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BFI SOUTHBANK CINEMA to Run Anime Programming Through April and May

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organization in the UK, focused on film-making and television promotion and preservation. The organization maintains a library of over 11,000 titles of various cultural and historical significance. They also run the BFI Southbank cinema, which holds four screens for curated programming throughout the week. This April and May, the BFI aims to show the British public that anime can be much more than “Post-apocalyptic worlds, fetishized characters and ultraviolence…”, by promoting a special block of programming spanning the history of the genre, from it’s origination to some of the latest international hit films, and truly represents a wide variety of films that can appeal to fans of more than just action!

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Netflix’s COWBOY BEBOP Streams Kick-Ass Series Trailer Ahead Of November Launch

Creating a live-action film of anything, whether it be a beloved Disney cartoon or an anime with a cult following, can be risky. Fans get very attached to characters and styles and are not always open to changes that may need to be made in order to make the project happen. Or maybe that’s just me. I have to admit that I scrunched my nose when I heard that Netflix was turning the anime Cowboy Bebop into a live-action film. All I could think of was the mess that was Ghost in the Shell. Shudder. But, Netflix has surprised me and has actually made me smile with their release of the “Lost Session” teaser.

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Netflix’s COWBOY BEBOP Release Date and Opening

Netflix’s adaption of classic anime Cowboy Bebop has been a hot topic of discussion ever since it’s announcement in 2017. After a rather adorable behind the scenes teaser featuring the dog cast as the crew’s beloved corgi, Ein, only a few on-set photos have accompanied occasional bits of news around the show.

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Let’s Jam With A Batch Of First-Look Stills At Netflix’s COWBOY BEBOP!

I don’t know about you, but if I can manage it timewise, I might just re-live the animated Cowboy Bebop series until Netflix premieres its live-action iteration of the famed space noir cult classic for ten episodes on November 19. For now though, we have stills. Not too many, but plenty to go around featuring our cast in full regalia which you can check out below, simply by tapping to enlarge.

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COWBOY BEBOP: Funimation Films Knocks On Heaven’s Door Once More With An August Select Re-Release Of The Feature Animated Movie

With 2018 signaling the 20th anniversary of Watanabe Shinichiro’s cornerstone anime creation, Cowboy Bebop, Funimation already has the gears rolling with special collectors’ edition home releases of the hit show. The company is also setting forth a select theatrical re-releases of the hit 2001 animated movie accordingly on August 15th in Japanese with English subtitles, and on August 16th with English dub.

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A Live-Action COWBOY BEBOP Adaptation Is Coming To Television

Well it’s not the live-action feature film that’s been long rumored since the early two-thousandsies, but for what its worth a television push may be feasible for fans ardent of the highly popular manga and anime, Cowboy Bebop. Trade news sources have confirmed such a series now in the works to adapt the property for the small screen.

Sunrise Inc., the studio behind Watanabe Shinichiro’s 1998 anime advancement of Kuga Cain’s Kadokawa Shoten manga is executive producing the series which tells of the adventures and misadventures of 21st century intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his ragtag team of bounty hunters. Also on board are Tomorrow Studios’s Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements and Matthew Weinberg, and Midnight Radio quartet Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg. Thor: Ragnarok scribe Chris Yost is penning the adaptation.

“We are excited to work with Sunrise in bringing this beloved anime to the U.S. and global marketplace as a live-action series,” said Adelstein. “The animated version has long resonated with audiences worldwide, and with the continued, ever growing, popularity of anime, we believe a live action version will have an incredible impact today.”

I’m actually in the middle of the 26-episode anime myself but there’ll be plenty of time to catch up between now and the show’s flourishing. In the meantime, as much as I look forward the series, I also hope the casting will assure viewers and critics alike regarding Asian casting representation, especially with Oka Masi’s trainwreck in lieu of the new Death Note film…

…Yeah, we needn’t go there again. (Deadline)

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