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TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - After slipping on a mask for Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire might be slipping into a giant robot for "Robotech."
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After a lengthy negotiation, Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up feature rights to "Robotech," a 1980s Japanese cartoon series with giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is eyeing the lead role, and will serve as a producer.
BobBQ wrote:Robotech doesn't count as anime.
BobBQ wrote:Damn and blast Carl Macek!
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Around the time that Sailor Stars was being made, DiC entertainment and Saban were battling for the rights to Sailor Moon. DiC wanted to make the anime a "cartoon" for little girls to watch on Saturday morning, this was bad, but at least it was better than what a company called Toonmakers wanted to do. Toonmakers wanted to make it half live action/half animation (original animation, not the Japanese animation). They wanted to redo Sailor Moon in the same way "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" was done. Luckily for us though (Lucky!?!?), DiC was the one who got the rights. DiC took the show and then completely changed it around to make it "cartoony". Characters were changed (one was even changed gender) and plot elements were erased. In total, 65 episodes were dubbed with 7 episodes being cut by DiC, some of which for reasons unknown. When Sailor Moon was syndicated, it did very poorly. After the 65 episode package was done, DiC basically gave up on the show. The USA network, followed later by the Cartoon Network, bought the episodes to air on their station, and when they started airing the show, the ratings went through the roof, especially when Cartoon Network started showing the show. Cartoon Network viewers LOVED Sailor Moon. This convinced DiC to produce 120 more episodes for the anime, but since fans and advertisers were upset at their last move of leaving the series off at a cliff hanger point, they decided to cut it down to 17 episodes, which would bring the series to the end of "R". After this, DiC did SOMETHING (we're not sure what) that made them in breech of their contract to hold the rights to Sailor Moon. Since there was a high demand for more episodes, Toei's representatives in the United States, Cloverway, picked up where DiC had left off. Cloverway got permission to dub the "S" and "SuperS" seasons of Sailor Moon. While these episodes were a step up from the DiC dubbed episodes, using the original music and staying closer to the original story, these episodes were a let down for fans hoping that Sailor Moon would stay faithful to the original.
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