While Disney stepped back from Ghibli for a bit after Ponyo, opting to let GKids handle From Up On Poppy Hill, you could hear them sense that money might be lost in doing so twice. With The Wind Rises now in its fifth week in Japan, the film has made $74 million theatrically and is down to just 454 screens at this point, but still made $5 million on the last reported weekend of August 17th-18th. The film had a very light decline in its second week, dropping on 32%, and has kept its drops in the single digits week from week thereafter, allowing it to rack up a solid box office run in Japan. From Up On Poppy Hill, which made only $1 million during its limited theatrical run from GKids, tapped out at $56 million during its Japanese run back in 2011 and had a light opening weekend of just $5 million. The Wind Rises did $20 million in its opening week with a $9 million opening weekend.
No plans have been revealed for how Disney will release the film, or what angle it will get, but with John Lasseter being high up in the Disney chain through Pixar and having been involved in a number of the previous releases, it’s hard to imagine this not getting a strong push that at the minimum matches their attempt at Ponyo but likely to reach higher than that.
Plot Concept: Kaze Tachinu focuses on Jirou Horikoshi, the designer of Japan’s famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane of World War II. It also adapts Tatsuo Hori’s 1936–37 novelette of the same name, which follows the tentative relationship with a male narrator and Setsuko who suffers from encroaching tuberculosis.
[Source: Crunchyroll]
“No plans have been revealed for how Disney will release the film, or what angle it will get, but with John Lasseter being high up in the Disney chain through Pixar and having been involved in a number of the previous releases, it�s hard to imagine this not getting a strong push that at the minimum matches their attempt at Ponyo but likely to reach higher than that. ”
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I dont understand this paragraph, can anyone explain?
Didn’t Disney dump their relationship with Guibli? Doesn’t GKids now own distribution rights to new Ghibli Films, like Poppy Hill? I’m confused.
And on top of that, isn’t Wind Rises supposed to be incredibly violent and sad? Isn’t this a bad move, as Disney had their Miramax division distribute Princess Mononoke?
Somebody please explain all this.
They said they would put this out under the touchstone label.
Touchstone is distributing this. I don’t think its that violent although more mature than usual.