Here he comes, here comes “Speed Racer,” back on the smallscreen. Lionsgate will announce today plans for its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s toon “Speed Racer.” Nickelodeon’s ...

Fifteen years ago, Lana and Lilly Wachowski were waiting to see how the world would react to Speed Racer (2008), their joyfully demented adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida’s anime series that ultimately ...

Mad Cave Studios is reimagining Speed Racerfor a whole new comic book universe. Per a press release from Mad Cave Studios and Tastunoko Production, the two creative powerhouses are joining forces to ...

Speed Racer, for those of you who didn’t start life as a midcentury modern child, was among the very first Japanese anime series. The show followed the adventures of blue-eyed, red scarf-wearing race ...

Peter Fernandez, 83, who helped introduce the United States to Japanese animation in the 1960s by adapting the series "Speed Racer" for American audiences, died July 15 of cancer at his home in Pomona ...

Ippei Kuri, artist, producer, director, co-founder, and former president of animation studio Tatsunoko Production, passed away on July 1. He was 83. Born Toyoharu Yoshida in Kyoto, Japan on January 1, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the years, Speed Racer has gotten kind of a bad rap, regarded as a flashy yet forgettable adaption that failed to live up to ...