I hope you aren't already sick of live-action anime adaptations, as Crunchyroll and Sony are certainly thinking hard about making more of them

It’s sounding like more live-action anime projects are likely on the way, as Crunchyroll and Sony are interested in developing some.The superhero well isn’t exactly dry, as there’s a whole ocean of IP to adapt from, but for Marvel, apart from its big success with Deadpool & Wolverine, the MCU has been waning in popularity since the release of Avengers: Endgame. That could be part of a broader superhero fatigue, James Gunn’s new DCU will be the real test of that, but Hollywood quickly moved on to video game adaptations, with movies like the Sonic the Hedgehog pair of films and the Super Mario Bros. Movie all doing very well, and shows like The Last of Us and Fallout proving very popular. But there’s another IP mine that Hollywood is clearly interested in tapping: anime.To see this conte…

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Colin Farrell's look in The Penguin comes from a surprising, cartoonish source of inspiration

Matt Reeves’ Batman universe is far from a silly one, but apparently one source of inspiration for The Penguin’s look is on the sillier side.Colin Farrell, if you didn’t know, doesn’t typically look how he does in The Penguin. No, it’s done by this thing called special effects make-up, as impossible as it might be to believe, obviously transforming the actor in such a way where you probably wouldn’t know it’s him unless you were told. Obviously his design has a bit of a mafia vibe about it, but as it turns out, that wasn’t necessarily the first port of call when it came to hunting for sources of inspiration for his look. In a recent interview with DiscussingFilm, The Penguin make-up designer Michael Marino shared that Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, of all things, is where some of …

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