Films

hile their screenings of Parasyte: Part 1 last weekend was supposed to be only a one day special event, Madman Entertainment have confirmed there will be a second chance for those in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to see it in cinemas. The locations and times for each capital city's screenings, spread across Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend, can be found below:

Australian anime and film publisher Madman Entertainment have confirmed they now hold the rights to the live-action feature film adaptation of Attack on Titan. Although there will likely be a home video release in the future, Madman have announced plans to hold screenings in select cinemas across Australia sometime in 2015. Further plans will be announced in the near future.

Following their work on both seasons of Love Live! School Idol Project so far, Nippon Ichi Software America have confirmed that they will be making this series their third English dub project. Although no release dates have been confirmed, this means that in the near future, both first and season seasons of Love Live! will be released with dual audio (English and Japanese dub tracks). Surprisingly, the English dubbed version of Love Live! season one will only be available as a standard edition, without any of the Premium Edition goodies that the Japanese dubbed set received last year. Specific plans for season two, in addition to a release date for both, will be announced at a later date. Those looking to nab themselves the Premium Edition goodies however will be able to purchase a limited reprint of the Japanese dub only set in July 2015.

Although limited in specifics, Australian anime publisher Madman Entertainment confirmed they will be bringing Mamoru Hosoda's latest feature film, The Boy and the Beast, to cinemas in Australia at some time in the future. This follows their DVD and Blu-ray releases of earlier Mamoru Hosoda works including Wolf Children, Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

While there is no denying from me that The Arts Centre Gold Coast is a lovely venue to host the annual Gold Coast Film Festival, I was a little bit sceptical about the decision to choose that location compared to the usual shopping centre option of previous years (Eg. Pacific Fair / Australia Fair). However, while they may not have had the sheer traffic of people to promote the festival to this year, this did not correlate to a decline in patronage. In fact, the opposite is true. This year the Gold Coast Film Festival had two main venues: The Arts Centre Gold Coast where many main screenings were held, and the Birch Carroll and Coyle Cinemas in Coolangatta which had a few unique screenings of its own alongside several simultaneous and repeat screenings. With 75 films on offer, multiple lectures from experts in the film industry and multiple other free/paid events on offer; there was clearly something to suit almost every taste.

While there were many films screened during this year's Gold Coast Film Festival, arguably one of the most important would be the ending night film. Out of so many they would have had to choose from, the festival team decided to settle with Ex Machina. With an almost full theatre to impress, it fell to this film to end the fantastic festival on a positive note - a challenge it succeeded in achieving. In my opinion, the film lacked a bit of the mass market appeal which could draw large crowds to see it. But like many of the niche appeal of many other films at the festival, I do not consider this to be a barrier. Instead, what it did provide in its almost two-hour runtime was an intellectual and thought-provoking storyline, complemented with some out of the box ideas which I personally found intriguing.

In a special announcement made a couple of hours ago, Madman Entertainment confirmed they will be bringing Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' to Australian cinemas in late Winter 2015. While they have yet to confirm how many cinemas will be covered by this screening event, it has been confirmed that two language options will be available - English dubbing and Japanese dubbing with English subtitles.

It seems like only yesterday when the Gold Coast Film Festival 2015 was kicked off at The Arts Centre Gold Coast, starting with its opening night film of Clouds of Sils Maria. But with nine days of the annual festival having now come to an end, only tomorrow (and a handful of films) remains. Those looking to take advantage of their final day to enjoy some genuinely tantalizing films will have the following to choose from:

North American anime publisher Sentai Filmworks have today confirmed they now hold rights to the anime Vampire Hunter D. The first in a series of films adapted from the light novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi between 1983 and the present day, Vampire Hunter D depicts a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland where pain and suffering run rampant, where vampires and their prey roam the earth. Toyoo Ashida (Fist of the North Star) served as the series' director, with a screenplay by Yasushi Hirano, character designs by Yoshitaka Amano, music from Tetsuya Komura and animation production by Ashi Productions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTxlKvQFU8 I can still remember back to when I was a child, and the very first Pokemon movie drew in crowds which could completely fill cinemas - whether it was due to the film itself of the free limited edition...