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Check out this fan made short film for the Metroid game from Rainfall Films. As you can tell from above it is entitled Metroid: The Sky Calls. It is director by Sam Balcomb and stars Jessica Chobot and America Young. The short runs roughly 11 1/2 minutes long and is a mixture of animation and live action. It is really done well. When you have the time you can check it out below from Rainfall Films YouTube channel:
Black Butler is a manga series by Yana Toboso and is being release by Yen Press. Great news for the fans of the series in a since. The live action Black Butler is set to be released in Japan, January 18, 2014. The film stars Hiro Mizushima as Sebastian and Ayame Goriki as Shiori, Sebastian’s newest master. The movie is set 130 into the future of the manga series so it is not a straight up adaptation, but could be looked at as a future story for the series. It depends on how one looks at the film. Since Warner Bros. is involved with production I would think that this movie will eventually make it to the North American market either as a dubbed or at least a subtitled movie. Thanks to “NatashaJapan” on YouTube for the following trailer:
Most libraries will have Vincent Paronnaud’s adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Persepolis was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated film, so if your library doesn’t have it you might want to consider picking up a copy for you animation collection. Paronnaud and Satrapi have teamed up again to bring about a live action adaptation of Satrapi’s Chicken with Plums, which will hit theaters August 17. Thanks to ICv2 and YouTube for the following trailer of Chicken with Plums: