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Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronics and visual effects studio, based in Los Angeles, has teamed with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to produce life-size puppets for the RSC's stage adaptation of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 hand-drawn classic My Neighbour Totoro. The RSC's most ambitious…

Famed Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi has partnered with the U.K.'s Royal Shakespeare Company to create a stage version of Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 hand-drawn classic My Neighbour Totoro, a beloved film that follows the adventures of two young sisters who move from Tokyo city to the…

Famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki revealed he is coming out of retirement once again to make a feature length animated film. In an interview with the New York Times, Miyazaki didn't give much detail about the film, but mentioned its based on Genzaburo Yoshino's 1937 book How Do You Live? The story follows a teenage…

Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 Oscar winning animated film, Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi), has been set for a stage production which will have its world premiere in Tokyo in 2022. This is the first-ever stage adaptation of the beloved movie and will be written and directed by Tony and Olivier Award-winner and…

Oscar-winning animation giant Hayao Miyazaki is at the center of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ inaugural temporary exhibition when it opens to public (hopefully) in the spring. Previously announced for the honor, the Academy is now providing details of one of the key highlights initial visitors will…

Netflix will be adding 21 feature films from famed Japanese art house Studio Ghibli beginning February 1. Among the titles that will be available outside the U.S., Canada and Japan are My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Arrietty, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea and When Marnie Was…

From too many years in and around the movie business, I've consciously kept exactly one souvenir. It's a smallish chip of concrete, about 3" x 4", with some daubs of red and blue paint. Ray Stark gave it to me not quite thirty years ago. He was just back from the Berlin Film Festival, which in February of 1990 had…

Japanese animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement to work on a new feature for his Studio Ghibli banner, according to his longtime producer Toshio Suzuki. Suzuki revealed the news at a pre-Oscars event Friday in Los Angeles for the Academy Award-nominated The Red Turtle. During the event…

Maureen O’Hara, now 94, took time to fondly remember the Hollywood greats from her past such as John Wayne and John Ford. Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki said he was just happy to be in the same room as Maureen O’Hara. Masterful screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere gave a moving tribute to Hollywood’s…

Harry Belafonte will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara will receive Honorary Awards at the Academy’s 6th Annual Governors Awards November 8 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. The Academy’s Board of Governors did not award the Irving…

DEVELOPING: Studio Ghibli, long home to the now-retired Oscar winner whom the Walt Disney Corp. has called the Walt Disney of Japanese animation, may shut its animation-production facilities because of the challenges of financing new features, according to an interview of an unnamed company insider posted on Japanese…

Oscar-winning Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, who won the Best Animated Feature Academy Award in 2002 for Spirited Away, is back in contention this year with The Wind Rises, the film he says will be his last as a director. Could that be a factor in how the Academy votes? The film — about the man who designed…