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New Godzilla Film Greenlit With Godzilla Minus One's Takashi Yamazaki as Director/Writer/VFX Supervisor

The official X/Twitter for the Godzilla Takashi Yamazaki is returning as the director, writer, and visual effects supervisor for the new film.

Yamazaki shared a video message:

Godzilla Minus One opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 ("Godzilla Day"), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film's November 3, 1954 release. The new film screened at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of last year's event on November 1.

The film has earned an estimated US$56,418,793 in the United States and US$50,303,815 internationally, as of February 1. The film has become the third highest-grossing foreign-language film of all time in the United States.

Amazon Prime Video since May 3.

Godzilla Minus One won the Best Visual Effects award in the 96th Academy Awards in March. It is the first Japanese film to win in this category, and the first Godzilla film to be nominated for an Oscar.

Source: Godzilla franchise's X/Twitter (link 2)