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The Breadwinner is being released today to digital retailers ahead of its Blu-ray release in two weeks. But -- surprise! -- it was also added to Netflix streaming today, in the U.S. at least, so those of you who are subscribers can watch it now for free. I was surprised to see it pop up there...

This is a really good interview with Nora Twomey, who directed The Breadwinner, about the film. https://www.vox.com/2017/12/13/16771164/the-breadwinner-best-animated-film-2017

My Entire High School SInking Into the Sea -- another Gkids-distributed title -- was just announced for Blu-ray release on January 23 via Shout! Factory. So, The Breadwinner may or may not be Universal. It's possible that it is going through Shout! and Amazon is just wrong, or whoever put up...

I'm surprised to see Universal listed as the releasing studio. Gkids previously had a distribution deal with them, but has been using Shout! Factory to distribute the new Studio Gibli releases, so I thought they would all end up going through Shout. Apparently not. The other thing I hate about...

Per Box Office Mojo, The Breadwinner came in #43 at the box office this weekend from 43 theaters, but did jump 39% from last weekend. It seems bizarrely coincidental that the theater count and box office ranking are the same. Total so far is $105,276 as of December 3 (yesterday.)...

Yeah, the abuse was clear to me. I don't think 11 is categorically too young to have such feelings, although certainly they might not know what they are or be able to put it together in their own minds.

Jose, since you've seen it:

Yeah, I don't get it either. We have one free screening per month. Sometimes those films close after a week; sometimes they don't. You pay $75/year to support the theater in order to get the free screening privilege, so it's not exactly "free," but free in that you don't pay for the ticket...

My theater just confirmed what I feared would be the case: The Breadwinner is ending its run Thursday, having played just six days here. The full crowd I saw it with on Friday night was surely a result of it being free for members, rather than people actually turning out specifically to see The...

I'm bumping this thread because The Breadwinner opened here tonight and I just got back from seeing it a while go. This film is extraordinary. It is, on merit, almost certainly the Best Animated Feature winner for 2017, and almost no live-action film compares either. I'm not saying that I...

Incidentally, I chose to see Sacred Deer for the same reason you avoided it, because of The Lobster connection (I love that film.) Different tastes. But I was just using those particular films as examples to demonstrate my larger point that films like The Breadwinner are more difficult draws...

Edwin, I should have been more clear. I don't think that audiences would refuse to accept these films in wide release simply because they are animated. I think that they might be a tough sell in wide release because they are unknown quantities with challenging themes and ideas. This weekend...

Without Gkids, films like these probably wouldn't come to the U.S. at all, so while it would be nice to see them go wider, I have nothing but praise for how they have handled their past releases and look forward to more from them for many year to come. I also sort of wonder how big a wide...