FUNimation Entertainment Acquires CITY UNDER SEIGE

Flower Mound, TX (June 11, 2011) – FUNimation® Entertainment today announced it has acquired the rights to distribute the live action film, CITY UNDER SEIGE, in the U.S.  This 2010 Hong Kong science fiction action film, directed and co-written by Benny Chan (New Police Story, Fist of Fury, and Heroic Duo), follows a group of circus performers who go on a rampage after accidental exposure to chemical gas left by the Japanese army in WWII grants them superhuman abilities.

The film stars Aaron Kwok (seven-time Hong Kong Film Awards nominee), Shu Qi (Hong Kong Film Award winner) and Collin Chou (The Forbidden Kingdom, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded, and Jet Li’s Fearless).

FUNimation will offer the film on DVD and Blu-ray early next year.  The film will also be shown at the 10th Annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas in July.

For more information about CITY UNDER SIEGE, please visit http://beta.funimation.com/city-under-siege

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FUNimation Acquires We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky

Flower Mound, TX (July 11, 2011) – FUNimation® Entertainment announced today that it has acquired rights to distribute the anime series “We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky.”  These rights include home entertainment, broadcast, digital and merchandise.  This romantic comedy, from director Shinji Ushiro (“Blessing of the Campanella”), revolves around a group of young people whose seemingly unconnected lives may be linked in an alternate world.

FUNimation will release the series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.  The official FUNimation stream of the series will be available beginning at 12:00pm CDT on June 24th, 2011 via www.funimation.com/video or directly at http://beta.funimation.com/we-without-wings.


About We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky:
Timid Takashi wants to escape to an alternate world where he is a heralded knight, but is held back by thoughts of his younger sister and his girlfriend. Part-timer and all around upbeat guy Shuusuke has a disastrous first encounter with a woman who turns out to be his new co-worker. Handyman Hayato is a hard-boiled loner that has random encounters with two gangs and a girl with a uniform fetish. Throw in plenty of fan-service, random humor, an alternate medieval world, and your narrator DJ Condor, and you get “We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky”.

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FUNimation Entertainment Acquires ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY

Flower Mound, TX (June 11, 2011) – FUNimation® Entertainment today announced it has acquired the rights to distribute the live action film, ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY, in the U.S.  Directed by Takashi Miike (ICHI THE KILLER) this film is a sequel to the 2004 film by the same director.

About ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY

Let’s get ready to fight!

By 2025, fifteen years after Zebraman defeated the Aliens, the world has changed entirely.  While Zebraman has lost his memory and is in a rehabilitation facility, Tokyo has renamed itself Zebra City, and has instituted a “Zebra Time” starting at 5:00 AM/PM for 5 minutes in which the government allows the Zebra Police to attack any and all presumed criminals.  One Zebra Time results in the attempted murder of ex-teacher, Shinichi Ichikawa, also known as Zebraman.  Surviving the attack, he meets other survivors of Zebra Time who plan to revolt against the new fascist system lead by the mysterious Zebra Queen.  Ichikawa finds himself teaming up with television’s fake Zebraman and a young protege to save a mysterious little girl from Zebra Queen and her Zebra Police.  Will Ichikawa regain his memories and realize he’s Zebraman in time to stop Zebra Queen before she can use the strange aliens from 2010 to bring Zebra Time to the whole world?

You can find more information at http://beta.funimation.com/zebraman-2.

FUNimation will offer the film on Blu-ray and DVD later this year.  ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY will also be shown at the 10th Annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas in July.

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In Town for A-Kon? FUNimation at the Movies

So, this weekend we have A-Kon here in the Big D (have we reminded you enough that it’s this weekend?)  If you’re going to be in town anyways, why not take a later flight out and join us at the Studio Movie Grill in Lewisville, TX for our monthly FUNimation at the Movies.  Every second Tuesday of the month we screen free anime for FUNimation at the Movies.  On Tuesday, June 14th, we’ll be screening Ga-Rei-Zero.

Seating begins at 6:30 pm, and the screening will begin at 7:00 pm.  Make sure you register on our meetup.com page since seating is limited.  Just look for the FUNimation registration table in the lobby to sign in.

Did I mention there will be fabulous door prizes?  FREE admission and a chance to win some truly epic prizing, that’s a pretty sweet deal.

If you don’t know what Ga-Rei-Zero is about, here is a quick synopsis:

The creative team behind the Full Metal Panic! trilogy is back with a nightmare-inducing series about teenage exorcists forced to draw swords against bloodthirsty creatures of unholy origins.

Kagura and Yomi may look like ordinary school girls as they walk the streets of Tokyo clad in short skirts and knee-high socks, but they’re the heroes you scream for when monsters creep out of the darkness. These sword-totting sisters are part of an elite counterattack unit that specializes in suppressing outbreaks of supernatural activity. They train together, live together, eat together, and spend their nights disemboweling demons with sacred blades. Tragedy strikes when Yomi is possessed by a dark spirit, and Kagura must choose between raising her weapon against the eerily familiar face of ultimate evil – or watching her mentor slaughter innocent citizens. In a life or death battle that pits sister against sister, survival may be the greatest agony of all.

And now, a trailer:

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New Release Tuesday

Here are the new releases available for you today:  Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki in our Anime Classics line, along with TO as a Blu-ray/DVD combo and Tsubasa RESERVoir Chronicle as a Super Amazing Value Edition on DVD and Blu-ray.  Things are busy here at FUNimation as we gear up for A-Kon this weekend.  Will we see you there?


Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki DVD

TO DVD/Blu-ray Combo

 Tsubasa RESERVoir Chronicle SAVE DVD Tsubasa RESERVoir Chronicle SAVE Blu-ray


In case you haven’t seen TO yet, here are a few clips. 

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