The official website for Makoto Shinkai's film Weathering With You has announced that the film will be coming to North America on January 17, 2020.
GKIDS has uploaded a new subtitled teaser trailer with the announcement.
Weathering With You has been submitted as Japan's official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Film. It is also their submission in the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
SUMMARY:
GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. 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 meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…
BOX OFFICE:
During its initial screening in 359 theaters and 448 screens in Japan, Weathering with You sold 1,159,020 tickets to earn ¥1,643,809,400 (approx $15.22 million) in its first three days. It was reported that Weathering with You surpassed Shinkai's previous film, Your Name, which earned ¥1,277,960,000 (about $12.51 million at the time) in its first three days of screening, earning 28.6% more.
As of August 25, 2019, it had sold eight million tickets and earned ¥10.73 billion (about $101 million). As of September 16, 2019, it had earned ¥12.72 billion ranking eighteenth in the Japanese film box-office ranking of all-time.
GKIDS has uploaded a new subtitled teaser trailer with the announcement.
Weathering With You has been submitted as Japan's official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Film. It is also their submission in the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
SUMMARY:
GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. 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 meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…
BOX OFFICE:
During its initial screening in 359 theaters and 448 screens in Japan, Weathering with You sold 1,159,020 tickets to earn ¥1,643,809,400 (approx $15.22 million) in its first three days. It was reported that Weathering with You surpassed Shinkai's previous film, Your Name, which earned ¥1,277,960,000 (about $12.51 million at the time) in its first three days of screening, earning 28.6% more.
As of August 25, 2019, it had sold eight million tickets and earned ¥10.73 billion (about $101 million). As of September 16, 2019, it had earned ¥12.72 billion ranking eighteenth in the Japanese film box-office ranking of all-time.