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” ...

The film begins with the Phoenix retelling the tales and hopes of Astro Boy. Many of the visual being directly taken from the 1980s TV series as it recaps some of his adventures. Following this recap, ...

Osamu Tezuka’s groundbreaking Astro Boy comics paved the way for modern manga. They were gorgeously illustrated adventure stories that paid homage to both the Superman mythos and the Pinocchio story.

The live-action Astro Boy film is currently in early development. While Reitman and Kenan are guiding the creative vision behind the scenes, Sony has not officially attached Reitman to direct the ...

No director is attached, but the producers are about to begin a search for writers. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Australia’s Animal Logic Entertainment has partnered with Japan’s Tezuka Productions ...

A boy is chased by a robot through some ruins. There, he finds an Earth ruled by a computer called "Gaia," who has lost patience with humans who repeatedly cause war and environmental destruction.

Astro Boy, the robot with awesome hair and ultimate daddy issues, powers up in four gorgeous new wallpapers, straight from the Tezuka Production company. They’re part of Project Atom, dedicated to ...