According to an announcement from VIZ Media, they have opened a new company just for producing American live action films from the anime in their stables. I for one welcome our new live action anime overloads and can't wait to see Inuyasha large and in charge on the big screen and I know quite a few of you will be chomping at the bit for others on that list you've been fapping to in your deepest fantasies!
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VIZ Media has launched a new wholly-owned Hollywood-based company named VIZ Productions to produce and license live-action theatrical film and TV projects based on animated and manga series, incuding properties its Japanese parent companies Shogakukan, Inc. and Shueisha, Inc., as Hakusensha.
VIZ Productions will also serve as liaison between Japanese creative licensors and Hollywood production houses, studios and agents and plans to produce or license live action films covering a wide range of graphic novel genres.
Jason Hoffs, formerly of Dreamworks, will assume the role of Head of Production.
Viz has specifically mentioned titles Naruto Bleach Death Note Inuyasha Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
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