Tag: Hayao Miyazaki
Annecy Opening Ceremony to Honor Takahata
The Annecy International Animation Festival will screen the most-recent film from anime legend Isao Takahata — The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — at...
VIZ Debuts Miyazaki Memoir ‘Turning Point’
VIZ Media will release a new collection of essays, interviews, memoirs and illustrations by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. The new title, Turning Point: 1997-2008...
‘300,’ ‘Peabody’ Stand Tall at the Box Office
Nothing could withstand this weekend at the box office the brave Spartan warriors of Warner Bros.' sequel 300: Rise of an Empire, but DreamWorks...
‘Frozen,’ ‘Mr. Hublot,’ ‘Gravity’ Win Animation-VFX Oscars
Frozen took home the Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song Oscars Sunday night, with the French short Mr. Hublot winning the best animated...
New Clips from Expanding ‘The Wind Rises’
The English-dub version of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises expands its theatrical run this week to just under 500 screens, earning rave reviews along...
Miyazaki, Ghibli Retrospective Returns to Hollywood
For the third year, the American Cinematheque presents a retrospective of animated films from Japan's Studio Ghibli that will screen Feb. 16 to March...
Studio Ghibli Earns Two Japanese Academy Noms
The Japan Academy announced its five nominations for Best Animated feature last week. The nominees are:
• The Wind Rises (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki) Studio...
Animation and VFX Oscar Nominees React to the Great News
It's become an Oscar nomination announcement morning tradition: The talented men and women who are up for the Academy Awards tell the press how...
Toons Dominate Japan’s Box Office in 2013
Animation proved to be by far the most popular Hollywood export for moviegoers in Japan in 2013.
Reports of the year's final box office numbers...
‘Wind Rises’ to Open Anima in Brussels
The 33rd edition of Belgium's Anima Festival, which will offer adult and kids animated programming in Brussels from Feb. 28 to March 9, 2014,...
A Toon of Love and Fury
Rio 2096, Brazil's entry in the Best Animated Feature Oscar race, explores the country's history and the transcendence of love through animation.
Singing animals and...
American Cinematheque Plans Adult Animation Series
The American Cinematheque is planning an "Animation for Adults" series, beginning this Thursday (Jan. 9) and running through Jan. 25 at the Egyptian Theater...
English-Language Cast Announced for ‘The Wind Rises’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon) leads the English-language voice cast for Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. Disney will release the dubbed version of the Japanese...
Miyazaki’s Magnificent Coda
The Japanese master's final feature, The Wind Rises, is a beautiful, mature work of art as well as a deeply personal one.
Hayao Miyazaki's The...
Ten Things We Loved About 2013!
That mouse, that bear...and the exquisite charm of the 2D French movie, Ernest & Celestine.
Frozen's spunky princess, that goofy snowman and the return of...
Three Toons to Vie for Golden Globe
The nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards have been unveiled, and Toon Town seems a bit under-represented considering all the great flicks...
Miyazaki’s ‘The Wind Rises’ Wins N.Y. Critics’ Prize
The New York Film Critics Circle has selected Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises as the Best Animated Movie of the Year. The Circle is...
Ghibli’s ‘Princess Kaguya’ No. 1 in Japan
Studio Ghibli's latest animated feature--and the first to be released following anime legend Hayao Miyazaki's retirement--The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) opened...
‘Approved for Adoption’ Arrives in L.A. & N.Y.
GKIDS brings Jung's autobiographical live-action/animated documentary to the City of Angels.
Documentaries—good ones, anyway—tend to fall on either side of a wide-arcing pendulum swing. The...
Hot Clip: Ghibli’s ‘Tale of the Bamboo Cutter’
While U.S. audiences are just beginning to get familiar with Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises as it's playing in limited release to qualify for...
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