Studio Ghibli Anime ‘The Boy And The Heron’ Achieves Multiple Box Offices Milestones
deadline.comStudio Ghibli‘s animated adventure movie The Boy and the Heron is continuing to blaze a trail for anime, in Europe, Asia and North America.
Following its Golden Globes win last week, the first ever for a non-English animated feature, the movie has crossed multiple box office milestones in Europe.
Pic has grossed £3.9M at the UK box office to date, making it Hayao Miyazaki’s highest-grossing title ever in the UK and Ireland, beating the likes of Spirited Away (£1.1m, 2003), Howl’s Moving Castle (£999k, 2005) and Ponyo (£880k, 2010).
It is also the second-highest grossing anime title of all time in the UK and Ireland box office, behind only Pokemon: The First Movie (£11.7M, 2000), and it has become the biggest anime release in the UK and Ireland in more than 20 years.
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