The Fate/Stay Night movie now has an official site; however, it does not have much information about the movie. It is expected to have some information soon.

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Shinji Takeda (36) will star in a movie called Kyou Kara Hitman directed by Kenji Yokoi.

The film is adapted from the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Mutou. Takeda plays an ordinary salaryman who gets mixed up in the death of a legendary hitman, and as a result, he has to lead a double life as the hitman’s successor.

In addition to playing this dual role, Takeda is writing and performing the movie’s theme song, titled The Hitman.

Kyou Kara Hitman is scheduled to open in theaters this fall.

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Meisa Kuroki showed the press a brief session of her voice-recording work for the upcoming movie Assualt Girls. She plays a gun-toting hunter battles sand worms with her side kicks, Rinko Kikuchi and Hinako Saeki, which began to appear after a nuclear war in the future.

Kuroki enjoyed recording her English lines, which takes up 90% of her script. She didn’t have to worry about recording the lines as an English speaking native since the director, Mamoru Oshii told her not to worry about pronouncing the words as one.

On the filming of the desert battle scenes with the giant “sand whales” which will be digitally added in the coming months, she said: “I had to imagine the fight, and honestly, I wasn’t really sure what I was doing.”

Assualt Girls opens in theaters on December 19.

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Del Rey has made a few announcements at Comic-Con, check out the big news from Del Rey thanks to ICv2:

At the San Diego Comic-Con, Del Rey Manga announced that it will publish both a manga prequel and a manga adaptation of M. Night Shyamalan’s live-action feature film The Last Airbender, which is slated to debut on July 4th, 2010. Dave Roman (associate editor of Nickelodeon Magazine) is writing both the prequel and the adaptation. Joon Choi is illustrating the adaptation in full manga style, while Nina Matsumoto, who just won an Eisner for her work with Bongo comics and is the creator of Yokaiden, will illustrate the prequel, which is due out from Del Rey about three months prior to the movie’s debut.

Del Rey is also taking over the publication of the full color, screen-capture-based, “film comic” manga based on the Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender animated TV series with the first Del Rey Avatar “film comic” volume slated for release in the summer of 2010 and a second set for publication in the fall of 2010.

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Dark Horse has announced at Comic-Con that The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and the MPD Psycho manga series were both in development as potential live action movies at Universal. If either movie actually does go through, it’ll definitely help boost sales for Dark Horse since they publish both manga series.

Would you watch either movies?

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You may have heard that the live-action adaptation of Akira was cancelled, or you may have heard that it’s not canceled. With so many rumors involving the movie, it’s hard to say if Akira fans will ever get to see the live-action film come to life.

Well, Anime Vice is reporting that the script for the movie is definitely in the works; however, word on when the movie will come out and who has been selected to be part of the cast has yet to be confirmed. This may be the very light necessary to keep the hopes alive for Akira fans.

Here’s to hoping for more good news.

Image and news source: Anime Vice