Great news: Kinji Fukasaku's controversial and totally brilliant kids-killing-other-kids film Battle Royale is finally getting a release in the United States. Not-as-great news: Anchor Bay has picked up the theatrical rights to the 3-D conversion of the film, along with non-3-D rights for its less controversial and not-at-all-brilliant sequel. They are planning a 2011 release. If the timing works, they should go balls-out and releases the first film the same weekend as The Hunger Games. [Tokyo Graph via ONTD]
