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After two decades in production hell, Warner Bros. has given the film rights to Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' back to manga ...
We have news that will likely be viewed as cause for celebration for most Akira fans, as Warner Bros. has lost the rights to ...
After over 20 years without a movie to show for it, Warner Bros. has let the live-action rights to anime icon Akira lapse.
After 20 years, a dozen creatives attached and millions spent on development, Warners is moving on from the seminal property.
Warner Bros. Loses Akira Movie Rights After 20 Years After two decades of delays, rewrites, and stalled production, Warner ...
The possibility of a live-action take of the 1988 anime movie Akira from Warner Bros is no longer, as Deadline has confirmed that the right have lapsed, now reverted back to manga publisher Kodansha.
Riding into Neo-Tokyo is going to take a little bit longer. After more than two decades of developing a live-action take on Japanese sci-fi classic Akira, Warner Bros. has let go of the movie ...
Warner Bros. has had the live-action film rights to Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark cyberpunk manga and anime since 2002. In that time, filmmakers as varied and diverse as Stephen Norrington, Albert ...
The rights have reverted back to Kodansha, the manga publisher that first put out the postapocalyptic cyberpunk story by Katsuhiro Otomo in 1982. Producers and talent are said to be lining up to ...