Look anywhere on YouTube and you'll find any number of independently conceived concepts attributed to the Ameritoku crossover series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. There are a few in the works on smaller scales as well as a feature film from Lionsgate and Saban, and while many of these could likely hit all the similar tones…
Director Masahiro Hosoda's upcoming North American release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of The Gods is only getting a five-day engagement between August 5 through 9 in select theaters around North America. Thankfully, the kind folks over at FUNimation have posted a theater locator for fans to find out where and when they can see…
August 1 can't come fast enough for moviegoers in Japan ahead of the release of director Keishi Otomo's new sequels to the 2012 smash hit, Rurouni Kenshin. (more…)
By: FilmCombatSyndicate A sequel to last year's modest blockbuster success story, Pacific Rim, has been in development for a while now. It wasn't going to happen right away since earning only a little over half its budget back, but I suppose grossing that same number four times over globally was pretty helpful. (more…)
By: @FilmCombatSyndicate Director Ryuhei Kitamura's newest contribution to live action storytelling has a glossy new full trailer this week for the forthcoming release of Lupin III. Written by Mataichiro Yamamoto, the film is based on the original 1967 manga by Monkey Punch and other mediums in the years that followed, now presenting another new epic…
From FilmCombatSyndicate: Tokusatsu action filmmaker and Power Rangers veteran director Koichi Sakamoto is full of surprises...at least for me anyway. It turns out the director of Travelers, 009-1, Red X Pink and Innocent Lillies has been busy in Korea for a while making it happen with a brand new TV show on the horizon titled…
Twelve years after Warner Bros. acquired the rights to Japanese comic book publisher Kodansha's 1982 publication of author Katsuhiro Otomo's six-volume manga, Akira, and two years since we still don't have a live-action film. But for director and producer Nguyen Anh Nguyen, that's just fine by him, with the reception he is currently receiving from…
Following a batch of announcements within the past several months regarding the release of a new Appleseed movie, the latest trailer reveal has arrived for director Shinji Aramaki's new CG-animated action adventure thriller, Appleseed Alpha, courtesy of IGN. Produced by Halo: Legends helmer Joseph Chou, the film is the latest cinematic contribution to the franchise…
Nearly four years after multi-faceted actor and director Joey Ansah and co-director Owen Trevor fireballed the interwebs with the impressive three-minute short film, Street Fighter: Legacy, online platform Machinima will be hosting the next level of that very conception with a new series that aspires to surpass all expectations...and, of course, for which we have…
It's been seventeen years since the second of two Hollywood feature films made their way to fans of the long-successful American Tokusatsu crossover TV series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Since then, the global fanbase has stayed true to their favorite color-assorted superheroes in one form or another in full support of a genre that still…
