Japanese Animation Catching on in U.S.
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Animation in America once meant Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. These days, it's just as likely to mean Japanese fighting cyborgs, doe-eyed schoolgirls and sinister monsters &#151; thanks in large part to people like John Ledford.
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Animators at DIC Entertainment in Burbank, Calif., are hard at work on what they intend to be the next obsession of 4-to-8-year-old girls.
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A new movie tackles the roundup of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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By CARL FREIRE TOKYO - Popular video-sharing Web site YouTube Inc. has agreed to post Japanese language warnings about respecting copyrights in an attempt to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials, a Japanese entertainment body said.
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An animated series is  redrawing the lines of television mega-deals.
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TOKYO, Dec 22, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- The Blu-ray Disc Association said Wednesday that Bandai Visual Co., known as a pioneer of animation software in Japan, has joined the group, which has been promoting the Blu-ray Disc as the format of next
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For the second weekend in a row, the American public made the subtitled Chinese movie number one. The spectacular martial arts battle saga earned an estimated $11.
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PBSâs childrenâs show, where animals talk and have humanlike jobs, is  intermittently interesting, and itâs served up with eye-catching computer-generated animation.
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Japanese cartoon Howl's Moving Castle takes 1.5bn yen in two days to set a new box office record, reports say.
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Aspiring animators on a budget may want to take a look at the latest version of AdobeÂs video editing program, Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0.
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LOS ANGELES  - When a network that has "cartoon" in its name sets out to do its first original live-action movie, it only makes sense that the live-action part would seem a bit, well, cartoonish.
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As video games take on an ever slicker, more cinematic feel, developers are increasingly turning to cartoon actors, movie-trailer announcers and even film stars to read the lines.
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TOKYO -- Some 75 movie titles, including ``The Da Vinci Code" and ``Chicken Little," will go on sale in Japan later this year using the next-generation Blu-ray DVD format.
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Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the big screen.
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(InfoWorld) - YouTube said it is ready to discuss copyright issues with some of Japan's largest producers of video content afterÂ they complainedÂ earlier this month about the amount of their material on the popular video Web site. A group of 23 Japanese entertainment industry associations and broadcasters sent a letter to YouTube management at the beginning of December demanding the site do more to stop users uploading copyrighted material. In the letter the groupÂ requested a reply by Dec. 15, and that arrived over the weekend. "They said they are considering visiting Japan to discuss the issue," said Satoshi Watanabe, manager of the transmission rights department at the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers. JASRAC sent the letter on behalf of the other companies and associations. The reply, which was signed by YouTube Chief Executive Officer Chad Hurley and Chief Technology Officer Steven Chen, also said YouTube is prepared to post a notice in Japanese to Japanese users of the site warning them against uploading copyrighted content, said Watanabe. At present YouTube presents a message in English only but the Japanese rights holders asked in their letter than a Japanese-language notice be posted on the site. YouTube also said it will improve its user authentication procedures, Watanabe said. He declined to provide a copy of the reply. JASRAC has sent the reply to the other 22 signatories of the original complaint. These include the Motion Picture Producers' Association of Japan Inc., the Japan Video Software Association, the Association of Japanese Animations, all of the major commercial TV broadcasters, the Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association, the Recording Industry Association of Japan and Yahoo Japan Corp. The group will likely hold a meeting later this week to discuss the reply and what to do next. The complaint was sent about two months afterÂ YouTube deleted almost 30,000 Japanese video clipsÂ on receipt of a complaint from rights holders in Japan. However almost immediately after the deletion new clips of TV shows, music videos and movies began appearing on YouTube. YouTube currently deals with copyright infringement issues by asking rights holders to send complaints in written form by postal mail, e-mail or fax with details of the clips said to infringe copyright, and other documents. The Japanese rights holders are calling for YouTube to create an alternative to this procedure that will utilize technology to identify infringing clips as they are uploaded or published. Â
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DreamWorks Animation, which in the past decade has become one of the leaders in film animation, made a move toward going public by filing estimated terms of its initial public offering (IPO).
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Many Americans have seen Astro Boy on TV, but this is the first time anime fans in the United States are being exposed to the genius of its creator, Tezuka Osamu, the god of manga.