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 ...

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 ...

Speed Racer: The Next Generation is an American animated television series based on the classic Japanese Speed Racer franchise, in which the internal events take place decades after those in the 1967 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A live-action "Speed Racer" series is reportedly in the works at Apple TV+ with J.J. Abrams acting as executive producer. The new "Speed Racer" series will be the second live-action adaptation of the ...