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Miyazaki Starts New Film
Filed under: Animation », Deals », Fandom »
America's current favorite anime creator Hayao Miyazaki has picked up the old pen once again and started work on his next project in Tokyo. Although the project has yet to be named, it does have a targeted release date wayyy down the road in summer 2008.
Miyazaki, of course, brought us Howl's Moving Castle in 2004 and can also claim the Japanese box office record with his 2001 flick Spirited Away. If I started listing every famous and enjoyable work the talented guy has done I could easily fill up a paragraph or two -- the man is a one man force of nature when it comes to Japanese cinema, and nearly every project he touches is worth your time to watch. I have no idea what this new film will be, but I'm sure we can all promise ourselves it'll be well worth watching once it makes it to American shores.
Studios still don't get animation
Filed under: Animation », Awards », Distribution »
Films are never marketed as just "live-action,"
because that wouldn't make sense. Is the "live-action" movie a drama, a comedy, horror, or something else?
This is obvious, but I mention it because it's exactly the kind of approach used to market and distribute animated
features. When the Best Animated Feature Award was introduced for the 2002 Academy Awards, it seemed to give some
legitimacy to animated features, but it also gave the wrongful impression that animation is just animation, and not, as
is clearly the case, a method of making a film that can be scary, or dramatic, or weird, or funny, or any other
adjective you can come up with. Animated features run the same gambit as any live-action flick, but when it comes to
marketing and distribution they're often crammed under the "Animation" rubric.
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