Category: Hollywood

Anyone who knows anything about Battle Royale probably could have guessed this idea wasn’t going anywhere, but now it’s official: there will be no BR TV show on the CW. The US television network, which airs programming mostly aimed at women ages 18-34, first announced their interest a few months…

5 months ago

According to the Japanese movie site Cinema Today, a higher-up at Hayakawa Publishing has revealed that the company is currently entertaining Hollywood interest in a movie adaptation of Project Itoh’s 2007 debut science fiction novel Genocidal Organ (Gyakusatsu Kikan). The story is set in a world where the war on…

1 year ago

According to a report by Variety, Japanese advertising agency Dentsu and Hayakawa Publishing Corp. have reached rights agreements for live-action film adaptations of two Japanese sci-fi novels: Issui Ogawa’s “Tokisuna no Ou” and Tow Ubukata’s Mardock Scramble. Michael Davis (Shoot ‘Em Up) has already agreed to produce and direct the…

1 year ago

The other day, Universal Pictures pushed back Carl Rinsch’s feature-length debut 47 Ronin from November 21, 2012 to February 8, 2013 to polish up special effects, but that didn’t stop the company from showing off a little bit of footage at CinemaCon 2012 in Las Vegas. Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net…

1 year ago

Deadline is reporting that New York-based Kamala Films has acquired the movie rights to Lone Wolf and Cub, with the previously-announced director Justin Lin (Fast Five) still attached to the project. David and Janet Peoples will handle the script. Director Darren Aronofsky has been attached to several past plans to…

1 year ago

On Thursday, the official website for Carl Erik Rinsch’s upcoming big-budget Hollywood adaptation of 47 Ronin was updated with the announcement that actor and former KAT-TUN vocalist Jin Akanishi has been cast in the movie. The announcement goes on to say that this will mark Akanishi’s Hollywood debut and touts…

2 years ago

On Tuesday, Universal Pictures announced that principal photography of Carl Erik Rinsch’s 47 Ronin adaptation will begin on March 14; and with that announcement came word that Japanese stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano, and Rinko Kikuchi will appear alongside Keanu Reeves in the film. Reeves will star as…

2 years ago

Precious little is known about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming contemporary sci-fi film Inception other than the initial blurb describing it as being “set within the architecture of the mind”, but cast additions have shed a little bit of light on the relationship of the characters to each other. Today two more…

4 years ago

Kind of old news I guess, considering this project was first announced last summer in the production notes of horror films Shutter and The Strangers, but Warner Brothers is officially putting their weight behind the live-action Hollywood adaptation of the Japanese manga Death Note. Screenwriters Charley and Vlas Parlapanides (“War…

4 years ago

Last month Keanu Reeves told MTV he was trying to do a live-action version of Cowboy Bebop. Well it’s now official. The Hollywood Reporter is confirming that the project is moving ahead with Keanu starring as the easygoing mobster-turned-bounty hunter, Spike Spiegel. Set in 2071, a time when interstellar travel…

4 years ago