I saw The Avengers over the weekend, which is a bit of a rare event, me going to the movies on an opening weekend (I intend to do it a few more times this summer, what with Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises, and Brave out soon). In any case, I had some thoughts about the [...]
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I’ve pretty seriously neglected this blog, so I’m going to do a series of “Catching Up On…” posts to discuss and respond to some of the various media I’ve been consuming and my experiences with them. While these posts may be long depending on how many titles I’m discussing, I don’t want to spend too [...]
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Anime is probably not the next big thing
A guest blogger over at Thompson on Hollywood argues that the development slate in Hollywood indicates that live action anime adaptations will be the next thing to spur box office moola. Never mind that the writer originally thought that the American-conceived and written Avatar: The Last Airbender was a Japanese series (hence the strikethrough in the article) [...]
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