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Exclusive: Lionsgate Previews Video Extras for 4K Release of Ghost in the Shell Film in Video
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Lionsgate provided ANN with an exclusive clip on Friday for its Ultra-High Definition (UHD) 4K Blu-ray Disc and Digital 4K Ultra HD Hiromasa Ogura's creative process for creating the background art for the film.
Lionsgate describes the film:
2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity. Director Mamoru Oshii's award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Shirow Masamune, is lauded as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.
Lionsgate will release the film on Ultra-High Definition (UHD) 4K Blu-ray Disc and Digital 4K Ultra HD on September 8. The remaster will feature Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, and it will include new bonus featurettes and artwork from illustrator Martin Ansin. The release will commemorate the film's 25th anniversary.
partnered with Lionsgate to screen the film in theaters in the United States in February 2017.
Oshii and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 2004 film as a sequel.
Production I.G produced the 2002 and the Ghost in the Shell VR Diver smartphone video in 2017.
Netflix worldwide on April 23.
published Shirow's original 1991 manga and its sequels in North America.
opened in the United States in March 2017, and opened in Japan in April 2017.
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