Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Groups has gone galactic. The studio acquisitions arm has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to the animated family film "
Planet 51," scheduling it for a Nov. 20, 2009, release through its TriStar Pictures label.
Produced by HandMade Films International and Ilion Animation Studios Film, "Planet" is an alien adventure about an Earth astronaut (voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) who lands on
Planet 51, thinking he's first to set foot on it only to discover "little green people" who live in a white picket-fence community reminiscent of 1950s America. Their only fear is being overrun by alien invaders like the astronaut.