Test Screenings of the new animated film 9 by director Shane Acker and producer Tim Burton have been favorable. The computer-animated film is an adaptation of a shorter work which won several awards.
9 -The Film
The story centers around a rag doll-like being named 9. He is the 9th and last of a series of little creatures called stitchpunks who were created by a scientist and live in a ruined , post-apocalyptic world. He is stalked and hunted by a mechanical monster called The Cat Beast, who steals the souls of the stitchpunks and keeps them in a container, then skins their bodies for clothing. Alone after the capture of his one-eyed friend 5, 9 attempts to trick the Cat Beast and retrieve the canister that contains the souls of his friends.