By April MacIntyre Jul 2, 2008, 22:49 GMT
Actors Nicolas Cage and Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane and Eugene Levy with Freddie Highmore have joined forces and lended their voices to one of the most beloved animated characters ever, Astro Boy.
Imagi Studios and Summit Entertainment will be at Anime Expo® 2008 (Booth #913 and #915) showing off their CG-animated motion picture "Astro Boy" from July 3-6 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
If you ask nicely, bring some delicious snackies for the booth people, and go early AND mention you read this at Monsters and Critics website, a limited edition "Astro Boy" t-shirt can be yours. (limited amounts, no guarantees)
Metro City is the setting for "Astro Boy" - a futuristic yarn about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist. He takes adventurous journeys in search of robot gladiators before he returns to save Metro City.
The film is slated for worldwide theatrical release in 2009 from Summit Entertainment, David Bowers is directing from a screenplay written by Timothy Harris, with Maryann Garger producing. The Astro Boy was invented by “god of manga”, Japan’s Osamu Tezuka, in the early 1950s.
He has steadily grown in popularity the world over as the hero of the three acclaimed animated television series spanning over four decades, besides being a monster money making-licensed property for merchandising.
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