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One of my foundational anime OVA's is getting an HD remaster from the original film. Updated subtitle translation, resynced dub, the whole 9 yards


If you have an interest in old-school OVAs, check it out
 
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TheMysteriousGX said:
One of my foundational anime OVA's is getting an HD remaster from the original film. Updated subtitle translation, resynced dub, the whole 9 yards


If you have an interest in old-school OVAs, check it out
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I know this anime. Bennett reviewed this back in the mid 2010s. He didn't like it, but I thought the movie was fine. Then again, I've never watched the live action movies beforehand, so I know there was information I was missing. They might want to release the live-action movies along with that. But hey, I'm happy for you.
 
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Something going on in Rock world.

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Explainer: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and the $3B Kidnapping Lawsuit

The list of defendants named in the court document was 23 pages long.
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Info is light at mo, so humans are doing what they always do: patiently awaiting further data before making any wild cla...ahahahahahah, sorry - nah they're making shit up to fill in the blanks as usual, lol.

In April 2023, claims began to spread online that actor and former wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had been named as a defendant in a $3 billion kidnapping lawsuit.

The most prominent post we found about the claims on social media appeared on TikTok on April 24, 2023. It went viral on the platform, with the video receiving over 675,000 views at the time of publication. The person in the video claimed:

(Can't figure out tiktok links on phone, and ain't worth watching anyways)

We also found posts about the lawsuit that mentioned Johnson on Reddit and Twitter. In addition, a post on a Facebook fan page for Johnson was posted the day before the viral TikTok video. The Facebook post had over 3,900 reactions at the time of this writing.

It is true that Johnson was named in the lawsuit. We reached out to his manager for comment and will update this fact check if we hear back.

Using the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service, we found the lawsuit was first filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, on Oct. 8, 2022. That court presides over federal cases in the counties of New York, Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. (We have included the full court document at the bottom of this fact check.)

At the time of this writing, the date of last filing in the case docket was March 1, 2023, when the order that granted In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status was mailed to the plaintiff's address. (A docket is a document that lists all papers filed and actions taken in a legal case. The Latin phrase stands for "in the form of a pauper" and is generally granted when applicants show they do not have the resources to pay the filing fee, according to the District Court's website.)

The proceedings calendar for the court during the week of May 1, 2023, did not include the case. When we reached out to the court for comment about any further legal actions, the help desk referred us to the case's docket.

In the document, the plaintiff asked for relief in the amount of $3 billion. Johnson was one of hundreds of defendants listed in the lawsuit. In total, the list of defendants spanned 23 pages — including celebrities such as Eminem, Naomi Campbell, and Michael Jordan, as well as companies like Verizon, Bank of America, and Universal Studios, and law-enforcement agencies like the FBI, Dona Ana County New Mexico Sheriff, and Las Cruces Police Department in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The plaintiffs in the court case were listed as a former professional wrestler and her two minor children. The woman previously wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion company known as Impact Wrestling at the time of publication. The court documents stated that the plaintiffs were representing themselves pro se, meaning they were legally representing themselves. We reached out to an Instagram account that appeared to belong to the woman for further comment.

In a timeline included in the court document, the woman claimed that her ex-husband stalked her and her two children across state lines when he was on active probation for family violence against her. The timeline stated that her ex-husband had the assistance of law enforcement in stalking her, ultimately abducting her and her two children from a New York domestic violence shelter. The timeline also stated that her children had remained kidnapped since 2019.

Johnson was not named in the timeline. A statement of facts at the beginning of the lawsuit didn't directly name Johnson, but did claim that the defendants named in the lawsuit collectively conspired to kidnap her and her children. According to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, conspiracy is "an agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, along with an intent to achieve the agreement's goal." In order to prove conspiracy in most U.S. jurisdictions, an overt act, or an action that shows someone has committed a crime, is also required.

Claims Made About Johnson Related to the Lawsuit
The TikTok referenced above also included footage that claimed Johnson had appeared on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) as himself saying he had created a "child molesting robot." The TikTok also claimed Johnson had said that he "ate children" in an interview. Another TiKTok also linked to the SNL sketch and the lawsuit.

It is true that Johnson appeared in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch titled "World's Most Evil Invention" that aired on May 20, 2017. In the sketch, he played a mad scientist named Roy who created a child-molesting robot. The other claim (that Johnson said he ate children) came from an interview Johnson did to promote his movie "Skyscraper" with the movie's director Rawson Marshall Thurber, Indonesian entertainer Deddy Corbuzier, and his son in 2018. The Jakarta News reported that Corbuzier asked about what Johnson's secret was after noting his body looked very large. (We translated the article, which was originally in Indonesian, using Google Translate.)

Disney blog Inside the Magic also wrote about the lawsuit, publishing a post titled, "Dwayne Johnson Axed From Disney Franchise Amid $3 Billion Lawsuit," linking the lawsuit to the claim that Johnson would not be joining the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.

However, there is no evidence that Johnson had ever joined the franchise in the first place, or that the lawsuit had anything to do with his potential participation, or lack thereof. Reputable publications would have reported that news if it had happened, as they did in April 2023 when he announced he would be heavily involved in the "Moana" live-action remake as a producer, as well as reprising his role as Maui from the original film. Also, Inside the Magic's own blog post noted that neither Johnson nor Disney confirmed he was involved in the reboot of the franchise.

You can read the full court filing here:

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23 pages of extremely wealthy, famous, connected individuals and companies including the police as defendants sounds like a Sisyphusian task to win in court though, holy squiffballs!
 
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www.escapistmagazine.com

New Oppenheimer Trailer Offers a Drastically Different Look

The new Oppenheimer trailer offers a drastically different look at the Christopher Nolan atomic book movie, in that it looks... normal?
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It is hard to imagine that there is anyone out there that needs more hyping up about Oppenheimer, the next Christopher Nolan film. The movie is not only from one of the greatest directors working but has an insane cast and is based on one of the best books about the atomic bomb ever written. However, just in case you aren’t excited for it, here is a new Oppenheimer trailer that gives our best look at the actual story of the film and, honestly, makes the movie seem a bit more normal.



This is the first trailer that really shows off the plot of the movie versus our previous looks, which have been a bit more about the themes and art of the film. In it we see Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer building the secret project that would eventually lead to the invention of the atomic bomb and the end of World War II. The Oppenheimer trailer shows him and Lieutenant General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) recruiting scientists to join them in the makeshift town that was built in the desert in order for America’s best scientists to make nuclear bombs. It, again, makes the film seem like a far more straightforward story than we usually expect from Nolan, but that’s most likely very deceiving.




Of course, the movie’s cast is beyond stellar. Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh Jack Quaid, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Dane DeHaan, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Kenneth Branagh, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano, and Alden Ehrenreich all join Murphy and Damon. You’ll be able to see their faces in excruciating detail as Nolan has once again filmed on IMAX film, and the movie will be released in a plethora of formats, including 70mm. Of course, you’ll need to live near an IMAX theater with a 70mm projector that receives the film to see it in that glorious format, but if you do it should be nothing short of stunning. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, so we can’t know where those screens will be, but keep your fingers crossed that one is within driving distance.

Oppenheimer will release on July 21, 2023.
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gizmodo.com

Beetlejuice 2, Starring Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega, Gets a Release Date

The long-awaited, long-gestating sequel will premiere in theaters just ahead of spooky season in 2024.
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Wow, release date... and yet the article says they haven't even selected a director yet. My money would be on delayed once (back to January hoping no one will notice it release season) then delaying again even more quietly with no clear release date... then quietly executing it behind the workshed. Slightly better than even odds this will never see the light of day. Or if it gets finished, it will be because some streaming service picks it up and makes it on the cheap for a straight to streaming release. With at least one of the article's title actors abandoning it (probably Ortega.)
 
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Wow, release date... and yet the article says they haven't even selected a director yet. My money would be on delayed once (back to January hoping no one will notice it release season) then delaying again even more quietly with no clear release date... then quietly executing it behind the workshed. Slightly better than even odds this will never see the light of day. Or if it gets finished, it will be because some streaming service picks it up and makes it on the cheap for a straight to streaming release. With at least one of the article's title actors abandoning it (probably Ortega.)
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I'd not bet against you on that.
 
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