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China Set To Release Most Expensive Animated Film Date: 8/7/2006 |
| "Thru the Moebius Strip" (www.moebiusstrip.net), the most-expensive animated film ever made in China, which features more than 400 artists from eight countries, will hit screens in China on Friday. The 16.25-million-U.S.-dollar animation, about a resourceful boy's adventure, is thoroughly western in terms of visual style, content and characterisation, Teresa Cao, assistant to the general manager of the Institute of Digital Media Technology (Shenzhen) Limited (IDMT), the movie's producer, told Xinhua on Thursday. "We spent five years making the three-dimensional film," Cao said, adding that many famous foreign artists appear in the credit list, including director Glenn Chaika ("Mulan 2"), animation supervisor Kelvin Lee ("City of Angels" and "Stuart Little") and Bob Koch ("Toy Story 2" and "A Bug's Life"). Overseas distribution rights for the movie have been sold to more than 10 countries. Merchandising products such as illustration albums, novels, clothes, accessories and toys will go on sale later, she said. The film was made in English with Chinese as second language, a first for China-made films. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
