EXCLUSIVE: GKids and Imax are partnering to bring 4K Studio Ghibli restorations to North American theaters in 2026.

The announcement comes the recent release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke , which is the second-highest grossing vault release ever for Imax. The next Studio Ghibli title to be released under the agreement will debut in Imax early next year with more details to come.

The Imax versions of the films are being created from new 4K restorations directly overseen by Studio Ghibli’s Atsushi Okui, who has been involved in nearly every major project for the studio since he started in 1993. Okui’s most recent credit with Studio Ghibli was as Director of Digital Imaging on Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning feature The Boy and the Heron , which was also the first Studi

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