I've been hearing rumours that "When Marnie was There" is Ghibli's last film before they go in a long hiatus. IMDB's trivia page for the film states this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3398268/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

There's also a review of "When Marnie was There" from Verge that speculates this as well: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/22/8643009/when-marnie-was-there-review

...And this one as well: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/when-marnie-was-there-rumored-to-be-studio-ghiblis-last-gets-us-release-trailer-20150115

Is it true though? I feel kind of bad since I really got into their films the past few years. 

And while we're here what's your favorite Ghibli films so far? I haven't watched all of them yet, but out of the ones I've watched, I say Mononoke is my personal favorite. Second would be Spirited Away and third may be The Tale of Princess Kaguya just for the feels. However, I haven't seen Graveyard of the Fireflies yet, but I heard the feels are strong in that one as well so I want to save that one for last. So for me:

1. Princess Mononoke (should be called the Legend of Ashitaka the more I think of it)

2. Spirited Away

3. The Tale of Princess Kaguya 

Also, has anyone watched "When Marnie was There" yet? I haven't watch it yet but I plan to!

Grave of the fireflies.

Graves of the Fireflies also, still need to buy a blu-ray version of the film eventually since the print on my 2 disc special edition version just doesn't look very good on a HD TV.

It's not so much "on hiatus" as "dead" isn't it? Pretty sure they confirmed no more films.

Also either my neighbour totoro or howls moving castle. Both classics in my eyes, as are a lot of their films.

They are in a terrible position atm. Despite being an hyper conservative idiot who could not change with his time, myazaki was a great director, which is son isn't. There were only three possible successor to myazaki, being his son (which happend to not be great), Mamoru Hosoda (One of Digimon's creators and director of Wolf Children Ame and Yuki/Summer Wars) and Makoto Shinkai (specialized in shorts/medium films, 5cm per second/The garden of words).

At this point the last news I heard from them is that they were working on a anime series (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/japans-studio-ghibli-produce-first-676598). Which means they are ruined and desperate.

Forgot to say which was their best movies : The wind Rises.

Have you watched The Tale of Princess Kaguya by chance? It's made by the same director as Grave of the Fireflies. And if you can, can you tell me which one is more depressing or how Fireflies' sadness differs from Kaguya? I believe Fireflies takes place during a war? I haven't seen the film yet, so please don't spoil it if you can!

Travellers of the same boat. Lol. Nope. I havent seen it. But I might see this. And I can guarantee you after seeing grave of the fireflies you will have a lot of onions in front of your eye.

Actually a majority of the film takes place just after the end of World War II but it does show one of the fire bombings by American planes of Tokyo.  Its a lot sadder and depressing then Princess Monoke since some of the event in it really took place and its based on real live experience of the author who wrote the short story its based on.

Exactly its one of the saddest movies of all time, just thinging about it can get me teary eyed.

Dang this is quite depressing time be a Ghibli fan. Still I hope the anime TV show turns out okay... 

I haven't seen the Wind Rises yet but I'm planning to soon! I've only seen 8 Ghibli films so far plus Nausicaa and the Lupin film but those two films weren't made in Ghibli.