Bad news for the movie.
Imagi Animation Studios is running out of money and will temporarily shutting down operations. The financially squeezed Hong Kong-based studio responsible for TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) realized that it couldn't make its Los Angeles payroll, called everyone and laid off almost 80 union animators out of the 120 staff in the LA office, and halted production on the upcoming CGI-animated feature film Astro Boy for Summit Entertainment.