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January 19, 2007
DORORO ACQUIRED
Massive Japanese fantasy film, DORORO, has been picked up by Universal for North America. Whether they'll give it a theatrical release or it'll go straight-to-video is unknown. Release date is set for Japan on 1/27.
Watch the really gorgeous trailer and try not to wet yourself anticipating munching popcorn and seeing this on the big screen.
January 19, 2007 at 08:40 AM in News, Trailers | Permalink
Comments
Good! May be it will enjoy BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF-like success! (Universal is also the US distributor of BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF)
Posted by: no name | Jan 19, 2007 11:08:08 AM
in HD too (though its only 1080p) or small QT :
http://www.apple.com/jp/quicktime/trailers/toho/dororo/
Posted by: logboy | Jan 19, 2007 11:45:18 AM
Grady
Does the fact that Universal picked it up mean that it will be nearly impossible for you guys to get permission to show it at subway ?
Posted by: Buma | Jan 19, 2007 12:03:42 PM
Action director on this is Ching Siu-tung - that never hurts - neither does working from Osamu Tezuka source material, for that matter. I like the looks of this a lot, but the cynic in me predicts this being "too Japanese" for anything other than DTV release on the first Tuesday after Christmas. Christmas 2009, that is. We'll get CASSHERN out of Dreamworks/Paramount before we ever see this released in US theatres. As always, this is the sort of thing about which I'd love to be wrong.
Posted by: Rhythm-X | Jan 19, 2007 12:37:11 PM
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