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Warner Bros. announces 'Hello Kitty' movie set for release in 2028

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E. Kristhoff Cagape

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Warner Bros. announced that a Hello Kitty animated film will be released in 2028.On Thursday, October 30 (PH time), the studio revealed on Instagram: &quot;Hello Hollywood 🎀🌴🎬 #HelloKittyMovie is coming to theaters July 21, 2028!&quot;Fans online were quick to react to the news.&quot;OMG??? I’M ALREADY SEATED FOR THIS!!!&quot; one fan commented.&quot;Another Hello Kitty summer coming up,&quot; another fan wrote.&quot;Oh I CAN&#x27;T WAIT😍😍💖💖,&quot; another fan said.According to a report by Variety, the film, which will be released via Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and New Line Cinema &quot;marks Hello Kitty’s Hollywood theatrical debut as Hello Kitty and her friends embark on a cinematic adventure sure to delight audiences of all ages,&quot; as per statement by Warner Bros.Leo Matsuda will be directing the film.<div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQaZbs4EtbO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=="></a></div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQaZbs4EtbO/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A877451.099999994%2C%22ls%22%3A75719.69999998808%2C%22le%22%3A76669.39999997616%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div> </div>New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group., first announced its partnership with Sanrio in 2019 to bring Hello Kitty to Hollywood.&quot;I am extremely pleased that Hello Kitty and other popular Sanrio characters will be making their Hollywood debut,&quot; Sanrio founder, President and CEO Shintaro Tsuji remarked in a statement back in 2019. &quot;Hello Kitty has long been a symbol of friendship and we hope this film will only serve to grow that circle of friendship around the world,&quot; he added.Created in 1974, Hello Kitty made her first appearance on a vinyl coin purse in 1975. Since then, the character has become a global cultural icon. In 2022, Forbes reported that Hello Kitty, now present in more than 130 countries, was valued at $3.8 billion worldwide.Interestingly, Hello Kitty isn&#x27;t actually a cat. During the 2014 &quot;Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty&quot; exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, curator Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, revealed that Sanrio corrected her assumption.&quot;I was corrected — very firmly. That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She&#x27;s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She&#x27;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,&quot; she said in a past interview with Los Angeles Times.She also revealed that Hello Kitty&#x27;s name is Kitty White and she is British.In an interview on the Today show in 2024, Sanrio&#x27;s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management Jill Koch reaffirmed this, explaining: &quot;She&#x27;s actually a little girl born and raised in the suburbs in London. She has a mom and dad and a twin sister Minnie, who is also her best friend. She enjoys baking cookies and making new friends. [Hello Kitty] weighs three apples and is five apples tall.&quot;