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1890: Junius Matthews (voice of Winnie the Pooh’s Rabbit) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1892: Actor Basil Rathbone (The Great Mouse Detective)
1895: Actress Hattie McDaniel (Song of the South and first African American to win an Oscar) is born in Wichita, Kansas.
1895: Posthumous Disney Legend and actor Cliff Edwards (Pinocchio, Dumbo) is born in Hannibal, Missouri.
1906: [...]

(Newsish | Source: Show Biz Spy)
The Show Biz Spy is reporting that Brittany Murphy has been released by Disney and will no longer be the voice of Tinker Bell in the upcoming movie. She was hired in 2006 to provide the voice in the upcoming animated film but has been replaced by 19 year [...]

(News | Source: CNet)

TiVo users will be able to download Disney movies for a 24-hour rental. The company expects to offer the Disney rentals later this year to its broadband-connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 subscribers. The price for this service has yet to be announced. The Disney movies will be added [...]

(News | Source: Yahoo News)

Disney Channel has ordered episodes of “Welcome to Mollywood,” a live-action comedy series starring Demi Lovato, who also stars in the network’s “Camp Rock,” featuring the Jonas Brothers. The series revolves around Molly (played by Lovato), a 15 year-old small town girl who is chosen to have a role [...]

(News | Source: Variety)

Jake Gyllenhaal is Disney’s “Prince of Persia.” The Mouse chose the actor, among many others that, at one point, included Orlando Bloom, to headline Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of Ubisoft’s hit fantasy action game that Bruckheimer and Disney want to turn into a “Pirates of the Caribbean”-type franchise. Gyllenhaal’s costar [...]

(News | Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

After appearing in the extremely successful Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds tour 3D movie, the Jonas Brothers will headline their own 3D concert movie. The movie will be directed by Bruce Hendricks (who also directed the Hannah Montana film). The film will be shot during [...]

(News | Source: Associated Press)

Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana), has signed a book deal to detail her rise to fame.tell the story of her young life, it was announced Tuesday. It was announced that the book will be partially dedicated to the guidance of Cyrus’ mother (Leticia) and her friends and family. When [...]

(News | Source: Press Release)

Walt Disney Studios will be launching Disneynature. It is a film label with the hope that it will produce outstanding nature documentaries with the world’s top documentary filmmakers. Disneynature will be “a prestigious new production banner that will
literally go to the ends of the earth to produce major [...]

(News | Source: Cinematical)

Pixar has announced that a short named “Presto” is set to appear before WALL*E (set to premier June 27).
Presto, a five-minute short, focuses on a magician’s rabbit, Alec, who becomes disgruntled after his master becomes famous for a rabbit-in-the-hat trick. As his master goes out for lavish dinners, Alec is left [...]

(News | Source: Press Release)

There was a myriad of movie announcements from Disney (mainly through John Lasseter) today:
There will be 10 new animated movies released by Disney between 2008 and 2012.
In 2008:
WALL*E (Pixar)–June 27
Bolt (Walt Disney Animation)–November 26
Tinkerbell (DisneyToon Studios)–October 28, the first of a series of straight to DVD/Blu-Ray. [...]

(News | Source: The Independent)

Disney has acquired the rights to adapt the popular children’s book “The Dangerous Book for Boys” into a feature film. Disney, along with producer Scott Rudin, has yet to detail the premise of the movie. However, fans of the book are wondering how the company will be able [...]

(News | Source: The London Telegraph)

Kirstie Kelly, the designer who has created dresses inspired by Cinderella, Snow White, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin for Disney Bridal, has now created a wedding dress inspired by Enchanted. The strapless lace-embellished dress is supposed to capture the personality of the film’s heroine Giselle - described as natural, [...]

(News | Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

Disney picked up a script written by Jared Stern, with David Hoberman (worked on “Toy Story 3″)and Todd Lieberman (working on “The Proposal”) producing through their Mandeville Films, called “Self-Guided”. The script sold for the mid-6 figures.
The film is centered around a man who travels back in time [...]

(News | Source: High-Def Digest)

What turned out to be one of the most successful “limited engagements” of this decade will be “popping” into stores near you late this summer. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus’ “Best of Both Worlds” Tour/3D Movie grossed about $40 million in theaters in early February. This will be Disney’s [...]

(News | Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

Comic Book genius Stan Lee (Spiderman, X-men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, etc) has three projects in the works under POW! Entertainment which is housed by Disney. Lee hopes that these projects will turn into franchises with the first installments to explain the background behind each character.
The three [...]