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Dreamworks Delves Into Anime
peter_gzowski writes "Dreamworks has acquired the license for the worldwide distribution of Satoshi Kon's latest picture, Millennium Actress. Satoshi Kon is best known for directing the anime classic Perfect Blue, but has also worked on Patlabor 2 and Roujin Z (the latter two from the director of Ghost in the Shell & Akira, respectively). Read about it from Yahoo! Movies or Anime News Network, whichever you prefer. I guess Dreamworks was feeling left out after Miramax (with Princess Mononoke) and Columbia Tri-Star (with Final Fantasy and Metropolis) got into the anime distribution business. Maybe Spielberg and company will fare better trying to convince North American audiences to watch serious animated films."
An American company doing asian based cartoons?
let's just hope this'll have a positive effect on the way our blockbuster-loving country views anime. that is, unless, we see guinness, lexus, etc. advertisements written in...
I've always thought that Macross Plus would make a kick-ass live action movie, or even re-released for American audiences in the movies, would make for something that they could follow.
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Probably one of the best anime films I have seen sice Akira and Vampire Hunter D (Which is an amazing DVD). It would be great to see an American film company do this but I think on Miramax or Sony Classics could pull it off, I mean c'mon spieldberg and co think good film is better than crappy but big money maker, I don't think so, I think I smell another Pokemon movie.
This is a dangerous development. We all know that anime is like D&D, it leads to otherwise normal nerds, becoming arrogant and confident to the point where they feel big enough to act out their fantasies. These of course center around choke sex and tenticle rape that the moderators think about constantly.
Akira.. never seen anything like it done better.
I'm quite excited about this movie, because I really liked Perfect Blue. I suppose this is a strange coincidence, but I checked it out and watched it for the first time on Monday. I just hope that they don't price it unreasonably.
Throughout history, Taco shall be known for this momentary lapse of due diligence.
Can't see how this will be a good thing. The only good Dreamworks might do get some "well known" people to do voice acting (not that I care as I am a sub-snob) and perhaps get a somewhat large exposure at big cinemas. Other than that, this is more or less a bad thing. The American Anime-only distribution companies like ADV and the like by the fans, for the fans. They care about their fans and do their best to make their fans happy. Dreamworks and other Hollywood stuidos couldn't give a flying fuck about the fans and just want to make some cash. They will rape the movie any way they can if they think it will earn them a couple more bucks. Disney/Miramax wanted to rape Princess Mononoke by censoring it, and they would have if they weren't restricted by the contract. Tri-Star did an all right job with Metropolis but the translation was sub-ADV. I can't imagine what Dreamworks, another animation studio known more for "kiddie" movies, plans to do with this, but I don't think Dreamworks buying the distribution rights is going to be beneficial to anime fans.
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Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
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...sounds like pretty fuckin gay name for a movie. The Japs never seem to worry too much about putting out gay shit though.
More power to them.
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Troll out
Troll out
I got my blah blah blah blah JonKatz
Me and my trollers we got that
we trollin' on 20's with the blah blah
so much trollin' you can't stop that
where'd you get that goatse ass with the turds up in it?
where'd you get that 200gb drive with the porn within it?
who them girls you be with
oh wait they're not girls, sucks to be you
I got anime on my mind cause there's nothin else to do.
blah blah blah blah... someone else finish this stupid rap.
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-- M.Z.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Anime, but why should I care about some companies making money with it or not? Sure it would be a cool, if I could see my favourite Anime on the big screen, but I'm perfectly fine with fansubs! I think groups like Soldats are doing a great job atm.
I do like anime myself, and I own a few DVDs (and japanese LDs). I did buy Mononoke Hime (twice;) LD/DVD) and I think it is interesting that American movie companies are getting their eyes up for anime.
But it will not be easy, most of the target audience will not show up for an anime in theaters in the states. I just couldn't stand the horrible dub work for Mononoke myself, and the US audiences is not known for "reading" movies like some of us Europeans. The fact that it is !Disney and that it is animated will turn off a lot of people, making them go "I can watch cartoons on Cartoon Network, ok? I want to see ".
One of the biggest reasons is that anime is not family movies in the states (like most of the Studio Ghibli movies are in Japan for example) and thus won't draw the important child+partent audience. And it is not "serious" enough for an older audience. Not because anime can't be good childrens movies or can not deal with very serious themes. Just because this is the view of it in the states.
One very successful anime on the other hand is ghost in the shell, which is loaded with action and fits in well with the fairly young target audience. This is also an anime with a very good dub (I could watch the whole movie without wincing when actors sounded completely out of character the whole time). When (if?) they get around to do it, GITS2 could be a hit in the west as well.
If anime wants to succeed it needs a few "flagships". Movies people remember and like, a TV series or two that they remember was good. My suggestion for this is to _not_ buy a movie/tvseries after it has premiered in Japan and is old.
Dreamworks (etc) need to be a full partner and produce it together with the Japanese production team. Grab the American voice actors (for those seiyuu that can't speak English well enough) and send them to work side by side with the Japanese ones. Make the sequences that would be too culturally hard to understand into two sequences, one for US, one for JP (and use multi angles for something else than pr0n;)).
For example, the new GITS TV series. Do what I suggest above and send it on prime time television and promote it. This would open up for anime and give subsequent TV series a better chance.
(I would also like to see Dreamworks buy the rights for Studio Ghiblis movies, send them to THX for remastering, make real quality dubs, and put them out in out big blacing box. I would buy that for $250 on the day of the launch without a second thought (Except JIPPIE!). But I think that will remain a personal dream of mine since it is very unlikely that Disney will do anything good at all with them right now, since they own the rights in the west. I think that Miyazaki is unhappy about the situation, which is a shame because he is a very nice person and him and his team has made some of the most incredible movies of all times).
But then I tried to find some.
And looking at this list, I came to the realisation that... bugger... there really aren't any, at least no big films that are serious and aren't Anime... well I'll be buggered!
I like Anime... at least some of it, but sometimes I think the quality of animation in the films is over praised... I feel that the fluidity and realism in many 'western' animated features far outdoes that seen in most Anime, which always seem to skimp on frames, or animates the bare minimum that's required to get the image across.
I had a co-worker who LOVED princess Mononoke, but after watching it I was left quite underwhelmed.
Ghost in the shell was pretty good... Ninja Scroll was fun, but I'm just yet to see something that really makes me think "Wow! So that's what they've been talking about!"
Someone, please point me to the definative quality Anime so I can be proved wrong! :)
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Thank you
Check out the bathroom scene in both films...
Now is real life imitating art or vice versa?
Ah, cracklin' Rosie get on board
We're gonna ride till there ain't no more to go, takin' it slow
And Lord don't you know, I'll have me a time with a poor man's lady
Hitchin' on a twilight train
Ain't nothin' here that I care to take along, maybe a song
To sing when I want
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune
Oh I love my Rosie child
You got the way to make me happy
You and me we go in style
Cracklin' Rose, you're a store bought women
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin'
So hang on to me girl our song keeps runnin' on
Play it now, play it now, play it now my baby
Cracklin' Rosie make me a smile
And girl if it lasts for an hour, well that's alright
'Cause we got all night, to set the world right
Find us a dream that don't ask no questions, yeah
Oh I love my Rosie child
You got the way to make me happy
You and me we go in style
Cracklin' Rose you're a store bought woman
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin'
So hang on to me girl, our song keeps runnin' on
Play it now, play it now, play it now my baby
Cracklin' Rosie make me a smile
Girl if it lasts for an hour, well that's alright
'Cause we got all night, to set the world right
Find us a dream that don't ask no questions
Ba ba ba ba ba
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-- M.Z.
What the hell has happened to trollaxor.com?
Actually just combine your two passions, and download Hentai instead. That's what I do...
Hey, we all have our bad habits, just fess up. I myself enjoy pro wrestling, Mike Tyson's punch-out, and redhead lesbian pr0n. And I'm okay with that. I don't try to convince others that these habits have any cultural value, because they probably don't.
To help you along your way, I've written a short play:
Anime, by Gizzmonic
ANIME GUY #1: Hey you, Anime Guy #2. I don't like you!
ANIME GUY #2: Well, I don't like you either!
ANIME GUY #1: Shall we fight?
ANIME GUY #2: No, I got a better idea. Let's like, grunt for a few minutes, okay?
ANIME GUY #1: GRRRRRRRR!!!
ANIME GUY #2: GRRRRRRRR!!!
Five minutes later:
ANIME GUY #1: Boy, I'm really not moving while I grunt. There's a few lines moving in the background though. Did I have a stroke?
ANIME GUY #2: Nope, you're just poorly animated. Let's try something new-here, I'll zap you with this laser!
ANIME GUY #1: Won't that hurt?
ANIME GUY #2: Nope, but it sure will blow up some buildings that don't appear to be anywhere near you!
ANIME GUY #1: Hmm. This is boring.
ANIME GUY #2: It's not boring, here, I'll disembowel you!
ANIME GUY #1: Zounds. I am disemboweled. (dies)
ANIME GUY #2: You are dead, and now your spirit will become one with the land. You see, mankind shouldn't tamper with the forces of nature, otherwise they could unleash a great evil!
SMOKEY THE BEAR: That's right, kids! And remember, stamp all fires dead out!
ANIME GUY #2: The power is yours!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
does that dreamworks link own your mozilla? :\
i get instafreeze on 1.0
- about me
Let's see, on the front page we have two stories. One is entitled "MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes" and it's all about those evil Hollywood companies and how they're going to DoS you because you have a few MP3s on your box.
Then, there's this story about how kewl all this new Anime is and how awesome it will be if Hollywood can bring more Anime to American consumers.
You all are a bunch of f@#$ing morons. You can't even tell when your culture is being co-opted by THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO SCREW YOU. You're even freaking happy about it, like it will become BETTER when it goes mainstream? What? You think this world will be a better place if Hollywood owns the rights to all your precious kewl anime!?
I simply can't believe the rampant, ignorant hypocrisy of this forum. It's like it's nothing but a bunch of 1337 5cr1p7 k1dd135 talking shit about "anarchy" and "f@#$ the man" while they're pumping every last dollar into the latest shiny entertainment trinket the local Best Buy has to offer.
I hate this troll. How many times a day do we see people posting about the so-called hypocrisy of slashdot? It's such a disgusting oversimplification that I can't tell if the people posting are really just trolling, or if they're simply short-sighted idiots who just want to hate slashdot.
Slashdot is a big and complicated community with a lot of different posters from various backgrounds, countries, and outlooks on life. Because it is not a monoculture, you get many different posts with many different opinions. Some people will ferverently boycott the RIAA and the MPAA while others don't care in the slightest and will continue to spend their entertainment dollars as usual. Many fall somewhere in the middle, concerned about what is happening but not so concerned as they are about other things.
The entertainment industry too, is a large and complex entity. Many people feel that, while they don't agree with the entertainment industry's actions in the political arena, they enjoy what the entertainment industry produces enough to overcome this distaste. It's a question of priorities, and because this is a large and relatively diverse forum, you get a variety of feelings and actions on the subject. Others simply don't care at all about the politics, so long as they are able to buy products that satisfy them.
Even the editors are not of one mind. Most of the stories against the RIAA and MPAA are posted by Michael, while most of the anime ones are posted by CmdrTaco. There is no reason why, on a site such as this, that hardly pretends to editorial professionalism (no matter how much many posters would want it) there should be one single overriding features of all stories. No, wait, I take it back. There is one overriding feature of all the stories, and it's "News for Nerds". Now, the term nerd is a fairly loose one, and as such it encompasses many people with diverse opinions. As such, we get stories posted on different subjects with differing slants. Now, any thinking person would never take this as gospel, but would instead use the differing opinions to weigh out their own viewpoint. Do I want to boycott the MPAA, or do I think their product is so good that it outweighs the politics? By asking this sort of question, we are able to make better decisions about the world that we live in. I, for one, appreciate it, and am glad that both sides are presented.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
Hamha!!
Forget about Americanized anime. Hamutaro The Movie is coming December 14th!!!! So far I'm guessing it will only be released in Japan at this time because it's only mentioned on the Japanese Hamtaro site. Hamtaro and the Ham-Hams are the cutest and funniest things I've seen in animation in a LONG time. It's probably the most popular anime right now since DBZ and coincidentally uses some of the same actors for voices (Boss= Yamcha, Hamtaro= Gohan,Goten,young Goku). All praise Toonami and CartoonNetwork for bringing us this cute little Kushi-kushiing Ham-ham.
..in the US, without a hell of a lot of luck.
Why?
For every Evangelion, you have three dozen Pokemon/DBZ's.
not being a big anime otaku
do any anime series in japanese have sponsors drawn in?
For proof, check out this awesome poster for Spirited Away, Buena Vista's (ie Disney's) first foray into the world of Japenese animation on a wide-release scale since Princess Mononoke. The film has broken all kinds of records in Japan and I hope it does the same here as well. The poster looks great, I've heard nothing but fantastic stuff about it, and this should easily top Millenium Actress if the marketing push works.
:)
Here's to hoping it does.
ps - and I hope they don't screw up the DVD and force an uproar like Princess Mononoke did
Dreamworks was making Anime five years ago. Doesn't anyone remember Invasion America?
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I have only seen two Anime films - Perfect Blue and Mononoke. Loved Perfect Blue but didn't like Mononoke much (all those talking animals didn't do it for me). What films should I look out for, especially ones with sexy babes?
Yes, we all hate Dragonball Z. Yes, I've been meaning to rent Perfect Blue for a while now. I still enjoy poking fun at some of the more common conventions of (bad) anime, and the conventions of good ones too. Even Ghost in the Shell has fan service and talky philosophy breaks...
Freedom: "I won't!"
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Dreamworks sees these niche movies that cost next to nothing to distribute and always make money in their limited runs. Sure they'll never play as big as MIB2 but they are a hell of a lot bankable.
Dreamworks also wants to break into animation so it is also about marketing. THE IRON GIANT is a very good movie...the kind of stuff Dreamworks wants to make. But as Warner Brothers found out they couldn't drag people into THE IRON GIANT because of the stigma of US Animation. You only take kids to light and bubble US Animation while THE IRON GIANT definately was something different. Anime however has a different aura around it. People expect slick visuals and complex themed stories from Anime movies. While Dreamworks can make movies like SHREK they'll never be able to market anything they make as "anime style" at the moment or it will be such a tremendious risk that no producer will back them even if Dreamworks fronts the production facilities. The next best thing to do, and by far safer, is to get the real stuff from the source.
This was a blip from Cameron on Tezuka's Metropolis . . . widely touted after the film's Japanese release, and plainly visible on the back of the American DVD box !
So it's either one of two things : the US poster is a hoax, or someone at Disney screwed up again.
Personally, I'd vote the latter . . .
Net reports indicate that Buena Vista Japan has screwed up the Spirited Away DVDs. There is apparently a red tint to everything (leaving screens that should be white rather closer to pink, for instance).
There are conflicting rumors about why this happened, some are saying it was a planned thing, even indicating Miyazaki's approval, but that's something I find very hard to credit. Most high end TVs (HDTVs, which are much more widespread in Japan than the US) have a problem known as "red push". Different sets have it to different degrees, but what it means is that almost all HDTVs over-emphasise the red in a display. Careful adjustments can reduce or elimante this, but these tend to cost money or take time and skill. All this means that most HDTV sets will already be emphasising red too much; adding more red to the DVD encode seems like a supremely stupid move. I simply cannot imagine that anyone familiar with colors and DVD encoding would think this sort of change could possibly come out good.
I think that's the first time I've even seen "Perfect Blue" and "Classic" used in the same sentence other than by Manga Entertainment (where everything is a "classic", or "from the creators of Ghost in the Shell".)
That was a great movie. I was fortunate enough to see it at the world premiere at the Montreal 'Fantasia' Asian Film Festival a year ago. Dreamworks deserves congratulations for picking this up.
-raph
I read (on big apple anime site I think...)that Tri-Star also picked up Cowboy Bebop. But the article also said that it was dubbed in English. They didn't bother/didn't want to dub Metropolis...but does anybody know anything about the Cowboy Bebop dub? Did they hire the great voiceactors from Bandai (who dubbed the TV series)?
I know, I know... Princess Mono, but this really is a bad omen... Mark my words... Of course, i could be paranoid at this point... A company the size of Disney would represent a large cash infusion into the genre... But it's DISNEY!!!
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I like Don Bluth. Good american animator that's been forced to only make kids cartoons. Good movies though. Secret of Nymh rocked.
Looks to me that everyone is looking to save money. With this move then can cut their stable of rendering power down to 4% since these "animated" movies only runs at one FPS!
And think of the ads of next generation graphic cards.
"Get this card and render the latest movie Khchaki Fu, in Dreamworks quality in only 10 min.(at least P-II processor required)"
Posted by michael on Friday July 26, @09:45AM from the you-light-up-my-life dept.
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boo-ya
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http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/anime/anime/bestseller.ht ml used to be the place, but I bet others can add better ones.
"Grave of the Fireflies" is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation. Since the earliest days, most animated films have been "cartoons" for children and families. Recent animated features such as "The Lion King," "Princess Mononoke" and "The Iron Giant" have touched on more serious themes, and the "Toy Story" movies and classics like "Bambi" have had moments that moved some audience members to tears. But these films exist within safe confines; they inspire tears, but not grief. "Grave of the Fireflies" is a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to "Schindler's List" and says, "It is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."
Grave of the Fireflies is a very good movie, and easily the most sad movie I have ever seen, animated or otherwise. If you want to see something that challenges some traditional ideas of what animation is capable of, this is it.
I just thought it fitting to say "Thankyou" to all who provided a great list of titles and reasons for watching. (Well, all bar the twit who said "Uhm, if Mononoke Hime made you feel underwhelmed, then just forget about this Anime thing and go back to watching college movies...". Fine, fine stereotyping there sir. Fine work)
:)
:)
I now have some definitive points to start from in trying to discover the wonder in Anime (Be it a medium/style/format...
In regards to those who gave 'serious' American Cartoons... yeah, I had considered all the Fritz the Cat, Metal Gear etc... but all of them aren't really 'serious', they are just comedies like all the kiddy cartoons, only with a more adult bent.... and drugs.
I shalst do my best now to hire some DVDs and sit down and watch these films/series.
Thanks again.
The goal is to change the mindset of the west that animated == kiddy entertainment. I think that is the most important thing. If we do that, we could have some good, adult, western produced animation become more common.
One of my favorite animated series is actually an American one: The Maxx, by Sam Kieth, based on his comic book (he has also done a little work in the Sandman series). Anyways, The Maxx was a conversion of the first story arc in the comic book, and that's all they made of the series, and it only lasts 7 shows.