Friday October 22, 2010 at 12:04 pm by Rojas
UPDATE: FUNimation Industry Panel is now available on FUNimation.com/video. While I work on getting the Becca video fixed, you can watch this video in the meantime. This is the first panel with both Josh and me on it, so remember it as a historical event. Special thanks to all you guys who attended and stayed for the Q&A. Where you there? |
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As promised, here are the full length videos from NYAF / NYCC, except for the full industry panel which will be going up next week. Watch them on FUNimation.com/video. We've got the Black Butler Panel featuring J. Michael Tatum and Ian Sinclair, interview with Michael Sinterniklaas on Summer Wars, and the Sengoku Basara Panel featuring Christopher Bevins, Taliesin Jaffe, and Michael Sinterniklaas. Are there any additional questions you had on the covered topics that weren't answered in the videos? Ask them here and maybe I can get you an answer. 
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Thanks for answering my questions: well, the first one was just about continuity of cast members:
We know you can't talk about casting the new roles in Eva 2.22 (Asuka, Kaji, Mari), but continuity with all of the people cast in the last movie would be really crucial; we're worried because the license for each movie has to be handled individually, so *no one* signed a contract absolutely guaranteeing they'd be in all the movies. We were particularly worried about Caitling Glass because 1 - she utterly nailed the role (we gave her an A+ in our official review) 2 - she lives in Europe now so we didn't know if she'd be available. Good to get confirmation on that.
*****I'm really sorry I started stumbling trying to express the concept behind my second question: NTV making you guys run the Eva movies in theaters.
We appreciate the theatrical runs, but realize NTV really doesn't grasp that while Rebuild of Eva was the #1 movie in Japan, that can never justify *giving it a release bigger than a Miyazaki film*....that's silly. Not just screenings but really wide-scale stuff. Anime just isn't that big in America, even in the boom years.
***Well the concept I was trying to get out but it was hard to say all at once, was that due to certain arcane rules in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences....*Eva 1.11 was inelligible for a Best Animation Oscar*
Not that I think it would win, but hey Spirited Away walked away with the award.
This is what I was talking about: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-10-15/evangelion-1.0-ineligibl...
You see, its something about that if a really long gap occurs between when a movie is released in Japan and when it is screened in the United States, it is ineligible. For example, Eva 1.0 came out in Japan in September 2007, but for some reason the cutoff date for the Oscars is January 1st of a given year.
So except for simultaneous releases, i.e. Miyazaki films, it usually impossible for most anime films to be eligible.
I think the problem was that if it *never gets screened in the US at all*, it may technically be eligible, but airing it *very late* breaks the rules; such as when NTV made the theatrical run happen.
Anyways, lets be honest I don't think Rebuild of Eva 2 was walking away with a nomination......but this REALLY affects "Summer Wars", which actually stood a small chance of picking up a nomination because its more mainstream.
You need to get your people to haggle with the Oscar folks about how animated foreign films should probably get a longer lag time on that kind of thing, otherwise its utterly biased towards Miyazaki, i.e. the Ponyo release. Oh who are we kidding, half of the academy is in the Mouse's pocket, and the rodent is sitting on the Miyazaki licenses.
***I was pleasantly surprised that when it was asked, "how is Evangelion pronounced" you guys turned to *me* randomly sitting in the audience, as opposed to either Mike McFarland or self-proclaimed "Eva expert" Taliesin Jaffe, also sitting in the audience.
For the record, its actually pronounced "Ay-vangelion". Ay as in day. I have no idea why you guys say "EE-vangelion".
I mean, I even went to the trouble of making a PSA video with Lord of the Rings official staff linguist David Salo on "How to Pronounce Evangelion Correctly":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y26vsWhxhqg
Michael Sinterniklaas will enjoy it with an audience. The first time I saw Summer Wars was at the Asian Film Fest, and I took three of my friends, one of which has always ragged on me for taking him to go see Beowulf, cause he hated it. After Summer Wars, he turned to me and said "This makes up for Beowulf and more". The audience was so into it, it was amazing.
Awesome, thanks! Black Butler rocks!
When are ya'll posting the first two eps? ;o;
Also, DVDs come out Jan 11, 2011.
Are we going to get the black butler dun anytime soon? Because I didn't see it listed anywhere. D=
Hopefully it'll be soon because I so badly want to see it.
How about fall simulcasts? Are you waiting for your new site to launch or are you just not getting any?
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