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CAT’S EYES Gets Prime Video Expansion On December 18. Catch The Trailer!

Director Alexandre Laurent’s eight-part live-action adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s manga caper classic, Cat’s Eyes, is already streaming exclusively on French streamer TF1 as of last month. To this, the series is also poised to launch on Amazon Prime in France and we now have an official trailer to help proliferate things a bit. Created by Michael Catz, Cat’s Eyes stars Camille Lou, Constance Labbé, and Claire Romain in an origin procession about three sisters who gather to steal high value art that once belonged to their presumed-late father. As they are pursued by a special task force, the trio also begin to uncover the mystery behind their father’s disapperance years earlier. Cat’s Eyes marks its first treatment here in live action since debuting on the pages of Jump Comics in 1981. I know our own Mike Garcia is a fiend for Hojo’s work. He’s definitely more of a City Hunter […]

CAT’S EYES Lands TF1 Live-Action Series Drama For Autumn Shoot

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Alexandre Laurent (“Les Combattantes”, “Le Bazar de la Charité”), is set to adapt Tsukasa Hojo’s “Cat’s Eye” as a live-action series for French network TF1, with co-financing discussions still ongoing. The octet-set series is being written by Michel Catz, Justine Kim-Gautier, Antonin Martin-Hilbert, Anne- Charlotte Kassab, Coline Dussaud and Audrey Gagneux, with Big Band Story (Benjamin Dupont-Jubien and Mehdi Sabbar) producing for the network. Based on Hojo’s 80’s tankobon prints for Shueisha, the new series – dubbed Cat’s Eyes – will trace “back to its roots, and follows the adventures of the three Chamade sisters as they improvise a series of daring heists around the French capital’s most iconic (and security-conscious) monuments” according to a March 30 announcement. More on the series: It’s 2023, and Alexia, Tam and Sylia are reunited in the City of Light after many years apart. At the same time, a work of art that belonged […]