The Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation named Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu‘s new BELLE (Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, actually “The Dragon and the Freckled Princess”) anime movie the runner-up on this yr’s Finest Animation class on Saturday.

The Flee animated movie gained in the identical class.

The Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation is a bunch of journalists within the L.A. space, which deliberated on winners and runner-up movies in a complete of 14 classes.

GKIDS will start screening the movie in English and in Japanese with English subtitles within the U.S. on January 14. The movie will display screen in English and in Japanese with English subtitles. There can be IMAX previews in choose theaters starting on January 12. GKIDS screened the movie on the Anime NYC 2021 occasion in November.

BELLE opened in Japan on July 16. The movie had IMAX screenings in 38 theaters all through Japan. This makes BELLE the primary of Hosoda’s movies to have IMAX screenings.

The movie has earned a cumulative whole of 6,397,159,950 yen (about US$56.44 million) as of October 10. The movie is Hosoda’s highest-grossing movie. MX4D screenings for the movie opened on October 22.

France’s Cannes Movie Pageant first screened the movie within the competition’s Cannes Premiere part on July 15. It marked the primary Official Choice on the competition for Hosoda. (The director’s earlier Mirai movie screened on the Administrators’ Fortnight, an unbiased part held in parallel to the competition, in 2018.) The movie had its North American premiere at New York Movie Pageant on September 25.

Hosoda (The Lady Who Leapt Via Time, Summer time Wars, The Boy and The Beast, Mirai) directed and scripted the movie, and can be credited for the unique work. The movie marks Studio Chizu‘s tenth anniversary. Taisei Iwasaki (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, The Bare Director) is the movie’s music director and composer.

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