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Sex Bob-omb fans, the reunion is here. The anime adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World that will stream on Netflix, sporting the title Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, has landed. The platform has now released an all-new behind-the-scenes featurette where you get to see the cast of the movie in the recording booth providing the lines for the animated series. The video also spotlights the addition of comedic actor Will Forte as he professes his love for the Edgar Wright film and showcases his excitement to be part of the project as an old version of Scott Pilgrim.

The details of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off from Netflix reads,

Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, and discovers he must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. But this time, things get even more complicated. Based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott...

Set for release in 2015 is a live-action feature film based on Araki Tetsuro's anime series Attack on Titan, which is all about something we love here on Dread Central: man-eating giants!

Though principal photography hasn't yet begun on the film, the folks over at Anime News Network just brought a pretty awesome video to our attention, which teases the destruction that's on its way.

It seems that the film's director, Shinji Higuchi, recently made a Japanese commercial for Subaru, which features live-action versions of characters from Attack on Titan. The commercial debuted last night, and in it a Forester is attacked by the massive Titans.

Though the characters may not end up looking the way they do in the commercial, it's a fun little glimpse into the future and should hold you over until we've got more to show. Check out footage from the commercial shoot below!

Shinji Higuchi, a...

It was almost a year ago to the day when Foywonder first turned us on to the weirdness of Araki Tetsuro's anime series Attack on Titan. Here's the thing: You can put man-eating giants in anything, and we're pretty much guaranteed to watch it, and now that a live action version is on its way? Joy!

Crunchyroll reports via Natalie.Mu that the film is set to start this summer for a 2015 release. Shinji Higuchi, a key member of Daicon/Gainax who made a significant contribution to Evangelion - also special effects director on the '90s Gamera trilogy, director of the 2006 version of The Sinking of Japan, and more recently, director of Studio Ghibli homage God Warrior Attacks for Hideaki Anno's tokusatsu exhibit - will be in the director's chair.

Yusuke Watanabe (live action Gantz and 20th Century Boy, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods) and critic/subculture...

Japanese animators had tried to address fears of the force of nature long before last month's earthquake struck

In September 2008, Hayao Miyazaki, the author of Spirited Away, attended the Venice festival to present his most recent full-length film, Ponyo. In this city so closely connected with the sea, the Japanese director explained why he chose to end the film with a tsunami, and why the Japanese celebrate nature in spite of its destructive power.

"There are many typhoons and earthquakes in Japan," he said. "There is no point in portraying these natural disasters as evil events. They are one of the givens in the world in which we live. I am always moved when I visit Venice to see that in this city which is sinking into the sea, people carry on living regardless. It is one of the givens of their life. In the same way people in Japan...

TOKYO -- Japanese film studio Toho is remaking Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, famous for having large chunks of its story used by George Lucas in the original Star Wars.

The new version, first reported Monday in the Japanese media, will be directed by Shinji Higuchi, responsible for last year's hit The Sinking of Japan but best known for his special effects work.

The 1958 film -- known as Kakushi Toride no San Akunin in Japanese, or "The three villains of the hidden fortress" -- is an action comedy starring Toshiro Mifune. Taking the Mifune role will be romantic comedy star Hiroshi Abe. Masami Nagasawa will take the role of princess Uehara.

In a move guaranteed to raise the eyebrows of Kurosawa fans, the parts of the two peasant refugees, the inspiration for R2-D2 and C-3PO, will be combined into a single character, Takezo, from whose perspective the story will be told. Jun Matsumoto of the boy band Arashi will take that key role.

TOKYO -- For Japanese films and filmmakers, 2006 has been an excellent year. Business has been so good and titles have attracted so much international attention that some are even saying that it will go down in the history of the domestic industry as the year Japanese cinema came of age.

Releases surpassed the total of 356 from the previous year, with six titles earning more than ¥5 billion ($42 million) at the boxoffice. The top earner was the Studio Ghibli animated title Tales From Earthsea, which brought in around ¥7.8 billion ($66 million), followed by Limit of Love, which earned some ¥7.1 billion ($62 million).

And while the dedicated film studios have fared well, Japan's terrestrial broadcasters have tested the waters this year like never before, edging from telefilms toward full-length theatrical releases.

"2006 is clearly a turning point for us -- we could even say it's epoch-making -- because we are likely to achieve the best boxoffice records since we started this business," said Makito Sugiyama, deputy vp of the content business department at Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.

"We are forging ahead to provide increasingly exciting entertainment and challenging new genres that we have not tried before --such as comedy and action titles," he said.

"We have also found that one of the advantages of a TV broadcaster producing full features is that we are able to develop both features and TV drama series based on the same source, as we have done with 'Memories of Matsuko' and 'Sayonara Game Kisarazu Cats' Eye.' "

TBS produced seven feature films in 2006, including The Sinking of Japan, which earned an impressive $44 million at the boxoffice, and Nana 2.

Household names in the cast have helped boost sales, according to Sugiyama, which has a knock-on effect in terms of foreign sales.

SEOUL, South Korea -- For weeks in South Korea, Hollywood has been in short supply. No Hollywood film has taken the No. 1 spot since the July 7 debut of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest." In fact, no Hollywood film has even made the top 5 here since Monster House came in fourth on Aug. 18. But last weekend brought an unofficial record when no Hollywood films at all landed in the nation's top 10. Seven of the top 10 films were Korean, with the No. 3 slot going to the debut of Chinese costume epic The Banquet, No. 9 to Pedro Aldomovar's Volver and No. 10 to the Japanese disaster film The Sinking of Japan. Instead of Hollywood, Koreans have flocked to films like Song Hae-sung's melodrama Maundy Thursday ($13.5 million since its Sept. 14 release) and the comedy Marrying the Mafia 3 ($8.22 million since Sept. 21). Just below those hits, the top-10 has been filled with a variety of mid-level successes including Like a Virgin, Between Love and Hate and No Mercy for the Rude.