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Ghibli Museum PR Head: No New Ghibli Film in 2012
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Grave of the Fireflies opened in 1988 as a double feature.
Both Miyazaki and Takahata have already suggested in the past that their films are more than a year from completion, but Nishioka indicated that there is a possibility that their schedules will slip beyond next year. Nishioka also reiterated Miyazaki's words that Studio Ghibli's fortunes are riding on Miyazaki's next film, and he said with a laugh that if these films are not completed, Studio Ghibli will fold.
Ghibli producer Le Chevalier D'Eon) to cooperate on Takahata's new work during a Tokyo event on March 13, but Suzuki's response was not made public.
Suzuki also said last August that the new work of the studio's other famous co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki, is an "autobiography." However, Suzuki's vague phrasing in Japanese did not indicate if the work is Miyazaki's own autobiography, or an adaptation of another person's autobiography.
Source: Yomiuri via Nausicaa.net
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