Hello Kitty, the Japanese bobtail cat slash little girl named Kitty White who has become a worldwide icon over the last four decades, is finally getting a big-screen adaptation, Deadline reports. The movie will likely be animated and have a monster budget between $160 million and $240 million. What will happen in said movie is unclear at the moment (maybe this or this), but according to Hello Kitty's Facebook page, the feline "lives in the suburbs of London with her parents and her twin sister Mimmy. She has lots of friends at school with whom she shares many adventures." She also reportedly enjoys traveling, listening to music, reading, eating cookies, making friends, and collecting cute stuff, such as ribbons, hair accessories, candy, stars (because she is an astronaut), and goldfish (because she is a psycho). Stars, they are just like us. Hello Kitty's leap to celluloid will happen in 2019. Thanks...
- 7/6/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Every famous character eventually gets their shot at a film, and given that pretenders such as Angry Birds are already squawking their way towards our screens, it’s perhaps only right that something with even more history should join the avalanche. Prepare thyself, then, for news that a Hello Kitty movie is in the works. It’s all part of a plan by “Japanese character and lifestyle business” – no sugar-coating there – Sanrio, which has the rights to the Kitty character and is looking to develop a movie for launch in 2019 around the world, which sort of makes it sound like Skynet’s big plan, if the malignant machine was aiming to swamp us with cute, stylised creatures, not destroy us with nuclear weapons.Hello Kitty, which was originally initially known as “the white kitten with no name”, was created by Yuko Shimizu and introduced in Japan in 1975 before spreading globally in 1976. Oh,...
- 7/5/2015
- EmpireOnline
On Wednesday, Hello Kitty fans were rocked by the news that the Sanrio character isn't actually a cat. The Japanese company revealed Hello Kitty is a third grade girl from Britain named Kitty White who enjoys dressing up as a feline and eating apple pie. It is unclear how this shocking announcement will affect Hello Kitty's global appeal, but is hard to see Sanrio mania stopping anytime soon. For 40 years, Hello Kitty's bewhiskered face has been popping up on products worldwide. The phenomenon started with Hello Kitty pencil cases and coin purses, but has grown into something much more impressive over the decades.
- 8/29/2014
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
Well, this is just totally ridiculous.
Well, this is just totally ridiculous.
University of Hawaii anthropologist Christine R. Yano, who is curating a Hello Kitty Exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, revealed to the La Times that Sanrio, the company responsible for Hello Kitty, informed her that this cartoon cat-like creature:
Is Not A Cat.
Check It Out: This 'Mary Poppins' Theory Will Blow Your Mind!
"That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show," said Yano. "Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty."
Okay, Backup. Hello Kitty is not a cat, she's a little British girl named Kitty White, and she Has...
Well, this is just totally ridiculous.
University of Hawaii anthropologist Christine R. Yano, who is curating a Hello Kitty Exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, revealed to the La Times that Sanrio, the company responsible for Hello Kitty, informed her that this cartoon cat-like creature:
Is Not A Cat.
Check It Out: This 'Mary Poppins' Theory Will Blow Your Mind!
"That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show," said Yano. "Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty."
Okay, Backup. Hello Kitty is not a cat, she's a little British girl named Kitty White, and she Has...
- 8/28/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Bombshell news from today’s La Times! Hello Kitty—a brand beloved by innocent children and sarcastic teenagers—is not actually a cat. This from Christine R. Yano, anthropologist and Hello Kitty scholar. “Hello Kitty is not a cat,” she clarifies. “She’s a cartoon character.” Sure, sure, you’re saying to yourself, I get it, the representation of a thing is not the thing itself, images are treacherous, Ceci n’est pas une kitty. But this goes deeper than a philosophical argument. I’m saying that, in the fictional universe inhabited by Hello Kitty, she is not a cat.
- 8/27/2014
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Yes, you read that headline right. Hello Kitty is not - we repeat, Not - a cat. After 40 years of collecting the cash of cat lovers worldwide, the secret of Sanrio's star character has been revealed, according to the Los Angeles Times. The startling truth was uncovered by anthropologist/Hello Kitty scholar Christine R. Yano, who has studied the phenomenon surrounding the minimalist meower for years. Yano was, of course, the ideal person to help curate Los Angeles's upcoming Hello Kitty retrospective at the Japanese American National Museum. After Yano waded through all the Hello Kitty toasters, coin purses and...
- 8/27/2014
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
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