Joe Manganiello and Lera Abova will reportedly be joining the second-season cast of Netflix’s One Piece. The next installment of the production, which is a live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga series about the Straw Hat pirates, is already being shot in South Africa. It is expected to be released sometime during 2025. Jamie…
©Courtesy of TV Tokyo. Tasha Huo, the scriptwriter for Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the Naruto anime, now in development, reports that director Destin Daniel Cretton is currently “doing his stuff” with the project. Cretton was acclaimed for helming MCU’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and also directed Just Mercy, The Glass Castle,…
After several false starts, Uzumaki is finally scheduled for release by Adult Swim on September 28 and will stream the following day on Max. The long-delayed film adaptation of Junji Ito’s horror manga had first been announced five years ago, in 2019. The four-part series is based on Ito’s three-volume manga series that was first…
©Courtesy of Amazon Prime Japan Oshi no Ko, a live-action adaptation of a highly popular Japanese anime series, is getting a live-action animation, according to Prime Video. The upcoming series, consisting of eight episodes, will have its streaming debut on November 28. As a bonus, a sequel will be released on December 20. Directed by…
©Courtesy of Netflix Netflix will soon start filming the second season of its highly popular One Piece anime in South Africa, but it’s unclear how many episodes that would include, or whether the streamer plans to move ahead with a third season. The confusion arose when actor Brashaad Mayweather was quoted in an interview with…
©Courtesy of Viz Media VIZ Media and Marvel Comics have agreed to collaborate on a project that will make Marvel’s content available to VIZ subscribers. Under the aegis of VIZ Media, the VIZ Manga service provides access to content in the English-speaking world. At the moment, it has an inventory of some 10,000 chapters, which…
The Japanese anime producer Koichiro Ito was arrested this week by Wakayama police and charged with soliciting nude images of a 15-year-old girl from Nagano he met online. The alleged incident occurred in September of 2021. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, the 52-year-old Ito admitted he knew the young woman was a minor. “I had…
Destin Daniel Cretton will be writing and directing a live-action film for Lionsgate based on Naruto, the popular manga character. Cretton recently cowrote and directed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings for Marvel Studios. He will be producing the Naruto project through his Hisako company, along with Jeyun Mumford. Also involved with the…
Netflix is planning to screen what is being called “a complete remake” of One Piece, the classic manga and anime series by Eiichiro Oda—but not all his fans are happy. The new version, to be titled The One Piece, is being created by WIT Studio, who gave us Spy x Family and Attack on Titan….
@Shueisha Plans are moving forward for a live-action film adaptation of My Hero Academia, the blockbuster manga/anime series. Legendary Entertainment, which acquired the rights five years ago, has signed on as producers, which will mark the English-language debut for filmmaker Shinsuke Sato. The screenplay will be written by Joby Harold, who has authored Army of…
Pluto, is an animated sci-fi Netflix series that adapts the eponymous manga by authors Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, almost fourteen years after its manga run came to an end. The anime directed by Toshio Kawauchi, has Masao Maruyama, Taro Maki, and Yuji Yamano as Executive Producers. Whilst Takahiro Miyata served as the CG and…
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