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February 19, 2004 — Sony Pictures Animation has announced that is has greenlit "Open Season" as its first computer-animated feature.

Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher and Debra Messing will lend their voices to the computer-generated comedy, planned for a 2006 release.

"Open Season" tells the story of a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog (Lawrence) and a scrawny, one-horned mule deer named Elliot (Kutcher) who are stranded together in the woods during hunting season. It's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters.

Messing (NBC's "Will & Grace") will voice a forest ranger who rescued Boog as a cub and raised him.

"I think the film is going to be really funny," said Yair Landau, vice-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and prexy of Sony Pictures Digital. "It's got great voices, a great story, and we've got some really talented animators and great technology."

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