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Goodbye Ghibli.
Goodbye Ghibli.
I'm really surprised Disney/Pixar hasn't bought the studio.
Btw, is the news source reliable? Posting nothing but pics and reaction-tweets is eeeh...
I doubt the main problem behind the closing is financial.
You do not want this, don't say such things.This news is sad. Can the studio be saved somewhat by Lasseter and Disney?
I can't find any other Japanese news source on this - you'd think this would be HUGE news.
Are the photos some kind of TV broadcast? A conference?
You do not want this, don't say such things.
While I've always been a huge Ghibli fan, to me this news is far less shocking than Miyazaki's retirement news last year.
That was the end of Ghibli for me. Even if the studio continued to operate for decades to come, it wouldn't be the same without Miyazaki and Takahata.
embrace the similar faced, musicals for everything, generically bland digital futureSo we are stuck with Disney's sterile, milquetoast, one note, princess crazy, diluted, safe, pc, merchandise friendly nonsense with the occasional flash of brilliance from Pixar or Dreamworks? Fuck!
I can't find any other Japanese news source on this - you'd think this would be HUGE news.
Are the photos some kind of TV broadcast? A conference?
Ummm. Ghibli is guilty of this too, you know.embrace the similar faced, musicals for everything, generically bland digital future
Yep. "Even" english sites would report it. But I find nothing but this one blog.
Also, obligatory from the documentary on Ghibli:
I'm not saying the post-Miyazaki/Takahata Ghibli couldn't be great, it would just be totally different from the studio we know as Ghibli today.Hiromasa Yonebayashi is a splendid young director. i would have loved a ghibli with him as the head figure and Miyazaki Goro as the second line.
Well probably ghibli will continue to make movies but will now use the Ronya model (outsourcing the work)
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Save them Disney.
People at Ghibli wouldn't sell even if they tried. I have no problem with this, for me the studio was Hayao, Takahata and Suzuki and they are soon gone. Ghibli is all about great quality, but you can't keep doing what you are doing if your movies don't make money. Hayao is the only one who is assured box office draw. With $30M production budget + marketing budget you need to make good ROI or the risk isn't worth it. I rather see the animation side closed down then get watered down Ghibli films.I'm really surprised Disney/Pixar hasn't bought the studio.
Disney during Disney Renaissance was amazing. They had an amazing movie every year with handdrawn animations. Aladdin, Lion king, Pocahontas, Mulan, Hercules, Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notredamn, The Little Mermaid... how can anyone hate thatembrace the similar faced, musicals for everything, generically bland digital future
@Wario64 Not quite shut down, but they're taking a break from things to consider the future of the studio and if they want to continue on
https://twitter.com/onteria_/status/495980685706809344
Some spanish sites arestarting to spread the newsyeah pretty strange.
Also, obligatory from the documentary on Ghibli:
D:
Save them Disney.
People have to stop saying this. Disney is gonna destroy the name even further.
Yep. "Even" english sites would report it. But I find nothing but this one blog.
I'm really surprised Disney/Pixar hasn't bought the studio.
Marnie is just that. Its a Ghibli Fil but so un-miyazaki (aside of the fact that the protagonist is a young girl), yet so well made. So sad that it was burried in Japan.Really, with Miyazaki and Takahata (the two founders of the studio, aside from Toshio Suzuki) gone, Studio Ghibli would practically have to re-invent itself anyway, which wouldn't have been an *impossible* task, but would've been unfair to an entire generation of up-and-coming Ghibli animators who would've been stuck being unfairly compared to Miyazaki and Takahata's bodies of work.
I'm assuming the Ghibli museum will remain intact (it'll probably be the centerpiece of Ghibli's existence as a licensing entity now), so at least there will still be a physical representation of the studio's works out there in the world.
(Also, the documentary where Miyazaki briefly talks about Studio Ghibli's inevitable collapse is fucking fantastic - it's not super dramatic, just a fly-on-the-wall journal of Miyazaki frumping around while working on his last film, but it's a great peek into how things at the studio worked.)