Hayao Miyazaki: Last News

The enchanting world of Japanese anime legend Hayao Miyazaki is heading to the stage. The director's beloved 2001 Oscar-winning classic Spirited Awaywill be adapted into a stage play for the first time, with a premiere date set for February 2022 in Tokyo.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorStudio Ghibli has been making animated features for over four decades since being co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki, director of “My Neighbor Totoro” and the Academy Award-winning “Spirited Away.”The studio’s latest release is “Earwig and the Witch” now streaming on HBO Max, and an awards contender for animated feature. The story is based on the children’s book of the same name by Dianna Wynne Jones.

GKIDS announced on Thursday its domestic release plans for Studio Ghibli’s newest feature, Earwig and the Witch. The film will open in select theaters on Feb.

Kacey Musgraves has been cast to voice a character in the upcoming Studio Ghibli animated feature, Earwig and the Witch, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Goro Miyazaki with planning from Academy Award-winner Hayao Miyazaki, the film follows the story of Earwig, a young girl searching for secrets about the witch she's forced to live with.

Richard E. Grant,Kacey Musgraves and Dan Stevens will lead the English language voice cast for Studio Ghibli's animated feature Earwig and the Witch, directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill) with planning from his father, Academy Award-winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).

Angelique Jackson The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has announced its inaugural temporary exhibition will be a retrospective honoring Academy Award-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.The presentation will be on display in the museum’s Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, and will debut when the museum opens to the public on April 30, 2021. The temporary exhibition, celebrating the legendary animator’s six-decade career, will be the first North American museum retrospective of his work.“We could not be more excited to launch our new institution with the most comprehensive presentation of Hayao’s Miyazaki’s work to date,” Academy Museum director Bill Kramer said in a statement.

Studio Ghibli‘s planned Wembley Arena shows, which were due to take place this September, have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert is due to celebrate 35 years of the acclaimed Japanese animation studio and the composer’s work with filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.Hisaishi’s music includes the soundtracks to My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and Ponyo, and as part of the concert the BBC Concert Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus will play to montages of some of the most popular Ghibli films.The newly rescheduled shows will now take place on Friday, August 6 and Saturday, August 7, 2021.Alongside the aforementioned upcoming film, Ghibli is also due to release its first CGI film Aya and the

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterGKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch, directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) and produced by studio co-founder Toshio Suzuki, with planning on the feature from his father and Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).Based on the children’s novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), Earwig and the Witch marks Studio Ghibli’s first entirely 3DCG animated feature. The film follows the titular Earwig, who grew up in an orphanage and never knew her mother had magical powers.

A new Hayao Miyazaki documentary has been made available online to stream for free by Japanese broadcaster NHK. The four-part series can be viewed on NHK’s website right now in their entirety.

By Mark Schilling