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-Subject: More Licensed Anime
Posted on Sunday, July 4, 2004 @ 10:18
-ADV Films announced 14 new anime licenses at their panel today, these are:
Maburaho
Hello Kitty Animation Theatre
Saiyuki: Requiem
Yumeria
Legend of Moby Dick
Tree of Palme
Detective Loki
Erementar Gerad
Nanaka 6/17
Area 88 tv
Gilgamesh
Tactics
Gravion Zwei
Elfen Lied
Moeyo Ken
Gantz
Gantz I have known about for sometime through a source at ADV. I had actually posted it but was told to basicly remove it until the announcement could be made.
A Lot of Licensing is going on.... You are all aware of Naruto's popularity and I am sure these Companies do to. So what's the wait for companies like FUNimation, ADV and the like to license a hit anime like Naruto. Well take a look and when these titles get licensed, almost near the end of their run on TV in Japan. Naruto seems to be coming to that point. I will keep my ears and eyes open and let you know ASAP.
-=- SzR.
-Subject: News from Funimation Panel at Anime Expo 2004
Posted on Sunday, July 4, 2004 @ 7:38
-Here is some licensing news you might want to hear. Funimation announced that they have licenses two two new anime titles Burst Angel and Tenchi Muyou OVA 3. Also here is the scoop on the new animes comming out this Fall 2004. Spiral will be coming out in Nov 9. There is a tentative Fruits Baskets Box Set out on November 9th Full Metal Alchemist will be released January 18, and there will be something special with the volume 1 and box. November 6, 2004 @ 11:00 PM/EST is currently the premier date for Full Metal Alchemist on Cartoon Network. At Otakon, Funi and Tofu will be holding a special event due to L'arc en Ciel being there. Funi also showed a bunch of trailers, which inluded the opening for Gunslinger Girls and some Tenchi Muyo OVA.
Informer: Anime On Dvd
-=- Sam.
-Subject: Akira and GITS Multiplayer Game
Posted on Thursday, July 1, 2004 @ 6:12
-Akira and Ghost in the Shell fans wanting to spread the lead in the world popularised by those movies should keep tabs on Neotokyo. Its a multiplayer FPS mod for Half-Life 2 and UT2004, set 25 years into the future in Akira's Tokyo. Neotokyto is a desperate place: man and machine melding, and the world is wracked by massive social problems. The rich accrue power with abandon, the poor are more exploited than ever. And as we know from Akira, teen angst has taken on a brutal, paranormal strength of its own.
Against this dystopic background, the Neotokyo team are developing a team multiplayer mash-up. They're also promising "innovotive gameplay modes in the spirit of the universe Neotokyo." No word on what those modes will be, but with Sources spectacular physics and Akiras telekinetic powers, there's every chance we could see some brutal online psychic battles. An alpha version of the UT2004 strand of the mod will be released imminently, so we'll know soon enough if the modders are on the right track.
The modders' strong visual style has particually caught our imagination. What's more, their aesthetic should satisfy fans of the series without stepping on the toes of the original creators by not including any of the original characters.
Source: PC Gamer Magazine C/O Sean Wilkins
-=- SzR.
-Subject: New Fall Anime Premier Dates for Adult Swim/CN.
Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 @ 7:10
-It's time to feed the dogs! This news has spread rapidly and was first sited at the Official Adult Swim fourms. Most of you already know about it. But for those of you in the dark, here it is: Two new anime movies will premier on Adult Swim this Fall: InuYasha: The Love That Transcends Time at 12:00 midnight on October 23, and Read or Die, will premier at 12:00 midnight on November 6, 2004
In addition to the two new movies, the Network has announced two new anime series that will also premier this Fall on Adult Swim. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex will premiere November 6 at 11:00 p.m., followed by Fullmetal Alchemist at 11:30 p.m. This line-up is tentative and show times are subject to change.
Informer: ANN Fourm
-=- Sam.
-Subject: IGN ENTERTAINMENT TO ACQUIRE ROTTEN TOMATOES, ONE OF THE INTERNET'S LEADING INDEPENDENT MOVIE SITES
Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 @ 7:08
-Combined Properties Will Capitalize on Close Synergy between Games, Movies and DVDs for Advertisers Seeking to Reach Coveted 18-to-34 Year-Old Market
BRISBANE, Calif. - June 29, 2004 -- IGN Entertainment, a leading Internet media company serving the games and entertainment enthusiast markets, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rotten Tomatoes, a premier destination site for movie and DVD buyers from the most casual enthusiasts to the most die-hard film buffs. The acquisition will add a key movie and DVD-oriented property to IGN's existing entertainment portfolio and will further strengthen the company's ability to deliver the coveted 18-to-34 year-old demographic to its advertisers.
Rotten Tomatoes will be IGN Entertainment's third acquisition in the past 12 months, following on the footsteps of the company's acquisitions of GameSpy Industries and TeamXbox. The transaction represents a step towards broadening IGN's coverage of the movie and DVD markets, which are similar in demographics and buying power to the video and PC games markets reached by IGN's other flagship sites.
"Rotten Tomatoes will add tremendous depth and complementary value to IGN's existing portfolio of movie and DVD coverage on IGN's FilmForce. Hardcore movie buffs and casual fans alike will be able to get the information they want on virtually any movie or DVD," said Mark Jung, CEO of IGN Entertainment. "By adding the Rotten Tomatoes audience to the movie and DVD buyers we already reach, we'll be able to offer even more value to our entertainment, games and general consumer advertisers."
Rotten Tomatoes' addition to IGN Entertainment's portfolio will also increase the size of the key demographic audience the company already offers advertisers. According to comScore Media Metrix, Rotten Tomatoes reached a worldwide audience of 5.2 million in May, 2004, and, when combined with other IGN properties, reached in that same month an unduplicated audience of 22.9 million. *
Rotten Tomatoes' CEO Patrick Lee is delighted to be joining forces with IGN Entertainment.
"We are thrilled to be teaming up with an organization that really does online entertainment content right and shares so many of our company values," Lee said. "Rotten Tomatoes is all about providing the best entertainment content to its users. IGN shares the same mission."
IGN's acquisition of Rotten Tomatoes will offer new opportunities for the game publishers, consumer product companies and Hollywood studios that already advertise on the media company's online properties.
"The fact that Rotten Tomatoes' audience is more mass market than the audience of IGN's game properties broadens our offering to all of our advertising customers," explains Jung. "For our entertainment advertisers, we will be expanding our audience of movie and film enthusiasts. For our game industry customers, we will be providing reach to mass-market gamers. Our consumer product advertisers will get more reach to a key age group whose use of other media is declining. We also will be growing our female audience-nearly half the traffic to Rotten Tomatoes is young women.
"Actually, the acquisition is a good demonstration of how IGN is applying our expertise in amassing vertical content, which we honed in the gaming field, to another key digital entertainment market segment-movies and DVDs," Jung added.
The transaction is expected to close within the next few weeks.
In a related move, the company has decided to stop using the IGN/GameSpy moniker and is reverting back to its legal corporate name, IGN Entertainment, which better reflects the breadth of the company's entertainment media holdings.
About Rotten Tomatoes
Started by a movie enthusiast, Rotten Tomatoes has become one of the leading destinations for both casual movie-goers and film buffs. Rotten Tomatoes' editors collect and index the reactions of the nation's top print and online film critics as well as offering a variety of related integrated services, including streaming movie trailers, movie show times, an image database of official movie posters and celebrity photos, and a price comparison service for DVDs. The site has information on more than 100,000 movie titles and offers 500,000 review links in its ever-growing database. Reviews are neatly summed up on Rotten Tomatoes' trademarked "Tomatometer" index as "Rotten" or "Fresh."
The full articel can be read at RT
This is news related as IGN provides some of the updates on anime (and as you may remember, they provided information about the Live action DBZ Movie).
-=- SzR.
-Subject: Legacy of Goku 3
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 @ 8:28
-Waddup yo? Legacy of Goku 3 will be released and in stores in time for Christmas. Lata minna!
Source: ADN
-=- Dave.