Screen: Whispers

By John Hill on December 3, 2008 2:30 PM |

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He’s one of the best animation directors around today - and it looks like Hollywood knows it.

A gaggle of Tinseltown titans have signed up to add their voices to Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest project, entitled Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.

Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson and Tina Fey will be helping with the English dub of the film, which tells the tale of a boy’s friendship with a goldfish princess who wants to be a real girl.

It’s been viewed with a heady mixture of fear and curiosity.

Tom Cruise’s World War II drama is just over a month away from hitting British cinemas.

Valkyrie stars Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler with a bomb in a briefcase. It will be released on January 23, and features a cast including Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh and Eddie Izzard.

Harrison Ford has made the giant leap from Indy to immigration.

The whip-cracker will attack the contentious issue head on in Crossing Over, which sees him as an officer who questions his actions after discovering the plight of those fighting for legal status.

Sean Penn, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta also appear. The movie is due out early in 2009.