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Every year the same question is asked about the Best Animated Feature category: can anyone beat Disney? Walt Disney Studios, along with subsidiary Pixar, has won 14 Oscars in the Best Animated Feature category since the category began two decades ago, followed in a distant second by DreamWorks Animation's two wins. 26…

Belle is set to top $2 million Thurs.-Mon. on 1,326 screens, according to distributor GKIDS. With Saturday’s actuals, it said, the gross surpassed $1.2M, making it director Mamoru Hosoda’s highest grossing film in the U.S. That was previously 2018’s Mirai with $812K. Hosoda's (The Boy and the Beast) latest film with…

Chace Crawford (The Boys), Manny Jacinto (Nine Perfect Strangers), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) and newcomer Kylie McNeill will lead the English-language voice cast for Mamoru Hosoda’s Gkids awards contender Belle, which is scheduled for release alongside the original Japanese-language version in U.S. theaters (including…

When director Mamoru Hosoda selected Eric Wong to design the virtual world in his movie Belle, Wong was still working a full-time job at an architectural practice. But he wasn’t going to let that get in the way of working with one of his favorite directors. In Belle, Suzu (Kaho Nakamura), a shy high school student…

Gkids, the producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights for Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (Gyoko no Nikuko-chan). Produced by Japanese comedy legend Sanma Akashiya, this is a cinematic adaptation of the novel of the same name…

Gkids anounced today that Oscar nominated director Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, The Boy and the Beast) and Studio Chizu’s newest film Belle is set to debut in American cinemas on January 14, 2022. Belle tells a fantastical, heartfelt story about the experience of growing up in the age of social media. Its protagonist, Suzu…

Gkids has nabbed North American rights to Takayuki Hirao’s indie anime pic Pompo the Cinephile, and will release both the original Japanese-language film (titled Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san) and a new English-language version in U.S. theaters early next year. Hirao’s ode to filmmaking centers on Pompo, a talented and gutsy…

Gkids is bringing The Deer King to North America. The animation producer-distributor has acquired rights to the Japanese-language film directed by Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji after its premiere in competition at the Annecy Film Festival this week. Watch a teaser above. Gkids will open a subtitled and…

Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights to Belle, the latest animated film from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda and Japan's Studio Chizu. A winter theatrical release is in the works for the pic, which represents a re-team of the distributor, Hosoda and Studio Chizo after 2018’s Mirai, which…

On Friday, March 19, Wolfwalkers will be rereleased in theaters, North American distributor Gkids announced today. The Apple Original Film's latest theatrical run will kick off in New York, at the Angelika Film Center. In celebration of the Irish roots of the fantastical hand-drawn pic, which is set in Kilkenny, Gkids…

With Wolfwalkers, directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart looked to enter uncharted creative territory, while closing out an acclaimed 'Irish Folklore Trilogy' that kicked off over a decade ago. Produced by small-but-mighty, Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, Moore’s previous features, The Secret of Kells…

With his debut feature On-Gaku: Our Sound, Kenji Iwaisawa looked to "pursue a new expression" in animation, through the juxtaposition of offbeat characters and deadpan atmosphere not often found in the medium. Based on a manga created by Hiroyuki Ôhashi, On-Gaku follows three delinquent teenagers as they set out to…