02/13/2006: "Advent Children Release Date update. Official Square-Enix announcement"

Following the chaos of the last week, 1UP is now running a story about the U.S. Advent Children release. According to 1UP, the U.S. can expect to see the movie in stores on the 25th of April. The story includes an English Cast list. Many roles are filled by known anime Voice Artists with a few key star names in place such as Mena Suvari and Rachel Leigh Cook (people may be pleased to know that Lance Bass is not among them).

1UP claims that the delays to Advent Children were due to last minute signings of certain artists. If true, this of course raises the question as to whether voice work and dubbing has been fully completed and whether we will not see further delays to the release.

Thanks to Ludo from the forums for posting the information.

ADDITIONAL:
We can now happily confirm that both the date and at least some of voice artists mentioned in the 1UP story is correct. An official announcement has been made on the North American Square-Enix site. Information including the price and contents of the DVD are included in the announcement.

Posted by Seb at 07:35 AM EST