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Exclusive: Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Robin Tunney (The Mentalist) are set to star in Divine Blood, an indie dark comedy marking the feature directorial debut of husband-and-wife duo Paul Castro Jr. and Aly Miller.

In the film from Lynx Point Pictures, which just wrapped filming in New York, Headey plays Ruth George, a once-revered “menstrual artist”, whose work — crafted from her own blood — catapulted her to cult fame. But just as she’s dragged back into the spotlight, her body begins to stage a quiet, sticky rebellion into a raw, absurd, and disturbingly relatable reckoning with art, womanhood, and the sheer chaos of being human.

Tunney plays Ruth’s sister, Scarlet. Others in the cast include Chloë Levine (The Oa), Kyra Weeks (The Wedding in the Hamptons), and Revon Yousif (The Better Sister). Miller penned the script and Mia Cusamano handled casting.

Dragon Ball Daima has a streaming premiere date!

The English dub of the series arrives on Crunchyroll starting on January 10, 2025 in select territories.

Based on an all-new story and character designs from author Akira Toriyama, this original anime series from legendary studio Toei Animation commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Dragon Ball.

Here’s a plot summary: “Goku and company were living peaceful lives when they suddenly turned small due to a conspiracy! When they discover that the reason for this may lie in a world known as the “Demon Realm,” a mysterious young Majin named Glorio appears before them.”

Keep reading to find out more…

English dub episodes of Dragon Ball Daima will be released weekly, starting with Episode 1, “Conspiracy,” which premieres on January 10, 2025. The English dub will stream on Crunchyroll in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

The Dragon Ball Daima English dub voice cast:...

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For fans of animation, Cartoon Network's late-night Adult Swim programming has been the hub of some of the most inventive and original works of adult animation over the last 20 years. Even though its Toonami block is mostly known for airing anime, it's also been the home of some of the most successful Western action cartoons over the last decade, from Samurai Jack to My Adventures with Superman. With the block's most recent non-anime series, Invincible Fight Girl, now hitting their airwaves, the first few episodes have already offered plenty of reasons for animation fans to give it a shot. With its theme of wrestling, it's not only reaching the attention of WWE fans, but with...

The official English cast for Dragon Ball Daima has finally been revealed. Ever since Dragon Ball Daima was first announced, a major question has been who would voice the characters. Naturally, the new characters would all need voice actors, but with all the returning characters being turned into children, that invited the possibility of a new cast replacing the old ones, despite their years of history with the franchise.

For Dragon Ball Daimas Japanese dub, theres a new cast of voice actors for both the new characters and the (Mini) versions of the old ones, save for Goku (Mini), who is still voiced by Masako Nozawa. For the English dub, with the first three episodes currently playing in theaters, most of the principal English voice cast for Dragon Ball Daima has finally been revealed ahead of its official release. Naturally, most of the cast is new to Dragon Ball and voice acting,...

Akira Toriyama’s legendary creation, Dragon Ball, has inspired uncountable people over the span of generations. You would be lying if you pretend to never have imitated Kamehameha or tried to draw Goku as a kid. The simplicity and adventurousness of Akira Toriyama’s creation have won the hearts of innumerable people.

Even after the death of the mangaka, the Dragon Ball franchise is ongoing with its latest installment, Dragon Ball Daima. And because of it, people who have been inspired by the series as children or young adults have found a space to include themselves in the franchise.

Working in Dragon Ball Daima is a Dream Come True for Mini Vegeta’s Voice Actor Vegeta mini from Dragon Ball Daima | Credits: Toei Animation

Paul Castro Jr. is the English voice cast of mini Vegeta in Dragon Ball Daima. He has previously been cast in several other dubbed anime. Some...

“Cool” is one of those nebulous descriptors that defies classification. A cool girl could be anyone from an irreverent teen ditching class under the bleachers to a popular trend-setter rocking the latest style, a tik tok master with millions of followers or – like Gillian Flynn’s Amy Dunne – a woman consumed with attracting a man. This ever-evolving status can be difficult to pin down, but we all know a cool girl when we see her. Hunter Schafer is that girl; a celebrated actress currently reinventing the idea of “cool” for a new generation. With her latest role in Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo, Schafer brings this edgy energy to another classic female archetype. In her first starring role, Schafer takes on the final girl trope and embodies the female empowerment of legendary heroines while maintaining her own effortless allure. With an electric performance in this uniquely terrifying film, Schafer breaks the...

Go Go Loser Ranger Gets English Dub Release Date on Hulu: All You Need to Know - Main Image

Anime fans waiting for an English dub finally have some good news, as Go Go Loser Ranger is getting an English dub this June on Hulu in the US.

While the anime started streaming on Hulu in April, the English dub has not been released there yet.

Hulu may not have announced the cast in the US release announcement, but the voice cast has already been revealed in the show’s international Disney+ release.

Hulu Announces Go Go Loser Ranger English Dub Release Date

Unlike most of this season’s big shows which are either streamed on Crunchyroll or Hidive, Go Go Loser Ranger is being distributed by Disney.

This means the show is available to stream in the US on Hulu and Disney+ in other regions internationally. Other shows...

Shonen anime movies encompass some of the best works in the medium, providing writers and animators creative avenues. Notable shonen anime movies like The First Slam Dunk, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, and Persona 3 subvert common stigmas in the industry. Some of the most exhilarating examples of shonen films include Gurren Lagann's second film, enhancing the anime's finale, and One Piece Film: Red showcasing top-tier writing, and masterclass films like The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Of all the different demographics seen in anime, shonen anime is often regarded as being the most popular. Even during the early days of anime, shonen anime, whether they be original projects or adaptations or original works, has always received mainstream attention from fans.

Anime that fall under the shonen demographic are undoubtedly the most prolific, and that remains true for movies, as well. Just as there have been many shonen anime series over the decades, there...

Anime movies have become increasingly popular and receive just as much praise and attention as TV shows, if not more. The best anime movies can be part of a franchise or stand-alone stories, and both can be equally excellent. Anime movies like "Akira," "Ghost in the Shell," and "Perfect Blue" are considered iconic and have had a significant impact on the medium and even on Western films.

Anime has never been limited to just TV shows, with the best anime movies standing out as some of the finest films ever made. That idea has become even more apparent in recent years as anime movies make their way to theaters and streaming in greater and greater frequency, and as such, they tend to receive just as much praise and attention as TV shows, if not more so.

Anime movies have long since established themselves as an essential part of the medium,...

Every few years, the Academy tweaks the rules for its animated feature category, with the net result that the nominees tend to skew ever more mainstream. That makes it tough for most of this year’s hopefuls: A record-setting number of animated features submitted. Those who pick the noms are required to watch roughly a third before ranking their top five, which can include additional titles they might have seen on their own. Blockbusters naturally benefit, though “Flee” and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” earned nominations in 2022 and 2023, respectively, suggesting that artful indies still stand a chance.

The Boy and the Heron

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Voices: Luca Padovan, Robert Pattinson

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Distributor: GKids

Rumors of Miyazaki’s retirement were greatly exaggerated, as the unstoppable creative force (who won an Oscar for “Spirited Away” in 2003) returns with a story inspired by his childhood memories during wartime. More fanciful than “The Wind Rises,...

"Beauty and the Beast" truly is a tale as old as time, and has been retold in countless ways, like the Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton TV series of the same name, the Fran Drescher comedy "The Beautician and the Beast," the teen rom-drama "Beastly," or even in an episode of "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater." Recently, legendary Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda delivered "Belle," a magnificent animated sci-fi fantasy film that thrusts the tale out of the world of old and into the techno future.

The story takes place in the not-so-distant future where the internet has evolved into a legitimate virtual reality called U, where avatars are created by users' scanned biometric information. A teenager named Suzu creates an avatar named Belle who becomes a pop superstar, but everything changes when her virtual concert is interrupted by the seemingly undefeatable fighter The Dragon (or "The Beast"), who she quickly becomes infatuated with.

The Film

The new Miyazaki. That’s a description I’ve heard applied to Mamoru Hosoda over and over, and it’s never sat well with me. Notwithstanding that Hosoda has expressed critical feelings about Miyazaki’s depiction of women, or my own apathy about Miyazaki’s films, Hosoda isn’t the new anybody, nor does he need to be. He’s the first Mamoru Hosoda, and across his six solo features, he’s established a strong authorial voice and, for my money, stands out as one of the best and most exciting filmmakers working today, and not just in animation.

Belle, like Hosoda’s previous films, takes a gigantic sci-fi concept and boils it down to a tiny personal story. The setting is contemporary, but the internet seems to be dominated by an app called U, a social network which, through body sharing technology (think a less gross take...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on January 13th, 2022, reviewing a new animated film from Japan, a version of “Beauty & the Beast” entitled “Belle,” in theaters on January 14th.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda (“Mirai”), a young Japanese girl named Suzu has lost her mother at a young age, and hasn’t gotten over it. She is an awkward teenager who decides to enter the U, an online virtual world in which your brainwaves are transformed into characters, in essence starting over in a new life. She becomes Belle, a beautiful singer sensation in the U world, who falls in love with the Dragon, a beastly type who is out to destroy the U.

“Belle” opens in theaters and IMAX (in select markets) on January 14th. Featuring the voices (English dub) Kylie McNeill, Paul Castro Jr., Ben Lepley,...

Chace Crawford (The Boys), Manny Jacinto (Nine Perfect Strangers), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) and newcomer Kylie McNeill will lead the English-language voice cast for Mamoru Hosoda’s Gkids awards contender Belle, which is scheduled for release alongside the original Japanese-language version in U.S. theaters (including select Imax screens) on January 14, with exclusive Imax previews in select markets beginning January 12.

Others lending their voices to the new dub include Paul Castro Jr., David Chen, Jessica Dicicco, Brandon Engman, Martha Harms, Jessica Gee George, Barbara Goodson, Bentley Griffin, Andrew Kishino, Wendee Lee, Ben Lepley, Noelle McGrath, Julie Nathanson, Aaron Phillips, Ellyn Stern, Frank Todaro, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Cristina Vee Valenzuela, Tom Bromhead, John Bentley, Tiana Camacho, SungWon Cho, Courtney Chu, Larissa Gallagher, Heather Gonzalez, Xanthe Huynh, Anjali Kunapaneni, LilyPichu, Kyle McCarley, Julie Nathanson, Zeno Robinson, Stephanie Sheh, Michael Sinterniklaas, Rachel Slotky and Laura Stahl.

Hosoda’s’s...

Park City. Jim Strouse's "People, Places, Things" plays like an 86 minute pilot for an HBO comedy series and even in this age of "TV and Movies Have Achieved Parity," I doubt that's what anybody wants to hear. But if you know me, you know I mean it largely as a compliment.  And what does that mean? Well, not too much happens in "People, Places, Things." It's a low-incident narrative that's supposed to be about emotional truth mixed with humor, but a lot of the comedic beats are being played rather broadly.  It feels as if the basic plot elements and, particularly, characters are in place at the end of the film for an ongoing storyline that might be amusing. Give me this cast and some of these characters on a weekly basis for 10 or 13 half-hour episodes per season and I could grow to really like them. And speaking of growth,...

Brad Fraser's provocative play, Love And Human Remains, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Love And Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actorcurrent waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and Sm prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer.Love And Human Remains stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes,...

Brad Fraser's provocative play, Love And Human Remains, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Love And Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actorcurrent waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and Sm prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer.Love And Human Remains stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes,...

Brad Fraser's provocative play, Love And Human Remains, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Love And Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actorcurrent waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and Sm prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer.Love And Human Remains stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes,...

Brad Fraser's provocative play, Love And Human Remains, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Love And Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actorcurrent waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and Sm prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer.Love And Human Remains stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes,...

Brad Fraser's provocative play, Love And Human Remains, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Love And Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actorcurrent waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and Sm prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer.Love And Human Remains stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes,...

Brad Fraser's provocative play, Love And Human Remains, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Love And Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actorcurrent waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and Sm prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer.Love And Human Remains stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes,...