- June 9th, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
 The English dub of Evangelion 1.0 will be screening at Seattle’s Grand Illusion Cinema from July 3rd to the 9th. The screening will be at 7pm and 9pm, with extra playtimes at 3pm and 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Admission starts at $8 with discounts for students ($7), seniors ($6) and members ($5). There’s no word on which version of the film will be screened, but according to the running time published on the Grand Illusion Cinema’s website (98 minutes), it could be assumed we’re getting the original theatrical version 1.0.
The Grand Illusion Cinema, located on 1403 NE 50th St. in Seattle, Washington, can be contacted at [email protected] or 206-523-3935.
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- June 3rd, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
Evangelion 1.0, You are (not) alone, will screen at the West Oaks Alamo Drafthouse in Houston on Thursday, July 16th, at 7:30PM. Tickets will be $7 and the audio will be the English dub by Funimation. This will be a good chance for people to see the movie in theatres as well as getting to hear what the English dub will be like. So far, there’s no news on whether this will be a projection of the DVD or an actual film.
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- May 26th, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
The BluRay release of 1.11 was today (in Japan) and already we’re flooded with screenshots and online reviews of the new product. For the most part, the screenshots make it look good. The brightness issues with the 1.01 DVD release looks to have been alleviated and the resolution is clean and crisp (thanks to CtHuLhU for finding these screenshots):
Devastated landscape of Tokyo-3
Equipment before Operation Yashima
More prior to Operation Yashima
Some links and reviews (in Japanese):
- Akihabara News, including pictures of the packaging.
- ASCII.jp, some more pictures of the packaging.
- AV Watch review, includes a breakdown of the SBMV Technology.
- Intermezzo does a visual comparison of the 1.01 DVD vs the 1.11 BD. The difference is literally night and day.
- Eva Emergency News has a 1.01 DVD vs 1.11 DVD comparison, although he mentions that his PowerDVD player artificially made everything brighter.
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- May 26th, 2009
- Posted by: SailorStarDust
 Kotaku.com mentions that the Blu-Ray release of Evangelion 1.11 includes an advertisement for a new Evangelion game, coming to the PS3. The developer is stated to be Bandai-Namco as well as Cellius Inc. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
EDIT: According to member Lleonard Pler’s findings on the Vandel.net forums, this release titled The Misato Katsuragi News Project isn’t a game at all, but a monthly News Reader (of course, there’s a fee) featuring Misato. The service will be available June 6th from the Playstation store.
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- May 23rd, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
Funimation announced its English cast for the Evangelion 1.0 movie Region 1 release at this weekend’s Anime Boston — Booth #511:
- ADR Director/Hyuga: Mike McFarland
- Toji: Justin Cook
- Kensuke : Greg Ayres
- Hikari: Leah Clarke
- Aoba: Phil Parsons
- Maya: Caitlin Glass
- Ritsuko: Coleen Clinkenbeard
- Fuyutsuki: Kent Williams
- PenPen: Monica Rial
- Kaworu: Jerry Jewel
- Rei: Breena Palencia
- Gendo: John Swasey
- Misato: Allison Keith
- Shinji: Spike Spencer
There are the familiar names of Allison Keith as Misato and Spike Spencer as Shinji, but most of these names are new to Evangelion.
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- May 23rd, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
 NTT Docomo is releasing a phone based on the mobile phones used in the new Evangelion movies. This phone is dubbed SH-06A Nerv, is manufactured by SHARP, comes in 5 colors, and will cost you a handsome 73000円. When folded, the phone is about 111mm long, 50mm wide, and 16.0mm thick; about what you’d expect from 3G Japanese mobile phones. It sports a Mobile ASV VGA display, an external camera, and SD card support for more memory. The phones have an expected release date on June 5th of this year and 3 million units are announced.
 
(Thanks to CtHuLhU and Evangelion Not End for those scans)
Update 6/8/2009: Apparently, all the phones have sold out in 5 hours.
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- May 18th, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
 A trailer for the May 27th release of Evangelion 1.11 – You are (not) alone appeared on the internet. It’s been put up on youtube and I’ve stored a local copy of it here (WMV, uncropped). The trailer is about 30 seconds long and it doesn’t appear to show all that much of the new footage that’s going to be in the 1.11 release. Some of the obvious ones are:
Thanks to RVR and geofront.ru.
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- May 16th, 2009
- Posted by: Reichu
  Well, she supplied the version of “Fly Me To the Moon (In Other Words)” we’ve heard in trailers for both movies so far, and the theme song for 1.0, “Beautiful World”. And now, according to the free promotional newsletter EVA EXTRA 02 that began distribution today, Utada is on 2.0’s staff for “Theme Song”. The name of the song hasn’t been announced yet, though.
The EVA EXTRA issues seem to be each taking their cover from whatever trailer debuted earlier that month. (Lazy as we are, we didn’t cover the first issue in a news blurb, so here’s the cover of that.) According to the official movie site, we still have one issue to go, to be released in the second half of June. Odds are, its cover will come from a third trailer that will help supply a final burst of hype for the film. And, it seems like there’s a pretty good chance that the new song will make its debut there.
Check out the Eva Emergency Blog link for some sketches in EVA EXTRA 2 by assistant director Kazuya Tsurumaki. (The first volume featured Asuka, so the blogger rather reasonably speculates that we’ll get Mari in the third.) By the way: Anybody with a copy of these EVA EXTRA things, post some high-res scans somewhere. Please?
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- May 8th, 2009
- Posted by: Ornette
 It didn’t take long for the crappy cellphone rip of the 2nd Evangelion 2.0 trailer to hit the internet, but surprisingly, Khara put the 2nd trailer on the Bandai Channel post haste. As usual, only Japanese IP’s can hit those Bandai Channel links, but again, some asx tricks and you get the MMS link which doesn’t have any region restrictions. For those who fail to get MMS to work (come on, this is 2009), you can grab a cropped, xvid/mp3 version of it here.
Lots of new juicy bits of 2.0 sneak peaks in this trailer, too.
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- May 8th, 2009
- Posted by: ZapX
It seems ADV Films and Anime Network, its digital media affiliate, have been adding various anime titles to Xbox Live. Today, ADV made the 26 TV episodes of Evangelion available on Xbox Live Marketplace. The episodes are 160 points. Looks like only the English dub is available, so sorry, sub people. Anyway, if you want to have Eva on your Xbox and prefer the dub, here’s your chance.
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