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Netflix continues to go big into anime, announcing a new Ghost in the Shell project set for worldwide distribution in 2020. The announcement was made via Twitter. Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 will have directors Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) & Shinji Araki (Appleseed) on board. The new title…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: This frame saw the first shift at the top of the international box office since Disney's Beauty And The Beast initially twirled through offshore turnstiles last month. With a $36.1M weekend, Belle and her beau dipped from their No. 1 perch to No. 3 in the session, trailing Ghost In The Shell…

After vanishing in its opening weekend at the domestic box office to $18.6 million, film finance sources tell Deadline that Paramount/DreamWorks-Reliance’s Ghost In The Shell stands to lose at least $60M, and that’s based off a global B.O. projection of $200M ($50M domestic, $150M international) and combined…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Leading the overseas dance for the 3rd frame in a row, and as they approach $900M worldwide, Disney's Beauty And The Beast clocked a $66.5M overseas frame for a running cume of $480.8M at the international box office. This offshore weekend was a 45% drop from the sophomore session for Belle and her…

I admit that before seeing the new Hollywood-ized version of the Japanese classic anime feature Ghost in the Shell, I didn’t know manga from a mango. But this uniquely geeky form of literature (read from right to left) has influenced Hollywood films like The Matrix, to name just one, and is about to spawn its own…

“Everything they told you was a lie.” Here’s the new trailer for Ghost in the Shell, director Rupert Sanders' live-action take on the classic Japanese manga. In a role that drew some “whitewashing” flak, Scarlett Johansson stars as the Major, a human/cyborg hybrid who doubles as a killing machine. She leads Section 9…

Update, Saturday AM: Sony/Skydance have quietly dropped a teaser of its Life Super Bowl trailer today, which makes the outer space suspense in Gravity look like a cakewalk. In addition Dwayne Johnson makes it official on his Instagram that Universal is running a Fate of the Furious trailer tomorrow during the Big…

With Paramount’s live-action version of Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson readying for its late-March bow, Lionsgate is getting into the action by teaming with Funimation Films to return the original 1995 anime film to the big screen. The iconic, Mamoru Oshii-directed pic that helped introduce the genre…

Here’s a first look at the new trailer and poster for Ghost in the Shell, director Rupert Sanders’ live-action take on the classic Japanese manga title. Starring Scarlett Johansson (a hire that drew some “whitecasting” criticism), Paramount’s Ghost in a Shell follows Johansson’s The Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind…

Well, this was unexpected. After more than a year of talk, not to mention a small degree of controversy over casting, Paramount tonight quietly debuted the first glimpses of the upcoming live-action version of the classic manga (and anime) Ghost in the Shell. Five, count ’em, five 10-second teasers were uploaded…

Paramount and Dreamworks Pictures today released the first look image of Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell and she’s all moody purpose and dark-haired intent. No surprise, maybe, given that the story follows a female special ops cyborg (Johansson) who leads a fictional counter-cyberterrorist…

VIZ Media, a publisher, distributor and licensor of Japanese manga and anime properties in North America, is teaming with UTA  to develop live-action programming based on titles from VIZ Media's catalog that include the uber popular Dragon Ball Z, Sail0r Moon, and Pokémon series franchises. The deal is in early…