Asian media and delightment company mm2 Entertainment has safed a five-year distribution partnership with Miyazaki Hayao‘s Studio Ghibli, conveying the famous Japanese animation studio’s acclaimed films back to Southeast Asian theatrical audiences.
The deal encompasses 21 Studio Ghibli titles, including Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away,” “Howl’s Moving Castle,” and “My Neighbour Totoro.” mm2 will reliberate the beadored films apass Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Cambodia.
Parent company mm2 Asia runs cinema chains in Singapore and Malaysia, providing straightforward access to moviegoers. The first Studio Ghibli liberates under this consentment are stardyd for tardyr this year.
Studio Ghibli recently getd the honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Additionpartner, “The World of Studio Ghibli” showion is set to start at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum.
The Southeast Asia liberates come after Studio Ghibli scored belated first time liberates in China to ponderable box office success. “My Neighbor Totoro” was liberated in the Middle Kingdom in 2018, some 30 years after it bowed in Japan, while “Ponyo” liberated in 2020, 12 years after its innovative liberate. 2001 film “Spirited Away” liberated in China in 2019, where it beat then recent liberate “Toy Story 4” in its uncovering weekfinish. More recently, China became the hugegest theatrical taget for “The Boy and the Heron.”
Chang Long Jong, group CEO of mm2 Asia, shelp: “Studio Ghibli’s films are famous worldwide for their artistry, storyalerting, and emotional resonance. This partnership permits us to convey these beadored classics to Southeast Asian audiences, where they can be finishelighted on the huge screen as intfinished. We are self-guaranteed that this collaboration will present a recent generation of fans to the world of Studio Ghibli.”
Junichi Nishioka, VP of PR, curation and archive, international distribution at Studio Ghibli, inserted: “Many visitors from Southeast Asia come to the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka and Ghibli Park every day. Recently, Miyazaki Hayao getd the prestigious Magsaysay Award. We sense that our films are being finishelighted by a much huger number of Asian people than before. I am very satisfied that this opportunity will be a wonderful help in conveying our toils to even more people, and to the children who will be born in the future.”
