GKIDS Picks Up North American Rights To ‘The Deer King’
The anime feature had its world premiere at last week’s Annecy Festival.
The anime feature had its world premiere at last week’s Annecy Festival.
Our notes from a panel on Japanese animation including Tomm Moore, Sofia Alexander, and Michael Dudok de Wit.
The distributor is planning a winter theatrical release, positioning the film for an Oscar run next year.
The film’s first international trailer has dropped ahead of its Japanese release next month.
Since the arson attack on Kyoto Animation in 2019, multiple people have been arrested in Japan following threats made against animation workers.
“That kind of film would be a hit,” said the Studio Ghibli director on being told the gist of the movie.
The Japanese studio has threatened legal action against those who threaten or defame its staff.
The media titan is also looking to set up a cg studio with “top-class” global talent.
The anime title has grossed an estimated $36.6M to the Disney film’s $43.4M.
Watching the series “was the first time that it really became clear to me what a director does,” says Chung.
Cartoon Brew’s associate editor Alex Dudok de Wit spent a very long time thinking about a very sad film. Here are some of his conclusions.
Gina O’Melia traces the rise of the American Saturday morning cartoon and the challenge to its supremacy from anime shows.
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train” can now add one more accolade to its already record-shattering global box office run: the number one film in the United States.
Kambole Campbell reflects on what feels fresh — and what doesn’t — in Netflix’s new series about a Black samurai.
The Asian import is generating far more enthusiasm than Disney’s Southeast Asian-flavored film.
A recent legal breakthrough will allow franchise titles to be seen by the world at last.
Tubi will start by streaming ten films from the Japanese mega-franchise.
“Kong: Skull Island” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts will helm and produce the film.
Harmony Gold USA and Japan’s Big West, two companies at the center of the long-running dispute over the “Macross” franchise, have struck a groundbreaking deal that few fans saw coming.
Most of the films are on the streamer now, with World War II drama “In This Corner of the World” coming next year.