Movie Make-out

The 1997 live-action version of The Borrowers wasn’t terrible or anything, but it wasn’t all that hot, either — so, fans of Mary Norton’s 1952 children’s novel and its sequels might be excited to learn that Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea) has taken the reigns of a new, animated adaptation, to be directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

There’s already an official website, if you can read Japanese (which I can’t), although Variety notes that the literal Japanese title is “Arrietty Borrows Everything.”

The new film hits Japanese theaters in Summer 2010, and will likely find its way to American theaters sometime thereafter.