Live Action Anime

The bad news: I didn’t get the opportunity to see Astro Boy during its brief theatrical run.
The good news: I found someone to do my job for me instead! So credit for today’s review of Astro Boy goes to friend and follower of liveactionanime.org and The Thrasher’s Word, Tasunara, also known as ZeroKyohaku. Without further [...]

Well it seems that lots of Astro Boy clips hit the net today, and you can check them all out below.
Astro Boy released in Japan two weeks ago and will hit theaters in North America this Friday.

Astro Boy – Calling Metro City
by E1films

Astro Boy – Astro Meets Hamegg
by E1films

Astro Boy – The Robot Revolutionary Front
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Yep you’ll soon be able to go to your local McDonald’s and pick up a happy meal with an Astro Boy toy inside of it.McDonald’s has added an interactive preview of the toys based on the upcoming Astro Boy movie.
Source: Anime News Network

The film distributor Summit Entertainment has posted one of the television commercials for David Bowers’ and IMAGI’s computer-animated film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy manga and anime earlier this week. Also posted on the same Movie Jungle website as the commercial is a three-minute clip from the film.
The New York International Children’s Film Festival [...]

Moviefone has posted a high definition video clip from IMAGI’s Astro Boy film set to release in Japan on October 10 and in North America on October 23. In the clip Astro Boy realizes that he is a robot, and must goes on a high speed chase through the skies to try and evade being [...]

Thanks go to ANN for this item of news. The 53rd BFI (British Film Institute) London Film Festival will be screening Studio IMAGI’s computer-animated adaptation of Astro Boy from October 14th to the 29th.

The trailer for the Astro Boy, directed by David Bowers and featuring the voice talent of Freddie Highmore in the lead role, [...]

The live action Astro Boy series (1959-1960) will finally have a DVD box set release in Japan on October 23. The live action series was actually made four years before the original Astro Boy Anime, and during the opening sequence 75 seconds were cel-animated meaning the live action series opening actually is the first animated [...]

MSN has up a new trailer from Astroboy.  Shows alot about how the film is going to look and what the story is about.   Pretty cool trailer for those that are interested in seeing the movie.
Click the pic to watch the trailer.

Check out this new video from Imagi that gives those that aren’t familiar with Astro Boy a brief introduction and history of Astro Boy.  The clip features some footage from the original anime as well as stuff from the movie, and a soundtrack by Linkin Park.
Originally the video showed up on Sina, but I couldn’t [...]

Back at the end of December, the first teaser for the upcoming CGI adaptation of classic anime series Astro Boy hit the web.  Nearly three months later, the official site has finally put up the full trailer for the film!  And you can watch it right HERE!

To discuss what’s inside the new trailer, head on [...]