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One of the great things about the streaming services these days is that every so often I’ll come across something…

Quentin Tarantino is one of cinema’s contemporary auteurs. When you’re going into a Tarantino film, you have a strong sense of what you’re in for – a highly stylized, violent, mythic version of the world. His pantheon of “Kill Bill,” “Hateful Eight,” “Django Unchained,” “Pulp Fiction,” and others all fit into that genre. Now with […]

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 […]

Quinten Tarantino’s 9th feature film, Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood has had it’s official premiere. Following this, a new official full-length trailer for the flick was released to international audiences. The story is familiar, at least for those who know the tale of Charles Manson and his “family” during the 1969 string of murders, including actress and model […]

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 […]

Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has given us our first look at the upcoming Quentin Tarantino period film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The film will reportedly takes place in 1969 Los Angeles, where a former Western star and his longtime stunt double struggle to find success in a Hollywood that they don’t recognize anymore. DiCaprio is playing […]

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 […]