It’s onerous to recollect precisely what number of occasions legendary animation filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has claimed to have gone into retirement. Luckily, he’ll have yet one more masterpiece up his sleeve later this 12 months with Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (translated as How Do You Live). Today, GKIDS introduced it had acquired the North American distrubution rights for the movie which might be often known as The Boy and the Heron within the states.
Read the official press launch beneath for particulars:
GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of award-winning animation, introduced its acquisition of North American distribution rights to THE BOY AND THE HERON, the extremely anticipated new movie from the legendary Academy Award-winning Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Japan’s celebrated animation home, Studio Ghibli. Released in Japan as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (translated as How Do You Live), the movie is an unique story written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by the Oscar®-winning Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki, and encompasses a musical rating from Miyazaki’s long-time collaborator Joe Hisaishi.
The all-rights deal marks a continuation of GKIDS’ long-standing relationship with Ghibli. GKIDS will launch THE BOY AND THE HERON theatrically in North America later this 12 months.
Informally referred to in English-language press by its tentative title, How Do You Live, the official worldwide title is unveiled as THE BOY AND THE HERON. The hand-drawn, animated characteristic – director Miyazaki’s first characteristic movie in 10 years – opens completely in Japanese cinemas this weekend. In an unprecedented resolution by Studio Ghibli, no pictures, trailers, synopses, commercials, or different details about the movie have been made obtainable to the general public previous to its launch in theaters in Japan. In maintaining with this coverage, GKIDS won’t launch any additional particulars or advertising and marketing supplies right now.
“Hayao Miyazaki is a living legend in filmmaking, as evidenced by his Academy Award win for Spirited Away and his two Oscar nominations for Howl’s Moving Castle and The Wind Rises,’” mentioned David Jesteadt, GKIDS president. “It’s been ten years since the world has seen a new film from Miyazaki-san, and GKIDS is so proud and honored to unveil his latest, highly anticipated masterpiece in North America.”
GKIDS handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of movies throughout all theatrical, residence video, digital, and streaming platforms. The firm has launched Studio Ghibli’s most up-to-date movies in theaters nationwide, together with the Academy Award-nominated The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, the Academy Award-nominated When Marnie Was There, From Up on Poppy Hill and extra. Since 2017, GKIDS has produced the annual Studio Ghibli Fest, a month-to-month nationwide theatrical program of Ghibli movie screenings in over 800 theaters throughout the nation. The sequence continues this 12 months with a deal with the movies of Hayao Miyazaki.
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