Astro Boy

Next Year To Give You All The Astro Boy You Want

Next year won’t bring the return of Astro Boy just to movie theaters. Thanks to the wonders of merchandising, you might have a hard time avoiding Osamu Tezuka’s little atomic pinocchio by the time that his big-budget CGI revival hits the multiplex.Last week, Astro Boy owners Imagi Studios announced partnerships with five different companies as…

io9 Graeme McMillan Nov 17

Mars and Britain Invade Astro Boy

As if we needed another reason to love Kristen Bell, the former Veronica Mars has joined the voice cast for next year’s big budget Astro Boy cartoon, alongside genre old hands Nic Cage and Donald Sutherland. But she’s not even the most interesting recent addition to the cast; Little Britain’s Matt Lucas has also signed…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 9

Astro Boy Is Just A Year Away

Summit and Imagi studios have announced that Astro Boy is going to be rocketing into theaters on October 23, 2009. And you can bet there’s going to be some sweet toys lined up to proceed the release date. According to CEO of Summit Rob Friedman “We have lined up some key marketing partners for the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 23

This Week’s Comics Tend Toward The Classic

It’s a week of classic comics arriving in your local stores – and none of them featuring underage girls being called jailbait anything, never mind words that we really shouldn’t be using on the front page of a tasteful website like this one. But if you’re looking to rediscover classic manga, mourn the end of…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 16

First Look At Astro Boy’s Home World

Click to viewSome new Astro Boy concept art has leaked out. Looks like the monsters our tiny robot hero will have to face are freaktasticly big go-go rocket boots. The new pics also include the first look at Dr. Tenma (the scientist who creates Astro Boy), and a giant alien or robot playing in a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 27

Veronica Mars Joins Astro Boy’s Stellar Cast

Our favorite teen detective, Kristen “Veronica Mars” Bell, joins the A-list cast of Imagi’s Astro Boy. Bell will play the female lead, joining Nicolas Cage as De. Tenma and Nathan Lane as HamEgg. Astro Boy follows the construction of a friendly robot boy who is eventually forced to fight crime in a not-so-friendly, futuristic Metro…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 26

Watch The Craziest Scenes From Death Race, Chuck, Knight Rider, Heroes And Sarah Connor

This morning’s spoilers are pretty video-intensive. There’s an adults-only sneak peek at the killer-car movie Death Race. NBC put out some extra-long promo videos for Chuck, Knight Rider and Heroes, with some scenes you’ve only heard about so far. A new Sarah Connor trailer shows John Connor doing the one thing you’d never expect him…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 13

Scifi’s Reign Of Animation Is Only Just Beginning

Click to viewFor the first time ever, two animated science fiction movies will open the same day, this Friday. Of course, Star Wars: Clone Wars will smush the flies-in-space epic Fly Me To The Moon like… well, like a bug. But this animated traffic jam is still significant, because of what it signals: the rise…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 11

Astro Boy Haircuts Give Goku A Run For His Money

The Astro Boy booth at Comic Con reshaped the minds of manga fans by remaking their hairstyles into Astro-dos. But besides making over the droves of fans, the booth also showed off a life-size Astro Boy suspended in mid-air, and a few new Astro pictures. Click through to check out the gallery, including a powered-down…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 27

Robots Run Wild In Astro Boy And Sarah Connor Chronicles

There’s a new picture of Harvey Dent’s final destiny, from the Dark Knight. Is it real or fake? You decide. You can also judge whether a new Wolverine promo pic looks suitably stabby, and whether the new Astro Boy movie is true enough to the original. There’s also a ton of new info about Heroes…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8

Are We In For A New Anime Hurricane?

It’s a good year to be a comic book writer. You can’t throw a collectible at a Con without hitting a graphic novel that’s just been optioned for a movie. From Marc Guggenheim’s Resurrection to Hiding In Time, comics are the new Hollywood pitches. And are Japanese manga and anime next? Astro Boy’s studio Imagi…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 7

Four Anime Robots That Made Me More Human

Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. My childhood hero was a purple-haired robot who spends all her free time poking poop with a stick. Like all good Japanese children, my formative years were influenced by manga robot heroes-two-dimensional, two-legged machines that first existed in simple black-and-white…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jul 5

Astro Boy Anime Gets Hollywood Cast

Click to viewNicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy and Eugene Levy are joining the cast of Astro Boy, the CGI adaptation of the anime classic about a robot kid, alongside Freddie Highmore as the voice of Astro Boy himself. Let’s hope this means more big-screen versions of classic anime are on the way…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 17

Astro Boy Mural Created From 138,000 Recycled Tokyo Metro Tickets

Japan loves Astro Boy even more than we love Mickey Mouse, so it’s not too surprising that the little robot boy’s visage is still everywhere, even though his show and manga series ended decades ago. The most recent Astro Boy art installation is a 10 by 7 foot mural that consists of 138,000 recycled Tokyo…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jun 14

Japan’s Astro Boy Robot Redesigned As a Fat Ass

Astro Boy, the robot Mickey Mouse of Japan with a machine gun in his ass and laser on his fingertip, has received his first major graphic overhaul in years. And they made him fat! The formerly svelte, doe-eyed bot with 100,000 horsepower looks like a cross between a fish lips and a mini sumo wrestler.…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 21

Astro Boy Is Actually Sixteen Year Old Candy Factory Owner

Freddie Highmore of Willy Wonka fame will be lending his voice to the upcoming animated version of Astro Boy set to arrive in theaters next year, and we wonder why they chose a 16-year-old with an English accent to play the titular hero. In the manga, Astro is only nine years old… will audiences buy…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 29

Astro Boy Gets Space Jammed

Early warning: The CGI Astro Boy movie will be an “Oliver Twist” story, says newly announced screenwriter Timothy Harris (Space Jam, Kindergarten Cop). Directed by David Bowers (Flushed Away), Astro Boy is the story of a scientist who creates a robot boy to replace the son he lost. But the young robot fails to fulfill…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 15

Director: Smurfs Rock Harder Than Astro Boy

The CGI movie of Astro Boy has run into trouble: director Colin Brady has abandoned the project, in favor of The Smurfs movie. In his place, Imagi Studios has hired David Bowers (Flushed Away). Imagi’s previous project was last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co. are still hoping to…

io9 Charliejane Jan 25

Can Clones Learn To Love? Japan’s Manga God Breaks Taboos to Answer

Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), creator of Astro Boy and over 700 manga series, is often called the God of Comics or the Disney of the East. But neither title acknowledges the mark he’s left on science fiction. If you don’t know who he is, then you should get to know him — now. For decades, Tezuka’s…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 11

Astro Boy Will Be “Dark Pinocchio” Story Of Robot Violence

The animated Astro Boy movie, due out in 2009, will be a gorgeous and painterly homage to Hiyao Miyazaki and early George Lucas, director Colin Brady tells FirstShowing.net. This “dark Pinocchio” story (about a robot who can never become human) will feature hardcore robot-on-robot violence. And judging from the first concept art, it’ll be gorgeous.…

Movies Charliejane Nov 12

Next Year To Give You All The Astro Boy You Want

Mars and Britain Invade Astro Boy

Astro Boy Is Just A Year Away

This Week’s Comics Tend Toward The Classic

First Look At Astro Boy’s Home World

Veronica Mars Joins Astro Boy’s Stellar Cast

Watch The Craziest Scenes From Death Race, Chuck, Knight Rider, Heroes And Sarah Connor

Scifi’s Reign Of Animation Is Only Just Beginning

Astro Boy Haircuts Give Goku A Run For His Money

Robots Run Wild In Astro Boy And Sarah Connor Chronicles

Are We In For A New Anime Hurricane?

Four Anime Robots That Made Me More Human

Astro Boy Anime Gets Hollywood Cast

Astro Boy Mural Created From 138,000 Recycled Tokyo Metro Tickets

Japan’s Astro Boy Robot Redesigned As a Fat Ass

Astro Boy Is Actually Sixteen Year Old Candy Factory Owner

Astro Boy Gets Space Jammed

Director: Smurfs Rock Harder Than Astro Boy

Can Clones Learn To Love? Japan’s Manga God Breaks Taboos to Answer

Astro Boy Will Be “Dark Pinocchio” Story Of Robot Violence

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