Hello Kitty Movie Now In Development
By Ethan Anderton/July 5, 2015 12:30 pm EST
The brand can be seen all over the world, turned into stuffed animals, backpacks, shirts, and there’s been several animated television series geared towards kids. So it was inevitable that the character would jump to the big screen. Find out more about the Hello Kitty movie after the jump.
First of all, for those who don’t know anything about this characters, this is how Sanrio describes the female gijinka (personification of a cat) on their official Facebook page for the character:
I’d hate to find out how many apples I weigh. Anyway, Sanrio also list her interests as traveling, listening to music, reading, eating yummy cookies, and making new friends, and she collects small, cute objects like ribbons, hair accessories, candy, stars, and goldfish. She’s just a normal anthropomorphic cat!
Hello Kitty 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. Her trademark is her red bow that she always wears over her left ear. Hello Kitty is as heavy as three apples and as tall as five apples.
You may not know this, but Hello Kitty is actually 40 years old, though it feels like the brand has only gotten massively popular in the past few years. Somehow all of this has turned into a $7 billion global sensation that not only counts millions of children has fans, but also adults too, especially in Japan. And that’s all without spending any money on advertising.
Hollywood is all about brand recognition nowadays, but not all popular characters and brands are good for feature films. Hello Kitty is clearly popular enough for a movie to have an audience, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be good. But when something like The LEGO Movie worked so well, it’s clear that anything is possible, and studios want that kind of success for these kind of brands. If anything, a Hello Kitty movie will certainly rake in the international box office dollars, and that’s a big motivator for studios lately.
Is anyone out there interested in a Hello Kitty movie?
