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Astro boy, an Imagi Studios CG-animated 3-D feature, is set to release in little over a year, October 23, 2009. The movie will hit 3,000 theaters, a sure sign of blockbuster material.

Voice casting includes Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Bell, Scarlett Johansson and Nathan Lane.

Based on a highly successful Japanese franchise, Astro Boy is a young robot with superpowers created by a scientist in the image of the son he lost.  Because he doesn’t fulfill his grieving father’s expectations, Astro Boy takes off on journey of acceptance. 

Arriving in a decadent world of robot gladiators, being betrayed, Astro Boy returns to his father for reconciliation.

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