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GKids Adds Ghibli's When Marnie Was There
posted on by Karen Ressler
Entertainment news source Deadline reported on Wednesday that When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie) and will release an English language version this spring.
Geoffery Wexler (English revealed in August that he is the English dub and subtitle producer from When Marnie Was There.
GKIDS handles North American theatrical and home video distribution for many other Studio Ghibli films, most recently The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
When Marnie Was There adapts Takatsugu Muramatsu.
The cast includes 16-year-old actress dual lead heroines and the film is the first animated feature that Sara and Kasumi have acted in.
About 300 candidates auditioned for the roles of the heroines at the end of 2013. The film opened in Japan on the 19th of July. Disney happened to have just released Frozen, its first animated feature with dual lead heroines (one of which was named Anna). Marnie producer Yoshiaki Nishimura said there was a time in film history where "the flawless hero saves the woman," followed by a time for films where "the woman s the troubled hero." Now, he said, 2014 is the time when "the man doesn't have to save the woman."
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The film opened in Japan in July.
