According to the Hollywood Reporter, Imagi Animation Studios has optioned rights to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy to produce a CGI animated feature for 2009 release.  

The Astro Boy movie project announced by Sony Pictures in 2004 (see 'Tartokovsky to Write and Direct Astro Boy'), fell through.

Imagi Animation is currently in production on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (see 'Release Date Set for TMNT Film').