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Holy do-overs, Batman! It seems Yasuomi Umetsu, director and writer of the Kite and Kite liberator movies is writing a script for a sequel to Kite Liberator. Is he not content with ruining a good thing once and wants to do it again? Will he actually fix the plot holes and non-existent character development from Kite Liberator? Will Kite’s old glory return? More importantly, will we get some sex this time around?

Whatever the answers to those questions are I’m just hoping it has more bone golem.

[Kite Liberator Blog]

Somehow, two weeks earlier than expected, the trailer for Dragonball’s been released online, and to nobody’s surprise it looks awful. I still don’t totally get why Mai’s there, but not Pilaf, and everyone who predicted that they’d Hollywood Romance up Goku and Bulma, give yourself a round of applause. See for yourself.

Thanks to the nice folks at Fathom Events we have 2 free tickets for the nationwide October screening of Death Note II: The Last Name, the latest Death Note live action movie. Screenings are on October 15th & 16th, so we have to give these away fast!

Fan or not, worst case scenario you can take this opportunity as a cultural expedition!

First off, to find out if you will be able to make it to this event, check here for the theater nearest you. Then  simply comment in this post. Yes, that is right, all you need to do is comment in this post and we will pick the winner at random. What should your comment be? Well, if you’re at a loss simply write a story on how much you like Death Note, or any funny anecdote on Death Note that may have happened to you, a friend, or someone you know. The content of your comment wont be judged but posting “LOL COMMENT, DID I WIN YET?” Will get old fast. Also one comment per person, be nice.

You have until the end of the month so we can get the proper prizes out to the right place!

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If your idea of a great cinematic masterpiece includes hot girls in uniform and enough fake blood to flood half of texas (har, har huricane season), then you simply must check out Tokyo Gore Police. This is the next project from the same people that brought us Machine Girl and from the looks of the trailer its only gotten better, bloodier and more extreme, and the fact that it stars Japanese model Eihi Shiina doesnt hurt.

First a schoolgirl, now a police officer, if we abide by the holy trinity of japanese female uniform cliches the next movie should be about a bodacious nurse on a killing spree with a blunt object.

[Official Site / Via Japan Sugoi]

An important announcement to the many many fans of Death Note, fans of overrated anime in general, mall goths, otaku, philosophy majors and would-be antiheroes. Fathom Events is bringing the Death Note II live action movie to the big screen in the US. While not a first, this time its playing in many theaters all over the US, even backwater town dwellers might have a screen nearby to attend. You can check locations near you at the official event site, the event is scheduled for October 15th and 16th.

A warning to not diehard Death Note fans: Diehard Death Note fans consider Death Note to be the be-all-end-all of anime, movies, stories and everything else under the sky. Mention of any other anime, manga, movie or story that isn’t Death Note might prompt them to try and kill you, or at least to jot down your name furiously on their little black books.

[Death Note II Movie Screening]

Kotaku reports that Scott Faye, producer of the upcoming totally-not-going-to-suck-no-really-we-mean-it Max Payne movie, has hooked up with 3D Realms to adapt Duke Nukem to the big screen. They also promise that until the story is finished (it’s being "actively developed". No, really), they won’t shop the script or even the film concept around to studios. He’s also plans to adapt the GameTap-exclusive American McGee’s Alice to the big screen, formerly planned to star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who has since left the project. Of course, with a winning team like American McGee and Scott Faye, I can’t imagine why.

Either way, the Duke Nukem movie at this moment, surprise surprise, has no release date.

[Kotaku]

Holy magic dragon spheres! Hot off the juicy leaks oven come these images from what surely is the first trailer for the Dragon Ball Live Action Movie along with a poster showing a sexy-looking Bulma. In the trailer images we can see Goku sporting his much better known orange attire bearing Master Roshi’s school’s logo. We also see the first images of Piccolo and finally get an answer to the question of his skin color: not green.

I still dont know what to think of these but Piccolo looks uncomfortably similar to Ivan Ooze.

Click the images to view in a slightly larger version, sadly no hi-res images were leaked but we’re not complaining.

[Nerdorama.cl]

Director Brett Ratner (director of the Rush Hour movies and X-Men: The Last Stand) thinks that making a movie based off of the Guitar Hero game series would be a good idea. No, really. He says he’s currently trying to convince Activision to “let” him make it. Here’s his pitch for the story: “It could be about a kid from a small town who dreams of being a rock star and he wins the ‘Guitar Hero’ competition. One of these dreams-[come-true] kind of concepts.” Oh boy.

This is just what we need more of, right? Looks like we’re getting more “hip” movies about video games that actually degrade rather than uplift the cultural status of the medium. Besides, I find the prospect of making a Guitar Hero movie entertaining would be near-impossible. I’d much prefer something like a doc/mockumentary about professional Starcraft players. Why? Because Guitar Hero is just about reflexes, dexterity, and memory; there’s none of the excitement of improvisation like in an RTS or FPS. Either way I’m curious to see how this project would turn out.

[MTV Multiplayer]

Its been a while since we last talked about the Dragon Ball Live Action Movie and there are some new things worth talking about. First of all, 9 promotional photos from the movie have been released in full high resolution glory. I’ve got to be honest, they dont look half bad. Mind you, that says nothing for the plot or the acting not sucking.

Bulma, Chi-Chi and Mai are all looking remarkably well and actually kinda hot, Chatwin’s hairdo seems somehow an acceptable compromise between the ridiculous and the subdued. Hell, even Master Roshi is sporting some anime t-shirts! I dont want to get my hopes up but lets just say I’m not completely cynical about it sucking anymore.

There’s also the announcement that the first trailer for the movie is coming out on October 17 with the premier of the Max Payne movie, that will speak volumes and set our expectations more than anything else.

As if to add insult to injury for anime fans worldwide, Hollywood is going to turn Cowboy Bebop into a live action movie. Producer  Erwin Stoff talked to IF Magazine to discuss a separate project but when asked about what he’s doing next Erwin replied:

“I’m developing COWBOY BEBOP for Fox, but doing it as a live-action film, so I’m working on that at the moment,” … “I’m really excited to be working on it, and it’s in the really early stages. We just signed it the other day.”

Holy mother of Spike! Now before anyone throws a fit lets remember this is FOX, doing Sci-Fi. The project has a 50% chance of getting axed before it sees the light of day! On the other hand Mr. Stoff went out of his way to reassure fans that sticking with the original material is high on his priorities list. On this he added:

“I have such an enormous admiration for its creators, that our first and foremost concern is going to be a real degree of faithfulness to the tone of the movie, to the mix of genres, and so on and so forth,” … “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A SCANNER DARKLY, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”

Comparing it to A Scanner Darkly? Now that does shine a little hope for the project, hey if they sign Yoko Kanno up for the music then I might even be hopeful! Then again you’ll have to think about the cast… So lets see, produced by Erwin Stoff, who also did The Matrix, Constantine, The Devils Advocate and A Scanner Darkly. Hmm what do all of these movies have in common? They all star Keanu Reeves.

That’s right, just savor the possibility, Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel. That’s it, let it sink in, like a swift kick to the nuts! ENJOY the pain because it just might be less painful than the movie.

[iF Magazine]

If you didn’t already know, Mark Wahlberg is taking the starring role in one of the latest upcoming video-game to screen adaptations. I guess there’s no place to go but up after The Happening, right?

Everything you’d expect and want from a Max Payne movie is in here: a grim setting, cheesy monologues, femme fatales, slow-mo gunplay, and a lot of explosions. Looks like it’ll be a reasonably fun action film.

[Joystiq]

On July 12 a surprise is coming to Japanese theaters. The original Ghost in the Shell movie is playing in 5 theaters throughout Japan. But this isn’t just a re-run of the movie; Mamoru Oshii’s masterpiece is being remastered.

A whole new voice acting track will be laid down by nearly all of the original actors, and all sound and music has been remastered by Skywalker Sound (of Star Wars fame). Most important of all, some of the animation is being replaced for new, shiny CGI. Below is a promo video for the event and 3 before/after images comparing it to the original.

If you ask me the original animation still holds ground and most of these “after” shots just seem darker and browner. Hell, add some bloom lighting and you can slap a Gears of War sticker on the cover!

Watching this has made me realize that the exotic aura surrounding older movies like GITS and Akira is missing from today’s productions. I remain excited. Expect a DVD of this remastered version to come out in a couple of months and hit the torrents a couple of weeks after that.

In a surprising turn of events to say the least, David Hayter, the famous voice of Solid Snake, has led his fans on a crusade to petition Sony Pictures to let him write the script for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid film. It all started on IMDB’s message boards, where he said that if he gets enough support, “we may be back on board.”

If you didn’t know already, Hayter actually has previous experience working on scripts, having done work on X-Men, X2, and currently Watchmen. As of now there are 1,015 signatures, and that number is going up by the minute! If you want to get in on the action, go here. I for one signed the petition because hey, how many people know Snake better than Hayter? I think he’d have the experience necessary to capture the feel of the character well in the script.

[videogaming247]

The new issue of Shueisha’s Roadshow magazine has posted on-set images of the cast of the Dragon Ball movie. Pictured are Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi, Joon Park as Yamcha, and Jamie Chung as Chi-Chi. The pictures are after the break.

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On Saturday Capcom released the first shot of its upcoming Street Fighter movie, in it we see Kristin Kreuk in the role of Chun Li for the first time… kind of.

The photo shows a very disheveled Chun Li, in fact that disheveled might not be it. She looks like she just got done sweeping the ground with her face.That’s not to say she looks bad as making Miss Kreuk look bad would require more than a little bit of dirt. It’s a bit of a disappointed that the first image to come out doesn’t show any thunder thighs but it does get my mind thinking. The only way for her to look like the Chun Li we all know and love all it would take is a little help from Mr. Soap over here.

Yes, that’s right dear readers! Am I the only one getting flashbacks of the infamous shower scene from the Street Fighter anime movie? It sure makes the mind wonder huh?

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