Tokyopop founder Stuart "DJ Milky" Levy is <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-19/tokyopop-levy-plans-3d-lament-of-the-lamb-film">pushing ahead</a> with his plans to produce live action, English language movies based on a number of his company's most popular manga series.
First in line seems to be 'Love Like Blood', which is said to be based on the incestuous vampire manga '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_of_the_Lamb">Lament of the Lamb</a>', but if that is the case, Tokyopop have taken predictable liberties with the source material; essentially, the two main characters are no longer siblings. The movie, which should be around 120-minutes in length and financed with a budget of little more than $6 million, is also intended to be presented in theaters as 3-D, while the director will be <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1047683/">Takahiko Akiyama</a>, whose main claim to fame appears to be that he worked on the visual effects for 2001's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. No release date has been set, but you can read more about the movie <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/international/news/e3if4e91f7b1cbab8c2c29d3aeecd6e3b41">at The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
First in line seems to be 'Love Like Blood', which is said to be based on the incestuous vampire manga '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_of_the_Lamb">Lament of the Lamb</a>', but if that is the case, Tokyopop have taken predictable liberties with the source material; essentially, the two main characters are no longer siblings. The movie, which should be around 120-minutes in length and financed with a budget of little more than $6 million, is also intended to be presented in theaters as 3-D, while the director will be <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1047683/">Takahiko Akiyama</a>, whose main claim to fame appears to be that he worked on the visual effects for 2001's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. No release date has been set, but you can read more about the movie <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/international/news/e3if4e91f7b1cbab8c2c29d3aeecd6e3b41">at The Hollywood Reporter</a>.