Worst nightmare has come true it seems ( Read more... )

While substantial news about the live action Akira adaptation has petered out since the last Racebending article covering it,Variety Magazine  has recently reported that not only is project Akira (helmed by director Jaume Collet-Serra) a go, but that Tron:Lecacy leading man Garrett Hedlund is being considered for the titular role.


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I was pleasantly surprised to find this story on Yahoo!. Rising actor Mason Lee of The Hangover Part II, and son of Ang Lee, was featured on the homepage of Yahoo!.( Read more )

Hey everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster. If you know me, y'know that I'm a student studying English and that I'm going to take up writing fantasy/children's lit as my career. So! I graduate this spring, and the extra time means I'll finally be working on first fantasy novel. However, I need your help ( Read more... )

Thanks to new reviews brought in from the UK, "The Last Airbender" has dropped back down to 7% off Rotten Tomatoes.

As well, at last check off Box Office Mojo, the film's worldwide box office gross stands at ~$224,085,643.  Disappointingly high, but luckily still below the $280 million mark it would require to make back it's production and marketing ( Read more... )

Ugo.com has posted an interview with the A:TLA track team. Amongst a lot of stuff about the awesome music that we know and love is this quote by Benjamin Wynn about starting up at the beginning of the series:

"We went out to lunch and started talking about the show, how the story takes place in an alternate world and the characters. Everyone is ( Read more... )

What did you guys think of the live-action version of “The Last Airbender”?

Konietzko: We’re just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.

So you didn’t follow the casting controversy about the movie version of “The Last Airbender”?Konietzko: We ( Read more... )

The Screen Actor's Guild released statistics today confirming waht we already know: "Minorities, seniors and female actors have achieved few gains in recent years in the number of film and TV roles they receive."

The breakdown of film and TV roles for 2008 was:

72.5% Caucasian ( Read more... )

*pokes head in*

Also, the definition of "racebending" was approved and is now a part of urban dictionary.com Members of the chat on Friday worked on this and also discussed a slew of other topics related to the protest. Feel free to give it a thumbs up!

This week's Newsweek magazine has a new feature article, "See Baby Discriminate" that talks about researchers' efforts to study children and their perceptions in race. It's a worthy read since both the Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series and The Last Airbender film are targeted towards families and children. One researcher even studied if ( Read more... )