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TAG FOR “Anime”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
August 13, 2010 9:00 am
Opening in several major U.S. cities today (New York, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, etc.) is Studio Ghibli’s Tales of Earthsea, from director Goro Miyazaki (Hayao’s son). The L.A. Times was not impressed. The San Francisco Chronicle praised its many action sequences. The New York Times found it “stolid and humorless”. The big question is, to our readers who’ve seen it, what did you think? 45 Comments » posted in Anime, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, Talkback 
June 25, 2010 10:30 am
Here’s the trailer for the Studio Ghibli/Level 5 game, Ni no Kuni, for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS. It’s causing quite a stir in the anime/gaming community. Miyazaki’s composer Joe Hisaishi is doing the score. Looks good: (Thanks, Andrew Clarke) 31 Comments » posted in Anime, Games
June 19, 2010 6:00 am
Our “Saturday Morning Cartoon” this week is an amazing student film mixing CG backgrounds with hand drawn “anime”. The Subway Time was created by Dongzhen.Li, a student at the Beijing Film Academy. Watch the film below, then check out The Making-Of Video. (Thanks, Dekku) 18 Comments » posted in Anime, Shorts, Student
June 11, 2010 10:30 am
Here’s a sneak peek (taped off a Japanese talk show) at Studio Ghibli’s next animated feature, The Borrower Arrietty. Based on Mary Norton’s 1952 book, The Borrowers, Hayao Miyazaki produced, leaving direction to his key animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Toho will release the film July 17th in Japan. 28 Comments » posted in Anime, Feature Film
May 28, 2010 12:05 am
Here’s one for the history buffs: a link to a fascinating online archive of fifty vintage Japanese animated commercials. This site is part of an on-line exhibition showcasing domestic life in Japan during the “Showa” period (the Hirohito era, 1926-89). Japan’s Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (DMC Institute) digitized of a large collection of TV advertisements obtained from the Momoya Co., a leading food company. The collection consists of 218 animated TV spots that date back to 1953. Of the 50 pieces posted on-line, the earliest one was produced in 1958. These provide a glimpse at a rarely discussed early phase of anime history. (Thanks, Carlo Guillot) 7 Comments » posted in Advertising, Anime
May 12, 2010 1:30 am
Disney has just announced that it will theatrically release Goro Miyazaki’s Tales from Earthsea (Gedo Senki) in the US on August 13th under its Touchstone Pictures banner. This marks the second fully animated feature to be released under that label — the first being Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, another Touchstone picture, was live-action/animated). Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro directed this adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels in 2006. The film was held up from US distribution due to an existing non-compete arrangement with Sci-Fi Channel, over their live action mini-series based on the same material. The voice cast in Disney’s dub includes Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Cheech Marin and Mariska Hargitay. (Thanks, Liam) 28 Comments » posted in Anime
April 21, 2010 5:30 pm
Here’s the very cool full length trailer for Imagi’s CG Gatchaman (G-Force) feature – a film that, thanks to Astro Boy, will probably never be made. (Thanks, Linz) 36 Comments » posted in Anime, Feature Film
April 21, 2010 3:59 pm
An odd rarity by Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka that probably works best in a dark theater. It’s available with twelve of his other shorts on the dvd, The Astonishing Works of Osamu Tezuka. |
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