Akira Re-Release Confirmed

Variety Magazine has confirmed that Pioneer Entertainment will spend $1 million to re-translate and remaster Akira for a theatrical and home video re-release. Pioneer is preparing the “violent and gory science-fiction film,” as Variety refers to it, by commissioning a totally new Dolby Digital AC3 audio track and a totally new English dub based on a new translation of the original Japanese script. The film will premier to theaters this spring, then be released on VHS and DVD this fall.