http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-f...ng-to-dvd.html

Hope the US will get there copies.

Via twitter and a newly-launched web page, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block has announced the return of the Toonami programming block on May 26th, 2012. This news comes in advance of Adult Swim's upfront this Wednesday evening and weeks after "Toonami on Adult Swim" aired on April 1st as a joke. Afterward Adult Swim posted a "Want it back? Let us know." message on twitter, prompting a weeks-long campaign in support of the block on social media.

First launched on Cartoon Network in March 17, 1997, the original Toonami block was dedicated to airing a variety of action animation. The popular block ran regularly on weekday afternoons and later Saturday nights, until its final broadcast on September 20, 2008. Stay tuned to Toonzone News for more information about this story and the Adult Swim upfront as it becomes available.

Update, 9:08 PM: A press release from Adult Swim includes the following description of the new Toonami block:

"TOONAMI - Beginning Saturday, May 26, Adult Swim brings back Toonami, the network's popular block of anime programming. Airing weekly from midnight to 6 a.m. (ET/PT), in addition to the return of previous series featured in Toonami, Adult Swim is also developing new original anime programming for fans."

All three fantastic Greg Weisman shows. For it's SSM without even thinking about it. It's the first of the series I saw and it just blew me away. I love it so much and neither of the other shows have really lived up to it in my mind.

With Toonami officially back, what are your expectations for the relaunch of the greatest animation black ever.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...U_story_1.html

The "Godfather of Go-Go" was 75 years old. He's known for his 1978 hit, "Bustin Loose."

http://www.toonbarn.com/almost-naked...e-development/

Well, this should be impressive. I never knew that Almost Naked Animals was popular enough to get its own game. When it comes in stores in '13, I'm totally checking it out.

Publishers Weekly has posted an article focusing on how recent Cartoon Network shows such as Adventure Time, Regular Show, Superjail, Problem Solverz, and Secret Mountain Fort Awesome are utilizing the skills and aesthetics of independent comics creators to create the shows and give them their distinctive flavors. In the case of Adventure Time specifically, expand the show's world through the licensed comic book, with Ward granting unprecedented freedom for the licensed book and a staff of renowned indie comics creators providing content for the comic book. In contrast, Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel visits the Artist Alley sections of comic conventions to seek out talent; the show has several Eisner and Ignatz award nominees on staff and also boasts an even gender-divide (vs. the male-dominated staffs of many other animated shows), with artist Minty Lewis also providing the voice for Eileen the Mole.

Longer interviews used for the article have been posted on The Beat weblog with creators Pendleton Ward and J.G. Quintel. In addition. Comics Alliance is hosting a preview of Adventure Time #4 (available on comic book shop stands today).

GKIDS ANNOUNCES THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE VOICE CAST FOR
ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINATED FILM

A CAT IN PARIS

MARCIA GAY HARDEN
ANJELICA HUSTON
MATTHEW MODINE

*****

NEW ENGLISH VERSION OF THE FILM OPENS JUNE 1st
IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO & SAN DIEGO

*****

New York, New York – May 14, 2012 – Animation specialists GKIDS today announced the English language voice cast for A CAT IN PARIS, a 2012 Academy Award® nominee for Best Animated Feature, directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol. The new English language version features the voices of Academy Award® winners Marcia Gay Harden and Anjelica Huston, as well as Matthew Modine and Steve Blum. The film opens June 1st in select markets en route to a national platform expansion.

A CAT IN PARIS was nominated for Academy Awards® in the Best Animated Feature category along with GKIDS’ title CHICO & RITA, marking the first time that an independent distributor has received two simultaneous nominations in the category. It was the third nomination in three years for GKIDS, following THE SECRET OF KELLS nod at the 82nd Academy Awards® in 2010.

A CAT IN PARIS opens June 1 at New York’s Angelika Film Center and AMC Empire 25, at Landmark Nuart in Los Angeles, and at Landmark theaters in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Diego. The film will have a national roll out throughout June and July, with dates set for Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, St. Louis and other major and secondary markets. US consumer website for the film is www.catinparis.com

ABOUT “A CAT IN PARIS”
Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico, a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion as he slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat’s two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures – and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue. Now cat and cat
burglar must team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame. A Cat in Paris is a warm and richly humorous love letter to classic noir films and the stylized wit of the Pink Panther cartoons – and Dino the cat manages to steal the show with little more than a subtle swish of the tail and quiet mew. Directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol. English voice cast includes Marcia Gay Harden, Anjelica Huston, and Matthew Modine.


ABOUT GKIDS
GKIDS is a distributor of award-winning filmed entertainment specializing in animation for both adult and family audiences. The company has scored three Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations in the past three years, with The Secret of Kells in 2010 and A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita in 2012 – marking the first time an independent distributor has had two simultaneous nominations in the category. GKIDS also handles North American theatrical distribution for Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki's famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world’s most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others. GKIDS is also producer of New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival, North America’s largest festival of film for children and teens. NYICFF is an Oscar®-qualifying event and jury members include Uma Thurman, Susan Sarandon, Gus van Sant, Matthew Modine, Jeffrey Wright, John Canemaker, James Schamus, Michel Ocelot, and Christine Vachon.

Welcome to "Let's Talk Comics!" for 05/16/12!

Every week, in this thread, you can:

1. Discuss what you're buying this week.

2. Discuss what you've read this last week.

3. Discuss current news and rumors in the comic book industry that you've heard!

If discussing something potentially spoilerific, then use your common sense and cover the text with the spoiler code (or provide spoiler space).

Forget what's coming out this week? TFAW has weekly updated list of all new releases!

Highlights of the Week:

New Mutants Classic TPB Vol. 7 / Saucer Country #3

If you have any feedback/comments/suggestions... just contact your neighborhood friendly comic moderators!

Really This Is Not A Joke, To Me I Thought He Was A Jerk, Heck I Also Don't Like Scooby-Dumb, When I Saw The Live Action Scooby-Doo Movie Scrappy As The Villian I Littererly Cracked Up Cause To Me He Disurbed It, Plus It Was The Only GOOD Part In The Movie,At Least To Me, The Rest Was All Dumb.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...ytheNumbers%29

The NBCUniversal networks that are airing coverage this year are: NBC, Telemundo, NBC Sports Network, CNBC, MSNBC, and Bravo. No USA Network or Oxygen this time around.

A representative for Lionsgate Home Entertainment has informed me the studio plans to announce the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD later this month. No specific date or details were given, but keep your eyes peeled!

Naturally, the thread will be updated as the details are released!

http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solic...012-08/marvel/

Capcom's also digging up a brand new game, which's based in the Lost Planet universe. The title? E.X. Troopers

• Vocalist - May'n

By Gematsu
"Capcom’s new third-person shooter E.X. Troopers, announced in Famitsu this week for PlayStation 3 and 3DS, is a school-themed story set in the world of Lost Planet.

E.X. Troopers takes place on EDN-3rd. The planet features three bases, each with a unique set of traits. You will choose one of these to be your base of operations. The player character will come from one base, while the other characters will come from those that remain. Between stages, the game’s story is told through “manga demo” cutscenes, similar to those seen in Gravity Rush.

The story is built around a battle between snow pirates and the Akrid aliens. Bren Turner (the player character), a young man from EDN-2nd, comes to the academy on EDN-3rd with a goal to be the best. Alongside him join a host of other characters, including Gingira, a Vital Suit with next-generation artificial intelligence, allowing it to communicate with Bren (and calls him “Master”); the blue-haired female snow pirate TeeKee (she wears a cold resistant suit in the style of a mini-skirt over knee-high socks), who can communicate with the Akrid; the silver-haired elite academy pirate Chris Landbird; the purple-haired mechanic Julie Fliescher; and another named Luan Forest, who takes Bren under her wing when he arrives at the academy.

Shintaro Kojima, known as the assistant producer of the Monster Hunter series, is heading up the release. According to Kojima, the goal was to create an introduction to action shooters that consumers can play lightly.

E.X. Troopers is currently 60 percent complete, and is due later this year. It will be playable between June 30 and July 1 at the Capcom Summer Jam event."

Can anyone make animated GIF from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmz79...eature=related clip, so that I can use it as avatar? It's the part that runs from :16 - :27.