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Horton Hears a Movie

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Following almost two years of negotiations, Twentieth Century Fox Animation has acquired rights to turn the Dr. Seuss classic, Horton Hears a Who, into a computer generated animated feature film, it was announced today by Chris Meledandri, president of Twentieth Century Fox Animation.

Blue Sky Studios, the New York-based unit of Twentieth Century Fox Animation, will produce Horton Hears a Who. Previously, Blue Sky produced the blockbuster animated feature Ice Age. Its latest effort, Robots, will be released on Friday. Horton Hears a Who is scheduled to follow Blue Sky's next feature, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, which is currently in production.

Fox made the deal for Horton Hears a Who with Audrey Geisel, widow of Theodor Geisel, who penned his beloved novels under the name "Dr. Seuss". Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are currently writing the screenplay.

Commented Chris Meledandri: "I have always wanted to do a digitally animated Dr. Seuss movie, and Horton Hears a Who has the right narrative structure to make a wonderful film."

Fox has also acquired the rights to the second book in the "Horton" series, Horton Hatches the Egg.

One of the world's largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.

Roboots up for auction
This one-of-a-kind pair of the RoBoots is signed by Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge, Drew Carey, Greg Kinnear and director Chris Wedge, and will be up for bid on eBay, the World's Online Marketplace.

Eighty percent of the winning bid from the charity auction, which is being managed by online auction agencyKompolt, will go to Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and in more than 40 countries around the world. Information on Save the Children may be found at www.savethechildren.org.

RoBoots accessories are real, kid-sized toy boots from Mattel, Inc. that make crashing, clanging and clattering sounds styled like the ones worn by Rodney Copperbottom, the main character from the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox animated movie, ROBOTS. When wearing their RoBoots accessory, kids can bring to life scenes from the movie or create their own adventure. ROBOTS, opening nationwide on March 11, 2005, features an all-star, award-winning cast and presents a completely imagined world - a metal-clanging universe filled solely with robots - following aspiring 'bot inventor Rodney Copperbottom as he embarks on a timeless journey of self-discovery and adventure.

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