‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ sets 2-day box-office record in Japan
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The new film from Studio Ghibli is doing pretty well, according to Kyodo:
Famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest animated film “Howl’s Moving Castle” chalked up 1.48 billion yen in box-office revenue and attracted an audience of 1.1 million people during its first two days of release, a record for a domestic film, Toho Co. said Monday.
For its first two days, the movie surpassed the record of Miyazaki’s previous work and smash hit, “Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi” (Spirited Away) by 40 percent, the film distributor said.
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Posted to Film • 2004.11.26 (Fri) • 15:23
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Posted by Hans 2004.11.26, 15:34
Hmm. I never did like that book. I lost interest after about 40 pages. Perhaps I’m just not a fantasy type.
Spirited Away was quite a masterpiece (for its class/category).
Oh, how different Japan is from the USA…
Posted by bookiw 2004.11.27, 10:25
I’m hoping Howl will be playing in the US, like Sen to Chihiro did. Otherwise I’m going to have to grab myself a bootleg.
Posted by Foucault 2004.11.27, 17:42
Doesn’t Disney still have that exclusive distribution deal with Ghibli? Considering the growing mainstream interest in Miyazaki here in the States, I’d wager that the film will be released here in some form or another.
Posted by Bookie 2004.12.03, 08:21
That’s true, but Disney took a very long time to publish things like Laputa, and there was absolutely no publicity in my region when Spiritied away came out. I found out about it from a flyer that had been hidden in the corner of my theater.
It would be nice to see Disney push Ghibli stuff, but then again, I’m a bit weary of what they would do if Ghibli became really popular.
Posted by Liz Ditz 2004.12.04, 05:03
The two Howl books were among my favorites, I would love to see the movie.
I’d also love to see The Dark Lord of Derkholm turned into a movie.
Posted by SakuraCX 2004.12.22, 06:04
I LOVED Howl’s moving castle, it was such a cute novel…I really HOPE it comes out in America, otherwise I’m gonna have to order it online…
Posted by IndyGrl 2005.02.13, 15:05
I loved the book, the movie was excellent. But the movie and the book are not the same but they were AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Right now I’m reading Castle in the Air. All of my friend saw the movie and loved it, one of my friends read the book 4 times and saw the movie 4 time too! i really wanna see it again!!!!
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