Akira Articles

Akira Akira has stalled as Warner Bros. wants the film's screenplay revamped. Will the $90-million production to be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra still be a go? Well, possibly. Variety cites two examples of projects that have been recently put on hold due to budgetary issues, but that haven't necessarily been shut down for good. One is David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot. The adventure fantasy's March [...]

Production on Akira has been shut down. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the problems have to do with the film's casting and budget, the latter currently at $90 million. So, does that mean it was useless to bitch and complain when white actors were considered for a role that some felt belonged only to ethnic Japanese? Maybe not. Not that Warner Bros. will be necessarily [...]

Robert Pattinson in Allen Coulter's Remember Me (top); Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine in J. J. Abrams' Star Trek (bottom) Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, James McAvoy, Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix. Those are the names included in a Deadline.com piece about performers who have been "considered" for the roles of the surely-to-be-renamed Tetsuo and Kaneda in the live-action, English-language adaptation [...]

Wedding Peach, Akira, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust "ANIME! High Art – Pop Culture," a multimedia exhibition spotlighting the art of Japanese animation, will have its American premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, May 15, in the Grand Lobby and Fourth Floor galleries in Beverly Hills. ANIME! will be on display through August 23. Admission is free. Featuring nearly 400 [...]