Exclusive: Popular Japanese manga is getting the movie treatment.
Japan’s Toei Animation is teaming with Hong Kong-based A Really Good Film Company (Argf) to produce an English-language, live-action film version of hot Toei anime property Saint Seiya: Knights Of The Zodiac.
Based on Masami Kurumada’s best-selling manga, Saint Seiya is one of the world’s biggest animated franchises, with total revenue of more than $1.1bn since 1986. Toei Animation has produced over 250 TV episodes and six features, which were released in over 80 countries. The original manga by Masami Kurumada has sold over 35 million copies.
Argf has joined Toei Animation as its development and China co-production partner for the live-action version and will be handling Greater China distribution.
Yoshi Ikezawa and Joseph Chou of Toei Animation will serve as producers, along with Argf founder Jeffrey Chan, who is also COO of Bona Film Group. Tim Kwok of Convergence Entertainment, Miguel Faura and Kozo Morishita of Toei Animation are executive...
Japan’s Toei Animation is teaming with Hong Kong-based A Really Good Film Company (Argf) to produce an English-language, live-action film version of hot Toei anime property Saint Seiya: Knights Of The Zodiac.
Based on Masami Kurumada’s best-selling manga, Saint Seiya is one of the world’s biggest animated franchises, with total revenue of more than $1.1bn since 1986. Toei Animation has produced over 250 TV episodes and six features, which were released in over 80 countries. The original manga by Masami Kurumada has sold over 35 million copies.
Argf has joined Toei Animation as its development and China co-production partner for the live-action version and will be handling Greater China distribution.
Yoshi Ikezawa and Joseph Chou of Toei Animation will serve as producers, along with Argf founder Jeffrey Chan, who is also COO of Bona Film Group. Tim Kwok of Convergence Entertainment, Miguel Faura and Kozo Morishita of Toei Animation are executive...
- 5/18/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Some major motion pictures are set to appear at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Jodie Foster's The Beaver is now part of the list of major films playing at Cannes.
The entire list was announced earlier today in Paris. Some big stars are set to headline the festival, including Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Some other big Hollywood stars that could show up for this year's festival include, Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place, Antonio Banderas in The Skin I Live In, Ryan Gosling in Drive, and the entire cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, and French president Nicolas Sarkozy beautiful wife Carla Bruni.
Continue Reading for the full list of films.
Opening Film
Midnight In Paris,...
The entire list was announced earlier today in Paris. Some big stars are set to headline the festival, including Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Some other big Hollywood stars that could show up for this year's festival include, Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place, Antonio Banderas in The Skin I Live In, Ryan Gosling in Drive, and the entire cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, and French president Nicolas Sarkozy beautiful wife Carla Bruni.
Continue Reading for the full list of films.
Opening Film
Midnight In Paris,...
- 4/14/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
In the wee hours of the morning here in the states, the official 64th Cannes Film Festival line-up was revealed. As expecting we got Lars von Trier‘s Melancholia, Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life (in competition too!), Lynne Ramsay‘s We Need to Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton, and Paolo Sorrentino‘s This Must Be The Place starring Sean Penn. The biggest surprise is auteur director Nicolas Winding Refn‘s biggest film thus far, Drive, being selected for competition. The drama stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Christina Hendricks, Oscar Issac and I can’t wait to see the reaction.
My favorite film from Sundance, and still my #1 of the year, Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene will happily be playing in Un Certain Regard next to Gus Van Sant‘s Restless. In terms of surprises that didn’t make the...
My favorite film from Sundance, and still my #1 of the year, Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene will happily be playing in Un Certain Regard next to Gus Van Sant‘s Restless. In terms of surprises that didn’t make the...
- 4/14/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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