Sony Pictures is ready to co-produce and co-finance the extremely anticipated new animated movie, Scarlet, from Academy Award-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, Belle, Wolf Kids) with Studio CHIZU and Nippon TV.
Sony will distribute Scarlet globally (outdoors Japan) with the U.S. launch earmarked for winter 2025. Toho will launch within the dwelling market.
Producers are Yuichiro Saito (Studio CHIZU), Toshimi Tanio (Nippon TV), Nozomu Takahashi (Studio CHIZU).
Scarlet is described because the story of a courageous princess who transcends time and house.
Hosoda started his profession at Toei Animation in 1991 as an animator. In 1999, he made his directorial debut with Digimon Journey. His different early credit embody Digimon Journey: Our Battle Sport! (2000) and The Woman Who Leapt By way of Time (2006) which was the primary winner of the newly established Japan Academy Prize Finest Animation in addition to quite a few different awards. In 2009, Hosoda launched Summer time Wars based mostly on a narrative he wrote; it swept the animation awards in Japan, and screened on the 2010 Berlin Movie Pageant in addition to scooping a nomination for the 2011 Finest Director Annie Award.
In 2011, Hosoda and producer Yuichiro Saito co-established Studio CHIZU, an animation studio the place he directed and wrote the screenplay for Wolf Kids (2012) and The Boy and the Beast (2015). His work on Mirai (2018) scored an Oscar nomination for Finest Animated Characteristic. His most up-to-date movie, Belle (2021), was chosen for the Cannes Première part on the 74th Cannes Movie Pageant, and has gone on to be his largest field workplace success with $65 million worldwide.
