Deadline reports that Netflix will hold streaming rights to The Boy and the Heron worldwide, excluding Japan and the United States. MAX will host the film in the US. This arrangement is part of an agreement between Netflix, Goodfellas, and GKIDS to bolster GKIDS’ streaming repertoire. Twenty-two...
Read MoreIn light of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, The Boy and the Heron is returning to US theaters on March 22nd. The film will feature special added content like a foreword with composer Joe Hisaishi (who has composed most of Studio Ghibli’s oeuvre) and a drawing lesson with supervising...
Read MoreI wish I could say I’ve followed Studio Ghibli for decades. But unlike Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks, I was unfamiliar with the Japanese studio until I was a young adult. Over the last decade or so, I’ve watched all of their movies at least once and some several times. But The Boy and t...
Read MoreGKids and Studio Ghibli released the first trailer for The Boy and the Heron’s English dub, flaunting the film’s glorious English cast. Check it out here: It goes without saying that this movie looks amazing. It’s hard to criticize Hayao Miyazaki anyway, and they naturally chose some gorgeous...
Read MoreGKids and Studio Ghibli announced the English voice cast for The Boy and the Heron this morning. Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film is based on the 1937 novel How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino. The cast includes the following actors: Christian Bale as Shoichi Maki Dave Bautista as The Para...
Read MoreAt the Toronto International Film Festival, Studio Ghibli Vice President Junichi Nishioka indicated that famed director Hayao Miyazaki might not retire after The Boy and the Heron, as previously reported. Check out Nishioka’s translated statement here: “Other people say that this might ...
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