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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...