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Contents
Articles
Moisés Arias
1
Astro Boy (film)
3
Beethoven's Big Break
10
Dadnapped
13
Despicable Me 2
15
Disney Channel Games
18
Hannah Montana
30
Kickin' It
43
Love Bites (TV series)
49
The Perfect Game
55
The Suite Life of Zack
59
We the Party
72
Moises Arias
74
References
Article Sources and Contributors
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Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors
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Moisés Arias
1
Moisés Arias
Moisés Arias
Arias in August 2010
Born
April 18, 1994
[1]
New York, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
2005–present
Moisés Arias (born April 18, 1994) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for his role as Rico
on Hannah Montana.
Life and career
Born in New York, Arias' parents are from Colombia.[2] He is fluent in Spanish.[1][3] His brother is Kickin' It actor
Mateo Arias. He and his brother directed a series of YouTube films under the user name Moiswashere. They are
currently working on a film called Motocross Madness.[4]
Moisés has made guest appearances on shows such as The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Everybody Hates Chris and
Wizards of Waverly Place. He had a recurring role as Rico on Hannah Montana, and became a series regular in the
show's second season. In 2009, he played Andre in the Disney Channel Original Movie Dadnapped. As a regular on
the Disney Channel, he participated on the first and second Disney Channel Games on the red team. He also
participated in the third Disney Channel games on the Yellow Team (Comets).
He appeared in music videos for Pearl Jam, Jonas Brothers (SOS), and Parmalee, and the movie Nacho Libre (minor
role). He participated in the Guadalajara Film Festival (2009) during the presentation of the movie The Perfect Game
[5]
with Eva Longoria.
Arias appeared on the ESPN family of networks as a roving 'sideline' reporter conducting interviews with fans and
players at the 2009 Little League World Series. He appeared in Beethoven's Big Break in 2008. He appeared in
Wizards of Waverly Place and played Max (Jake T. Austin)'s conscience.
Moisés Arias
2
Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2005
Everybody Hates Chris
Kid #5
Episode: "Everybody Hates Chris"
2006
Dive Olly Dive!
Olly (Voice)
6 episodes
2006
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Randall
2006
Nacho Libre
Episode: "Day Care"
Jorge Sugantes
2006–11 Hannah Montana
Rico
70 episodes
2008
Beethoven's Big Break
Billy
Direct to DVD film
2009
Dadnapped
André
Disney Channel Original Movie
2009
The Perfect Game
Mario Ontiveros
2009
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Rico
2009
Astro Boy
Zane
2009
Wizards of Waverly Place
Max's conscience 3 episodes
2009
Phineas and Ferb
Fred
Voice; Episode: "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo"
2011
Love Bites
Jeff
Episode: "Sky High"
2012
We the Party
Quicktime
2012
The Middle
Matt
Sue Heck's boyfriend; 3 episodes.
2012
The Secret World of Arrietty
Spiller
Voice; United States Dub
2012
'Noobz'
Hollywood
2013
Ender's Game
Bonzo Madrid
Supporting role
2013
Despicable Me 2
Antonio
Filming
Voice
Music Videos
Year
Artist
Single
2012
Jaden Smith
Gonzoes
2012
Jaden Smith
The Coolest
References
[1] Colombia Passport: Economics, Culture and Society: " (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20090527141027/ http:/ / colombiapassport. com/
2009/ 03/ 23/ moises-arias-of-colombia), May 27, 2009 archived version of Moisés Arias of Colombia (http:/ / colombiapassport. com/ 2009/
03/ 23/ moises-arias-of-colombia/ )", March 23, 2009. Link retrieved March 25, 2009. Cite: "If some Colombians dream with an American
passport, there are cases of Americans who are proud of say they are Colombians. It is the case of New York-born actor Moises Arias, a teen
heart throb and an American US television actor who is proud of the origin of his parents: Colombia."
[2] http:/ / latino. foxnews. com/ latino/ entertainment/ 2012/ 02/ 17/ not-so-secret-world-colombian-actor-moises-arias/
[3] Caracol Radio: "Moisés Arias, el colombiano de wizards of waverly place", March 22, 2009 (in Spanish). Link retrieved 25 March 2009.
"Moisés Arias es un nuevo talento de la actuación en Hollywood, hijo de antioqueños y que con orgullo dice ser colombiano (...)" (tr.en
"Moisés Arias is a new talent of the acting in Hollywood, the son of Antioqueans and says with pride that he is a Colombian.")
[4] "Moises Arias Interview" (http:/ / www. kidzworld. com/ article/ 15865-moises-arias-interview/ ) Kidzworld.com. Retrieved on 2009-04-07.
[5] Caracol Radio: "Moisés Arias, el venezolano de Hannah Montana", March 22, 2009 (in Spanish.) Link retrieved March 25, 2009. Cite: "...el
estreno en Guadalajara de la película “The Perect Game”, cinta que fue presentada mundialmente por la actriz de origen mexicano Eva
Longoria. (...)" (tr.en "...the debut in Guadalajara of the film The Perfect Game, a film that was introduced by the famous actress of Mexican
origin Eva Longoria".)
Moisés Arias
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External links
• Moisés Arias (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2030779/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Moisés Arias (http://www.allrovi.com/name/p477151) at AllRovi
Astro Boy (film)
Astro Boy
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
David Bowers
Produced by
Maryann Garger
Kuzuka Yayoki
Written by
Timothy Harris
David Bowers
Story by
David Bowers
Based on
Astro Boy by
Osamu Tezuka
Starring
Freddie Highmore
Nicolas Cage
Kristen Bell
Bill Nighy
Donald Sutherland
Nathan Lane
Madeline Carroll
Eugene Levy
Samuel L. Jackson
Matt Lucas
Music by
John Ottman
Cinematography Pepe Valencia
Editing by
Robert Anich Cole
Studio(s)
Imagi Animation Studios
Tezuka Productions
Distributed by
Summit Entertainment
Release date(s)
•
•
•
Running time
94 minutes
Country
United States
Hong Kong
Language
English
Budget
$65 million
Box office
$44,093,014
October 8, 2009 (Hong Kong)
October 10, 2009 (Japan)
October 23, 2009 (United States)
[1]
[2]
Astro Boy, is a 2009 Hong Kong-American CGI action comedy film loosely based on the long-running Japanese
manga and anime series of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. It was produced by Imagi Animation Studios, the
animation production company of TMNT. The studio announced the project in September 2006. It was directed by
Astro Boy (film)
David Bowers and produced by Maryann Garger with Pilar Flynn as associate producer.[3] Freddie Highmore
provides the voice of Astro Boy in the film.[4] The film also features the voices of Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene
Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Moises Arias, Charlize Theron and Nicolas Cage. The film was
released first in Hong Kong on October 8, 2009, Japan on October 10, 2009 and in the United States on October 23,
2009.
Plot
The film is set in the futuristic Metro City, a metropolis which floats in the sky above the polluted "Surface". Metro
City's population is aided by a multitude of different robots who are dumped on the Surface when broken or disused.
Toby, son of Dr. Tenma, learns that his father is going to show President Stone, the militaristic leader of the city, the
Peacekeeper, a new guardian robot that he's been working on. Doctor Elefun, one of Tenma's colleagues, introduces
Stone to the Blue and Red Cores, two energy spheres mined from a star fragment, that produce energy which can
power robots via positive and negative energy, respectively. Stone places the Red Core in the Peacekeeper, causing it
to go out of control. The Peacekeeper tries to attack the humans, but Tenma puts a barrier between them. Meanwhile,
Toby has been released early from school, and rewires Orrin, his family's robot, in order to attend the Ministry of
Science's demonstration of the Peacekeeper. Seeking to have a closer look at the Peacekeeper, Toby enters the same
room as the robot, only for the Peacekeeper's first attempt to destroy the barrier to backfire with the result that Toby
is totally annihilated. After the Peacekeeper is stopped by security forces, Dr. Tenma, wracked with despair, builds
an identical robotic clone of Toby, using DNA from a strand of his hair to obtain his memories, which will make the
robot think he is Toby and powers it with the positive blue core. He also designed it with the most advanced defence
system ever created, not wanting to lose his son again. The robot quickly comes to life, and Tenma brings him home.
Tenma quickly realizes that while the robot possesses Toby's memories, his personality is far different and it can't
replace his original son. Unaware that he is a robot, Toby tries to figure out why he can understand the language of
some robot cleaners and discovers he can fly via rocket-boosters hidden in his shoes. He discovers various other
abilities and heads home to tell his father, only to find that Tenma and Elefun are discussing deactivating him.
Tenma reveals to Toby that he is robot, and how he doesn't want Toby anymore. Rejected by the person he believes
to be his own father, Toby flies away. President Stone's men detect the Blue Core's energy signature and pursue
Toby. Stone calls in the Spirit of Freedom: a massive, heavily-armed, flying battleship. Rendered unconscious, Toby
falls off the floating city and lands in the junkyard below. He meets several children including Cora, a girl who left
Metro City after her parents neglected her, and a robotic dog named Trashcan. Toby meets the Robot Revolution
Front: Sparx, Robotsky and Mike the Fridge, who easily identify Toby as a robot and rename him "Astro". Astro
goes along with his new name and lives with the children and their fatherly figure, Hamegg, who appears to care for
broken robots, but secretly treats robots just as callously as Stone, and also runs the Robot Games: destructive
gladiatorial matches in which robots are forced to fight to the death.
Astro and his friends find an offline construction robot named ZOG, and Astro secretly revives ZOG using the
energy from his own Blue Core. The kids bring him back and clean him up for the Robot Games. Later that night,
Astro comes across Cora trying to call Metrocity. She reveals to him that she actually has parents and was worried if
they even missed her. Astro promises not to tell and tries to tell her his secret but can't. The next day at the Hamegg
games, Hamegg betrays Astro, learning of him being a robot, and pits Astro against other robots in the Robot Games.
Unable to simply leave, Astro reluctantly destroys all the robots. Hamegg releases ZOG for Astro to fight, but both
refuse to fight one another. Stone and his men arrive then and arrest Astro. They take him back to the Ministry of
Science, where Tenma is asked to remove the Blue Core; however, at the last moment, he has a change of heart,
accepting that even if Astro is not Toby, he is still his son, and allows Astro to escape. Stone places the Red Core
into the Peacekeeper again, only for it to absorb him and take on his consciousness. Astro and Stone fight across the
city, demolishing most of the buildings and causing the city to begin crashing to Earth. Astro is able to slow Metro
City's decent by flying underneath and pushing upwards with his leg-rockets. Cora, the other children, and the Robot
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Revolution try to help to bring down the Peacekeeper/Stone fusion. Stone catches Astro and is about to absorb him,
but when the Blue and Red Cores clash, he lets Astro out due to the close proximity of the two Cores causing him
great pain.
Astro lands in a building, where he reunites with Tenma. Tenma tells him that if the Blue Core and Red Core come
together, Astro and the Peacekeeper will both die. Astro decides that this was the reason he was made, and flies
straight toward Stone, crashing into him and merging the Cores which destroys the Peacekeeper and frees Stone
(who is knocked out from the collision). However, with both Cores drained of energy, Astro is deactivated. Cora, Dr.
Elefun and others find Astro's body. ZOG transfers some of his Blue Core energy to Astro; with the catalyst
restarted, the Blue Core once more becomes a limitless source of energy, so Astro is easily revived and his wounds
automatically heal. Astro is reunited with Dr. Tenma, and Cora finds and makes up with her parents. Stone awakes,
only to be arrested by his own troops. When an alien life-form appears over the city, the movie ends with Astro
flying up to battle it.
Cast
• Freddie Highmore as Toby Tenma / Astro Boy. Toby is Dr. Tenma's son who is tragically killed in the
Introduction. Astro is a robotic replica of Toby built in his image and with his memories. Rejected by his father,
Astro is trying to find his place in the world. While in the manga, he is run by a technology called "kokoro"
(Japanese for "heart"), Astro runs on Blue Core energy in the film.
• Nicolas Cage as Dr. Bill Tenma, Toby's father, creator of Astro, and head of Metro City's Ministry of Science
• Kristen Bell as Cora,[5] a tomboy kid who lives on the Surface and is Astro's love interest.
• Bill Nighy as Professor Simon Elefun, Dr. Tenma's friend & associate and as Robotsky of the Robot
Revolutionary Front.
• Donald Sutherland as President Stone, the ruthless President of Metro City who is running for re-election. He
serves as the main antagonist of the film.
• Samuel L. Jackson as ZOG, a 100-year-old construction robot brought back to life by Astro's blue-core energy
• Nathan Lane as Hamegg, a surface-dweller who repairs machines and then uses them in his fighting tournament
• Matt Lucas as Sparx, the leader of the Robot Revolutionary Front.
• David Bowers as Mike the Fridge, a talking refrigerator and third member of the Robot Revolutionary Front
• Charlize Theron as "Our Friends" Narrator, of an educational video seen at the film's beginning
• Eugene Levy as Orrin, the robotic servant of the Tenma household
• Moisés Arias as Zane, a surface-dwelling child
• Alan Tudyk as Mr. Squeegee, a cleaning robot
• David Alan Grier as Mr. Squirt, a cleaning robot
• Madeline Carroll as Widget, twin of Sludge
• Sterling Beaumon as Sludge, the twin of Widget
• Dee Bradley Baker as Trashcan, a dog-like robot who serves as a literal bin
• Elle Fanning as Grace (cameo only) a girl from Hamegg's house who kicks President Stone in the shins
• Ryan Stiles as Mr. Mustachio, Toby's teacher.
• Newell Alexander as General Heckler, President Stone's head of military.
• Victor Bonavida as Sam, a teen from Hamegg's house
• Tony Matthews as Cora's father
• Bob Logan as Stinger One, President Stone's minion pilot who wants to capture Astro
• Ryan Ochoa as Rick, another boy from Hamegg's house
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Production
In 1997, Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased the film rights to Astro Boy from Tezuka Productions, intending to
produce a live-action feature film. Todd Alcott was set to write the screenplay, but the film halted in 2000 when
Steven Spielberg began A.I., another film with a robot boy who replaces a dead child.[6] In December 2001, Sony
hired Eric Leighton to direct all-CGI film, with Angry Films and Jim Henson Productions producing it for a 2004
release.[7]
In June 2004, Leighton was replaced with animator Genndy Tartakovsky to direct a live-action/animatronics/CGI
feature film.[6] After writing the script, the film didn't go into the production, and Tartakovsky left next year to direct
CG-animated feature films at a new studio, Orphanage Animation Studios.[8] Few months later it was revealed, that
he was set to direct The Dark Crystal sequel, The Power of the Dark Crystal, another co-production with Jim Henson
Productions.[9]
In September 2006, it was announced that Hong Kong-based animation firm Imagi Animation Studios would
produce a CGI animated Astro Boy film,[10] with Colin Brady directing it.[11] A year later, the studio made a
three-picture distribution deal with Warner Bros. and The Weinstein Company, which also included TMNT and
Gatchaman.[12] In 2008, Summit Entertainment took over the film's distribution rights.[13] The same year, Brady was
replaced with David Bowers.[14]
Imagi also planned to make an Astro Boy sequel if the first one would go well.[15]
Design
When adapting the film for a western audience and making the leap from 2D to 3D, some changes to Astro had to be
made. The more challenging was his kawaii portrayal, part of which were his large eyes and curly eyelashes, which
made him too feminine. Imagi had several discussions on how round and curvy Astro's body proportions should be
and in the end they were made to be more lean. Also there were issues on Astro's rear end being too small, and that
too was altered after talks with Tezuka. The by-product of these changes was Astro's Caucasian look.[16]
In early development Astro's design was younger, resembling his iconic design of a 6-year old boy. The design team
changed that and made him look like a 12 year old to appeal to a larger audience.[16] They also gave him a shirt, and
a jacket since they thought it would be strange to have a normal boy running around without one.[17] They also
replaced his heart-shaped energy core with a glowing blue one.[18]
Music
The score to Astro Boy was composed by John Ottman, who recorded his score with a 95-piece orchestra and choir at
Abbey Road Studios.[19] A soundtrack album was released on October 20, 2009 by Varèse Sarabande Records.
Release
Marketing
Beginning in May 2009 and continuing through September 2009, IDW Publishing published a "prequel" and comic
book adaptation of the film as both mini-series and in graphic novel format to coincide with the North American
release of the film in October 2009.
A model of a motionless Astro Boy waiting to be powered up was set up at Peak Tower, Hong Kong, outside
Madame Tussauds Hong Kong in September 2009.
A panel of the film was held at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 23, 2009.[20]
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Home media
Astro Boy was released in the US on DVD and Blu-ray March 16, 2010, by Summit Entertainment. Both releases
include two new animated sequences; a featurette with the voice cast including Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Freddie
Highmore and Donald Sutherland, among others; three other featurettes about drawing Astro Boy, making an
animated movie and getting the Astro Boy look; and an image gallery.[21]
In Japan a special Limited Edition Astro Boy Premium Box Set was released. It featured the same content from the
US release with the exception of it spanning on two DVDs (One the film, the other special features with two bonus
features exclusive to Japanese) and has both English and Japanese dub (along with English and Japanese subtitles.)
The box set also comes with a DVD (containing a single story on Astro's first flight and an image gallery), Dr
Tenma's Project Notes (featuring 80 pages of CGI models, character art and set designs from the film), a Micro SD
(featuring the motion manga Atomu Tanjo (Birth of Astro Boy) originally written by Osamu Tezuka), a postcard of
1980 Astro Boy flying, a small bookmark (that is actually a reel from the film inside a plastic cover) and Astro's
blueprints from the film.[22][23]
Reception
Critical response
The film received mixed reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 50% of 129
critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.6 out of 10. The site's general consensus is
that "While it isn't terribly original, and it seems to have a political agenda that may rankle some viewers, Astro Boy
boasts enough visual thrills to please its target demographic."[24] On Metacritic, which assigns an average rating out
of 100 to reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 53 based on 22 reviews.[25]
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B and wrote of the film having "little too much
lost-boys-and-girls mopiness", but "Astro Boy is a marvelously designed piece of cartoon kinetics..."[26] Glenn
Whipp of the Los Angeles Times gave the mixed review claiming "The kids won't get it but will enjoy the big,
climactic robot rumpuses, which owe a heavy debt to Brad Bird's The Iron Giant".[27]
Box office
The film was not a big hit in Japan, appearing at the bottom of the opening week's Top 10 rankings and earning only
$328,457. Conversely, the film was very successful in China, breaking a box-office record for a CG animated film.
This follows the same pattern as Dragonball Evolution and Speed Racer, other American-produced films based on
Japanese sources that were not big hits in the land of their origin but were very successful in China.[28] The film also
was not a box office success in the U.S., opening at #6, grossing $6.7 million,[29] where it remained in the Top 10 for
three weeks. When it closed in January 2010, it had a total gross of $20 million.[30]
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