Spider-Man takes on Ken again this Summer.
While the joy runs down our faces just take in these key facts:
More screen shots here.
Wash those images of the live-action movie from your eyes!
With any blockbuster movie, the inevitable animation tie-in sprouts up. But the Japanese know to leave a classic, basically, alone. Co-inciding with the release of the live-action American Dragonball Evolution movie, the original Dragonball Z TV series has been re-cut and re-mastered into the HD Dragonball Kai.
So either the economy has helped to stop the creation of another Dragonball travesty (GT anyone?) or the Japanese really do worship the House of Toriyama. Dragonball Kai basically remasters 100 of the original 261 episodes of Dragonball Z (no young Goku) and are airing now in Japan, but disregarding all the filler that deviated from the manga. Sound good? Nothing planned this weekend? Great, you can watch the first 3 episodes right here, and they are subtitled in English for you.
The series is being extensively “refreshed” for Japanese TV. It is not new animation, but simply a remastering of the original film. Part of this will be reformatting and extending the picture to 16:9 Widescreen (the Jump image says it will not be a cropping of the series, at least not completely). Through digital processing, the image will be made vibrant. All the grime, damage and noise remaining on the “Z” film will be removed, making the image much clearer in HD.
We’ll definitely be looking forward to a DVD relase of this for our own Dragonball collection.
| March 12, 2009 |
This girl is Chi-Chi in the Dragonball movie? Son Goku you lucky monkey!
Meet 25-year old Jamie Chung from San Francisco. This sexy Asian-American actress will soon be heating up the silver screen in the live-action Dragonball Evolution movie – which from the trailer we’ve seen, unfortunately opens in Hong Kong on March 13th. We don’t want to hold this “so bad, it’s still bad” movie against Jamie, so we thought we’d promote her more since we hope to see more of her in the future.
Check out her photo gallery and Chi Chi history below and a photo-shoot video here for your enjoyment over the weekend:
| April 29, 2009 |
Hugh Jackman himself is doing online marketing for his new movie.
This is truly the age of the digital celebrity. Hugh Jackman, Mr. James Howlett Logan himself, emailed the image above (click here to see full image) to Aintitcoolnews.com to promote his big X-Men spin-off “Wolverine” that hits Hong Kong tentatively on April 30th.
The movie is supposed to take place before the events in the first X-Men movie and showcase some of Wolverine’s origins from the comic books and guest-starring a who mess of mutants who didn’t make it into the first 3 movies like fan-favorites Deadpool and Gambit, as well as a younger Sabretooth.
Check out the trailer below which looks like fun, but kind of like a more expensive trailer for a Jean Claude Van Damme movie:
Forget the polls, comic collectors can tell you who is the next president.
Congratulations from all of us at Neonpunch.com to President-elect Barack Obama. It looks like the U.S. does have a glimmer of hope now and has also made history at the same time. But was there really any doubt that Obama wouldn’t win? Even comic collectors knews this as yesterday the sales figures of IDW Publishing’s 2 presidential comics – one for McCain and one for Obama – were revealed and it was an easy 59% to 41% in Obama’s favor.
Read more about this true collectors item here and at the IDW site – you can try and call Clark’s Comics in Causeway Bay to see if they have any copies left or better yet you can have it sent to your iPhone (if you have a US number) for free from here.
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