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Astro Boy gets a new director

January 25th, 2008
Author Kevin Melrose

From "Astro Boy," by Imagi Animation Studio

Variety reports that David Bowers (Flushed Away) is replacing Colin Brady as director on Astro Boy, the $50 million CG-animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga and anime.

Imagi Studios is producing the movie, which will be released in 2009 by Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co.

 

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One Response to “Astro Boy gets a new director”
  1. Toneloak Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    WHY?

    I would really like to know why. I was really confident in this flick this is just very disconcerting without a valid explanation.

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