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Weathering With You Film Ranks #2 in U.S. on Wednesday

The Box Office Mojo website reported on Thursday that opens the film in North America on Friday. The screenings starting on Friday will have both English-subtitled screenings and English-dubbed screenings.

The English includes:

• Brandon Engman as Hodaka
• Ashley Boettcher as Hina
• Lee Pace as Suga
• Alison Brie as Natsumi
• Emeka Guindo as Nagi
• Riz Ahmed as Takai
• Vinnie Penna as Kimura
• Mike Pollock as Yasui
• Barbara Goodson as Tachibana

GKIDS describes the film's story:

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong­willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky...

Weathering With You highest-grossing film in Japan in 2019.

The anime won the Audience Award at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles in October, and also received a nomination in the Best Animated Independent Feature category for the 47th Annual Annie Awards. The Annie Awards ceremony will be held on January 25, 2020.

The film was screened the film earlier this month.

Thanks to Daniel Zelter and Austin Ryden for the news tip.

Source: Box Office Mojo (link 2)