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Spirited Away Set for 800 Theatre Rerelease

Posted by chrisd on from the so-good-it-hurts dept.

Robotech_Master writes "According to the website of Jerry Beck, a 20-year-animation industry veteran and one of the co-founders of Streamline Animation, when Spirited Away won the Oscar, it also "won the right to be re-released to 800 theatres this Friday. Disney will be announcing plans to re-release the Japanese masterpiece in theatres later today." When I emailed Beck to ask him his source, he said it was someone within the Disney publicity department and it would be made public sometime today. According to Spirited Away's numbers page at Rotten Tomatoes, it peaked during its first run at 151 screens. Wonder how it'll do this time around?"

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  1. more by Miyazaki by Smallpond · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also Kiki's Delivery Service will be out April 15.

  2. The DVD... by eldimo · · Score: 5, Informative

    The DVD will be out in three weeks. So for the price of two tickets, you can actually own it!

    1. Re:The DVD... by tuffy · · Score: 2, Informative
      Did they ever fix that "red tint" problem?

      The R1 DVDs have no red tint.

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  3. Here's the confirmation by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the press release from Disney...

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  4. Re:Disney by Qzukk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, but Spirited Away isn't a Disney cartoon (its not even dubbed to English by Disney... Pixar was in charge of that) Its a Studio Ghibli animation directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

    If you don't mind a show that isn't crammed with nonstop action, you might just like it. The pacing can be slow at times compared to the latest hollywood Blow Em Up, but there are still a number of action and suspense sequences.

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  5. Re:Disney by ll1234 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/video/sen/ -- but. . . it's released by Buena Vista Japan. Disney kicked in 10% of the film's production costs, they got a cut from the theatrical release as well as the video releases. Some of the European video releases are from third-party distributors, Disney may or may not receive funds from those sales.

  6. movietickets.com by techstar25 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Movietickets.com, which I got to by going to AMCtheatres.com has times for it already listed on March 28th, and at my local theatre too! Tickets are available to buy right NOW. I'll be there this Friday.

  7. All according to plan... by May+Kasahara · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, the theatrical rerelease of Spirited Away has been in the works for a while now. Thing is, Disney didn't want to take as much of a risk as they did with Princess Mononoke and did the smart thing: a small, art-house release, allowing Spirited Away to rack up the well-deserved accolades (the Oscar being the cream of the critical crop). I have a feeling that many at Disney knew Miyazaki's film had the best chance of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and you can bet that Disney's theatrical distribution division was counting on it ;)

    Heck, even the nomination helped. Look at Blue Sky. After Ice Age was nominated for an Academy Award, the CG house finalized a multi-picture deal with Fox (which includes films such as Robots and the Ice Age sequel).