Fairy Tail's Second Film Announced

Weekly Shonen Magazine in Japan has announced that a second film for Fairy Tail has been greenlit. No other information is available at this time, but as with most things, additional news is expected to leak out in earnest in the coming weeks.

Fairy Tail's first film was released in 2012, and while I haven't seen it yet (or any of the anime, despite owning a chunk of it), I am a huge fan of the manga, so I hope this movie turns out to be a good one.

The Boy and the Beast's Second Trailer Posted, Cast Announced

The second trailer for Mamoru Hosoda's upcoming film 'The Boy and the Beast' has just been released.

The film will tell a story set in the human world's Shibuya ward of Tokyo, as well as the bakemono realm. These two worlds are not meant to intersect, but one day, a lonely bakemono named Kumatetsu discovers a lonely boy lost in the bakemono world, and takes him on as a disciple which he re-names Kyuta.

Hosoda first gained notoriety with his previous films 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' and 'Summer Wars' before following it up with 'Wolf Children' in 2012, but the man's work goes back a long ways. Before breaking out on his own, he directed both of the 'Digimon Adventure' films (most notably 'Our War Game' – or the second half of 'The Movie' was it was released in the US – which shares many similarities with Summer Wars) as well as the sixth One Piece film.

In addition to the trailer, the cast of the film was also recently announced.

CHARACTER – ACTOR

Kumatetsu – Koji Yakusho

Kyuta (child) – Aoi Miyazaki

Kyuta (adolescent) – Shota Sometani

Kaede – Suzu Hirose

Grand Master – Masahiko Tsugawa

Monk Momoaki – Lily Franky

Tatara – Yo Oizumi

Iozan – Kazuhiro Yamaji

Ichirohiko (younger) – Haru Kuroki

Ichirohiko (older) – Mamoru Miyano

Jiromaru (younger) – Momoka Ohno

Jiromaru (older) – Kappei Yamaguchi

Chiko – Sumire Morohoshi

Kyuta's Father – Keishi Nagatsuka

Kyuta's Mother – Kumiko Asou

As a huge fan of all of Hosoda's previoius works, my level of excitement for this film is off the charts!

Deadpool Receives an 'R' Rating

In an exclusive clip from JoBlo Movie Trailers, Ryan Reynolds seems to confirm that the upcoming Deadpool movie will be rated R rather than the previously reported PG-13.

Due to the nature of the video, and the date that it went up, it might at first seem a little unlikely that this is true, but nothing has popped up to refute it as of yet...so we might just be in for a treat after all.

'Deadpool', currently slated for a February 12, 2016 theatrical release, will be Ryan Reynolds' second turn as the character after his first appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but this film is set to stand far apart from that movie (for good reason). It is however expected to tie in to the new X-Men Universe that Fox is trying to set up with it's new slate of Marvel-based films.

Megan Fox Joining the Cast of TMNT?

Michael Bay has posted to his official site that, to quote -

"TMNT: We Are Bringing Megan Fox Back Into The Family"

- basically very heavily implying that the actress will have some part in the the upcoming film for which Bay currently only serves as producer rather than director. The first female role that comes to mind is obviously April O'Neil, so...yeah. Count me worried about how this will turn out now.