The 96th Academy Awards were held on Sunday, March 10, 2024, and it brought home exciting news for anime fans. Adding to Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s legacy, the author’s most recent project, The Boy and the Heron, won the Best Animated Feature Film Award at the Oscars 2024. The Boy and the Heron: Everything… Read More »
Another quiet weekend at the box office still drew a few surprises. Notably, The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla: Minus One—two Japanese films—claiming two of the top three spots. The former led the way with an impressive $12.8 million, the best US/Canada opening for GKIDS and Studio Ghibli, per Deadline. Meanwhile, Godzilla expanded to… Read More »
We’re lucky to live in an era where we can see a new film from Hayao Miyazaki. The 82-year-old Japanese filmmaker is a legend, with classics like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Moving Castle under his beard. It’s been ten years since Miyazaki’s last film, The Wind Rises, and he has come out… Read More »
Following the Japanese theatrical release of Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Boy and the Heron — previously titled How Do You Live? — a new photo for the film has made its way online. The new The Boy and The Heron photo comes courtesy of the San Sebastián Film Festival, which announced in a blog post that Miyazaki’s next… Read More »
Following the Japanese theatrical release of Hayao Miyazaki‘s final film, The Boy and the Heron, stills from Studio Ghibli’s latest have surfaced online. The images — sourced from a pamphlet given to moviegoers — provide fans with their very first look of the fantastical film. First pictures of Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie “The Boy and… Read More »
Hayao Miyazaki’s final movie, The Boy and the Heron, will open the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. GKIDS is going to screen this movie on September 7, 2023, becoming the first movie of this distributor to open the festival. They will distribute the movie in North American theaters later in 2023. This Studio Ghibli animated… Read More »