The guys from Twitch has been given the first trailer for RoboGeisha, the latest film from Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi and Yoshihiro Nishimura (TGP, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) from the production company TO Entertainment.
Fortunately (at least for me as a not so big fan of mindless gore) it seems like the gore- and splatter level of the robotic geisha’s adventures has been lowered to make room for some more meshuga ideas (commented by the director himself), which is in my eyes the right way to go with this kind of fun flicks.

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Disney has released a second or rather alternative trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. Sadly this one doesn’t show more of Studio Ghibli’s beautiful artwork but only adds a few seconds of (voice) actors name dropping Disney is famous for…meh.
Shouldn’t trailers concentrate more on…you know, the film? Maybe it’s just me, but the fact that Matt Damon lends his voice to a sailor never managed to lure me into the cinema…

[via First Showing]

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[via Pink Tentacle]

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Two new posters for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl that perfectly fit the recently released poster of vampire girl Yukie Kawamura so I just had to present them in the three-way form below.
Did anyone got the chance to see it at the NYAFF?

[via Cinema Beacon]
Update: While we’re at it, here’s another one…

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First Showing has made some effort to recollect all eight character posters for Shane Acker’s 9 that Focus Features spread across several movie sites on the net.

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CDJapan just started its 2009 Summer Sale (guess the weather over there is better than here) and is giving away 500 Yen (~3,70€/5.10US$) coupons until July 30! The discount code is valid for newly placed orders over 5000 Yen (excluding shipping costs) which shouldn’t be a real problem with the Japanese media prices.
My suggestion: The Japanese DVD of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea will be released on July 3rd with English subtitles…

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Just in time for todays premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival, distributor Eleven Arts has released a new trailer for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s gory chick flick Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.

[via Nippon Cinema]

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Leading man Nick Frost announced via twitter that the official production blog whatispaul.com for “his” comedy Paul went live this afternoon. It was available for a short time after the announcement but now there’s only a “Service unavailable.” message without any Nick, Simon or Paul…
It’s working now…wheeee!

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Once again the good folks from Manganimation have found new goodies for Mamoru Hosoda und Satoko Okudera’s upcoming anime Summer Wars from the depths of the net (2chan to be precise).
This time it’s a slightly modified version of the film’s second trailer that shows some new scenes from that still unexplained cyber world, and a nice new poster artwork (clicky left) without the perfect family idyll of the first motive…who parked his Humvee on my lawn?!

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Two new emotional TV spots for Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance which opens in Japan next Saturday (June 27th) and will also be shown during the Animotion Festival in Bonn, Germany at the end of July.
TV Spot #1

Read on for the second TV spot…

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