While surfing the web for info on my little wishlist idea, I ran across these two.
On making a movie out of Death: The High Cost of Living
http://www.filmrot.com/articles/filmrot_news/004087.php
And on the dub of princess mononoke
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/newspro/latest_news.shtml#newsitem1067903463,22763,