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At long last, fans can pre-order the brand new Funimation Ultra HD 4K remaster of Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal piece of…

Get those red futuristic motorcycles revved up, Warner Bros. Pictures just gave that long-gestating live-aciton adaptation of Akira a freaking release date!! Taika Waititi has been confirmed as director, too! We’d previously reported on the title a few times, that producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s passion project had been granted $18.5 million for the production to film in the Golden […]

We may have a bit of intel on the upcoming live-action Akira film courtesy of the possible costume designer for the feature- Ane Crabtree. In an Instagram video posted this morning, the Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale costume designer shares a snipet of a scene from the original 1988 Akira anime, with the simple caption of “#homework”.   View […]

The day after April Fools is a terrible choice to make big announcements about long-rumored productions, but that’s exactly what happened this year with the much-maligned live-action Akira film. Probably the best evidence we’ve seen of producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s passion project in years, it was revealed on April 2nd that the California Film Commission granting $18.5 […]

It’s been awhile since we heard anything about Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio’s long gestating passion project; a live-action adaptation of groundbreaking anime film Akira, and Taika Waititi may be on board to direct. No, this is not a leftover April Fool’s joke. It sounds like production is ramping up as soon as this summer, with the California […]

I sure remember the day the announcement happened that Leonardo DiCaprio with Warner Brothers was working on producing a live action Akira movie.  There were bike races in the street, and telekinetic powers running amok!  Mostly, the general sentiment about the project were not positive; too many fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender had been burned by […]