Here he comes, here comes “Speed Racer,” back on the smallscreen. Lionsgate will announce today plans for its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s toon “Speed Racer.” Nickelodeon’s ...

Lionsgate has announced its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s animated “Speed Racer.” Variety says Nickelodeon’s 24-hour cartoon channel, Nicktoons, is on board to run the initial 26 ...

Animation Collective produced the series, while the Flash character animation was handled by the now-defunct Collideascope Studios as their very last project. The last episode of Season 1 features the ...

Fifteen years ago, Lana and Lilly Wachowski were waiting to see how the world would react to Speed Racer (2008), their joyfully demented adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida’s anime series that ultimately ...

Anime is fairly ubiquitous in North America these days; Netflix is even commissioning original animation from Japan and Korea, and even though there still tends to be a bit of a stigma surrounding ...

Peter Fernandez, 83, who helped introduce the United States to Japanese animation in the 1960s by adapting the series "Speed Racer" for American audiences, died July 15 of cancer at his home in Pomona ...

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Speed Racer is the big screen adaptation of the classic anime series of the same name from the 1960's, which signaled western audiences first taste of eastern animation. The film would live or die by ...

It's been nearly 20 years since Speed Racerfailed to take off at the box office, and its lead star has an idea as to why it didn't. The 2008 film served as a live-action adaptation of the Tatsunoko ...

Here he comes, here comes “Speed Racer,” back on the smallscreen. Lionsgate will announce today plans for its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s toon “Speed Racer.” Nickelodeon’s ...