The next film from “Your Name” director Makoto Shinkai is coming stateside.
Gkids has acquired the North American rights to “Weathering With You,” the latest animated feature from Japanese anime director Shinkai, whose 2016 film “Your Name” surpassed “Spirited Away” as Japan’s highest-grossing animated film of all time, earning $360 million at the worldwide box office.
The company will release the film for an awards-qualifying run in 2019 followed by a theatrical release in early 2020 in both the original Japanese language and in an English-language version. The film opens in Japan on July 19.
Also Read: 'Your Name' Director Makoto Shinkai on Updating the Body-Swap Movie
“Weathering With You” follows a high-school freshman who runs away from his remote island home to live in an unusually gloomy and rainy Tokyo, only to meet a girl who has the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
“Gkids is thrilled to...
Gkids has acquired the North American rights to “Weathering With You,” the latest animated feature from Japanese anime director Shinkai, whose 2016 film “Your Name” surpassed “Spirited Away” as Japan’s highest-grossing animated film of all time, earning $360 million at the worldwide box office.
The company will release the film for an awards-qualifying run in 2019 followed by a theatrical release in early 2020 in both the original Japanese language and in an English-language version. The film opens in Japan on July 19.
Also Read: 'Your Name' Director Makoto Shinkai on Updating the Body-Swap Movie
“Weathering With You” follows a high-school freshman who runs away from his remote island home to live in an unusually gloomy and rainy Tokyo, only to meet a girl who has the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
“Gkids is thrilled to...
- 5/23/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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