Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' Is Becoming A Stage Production
Toho announced that it will premiere a Spirited Away play in Tokyo in 2022, adapting Hayao Miyazakis 2001 anime classic into a stage production.
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'Demon Slayer' Surpasses 'Spirited Away' As Japan's Highest-Grossing Film
The Demon Slayer box office has set a new record in Japan, where the anime film surpassed Hayao Miyazaki's universally acclaimed classic, Spirited Away.
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The Morning Watch: Animators React To 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse', Modern Gonzo Blockbusters & More
In this edition, listen to animators react to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and more, take a closer look at gonzo modern blockbusters, and more.
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Pop Culture Imports: A Beginner's Guide To Studio Ghibli Movies
In this week's Pop Culture Imports, we're paying homage to the greatest animated studio, Studio Ghibli, with a Studio Ghibli movies guide for beginners
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The Full Studio Ghibli Film Library Will Be Available To Purchase On Digital Platforms This Month
Studio Ghibli fans, mark your calendars for two weeks from today. On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, the beloved Japanese animation studio will finally release its complete library of films on digital home media in the U.S. and Canada. Ghibli's North American distributor, GKIDS, has announced through a press release that the studio's entire catalogue will be…
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'Spirited Away' Special Collector's Edition Will Be Available For A Limited Time This November
A special Spirited Away collector's edition featuring a new 40-page book with art and essays of Hayao Miyazaki's seminal anime classic is coming this fall.
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'Toy Story 4' Defeated At The Chinese Box Office By The Theatrical Debut Of 'Spirited Away'
Spirited Away proved that hand drawn animation is not dead after it bested the Toy Story 4 China box office with its theatrical debut in the country.
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The 10 Best Animated Flying Sequences
In honor of the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, we count down the 10 best animated flying sequences in feature films.
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The 15 Most Beautiful Animated Movies Ever
This month's Let's Get Animated celebrates the release of the groundbreaking Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with the 15 most beautiful animated movies.
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Cool Stuff: Japanese-Style Prints Of Hayao Miyazaki Films Will Spirit You Away
Get your hands on these limited offer Hayao Miyazaki prints done in the style of Japanese print designer Hasui Kawase, giving the fantastical Studio Ghibli films a nostalgic and traditional sheen.
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Hoai-Tran Bui's Favorite Movies Of All Time
Welcome new /Film writer Hoai-Tran Bui to the site by counting down her top 15 favorite movies of all time!
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The Collected Works Of Hayao Miyazaki Blu-Ray Set Now Available For Pre-Order In The U.S.
The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki Blu-Ray Set will be released by Disney in North America and is now available for pre-order for $224.99. The U.S. release of this set appears to be an Amazon exclusive. Shipping is free with or without Amazon Prime. The set includes the following films: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, Nausicaä of…
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See 'Spirited Away' Recreated As An 8-Bit Video Game
Check out a Spirited Away 8-bit remake, which renders Hayao Miyazaki's greatest film as a video game.
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See The Studio Ghibli Theme Park We Wish Were Real
How much would you love to visit the worlds of Hayao Miyazaki? Takumi has dreamed up a Studio Ghibli Theme Park we can only wish were real.
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Ranking The Films Of Hayao Miyazaki: The Master's Journey From 'Lupin III' To 'The Wind Rises'
Rumors of the closure of Studio Ghibli are not true, but it seems that Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro director Hayao Miyazaki may be done with feature filmmaking for good. In a career that spanned over thirty years directing features, Miyazaki refined his own storytelling and helped change the world's idea of what stories…
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Cool Stuff: Mondo Releases Studio Ghibli Compilation Album With Tyler Stout Artwork
Mondo, a company best known for posters, has also been releasing some incredible albums. They've done Drive, Poltergeist, and many others but now they've gone above and beyond. Mondo has teamed up with Studio Ghibli to release a compilation album featuring music from five different films: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Cat Returns…
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Mondo Reveals Comic-Con Plans Plus Exclusive Reveal Of Olly Moss' 'Howl's Moving Castle'
Fans of comics, toys, TV, movies and video games have come to consider San Diego Comic-Con almost like Christmas. We wait patiently all year, and then four days in July pack in months worth of awesome. However, while we've come expect that level of crazy for the traditional pop culture stuff, the last few years…
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Time Out's Top 50 Animated Movies Of All Time Curated By Terry Gilliam
Time Out London has published a list of the 50 greatest animated feature films of all time curated by Terry Gilliam . I'm not sure if this means that Gilliam hand picked the titles on the list, or if the filmmaker was simply commenting on the list created by the TimeOut editors. Either way, you…
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IMDB's The Top Rated Films Of The New Millennium
The Internet Movie Database have announced The Top Rated Films of the New Millennium, looking at the 15 films made since 2000 that IMDb users have rated as the best of the new millennium. Usually people are quick to write off the IMDb user ratings as fanboy controlled, but I was surprised to four foreign…
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