When Shin Godzilla hit US shores back in 2016, its residence releases have been a little bit of a multitude—particularly after it exited theaters in what was, earlier than the discharge of Godzilla Minus One not less than, a historic run for the franchise. However, virtually a decade later, the movie is now stomping again to theaters… and past that, lastly getting the house launch state of affairs it deserved within the first place.
As revealed by Variety immediately, GKids has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Shin Godzilla (which had beforehand been owned by Funimation, who launched the movie again in 2016 as the primary Japanese Godzilla movie to hit US theaters since Godzilla 2000). GKids will launch a brand new 4K model of Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno‘s modernized spin on the kaiju icon in theaters beginning August 14, however crucially the studio can even be releasing a brand new, UHD residence launch of the movie in 4K, the primary time the movie could have been made accessible within the format within the U.S.
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Newly remastered in 4K, SHIN GODZILLA from administrators Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi returns to North American theatres beginning August 14.https://t.co/4Gey95teDD pic.twitter.com/EvXyTCYl7E
— GKIDS Movies (@GKIDSfilms) June 2, 2025
Past the remastering, the brand new residence launch can even restore the stylized textual content playing cards that have been eliminated in subtitled variations of Shin Godzilla‘s earlier U.S. residence launch. A part of the movie’s commentary on the executive absurdity of Japanese governmental paperwork, giving officers and tasks overtly lengthy and formalized titles, the theatrical launch displayed the textual content captions in a stylized method alongside the unique Japanese, however residence releases as an alternative ran a clear model of the movie eradicating them, changing the titles with default subtitling. Certain, the commentary nonetheless got here throughout, however it simply didn’t look anyplace close to nearly as good, and arguably made for a fair worse subtitling expertise.
However after the runaway success of Godzilla Minus One in 2023, it’s good to see Toho and GKids capitalizing to do justice to a different entry within the Godzilla saga that is still simply as well timed because it did a decade in the past. Shin Godzilla will return to American theaters from August 14, with the brand new 4K residence launch set to observe at a later date.
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