For projects that don't deserve their own threads just yet?

Two items about American live-action adaptations of previously Japanese (great) animated fare:

- Jeff Stockwell (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Bridge to Terabithia) is writing an adaptation of Kiki's Delivery Service for Disney for a planned 2009 release. I liked Bridge and thought its script was pretty strong, so I'm surprisingly willing to give it a shot.

- Leonardo DiCaprio is producing and Ruari Robinson, an Irish director who has done two shorts according to the IMDb, is set to direct a pair of Akira films. It's going to be moved from Tokyo to New York, with each film being adapted from three volumes of the six-volume manga.