Akira In Theater for One Night Only

Ahoy Captain Cats here and some good news if you are in the Beverly Hills area on December 2.

According to Newsarama, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences are hosting a screening of Katsuhiro Otomo 1988 anime film classic Akira, which is based on the manga of the same name which Otomo created himself.

The screening will be on December 2 of this year at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. The screening is part of the annual Marc Davis Celebration of Animation. After the screening, there will be a panel to talk about Akira and here is the list of people who will be talking on this panel:

Jorge Gutierrez – Director of Book of Life
Justin Thompson – Production Designer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Genndy Tartakovsky – Director of Hotel Transylvania and Primal
Randy Haycock – Animator on Moana
Peter Chung – Writer/Artist of Aeon Flux

If you are around the Beverly Hills area on said date, it is open to the general public for the price of entry is $5, if your a member of the Academy it will be $3. If you never had the chance to see Akira at all or in the theater, this is a must-see for anyone who is a fan of Japanese animation, beautiful artwork and see how the art of hand-drawn animation was pain-staking detailed that went on influence the Japanese Cyberpunk movement and scene that is still alive today.