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Imagi Plans Astro Boy Feature
Animation Magazine | Thursday, September 14, 2006
Lovers of old-school anime and fans of the new Astro Boy series will be happy to learn that Imagi Animation Studios has optioned rights to produce a CG-animated feature film base on the Tezuka Productions Co. property. Imagi's U.S. studio is developing an original story and its animation facility in Hong Kong will handle physical production for the movie, which the company hopes get into theaters sometime in 2009.
"I grew up wth Astro Boy, as did many of us at Imagi," says Imagi CEO and vice chairman Francis Kao....more...

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New, fat version of Japan's most famous superhero creates
[SIZE="6"]'LardAss-tro Boy'[/SIZE]
Mainichi Japan - April 15, 2008
Forget the svelte little feller capable of soaring through the skies and 100,000 horsepower strength: the roly-poly latest incarnation of Japan's most famous cartoon character of all is more like LardAss-tro Boy...more...

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Japanator worked out the genesis.

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A trailer is out for the new Astro Boy feature film in CGI animation that will open on October 23, 2009.

The crappy LoFi YouTube trailer is below, but watch the much better HD version of the trailer on the official website, www.astroboy-themovie.com.

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