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Julia Roberts voicing "Ant Bully"
POSTED ON 10/15/04 AT 8:30 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

Variety prints today that Julia Roberts will lend her voice to Warner Bros.' and Playtone's "Ant Bully," a CGI-animated feature. The picture will be written and directed by "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" helmer John Davis.

"Ant Bully" is based on the illustrated children's book by John Nickle about "a mischievous boy who menaces an ant colony and destroys its anthill with his water gun. He's shrunk to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the colony." Newcomer Zach Tyler will voice the shrunken kid, Lucas Nickle. The film will also include the voices of Shirley MacLaine, Paul Giamatti, Alan Cumming, Cheri Oteri and Ricardo Montalban.