by kpa » Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:24 pm
Last summer Tatsunoko Production and Sentai Filmworks signed a licensing deal for several of Tatsunoko's anime titles, including GATCHAMAN and the original CASSHAN. That's how Sentai Filmworks is able to release those shows on DVD and Blu-ray.
The live-action movie is a separate matter; the international rights are being offered by NTV. Sentai Filmworks could conceivably be interested since they already have the anime, but -- as far as I know -- they (or their other Section23 affiliates) haven't acquired anything from NTV before. Several of NTV's films (including GANTZ, 20TH CENTURY BOYS, Rebirth of Evangelion, K-20, KAIJI and DEATH NOTE) were licensed by VIZ Media or FUNimation for North America and by Madman for Australia/New Zealand. If/when the GATCHAMAN movie gets picked up I expect it will be by one of those three distributors.
Keith