Since the movie’s runtime is only seventy minutes long, it’s not the biggest time commitment to experience a film that shows a side of Studio Ghibli that is rarely seen.

In a scrum of potential buyers, “Magazine Dreams” went to a boutique studio with dozens of Oscars to its name. Searchlight Pictures set a theatrical release for year’s end, the onset of ...

including his mentor Patty (Catherine O’Hara), who was pushed out of her plum studio gig precisely because she didn’t want to make dreck like The Kool-Aid Movie. “I’m like 30 years too ...