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‘Akira’ live action movie coming from ‘Daredevil’ writer

After a long delay, we may be finally getting a live action adaptation of one of the greatest Japanese animated movies and manga ever made: Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo’s adaptation of his own manga back in 1988 told the story of a bike gang leader involved in a secret government project, and for years a live-action …

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More Equal Than Others: Six Films of 2012 Done Better

For better or worse, films don’t exist in a vacuum. If literature derives from itself, and, according to Marshall McLuhan, the content in any new medium is always the same as in the old, then films don’t exactly have a wealth of opportunities to be original. You can always compare a film to one that …

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James Franco in Talks for ‘Lovelace’, ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’ and ‘Akira’

As if James Franco’s schedule doesn’t seem packed enough; what with his Oscar co-hosting gig, stints on soap opera General Hospital, studying at two different schools (Yale and Rhode Island School of Design) and numerous film projects in various stages of development, now comes several reports in the past few weeks that he is in negotiations for three …

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