Hollywood To Adapt "Death Note"

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]io9: Is The World Ready For Warner Bros' American Death Note?
It's time for a whole new audience to become scared of smart boys writing in notebooks, as Japanese horror manga Death Note is heading for a American movie remake. Make sure no-one knows your name! Warners have picked up the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's suspenseful 12 volume series about a teenager who ends up in possession of a notebook that allows him to murder anyone anywhere in the world, as long as he has seen them and knows their real name, according to Variety, and are clearly looking at the potential for a franchise; the movie will, apparently, only adapt the first quarter of the series. Death Note has been phenomenally successful in its native country, spawning anime, three live action movies, a video game and a prose novel. It has also - somewhat unsurprisingly, given its amoral nature - inspired some copycat crimes, including one Belgian murder where the killer claimed to Death Note's fictional killer, Kira. It'll be interesting to see what, if any, steps Warners will take to avoid similar controversy from this more mainstream movie version.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I saw part of one of the Japanese movies on TV and it was fucking awful. I'm sure any Hollywood version will be an equally horrible steaming pile.

[Coligny]

They are running so badly out of steam that they would adapt anything including my last trip to the combini.

Can't be worse than the porno version anyway (Meath Note)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Meath Note

WTF is that supposed to mean?

They should call it Meth Note because that's what you'd have to be on to find this shit even remotely interesting.

[2triky]

[BO-SENSEI]

Speed Racer - Shitty
Dragonball Evolution - Beyond Shitty
Death Note - Hollywood's attempt to make something shittier than DBE.

On a side note, the talk about a live action Evangelion Movie has always been promising, I wouldn't mind seening how that would turn out.

[Coligny]

Speed Racer - Shitty
Dragonball Evolution - Beyond Shitty
Death Note - Hollywood's attempt to make something shittier than DBE.

On a side note, the talk about a live action Evangelion Movie has always been promising, I wouldn't mind seening how that would turn out.

I think you forgot the trainwreck that was the Chun-Li thingamabob movie. With Chun-Li played by somegirl that was definately not even remotely asian.

[BO-SENSEI]

ah, i categorize that into games made into movies, plus i didn't even see it so i got nothing to comment on, i actually liked the first one, but when i saw it i was like 9 so it appealled to me

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think you forgot the trainwreck that was the Chun-Li thingamabob movie. With Chun-Li played by somegirl that was definately not even remotely asian.

I haven't seen the movie and hopefully never will but the chick who played Chun Li plays Lana Lane on Smallville (AKA Young Superman) and she is indeed half Asian.

[2triky]

I haven't seen the movie and hopefully never will but the chick who played Chun Li plays Lana Lane on Smallville (AKA Young Superman) and she is indeed half Asian.

Kristin Kreuk (Chun Li) is part Dutch, Chinese, and Jamaican...although I don't know in what proportion.

[Greji]

Kristin Kreuk (Chun Li) is part Dutch, Chinese, and Jamaican...although I don't know in what proportion.

I don't know the proportion either, but I would do any portion of the proportion I could get!

[2triky]

I don't know the proportion either, but I would do any portion of the proportion I could get!

Word.

[Coligny]

Word.

Yeah, count me in too, and twice if there's a discount.

But that doesn't make her a good choice to play a chinese looking broad who flash her panties while doing and helicopter stuff or have legs thicker than a freight train.

(BTW, I kinda sorta liked Street Fighter 1 too, not a masterpiece, but quite fun...)

[2triky]

^ Most live-action adaptations of games are doomed to failure and should not even be attempted.

[BO-SENSEI]

Mortal Kombat did it's part, it was entertaining, it stayed close to the original story, it had all the major characters, decent fight scenes. What's not to like? But the second one was horrible, it should not have been made.

Resident Evil? Come on, Milla Jovovich, zombies, room full of body slicing lasers, add it all up you get a kick ass movie.

And lest we forget the classic action and acting in Super Mario Bros. (that was sarcasm)

But enough about games to movies, what about anime to Hollywood movies, so far they have produced two God-awful films, but I sugest that Hollywood should go after a series that if they change it a little bit, it would not really piss off the hardcore fan, and that is where I think Gundam would play in. I would not mind seeing a realistic CGI Gundam doing battle in a city or in deep space, kind of like in those HAL commericals.

[Midwinter]

Seriously, who the fuck cares? DeathNote is doomed to failure as it is simply too complicated a narrative for the average movie go-er to follow. Same goes for Evangelion for that matter. I could see Gundam working along much the same lines as Transformers did, but as I am neither interested or have a childhood attachment to that property I really don't care.

[BO-SENSEI]

Seriously, who the fuck cares? DeathNote is doomed to failure as it is simply too complicated a narrative for the average movie go-er to follow. Same goes for Evangelion for that matter. I could see Gundam working along much the same lines as Transformers did, but as I am neither interested or have a childhood attachment to that property I really don't care.

I feel like no matter how mainstream Anime seems to have become in America, its never going to be enough where the average American knows at least some what of the story like they do with comic book movies. I never read a comic in my life and I know enough about X-Men that I could follow what was going on. But this is where Evangelion is going succeed; I think it is going to be done in a way like the Lord of the Rings movies, that even if you have no knowledge of the original story the movie is going to be so inviting and spectacular that no one can complain.

But you are right, Gundam will work like Transformers, get a compelling story with decent acting and enough CGI, you can have a blockbuster movie.

[2triky]

But you are right, Gundam will work like Transformers, get a compelling story with decent acting and enough CGI, you can have a blockbuster movie.

I understand that Toby McGuire of Spiderman fame has acquired the rights to Robotech (based on the anime, Macross) for a live-action adaptation.

[Midwinter]

[quote="BO-SENSEI"] But this is where Evangelion is going succeed]

Except there are people who have seen Evangelion and still don't have a clue what it's all about. If your average anime fan can't decipher the religious and philosophical conutations going on underneath the action sequences, what makes you think Joe cinema go-er can? Strip Evangelion of that depth however, and you have something that might border on embarressing when presented in a live action fashion.

[BO-SENSEI]

Except there are people who have seen Evangelion and still don't have a clue what it's all about. If your average anime fan can't decipher the religious and philosophical conutations going on underneath the action sequences, what makes you think Joe cinema go-er can? Strip Evangelion of that depth however, and you have something that might border on embarressing when presented in a live action fashion.

Strip Evangelion of its depth and you are left with giant robots fighting giant monsters, and that is something that Joe cinema go-er will pay to see.

[Coligny]

Except there are people who have seen Evangelion and still don't have a clue what it's all about. If your average anime fan can't decipher the religious and philosophical conutations going on underneath the action sequences, what makes you think Joe cinema go-er can? Strip Evangelion of that depth however, and you have something that might border on embarressing when presented in a live action fashion.

The problem of evangelion IS the so called depth. It's just religious name dropping to hide the fact that nobody knew where to go with the script after the 5th episode. It's cute and all to play with angel, armageddon and mysticism when you don't try to seriously explain anything (stuff goes boom, finger pointing goes to some biblical writing from somewhere, end of story). But when you use it as the main carrier for the deep explanation of story you're heading for disaster. (insert evangelion background storyline here).

People want to see a cult like masterpiece, where you have something barely over the quality of an "A-Team" season. BSG did a much better job at mingling social and religious issues in a SciFi storyline.

But if they manage to get Yua Aida to play Misato and make her drive a real Alpine 310 (there's plenty here in japan which is borderline unbelievable since it's a 1970'-1980' hand made limited production French car), I'd be waiting in line for the premiere.

[Buraku]

Imax loss narrows as Asian audiences return to cinema
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/imax- ... 2021-04-29

Godzilla Vs. Donkey-Kong Tops $300 Million Worldwide

Hollyweird Commiefornia losing Billions?
Tenet has a Loss of 100 Million, Terminator Dark Fate in the negative red for 130 Million, Ghost Busters remake 75 Million, Transformers The Last Knight 104 Million Loss , Cats 80 Million loss, Gemini Man $111.1 Loss, The Call of the Wild loss of 50 million, Wonder Woman part 2 aka WW '1984' Lost 100 Million

[Taka-Okami]

Imax loss narrows as Asian audiences return to cinema
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/imax- ... 2021-04-29

Godzilla Vs. Donkey-Kong Tops $300 Million Worldwide

Hollyweird Commiefornia losing Billions?
Tenet has a Loss of 100 Million, Terminator Dark Fate in the negative red for 130 Million, Ghost Busters remake 75 Million, Transformers The Last Knight 104 Million Loss , Cats 80 Million loss, Gemini Man $111.1 Loss, The Call of the Wild loss of 50 million, Wonder Woman part 2 aka WW '1984' Lost 100 Million

LOL. Way to go Hollywierd.

[Buraku]

Anyone watch this Bur reto Tray nu shit?

Supposed to be based on 'Grasshopper' books and movies and Kotaro Isaka thriller, the first novel in his Hitman trilogy

Anime Awards Nominations: ‘Spy x Family’ Leads The Pack With 19

https://deadline.com/2023/01/anime-awar ... 235225210/

[Buraku]

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Creator Shinichiro Watanabe Couldn’t Watch Netflix’s Live-Action Series: “It Was Clearly Not Cowboy Bebop”

https://www.indiewire.com/2023/01/shini ... 234804420/

[matsuki]

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Creator Shinichiro Watanabe Couldn’t Watch Netflix’s Live-Action Series: “It Was Clearly Not Cowboy Bebop”

https://www.indiewire.com/2023/01/shini ... 234804420/

It was a classic case of Anime becoming ridiculous when done in live action. I thought it was fine but too silly to take seriously.

[Coligny]

Poor little Pussy…

That’s nothing compared to what happened with “World War Z”

Basically it was like doing a movie adapatation of Moby Dick and ending up with “when Dirty Harry meet Sally”

[Buraku]

More box office Turkey and Box Office bombs....Warner Bros and Marvel DC losing money, Black Adam Flop, Moonfall flop, Strange World flop, Amsterdam flopping, The Matrix Resurrections flop, Suicide Squad flop, Space Jam A New Legacy Flop, Tenet Flop, Cats Flop, West Side Story flop, Antman Wasp Quantumania flopped, Shazman Flops, superhero femininity gay diversity lesbian islamic political stuff seems dead and in the past even if a film barley broke evn they could make it up on physical media, t-shirts, Blu-Ray, DVD, HD nobody buys DVDs or merchandise anymore

The Hollyweird type might finally ban comedy maybe 'Chris Rock' or 'Philomena Cunk' too offensive.

Will Smith? his wife now has him working at a Boots store in London??
https://files.catbox.moe/dcx6y6.jpg

Japan game shows now feature on Netflix

[Buraku]

Disney’s Indiana Jones 5 took in $300 million at the box office so far—a disaster for CEO Bob Iger and Lucasfilm
https://fortune.com/2023/07/19/disney-i ... lucasfilm/

DC Warner movie The Flash now the biggest superhero movie flop of all time?
The Flash set to be biggest box office flop in superhero film history
https://www.joe.co.uk/entertainment/the ... ory-399612

Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors

Critics shred latest Indiana Jones as nostalgic flop that ‘debases the legacy’ of the franchise
https://www.foxnews.com/media/critics-s ... -franchise

Does Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny mark the era of the 'flopbuster'?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/202 ... flopbuster

[Buraku]

Hollyweird is dying, Barbenheimer might have been a dead cat bounce

French cinema also seems to have died

the market seems gone, France does not export film as it used to
https://x.com/boxofficefr/status/1909210191549055009

the French are beaten by China, Japan, the British, Germans, South Korea, Mexico, and India
the Chinese alone on domestic have become the world's number 1 market

it is unlikely the French will fall down to the levels of Australia, Italy, Spain but who knows

Hollyweird on international, the tv shows and films
we all have seen them struggle against SKorean movies or Japan anime taking on US tv shows or Spanish movies taking profits


Minecrafty-work prediction of a Billion?

Pure Mindless Slop, And It'll Make A Billion Dollars -The Critical Drinker





A Minecraft Movie soars to $551M globally as Snow White falls out of box office top five
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... ffice.html

they are even getting their butts kicked out of cinema by weird Russian remakes on the international market


1 Ne Zha 2 (哪吒之魔童闹海) $1,977,955,712 $17,001,486 $1,960,954,226 0.86%
2 A Minecraft Movie $576,626,515 $303,326,515 $273,300,000 52.60%
3 Tang Tan 1900 (唐探1900) $442,143,593 $442,143,593
4 Captain America: Brave New World $414,321,833 $200,045,644 $214,276,189 48.28%
5 Disney’s Snow White $183,738,998 $83,397,889 $100,341,109 45.39%
6 Creation of the Gods II: Demonic Confrontation … $154,266,743 $1,853,487 $152,413,256 1.20%
7 Dog Man $137,850,525 $97,970,355 $39,880,170 71.07%
8 Mickey 17 $127,247,534 $45,901,844 $81,345,690 36.07%
9 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy $125,888,964 $125,888,964
10 Boonie Bears: Future Reborn (熊出没·重启未来)… $100,939,522 $100,939,522
11 Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (射雕英… $86,588,492 $671,343 $85,917,149 0.78%
12 A Working Man $66,470,317 $34,721,495 $31,748,822 52.24%
13 The Monkey $63,714,422 $39,724,912 $23,989,510 62.35%
14 Den of Thieves 2: Pantera $56,109,204 $36,015,016 $20,094,188 64.19%
15 One of Them Days $51,332,998 $50,054,690 $1,278,308 97.51%
16 Operation Hadal (蛟龙行动) $48,476,947 $48,476,947
17 Flight Risk $42,595,216 $29,783,527 $12,811,689 69.92%
18 Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda $37,938,360 $37,938,360
19 The Amateur $37,523,600 $20,122,711 $17,400,889 53.63%
20 Companion $36,709,101 $20,809,101 $15,900,000 56.69%
21 Black Bag $36,549,685 $21,332,085 $15,217,600 58.36%
22 Wolf Man $34,861,127 $20,707,280 $14,153,847 59.40%
23 Novocaine $33,545,800 $19,861,854 $13,683,946 59.21%
24 Heart Eyes $32,815,532 $30,415,738 $2,399,794 92.69%
25 Finist. Pervyy bogatyr (Финист: Первый богатырь… $30,831,827 $30,831,827
26 The King of Kings $28,582,804 $28,065,248 $517,556 98.19%
27 Last Breath $23,008,817 $21,051,180 $1,957,637 91.49%
28 The Woman in the Yard $21,932,377 $21,187,370 $745,007 96.60%
29 The Chosen: Last Supper — Part 1 $21,627,984 $19,615,398 $2,012,586 90.69%
30 Prorok Istoriya Aleksandra Pushkina (Пророк. Ис… $19,619,431 $19,619,431
31 Attack on Titan the Movie: THE LAST ATTACK $19,490,817 $2,890,192 $16,600,625 14.83%
32 Follemente $19,023,278 $19,023,278
33 We Girls (向阳·花) $17,908,465 $17,908,465
34 Love Hurts $17,575,579 $15,683,090 $1,892,489 89.23%
35 Hitman 2 (히트맨 2) $16,435,317 $16,435,317
36 Death of a Unicorn $14,775,988 $12,407,275 $2,368,713 83.97%
37 Drop $13,622,714 $10,131,650 $3,491,064 74.37%
38 Mumu (不说话的爱) $13,273,766 $13,273,766
39 Becoming Led Zeppelin $12,921,170 $10,330,178 $2,590,992 79.95%
40 Batya 2. Ded (Батя 2: Дед) $12,623,551 $12,623,551
41 The Match (승부) $11,903,101 $11,903,101
42 The Chosen: Last Supper — Part 2 $11,637,125 $11,637,125 100.00%
43 Dark Nuns (검은 수녀들) $11,333,563 $103,433 $11,230,130 0.91%
44 Hotline Beijing (您的声音) $10,480,337 $10,480,337
45 Io Sono La Fine Del Mondo

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office- ... ed-in-2025


the Chinese suddenly gain 'softpower'

Ne Zha 2: What Is The Film About & How Did It Become Fifth Highest-Grossing Movie Of All Time?
https://www.koimoi.com/hollywood-news/n ... -all-time/