After years of uncertainty, Taika Waititi’s live-action adaptation of Akira is not only alive, it is gearing up for a major update. In a recent interview, longtime producer Andrew Lazar confirmed that ...

Despite it being one of the loudest animated films ever made, Akira begins in eerie silence. In the year 1988, an unknown singularity suddenly and entirely wipes out the city of Tokyo, the screen ...

Akira has been “marked safe” from a live-action Taika Waititi redux. The legendary and amazing anime will not be made into a live-action film by the Thor director. Warner Bros. had secured rights to ...

The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, taking place from October 28 to November 6, has announced a lineup opening with Shiraishi Kazuya’s 11 Rebels and closing with Christophe Honoré’s Marcello ...

Barbara James is a writer for Collider and a content creator. Currently, she works at Screen Rant as an Video Game Features Writer. As a graduate with a major in English, Barbara has worked as an ...

History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and many others). Unfortunately, as fantastic as these ...

Lisa Laman is a life-long movie fan, writer, and Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic located both on the autism spectrum and in Texas. Given that her first word was "Disney", Lisa Laman was "doomed" from ...

Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 anime feature film Akira is rightfully recognized as one of the most influential films of all time. A cyberpunk classic, it has not only inspired other cyberpunk films made in ...

Feature: How to adapt a film like Akira Kurosawa? Akira Kurosawa is one of the world’s most revered directors, his films often cited as inspiration amongst other auteurs. Sometimes that inspiration ...