X-Men Anime Redue

Marvel’s website has placed the X-Men Anime trailer up on their site to share.  Now you can just click on the link below without going to another webpage to see the trailer.  Again I would expect this to eventually hit our shores and when it does it would be a cool addition to your anime collection.

X-Men Anime

This will be of interest to librarians working on their anime collection.  Anime New Network’s site has a brief article about the X-Men anime starting on Japanese television channel Animax.  The article also mentions that Animax is already airing Ironman and Wolverine animes.  These are not available for purchase yet.  However, with these being U.S. properties I can see these eventually collected and distributed in the United States (dubbed and subbed).  I could be wrong with my speculation, but I would definitely keep these writing down and in the back of your mind for a possible future anime purchase.  Follow the link to Anime News Network and there will be an image of X-Men’s Cyclops, pictured above.  Click this image and it will take you to Animax’s site where you can see the trailer/commercial for X-Men.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-18/x-men-anime-nichijou-promo-videos-streamed

Marvel & Oscar Crossing Paths

Yahoo has a nice article about how many past and present Oscar Nominees are taking rolls in comic book movies.  They are from Thor: Natalie Portman; Kenneth Branagh, Director; Adriana Barraza; and past winner Anthony Hopkins.  From X-Men First Class is Jennifer Lawrence and from Avengers: Mark Ruffalo; Jeremy Renner; Robert Downey Jr.; and Samuel L. Jackson.  Pretty good cast of talent hopefully this will bode well for these three movies.  Time will tell…Follow the link to the full article by Matt McDaniel.

http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/694-new-thor-trailer-features-oscar-hopeful-natalie-portman