Last week's top film, "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," dropped steeply in its second weekend. But just as it was making its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Junichi Nishioka, Studio Ghibli vice president, said the previously retired Miyazaki is still working toward another film. "The Boy and the Heron," which earlier collected $56 million in Japan, for years was expected to be Miyazaki's swan song. The director's previous best performer was his last movie, 2013's "The Wind Rises," which grossed $5.2 million in its entire domestic run. Though Miyazaki's movies have often been enormous hits in Japan and Asia, they've traditionally made less of a mark in North American cinemas. The film, which is playing in both subtitled and dubbed versions, is also the first fully foreign film to land atop the domestic box office this year. and Canadian theaters and the first original anime to do so. “The Boy and the Heron,” the long-awaited animated fantasy from the director of “Spirited Away,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and other cherished anime classics, is only the third anime to ever top the box office in U.S.
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