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INTERVIEW: Mmm Mmm Good Storytelling in Ken Niimura’s UMAMI

03/23/2018 11:00 am by Davey Nieves Leave a Comment

INTERVIEW: Mmm Mmm Good Storytelling in Ken Niimura’s UMAMI

The latest comics tale to make it to the big screen is Ken Niimura and Joe Kelly’s I Kill Giants. Currently sitting at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, the 2009 comic book about a young girl escaping the problems of real life in a fantasy world where she fights evil giants has a chance to put […]

Filed Under: Comics, Interviews Tagged With: I Kill Giants, Ken Niimura, panel syndicate, Umami

RLJE unveils official poster for I KILL GIANTS

02/12/2018 5:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

RLJE unveils official poster for I KILL GIANTS

I KILL GIANTS opens on March 23, an increasingly common non-superhero comics based movie take from  the Joe Kelly/Ken Niimura comic about a young girl’s fantasy world escape from real life troubles. Directed by Anders Walter, with a story by Kelly, it stars Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Madison Wolfe and Sydney Wade. The official poster was just […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: I Kill Giants, Image Comics, Joe Kelly, Ken Niimura, RLJE

I KILL GIANTS Trailer Released

01/24/2018 6:18 pm by Taimur Dar

I KILL GIANTS Trailer Released

Based on the acclaimed comic series by writer Joe Kelly & artist J. M. Ken Niimura, the first trailer for the much anticipated I Kill Giants film adaptation has now been released. Check it out!   Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe), a teenage girl who chooses to escape the realities of […]

Filed Under: Image, Movies, News Tagged With: ANDERS WALTER, I Kill Giants, imogen poots, Joe Kelly, Ken Niimura, madison wolfe, rlje films, SYDNEY WADE, zoe saldana

I Kill Giants film gets US distribution

12/05/2017 4:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

I Kill Giants film gets US distribution

There are so many comic book media projects in the works that sometimes, it’s easy to forget one, especially when it isn’t a superhero project. Thus you may have forgotten that a film based on Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura’s  has actually been filmed with real stars – Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Madison Wolfe – […]

Filed Under: Image, Top News Tagged With: anders walters, I Kill Giants, imogen poots, Joe Kelly, keen niimura, madison wolfe, Movies, rlje films, zoe saldana

‘Henshin’ – A Series of Transformative Shorts from Niimura Coming in January

12/04/2014 5:00 pm by Zachary Clemente

‘Henshin’ – A Series of Transformative Shorts from Niimura Coming in January

by Zachary Clemente CHANGE IS THE CONSTANT IN KEN NIIMURA’S HENSHIN – A short story collection exploring life in modern Tokyo. I feel like everybody has days that are just so important to them that can always be recalled; the feelings and emotions crashing back through as strong as ever. For me, one of these days […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Image, Top News Tagged With: I Kill Giants, Ken Niimura

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