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Imagi No More! "Astro-Boy" Failure Brings Down Studio
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August
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:40 pm Posts: 408 Location: San Frantastic!
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 Imagi No More! "Astro-Boy" Failure Brings Down Studio
With the world-wide failure of ASTRO-BOY at the box office, Imagi is folding, which doesn't bode well for the upcoming GATCHAMAN and proposed GIGANTOR (T-28) movies. One of the employees spills the beans on his own blog: http://felixip.blogspot.com/2010/02/good-bye-imagi.html
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Robert DeCastro
Side Dealer
Joined: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:31 am Posts: 2216 Location: In Limbo
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Crap! Too bad they didn't decide to do the Tetsujin 28 movie first. Might have had a diff outcome. August wrote: With the world-wide failure of ASTRO-BOY at the box office, Imagi is folding, which doesn't bode well for the upcoming GATCHAMAN and proposed GIGANTOR (T-28) movies. One of the employees spills the beans on his own blog: http://felixip.blogspot.com/2010/02/good-bye-imagi.html
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Biff
S7 Royalty
Joined: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:19 pm Posts: 3442
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Or they just might have fucked up the other two like they did w/ Astro-Boy. I don't think there was any respect for the original material.
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SAMBA
Comment King
Joined: Sun May 06, 2007 1:15 pm Posts: 1228 Location: LONDON
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Wow- thats a shame, turtles was surprisingly good, wouldnt have minded a sequel.
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kidclam
Mini Boss
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:51 am Posts: 4250
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I was so happy that some creative people from HK making it in the international film industry. However, I really didn't like Astroboy and what they did to it. It was just lame. Osamu Tezuka had so many cool ideas, story and also great design robots, why do they have to reinvent for the sake of a new audience? I just rewatched about ten episodes of the 80's Astroboy. Love it so much. I didn't know that Skunk was never in the English version, it was cut out. I wish to get the 60's version but not sure where I can find it.
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Darky
Line of Credit
Joined: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:49 am Posts: 1837 Location: Australia
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Imagi didn't really contribute anything worthwhile.
TMNT movie is all I can think of right now, which was _OK_.
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August
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:40 pm Posts: 408 Location: San Frantastic!
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Kidclam, here is the original 1960s ASTRO-BOY series on DVD: http://www.amazon.com/Astro-Boy-Ultra-C ... B000E3LGDI
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