 2011) – Executive Producer Masayuki Ozaki to appear at Otakon 2011. Until 2003, Masayuki Ozaki worked for GAGA COMMUNICATIONS, INC where he was involved in acquisitions of Hollywood titles and distribution & promotion of domestic titles. In 2004, he began his career at Sunrise Inc. where he was a planning manager [...]

Atsuhiro Iwakami to Premiere Puella Magi Madoka Magica at Otakon

Atsuhiro Iwakami to Premiere Puella Magi Madoka Magica at Otakon

Baltimore, MD (July 13, 2011) – Atsuhiro Iwakami travels from Japan to present his latest work Puella Magi Madoka Magica at Otakon 2011. Madoka Magica She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time… Madoka Kaname is an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school who lived a normal life [...]

New People Announces Theatrical Comic-Con Screening of Sci-fi Thriller Gantz II: Perfect Answer

New People Announces Theatrical Comic-Con Screening of Sci-fi Thriller Gantz II: Perfect Answer

THEATRICAL SCREENINGS OF LIVE ACTION SCI-FI THRILLER GANTZ AND GANTZ II: PERFECT ANSWER ANNOUNCED BY NEW PEOPLE ENTERTAINMENT Japanese Sci-Fi Live-Action Film And New Sequel Based On Hit Anime/Manga Series Set To Screen In San Diego During 2011 Comic-Con San Francisco, CA, July 12, 2011 – NEW PEOPLE Entertainment, a film division of NEW PEOPLE, [...]

Maiden Japan Announces License of Ray

Maiden Japan Announces License of Ray

HOUSTON, July 11, 2011— Entertainment label Maiden Japan today announced its acquisition of RAY, the 13 episode anime series based on the original manga by Akihito Yoshitomi (Blue Drop, Eat Man.) Directed by Naohito Takahashi (Berserk, Steel Angel Kurumi,) RAY also references the classic Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion) series Black Jack [...]

Right Stuf & Nozomi Entertainment Announce Original Dirty Pair OVAs & Movie, Dirty Pair Flash; Martian Successor Nadesico TV, Movie & Gekiganger III; and Gasaraki Ti

Right Stuf & Nozomi Entertainment Announce Original Dirty Pair OVAs & Movie, Dirty Pair Flash; Martian Successor Nadesico TV, Movie & Gekiganger III; and Gasaraki Ti

GRIMES, Iowa, July 1, 2011 – Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc. and its Nozomi Entertainment division made several announcements during their July 1st panel at Anime Expo 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Right Stuf President and C.E.O. Shawne Kleckner revealed the licenses for the “original” DIRTY PAIR OVA (direct-to-video) episodes and Project Eden [...]