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ADV Voice Actor Mike Kleinhenz Passes Away

July 18th, 2008 by El Wiseguy | 1 comments

ADV Films' dialogue director Kyle Jones has confirmed on the AnimeOnDVD forums that veteran voice actor Mike Kleinhenz died on July 11 of a heart attack. He was 56. Kleinhenz played Kalinin in all four versions of the Full Metal Panic! anime. He also played The Raven in Princess Tutu, Friday Monday in Madlax, Kabapu in Excel Saga, and dozens of other roles.

Thank you to Jack Cox for the news tip.

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Bandai Visual Confirms Blu-ray Releases

April 28th, 2008 by Neil | 5 comments

The Japanese anime distributor Bandai Visual confirmed on Monday that it will start distributing popular anime on the Blu-ray Disc format throughout the world simultaneously this fall. The strategic shift will represent a new business model which attempts to solve the unauthorized distribution issue by doing away with regional differences in release dates and prices.

It confirmed that the Freedom science-fiction anime series will be among the list of popular titles that will ship in staggered releases under this model. The discs will include subtitles in Japanese, English, and other languages.

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Dreamworks Will Make Live Action Ghost In The Shell

April 21st, 2008 by Neil | 6 comments

What's next after Transformers? Steven Spielberg is moving on to more worldly properties. With the recent acquisition of rights to the Japanese manga "Ghost in the Shell," by DreamWorks is set to to make a 3-D Live-Action version of the cyberpunk crime thriller.

Spielberg is said to have taken a personal interest in binging the project to DreamWorks who beat out two other competing studios, Universal and Sony, for the rights. 'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg said. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."

Published in 1989, "Ghost in the Shell" was Created by Masamune Shirow. Written as a post-cyberpunk drama, the story follows Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations team that work for the Section 9 arm of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission. Ghost in the Shell documents the team on technology-related crime missions that test their best fighting abilities. The original Manga story has been adapted into several anime films, a television series, video games and other products.

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