Sony Pictures Classics will release four-time Academy Award® nominee and BAFTA winner Sylvain Chomet’s (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist, Paris; je t’aime, The Old Lady and the Pigeons) forthcoming English language film The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, based on the exceptional life of the legendary author Marcel Pagnol.
GKIDS will release Goodbye, Don Glees!, the Japanese anime film from writer/director Atsuko Ishizuka, who previously directed the series A Place Further Than The Universe. The film follows the story of three friends over the course of one summer, as their backyard adventures turn one small incident to a life changing journey.
The animated documentary “Eternal Spring (長春)” by filmmaker Jason Loftus (“Ask No Questions”) is a multiple award winner at this year’s 2022 Hot Docs, winning Hot Docs Audience Award for best film and the Rogers Audience Award for best Canadian film.
A24 released the official trailer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, the live action, animated comedy film directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp starring Jenny Slate as Marcel, along with Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann, and Isabella Rossellini.
Directed by Amy Bench, More Than I Remember, the animated documentary on child refugee Mugeni, will have its international premiere at the 2022 Hot Docs film festival as part of the shorts program: Persister Shorts: Mother’s Day, a selection of short documentaries features stories of women speaking up and being heard.
Good Deed Entertainment, the studio behind the worldwide animated box office smash Loving Vincent, released the official trailer and clip for Charlotte, the new animated biopic of the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist who comes of age on the eve of the Second World War and defies incredible odds to create a timeless masterpiece.
Netflix released the official trailer for Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, the animated science fiction film from Richard Linklater. Starring Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Josh Wiggins, Sam Chipman, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Danielle Guilbot with Zachary Levi and Glen Powell and Jack Black, the film debuts on Netflix on April 1, 2022.
Crunchyroll released a new official trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the dark fantasy film from TOHO Animation, directed by Sunghoo Park, opening in theaters on March 18, 2022. The film will also be released in select U.S. based IMAX® theaters.
Directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Ran, the animated film Charlotte, the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist who comes of age on the eve of the Second World War will be released in theaters starting Friday, April 22, 2022.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the dark fantasy film from TOHO Animation will open in theaters on March 18 in the United States and Canada. The film will also open in select U.S. based IMAX® theaters.
The New Yorker Studios will release the animated short film “The Vandal” on Monday, December 13th on The New Yorker’s digital platforms. The film is a stunning technical feat, executive produced by Darren Aronofsky; directed by award-winning filmmaker Eddie Alcazar; starring Bill Duke, Baadja-Lyne Odums, Harry Goaz, Maurice Compte, Thomas Hildreth, and Abbey Lee; and scored by Oscar-nominated filmmaker and composer Kris Bowers. “The Vandal” débuted in July at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and had its North American première at the Telluride Film Festival.
Outsider Pictures will release in U.S. theaters, Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People (Bob Cuspe – Nós Não Gostamos de Gente), the stop-motion animation directed by Cesar Cabral that ingeniously mixes documentary, comedy and road-movie. Winner of the Best Feature Award in the Contrechamp competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Brazilian film opens on Wednesday, December 15 at the Laemmle NoHo 7 in Los Angeles.