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26/10/2024

27/09/2024

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03/09/2024

Join Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot for a Q&A screening of his new feature film Memoir of a Snail in October. Find cinema locations, session times and tix at http://www.madman.com.au/memoir-of-a-snail

A fully handcrafted stop-motion animated feature made in Melbourne, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt, and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.

Starring Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Tony Armstrong and Jacki Weaver.

14/07/2024

Amblimation’s “Cats” concept art for its unrealized animated musical adaptation. It was originally scheduled for a 1997 release and was to be directed by Steven Spielberg: however, following the box office failure of the studios previous film "Balto" in 1995, Amblimation ceased all operations, and the project was ultimarely abandoned. All 250 of Amblimation's crew members went on to join DreamWorks Animation following the studios closure.

🖼 Concept art by Hans Blacher

13/07/2024

07/07/2024

Anime fans exhaled a collective sigh of relief earlier this week when Ito confirmed "Uzumaki" would arrive on Adult Swim sometime later this year.

The English voice cast for Junji Ito's long-awaited Uzumaki anime has finally been revealed.

30/06/2024

04/06/2024

30/05/2024

GKIDS is proud to announce the acquisition of North American rights to Mamoru Oshii's ANGEL'S EGG.

In honor of its 40th Anniversary next year, we will release the film in theatres nationwide for the first time ever in an all-new 4K restoration supervised by director Oshii.

This seminal masterpiece is a collaboration between writer/director Mamoru Oshii (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and revered artist Yosh*taka Amano (FINAL FANTASY, VAMPIRE HUNTER D), beautifully intertwining Oshii's reflections on philosophy with Amano's distinctive ink painting style.

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19/05/2024

Goro Miyazaki is coming to Cannes Film Festival next monday to receive Studio Ghibli's "Honorary Palme d'or" award.
4 short films from the Ghibli Museum will also be screened during the ceremony.
And producer Toshio Suzuki also made a special drawing.
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/studio-ghibli-honorary-palme-d-or-of-the-77th-festival-de-cannes-in-the-presence-of-goro-miyazaki/

02/05/2024

Anime fans are divided on Miyazaki, but his long history with the medium is precisely why he's the right person to criticize it.

Anime fans are divided on Miyazaki, but his long history with the mediums is precisely why he's the right person to criticize it.

24/03/2024

‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ Oscar statuette for Best Animated Feature has been displayed at the Ghibli Park in Nagakute, Japan.

23/03/2024

Yellow Submarine (1968)
Director: George Dunning
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11/03/2024

08/03/2024

The many faces of Akira Toriyama (1955-2024).