[via Twitch & SkullKnight.net]

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Sci-Fi short Archetype, created by Aaron Sims who gets mentioned in the creative credits of almost every Hollywood blockbuster produced in the last twenty years. It looks pretty slick for the low budget (IMDb mentions 25k$), but feels more like a long trailer than a standalone feature thanks to the open ending and short runtime.

Synopsis:

RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.

[via Twitch]

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First teaser trailer for Okami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki) by Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time director Mamoru Hosoda.
The film will open in Japan on July 21st, and thanks to the success of Hosoda’s former works it will certainly find a distributor for our regions quickly as well.

Synopsis:

The story covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old college student named Hana who encounters and falls in “fairy tale-like” love with a “wolf man.” After marrying the wolf man, Hana gives birth and raises two wolf children — an older sister named Yuki (“snow”) who was born on a snowy day, and a younger brother named Ame (“rain”) who was born on a rainy day.

The four quietly lived in a corner of a city to conceal the fact that the children are “wolf children.” However, when the wolf man suddenly dies, Hana decides to move to a rural town far removed from the city.

[via ANN & Catsuka]

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First Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom.

Synopsis:

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.

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Music video for the ending theme of the upcoming theatrical Berserk movie from the Japanese singer Ai. Berserk: Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler will open in Japan on February 4th.

[via ANN & @muhootsaver_7]

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I already added these two discs some time ago to the Asian Blu-ray Guide database, but since the great cover artwork has only been revealed some days ago, I thought I should mention the upcoming US Blu-ray Disc releases of Battle Royale here as well.
Anchor Bay will release two edition of Kinji Fukasaku’s cult hit Battle Royale on March 20th. The single-disc regular edition comes with the director’s cut version of the first film while the Complete Collection will include both versions of Battle Royale, the director’s cut of Battle Royale: Requiem plus several bonus features on four discs.
The converted 3D version of the original film is still only available in Japan and Germany withouth English subtitles…

Pre-order Battle Royale and Battle Royale: The Complete Collection @ Amazon.com

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The Nippon Connection team issued a press release announcing the date for the 12th Japanese Film Festival in Frankfurt, Germany:

Der Termin für das 12. Japanische Filmfestival Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main steht fest. Vom 2. bis 6. Mai 2012 werden beim weltweit größten Festival für japanisches Kino wieder über 100 aktuelle japanische Filme sowie ein umfangreiches Kulturprogramm von Tradition bis Moderne präsentiert. Zahlreiche Filmemacher und Künstler aus Japan werden dabei ihre Werke in Frankfurt persönlich vorstellen.
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Zum dritten Mal wird beim 12. Nippon Connection Festival von einer internationalen Jury der Nippon Visions Award verliehen: Der Regisseur des besten Nachwuchsfilms erhält von der Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy eine kostenlose Untertitelung seines nächsten Filmprojekts. In der Sektion Nippon Cinema kann das Publikum wieder seinen Lieblingsfilm auswählen, dieser erhält den mit 2.000 Euro dotierten Nippon Cinema Award, der zum achten Mal vom Bankhaus Metzler gestiftet wird.

Ein Schwerpunktthema des 12. Nippon Connection Festivals wird die Dreifachkatastrophe vom 11. März 2011 sein. Zahlreiche Filmemacher und Künstler setzen sich bereits mit dem Trauma und seinen Folgen auseinander. Neben einem Filmspecial wird es beim Festival eine Fotoausstellung, Podiumsdiskussion und Vorträge zu dem Thema geben.

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Just in time for the new year, the official website of the Rebuild of Evangelion project has been updated with the International title of the third (of four) Evangelion movie.
Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo is supposed to open in Japanese theaters in Fall 2012 followed by the final movie in 2013. A first teaser was released back in August.
[via Evangelion Blog]

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First trailer for the sci-fi romance Upside Down by Argentine director and writer Juan Diego Solanas starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess.

Synopsis:

Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won’t believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm’s length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality, two worlds – one above, one below? facing each other, and you’ll land in the extraordinary world of Upside Down.

Adam (Jim Sturgess) is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach…a girl named Eve (Kirsten Dunst). Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grown-up Eve on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back…
Not even the law or science!

[via /Film & Canal+]

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