GKIDS

But anyway, Welcome to the Terror Dome is out in Blu-ray format from Criterion.

And Love and Pop is a GKids release, one of those animated, I believe, GKids releases, as they do.

This is a, I believe it's a Blu-ray release, yes.

And we have Halloween H20, speaking of things being reissued way too many times, Paramount reissuing this one, Halloween H20, 20 years later in 4K.

Yes.

GKids is good for it.

Yeah.

They are an exception because they've got some money.

Right.

That may be another one we were talking about in the intro where sometimes these streaming things, they don't want to pay the residuals.

And so it would have to be another like GKids style release of these Mononoke movies.

I think Netflix licensed them for streaming.

The...

The quality difference between streaming it versus watching it in the GKids release is obviously night and day.

One of my favorite films that I've watched, anime for sure, and generally in a while...

And it's one of those things where I know you've talked about, Austin, where it's like the fact that they're drawing, like this one is kind of centered on two people who are drawing manga.

I'm curious about it.

I'm sure that it will be this year because it's already premiering in the U.S. at film festivals.

So they're probably going to do a festival circuit and then wide release in terms of the English sub through GKids.

Yeah.

Yeah

... you don't end up going from Disney, the biggest company on earth, to GKids respectfully.

That's true.

Yeah.

It, it truly is.

I just bought, um, some new stuff from G Kids, uh, the Love And Pop and-

Mm-hmm

... uh, Linda, Linda, Linda, which, um, I only just saw myself this year, um, down in Rochester.

Uh, this is the movie version of the stage play of the Hayao Miyazaki Academy Award-winning film.

Uh, it was being sent out into theaters by GKIDS as part of this year's Ghibli Fest.

Uh, unfortunately, on the day that it was supposed to, uh, kind of, the ...

And this was the second screening of it.

I, I think it is called The Boy and the Heron.

Here, though, right? It seems like GKIDS were the one, right? They, at the end of the day, they were like, "All right, we're gonna go with this for America."

No, uh, Miyazaki wanted them to, uh, distance the movie from the title 'cause he didn't want-- 'cause or, or I think Ghibli rather.

Uh, we have it in the research here.

So this is, uh, from the president of GKIDS, uh, speaking about working with Ghibli on this film.

He said, "There was a total press blackout on the film in line with the release in Japan.

But because of our long relationship with Ghibli, we asked if we would be able to announce that we had the rights, as we needed to be able to set up a big fall release.

Really cool.

Written by Justin Carter, right?

Yes, Justin Carter, and this piece, it doesn't just cover the basic publisher announcements from giants like, uh, Dark Horse and GKIDS.

Which would be news enough on its own.

Totally, but it also captures this really specific moment in pop culture.