At LeftField Media
May 31, 2017
Con veteran Peter Tatara has been promoted to the newly created position of Vice President of Anime Events at boutique event promoter LeftField Media.
Week of May 30, 2017
May 28, 2017
This week’s home entertainment releases are slim,but there are a few items of real interest including the latest season of the best police procedural on American TV, a gritty medieval historical drama that should appeal to fans of Game of Thrones , new editions of two anime classics that have been selling for big bucks online, plus a reduced price edition of the complete Beauty and Beast live-action TV series.
New Seven Seas Licenses
May 26, 2017
Seven Seas has added four licenses to its 2018 lineup.
New License Acquisitions Announced
May 22, 2017
Seven Seas has added several licenses to their early 2018 lineup, notably Go Nagai’s manga classic Devilman .
Week of May 23, 2017
May 21, 2017
This week’s home entertainment offerings include Fox’s best X-Men film to date, Jordan Peele’s slyly subversive, horror film Get Out , an animated film Vixen , and the second season of the cartoon series Static Shock.
License Awarded
May 19, 2017
IDW Games will produce a new collection of games tied to Dragon Ball Z , according to an announcement from Toei Animation Inc. and FUNimation Entertainment.
Peanuts, Stan Lee, FUNimation
May 16, 2017
We’ve seen a spate of geek culture merger and acquisition activity recently, and we round it up here.
Week of May 16, 2017
May 14, 2017
This week’s home entertainment releases include xXx: The Return of Xander Cage starring Vin Diesel, the final film in the horror/survival series Resident Evil , the teen drama The Space Between Us , and a gritty Japanese anime series.
Week of May 9, 2017
May 7, 2017
While the summer box office season kicks into high gear this week, there’s relatively little happening on the home entertainment front save for the release of the latest seasons of Orange Is the New Black , and Inside Amy Schumer , plus a new Blu-ray of the 2012 Simon Pegg horror/comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything , as well as the first anime feature film ever, a Disney-influenced 74 minute exercise in anthropomorphic propaganda.
ICv2 Interview: Tokyopop Publisher Stu Levy
May 3, 2017
We caught up with Tokyopop publisher Stu Levy at C2E2 a couple of weeks back and talked to him on the occasion of the company completing its first year of resumed publishing.
