The new Studio Ghibli movie Arriety (shortened from The Borrower Arriety) will be released in the US in February 2012. The movie is written by Miyazaki, but not directed by him:

The voice cast for the dubbing will include Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, David Henrie and Carol Burnett (Mendler and Henrie both poached from Disney’s own Wizards of Waverly Place).

 I urge everyone to go see this movie in the theater. Not just because it’s promising to be a great flick, but because it could be the end of Studio Ghibli:

This from founder Hayao Miyazaki himself, who says that if the adaptation of Mary Norton’s Borrowers series of children’s fantasy novels doesn’t do well at box offices in the West, Ghibli could close up shop as a production studio and live on with a skeleton crew as a mere copyright management company. The film opened in Japan this past July.