The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Astro Boy

The latest version jumps into our communal bowl on Oct 23rd. We’ve been fans here from the early days.


We are excited to see this one (even if we liked the old character design better!) and pleased that the film’s website has two games for us to play: the Astroboy rescue game and the Astroboy Blast-A-Bot game.

When you’re finish with them, click on the Timeline link to see a full timeline from 1928 to the present of how Astroboy manga / comic came about.

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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