Category: Film
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Ghost in the Shell to Hollywood
The next great sci-fi flick? Animation company Production I.G has received permission from Kodansha to act as an agent to develop a live-action film with a Hollywood studio based on Ghost in the Shell. More here.
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Midnight Eye Looks at 2006
Japanese film review site Midnight Eye takes a look at the best and worst of 2006.
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Cencoroll Trailer
Anime Innovation Tokyo is a very cool idea indeed — “an initiative to sponsor anime by independent animators and small studios.” The trailer for their first release, CENCOROLL, is now online, and do take a look (scroll down) — the animation looks terrific! Link via Anime News Network.
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Midnight Eye Interviews Katsuhiro Otomo
The Japanese film site Midnight Eye updates with a Katsuhiro Otomo interview, concerning his new film, BUGMASTER.
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This Week at Gridskipper
United Cinemas Toyosu Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hysteric Glamour but Were Afraid to Ask You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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Michael Arias in The Japan Times
Patrick Macias has a piece in today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES covering Michael Arias, the director of the new TEKKON KINKREET (BLACK & WHITE) animated film. The article is accompanied by a Q&A.
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World Tour
If you know anything about RES and the Resfest, then you probably know the name Jonathan Wells. He’s recently left RES to start a new creative agency called Flux, and is bringing a new documentary to Tokyo called WORLD TOUR — it covers 16 artists/designers, including Futura, KAWS, and Geoff McFetridge. It screens this coming…
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Tokyo Loop
PingMag interviews the program director of “Tokyo Loop,” a collection of 16 shorts that will be showing at Image Forum from December 23 to January 12.
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DOTMOV Festival 2006
In case you missed it — I know I did — the 2006 edition of SHIFT’s DOTMOV digital film festival was held last month. But no worries, since you can view all the shorts online.