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Ghost in the Shell isn’t the first attempt at adapting anime in live action – Attack on Titan (opens in new tab), for example, was released in 2015, and Akira (opens in new tab)’s red motorcycle has stalled in various levels of development hell for more than a decade – …

Studio Ghibli is perhaps the greatest animation house ever created. Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio named after the Italian word for the high-speed Mediterranean gale aimed to “blow a new wind through the anime industry”. Considering …

Studio Ghibli is perhaps the greatest animation house ever created. Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio named after the Italian word for the high-speed Mediterranean gale aimed to “blow a new wind through the anime industry”. Considering …

Warner Bros. has finally released a new trailer for Justice League, and it’s packed with a bunch of surprisingly cool moments. Some may argue that trailers for Zack Snyder’s movies end up being better than the movies themselves, but it appears the director has learned some lessons from Batman v …

Ah, Stannis Baratheon. We weren’t exactly disappointed when you lost your head, arranged the death of your family and then, uhh, literally lost your head on Game of Thrones – but you didn’t leave on the best of terms. Telling Brienne “Do your duty” sounds cool, sure, but the original …

Netflix has shared the first trailer for its live-action film adaptation of Death Note, starring a dude with frosted tips as the main character and Willem Dafoe as his demon friend. The Death Note manga series already inspired an anime series as well as several Japanese-language live-action films, and the …

Poor, poor Sasha. If she’s not seeing the new love of her life get a home-run induced headache, she’s making suicide runs to try and kill Negan. Last week’s episode (opens in new tab) of The Walking Dead season 7 (opens in new tab) saw Sasha go solo on her …

After the mind-bending news that the new Matrix movie would be neither a reboot or a remake (opens in new tab), you’d be forgiven for thinking just what on earth could a Matrix movie deal with. It turns out we could be heading to prequel territory – the origins of …

We’re less than two months away from seeing Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (opens in new tab), but there’s still a lot we don’t know about it: including the secret roles of two “very important” Marvel Cinematic Universe characters played by Sylvester Stallone and Smallville’s former Lex Luthor, Michael Rosenbaum. …

The Batman may have had its fair share of upheaval (opens in new tab) recently – a new director, plus a new script – but one constant, other than Bats himself, has remained: Joe Manganiello as Deathstroke. He’s been speaking about playing the hotshot baddie, and the intense weapons training …