Global Road & Akiva Goldsman Join Live-Action Tiger & Bunny Hollywood Film Production Cast

Bandai Namco Pictures has announced that Lynn Harris (Global Road Entertainment’s President of Worldwide Production) and Akiva Goldsman (Weed Road Pictures) have joined the production team of the live-action adaptation of the Tiger & Bunny anime series.   Ellen Shanman will be working as the screenplay writer for the film while Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Erica Huggins (Imagine Entertainment), and Masayuki Ozaki (Bandai Namco Pictures) will be serving as the producers on the project.   Viz Media provided a description for the manga series. Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in…

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Funimation Licenses Live-Action Black Butler Film

Funimation has announced that they have acquired the license to the live-action adaption of the Black Butler manga series.  The film will be released as a Blu-ray / DVD combo pack on May 2. The film will feature dual audio with both an English Dub and the original Japanese audio with English subtitles.  The English Dub film will feature several of the original voice actors/ actress’ who did voice work on the anime series. The full Dub cast includes: J. Michael Tatum – Sebastian Michaelis (Sebastian in anime Dub) Brina Palencia – Kiyoharu Genpo (Ciel Phantomhive in anime…

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Hollywood Tiger & Bunny Live-Action Writer Announced

The Hollywood Reporter has recently reported that the writer for the American live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime series, Tiger & Bunny, has been announced.  It has been confirmed that  Ellen Shanman will be writing for the project.  The movie is being produced by the joint team of Imagine Entertainment, All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW), and Bandai Namco Pictures.  The main producers are Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sandy Climan, and Masayuki Ozaki.   The project will be overseen by the president of Imagine Entertainment, Erica Higgins. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ellen Shanman is known for being the author of the novel…

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