Tag: Osamu Tezuka
Anime Pioneer Eiichi Yamamoto Dies at Age 80
Japanese writer and director Eiichi Yamamoto, who brought seminal works as broadly diverse as Kimba the White Lion and Belladonna of Sadness to the...
Fred Ladd, Producer Who Introduced Anime to North America, Dies Age 94
Fred Laderman (known professionally as Fred Ladd), a television and film writer/producer who helped introduce and popularize Japanese anime in North America through classic...
Heritage Plans Groundbreaking Anime Art Auction
Production animation cels and backgrounds from the most critically-acclaimed and culturally-influential anime films, television series and characters to headline a three-day auction event June...
Spanish Helmer Alberto Vázquez Finds Shelter in His Short ‘Homeless Home’
Ever since it made its Jury Award-winning premiere at the Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival last year, Alberto Vázquez’s Homeless Home has been collecting...
30 Anime Content Players Unite for AnimeLog YT Channel
A group of Japan's most notable anime production/distribution companies have joined forces to launch a new digital content hub for fans in the form...
Animation Nominees for 40th Japan Academy Prize Announced
The Nippon Academy-sho Association has revealed the nominees for the 40th annual Japan Academy Prize honors. The 2017 ceremony will take place March 3...
Nucleus Presents Tezuka Exhibition Oct. 8
Nucleus art gallery in Alhambra, California is presenting an exhibition in honor of the godfather of manga, Osamu Tezuka. Opening October 8 and running...
‘Belladonna of Sadness’ Arrives on BD & VOD July 12
One of the great forgotten gems of Japanese animation will get its first U.S. home entertainment release as Eiichi Yamamoto's Belladonna of Sadness arrives...
‘Belladonna of Sadness’ Premieres in NYC May 6
New York City’s Metrograph cinema will run a week-long premiere engagement for lost Japanese animation treasure Belladonna of Sadness, from May 6 through 12....
Red Band Trailer for ‘Belladonna of Sadness’ Reveals Restored Gem
A long lost masterpiece of psychedelic ‘70s animation is being brought back from oblivion, and now thanks to Cinelicious Pics, SpectreVision and The Cinefamily...
New Line Taps Writers for Live-Action ‘Astro Boy’
The live-action Astro Boy feature film project has gained some momentum as Hollywood Reporter reveals that New Line is in talks to come onboard...
Stone Bridge Announces Tezuka Bio
Stone Bridge Press announces that it will be publishing a massive, single-volume celebration of the life and work of one of the comics and...
Animal Logic to Reignite Astro Boy
Animal Logic Entertainment has partnered with Japan’s Tezuka Productions to develop a live-action, science fiction superhero feature film based on the iconic comic book...
News Bytes: Merged Animafest, ‘Belladonna’ Restored and More
Wrapping up the week with the following desk-clearing news items:
• After years of alternating its focus, The World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest...
International Co-Pro to Reboot ‘Astro Boy’ for TV
Monaco's Shibuya Productions, Japan's Tezuka Productions and France's Caribara Animation are joining forces to reboot globally famous anime franchise Astro Boy with a brand...
Cross Media Intl. is Tezuka’s New American Agent
San Francisco-based Cross Media International has entered into an agreement with Tezuka Productions of Japan to develop distribution opportunities for its extensive portfolio of...
Disney Museum Pays Tribute to Bozzetto
Last month, San Francisco's Walt Disney Family Museum launched a comprehensive exhibit featuring the works of world-renowned Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto. The celebrated director...
‘Approved for Adoption’ Arrives in L.A. & N.Y.
GKIDS brings Jung's autobiographical live-action/animated documentary to the City of Angels.
Documentaries—good ones, anyway—tend to fall on either side of a wide-arcing pendulum swing. The...
Tezuka’s ‘Buddha 2’ Trailer Goes Live Online
Anime fans were happy to catch a few minutes of the upcoming feature adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Buddha 2 online today, via the Cinema...
Digital Manga to Release Complete Tezuka Works
Great news for fans of classic Japanese comics, otherwise known as manga: California based e-publisher Digital Manga Inc. has nabbed the rights to the...
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