Toho has announced that Oscar winning director Hayao Miyazaki's next Studio Ghibli feature film will be titled PONYO ON A CLIFF (Gake no ue no Ponyo). Production is said to have begun last October and is currently expected to be released in Japanese cinemas mid-2008.

The film is said to be based on an original story by Hayao Miyazaki who is also creating the storyboards himself in watercolours. It has also been said that the feature will have no CG and be entirely in hand drawn 2D cells.

There is currently no set release date for Australia or the rest of the world.

Check here frequently for more exciting developments and for forthcoming news on Australian screenings of Studio Ghibli's TALES FROM EARTHSEA.