American Release Date Announced for Miyazaki's "Ponyo"

Even most of these widely released Anime features based on toys haven't always been successful either. Save PokEmon, how many other "toy" Anime features have been hits? Digimon? Yu-Gi-Oh? I don't remeraber anything about those films doing much at the box office. How about Transformers: The Movie? I actually liked that film a lot (didn't realize it was based on toys either), but that was also a failure, even though legions of fans made it a cult classic in its afterlife on video.

-Jon T.
 
I actually heard for "Ponyo" they hired the particular producers they did to get a wider release this time around. I don't remeraber where it was I read it, I think it was a popular Studio Ghibli site. Anyway, what I remeraber reading is that Hayao Miyazaki and the other top brass at Studio Ghibli are sick and tired of their movies only getting limited releases in America.
 
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