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Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson
12 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks
Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of Lsd. It was Ok, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid trip so uncannily spot-on, I swear it gave me my first ever flashback.
It's not as though there's ever been a shortage of trippy scenes in films. It's just they always seemed to chime more with the experiences of the film-makers than with my own. Indeed, watching them sober, you often feel like the designated driver in a roomful of babbling drunks. In the aptly-named The Trip, Peter Fonda has a psychedelic experience in which, »
- Anne Billson
‘Halo Legends’ Animated Feature Coming in 2010
6 November 2009 1:37 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The Halo franchise is going the Animatrix route by releasing a series of anime short films in a collected anthology entitled Halo Legends. The collection will feature seven stories told across eight episodes, all serving to expand the mythology of the Halo universe, much in the same way that the recently-released Halo 3: Odst sought to do.
For those of you still waiting on your live-action Halo movie, it seems as though you’ll have to make due with Legends for now, so, if “universe expansion films” like The Animatrix or Batman: Gotham Knight haven’t turned you off completely to this sort of thing, check out these highlights from the Halo Legends official press release:
Go deeper into the Halo universe than
ever before with Halo Legends, an all-new, CG and traditional anime
PG-13 experience that presents enthralling new stories from one of the
world’s most popular video game franchises. »
- Kofi Outlaw
Halo Movie is Coming; It Will Just Be Animated
5 November 2009 9:06 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Exactly what you've all been waiting for... Sort of. Warner Home Video has announced today that they will release Halo: Legends, a series of seven animated short films. It will hit DVD and Blu-ray on February 9, 2010. For your amusement, please see the official press release below: Go deeper into the Halo universe than ever before with Halo Legends, an all-new, CG and traditional anime PG-13 experience that presents enthralling new stories from one of the world’s most popular video game franchises. Produced by 343 Industries, a part of Microsoft Game Studios, the exciting tales-beyond-the-games will be distributed February 9, 2010 by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray for $29.98 (Srp) and $34.99 (Srp), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (Srp) due date for all versions is January 5, 2010. The chapters will also be available On Demand and Digital Download. Halo Legends is a seven-story anthology – told across eight spectacular episodes – that explores the »
- Neil Miller
Weekly Poll Results: Best Anime Film
5 November 2009 6:29 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Last week we asked you what the best anime film of all time was, and the results were pretty interesting. It's not so much that the winners were unexpected per se, but the top 3 choices were more closely matched in votes than probably any other poll we've had previously. Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke ended up on top with 21% of the votes, while another Miyazaki film, Spirited Away, was #2 at just shy of 20%. (Clearly we're going to have to do a showdown between all of Miyazaki's films at some point in the future.) Akira followed immediately after that, with Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll rounding out the top 5. I was a bit surprised to see Rintaro's Metropolis relegated to last place, but I suppose given the competition it's understandable. Do you concur with these results? 1. Princess Mononoke -- 21.4% 2. Spirited Away -- 19.9% 3. Akira -- 19.6% 4. Ghost in the Shell »
- Sean
‘Ghost In The Shell’ Snags ‘Shutter Island’ Screenwriter [Updated]
27 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Update: Laeta Kalogridis is female Not male. I apologize. Changes have been noted.
Dreamworks’ adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga/anime classic Ghost In The Shell has snagged Laeta Kalogridis to adapt Shirow’s futuristic vision into a live-action 3D blockbuster. Kalogridis has penned such past gems as Oliver Stone’s Alexander and the American alt-history epic, Pathfinder, but is poised to be a breakout name for Her work adapting author Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island into a Martin Scorsese film, which will be hitting theaters early next year.
Jamie Moss (Street Kings) had been tapped to draft an earlier version of Ghost In The Shell - guess his take on the story didn’t go over so well with the studio…
The Ghost In Shell universe created by Shirow was a vision of the future where technology is everywhere and human beings have been augmented with cybernetic bodies down to their very brains, »
- Kofi Outlaw
New Writer Attached To Ghost In The Shell
27 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Dreamworks have signed “Shutter Island” writer Laeta Kalogridis to adapt their big screen adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell. Dreamworks bought the rights to the popular Manga property late last year and intend for the film to be made as a 3D, live action spectacle.
Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul have been attached to produce the picture and are originally responsible for bringing it to Dreamworks in the first place, according to Variety:
Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and originally brought the project to DreamWorks.
Created by Masamune Shirow, “Ghost in the Shell” was first published in 1989. It went on to generate two more manga editions, three anime film adaptations and an anime TV series. The second anime film, “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence,” was released in the U.S. by DreamWorks in 2004.
- Craig Sharp
Shutter Island Writer Adapting Ghost in the Shell
27 October 2009 6:07 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
DreamWorks has had its eye on the popular Japanese cyberpunk property Ghost in the Shell for some time now. Created by Masamune Shirow and first published as a manga (Japanese for "comic book") in 1989, Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic thriller that details the exploits of sexy cyborg Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9, the elite covert crime unit she leads. The original spawned two additional manga editions, three animated movie adaptations, three video games, and a long-running TV series.
DreamWorks' connection to the film began in 2004 when it released the second film, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. DreamWorks acquired the rights to adapt the property for an American audience in April 2008 and announced plans to produce a 3-D live-action movie. DreamWorks founder Steven Spielberg has admitted his love of the property and was instrumental in acquiring the rights.
Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite stories. It's a genre that has arrived, »
- BrentJS Sprecher
New Writer For Ghost In The Shell
27 October 2009 12:57 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
In a brief flurry of publicity last year, Dreamworks picked up the rights to Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell. Steven Spielberg gushed about its wonderfulness (he's right) and Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was put to work on the screenplay. The rest was silence, but now it emerges that a new draft is being prepared by Laeta Kalogridis, hot from adapting Dennis Lehane's novel Shutter Island for Martin Scorsese. Avi and Ari Arad are still attached as producers on what's destined to be a live-action 3D (natch) action epic.No director or explicit story details yet, but we'd guess that, like the 1995 anime, the new Ghost in the Shell will home in on the mindbending Puppetmaster plot thread, about, more or less, a government-created super-ai gone rogue.Mad action, cyborg-enhanced cops and spider-like mecha-tanks (and lots and lots of boobs) ought to make for massive, jawdropping spectacle. But »
'Ghost. Writer Announced
24 October 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Laeta Kalogridis, the writer of the stylish action-fantasy Night Watch, has been hired to adapt "Ghost in the Shell" into a feature for DreamWorks.
"Ghost" is a manga property created by Masamune Shirow and originally published in 1989. In Japan, the series spawned additional manga, an animated TV show, and several anime film adaptations. During the mid-to-late 90’s, "Ghost" helped usher in the popularity of Japanese-style art and animation stateside.
The series revolves around a fictional intelligence agency, Public Security Section 9, which operates in a cyberpunk-influenced world. According to Variety, DreamWorks, which released the second Ghost in the Shell anime film in the U.S. in 2004, is looking to make a 3-D, live-action futuristic police thriller.
No director has been announced yet, but the studio is looking at a 2011 release date. Kalogridis, who replaces writer Jamie Ross, wrote and executive produced the upcoming Martin Scorcese film Shutter Island. She also wrote »
Ghost In The Shell Adaptation Gets Screenwriter
24 October 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
According to a report from Variety.com, DreamWorks Pictures has hired Laeta Kalogridis (”Shutter Island”) to write the long-rumored live-action English adaptation of the famous Japanese manga “Ghost in the Shell”. Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce the 3D live-action project, which is set in a futuristic Japanese city and the cybernetic covert ops team that specialize in combating technology-related crimes. Created by Masamune Shirow, “Ghost in the Shell” was first published in 1989 and has since gone onto generate two more manga series, a long-running anime TV series, and three animated movies. Stay tuned for more on “Ghost In The Shell” right here at Shockya.com. By [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
Kalogridis sees a 'Ghost'
23 October 2009 4:13 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
DreamWorks has hired writer Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Japanese multimedia franchise "Ghost in the Shell."DreamWorks will be making it as a 3D live-action film.According to Variety, Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment will produce and originally brought the project to DreamWorks.Created by Masamune Shirow, "Ghost in the Shell" was first published as a manga (Japanese comic) in 1989. It went on to generate two more manga editions, three animated film adaptations and an animated TV series. The second animated film, "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence," was released in the U.S. by DreamWorks in 2004. »
- Adnan Tezer
Dreamworks’ Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Gets New Writer
23 October 2009 10:35 AM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
I was enthusiastic when they announced a “Ghost in the Shell” live-action movie, but now, I’m not so sure. Is there even any real reason to remake Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 cyberpunk masterpiece “Ghost in the Shell”? It was perfect. Then you add in the constraints of live-action, and I don’t know, it seems like a lot of effort just to eff up something good. In any case, Dreamworks still seems intent on making a 3D live-action version of “Ghost in the Shell”. To that end, the studio has brought onboard a new writer in Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the manga into a live-action movie. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because Kalogridis is also the writer on James Cameron’s “Battle Angel” movie. In the original manga and anime, a female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. »
- Nix
'Ghost in the Shell': We need more heady hot-cyborg-cop movies
23 October 2009 9:52 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
The news today that Shutter Island writer Laeta Kalogridis has been retained to work on DreamWorks' live-action version of Ghost in the Shell, to eventually be projected in 3D, feels like it's coming from the "what's taking so long" department. The property, based on Masamune Shirow's comic book, is a dense, heady odyssey into a world where people can download their souls into cybernetic bodies known as "shells." It follows a similarly enhanced female police detective who -- while tracking the first naturally evolving artificial intelligence -- begins to wonder how much human she's got left in her metal chassis. »
- Marc Bernardin
Work begins on new live-action ‘Ghost in the Shell’
23 October 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Shutter Island writer Laeta Kalogridis will begin work on a script for the upcoming American 3-D live live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.
DreamWorks will take the classic Japanese tale, which follows a member of a covert ops unit, Japanese National Public Safety Commission, who specialize in fighting tech-related crimes.
Debuting in 1989 in the form of manga, the compelling story led to a popular anime film (Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 film) which gained success in United States.
Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul will produce.
Kalogridis’s Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio will arrive in the U.S. on February 19th.
Source: Variety
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- Reel Loop News Staff
Shutter Island Writer Adapting Ghost in the Shell for Live-Action 3D at Dreamworks
23 October 2009 8:43 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Last year, Dreamworks bought the rights to Masamune Shirow's original manga Ghost in the Shell and tapped Jamie Moss to write a new feature film based on the story. Now a new writer has been assigned: Laeta Kalogridis, the scribe and executive producer of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. Variety says the new version will be 3D, which doesn't come as any great surprise, given the way 3D is now liberally being applied to genre and sci-fi properties. Too bad Shutter Island was pushed to next year or we might have a better idea what this assignment means for the Americanized live-action version of Ghost in the Shell. But Kalogridis isn't a neophyte; she's also credited with screenplay work for Battle Angel, James Cameron's long-simmering adaptation of the manga Battle Angel: Alita, as well as Cameron's planned film The Dive. (She also reportedly did some work on the Avatar script. »
- Russ Fischer
New Screenwriter For 'Ghost In The Shell' Adaptation
23 October 2009 8:28 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
The long-awaited adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s futuristic police thriller “Ghost in the Shell” appears to be picking up momentum this week; as DreamWorks has hired Laeta Kalogridis to write the screenplay.
According to a Variety report, Kalogridis is stepping in to replace Jamie Moss, the writer who was originally attached to the project when it was announced last year.
The producers behind the planned 3D, live-action adaptation of “Ghost in the Shell” include Steven Paul, Avi Arad—who comic fans should recall for his role in bringing Marvel out of bankruptcy—and Steven Spielberg, whose personal interest in the story reportedly helped DreamWorks land the rights.
"'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg explained last year. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."
“Ghost in the Shell” follows the exploits of Motoko Kusanagi, a covert operative whose »
- Blair Marnell
Ghost in the Shell Goes All American
23 October 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Seems that the cyberpunk, uber-futuristic Japanese manga series Ghost in the Shell is going to get all kinds of Americanized in a live-action 3D re-imagining. That sound you're now hearing is the nerd community hive-mind collectively crying, .Noooo. into the darkness of their mother's basements. At this point, I've sat for about 15 minutes just trying to make up words to describe how much I don't want this to happen, but nothing is coming to me that would properly convey just how face-palm-erific this idea is. I have never read the Ghost in the Shell manga, but I have seen both films and several bits of the anime series and it's all really great stuff, especially the 1995 adaptation. The animation is awesome, the story is deep and intriguing, and there's boat loads of really awesome tech that for this new hot dog version will surely just get farmed out to some »
Ghsot in the Shell Goes Al- American
23 October 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Seems that the cyberpunk, uber-futuristic Japanese manga series Ghost in the Shell is going to get all kinds of Americanized in a live-action 3D re-imagining. That sound you're now hearing is the nerd community hive-mind collectively crying, .Noooo. into the darkness of their mother's basements. At this point, I've sat for about 15 minutes just trying to make up words to describe how much I don't want this to happen, but nothing is coming to me that would properly convey just how face-palm-erific this idea is. I have never read the Ghost in the Shell manga, but I have seen both films and several bits of the anime series and it's all really great stuff, especially the 1995 adaptation. The animation is awesome, the story is deep and intriguing, and there's boat loads of really awesome tech that for this new hot dog version will surely just get farmed out to some »
Neill Blomkamp to Visit Another Planet Before District 10
23 October 2009 7:15 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· District 9's breakout director Neill Blomkamp has set up his next film, an untitled outer space project financed by Media Rights Capital which will go into production next year. "I'm not particularly interested in massive budget films, or creating huge spectacles that some young directors might be attracted to," Blomkamp said. "It is absolutely another science fiction film, quite different from District 9, but some of the blending of genres and the tone might be within the same realm." This time, mentor Peter Jackson won't be involved; expect a significant reduction in the number of ultimate special Blu-Ray editions. [Variety]
Neil Patrick Harris and Anne Hathaway get animated, Ghost in the Shell finds a new writer, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump. »
Laeta Kalogridis to Adapt Ghost in the Shell
23 October 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
DreamWorks Pictures has hired screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis (upcoming Shutter Island ) to adapt the Japanese manga Ghost in the Shell . Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce the 3D live-action film. The story follows the exploits of a member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology-related crime. Created by Masamune Shirow, "Ghost in the Shell" was first published in 1989. It went on to generate two more manga editions, three anime film adaptations and an anime TV series. The second anime film, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence , was released in the U.S. by DreamWorks in 2004. Jamie Moss wrote the original script. »
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