日本語 The 11th Pokemon movie “Giratina and the Sky Warrior” will be released on DVD in North America on 31th of March 2009. Concurrently with the Nintendo DS Game: Pokemon Platinum that will be released on 22th of March 2009, in which Giratina & Shaymin first appears.
Cartoon Network (US) will also broadcast the movie on 7th of February 2009.
The movie was released in Japan in 2008 as “Giratina and the Sky Bouquet: Sheimi” (Giratina to sora no hanataba Sheimi 「ギラティナと氷空の花束シェイミ」 ) The story is the 2nd movie of the Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Movie Triology. It is a sequel to the previous Pokemon Diamond Pearl movie Movie 10th: Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (The Rise of Darkrai). The movie will also have a sequel be released in Japan on 2009 and in North America on 2010: Pokemon Movie 12th: To the Conquering of Space-Time (Choukoku no Jikuu he)
Unlike the previous movies, this will be the first movie to be distributed by Universal Studios. Also, the Amazon.com specifications shows that the movie will be in widescreen. If the information is correct, this would also be the first Pokemon movie released on DVD in North America in widescreen (while some European and other international releases were in widescreen)
Pokemon Movie 11 Giratina and the Sky Warrior DVD Cover
Pokémon The Movie 11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
# Format: AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
# Language: English
# Subtitles: English
# Rating: Unrated
# Studio: Universal Studios
# DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
# Run Time: 96 minutes
Links:
Official North American web site
http://www.pokemon.com/PokemonGiratinaMovie/
Amazon.com: Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
http://www.amazon.com/Pok%C3%A9mon-Giratina-the-Sky-Warrior/dp/B001QWQJ9W/
Pokebeach.com: ‘Giratina and the Sky Warrior’ TV Air Date and DVD Release Date
http://pokebeach.com/news/0109/giratina-and-the-sky-warrior-tv-air-date-and-dvd-release-date
Pokemondiamondpearl.info: Pokemon Movie 11 Giratina to sora no hanataba Sheimi/Giratina and the Sky Warrior
http://www.pokemondiamondpearl.info/movie/11th2008_giratinatosoranohanataba.htm
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