The Hong Kong/Sherman Oaks animation studio announces the global release of Astro Boy:
Imagi International Holdings ... with studios in both Hong Kong and the U.S., today announced that it had finalized the Astro Boy premiere dates for Tokyo, Hong Kong and the U.S. ...
... Japan, where Tezuka Osamu created the legendary Astro Boy character in the 50s, will be the host of the world premiere of Astro Boy on 5th October ... Hong Kong, will host its own premiere on 17th October ... Los Angeles will host its premiere on 19th October ...
This first release will be a big deal for Imagi, and it will be doing multiple roll outs through the month of October. The picture hits big, the company kicks into high gear with several other projects. Corporate chiefs say that Imagi will move ahead with newer product no matter how Astro Boy performs, but I tend to think that the film's success will be a huge shot in the arm.
Imagi is continuing story development on its next project. If Astro is successful, the Sherman Oaks studio space should fill up pretty quickly with newer employees ... or so I'm told.
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I'm not clear on something---are they distributing the film themselves? Or going through an already established distributor?
I'm really looking forward to this film. The clips and trailers look great. Good luck to Imagi and crew. I'll be at the theater on opening day. :)
Summit Entertainment (the people behind Twilight) are distributing Astro Boy. That deal was announced about a year ago, IIRC.
Imagi still sucks and so does their movies. They will always be on my crap list after what they did to my son after they said they were going to hire him...and never did. Hope they and their crummy movies stay in China where they belong
Yeah, Imagi is terrible. Hopefully the movie tanks and they go bankrupt in the near future. Karma will find it's way to all the people they screwed over.
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