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Makoto Shinkai's hit anime Weathering With You has been selected to represent Japan in the International Feature Film category at the 92nd Oscars. The movie, which will have its North American premiere in Toronto, is about a runaway boy who befriends a girl who can manipulate the weather. It has been a runaway success…

Gkids has acquired the North American distribution rights to Ride Your Wave, the latest pic from director Masaaki Yuasa, which premiered last month at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. A 2020 theatrical release is planned. The film tells the complicated love story of a surf-loving college student named…

Gkids has acquired the North American distribution rights for Marona’s Fantastic Tale, an animated feature from Anca Damian. The feature premieres in competition at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival today. Damian previous film, Crulic: The Path to Beyond won Annecy's Cristal Prize for Best Feature in…

North American distributor GKids has picked up its first Chinese animated film in the shape of Annecy Int'l Animated Film Festival title White Snake. GKids will release the film theatrically this fall in both original Chinese and a new English-language version. The film comes from Beijing-based Light Chaser Animation…

Gkids has acquired out of Cannes Weathering with You, director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura’s follow-up to Your Name, which is Japan top-grossing animated movie ever and is getting a Hollywood remake from J.J. Abrams. Watch a Japanese-language teaser for the new film above and check out the poster…

Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights to Another Day of Life, the adult-targeted animated feature that played at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and won the European Film Award for Best Animated Film. A 2019 U.S. theatrical release is planned. Based on author and journalist Ryszard Kapuściński's book…

Alamode Film has acquired German and Austrian rights from HanWay Films to Lone Scherfig's drama The Kindness of Strangers, which will open the Berlin International Film Festival next month. Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riseborough, Tahar Rahim, Caleb Landry Jones, Jay Baruchel and Bill Nighy star. The deal was negotiated by…

In crafting MFKZ, his first feature film, Guillaume 'Run' Renard adapted his first comic book for the screen, realizing how challenging feature directing is, and how difficult it can be to translate the essence of a work from one medium to another. Violent, timely and delightfully dark, the adult-oriented animated…

In a robust year for international animation—with a record eight Japanese films on the Oscars shortlist—Mamoru Hosoda brought a most personal project to Cannes, trying for a historic first. The first Japanese anime to premiere at the prestigious French festival—and the Directors’ Fortnight’s sole animated entry this…

UPDATED with release date: Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights to Mirai, written and directed by Mamoru Hosada from Japan’s Studio Chizu. The distributor will release the pic theatrically on November 30 in both the original Japanese language and an English-dubbed version after it premiered this year…

Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution rights to What Still Remains, a post-apocalyptic thriller from Strike the Sun Entertainment. Josh Mendoza wrote and directed the film, which stars Lulu Antariksa (T@gged), Colin O'Donoghue (Once Upon a Time), and Mimi Rogers (Ginger Snaps). It follows a…

Gkids and Studiocanal have enlisted a host of Brit actors to voice the English-language version of animated family feature The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales. Bill Bailey (Hot Fuzz), Adrian Edmonson (War & Peace), Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Justin Edwards (The Thick Of It…