Category: Press Releases

Festival Announces Boundary Pushing Vision Titles

Festival Announces Boundary Pushing Vision Titles

Toronto – The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® announces a strong line-up of 18 films in this year’s Visions programme. Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who challenge audiences’ notions of mainstream cinema. ALPS Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France North American Premiere A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and [...]

New People Entertainment Licenses the Japanese Pop Music Bio Film Documentary of AKB48– To Be Continued

New People Entertainment Licenses the Japanese Pop Music Bio Film Documentary of AKB48– To Be Continued

New Film Follows The Rise To International Fame Of Japan’s Most Popular Pop Idol Group And Will Have Exclusive U.S. Premiere August 28th At The 2011 J-Pop Summit Festival In San Francisco San Francisco, CA – August 15, 2011 – NEW PEOPLE Entertainment, a film division of NEW PEOPLE, Inc. that focuses on the licensing [...]

Digital Version of Sci-Fi Manga Masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion Launces on VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App

Digital Version of Sci-Fi Manga Masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion Launces on VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App

Classic Sci-Fi Action Saga Will Debut New Weekly Digital Chapters For Only $0.99! Viz Media has announced the digital launch today of the acclaimed sci-fi manga (graphic novel) masterpiece, Neon Genesis Evangelion, on VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App for the Apple iPad™, iPhone™ and iPod™ touch. Neon Genesis Evangelion will be available chapter-by-chapter for [...]

Largest Streaming Library Launches Every Week on Crunchyroll

Largest Streaming Library Launches Every Week on Crunchyroll

The leader in streaming Asian content keeps the summer packed with the largest selection of anime on the internet San Francisco, Calif. (August 15, 2011) – With only a few weeks left of summer and the new school year quickly approaching on the horizon, the end of summer blues are sinking in. However, the best [...]

Sentai Filmworks Announces License of Ice

Sentai Filmworks Announces License of Ice

HOUSTON, August 15, 2011— Sentai Filmworks recent run of new anime series acquisitions got even hotter today when the company announced the licensing of the all-female, future epic ICE. Directed by Makoto Kobayashi (Dragon’s Heaven) and with character designs by Masaya Onishi (Ghost Stories,) ICE is ultimately the creation of Renaissance man Yasushi Akimoto, whose [...]

Establishment of All Nippon Entertainment Works Co., Ltd. – – New Company to Support Overseas Development of Japanese Content –

Establishment of All Nippon Entertainment Works Co., Ltd. – – New Company to Support Overseas Development of Japanese Content –

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) announced today that it would establish a new company to develop and introduce the Japanese copyrighted works to international audiences. 1. Establishment of New Company The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) announced today that it would make a 6 billon yen ($80 million) investment in a new company [...]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Comes to Super Channel

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Comes to Super Channel

Super Channel, Canada’s only English national pay television network, is pleased to present the popular anime series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood beginning Aug. 15 in crystal clear HD at 10 p.m. EST. The 64-episode series follows two brothers who after an unsuccessful attempt to resurrect their dead mother using alchemy, one winds up without an arm, [...]

Aniplex to Host Live Streaming Panel Powered by NicoNico.com

Aniplex to Host Live Streaming Panel Powered by NicoNico.com

Aniplex of America presents “ANIPLEX LIVE PANEL” A FREE Live Streaming Event on niconico.com August 12th at 7:30 PM PST Aniplex of America is proud to present it’s first ever Live Streaming Panel powered by Nico Nico, Inc. on niconico.com. This panel will be the first in a series of live streaming panels to better [...]

2011 J-Pop Summit Festival Announces Expanded Programming and Events

2011 J-Pop Summit Festival Announces Expanded Programming and Events

NEW PEOPLE Details Events For Annual Bay Area Celebration Of Japanese Pop Culture With Live Music, Fashion Shows, Film Premieres, Street Vendors And More! San Francisco, CA, August 11, 2011 – An explosion of colorful artists and pop culture music, fashion, art, and film takes over San Francisco when the 2011 J-Pop Summit Festival will [...]

Time Is Running Out To Register for Alcon! Make Sure You Register Now at http://www.alcon.org.uk/register.php Before All the Places are Taken!

Time Is Running Out To Register for Alcon! Make Sure You Register Now at http://www.alcon.org.uk/register.php Before All the Places are Taken!

Alcon is a fun and friendly 16+ age-range anime convention running from Thursday 8th – Sunday 11th September 2011 at De Montfort University in Leicester. It is an 800-person event and costs just £30 total for all four days. It runs from 10am through to 2am each day, giving an action-packed day! Accommodation is available [...]