GKIDS Share Opening Scene of Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch

Ahead of screenings both in cinemas and via select digital distribution platforms across the world, US-based film publisher GKIDS Films has shared the first three minutes of Studio Ghibli’s newest (and first 3D animated film) Earwig and the Witch.

Directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill) with planning from his father, the legendary Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), Earwig and the Witch is the first film from Studio Ghibli since 2014’s When Marnie Was There. It adapts the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones, who is no stranger to the animation studio, having also been the original writer of Howl’s Moving Castle.

In the United States, Earwig and the Witch will debut in select cinemas from 3 February 2021, before streaming via HBO Max a couple of days later from 5 February 2021. In Australia, the film will begin screening in select cinemas across the country from 4 February 2021.

About Earwig and the Witch

Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. As the headstrong young girl sets out to uncover the secrets of her new guardians, she discovers a world of spells and potions, and a mysterious song that may be the key to finding the family she has always wanted.

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