" According to one of our forum members, zandor117, who was present at the ADV panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta, ADV's David Williams said that the Evangelion live action movie is now moving into production. We have seen no other report, even though the same panel was used to announce several anime licenses that have been reported by reputable anime news sources."

http://forums.trivialbeing.net/index.php?act=ST&f=17&t=5772

If true this is GREAT news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5B2HYvtz1Q

The first of four Evangelion science fiction movie remakes, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, opened to packed houses to take #1 on the top ten chart for this past weekend's box office in Japan. The distributor Nikkatsu announced that 236,158 people spent 280 million yen (about US$2.4 million) at 84 theaters to watch it, the only new film in the top ten. This was one of the rare times that a film opened in less than 100 theaters at first place.

Nikkatsu had planned to show the movie in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward in the 224-seat Cinema Square Tōkyū theater, but changed theaters to the 1,046-stadium-seat Milano 1 just before opening to accommodate the growing crowds. All of that theater's seven opening-day showings sold out with standing-room-only audiences. That theater alone sold 12,500 tickets during the two days for a 15-million-yen (US$130,000) weekend box office take. Each screen that showed the movie nationwide earned an average of 3 million yen (US$30,000).

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-09-03/japanese-box-office-august-25-26-september-1-2

Trailer 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5F2Yr0NEw
Trailer 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yif6fvmRamM

Release date: September 1, 2007 (in Japan)

No date for the US yet.