On Thursday, February 2, Altitude Film Sales announced that it has obtained the worldwide rights to Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Mary to Majo no Hana) anime film.
The United Kingdom-based company said that Madman Entertainment will also release the film in Australia and New Zealand.
Exciting news!
AltitudeSales</a> secures worldwide rights to Studio Ponoc's 'Mary and the Witch's Flower'. <a href="https://twitter.com/Screendaily">Screendaily https://t.co/IPLLHgbwOt pic.twitter.com/qHd1Xfp8t1— Altitude Film Sales (@AltitudeSales) February 2, 2017
Mary and the Witch’s Flower is directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi at Studio Ponoc. Yonebayashi is also known for directing Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty and When Marnie was there.
The film is slated to premiere in Japan on summer this year.
Mary and the Witch’s Flower is adapted from Mary Stewart’s original book, The Little Broomstick.
The original Little broomstick synopsis as described by Amazon:
“It is Tib the black cat who leads Mary to the strange flower in the woods. When she discovers a little broomstick shortly afterwards, she is astonished to feel it jump in to action. Before she can gather her wits, it is whisking her over the treetops, above the clouds, and in to the grounds of Endor College, where: ‘All Examinations Coached for by A Competent Staff of Fully-Qualified Witches.’ Here she discovers evidence of a terrible experiment in transformation – deformed and mutant animals imprisoned in cages. In the moment after her broomstick takes off, she realises that Tib has been captured. Returning to the College the following day, she manages to free the animals, but not before the Head of the college, Miss Mumblechook, and her colleague, Doctor Dee, have seen her. Mary manages to flee …but the evil pair are in hot pursuit!”