Makoto Shinka, creator and director of the stunning VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR and THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS has just taken home the award for Best Animated Feature Film at the first annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which took place on November 13 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. 5 Centimetres per second beat out other nominees such as Keichi Hara's SUMMER DAYS WITH COO.

The awards is a joint sponsored event by CNN International, UNESCO, the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, and the State Government of Queensland, Australia. Designed to help promote and showcase film making in the Asia Pacific region, it is the hope that this award ceremony will become an annual event.

If you are interested in checking out the other nominees and winners from this year's awards, tune into CNN on November 17th.

Get yourself in store now to pick up Madman's Anime Update issue 14 for free! Featuring a brand spanking new look, with cool new features, it's the best issue yet!



Feature articles include:
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
Naruto The Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
Production I.G. Retrospective
A brand new Fan Zone section featuring cosplay interviews, fan art and more!

If your local store doesn't have anime update, ask them to get it in! Best of all, it's FREE!

MADMAN RECEIVES A LANDSLIDE OF NOMINATIONS.

MELBOURNE, Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 - The L'Oréal Paris 2007 AFI Awards nominations have been announced, and Madman has received an overwhelming amount of nods for key '07/'08 Australian film and television DVD releases.

Madman's Australian feature film DVD releases Noise (Oct), Romulus, My Father (Nov), Lucky Miles (Dec) and The Home Song Stories ('08) have received a near clean-sweep of crucial award nominations in the Feature Film category including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress. Romulus, My Father has received a nomination in every Feature Film category.

Words From the City (Dec) has received several nominations in the Non-Feature category, including: Best Documentary, Best Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Sound.

The Madman-distributed SBS titles WILFRED, The Circuit and 4 (Dec) have also received multiple nominations, including Best Television Comedy Series, Best Telefeature or Mini Series and Best Documentary Respectively

Also coming to DVD in 2008 from Planet Mad, the Channel 10 series I Got A Rocket has received a nomination for Best Children's Television Drama.

Noise, WILFRED and The Circuit are available now on DVD from Madman. Romulus, My Father is available Nov 7. Lucky Miles, Words From the City and 4 will be available from Dec 5. The Home Song Stories, and I Got A Rocket will be available early 2008.

The complete list of nominations for Madman's key '07/'08 Australian film and television DVD releases:

FEATURE FILM NOMINEES

Best Film
- The Home Song Stories - Liz Watts & Michael McMahon
- Lucky Miles - Jo Dyer & Lesley Dyer
- Noise - Trevor Blainey
- Romulus, My Father - Robert Connolly & John Maynard

Best Direction
- The Home Song Stories - Tony Ayres
- Noise - Matthew Saville
- Romulus, My Father - Richard Roxburgh

Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted)
- The Home Song Stories - Tony Ayres
- Lucky Miles - Helen Barnes & Michael James Rowland
- Noise - Matthew Saville
- Romulus, My Father - Nick Drake

Best Cinematography
- The Home Song Stories - Nigel Bluck
- Noise - Laszlo Baranyai ACS
- Romulus, My Father - Geoffrey Simpson ACS

Best Editing
- The Home Song Stories - Denise Haratzis ASE
- Noise - Geoff Hitchins
- Romulus, My Father - Suresh Ayyar ASE

Best Sound
- The Home Song Stories - Craig Carter, James Harvey, Andrew Neil & John Wilkinson
- Noise - Emma Bortignon, Doron Kipen & Philippe Decrausaz
- Romulus, My Father - Sam Petty, Gary Wilkins CAS & Phil Heywood

Best Original Music Score
- Noise - Bryony Marks
- Romulus, My Father - Basil Hogios

Best Production Design
- The Home Song Stories - Melinda Doring
- Noise - Paddy Reardon
- Romulus, My Father - Robert Cousins

Best Costume Design
- The Home Song Stories - Cappi Ireland
- Romulus, My Father - Jodie Fried

Best Lead Actor
- Qi Yuwu - The Home Song Stories
- Brendan Cowell - Noise
- Eric Bana - Romulus, My Father
- Kodi Smit-McPhee - Romulus, My Father

Best Lead Actress
- Joan Chen - The Home Song Stories
- Franka Potente - Romulus, My Father

Best Supporting Actor
- Marton Csokas - Romulus, My Father
- Russell Dykstra - Romulus, My Father

Best Supporting Actress
- Irene Chen - The Home Song Stories
- Esme Melville - Romulus, My Father

Young Actor Award
- Irene Chen - The Home Song Stories
- Joel Lok - The Home Song Stories
- Kodi Smit-McPhee - Romulus, My Father

NON-FEATURE NOMINEES

Best Documentary
- 4 - Joanna Buggy, Tim Slade
- Words from the City - Philippa Campey

Best Direction in a Documentary
- Words from the City - Rhys Graham & Natasha Gadd

Best Cinematography in a Documentary
- 4 - Pieter de Vries ACS
- Words from the City - Rhys Graham & Natasha Gadd

Best Editing in a Documentary
- Words from the City - Paul Williams

Best Sound in a Documentary
- Words from the City - Peter Smith & Emma Bortignon

TELEVISION NOMINEES

Best Children's Television Drama
- I Got a Rocket - Suzanne Ryan (Network Ten)

Best Television Comedy Series
- WILFRED - Jenny Livingston (SBS)

Best Telefeature or Mini Series
- The Circuit - Ross Hutchens & Colin South (SBS)

Best Direction in Television
- The Circuit: Home Is Where the Past Is - Richard Frankland (SBS)
- WILFRED: Dogs of War - Tony Rogers (SBS)

Best Screenplay in Television
- The Circuit: Home Is Where the Past Is - Kelly Lefever (SBS)

Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama
- Tammy Clarkson - The Circuit (SBS)

Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama
- David Ngoombujarra - The Circuit (SBS)

Best Performance in a Television Comedy
- Jason Gann - WILFRED (SBS)
- Adam Zwar - WILFRED (SBS)

Due to unforeseen circumstances we regret to inform that all October products will now have a new street date of 17/10/2007. Madman apologies for any inconveniences this may have caused.

Get ready fans as we present a one night only special event happening on the 14th of October at 4 locations across Australia!

The Australian premiere of Naruto The Movie - Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow will be held at the following cities and cinemas:

Sydney - 7pm - Dendy Newtown
Melbourne - 7pm - Kino Dendy Melbourne
Canberra - 4:30pm - Dendy Canberra
Brisbane - 4:30pm - Dendy Brisbane

The Sydney and Melbourne events will feature special guest appearances by Naruto voice actors. Sydney - Liam O'Brien (Gaara, Script writer for Naruto The Movie - Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow), Melbourne - Stephanie Sheh (Hinata Hyuga)

The Sydney screening is being run in conjunction with the Supanova Pop Culture Expo.

The Melbourne screening is being run in conjunction with the Armageddon Multimedia Expo.

For more details about each screening, click on the link! It will take you to the Fan Zone Events page!

TICKETS ARE LIMITED! And remember this is a one night only event!

During the period of April - June 2007, www.madman.com.au ranked No. 3 by visits among all Australian websites in the Hitwise Entertainment - Animation and Comics industry.

The Hitwise Top 10 Award recognises websites from over 160 industries that are leaders in their industry

Top 10 Website Awards are based on popularity according to the percentage of user visits a website receives compared to other sites in their category during a specific period.

Madman Entertainment wishes to announce that Moon Phase volume 2 will be moved to a new released date of September 12th 2007. Volume 3's release scheduled has not changed and will remain the same.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

(Please don't send the vampire cats our way to bite us! We promise to have everything back to the right "phase" by September!)

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Madman have updated our Rental List pricing structure to more accurately reflect current industry standards and ensure ongoing definition between our releases. As of the October 07 dealer guide, rental list prices will be specified as follows:

Lead (Full Theatr rel.) $50 ex $55 inc
Support (Limit. Theatr.) $36 ex $40 inc
Support (Dir to Video) $30 ex $33 inc.

An insert has been included in the September dealer guide outlining this change. Please see the Madman rental account managers if you have any queries.

The brand new gothic sci-fi thriller Ergo Proxy debuts on ABC2 tonight at 9pm! Produced by Manglobe creators of Samurai Champloo, Ergo Proxy is a sensational thrill ride from start to finish.

Join Re-L as she uncovers the truth and secrets about the proxy.

So set your watches for 9pm tonight and every Tuesday Night (also repeated at 1:10am Thursdays).

ABC2 is a free-to-air digital TV channel. To access all you need is a standard digital set top box. Digital subscription TV subscribers such as to FOXTEL and AUSTAR can also access this channel.