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Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts

Monday, April 8, 2024

"Built to Serve..."

M A R S  EXPRESS
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker.

On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.

About the director: Jérémie Périn was born in 1978 in the north of France. He studied animation at the renowned Gobelins school, graduating in 2000. Since 2001, he has worked for various animation studios, acquiring solid experience in storyboarding, layout, compositing, and design. He moved on to directing in 2004 with TV series pilots and short films.

In 2007, he collaborated with the studio JE SUIS BIEN CONTENT as a producer and director on various series such as CO2, Nini Patalo and Socks. He also works at Autochenille Production, working on the development of The Rabbi’s Cat and Sardine in Outer Space. In 2009, he directed the opening credits of the film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and the music video “Truckers Delight” for the band Flairs. In 2016, he wrote and directed the Lastman series. Mars Express is his debut feature film.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

What if an ultimate artificial intelligence exists?

P L U T O
A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans. The robotic Europol investigator Gesicht takes the case, but the mystery deepens when he finds no trace of a human at the scene of the crime. As he pursues the truth, Gesicht uncovers the most evil manifestation of hate that history ever seen, one that is bent on bringing destruction to the world...
The Netflix series "PLUTO" starts streaming October 26, 2023

Friday, June 9, 2023

"Time to Roll Out!"

TRANSFORMERS
RISE OF THE BEASTS
Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to join them as allies in the existing battle for earth. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. and starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, the film arrives in theaters June 9, 2023.

Saturday, May 27, 2023

"This is a fight for our very existence..."

THE CREATOR
A post-apocalyptic thriller involving a future
impacted by a war between humans and AI.
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and humankind itself.
The Creator arrives in theaters September 29.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Your Robot is Stuck on Kill-Mode... Again

MURDER DR💀NES
Murder Drones is a show about cute little robots that murder each other for a diabolical reason.

Saturday, May 1, 2021

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS VOLUME 2


LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS
Returns with VOLUME 2 on May 14th
The animated series consists of stand-alone episodes, all under 17 minutes long, and produced by different casts and crews, though some episodes may share certain crew members. The series title refers to each episode's thematic connection to the three aforementioned subjects, though not every episode contains all three elements. Love Death & Robots is a blast of the future with its roots deep in the past. Show creator Tim Miller teamed up with director David Fincher after years of wanting to make adult animated features and short films at his animation house Blur Studio. When his directorial debut Deadpool hit big, they saw their opportunity and the anthology series found a natural home at Netflix.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

'EDEN' on Netflix

E  D  E  N
"Thousands of years in the future, a city known as 'Eden' is inhabited solely by Artificially Intelligent robots whose former masters vanished long ago. On a routine assignment, within the depths of the city, two maintenance robots accidentally awaken a human baby girl from stasis questioning all they were taught to believe-- that humans were nothing more than a forbidden ancient myth. Together, the two robots secretly raise the child in a safe haven outside Eden."  Premieres May 27, only on Netflix.
 
[Source: Collider] Have you ever wondered what life on Earth would be like if robots ever took over? Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood director Yasuhiro Irie sure has, as his new series Eden centers around this concept. The show was a highlight of Netflix’s panel at the virtually-held AnimeJapan 2021, where the streaming giant announced its global release date with a new trailer. This news is part of Netflix's plan to release 40 new, original anime titles in 2021 — close to double the number the streamer released last year.

The show takes place thousands of years into the future as robots replaced their human creators in the population and now settle in the titular city. It takes place so far into the future, in fact, that humans have long been considered a myth or a legend. However, two maintenance robots A37 (Kyoko Hikami) and E92 (Kentaro Ito) discover a human baby named Sara (Marika Kono) in cryosleep while on a routine assignment. With their personal and societal beliefs thrown into question, the robots decide to raise the child outside of Eden in secret. As Sara grows older, she begins to learn the sinister truth about the world she was hidden from.

The new trailer has a somewhat different tone than the one released in October of last year, as it focuses more on how the universe’s robots feel about the nearly-extinct human race. However, the dynamic art style and mysterious yet engaging plot still stand out. It looks and sounds great, so get ready to add this into your Netflix queue.

Eden is expected to be Netflix’s first entirely-original Japanese anime. While Netflix has released original anime programs such as Castlevania and Neo Yokio in the past, these were often American-Japanese co-productions. Even anime shows labeled as “Netflix Originals” were licensed from different Japanese studios. Eden, however, is a wholly-original Netflix property from Qubic Pictures and CGCG studios.

Irie directed all four episodes of the new series, while Ghost in the Shell 2 and Star Wars: The Clone WarsJustin Leach handled producing duties. The show’s script was written by Kimiko Ueno, who wrote episodes of Little Witch Academia and Space Dandy.

Eden's new trailer states that the show is slated to premiere on May 27.
Check out the date announcement trailer below. 

Thursday, September 3, 2020

A Look at the Mighty Battleship SDF-1

SUPER DIMENSION FORTRESS
M  A  C  R  O  S  S
"Robotech or Super Dimension Fortress Macross is an anime series many of you [under the leadership Barry Bend] have requested that we cover over the years. Well, I finally got around to watching the Macross Saga and studying the ship at the center of the show: the SDF-1."
- Generation Films

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Robot Carnival - A Tale of Two Robots

ROBOT CARNIVAL
A Tale of Two Robots
This comedy short is from the 1980's anthology anime Robot Carnival. "Strange Tales of Meiji Machine Culture: Westerner's Invasion" (明治からくり文明奇譚〜紅毛人襲来之巻〜, Meiji Karakuri Bunmei Kitan: Kōmōjin Shūrai no Maki, retitled "A Tale of Two Robots, Chapter 3: Foreign Invasion" for the Streamline dub) is set in the nineteenth century and features two "giant robots" directed from within by a human crew of teenage kids.
In the style of a movie serial of the sound era, a Western mad scientist in his giant robot attempts to take over Japan but is challenged by locals operating a "machine made for the parade"—a Japanese giant robot. The style of this segment is somewhat reminiscent of a Japanese World War II-era propaganda film. Despite the title of this segment, there is no known prequel or sequel. The Westerner speaks English in the original release. 

Friday, November 1, 2019

EDEN - Teaser from Netflix

NETFLIX presents EDEN
Thousands of years into the future, there are no more humans. Only robots live in the mechanical metropolis, "Eden 3". Or so they thought... 
One day, two farming robots find a young human girl in the city. The decision they make will change everything...
Eden, the first Netflix Japanese Original Anime, presented by director Yasuhiro Irie (Fullmetal Alchemist), and concept designer Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop).
Coming globally in 2020, only on Netflix! 

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Sci-Fi Short Film "Planet Unknown"


Facing global resource depletion, mankind sends out Space Rovers to find potentially inhabitable planets.
"Planet Unknown"
by Shawn Wang

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Outstanding Trailer for 'LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS'

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS
Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell - all converge in eighteen NSFW animated stories. Presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher. 
Love Death + Robots lands on Netflix March 15th. 

Saturday, September 22, 2018

NEXT GEN

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

N E X T   G E N
A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots, and a scheming madman. Now playing on Netflix.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

CHAPPIE - Movie Trailer

CHAPPIE
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings - some good, some bad - and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from anyone else: he is a robot. The first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. His life, his story, will change the way the world looks at robots and humans forever.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

English Dub trailer for anime film HAL

H A L
North American anime distributor Funimation began streaming the Hal anime film's English dub in its entirety on Friday. Funimation posted the first seven minutes in July.

The anime premiered in Japan in June 2013, and Funimation announced in July 2013 that it acquired rights to the film. The English-dubbed version premiered at Anime Expo this past July, and Funimation shipped the film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in September.

The "near-future romance" film Hal follows a girl named Kurumi (voiced by Bryn Apprill in English) whose heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. Forced to carry on without her beloved Hal, Kurumi gave up on the world, but a brilliant scientist devised a plan to win her back. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, they created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal’s place.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction Teaser Trailer

Transformers: Age of Extinction
Earth is scarred by the events of the past three movies, but is moving on after all the giant robots disappeared. Cade Yeager, an inventor, discovers a buried Transformer, which sets the stage for the return of the Autobots and Decepticons.

Monday, December 16, 2013

TITANFALL


Experience Titanfall's fast-paced, vertical combat with this Angel City cinematic multiplayer gameplay video.

Titanfall delivers fast-paced, future combat that gives you the freedom to fight your way as both elite assault pilots and fast, heavily armored Titans. The game experience combines heart-pounding, online multiplayer action combined with dramatic, cinematic moments lets you enjoy the fiction of the universe without having to leave your favorite game mode. 

Prepare for Titanfall and pre-order your copy today for Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC here: http://www.titanfall.com/buy

Available March 11th, 2014 in North America and beginning March 13th in Europe.

Saturday, January 5, 2013