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Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films

posted by martyb on Thursday January 23 2020, @06:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the almost-is-good-enough dept.

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Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films:

The iconic animated features of Japan's Studio Ghibli will be available in territories outside the U.S., Canada and Japan on Netflix starting in February. The move is a further change of position for the studio which has repeatedly resisted the idea that its beloved cartoons would be released on digital platforms.

Netflix, sales agent Wild Bunch, and Studio Ghibli, which counts Hayao Miyazaki as one of its leading lights, will upload 21 Ghibli features including Academy Award-winner "Spirited Away," "Princess Mononoke," "Arrietty," "Kiki's Delivery Service," "My Neighbor Totoro," and "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya."

They will be screened in their native Japanese, with sub-titles, and be available globally on Netflix except in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.

"In this day and age, there are various great ways a film can reach audiences. We've listened to our fans and have made the definitive decision to stream our film catalogue. We hope people around the world will discover the world of Studio Ghibli through this experience," said producer Toshio Suzuki at Studio Ghibli in a prepared statement.

[...] "This is a dream come true for Netflix and millions of our members. Studio Ghibli's animated films are legendary and have enthralled fans around the world for over 35 years. We're excited to make them available in more languages across Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia – so that more people can enjoy this whimsical and wonderful world of animation," Aram Yacoubian, director of original animation at Netflix, said.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @10:06AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @10:06AM (#947319)

    There are a lot of companies in this category, it is the end game of the central bank run socialist economic system we have. All the idiots have been misallocatting resources for long enough that things are getting absurd. Trump is saying in speeches he wants negative interest rates but in the same speech asks who is dumb enough to give out such loans. The EU is obviously more socialist so they already have such nonsense.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:19PM (#947506)

    You don't even understand the words you are using...

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:38PM (#947513)

      No, YOU do not understand the words I am using. No doubt you were taught the nazis weren't socialists, the Soviets weren't communists, etc.

      Stalin and Mao didn't kill millions of people, those people just couldn't adjust to their new low calorie diet.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 23 2020, @08:37PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 23 2020, @08:37PM (#947597) Journal

    There are a lot of companies in this category..

    And Netflix is NOT one of them.

    Netflix is growing at a stunning rate — and so is its profit [marketwatch.com]

    Netflix profit is also growing at an astounding rate: The first quarter had its biggest profit total yet, topping the previous period’s record, and Netflix forecast another record-breaking profit total in the current quarter. Netflix reported $290.1 million in net income for the first quarter, more profit in three months than the streaming giant had for the entire year of 2016. As was noted in the MarketWatch live blog, if the company meets its second-quarter forecast of $358 million in profit, it will earn more in the first half of 2018 than all of 2017, when it reported an annual profit of $558.9 million.