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Studio Ghibli Anime ‘The Boy And The Heron’ Achieves Multiple Box Office Milestones


Studio Ghibli’s animated adventure movie The Boy and the Heron is continuing to blaze a trail for anime, in Europe, Asia and North America. Following its Golden Globes win last week, the firs…

Following its Golden Globes win last week, the first ever for a non-English animated feature, the movie has crossed multiple box office milestones in Europe. The movie has already become the top-grossing original anime film ever released in North America ($42M and counting) and Japan ($56M). Both The Boy And The Heron and Godzilla Minus One were in the UK box office top ten over the Christmas period, which is an extremely rare — and potentially unprecedented — feat for two Japanese-language titles.

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