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Astro Boy Movie Tagline: "Have a Blast"
Astro Boy Opening Weekend Performance: There is bad news and worse news…I’ll give you the bad first. This movie only took in about $7 million for its total weekend gross. The worse news? It cost $65 million to produce it!! This movie is a verifiable black hole…no money ever comes back from it.
Release Date (everywhere): October 23rd, 2009
Their Plot Synopsis: When a scientist’s young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot child to replace him, however the robot uses it’s incredible powers to become a world famous super-hero, and faces his biggest challenge when an alien race threatens Earth
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Charlize Theron and Donald Sutherland
My Thoughts: When I first saw the previews and started writing this post, I thought “Oh, cool, just another kids movie”. But I dug a bit deeper and found that adults might actually have a pretty good shot at actually enjoying this movie with their kids. I was reading up on some reviews of those that had seen this movie at some advance screenings, and it looks like the story line has enough “maturity” to it to actually keep an adult interested in the movie. It certainly has enough star power behind it (which kids won’t care about) to make an adult at least be interested enough in the movie to go with their kids to see it it.
