GKIDS

November 2, 2019

Promare Encore Showing Comes With Bonus Short “Side: Galo”

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Promare, the new anime film from Studio Trigger, pulled in better box office numbers than expected for distributor GKIDS — so the movie is coming back later this year, and it’ll have something extra it didn’t have before. The ten minute short “Side: Galo,” which serves as a prequel to Promare, will premiere in the US for the first time before this particular showing. GKIDS did not provide a synposis, but it’s a much better bonus than the typical “interview with voice actor” featurette we were expecting. Promare is the first feature film from the famed Studio Trigger. These days, people can’t get enough Trigger — their forceful, weighty animation and visual pizazz has made them fan favorites. They’ve been contracted to create animated sequences for a few recent video games. They were the ones behind Kill la Kill, Gurran Lagann and Little Witch Academia, and Hiroyuki Imaishi (who directed the latter two) is behind Promare. Thirty years has passed since the appearance of the Burnish, a race of flame-wielding

October 24, 2019

Weathering With You Coming To US Theaters January 2020

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Director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura produced the anime hit of the decade with Your Name, a film that set box office records in Japan and won fans around the world. Given the circumstances, you better believe we’re getting their follow-up film….the only question, until now, was when. Shinkai and Kawamura’s Weathering With You will receive a limited US theatrical release in January of 2020, announced Fathom Events and distributor GKIDS. The movie had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and its US premiere at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles. The latter screening completely sold out. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka

October 10, 2019

Promare Will Return To Theaters For Encore Showing

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Promare, the new anime film from Studio Trigger, is doing better than expected for distributor GKIDS — so much so that they’re bringing the movie back later this year after it finishes its current run. Promare is Studio Trigger’s first feature film. These days, people can’t get enough Trigger — their forceful, weighty animation and visual pizazz has made them fan favorites. They’ve been contracted to create animated sequences for a few recent video games. They were the ones behind Kill la Kill, Gurran Lagann and Little Witch Academia, and Hiroyuki Imaishi (who directed the latter two) is behind Promare. Thirty years has passed since the appearance of the Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves Mad Burnish appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team Burning Rescue, and Lio Fotia, the leader of Mad Burnish begins. When Promare returns this December, it will bring with