Lost Star

Lost Star is a 2004 animated romantic fantasy comedy-drama action film directed by Tatsuya Hironaka and produced by Shinichi Ikeda, Tomonori Ochikoshi, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, with Moshi Kawara serving as an executive producer. Starring the voices of Elijah Wood, Anna Paquin, Tim Roth, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Bynes, Jason Bateman, Catherine McCormack, Michael Rhys and Adrian Edmondson, the film focuses on student Alistair Morris (Wood), who, during a commotion with a humanoid entity (Roth), suddenly meets and saves a girl (Paquin) from the entity, who he names Eloise. It turns out this girl is really from another world who came to Earth in the form of a star, and the entity is a "Demon of the Night" named Gideon, who goes around Earth slaughtering it's inhabitants to try and increase his lifespan, and he intends to capture her in order to use her lifeforce to become immortal.
Hironaka got the idea for the film in 1997, around the time he directed the On the Ropes segment for London Stories. A short pilot demonstrating the idea was created in 1999, which caught the attention of Moshi Kawara, and the film was officially announced in 2001 as a collaboration between Hironaka, J.C.Staff, The Moshi Kawara Office and Working Title Films, the latter of whom had previously produced London Stories.
Lost Star was release to theaters in Japan on September 4, 2004 by Movie-Eye Entertainment, Inc. and on September 10, 2004 in the United States and United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. Critical reviews were generally positive, with praise towards the characters, animation, voice acting and Mark Thomas' score, but some criticized the film's story for being somewhat derivative. Despite this, the film was a major success at the box office, grossing $146 million against a $20 million budget, and has since maintained a cult following amongst audiences.
==Plot==
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==Cast==
Character 	Seiyū 	English Voice Actor
Alistair Morris 	Tetsuya Iwanaga 	Elijah Wood
Eloise 	Chisa Yokoyama 	Anna Paquin
Gideon 	Kazuhiro Nakata 	Tim Roth
Francis Ballard 	Akira Ishida 	Dominic Cooper
Harriet Ruell 	Yui Makino 	Amanda Bynes
Dwight Burton 	Kōichi Miura 	Jason Bateman
Wynne Harper 	Emi Shinohara 	Catherine McCormack
Ronan 	Daisuke Kishio 	Michael Rhys
Winslow 	Yūji Ueda 	Adrian Edmondson
Vince Hampton 	Takeshi Aono 	Robert Redford
William Hargraves	Wataru Takagi 	Lee Evans
Tiffany Morris 	Rei Sakuma 	Lorelei King
Ernest Morris 	Akio Ōtsuka 	Eric Meyers
Alexis Robson 	Yuriko Yamaguchi	April Winchell
Ronald Baker 	Kōichi Yamadera 	Jim Cummings
Jamie Riley 	Yōichi Masukawa 	Ben Small
Reporter 	Chie Nakamura 	Liza Ross
Radio Voice 	Kazuya Nakai 	Glenn Wrage
Fabian Meyer 	Hiro Yūki 	Steve Bulen
Narrator 	Hideyuki Tanaka 	Tom Baker
===Additional voices===
*Dan Russell
*Jimmy Hibbert
*Steve Bulen
*Jules De Jongh
*Lewis Macleod
*Sherry Lynn
*Mickie McGowan
*Dee Bradley Baker
*Emma Tate
*Joshua Seth
*Stephan Lander
*Sonya Leite
*Tom Clarke-Hill
*Richard Epcar
*Eddie Frierson
*Scott Menville
==Release==
Lost Star had it's Japanese theatrical release on September 4, 2004 by foreign and independent film distributor Movie-Eye Entertainment, Inc. The American and British theatrical release followed a week later on September 10, 2004. Unlike most Working Title releases, the film was released in America and Britain on the same day, rather than being released in one territory first and the other later
=== Home media ===
Lost Star was released on VHS and DVD by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States on December 14, 2004, in both full screen and widescreen formats, and in the UK on December 28, 2004. Featurettes included an audio commentary with Moshi Kawara, Adam Brooks and Elijah Wood, a making of featurette, multi-angle scene comparisons, two deleted scenes, actor interviews, production notes, a gallery and the film's trailers and TV spots. The film also saw release on the UMD format in February 2006 and the HD DVD format in 2007; It was the only animated film from Universal to be released on either format. A Blu-ray of the film was released in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2011 and in the United States on February 21, 2012. Due to licensing restrictions with the Japanese rightsholders, all of the British and American video releases only contain the English version.
In Japan, the film was released on DVD by Geneon Entertainment on August 10, 2005. This release contains both English and Japanese audio tracks and a different set of bonus features in contrast to the British and American home video releases. A Blu-ray of the film was released in Japan by NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan on June 11, 2014.
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