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Funimation announced via their newsletter and blog that they have cast all the characters for their upcoming dub of Madhouse’s award-winning movie, Summer Wars. The cast includes Brina Palencia, J. Michael Tatum, and Maxey Whitehead, as well as over a dozen other main and supporting cast members. For full cast listing and story summary, check [...]

An unidentified reporter for The Copenhagen Post makes the audacious claim that the voices for the Danish dub of SpongeBob SquarePants are “better than the originals.” With nary an audio or video clip to support this claim, the reporter says that even with A/V examples his (or her) “point would have been lost without them [...]

Robotech.com has a memorial page for US anime pioneer and Robotech producer Carl Macek, who passed away April 17th of a heart attack at the age of 58. The page includes reflections on “Uncle Carl” (as he was known to friends) from the following cast members: – Tony Oliver, voice of Rick Hunter – Rebecca [...]

Shoutcastblog.com reports that Latin Grammy-winner and legendary Cuban singer Omara Portuondo has been cast as Moma Odie for the Spanish dub of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (‘Tiana y el sapo’). Learn more about her career on her official site: OmaraPortuondo.com. Previous Featured Voices.

This article was originally published February 2, 2010. Please scroll down for the latest updates. I’d like to give a shout-out to Mark Allen Jr. — a fellow voice actor fan (and voice talent as well) — for his new “Hearing Voices” voice actors radio show at Cal State University in Fullerton, CA. Allen’s first [...]

iPlayWinner.com has an interview (via YouTube) with Anime VAs Travis Willingham and Laura Bailey (the respective voices of Guile and Chun-Li in Street Fighter 4) from their recent appearance at the January 2010 SacAnime convention in Sacramento, CA. And here’s bonus video from SacAnime — a panel presentation featuring Travis and Vic Mignogna, which includes [...]

Anime fans out there should check out the new internet show AnimeTV, hosted by anime voice actors Johnny Yong Bosch and Christina Vee. New episodes are scheduled weekly on Thursdays. Source: Tubefilter News

- We Are Movie Geeks has interviews with Chris Patton and Christina Vee from the recent NatsuCon 2009. – ABC Perth has an audio interview with Chris Patton and Spike Spencer from the recent Supernova Pop Culture Expo in Australia. – The new live webcast show Voice it Live! has a host of video interviews [...]

I don’t know whether I’ve got any readers in Australia or not, but if so (or if there’s anyone inclined to fly there for these events) you might want to browse the tentative guest list announced for Australia’s Supanova 2009 “pop culture expo” in Sydney (June 26-28) and Perth (July 3-5). Several US anime voice [...]

Here’s a heads-up on some convention appearances at the annual Florida Supercon in Miami, FL on June 5-7, 2009: – Bruce Campbell: voice of Uncle Phil on The Replacements, guest voices on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Ant Bully, Megas XLR, Robot Chicken, and various video games. – Pokémon dub cast members Bill Rogers and [...]