Shinji Aramaki, artist for Microman Microchange and Diaclone, which most of the first year of Transformers toys came from, co-creator of Mospeada (aka Robotech: The New Generation) with Hideki Kakinuma, as well as a major force in Studio Artmic (on such projects as Megazone 23 and Bubblegum Crisis),
has a new movie coming out in the US.

He is the director of the new Appleseed movie, based on Masamune Shirow's acclaimed political sci-fi mecha action manga. The all CG anime-styled movie shows a huge growth in his abilities as a director from co-directing 1989's Megazone sequel, Megazone 23 III (the third).

It opens this Friday, the 14th, and is showing in the following cities:

Barrington 30 - Barrington, IL
River East 21 - Chicago, IL
Evanston 18 - Evanston, IL
Sunset Place 24 - South Miami, FL
Miami Lakes 17 - Miami Lakes, FL
Dolphin 19 - Miami, FL
Paradise 24 - Davie, FL
South Beach Stadium 18 - Miami Beach, FL
Dole Cannery 18 - Honolulu, HI
Pearl Highlands 12 - Pearl City, HI
Windward Stadium 10 - Kaneohe, HI
Block 30 - Orange, CA
Ontario Mills 30 - Ontario, CA
Universal City 18 - Universal City, CA
Beach Cities All Stadium 16 - El Segundo, CA
Winnetka 21 Theatres - Chatsworth, CA
Atlantic Palace 10 - Alhambra, CA
Long Beach Stadium 26 - Long Beach, CA
Irvine Spectrum 21 - Irvine, CA
Empire 25 - New York, NY
Palisades 21 - West Nyack, NY
Sheepshead Bay 14 - Brooklyn, NY
New Roc City Stadium 18 - plus Imax New Rochelle, NY
Court Street Stadium 12 - Brooklyn, NY
Neshaminy 24 - Bensalem, PA
Warrington Crossing Stadium 22 - Warrington, PA
Mercado 20 - Santa Clara, CA
Saratoga 14 - San Jose, CA
Century 20 - Daly City Daly City, CA
Union Landing 25 - Union City, CA
Century 20 - Oakridge San Jose, CA
Great Mall 20 - Milpitas, CA
San Jose Complex - San Jose, CA
Century 14 Downtown Walnut Creek - Walnut Creek, CA

I've already seen the movie and it's pretty good. And for once, it's all CG instead of a half-assed mix of anime and CG (like Macross Zero). Thank God. Go support Shinji Aramaki and Masamune Shirow.