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The latest promotional trailer for NieR: Automata Ver1.1a has confirmed the anime’s official broadcasting date, voice actor list, and key production staff. Based on PlatinumGames and Square Enix’s award-winning action RPG game, Nier: Automata, the series will be co-produced by Square Enix and Aniplex, with A-1 Pictures heading the animation. Based on the scenes as shown in the latest trailer, the anime appears to follow the premise and general plot progression of its source material. It will be directed by Ryouji Masuyama, who previously worked as the assistant director on Great Pretender, as well as a key animator for large-scale titles such as Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time and Studio Ghibli’s The Borrower Arrietty. As for the anime cast, Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa Ackerma, Attack on ...

Ryan Coogler has shared his initial plans for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, prior to star Chadwick Boseman’s untimely death. Boseman passed away in 2016 following a four-year battle with colon cancer. In a new interview with The New York Times, Coogler shared that the sequel originally planned to tackle the Thanos Blip from Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home. The Blip refers to an event first introduced in 2018, where Thanos exterminates half of the universe’s population with a snap of his fingers, and later restored in 2023. “‘What are we going to do about the Blip?’ That was the challenge. It was absolutely nothing like what we made,” Coogler told the publication. “It was going to be a father-son story from the perspective of a father, because the first mo...

Only just a second week into its premiere, the sequel to Avatar, has been a major success at the box office. Avatar: The Way of Water has currently brought in $2.9 billion USD globally, a strong second week to start of the holiday season. While the second film has only just been released in theaters, director James Cameron has already put his grand plans in motion for the third and fourth sequels. In his recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cameron noted that he deliberately left “a couple [of] questions” unanswered, “You can call it sequel bait, but I’m not trying to justify a sequel. We’ve already shot the other damn movie. I don’t have to sell it to anybody.” The recently released sequel has introduced a number of child characters, including Tuk (Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, who was 7 ye...

With the Studio Ghibli theme park officially opening its doors on November 1, it is now set to internationally sell its first batch of tickets in 2023. Reservations for guests planning their visit between March 15 to April 30, 2023 can purchase their tickets starting January 10, 2023 at 2 p.m. JST, with the park noting that the sale of the international tickets will be done gradually so it can “provide visitors with the most enjoyable experience possible,” even if the “reservation process may be inconvenient.” Anime News Network adds that Ghibli Park’s Dondoko Forest, Ghibli’s Grand Warehouse and Hill of Youth are open to visitors, while the Mononoke Forest and Valley of Witches are due to open in late 2023 and March 2024, respectively. Fans can also take a side trip to The Ghibli Mus...

Netflix has dropped off a new trailer for That ’90s Show, the long-awaited sequel to Fox’s popular 1998 sitcom That ’70s Show. The series follows Leia Forman (Callie Haverda), the daughter of Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna (Laura Prepon), who spends the summer in Point Place with her grandparents, Red (Kurtwood Smith) and Kitty (Debra Jo Rupp). The preview revisits the familiar Forman house set, where Leia’s new friends — Gwen (Ashley Aufderheide), her brother Nate (Maxwell Acee Donovan), Jay (Mace Coronel), Ozzie (Reyn Doi) and Nikki (Sam Morelos) — take over the flagship series’ famous basement and subsequently infuriate Red. The series’ official synopsis reads, “Hello, Wisconsin! It’s 1995 and Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, is visiting her grandparents for the summer where she ...

More than a year after the season 2 premiere of the reality show Tiger King starring Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, President Joe Biden has now officially signed into law H.R. 263, better known as the “Big Cat Public Safety Act,” which Baskins vehemently fought for throughout the series. The bill was previously passed in the House of Representatives in July with a 278-134 vote and in the Senate unanimously earlier in the month. The new legislation effectively bans all unlicensed private citizens in the U.S. from breeding, purchasing, and transporting big cats and prohibits unregistered lions, tigers, leopards, snow leopards, jaguars, and hybrids from coming into contact with the public. Private animal parks and petting zoos such as those once held by Joe Exotic will now be forced to put up ...

Earlier this year, the return of the HUNTER x HUNTER manga was celebrated by millions of fans as the popular series ended its four year hiatus. Mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi had been dealing with health issues that left him no other choice but to pause its development. While his condition seems to have improved, it has prompted the series to enter hiatus once again. According to an early copy of an upcoming Weekly Shonen Jump magazine issue, a statement regarding the future of HUNTER x HUNTER’s publication has been shared. It states that due to Togahi’s ongoing health concerns, a format other than weekly serialization will be pursued for Chapter 401 and beyond. The good news for fans is that he will continue to write chapters with support, rather than place the series ...

Following the news that Liam Hemsworth will be replacing Henry Cavill as the titular character of Geralt of Rivia in Netflix‘s The Witcher, showrunner Lauren Hissrich has officially teased the storyline for the actor’s “heroic sendoff.” The action-packed fantasy series is replacing Cavill in season four, marking the turn of when Hemsworth will step in as the lead role of Geralt of Rivia. While Cavill is set to leave, Hissrich promises that the former Superman will receive a fitting curtain call for his final run as the monster hunter. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Hissrich said, “Henry has given so much to the show and so we want to honour that appropriately. Geralt’s big turn is about giving up neutrality and doing anything that he has to do to get to Ciri. And to me, it’s the m...

Following the success of Hellbound, Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is now back with the first trailer for another Netflix film titled Jung_E. The movie will feature the final performance from popular actress Kang Soo-yeon who died ahead of the film’s release due to a stroke. The South Korean sci-fi movie is set in the post-apocalyptic 22nd century in which climate change has rendered the world uninhabitable, forcing humans to live in a man-made shelter where civil war rages on. In an effort to end the war, the team leader of the research institute Kronoid Lab, Seohyun (Kang Soo-yeon), and the institute head Sang-Hoon (Ryu Kyung-soo) clone the brain of a heroic soldier in an effort to create the most advanced A.I. combat warrior. The A.I. played by Kim Hyun-joo is named Jung_E. Sang-h...