AD Vision News from Megacon

AD Vision marketing director Ken Wiatrik hosted the AD Vision panel yesterday at Orlando, Florida’s MegaCon convention. The panel consisted of a screening of the 1:45 long Lady Death animated movie trailer and a question & answer session with Mr.Wiatrik and Lady Death creator Brian Pulido.

The Lady Death animated movie is being digitally animated by a Korean studio. The film is intentionally not being produced in “anime style” in order to appeal to a broader, mainstream audience than just anime fans. The film will run between 72-78 minutes and be released straight to home video later this year. The voice cast has not been chosen yet, but will include AD Vision regular voice actors and outside talent.

Lady Death creator Brian Pulido was very vocal in his dissatisfaction over apparently being excluded from involvement in the production, although he is credited as an executive producer on the movie. According to Mr. Pulido, AD Vision executives are seemingly unwilling to speak with him.

Creator David Webber is heavily involved in ADV Pro’s animated adaptation of Mutineer’s Moon. Mutineer’s Moon will also be animated in Korea, but not by the same studio that’s working on Lady Death.

Aura Battler Dunbine has just gone into production. At the urging of Lady Death screenwriter and Robotech consultant Carl Macek, Dunbine will be dubbed. ADV Films believes in the quality of the 1983 series enough to have the 49 episode TV series released on individual, bilingual DVDs and not as a subtitled only collected set.

The recent AD Vision trend of releasing full series in bargain priced DVD collections after the release of the individual DVD volumes will not become a standard policy in the future. Some of the collected sets have not sold well, resulting in ADV Films losing a lot of money in the form of excess inventory. In the future the viability of DVD collections of previously released series will be evaluated on a case by case basis.