GKIDS, the Academy Award®-winning producer and distributor of acclaimed and artist-driven animation from around the world, announced today it has acquired theatrical and home video rights for North America to the critical and box office sensation LOOK BACK. Directed and adapted for the screen by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, the film is based on the critically acclaimed original…
Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Academy Award-winning animation distributor GKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to the entire film catalog of a Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda. GKIDS’ President David Jesteadt said, “One of GKIDS’ earliest distribution projects was the theatrical release of ‘Summer Wars,’ when Mamoru Hosoda had already cemented his position as one…
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, which will be released in the U.S. on December 8, will have an all-star dub cast, says GKIDS, Studio Ghibli’s North American distributor. Set in 1943 during the Pacific War, The Boy and the Heron is a semi-autobiographical tale about Mahito, a twelve-year-old boy living with an aunt…
GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of award-winning animation from around the globe, announced today it will bring “THE BOY AND THE HERON,” the highly anticipated new film from legendary, Academy Award-winning Hayao Miyazaki, to cinemas nationwide on December 8, 2023. The latest feature from Japan’s celebrated animation house, Studio Ghibli, begins special preview engagements on…
When manga artist Takehiko Inoue drew “Slam Dunk,” an ambitious and emotionally layered sports manga which ran in “Weekly Shōnen Jump” from 1990 – 96, it left audiences with a vivid recollection soaked in high school nostalgia. After the series ended in 1996, there were some brief offshoots of the main series in collaboration with…
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasy epic, The Boy and the Heron, has been chosen to open this year’s 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The drama is set to screen on September 7 at Roy Thomson Hall concert hall in downtown Toronto, Variety is reporting. After being absent from making features…
How Do You Live?, the final work by iconic Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, had its much-anticipated premiere in Tokyo this week. The film will be titled The Boy and the Heron when it is released in U.S. theaters later this year, according to Gkids, the distributor that has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights. The…
The film, “The First Slam Dunk” has gained significant profits around the globe since hitting theaters in Japan. While the basketball anime was arriving in North America this summer, AMC Theaters has apparently shared the release date for the movie that has been taking the world by storm, the film is set to arrive in…
Indie distributor Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights for blockbuster Japanese animation film, “The First Slam Dunk“ from studio Toei Animation, finally has a window for its English theatrical release. Based on Takehiko Inoue’s best-selling manga Slam Dunk, which was serialized from 1990-1996 in Shonen Jump and spawned several anime movies in the ’90s, “The…
“SPIRITED AWAY: LIVE ON STAGE” Screenings Tickets are On Sale Now for the First-Ever Stage Production of Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-Winning Masterpiece Directed and Adapted by Tony Award®-Winner John Caird (Les Misérables) Screenings on April 23, 25, 27 and May 2nd Only VIEW TEASER Due to overwhelming fan demand, GKIDS and Fathom Events have added…
GKIDS ACQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS TO FILMED PERFORMANCES OF SPIRITED AWAY: LIVE ON STAGE The First-Ever Stage Production of Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-Winning Masterpiece Directed and Adapted by Tony Award®-Winner John Caird (Les Misérables) NEW YORK (February 8, 2023) – GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced…
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