L.A.’s Animation Is Film Fest Screens N. American Premieres of The Colors Within, U.S. Premiere of Mononoke Film
GKIDS introduced on Thursday that the North American premiere of The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro), a brand new anime function film by Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada, will display on the opening evening of the Animation is Movie competition in Los Angeles on October 18. The competition can even display the U.S. premiere of Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa), the primary anime film within the new Mononoke movie challenge, in addition to the California premiere of the Ghost Cat Anzu French-Japanese animated movie.
The competition can even display the North American premiere of the Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature documentary concerning the ecological connections all through Hayao Miyazaki‘s profession.
The Colours Inside anime opened in Japan on August 30. The movie was initially slated to open in fall 2023, nevertheless it was then slated to open in 2024. GKIDS has acquired the movie for North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. Anime Ltd. has acquired the movie for Europe. PLAION PICTURES will deal with Italian- and German-speaking territories, and CHARADES will handle gross sales for the remainder of Europe, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mononoke the Film: The Phantom within the Rain premiered in Japan on July 26, and ranked at #7 in its debut weekend. The movie was beforehand slated to open final yr, however was delayed. Alongside the announcement of the delay in February 2023, the movie’s workers additionally introduced that Takahiro Sakurai would now not reprise the function of the Drugs Vendor as initially deliberate. Hiroshi Kamiya as an alternative voices the protagonist the Drugs Vendor within the movie. Netflix will stream the movie.
Ghost Cat Anzu opened in Japan on July 19. GKIDS will screen the movie within the U.S. this winter.
The Animation is Movie competition will happen at Los Angeles on October 18-20.
Sources: Animation is Movie’s website, GKIDS‘ Instagram page
