FUNimation and Bigger Pictures Team to Pipe Anime Directly to Theaters

--by Stephen Schleicher

FUNimation has announced a distribution deal with Bigger Picture to digitally distribute Japanese films to the US market.

FUNimation will release the Yoji Yamada period drama “Love and Honor,” the SF toon “Vexille,” the kiddy toon “One Piece” and the period epic “The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea” using the digital delivery technology developed by AccessIT to securely send the pics to theaters across the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHFxtM-Q2vw

Trailer for Vexille

Bigger Pictures is known for beaming anime to teen and college groups and according to Variety, has distributed more than 40 pics theatrically.

via Variety

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One Response to “FUNimation and Bigger Pictures Team to Pipe Anime Directly to Theaters”

Rob Says:
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:18 am
Sweet! Now we can watch crappily animated cartoons that make no sense and caue children to go into convulsions here in America too!