Posts Tagged ‘Astro Boy’

Troubled Hong Kong animation studio shuts down operations after investor talks fall through.

The Imagi animation production studio based out of Hong Kong has announced and confirmed that it has closed its US branch and laid off its entire LA office staff numbering 30, retaining a number of key staff as consultants and subcontractors. The studio previously laid off 100 staff members out 450 employees in December and [...]

iPhone application developer D-Arc has announced the availability of the free “WEEKLY ASTRO BOY MAGAZINE” application, a demo version of the forthcoming paid digital serial compilation. The preview contains the first volume of the Astro Boy manga, with the forthcoming paid app including access to other works by Osamu Tezuka, including PHOENIX, DORORO, BUDDHA and [...]

Click images for full-size. Nozomi Entertainment has announced in a press release the opening of two new mobile portals for its Astro Boy and Boogiepop Phantom releases. The portals are formatted specifically for mobile devices and feature links to related information on each release including trailers and purchase information along with other related links. QR [...]

The 53rd Times BFI London Film Festival has announced that it will screen the live action adaptation of Yoshiie Go-da’s Air Doll manga directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, the Astro Boy CG adaptation produced by IMAGI and screenwriter David Bowers, based off of Osamu Tezuka’s seminal manga and the live-action adaptation of The Legend of Kamui [...]

The Dark Horizons film blog features a really lame interview with braindead actors Kristen Bell Freddie Highmore dancing around questions about the Astro Boy film, with Bell frequently interjecting the fact that the Astro Boy character features weaponry that launches out of his posterior to the detriment of the interview.

The first teaser trailer for the forthcoming 3D CG Astro Boy film produced by beleaguered Imagi has been posted online. The film is slated to release on October 23rd in the US with a Hollywood voice cast consisting of Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Eugene [...]

The forthcoming Astro Boy CG film will receive the customary video game tie-in before its October 23rd US release. Developer High Voltage Games has announced in a press release that the companion Astro Boy video game will launch for the Wii, PSP and PS2, while developer Art Co. Ltd will handle DS development. No further [...]

Imagi has confirmed after much speculation that it has suspended animation production for the upcoming Astro Boy CG film due to promised funding collapsing as a result of the global economic crisis.  Production outside the animation work is still going on as normal, as the IMAGI headquarters in Hong Kong is shut down this week [...]