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73-760: The anime series was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with episodes from the 1978 Matsumoto series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock , and shown from 1985 to 1986 in the United States as the 65-episode Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years . The series was broadcast in Germany on Tele 5 during 1992, on New Channel in Greece in 1997 and on Mangas in France in 2004. The series takes place in

146-410: A 'middleman' selling Paramount Pictures distribution rights to Mediaset . From 1999 to the early 2000s, the company began reverting to film production once again. They partnered with Netter Digital and hired Carl Macek to write Robotech 3000 , which would have been an American produced spinoff of the original series. A promotional trailer was screened at the 2000 FanimeCon anime convention, and

219-480: A Los Angeles–based post-production recording studio , managed by Frank's son, Ahmed Agrama. They were responsible for partially dubbing Dragon Ball , Magical Princess Minky Momo and Dr. Slump before going out of business in 2006. In addition to its distribution and production interests, Harmony Gold manages several real estate properties in the Southern California area. They also operate

292-486: A Milan court and charged with buying rights for US television series and movies, then reselling them to broadcasting rights firm Mediatrade (a subsidiary of Mediaset) at inflated prices and laundering the money in a complex scheme. The four companies allegedly involved in this scheme were Wiltshire Trading, Harmony Gold, CS Secretaries and Loong Po Management. According to prosecutors, Chan met Agrama in Cannes , France , in

365-401: A list of master shots. However, screenwriters soon began to add the shot-by-shot details that characterized continuities of the films of the later silent era. Casablanca (1942), is written in this style, with detailed technical instructions interwoven with dialogue. The first use of the term "screenplay" dates to this era; the term "screen play" (two words) was used as early as 1916 in

438-537: A massive success worldwide, and has developed a cult following since its premiere in 1986. It has been the most repeatedly screened miniseries ever shown on syndicated television in the United States . By 1992, it had been seen by over 350 million viewers. The series dislodged John Marshall's The Hunters and the later The Gods Must be Crazy film series as the prime shaper of American perceptions of 'tribal' history in Southern Africa. Despite its success,

511-460: A mysterious Holy Queen, Larela. She plans to abduct a large number of humans before the destruction of Earth, and enslave them with the help of her operatives already on Earth. These operatives are led by Andromeda Promethium, a woman known as a Millennial Queen who goes by the Earth name, Yukino Yayoi. She has been living on Earth for almost 1,000 years, like many such Millennial Queens before her, with

584-437: A result of the failed negotiations, the producers of BattleTech ruled that any designs not developed in house would no longer be used in order to avoid future issues. Harmony Gold issued cease and desist orders against sites displaying images and trailers from the discontinued video game MechWarrior , due to one of the mechs used in the trailer being a Warhammer. The company claims that the images portray "mechs that they own

657-711: A screening room in Los Angeles. In 1976, Frank Agrama began selling broadcast rights from Paramount Pictures to his friend, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset media company. In the late 1970s, Agrama, while in a trade fair in Cannes , France , met Hong Kong entrepreneurs Paddy Chan Mei-yiu and Katherine Hsu May-chun. The three agreed to form a collaboration to trade movie rights internationally. Chan set up Hong Kong–based company Harmony Gold Limited in 1979, while Agrama set up Agrama Film Enterprises on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. In 1983, Agrama founded Harmony Gold USA. He later also became

730-405: A single brad at the top left-hand side of the page, making flicking through the paper easier during script meetings. Screenplays are usually bound with a light card stock cover and back page, often showing the logo of the production company or agency submitting the script, covers are there to protect the script during handling which can reduce the strength of the paper. This is especially important if

803-471: A spaceship to help a small group of humans escape from Earth, also joins their fight to save the planet. They are soon confronted by a sabotage campaign initiated by a group of La-Metal generals against Earth. As the two planets come closer to colliding, Yukino finds out that a black hole is to blame for La-Metal's orbital deviation. A desperate plan is undertaken to destroy the black hole and save both their worlds. Sources: Sources: The manga

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876-504: Is an American film and television production company. It was founded in 1983 by Egyptian -born Frank Agrama and is managed by his daughter, Jehan F. Agrama. In 1976, Agrama sold broadcast rights from Paramount Pictures to the Mediaset media conglomerate. It is best known as the distributor of the controversial Shaka Zulu miniseries and for various anime series, notably Robotech . The company worked closely with Intersound,

949-413: Is available as a mobile application and a website. The first screenwriting software was SmartKey , a macro program that sent strings of commands to existing word processing programs, such as WordStar , WordPerfect and Microsoft Word . SmartKey was popular with screenwriters from 1982 to 1987, after which word processing programs had their own macro features. Script coverage is a filmmaking term for

1022-446: Is convenient to read or put in a pocket; this is generally for use by the director or production crew during shooting. Although most writing contracts continue to stipulate physical delivery of three or more copies of a finished script, it is common for scripts to be delivered electronically via email. Electronic copies allow easier copyright registration and also documenting "authorship on a given date". Authors can register works with

1095-415: Is double-spaced, action lines are capitalized, and scene headings, character entrances and exits, and sound effects are capitalized and underlined. Drama series and sitcoms are no longer the only formats that require the skills of a writer. With reality-based programming crossing genres to create various hybrid programs, many of the so-called "reality" programs are in a large part scripted in format. That is,

1168-612: Is the co-copyright owner in the US for images of mecha from the component series of the show, Super Dimension Fortress Macross , Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross , and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA . They have pursued multiple lawsuits against anyone using mecha which even vaguely resemble these designs. Most notably, many early designs used in BattleTech , such as the Warhammer, Valkyrie, and Marauder, were licensed directly from

1241-460: Is usually invented solely by the screenwriter, though spec screenplays can also be based on established works or real people and events. For American TV shows, the format rules for hour-long dramas and single-camera sitcoms are essentially the same as for motion pictures. The main difference is that TV scripts have act breaks. Multi-camera sitcoms use a different, specialized format that derives from stage plays and radio. In this format, dialogue

1314-639: The Maetel Legend OVA. The music score for the film was written and performed by Kitaro , while the end-credits music was sung by American singer Dara Sedaka . The 2001 OVA Maetel Legend serves as a prelude to Galaxy Express 999 . It is clearly established that Maetel is the daughter of Yayoi and that Yayoi becomes the Queen Promethium of the Mechanized Empire. Harmony Gold USA Harmony Gold USA, Inc.

1387-501: The Macross franchise's co-copyright past the original 2021 expiration date. While a specific number of years was not given for the length of this extension, Harmony Gold chairman Frank Agrama stated that the company will "look forward to the next 35 years of working with Tatsunoko and world class business partners on Robotech ." On April 8, 2021, Harmony Gold and Big West announced that the two companies have reached an agreement which

1460-551: The Macross series was renewed on December 26, 2012. The expiration date for these was set to take place ten years from that date, on December 26, 2022. On April 14, 2018, Harmony Gold's case against Harebrained Schemes was dismissed with prejudice, being in a long line of legal battles that Harmony Gold has withdrawn from, regarding "Mech" imagery, of which they had previously claimed ownership and invention of. On July 5, 2019, Harmony Gold confirmed that their license with Tatsunoko had been renewed again, extending their ownership of

1533-599: The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) Registry, and even television formats using the FRAPA 's system. Screenplays and teleplays use a set of standardizations, beginning with proper formatting. These rules are in part to serve the practical purpose of making scripts uniformly readable blueprints of movies, and also to serve as a way of distinguishing a professional from an amateur. Motion picture screenplays intended for submission to mainstream studios, whether in

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1606-451: The (then) futuristic year 1999. Professor Amamori discovers a 10th planet in the Earth's solar system , which he names La-Metal, while at his observatory in Tokyo . Its diameter is 9 times that of Earth . Amamori notes the planet has a highly eccentric orbit and, as it emerges behind the distant Pluto , Amamori realizes that La-Metal is on a collision course with Earth. He calculates that

1679-503: The American produced Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles on home video. In August 2014, Harmony Gold released their first direct-to-video live-action feature in over a decade, The Big Goofy Secret of Hidden Pines . Directed by Henri Charr, the film revolves around the comedic antics of two vacationers after they stumble upon Bigfoot. Harmony Gold and its founder, Frank Agrama, have had an extensive history of legal troubles beginning in

1752-518: The Japanese producers of Macross , with the overlapping rights mistake not being realized for nearly a decade. Harmony Gold sued BattleTech ' s publisher, FASA , and as a result these designs were removed from the game. Fan outcry over "The Unseen" has led to multiple attempts to negotiate deals allowing for resumed use of the designs, but despite in one case a sourcebook going to press before being abruptly pulled, no deal has ever been reached. As

1825-567: The Los Angeles commercial representative of another of Chan's companies, Wiltshire Trading. In late 1983, Agrama negotiated a deal with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to distribute the controversial Shaka Zulu miniseries in spite of the economic sanctions at the time. The planned 10-episode miniseries was based on the story of the king of the Zulu , Shaka (reigned 1816 to 1828), and

1898-733: The Mediaset media company at inflated prices. As his age exceeded 70 years, he was exempted from direct imprisonment and served no actual jail time. According to the Los Angeles Times , on November 21, 2006, prosecutors in Milan , Italy , charged Agrama, along with Berlusconi and ten others, in a trial over tax fraud, embezzlement and false accounting at Mediaset. In October 2011, Paddy Chan Mei-yiu and Katherine Hsu May-chun, along with nine others (including Frank Agrama and Pier Silvio Berlusconi , son of Silvio Berlusconi), were indicted by

1971-529: The Moon (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903) had scenarios consisting respectively of a list of scene headings or scene headings with a detailed explication of the action in each scene. At this time, scripts had yet to include individual shots or dialogue. These scenario scripts evolved into continuity scripts , which listed a number of shots within each scene, thus providing continuity to streamline

2044-642: The SABC failed to recoup the cost of their production due to unfair terms negotiated by Harmony Gold during production. In the mid-1980s, Harmony Gold hired Carl Macek to adapt Japanese animated programming for American broadcast release. Macek originally wanted to adapt The Super Dimension Fortress Macross only, but was instead forced to combine it with two other anime series together, even though they had no relation to Macross . These three series became Robotech . The other two series used are: Harmony Gold's cited reasoning for combining these unrelated series

2117-451: The US or elsewhere in the world, are expected to conform to a standard typographical style known widely as the studio format which stipulates how elements of the screenplay such as scene headings, action, transitions, dialogue, character names, shots and parenthetical matter should be presented on the page, as well as font size and line spacing. One reason for this is that, when rendered in studio format, most screenplays will transfer onto

2190-564: The United States without pre-commitment to network or operation time to date. To ensure its marketability, Harmony Gold demanded that the well known white 'stars' appeared in the first episode to satisfy US advertisers, contrary to original script. The SABC's involvement was also completely removed for its international release due to legal implications set by apartheid . The opening credits featured Harmony Gold, with Frank Agrama listed as associate producer. Shaka Zulu went on to become

2263-451: The analysis and grading of screenplays, often within the script-development department of a production company. While coverage may remain entirely verbal, it usually takes the form of a written report, guided by a rubric that varies from company to company. The original idea behind coverage was that a producer's assistant could read a script and then give their producer a breakdown of the project and suggest whether they should consider producing

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2336-461: The anime television series were released by Sankei Shuppan under their "Wakuwaku" label: The Queen Millennia anime television series aired on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through 25 March 1982 in the 7:00pm to 7:30pm time slot. It replaced Galaxy Express 999 in that time slot, and was replaced by Patalliro! at the end of its run. The series was animated by Toei Dōga . The series

2409-478: The authorship rights to the franchise. This was against an October 2002 ruling where the design of the Valkyrie was awarded to Studio Nue. The license Tatsunoko was given was for international distribution outside Japan only, and does not allow them to control the intellectual property. In November 2016, Harmony Gold initiated arbitration against Tatsunoko, to which Tatsunoko responded with counterclaims. With

2482-644: The company would handle worldwide and domestic television rights, with the exception of Europe , where distribution of the company will be handled through Berlusconi arm Reteitalia. In 1988, after the cancellation of Robotech II: The Sentinels , a number of the staff were recruited to work at Saban Entertainment . Carl Macek, along with his friend Jerry Beck went on to found Streamline Pictures . Meanwhile, Harmony Gold began moving away from production and began focusing more on film distribution, dot-com ventures and real estate. In 1998, Harmony Gold came under some scrutiny by several media executives for their role as

2555-627: The creators of the TV series. The series was only published through volume 5, however. A shinsōban series of five volumes was released by Sankei Shuppan. Each volume had approximately 200 pages. Shogakukan released the series in both B6-sized hardcover and bunkoban formats under the shorter Queen Millennia ( 1000年女王 , Sennen no Joō ) title. They also released the series in two volumes under their "My First Wideban" label, marketed to convenience stores. Shogakukan bunkoban reprints: A two volume novelization by Kaeko Iguchi and Leiji Matsumoto

2628-716: The early 2000s. Italian investigators discovered and froze bank accounts in Switzerland; five belonging to Agrama. According to another Italian daily, the Corriere della Sera , the five accounts are said to contain SFr140 million ($ 109.5 million). This early investigation led to two high-profile trials. On November 29, 2006, federal agents raided Agrama's home and offices in connection with Italy's ongoing tax fraud, embezzlement and false accounting investigation of its former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . Court documents revealed

2701-444: The exception of the original visual depictions of 41 characters, which are owned by Big West Advertising not Tatsunoko, the arbitrator found that Harmony Gold had the rights to Super Dimension Fortress Macross , Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross , and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA until their expiry on March 14, 2021, as per the licensing agreement. Harmony Gold also holds several trademarks related to Macross and its trademark for

2774-464: The explicit visual continuity and strict adherence to a budget that continuity scripts afforded, the master-scene script was more readable, which is of importance to an independent producer seeking financing for a project. By the production of Chinatown (1974), this change was complete. Andrew Kenneth Gay argues that this shift has raised the status of directors as auteurs and lowered the profile of screenwriters. However, he also notes that since

2847-617: The filmmaking process. While some productions, notably D. W. Griffith 's The Birth of a Nation (1915), were made without a script, preapproved " continuities " allowed the increasingly powerful studio executives to more accurately budget for film productions. Movie industry revolutionary Thomas H. Ince , a screenwriter himself, invented movie production by introducing an " assembly line " system of filmmaking that utilized far more detailed written materials, clearly dedicated to "separating conception from execution". Film researcher Andrew Kenneth Gay posits that, "The process of scripting for

2920-409: The foreseeable future. Screenplay A screenplay , or script , is a written work produced for a film , television show , or video game (as opposed to a stage play ) by screenwriters . A screenplay written for television is also known as a teleplay . Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which

2993-741: The illicit profits between 1988 and 1999 amounted to US$ 170 million. Earlier in 2005, Swiss investigators froze 150 million francs (HK$ 1.29 billion) at a UBS branch in Lugano belonging to Harmony Gold, Wiltshire Trading and other companies. On July 24, 2014, Variety reported that some of the charges have been dropped due to expiring statute of limitations . An appeals hearing was set to take place January 20, 2016. On January 18, 2016, all charges against Frank Agrama and five other people were dropped. Berlusconi and Mediaset Chairman Fedele Confalonieri were convicted and were sentenced to 13 months of imprisonment. Harmony Gold, via its license of Robotech ,

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3066-460: The intention of establishing a colony for her home planet. Promethium, who comes to care for her Earthling foster parents and friends, begins to question the La-Metalians' plans. As Yayoi, she begins working for Professor Amamori and decides to offer her help when Amamori discovers that La-Metal is heading for Earth. The professor's young nephew Hajime, whose parents are killed while designing

3139-502: The late 1970s at a trade fair and they decided to form a partnership to trade movie rights internationally. Chan organized a Hong Kong–based Harmony Gold Limited in 1979, records from the city's Companies Registry show. In the same year, Agrama organized Agrama Film Enterprises on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Four years later, he set up Harmony Gold. He later also became the Los Angeles representative of another Hong Kong company established by Chan, Wiltshire Trading. Prosecutors estimated

3212-406: The left to accommodate hole punches ). The major components are action (sometimes called "screen direction") and dialogue . The action is written in the present tense and is limited to what can be heard or seen by the audience, for example descriptions of settings, character movements, or sound effects. The dialogue is the words the characters speak, and is written in a center column. Unique to

3285-635: The movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. In the early silent era , before the turn of the 20th century, "scripts" for films in the United States were usually a synopsis of a film of around one paragraph and sometimes as short as one sentence. Shortly thereafter, as films grew in length and complexity, film scenarios (also called "treatments" or "synopses" ) were written to provide narrative coherence that had previously been improvised. Films such as A Trip to

3358-512: The overall concept and story. The script format for documentaries and audio-visual presentations which consist largely of voice-over matched to still or moving pictures is different again and uses a two-column format which can be particularly difficult to achieve in standard word processors, at least when it comes to editing or rewriting. Many script-editing software programs include templates for documentary formats. Various screenwriting software packages are available to help screenwriters adhere to

3431-494: The overall skeleton of the show and its episodes are written to dictate the content and direction of the program. The Writers Guild of America has identified this as a legitimate writer's medium, so much so that they have lobbied to impose jurisdiction over writers and producers who "format" reality-based productions. Creating reality show formats involves storytelling structure similar to screenwriting, but much more condensed and boiled down to specific plot points or actions related to

3504-490: The planet will impact Earth on 9 September 1999, at 9 o'clock, 9 minutes and 9 seconds. It turns out that La-Metal orbits the Solar System every 1,000 years, but only this time it is fated to come dangerously close to Earth. While damage to the giant ice-covered La-Metal would be minimal, Earth would be destroyed by the planet's massive gravitational pull . La-Metal is inhabited by a subterranean humanoid species ruled by

3577-422: The products for Harmony Gold. In 1987, the company had teamed up with Italian company Silvio Berlusconi Communications to pay $ 150 million for a pact, to turn out 100 hours of television programming, and partnering will be dubbed by America 5 Enterprises, which will produce miniseries, TV series and telefilms using U.S. and international talent, and the two companies will share equally in costs and profits, and

3650-415: The recent search by FBI agents centered on Italian allegations that Agrama, Berlusconi and others fraudulently inflated the price of television rights originally purchased by Agrama so that millions of dollars in kickbacks could be paid to executives of Berlusconi's Mediaset media empire. On October 26, 2012, Agrama was convicted after a lengthy trial involving the buying and selling of US film rights to

3723-526: The required format written into the rubric of their writer's contract. The Nicholl Fellowship , a screenwriting competition run under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , has a guide to screenplay format. A more detailed reference is The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats . A speculative screenplay or "spec script" is a script written to be sold on the open market with no upfront payment, or promise of payment. The content

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3796-477: The rights to, according to a legal settlement from 1996". In 2013, Harmony Gold claimed in federal court that Hasbro 's SDCC 2013 exclusive set " G.I. Joe and the Transformers : The Epic Conclusion" violated their copyright license and trademarks on the animated Japanese Macross TV series (1982–1984). On September 23, 2013, Harmony Gold's suit against Hasbro was dismissed with prejudice, and Hasbro

3869-405: The screen at the rate of approximately one page per minute. This rule of thumb is widely contested — a page of dialogue usually occupies less screen time than a page of action, for example, and it depends enormously on the literary style of the writer — and yet it continues to hold sway in modern Hollywood . There is no single standard for studio format. Some studios have definitions of

3942-400: The screen did not so much emerge naturally from other literary forms such as the play script, the novel, or poetry nor to meet the artistic needs of filmmakers but developed primarily to address the manufacturing needs of industrial production." With the advent of sound film , dialogue quickly dominated scripts, with what had been specific instructions for the filmmaker initially regressed to

4015-545: The screenplay (as opposed to a stage play ) is the use of slug lines . A slug line , also called a master scene heading , occurs at the start of each scene and typically contains three pieces of information: whether the scene is set inside or outside (INT. or EXT.; interior or exterior), the specific location, and the time of day. Each slug line begins a new scene. In a " shooting script " the slug lines are numbered consecutively for ease of reference. American screenplays are printed single-sided on three-hole-punched paper using

4088-438: The screenplay is no longer a technical document, screenwriting is more of a literary endeavour. The format is structured so that (as a ballpark estimate ) one page equates to roughly one minute of screen time, though this often bears little resemblance to the runtime of the final production. The standard font is 12 point , 10 pitch Courier typeface . Wide margins of at least one inch are employed (usually larger for

4161-405: The script is likely to pass through the hands of several people or through the post. Increasingly, reading copies of screenplays (that is, those distributed by producers and agencies in the hope of attracting finance or talent) are distributed printed on both sides of the paper (often professionally bound) to reduce paper waste. Occasionally they are reduced to half-size to make a small book which

4234-452: The scripts for use in the US letter size, especially when their scripts are to be read by American producers since the pages would otherwise be cropped when printed on US paper. Because each country's standard paper size is difficult to obtain in the other country, British writers often send an electronic copy to American producers, or crop the A4 size to US letter. A British script may be bound by

4307-412: The silent era to refer to the film itself, i.e. a play shown on a screen. With the end of the studio system in the 1950s and 1960s, these continuities were gradually split into a master-scene script , which includes all dialogue but only rudimentary scene descriptions and a shooting script devised by the director after a film is approved for production. While studio era productions required

4380-560: The standard American letter size (8.5 in × 11 in; 220 mm × 280 mm). They are then held together with two brass brads in the top and bottom hole. The middle hole is left empty as it would otherwise make it harder to quickly read the script. In the United Kingdom, double-hole-punched A4 paper is normally used, which is slightly taller and narrower (210 mm × 297 mm; 8.3 in × 11.7 in) than US letter size. Some UK writers format

4453-513: The strict formatting conventions. Detailed computer programs are designed specifically to format screenplays, teleplays, and stage plays. Such packages include BPC-Screenplay, Celtx , Fade In , Final Draft , FiveSprockets , Montage , Movie Draft SE, Movie Magic Screenwriter , Movie Outline 3.0, Scrivener , and Zhura . Software is also available as web applications , accessible from any computer, and on mobile devices , such as Fade In Mobile Scripts Pro and Studio Binder, and WriterDuet , which

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4526-513: The viewing area. That year, Harmony Gold USA collaborated with international backers, including Société Française de Productions and Reteeurope, both of the respective French , Italian and Spanish interests to set up a new project, and what the worldwide market represented to set up the Harmony Premiere Network, which was to be the next Operation Prime Time , and brings together U.S. and international financers to co-produce

4599-497: The writings of the British traders with whom he interacted. Throughout 1984 and 1985, the original budget of about $ 1.75 million escalated quickly to $ 12 million, and the SABC justified the outlay to anticipated returns to be earned on the international market. Frank Agrama, however, noted the production was a "calculated gamble." Shaka Zulu had in fact, become the most expensive miniseries ever produced for television syndicate in

4672-472: Was allowed to continue to sell the sets. The legal status of Harmony Gold's license to Macross was dubious. Harmony Gold's license for Macross came from Tatsunoko Production , but Japanese courts ruled that it was Studio Nue (creators of the series) that controls the Macross intellectual property. However, a 2003 ruling in the Tokyo District Court ruled that Tatsunoko Productions had

4745-469: Was cancelled. In 1987, Harmony Gold USA signed a deal to distribute international feature films for syndication, which was dubbed by Harmony Gold themselves, and the skein comprises itself of the 25 90-minute films in the Série Noire collection of films that were produced by Hamster Films of Paris , and Harmony Gold had to take the Série Noire films to the U.S. and other English-language markets for

4818-532: Was its decision to market Macross for American weekday syndication television, which required a minimum of 65 episodes at the time (thirteen weeks at five episodes per week). Macross and the two other series each had fewer episodes than required, since they originally aired in Japan as weekly series. The production was successful enough to merit an American produced movie and a spin-off, Robotech II: The Sentinels . Due to unforeseen economic circumstances, production

4891-432: Was originally scheduled to have 52 episodes, but due to having lower ratings than the previous Galaxy Express 999 , the series ended after 42 episodes. Queen Millennia had music composed and arranged by Ryōdō Uzaki and Tomoyuki Asakawa. The opening theme song , Cosmos Dream ( コスモス・ドリーム , Kosumosu Dorīmu ) , was sung by Masaki Takanashi. The ending theme song, Excellent Legend ( まほろば伝説 , Mahoroba Densetsu ) ,

4964-493: Was originally serialized in from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. There have been multiple releases in book form. A planned ten volume B5-sized gekigaban set released under Sankei Shuppan's "Wakuwaku Comics" label had the first 10 pages of each volume in color, and an appendix with cel images from the TV series and interviews with Matsumoto and

5037-488: Was released by Sankei Shuppan under their "Junior Shōsetsu" label: Light novel adaptations were written by Keisuke Fujikawa, who also wrote many of the teleplays for the anime television series as well as the screenplay for the anime film adaptation. A film adaptation was also written. They were published by Shueisha under their Cobalt label: Bunka Publishing Bureau published a three volume "Pocket Mates" light novel series by Ken Wakasaki: Film comics based on

5110-546: Was signed on March 1, 2021, regarding to the Macross and Robotech franchise, officially allowing international distribution on the Macross franchise while also recognizing Harmony Gold's license with Tatsunoko on using characters and mecha from Macross in Robotech globally except Japan and affirming that Big West will not to take any opposition on Harmony Gold's upcoming live action adaptation of Robotech . Both Harmony Gold and Big West will cooperate on future projects for

5183-403: Was sung by Keiko Han and Slapstick, and was arranged by Motoki Funayama. The lyrics for both image songs were written by Yōko Aki and composed by Ryudō Uzaki. The 1982 film serves as a retelling of the anime series. The 1999 setting is designed as more futuristic in appearance than in the TV series. In addition, the film provides an alternate ending to the story leaving no room for the events of

5256-559: Was sung by Manami Ishikawa. Both songs had lyrics by Yoko Aki , were composed by Ryudo Uzaki , and were arranged by Motoki Funayama. Ishikawa was selected from 1,898 applicants to work with Takanashi on the image song Love Is Flying on Wings ( 愛は翼に乗って , Ai wa Tsubasa ni Notte ) . The song was performed by the Queen Millennia Grand Orchestra and arranged by Nozomi Aoki. A second image song, Message from Space ( 星空のメッセージ , Hoshizora no Messēji ) ,

5329-499: Was widely panned by fans. Tatsunoko Productions attempted to salvage the project, to no avail. In 2000, the company produced Abe & Bruno , a family film about a gorilla on the run directed by Henri Charr . Harmony Gold began heavily pushing Robotech , first by releasing the series via a partnership with ADV Films in the US, and Manga Entertainment in the UK. In 2006, they partnered with FUNimation Entertainment to release

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