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20Feb/100

Battle Angel Alita – James Cameron

Now that Avatar is in theatres, it's time for legendary filmmaker James Cameron to set his sights on his next big project. Time and time again, we've been hearing that it'll be Battle Angel Alita, but things are a lot more solid now that Cameron's partner in crime, Jon Landau, is talking about how it definitely will happen.

After Avatar 2, of course.

Speaking with MTV's Splash Page, Landau talks about how invested Cameron is in the project, along with some of the developments they've had with the script. Talking about Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis working together on the script:

We were familiar with the anime that had been produced, we were familiar with one of the main books. But she opened us up to the other nine books that exist, and how rich that world is.

So, there will be a greater focus on the manga as opposed to the original intention of drawing mostly from the anime. An expanded world, more intensity, and a new name. According to Landau, Cameron only does T&A-titled movies. We might see Alita: Battle Angel across the marquee a few years down the road.

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24Jan/100

BECK Live Action Movie?! HELL YEAH!

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say this again. BECK is awesome; The anime is, and so is the manga. The music rocks, despite the Engrish.

It seems like the actors will be undergoing intensive training for the instruments that their characters play, and I’m really looking forward to seeing that. At least we won’t be getting any Fuwa-Fuwa Time nonsensical craptastic PV. Also, a song list of 30 original songs will be written for this movie. 30 songs?! That’s a quite a lot compared to the NANA or DMC movies.

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16Jan/100

Live Action Tekken Trailer

The movie adaptation of Namco Bandai's popular fighter looks deliciously awful. But the fighting game movie bar has been set extremely low for Tekken.

The first trailer for the live action flick is heavy on reminding you that someone competing in the Iron Fist tournament is "the people's choice" and that his mother was killed. And I think you know where this is going. Clearly the director of Tekken, Dwight Little, was not interested in taking liberties with the cast and costumes of the Tekken series.

Tekken looks about as good as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-li and Dead or Alive, which is comforting.

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17Nov/090

The Cup of Tears – trailer

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The Cup of Tears trailer has been gathering momentum with fans claiming its beautiful CGI puts that of many Hollywood studios to shame. It’s a unique hybrid, featuring ancient samurai empires battling in a post-apocalyptic future – something you might associate with Asia, but no. Believe it or not, filming was done in Slovenia and post production in Ireland.

The Cup of Tears follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall into a permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a gifted samurai, sets out to find the cup and one who can break the spell.

This gets me all wet in the geek bits. I am a sucker for post apocalytpic, old meets new samurai stuff. eg samurai champloo and afro samurai.

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16Nov/090

King of Fighters – trailer

Hey all. I found this on YouTube. King of Fighters being made into movie with MaggieQ in it too. Americans taking Japanese game and making it into a movie. They fail so badddd. They failed with Dragonball and Dead or Alive. This will be epic fail on another level. Watch this commentary and tell me what you think.

While hearing closely at the commentary it seems to me ultra fail already and its not even out yet. They get transported to another world and have to fight to become King of Fighters. Sounds so cheesy its like Mortal Kombat and Tekken in one which makes King of Fighters.lol. Mortal Kombat was set in another world and Maggie Q says "Its like fight club in a way". Nothing beats fight club. I don't think this will ever be like fight club

I dont want to sound racist but they are using an american to try to emulate a japanese person. Also Bernice Liu is a Hong Kong actress from TVB. Did not know she was in it. Wow. But it will still be ultimate fail.